כשג'יבריל נולד, עימאד פלאח תושב בילעין מקבל את המצלמה הראשונה שלו. באותו זמן מתחילה בניית גדר ההפרדה על האדמות של הכפר ותושבי הכפר מתחילים להתנגד להחלטה זו. לאורך 7 שנים מתעד עימאד מאבק זה המובל על ידי שנים מחברים הטובים, אדיב ופיל, לצד זאת הוא ממשיך לתעד את התבגרותו של בנו ג'יבריל. ההתרחשויות הדרמטיות בכפר ועצם התיעוד הולכים מערערים את חייו האישיים ואת משפחתו. פלישות ומעצרים בלילה מכניסים פחד לתוך חיי המשפחה, רוב אחיו וחבריו והוא בעצמו נעצרים ונשלחים לכלא. מצלמה אחר מצלמה נורית או מרוסקת. כל מצלמה חושפת פרק בחייו. יחד עם שותפו, הבמאי הישראלי גיא דוידי, הם יוצרים סרט אינטימי ועוצמתי מלא חמלה.
הסרט עוסק בסיפורו של הכפר טנטורה אשר נכבש ב-1948, ובהשתקתן של עדויות שנחשפו בסוף שנות התשעים, המצביעות על טבח שאירע לכאורה בכפר. הסטודנט לתואר שני תדי כץ מאוניברסיטת חיפה הקליט עדויות של חיילים ישראלים ועקורים ערבים מהכפר כחלק ממחקרו האקדמי. בתזה שלו טען כץ שבוצעו בכפר פשעי מלחמה שכללו הרג של עשרות כפריים חסרי מגן לאחר תום הקרב. הסרט, שהוקרן בפסטיבל סאנדנס ובפסטיבל דוקאביב האחרון, מציג כיצד נבנה הנרטיב הישראלי אודות 1948 ומשרטט דיוקן של החברה הישראלית והקושי שלה להתעמת עם המיתוסים המלווים אותה מאז הקמתה.
Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, Issa hides it, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside, he feels that this discovery will change his life forever. Strangely, his confidence starts to grow and eventually he decides to approach Siham.
2003 documentary film produced by Oliver Stone for the HBO series America Undercover about the conflict in occupied Palestine. He speaks with Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu, former prime ministers of Israel, Yasser Arafat, late president of the Palestinian National Authority, and various Palestinian activists resisting the oppression of the zionist regime.
Gaza Fights for Freedom depicts the ongoing Great March of Return protests in the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine, that began in 2018.
Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse, finds out that her lover, Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army has been reporting on their relationship. Yasmine's sister arrives for a visit from the West Bank, not knowing that she is going to meet the occupying enemy at her own sister's house.
"Here is a family of average French people in front of their television. Elsewhere, they are Palestinian fighters filmed before the massacres of Black September." (JLG, 1976). "We came here to study this: to learn, to learn lessons, if possible to record these lessons, to then broadcast them here, or elsewhere in the world. Almost a year ago, two of us came to investigate the Democratic Front. Then another went to Fath. We read the texts and programs. As French Maoists, we decided to make the film with Fath whose title is Until Victory. We let the Palestinians , during the film, themselves say the word: "Revolution". But the true title of the film is Methods of Thought and Work of the Palestinian Liberation Movement." (JLG, Manifesto, July 1970)
יורם הוא וטרינר תל אביבי, אב חד הורי שנאלץ לבחון מחדש את יחסיו עם העולם ועם בתו המתבגרת, רוני, לאחר שזו מנסה לשים קץ לחייה. הוא מחליט לקחת אותה לטיול בדרום הארץ, לביקור אצל משפחת אמה. הניסיון הגמלוני של האב למצוא עבור בתו משמעות וטעם לחיים, חושף את העובדה כי המסע הזה הכרחי בעיקר עבורו. על רקע נופי המדבר הקדום, עוברים השניים תהליך משותף של גילוי עצמי והדדי, המשיב אותם אחד אל השני.
When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the mistreatment of Palestinians, they battle the old guard to create a new movement opposing Israel’s occupation, and recentering Judaism itself.
A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the lonely wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away from everything she loves until she returns to the dance, defying societys taboos. At the dance Kamar is confronted with Kais, a Palestinian returnee. Sparks fly between Kamar and Kais, creating more than a passionate, emotional dance for the both of them. Matters become even more complicated when Zaid's sentence is extended. Kamar's life is thrown into turmoil as she becomes increasingly attached to Kais, and caught in the midst of her desire to dance and breaking the family and society taboos of the prisoner's wife's role while life under occupation rages on.
Guy Hircefeld, a veteran who served in the Israeli military at the start of its occupation of Palestine in the 1980s, now fights against the Israeli occupation. His only weapon is a camera.
In the Druze mountain villages between Syria and Israel, Kamel, a respected sheik, must make an impossible decision between family and duty when his estranged brother returns to the Golan Heights after 47 years in exile.
Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Family, 1948 – 1984 is a documentary film about the life of a Palestinian family living in the Jabalia refugee camp. The film, created by Joan Mandell, Pea Holmquist, and Pierre Bjorklund in 1984 is believed to be the first documentary ever made in Gaza. The film features Ariel Sharon, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and soldiers on patrol "candidly discuss[ing] their responsibilities." The film follows a refugee family from the Gaza Strip who visit the site of their former village, now a Jewish town in Israel. As the grandfather and great-grandfather point out an orchard and sycamore fig that belonged to Muhammed Ayyub and Uncle Khalil, an Israeli resident appears and tells them to leave, claiming they need a permit to be there. The mother tells him that, "We work in Jaffa and Tel Aviv and that's not forbidden," to which he replies, "Here it's forbidden."
The first full length film to be shot within the disputed Palestinian West Bank "Green Line," FERTILE MEMORY is the feature debut of Michel Khleifi, acclaimed director of the Cannes Film Festival triumph, WEDDING IN GALILEE. Lyrically blending both documentary and narrative elements, Khleifi skillfully and lovingly crafts a portrait of two Palestinian women whose individual struggles both define and transcend the politics that have torn apart their homes and their lives.
In 2014, during a trip, American Tim Bruns discovered cliffs in a small village five minutes north of Ramallah in Palestine and got to work equipping all the easy routes, then setting up climbing routes so that we can start teaching people how to climb. Bruns and Harris also opened Wadi Climbing, the first indoor climbing gym in Palestine. Today, gathered in the conflict-torn hills of Palestine, a diverse team of Bedouins, activists and urban professionals have embraced climbing as a much-needed respite from the burden of Israeli occupation. American writer and climber Andrew Bisharat visits the West Bank to explore his own roots and the power of climbing to transform lives. This documentary is part of the Reel Rock 17 series released in 2023.
While their village is threatened to be demolished once again by the Israeli army, Khaled and his best friend Nema the goat undertake to help Abu Mariam to recover his memory
A self-described liberal from cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, Zaki wanted to get behind the politics of Israel’s controversial settlements in the occupied territories — so she moved there, temporarily, setting up an improvised cafe where she could chat with settlers from her own generation.
The story of how a small group of teenagers created a skate scene from scratch in a place where you can't even buy a skateboard, whilst facing the challenges of living under military occupation.