Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
Setback of the Spirit (2017)
Origin: Jordan | Fiction | Director: Sa’ed Arouri | 15 minutes
'Jeddeh’, a grandparent finally returns with her grandson to one of the Palestinian cities. She finds her home exactly as she left it.
Shadi in the beautiful well (2003)
Origin: UK | Fiction | Director: Mahdi Fleifel | 11 minutes
An autistic boy, Shadi, lives in the heart of a Lebanese Palestinian refugee camp
Shake (2014)
Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Deema Dabis | 9 minutes
A gripping portrait of an encounter between an Israeli airport interrogator and a Palestinian-American traveler
Shalom Abu Bassem (2004)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Nissim Mossek | 53 minutes
Shalom Abu Bassem is a documentary by Nissim Mossek about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that follows a New York City Jewish settler and an Arab hummus vendor that are forced to live as neighbors in the heart of Jerusalem
Sharqiya (2012)
Origin: Israel France Germany | Documentary | Director: Ami Livne | 82 minutes
State officials order the demolition of bedouin homes
Sheherazade’s Tears (Dim'at Shekherezada) (2006)
Origin: Israel | Ukraine | Documentary | Director: Judd (Yehuda) Ne’eman | 82 minutes
The struggle diary of choreographer Irina Jammal, a Ukrainian married to an Israeli Arab
Shikun (It's Not Over) (2024)
Origin: Israel / France / Switzerland / Brazil / United Kingdom | Fiction | Director: Amos Gitai | 84 minutes
Set in a single Israeli multi-use building, the Shikun, and inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s classic play “Rhinoceros”, a collection of theatrical episodes dramatises the rise of authoritarian thinking. Some characters turn into rhinoceroses and others resist
Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist (2022)
Origin: Palestine - UK | Documentary | Director: Forensic Architecture | 10 minutes
Reconstruction of the death of the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Shivering in Gaza (2015)
Origin: Netherlands Gaza | Documentary | Director: Geert van Kesteren | 31 minutes
Dutch trauma treatment expert Jan Andreae meets with Gaza-based aid workers after the 2014 Israel-Gaza war and helps them to cope with fear, trauma and grief
Shout (2009)
Origin: Netherlands | Documentary | Director: Ester Gould - Sabine Lubbe Bakker | 75 minutes
Ezat and Bayan get the opportunity to study in Damascus