Welcome to the Palestine Cinema movie database
Palestinian Identity (1983)
Origin: Lebanon | Documentary | Director: Kassem Hawal | 40 minutes
PLO film about the theft of historical films and manuscripts by Israel, contains also interviews with Darwish and Shammout
Palestinian Media (Press) in the Diaspora: the case of Chile (2021)
Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: Heba El Attar | 17 minutes
A documentary about the Palestinian immigrant community in Chile, one of the largest outside the Middle East and their media programs, which enabled community integration while preserving cultural heritage.
Palestinian Prison Break (2023)
Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Mohamed Sawwaf | 75 minutes
Palestinian Break Prison is a compelling documentary that chronicles the real-life stories of Palestinian prisoners' daring escapes from Israeli jails, tracing events from the British mandate era to the present day.
Palestinian Unwanted (2026)
Origin: Denmark, Jordan | Documentary | Director: Omar Shargawi | 73 minutes
During the disaster in Gaza, a Danish-Palestinian film director attempts to raise awareness among the Danish public, while struggling to keep himself together. A deeply personal film with a mission.
Paper Boat (2016)
Origin: Gaza | Documentary | Director: Mahmoud Ghalwa | 15 minutes
How to welcome a child into a world darkened by endless war?
Paradise (2021)
Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Asaf Saban | 32 minutes
A young Palestinian arrives from Berlin in Israel and has to reflect on his identity after joining a groupe of jewish Israeli tourists in the Egyptian Sinai
Paradise Lost (2003)
Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Ibtisam Mara'ana Menuhin | 56 minutes
Mara’ana traces the hidden history of her village, Faradis
Paradise now (2005)
Origin: Palestine | France | Germany | Netherlands | Israel | Fiction | Director: Hany Abu Assad | 97 minutes
Two young Palestinian men are recruited to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 (2022)
Origin: Egypt | Documentary | Director: Kamal Aljafari | 22 minutes
found-footage collage of the heroic, suspenseful representations of armed warfare on screen, asking: any resemblance to the devastating, tragic, barbaric reality?
Partition (also:"Partition": Documenting histories of Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon) (2025)
Origin: Palestine, Lebanon, Canada | Documentary | Director: Diana Allan | 61 minutes
Using found footage from the colonial archives of British Mandate Palestine (1917 – 1948) and audio recordings of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Partition brings forth histories that have long existed at the margins.