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war crimes

zionism

Kaouther Ben Hania Director

Amer Hlehel as Mahdi M. Aljamal

Clara Khoury as Nisreen Jeries Qawas

Motaz Malhees as Omar A. Alqam

Firas Khoury as Volunteer 1

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

2025

♡ 3

98%

War

war crimes

An Iranian filmmaker participates in a series of video calls with a young Palestinian photojournalist who describes her life confined in Gaza during the current regional conflict.

Louis Theroux: The Settlers

2025

8.3

♡ 7

social injustice

Joshua Baker Director

Louis Theroux as Self

Matan Cohen as Self

Ari Abramowitz as Self

Issa Amro as Self

14 years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank.

Miral

2010

based on memoir or autobiography

6.2

♡ 13

19%

54%

arab–israeli war (1948)

based on novel or book

Julian Schnabel Director

Liron Levo as Dan

Willem Dafoe as Eddie

Hiam Abbass as Hind Husseini

Alexander Siddig as Jamal

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

The Day After I'm Gone

2019

Hebrew

6.5

♡ 4

75%

Nimrod Eldar Director

Eran Naim as Policeman

Maayan Eliasi as Police woman

Ziv Peleg as Ranger

Menashe Noy as Yoram

Yoram, a 50-year-old veterinarian living in Tel-Aviv, is forced to re-examine his relationship with his adolescent daughter Roni, after she wishes to end her life. He decides to take her on a journey to visit her mother’s family, a process of self and mutual discovery in a primordial desert land enveloping the Dead Sea.

Here and Elsewhere

1976

French

7.0

♡ 3

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Luc Godard as Narrator

Anne-Marie Miéville as Narrator

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. Originally shot by the Dziga Vertov Group as a film on Palestinian freedom fighters, Godard later reworked the material alongside Anne-Marie Miéville.

'Til Kingdom Come

2020

6.8

♡ 6

100%

prophecy

Maya Zinshtein Director

Pat Robertson as Self

Munther Isaac as Self

Boyd Bingham IV as Self

Yechiel Eckstein as Self

Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. This film traces this unusual relationship, from rural Kentucky to the halls of government in Washington, through the moving of the American Embassy in Jerusalem and to the annexation plan of the West Bank.

The Tower

2018

Norwegian

7.1

♡ 10

Mats Grorud Director

Makram Khoury as

Slimane Dazi as Pigeon Boy

Saïd Amadis as Sidi

Aïssa Maïga as Tante Hannan

Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.

Giraffada

2013

6.3

♡ 1

75%

Rani Massalha Director

Mohammad Bakri as Hassan

Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre as Laura

Doraid Liddawi as Officer

Roschdy Zem as Yohav Alon

Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a special bond with the two giraffes in the zoo. He seems to be the only one to communicate with them. After an air raid in the region the male giraffe dies. His mate, Rita, won’t survive unless the veterinarian finds her a new companion. The only zoo that might provide this animal is located in Tel Aviv ...

Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege

2021

7.7

♡ 13

100%

struggle for survival

war documentary

Abdallah Al-Khatib Director

Abdallah Al-Khatib as Self

During the Syrian civil war, the district of Yarmouk, home to thousands of Palestinians, became the scene of dramatic and ferocious fighting. Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege) is a film that follows the destiny of civilians during the brutal sieges, imposed by the Syrian regime, that took place in the wake of the battles. With his camera, Abdallah Al-Khatib composes a love song to a place that proudly resists the atrocities of war.

Farha

2021

8.0

♡ 35

100%

inspired by true story

palestine

Darin J. Sallam Director

Ali Suliman as Abu Walid

Karam Taher as Farha

Ashraf Barhom as Farha's Father

Firas Taybeh as Farida's Father

Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.

Paradise Now

2005

israeli–palestinian conflict

7.4

♡ 14

89%

palestine

Thriller

War

Hany Abu-Assad Director

Ashraf Barhom as Abu-Karem

Ali Suliman as Khaled

Hiam Abbass as Said's Mother

Lubna Azabal as Suha

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

200 Meters

2020

7.2

♡ 13

90%

illegal border crossing

palestine

zealous

Ameen Nayfeh Director

Anna Unterberger as Anne

Doraid Liddawi as Avi

Ali Suliman as Mustafa

Lana Zreik as Salwa

Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, but separated by the wall. Their unusual living situation is starting to affect their otherwise happy marriage, but the couple does what they can to make it work. Every night, Mustafa flashes a light from his balcony to wish his children on the other side a goodnight, and they signal him back. One day Mustafa gets a call that every parent dreads: his son has been in an accident. He rushes to the checkpoint where he must agonisingly wait in line only to find out there is a problem with his fingerprints and is denied entry. Desperate, Mustafa resorts to hiring a smuggler to bring him across. His once 200-meter journey becomes a 200-kilometer odyssey joined by other travellers determined to cross.

A Song Called Hate

7.7

Anna Hildur Hildibrandsdottir Director

Mira Awad as Self

Vigdís Hafliðadóttir as Self

Klemens Nikulásson Hannigan as Self

Nadav Lapid as Self - Israeli Film Director

The pro-Palestinian, anti-capitalist, BDSM-provocative, techno-punk performance art ensemble Hatari unsurprisingly drew attention to themselves with their performance at the Icelandic qualifiers for the Eurovision Song Contest. So much so that they won and therefore were allowed to perform at the main event in Tel Aviv. But what now? Should they boycott the event, swallow their idealism, or use their airtime to criticise the host country for their illegal occupation of Palestine? The Icelandic director Anna Hildur joins the boys in the band all the way to the fateful final.

West Of The Jordan River

2017

6.3

71%

Amos Gitai Director

Bill Clinton as Self

Yitzhak Rabin as Self

Amos Gitai as Self

Tzipi Hotovely as Self

Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary FIELD DIARY. WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER describes the efforts of citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation. Gitai's film shows the human ties woven by the military, human rights activists, journalists, mourning mothers and even Jewish settlers. Faced with the failure of politics to solve the occupation issue, these men and women rise and act in the name of their civic consciousness. This human energy is a proposal for long overdue change.

A Woman Called Golda

1982

7.5

♡ 4

Alan Gibson Director

Gila Almagor as Deborah

Ingrid Bergman as Golda Meir

Yitzhak Ne'eman as Mehemet

Anthony Bate as Sir Stuart Ross

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

It Must Be Heaven

2019

French

6.9

♡ 19

96%

Elia Suleiman Director

Vincent Maraval as French Producer

Gael García Bernal as Gael García Bernal

Grégoire Colin as Man in Metro

Steven McChattie as Tarot Reader

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

Divine Intervention

2002

6.6

♡ 4

81%

Elia Suleiman Director

Sébastien Peres as Marksman 2

Michel Piccoli as Santa Claus Breathing

Ronin Zindenfeld as Soldier 3

Menashe Noy as Soldier at Checkpoint

Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken. A man who goes through his mail methodically each morning has a heart attack. His son visits him in the hospital. The son regularly meets a woman at Al-Ram; they sit in a car, hands caressing. Once, she defies Israeli guards at the checkpoint; later, ninja-like, she takes on soldiers at a target range. A red balloon floats free overhead. Neighbors toss garbage over walls. Life goes on until it doesn't.

The Lighthorsemen

1987

6.8

♡ 4

71%

Simon Wincer Director

Peter Phelps as Dave

James Wright as Fitzgerald

Gary Sweet as Frank

Shane Briant as Reichert

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.

The Taste of Apples Is Red

2022