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.
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territ...
A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.
Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya decides to journey to the country of her anc...
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct h...
In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestin...
Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a ...
Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each o...
As Abu Laila is forced to leave his job as a judge and become a cab driver, he faces a hectic challe...
A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military ...
The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the ch...
After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homeco...
An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-bio...
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewa...
Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixi...
A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the lonely wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away fro...
Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to fin...