Films

Winner, Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2015 Mohammed and his sister Farrah are in many ways oblivious to their troubled surroundings. They…

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2013 Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied…

Jordan, 1967: Having been separated from his father in the chaos of the Palestinian war, 11-year-old Tarek and his mother Ghaydaa are among the latest…

A World Not Ours is an intimate portrait of three generations of exile in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of…

When his fourth son is born, self-taught cameraman Emad Burnat, a Palestinian villager, gets his first camera. At the same time an Israeli separation barrier…

Ayed Morrar, an unlikely community organiser, unites Palestinians from all political factions and Israelis to save his village from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Victory…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2009 The Time That Remains is a semi-autobiographical film, in four historic episodes, about a family – Elia Suleiman’s family –…

Abu Laila used to be a judge, but because the government doesn’t have the means to renew his assignment he is forced to be a…

Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-60s living in Nazareth. After his daughter’s wedding in one month he will be living…

Told through the director’s alter ego, Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman (ES) escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland. On his travels, however, he finds parallels…

Tamer is a Palestinian teenager living in Israel. He and his friends lead a typical high school student’s life until the arrival of the beautiful…

Farha is a 14 year-old Palestinian girl who lives in a village where girls her age are traditionally married or spoken for. Yet Farha wants…

Brothers As’ad (12) and Taha (28) barely scrape a living as rubbish pickers in ‘Hanging Gardens’ – the local nickname for Baghdad’s smouldering dumps –…

Following her mother’s death, a British Jewish girl is moved by her father from London to Jerusalem in the hopes that a new beginning can…