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48 articles available in total starting from 02/03/2015. Last article published on 30/08/2025.

Michael Winterbottom and Mohammed Sawwaf filming Gaza Year Zero

Michael Winterbottom and Mohammed Sawwaf filming Gaza Year Zero

The UK-Palestinian co-production follows a 13-year-old boy’s struggle to survive in the war-torn Gaza Strip  

07/02 | Production | Funding | UK/Palestine

Review: All That’s Left of You

Review: All That’s Left of You

Cherien Dabis’ sweeping historical drama shows the aftershocks of the Nakba across three generations of a Palestinian family  

26/01 | Sundance 2025 | Premieres

Yunan to compete for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale

Yunan to compete for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale

Syrian director Ameer Fakher Eldin’s movie, the only Arab film in Berlin’s main competition, examines themes of displacement and renewal as part of his “Homeland” trilogy  

24/01 | Production | Funding | Germany/Canada/Italy/Palestine/Qatar/Jordan/Saudi Arabia

Review: From Ground Zero

Review: From Ground Zero

Shortlisted for the International Feature Film Oscar and composed of 22 shorts by as many Palestinian directors, the movie offers up a poignant kaleidoscope of life in the Gaza Strip  

21/01 | Films | Reviews | Palestine/France/Qatar/Jordan/Switzerland

Kamal Aljafari • Director of A Fidai Film

Interview: Kamal Aljafari • Director of A Fidai Film

"This film is not only about Palestine, but about any place that has been occupied and any people subjected to oppression"

The Palestinian director talks about his feature built from archival images looted by the Israeli army that the filmmaker reworked to express the reality of oppression his people are experiencing  

28/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: A Fidai Film

Review: A Fidai Film

Kamal Aljafari manipulates and reassembles archive footage from the Palestine Research Center, which was seized by Israel in 1982, to highlight its propagandistic use by the State of Israeli  

15/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Rashid Masharawi • Director of Passing Dreams

Interview: Rashid Masharawi • Director of Passing Dreams

“Palestinians find themselves in absurd or ironic situations, and I think that laughing about it is also a form of resistance”

The established filmmaker speaks about his bittersweet road movie centred on a boy who stubbornly follows a carrier pigeon across Palestine, believing it has returned home  

15/11/2024 | Cairo 2024

Review: Thank You for Banking With Us!

Review: Thank You for Banking With Us!

Palestinian filmmaker Laila Abbas tackles the contemporary realities of gendered Islamic law in her debut feature, about two sisters fighting for their fair share of their late father’s inheritance  

21/10/2024 | London 2024

Scandar Copti • Director of Happy Holidays

Interview: Scandar Copti • Director of Happy Holidays

“I’m a big believer in the process of liberation, and I truly believe that nobody’s free until everybody’s free”

VENICE 2024: The Palestinian director breaks down his methods of writing and shooting as well as interrogating concepts like morality and the normalisation of oppression  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Happy Holidays

Review: Happy Holidays

VENICE 2024: Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti makes effective use of an ensemble cast in this portrait of contemporary family life in Israel, replete with its many intricacies  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

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