Palestinian conflict
Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Intifadas, Israeli operations against Palestinian organizations. Regime of occupied territories. Conflict reflection at the mundane level.
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- DirectorMichael EldridgeStarsMax RhyserYifat SharabiPenny BittoneUpon completing his service in the Israel Defense Forces, Kobi Zucker needed to get away from the pressures of the ongoing struggles of the Middle East. With memories of his tour of duty in the territories fresh in his mind, he comes to New York City on his way to South America. While working to earn money for his trip, Kobi meets the girl of his dreams. Beautiful and intelligent, Leila is everything that Kobi has ever wanted. But Leila is Palestinian, having come to New York from the West Bank with her family following the death of her oldest brother during the Intifada. Despite their differences, Kobi and Leila fall in love. Meanwhile, Leila's only surviving brother, Ghazi, is having his own troubles adapting to life in his new country. Ghazi increasingly comes under the spell of a radical Muslim preacher. Ghazi sees Leila changing and fears that she is no longer an honorable Muslim woman. Ghazi is determined to prevent Leila from dishonoring her family while Leila struggles with her feelings for Kobi and her past. Can love overcome the ancient hatreds and unhealed wounds dividing Israelis and Palestinians?
- StarsSa'eed SalehEssad YounissHanan TurkA married couple are recruited as spies by the Israelis in the post 1967 war. Based on a true story.
- StarsMaggie GyllenhaalStephen ReaLubna AzabalCenters on Nessa Stein, a woman who inherits her father's arms business and finds herself in an international maelstrom as she continues to promote the reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
- DirectorKeren YedayaStarsDana IvgyMoni MoshonovRonit ElkabetzIn the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsJuliette BinocheLiron LevoJeanne MoreauA political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to find her long ago abandoned daughter.
- DirectorVardit BiluDalia HagerStarsSmadar SayarNaama SchendarDanny GevaRebellious and outgoing Smadar can't stand types like Mirit. Mirit, introverted and frightened, keeps away from the likes of Smadar. But the two are thrown together as they are assigned to a patrol in Jerusalem as part of their compulsory military service. Their job is to stop Palestinian passersby, to ask for their identity cards, and to write down their details on special forms. You don't move from this place, don't sit down, don't smoke, don't eat, don't talk on your cell phones, says their commander, leaving them alone on the street with their patrol forms. What will they do now? This is the story of two 18-year-old girls who are busy with their own worlds--falling in love, break-ups, and the volatile relationship between the two--in an attempt to ignore the political reality in a city that slowly makes its way into their lives. As women, this film is our own way of soul searching, about our army service and the occupation
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsRobert MitchumEllen BurstynRock HudsonAn American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
- DirectorSameh ZoabiStarsAli SulimanDirar SuleimanMahmoud Abu JaziPalestinian and Israeli businessmen co-found solar energy company amid community opposition. Utilize social media to garner support for their venture and Israel-Palestine peace process.
- DirectorAner PremingerStarsHagit DasbergAlma DishiAlma DrozdAn Israeli mother desperate to defend her family during the Second Intifada, Locks them in the house for one long weekend.
- DirectorRashid MasharawiStarsMohammad BakriAhmad Abu Sal'oumHiam AbbassHaifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a Palestinian refugee camp. Although he is everybody's fool, there are many things that only he knows. He is closely related to the family of Abu Said, a former policeman who gains new hopes from the political developments. Oum Said, his wife, hangs her hope on the imminent release of their eldest son, Said, from jail. She tries to find him a bride to secure things for the future. Their youngest son, Siad, is cynical and rebellious. He refuses to believe things. Sabah, the 12 year old daughter is romancing the future and wants to find out what's in it for her. The different stories are interwoven into a very timely insight into the current Palestinian mind.
- DirectorSusan YoussefStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiKais NashifYussuf Abu-Warda'Habibi Rasak Kharban' (Darling, Something's Wrong with Your Head) is a dramatic feature that tells the story of a forbidden love in Gaza. The film is a modern re-telling of the famous ancient Sufi parable 'Majnun Layla'.
- DirectorRashid MasharawiStarsMahmoud Abu JaziSalah HanounRamzi MaqdisiTwo Palestinian brothers plan on immigrating to Canada after the Israeli air force bombs their family home. Milad (Stereo) used to be a wedding singer but because his wife dies in the attack he doesn't want to live in palestine or sing anymore. The bombing also leaves his brother Samy mute and deaf. The two set about earning money for their travel to Canada by buying a secondhand sound system that they rent out for events in Ramallah.
- DirectorMai MasriStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiNadira OmranRakeen SaadA young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
- DirectorRahman OladigboluStarsMomo DioneEddie FrateschiLeila StrickerWhen Sudanese "Lost Boy" Mohammed (Mo) Deng is dumped by his girlfriend of fourteen months, the resulting heartache opens up scabs of old wounds he thought had healed in time, in the ten years that he has been in America, after being rescued from the civil war in Sudan. On the other hand, when his best friend Edward Dudley falls in love with Yafit Abdeel, a former soldier of the Israel Defense Forces, his life will never remain the same again. Edward is well known as a playboy whose life is characterized by frivolous dating and casual sex, whereas Yafit grew up in a conservative home where sex comes only with marriage. As Mohammed's emotional life spirals down the rabbit hole, and Edward's heart is pulled apart in different directions, the two friends are caught up in the wave of a controversial event that is tearing their school apart. Conflict erupts on their campus as groups of students observe the year's "Israeli Apartheid Week", an annual exercise organized by pro-Palestinian teachers and students to protest events in the Middle East. For Edward, this becomes an opportunity to please a girl he's crazy about, and then maybe also to do something bigger than himself. Mohammed, however, seems to have no choices. As a popular peer tutor, he has befriended many students on campus, including several Jews and Arabs. Thus, he is an asset to the cause Edward is cooking up, and he feels that he can't let his best friend down. Yet his old wounds, sustained from the war that marred his childhood, are becoming as fresh as new.
- DirectorSerdar GözelekliStarsTurgay AydinPinar BalkisSuzan GençMuna is the 6-year-old daughter of a Palestinian family, living in Gaza. In fall 2009, their house gets raided by Israeli soldiers. When she comes out of hiding, Muna realizes that she's all alone. Not knowing what to do, she wanders the streets of Gaza in search of her family.
- DirectorArab NasserTarzan NasserStarsHiam AbbassVictoria BalitskaManal AwadIn Gaza, two hairdressers and ten customers of various ages and backgrounds spend the day trapped in a beauty salon while Hamas police fight a gang in the street.
- DirectorEytan FoxStarsOhad KnollerYousef 'Joe' SweidDaniella Wircer"The Bubble" is the story of a group of young people who live in Tel Aviv, Israel. The movie follows the group's difficulties of living in Israel's reality. Their routine breaks when a young Palestinian man enters their lives.
- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsElia SuleimanManal KhaderGeorge IbrahimSeparated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.
- DirectorSooney KadouhStarsSammy SheikJonathan StanleySayed BadreyaAfter smuggling himself into the United States and reconnecting with his estranged sister, a conflicted young Palestinian man begins an unlikely friendship with a lonely drug addict upon his quest to have the same U.S. company that manufactured the bomb that killed his young brother in Gaza, unknowingly make a small piece for his Qassam Rocket that will be fired into Israel upon his return.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsClara KhouryKhalifa NatourIsmael DabbagAbout a Palestinian girl of 17 who wants to get married to the man of her own choosing. Rana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum delivered by her father: she must either choose a husband from a preselected list of men, or she must leave Palestine for Egypt with her father by 4:00 that afternoon. With ten hours to find her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem, she sneaks out of her father's house at daybreak to find her forbidden love Khalil (Natour).
- DirectorErez TadmorStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiMoshe AshkenaziRoy AssafA brutal terror attack causes an intense chain of events in one night
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsAli SulimanReymonde AmsellemEvgenia DodinaAn Palestinian surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
- DirectorMichael MayerStarsNicholas JacobMichael AloniJameel KhouryA drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sides of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer.
- StarsNorman IssaClara KhouryMariano IdelmanAmjad is an Arab-Israeli journalist whose problems with cultural identity drive himself and all around him crazy especially his wife, Bushra.
- CreatorAvi IssacharoffLior RazStarsLior RazItzik CohenNeta GartyThe human stories on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
- DirectorSamuel MaozStarsLior AshkenaziSarah AdlerYonatan ShirayA troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son's desolate military post.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJill ClayburghJean YanneGabriel ByrneAn Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It's a tough case because of a strong political background.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsKais NashifAli SulimanLubna AzabalTwo childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
- DirectorZübeyr SasmazStarsNecati SasmazGürkan UygunKenan ÇobanPolat Alemdar and his crew is in Palestine and fight against Israel special agents.
- DirectorSylvain EstibalStarsSasson GabayBaya BelalMyriam TekaïaAfter a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting : imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar....
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsAdam BakriLeem LubanyEyad HouraniA young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.
- DirectorYariv HorowitzStarsYon TumarkinRoy NikHenry DavidThe year is 1989. In an era of Palestinian demands for independence, the State of Israel sends young soldiers to oversee the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories. After one of them is killed, the common fate of four young soldiers and one Palestinian family is sealed. The film describes the extraordinary journey of a young soldier trying to find his place in the chaos surrounding him.
- CreatorDavid WolstencroftStarsPeter FirthHugh SimonNicola WalkerThe missions of MI-5, the UK's domestic intelligence organization.
- DirectorNadav GalStarsHillel CapponSimon AminiBeatrice Hal-RichAlthough Nuni has been selected to play the lead (King David) in his Jerusalem grade school play, he'd secretly rather play the princess role instead.
- DirectorGuy NattivErez TadmorStarsLiron LevoJoad Abed El GaniIdo MosseriOne fence, four fans, and the game of their lives. This is a story about 4 men and a radio.
- DirectorEliran ElyaStarsMichael AloniMoshe AshkenaziIdo BartalOn May 12, 2004 an IDF armored personnel carrier and its crew was destroyed. IDF went on a mission to extract and collect the human remains in order to ensure their proper burial in Israel. The soldiers searched the remains of the bodies in the sand were secured by a group of fighters barricaded in the houses of Palestinians. This is the story of Michael, a platoon commander, who leads his unit on a security mission from within a house overlooking the collectors of the human remains, which is populated by a Palestinian family. At his side Tomer - a military photographer who surprisingly shows up on the scene. Along with the existing difficulties and complex dialogue with the family, Tomer, the photographer, complicates an already complicated situation for the sake of values he believes in thus becoming a real security burden in terms of the responsibility of Michael, the commander. Their stay at the house is prolonged, food runs out, and the Palestinian youngest child suffers from an asthma attack induced by the dust and shelling. Based on Actual Events
- DirectorHagai AdorianStarsNitzan LevratovskyEliran HarushBoris GorelikA newly trained female combat medic comes into contact for the first time with a life and death situation.
- DirectorRichard BöhringerStarsIshai GolanYan Matan LandsmannTali SharonHearing the rocket sirens, an Israeli family stops their car at the site of the road and ducks for cover. The father realizes, that he has to find an explaining for this unusual event to his scared son.
- DirectorRiki Shelach NissimoffStarsRageb Abu RokunMiki GevaMahmoud MoreBased on a true story, 'Joseph's Ballade' is a Chronicle of a death foretold in a country full of bloodshed.
- DirectorAmir MichalovichStarsOmry AshinArthur PerzevAt night, in a desolate guard-post in the occupied territories, a dismayed paratrooper in the Israeli army talks about his meaningless existence with his fellow watch-man, while fate concocts a momentous and pivotal night for the two.
- DirectorItai ShlembergStarsMohamed AhmedAbrahim GanemMatan PremingerAvishai, a lookout soldier in Nablus, is torn between love of music and dangers of approaching a Palestinian musical family. The risk of being caught doesn't stop him, reality does.
- DirectorYair AgmonStarsAshraf BarhomShmuel EdelmanCarlos GharzuziOccupation and creation; a story deconstructing reality, telling a tale about a different Middle East. In an alternative reality the Palestinian army is the occupier, and Palestinian directors make films to deal with their own trauma.
- DirectorJames AdolphusStarsAli SulimanMaisa Abd ElhadiMohammad BakriA dramatization of raid to capture a suspected militant by the Israeli Defense Forces during the Second Intifada into the sprawling maze of the Balata Refugee Camp in Palestine.
- DirectorRani MassalhaStarsSaleh BakriLaure de Clermont-TonnerreAhmad BayatraA male giraffe dies after a nocturnal air raid in a Palestinian zoo. The female giraffe stops eating. A boy and his father, the veterinarian of the zoo, look for a solution.
- DirectorIsaac Zepel YeshurunStarsJohnny ArbidSharon BrandonLia DultzkayaFrom legendary writer-director Yitzhak Yeshurun comes a drama about the true meaning of flag and family. The so-called Israeli war of attrition forced Shmuel Braverman to leave Israel and abandon his family. Secure with a new family and business in his new home, the United States, Shmuel returns to Israel to celebrate his son's completion of basic army training. But a tense trip with the whole family in a cramped supply van shakes up Shmuel's easy life and forces everyone to face hard truths in this award-winning drama.
- DirectorAmit GorenStarsAlon AboutboulSalim Daw
- DirectorMaya LiorA short animated film based on a personal childhood experience during the Gulf War and the Second Intifada, Israel dated 1991-2000. A wall was build to separate two cultures in constant conflict.
- DirectorShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzMenashe NoyDiklaPalestinian testimonies collected after the second Intifada revealed a harsh daily life reality that, for Israelis, had always belonged to the "others" - the Palestinians - and hence was denied. A few years later, trespassing what had been taboo until then, Israeli officers who served during the Intifada told of their memories. Memories of violence, of suffering, of humiliation. The stories from both sides matched. Against the backdrop of local empty landscapes, an Israeli officer remembers... a Palestinian civilian remembers as well. A journey into the collective memory of Palestine and Israel takes place.
- DirectorNawras Abu SalehStarsSami MetwasiAshraf TelfahAhmad OmariOver-Sized Coat" is a 120 minutes-length masterpiece which talks about the Palestinian reality for the period of (1987-2011).
- DirectorHaim BouzagloStarsJohnny ArbidAxelle AzoulayUzi BatishEveryday life in Israel during the "Intifada": suicide-attacks, distresses, tensions. A director must present a new theater play but he just can't write a line. His partner, a documentary filmmaker, is preparing the portrait of a former soldier who opened a trade but went into bankruptcy. This man is ruined, his wife has left home, his son got exiled to Australia. The director, desperate, believes that hiring a private detective to follow his wife is gonna put some salt in his life. Without knowing it, the detective becomes the real director of the play which is getting written step by step.
- DirectorMichel KhleifiStarsBushra KaramanMakram KhouryTwo Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come together again in Jerusalem some 18 years later. He works for an agricultural aid organization, she is a scholar researching the meaning of sacrifice in Palestinian society. Around them rages the turmoil of the first Intifada
- DirectorMichel KhleifiStarsMohamad Ali El AkiliBushra KaramanMakram KhouryA Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Palestinian youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Palestinian women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Palestinians must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsHiam AbbassRona Lipaz-MichaelAli SulimanThe story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsElia SuleimanNazira SuleimanFuad SuleimanA Palestinian expatriate filmmaker (Elia Suleiman) documents the loss of national identity in Israel's Arab population.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsTawfeek BarhomRazi GabareenYaël AbecassisA Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.
- DirectorMichel KhleifiStarsMohammed NahnalHana' Nc'mchBushra KaramanA Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990. Yusef's family scrapes by in a seaside camp while his father's in prison and his heavily-armed brother's on the run, parrying with Israeli troops. Salah, Yusef's schoolmate from a well-off Arab family strives faithfully to assist them, while Yusef helps an elderly, blind neighbor escape from his lonely abandonment into the North American dreamworld he's waited so long for.
- DirectorDima HamdanStarsValerie DentSami MetwasiJonathan PembrokeDecember 27th 2009. Israel has just launched a massive military assault on the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud is in London, his mother's in Gaza, and he's lost all contact with her. He agrees to take part in a radio program to discuss the situation in Gaza, when an unexpected caller reveals on air what has become of his mother, and the story of a family that's always been having to cope with loss.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsTawfeek BarhomQais AttaallahHiba AttalahMohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
- DirectorMuayad AlayanStarsSami MetwasiRamzi MaqdisiKamel El BashaA Palestinian car thief gets into the trouble of his life when he steals the wrong car. What he thought was an Israeli car and an easy way to make money in his impoverished refugee camp turns out to be a load of misfortune when he discovers a kidnapped Israeli soldier in the trunk.
- DirectorUdi AloniStarsTamer NafarSamar QuptySalwa NakkaraSet against a backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music in their crime-ridden ghetto and Tel Aviv's hip-hop club scene.
- DirectorRoy ZafraniStarsAdi WeissAssi GofferEinav MarkelA coincidental meeting between an Israeli boy and a Palestinian boy leads them to discover that reality is different than what they have been told.
- DirectorAlberto NegrinStarsBurt LancasterEva Marie SaintRenzo MontagnaniThe story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.