Palestine

Produced by Basement Films, this is the film that BBC refused to air.
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is a forensic investigation into Israel’s genocide of Gaza’s healthcare system and society with full US and European backed support.
The film shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you.

After the film’s release, the Director of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital and family were killed on an Israeli air strike on their home in the latest spate of genocidal attacks on Palestinians on July 2, 2025.

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This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.Read More »

This inspired hybrid of documentary and fiction follows Jabir, who runs a mobile cinema from his old truck throughout the West Bank while his wife works to bring emergency medical care to Palestinians. When Jabir is invited by a spirited schoolteacher to make a screening in the old city of Jerusalem, he becomes obsessed with the idea of this pilgrimage and begins to investigate the possibilities.Read More »

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In 2007, the human rights organisation B’tselem launched a project consisting of providing video cameras and training to Palestinian volunteers in the West Bank to document their lives under Israeli occupation. Made up of many short films, “Of Land and Bread” is a film of painful eloquence.

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Director Mohanad Yaqubi draws on recently-discovered and archival found footage to explore the tumultuous history of Palestine and Palestinian filmmaking in this timely and insightful documentary.Read More »

During the summer of 2014, Mohamed Jabaly joins an ambulance crew attempting to save those injured during the war in Gaza.Read More »

Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere) – this film was shot on the same 16mm camera – and founded the PLO’s film division, covers conditions in Lebanon’s refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. They Do Not Exist is a stylistically unique work which explodes at the intersection between the political and the aesthetic.Read More »

Produced by the Palestinian Cinema Institute and the General Union of Palestinian Women

On August 12, 1976, during the civil war in Lebanon, the Tal al-Zaatar refugee camp was attacked by Phalangists.

2,000 people are massacred. A house welcomes orphans. The camera accompanies them in their everyday life, in their suffering, in the precariousness of the refugee camps in neighboring countries and in Palestine under Israeli occupation.Read More »

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Five broken cameras—and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he becomes the peaceful archivist of an escalating struggle as olive trees are bulldozed, lives are lost, and a wall is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli settlements.Read More »