6 March 2012
Maureen Clare Murphy interviews Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon about his upcoming feature-length documentary, A People Without a Land, and his journey from a religious Zionist background to becoming an advocate for Palestinian rights. Read more about Interview: Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon on his upcoming documentary focusing on one-state solution
Jerusalem 20 February 2012
Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem can once again go to the movies, now that Al Quds Cinema has reopened its doors after being closed for 25 years. Read more about East Jerusalem cinema reopens after 25 years
30 January 2012
Trailer for the upcoming documentary “We Are Nabi Saleh”- a portrait of a Palestinian village in resistance - is finally released. Read more about Watch Trailer: We Are Nabi Saleh, a new film capturing people's struggle, Mustafa Tamimi
23 December 2011
Donor Opium is a new documentary film directed by Mariam Shahin and George Azar about the impact of international aid to Palestinians. The film features Palestinian criticisms of this externally funded “development”. Featured speakers are Khaled Sabawi, Sami Abdel-Shafi, Linda Tabar, Iyad Al Riyahi and Khalil Nakhleh. Read more about Film: Donor Opium
21 December 2011
Susan Youssef’s new feature film Habibi has won the award for Best Arab Feature Film at the 8th Dubai International Film Festival. This achievement comes after a decade-long struggle by Youssef to make the film. Last year she wrote for The Electronic Intifada about the trials of making a feature film set in Gaza and what inspired it: Read more about Susan Youssef's Habibi, a Gaza feature film a decade in the making, wins major award
22 November 2011
The trailer for Sleeping on Stones, the feature film that is the current project of Palestinian-American director Nicole Ballivian, made my heart leap. Read more about Shooting in Hebron: Watch gripping trailer for Nicole Ballivian's new project Sleeping on Stones
22 October 2011
If you’re anywhere nearby, you don’t want to miss this year’s Boston Palestine Film Festival. Read more about Ten days of not-to-be-missed events launch tonight at Boston Palestine Film Festival
31 August 2011
“Road Movie,” a six-screen video installation documenting apartheid in Palestine by Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky of Public Studio, will have its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, 8-18 September 2011. Read more about Video installation documenting Israeli apartheid to premiere at Toronto festival
20 May 2011
As Palestinians across the world commemorated the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba — the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland in 1947-48 — activists in North America and the UK launched another season of local film festivals that illustrate and emphasize the Palestinian experience. Read more about Around the world, film festivals put focus on Palestine
13 May 2011
Hip Hop is Bigger than the Occupation documents a crew of artists who traveled throughout the occupied West Bank for ten days. The group stayed at Balata refugee camp near Nablus, getting a taste of life under Israeli occupation: Read more about World premiere of film "Hip Hop is Bigger than the Occupation" May 30 in NYC