
Palestinian Film Calendar
Screenings by, about and related to Palestine in the New York City area and limited online engagements.

No Other Land
A chronicle of the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary.

No Other Land
A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activist/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary.

No Other Land
A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activist/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary.

ONLINE: The Seed Queen of Palestine
In the fields and terraces of the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian woman is leading a quiet revolution. Vivien Sansour is distributing rare, ancient heirloom seeds to Palestinian farmers.
The Encampments
Students flooded Columbia University's lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies.
The Encampments
Student organizers take a stand against their institutions' investments in the ongoing genocide in Gaza
The Encampments
Student organizers take a stand against their institutions' investments in the ongoing genocide in Gaza

The Teacher (+Q&A)
A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker Lisa and his emotional support for one of his students Adam.
The Encampments
Students flooded Columbia University's lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies.

No Other Land
A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activist/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary.

Where the Wind Blows + The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Two award-winning Palestinian short films about agrarian heritage and reclaiming narratives

ONLINE: Relentless Refusals
Recent short animated films by The Hakawi Animation Team, and animators Naaman Azhari, and Arash Akhgari, presenting perspectives from characters that refuse to silently accept the conditions or struggles they face.

Bye Bye Tiberias
The film traces four generations of Palestinian women through personal and historical archives, weaving an intimate portrait of resilience in the face of exile and dispossession.
The Encampments
Students flooded Columbia University's lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies.
The Palestine Exception (+Q&A)
Professors and students join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police and politicians. Scholars from diverse disciplines explain what is at stake in these protests and why so many young people identify with the Palestinian cause.

Recollection
Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari returns to Jaffa, the city of his birth, to reckon with the imposition of Israeli and American fiction films shot in Palestine going back as far as 1960.

Relentless Refusals (+Q&A)
Recent short animated films by The Hakawi Animation Team, and animators Naaman Azhari, and Arash Akhgari, presenting perspectives from characters that refuse to silently accept the conditions or struggles they face.

UNDR
As part of the shorts program called Landscapes of Forgetting, Kamal Aljafari’s short film will screen alongside other films about memory and erasure.

Three Promises + Where the Wind Blows
While the Israeli army retaliates against the second intifada in the West Bank in the early 2000s, a mother films her family’s daily life, punctuated by time spent sheltering in the basement. Her son revisits this past, delivering a heart-breaking film that conveys the anguish of children and their parents who are forced to choose between safety and emotional upheaval.
Additional Resources for Discovering & Watching Palestinian Films
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PFI is a Palestinian voluntary and independent non-profit organization established in 2019, The PFI was born from a shared desire among active film professionals who identify as Palestinians, to create an inclusive body with the mission to develop, promote and empower the community and industry of film in Palestine and for Palestinians worldwide and preserve its cinema.
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Palestine Film Index is a growing list of films from and about Palestine and the Palestinian struggle for liberation, made by Palestinians and those in solidarity with them.
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Discover feature films, documentaries and shorts on Palestinian life and history on Letterboxd, courtesy of the Arab Film and Media Institute.
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A free film archive of solidarity and struggle.
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Films for Palestine is an ever-expanding collection of Palestinian and Palestinian-adjacent films The importance of situating oneself in a historical context in order to understand the unfolding 2023 genocide in Palestine cannot be overstated. These are crucial films—narrative, documentary, experimental. May we view them with our hearts and minds wide open, and for the knowledge we gain to be the foundation of our fight for a Free Palestine.
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The Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI) seeks to continually change the narrative, share our stories, and foster understanding of our common humanity through art and storytelling. In this dire time, they created Palestinian Voices, an ongoing program of films that showcase the history, culture and people of Palestine.
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An international institution for serving the Palestinian films and films about Palestine.
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A film production and distribution company which aims to entertain audiences and enrich the cultural landscape by promoting stories that reflect the perspectives and experiences of Palestinians as well as other marginalized groups around the world.
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A free platform streaming the best independent films from the Arab region.