Selection of Palestinian films

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Door: Jan Schnerr - Laatst aangepast op: 31 januari 2021

Emad Burnat in 5 Broken Cameras, Source

1. Selection of films with international success

Omar (2013)
director Hany Abu Assad 2013. Nederland. Fiction, 110 min.
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It must be Heaven (2019), Elia Suleiman.
France. Documentary, 97 min.
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Naila and the Uprising (2017)
Julia Bacha. Palestine/United States. Documentary 75 min.
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Wajib (2017)
Annemarie Jacir, Palestine. Fiction 97 min.
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See also: https://cineuropa.org/en/film/331367/
5 Broken Cameras (2011)
Emad Burnat (co-dir. Guy Davidi). Palestine Israel. Documentary, 53 min.
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The Idol (2016)
Hany Abu Assad. Palestine/Netherlands/Qatar/United Arab Emirates. Fiction, 98 min.
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Paradise Now (2005)
Hany Abu-Assad. Palestine, France, Germany, Netherlands, Israel. Fiction, 97 min.
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Jenin, Jenin (2002)
Mohammed Bakri. Palestine Israel. Documentary, 54 min.
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Trailer:  1 min., 9 min.
Divine Intervention (2002)
Elia Suleiman. France, Morocco, Germany, Palestine. Fiction, 92 min.
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Trailer:  (1.38 min.)
Interview with Suleiman
Noce en Galilée/Wedding in Galilee (1987)
Michel Khleifi. France, Belgium, Palestine. Fiction, 113 min.
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Film (1:51:52)
When I Saw You (2012)
Annemarie Jacir. Palestine (finance and production), Jordan, Greece, United Arab Emirates. Fiction, 93 min.
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Interview met Jacir (2009)
Amreeka (2009)
Cherien Dabis. United States. Fiction, 96 min.
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Gaza mon Amour, 2020
Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser. Palestine, France, Germany, Portugal and Qatar. Fiction, 87 min.
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Taal: Arabisch
Nation Estate (2012)
Larissa Sansour. Denmark. Science Fiction, 9 min.
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Film 

2. Three films with a central role in the history of Palestinian cinema

They Do Not Exist (1974)
Mustafa Abu Ali. Lebanon. Documentary, 25 min.
Mustafa Abu Ali (1940-2009, founder of the PLO’s film department) chose as the title for the film, Golda Meir’s famous remark about the Palestinian people. He began making films in 1968 in Jordan, with Sulafa Jadallah and Hani Jawhariya, filmed in Lebanon from 1970 and worked with Jean-Luc Godard (“my soul is Palestinian”), among others.Notes
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Interview with Annemarie Jacir on the film and the director
Film (duration 24.57)
Fertile Memory (1980)
Michel Khleifi. Palestine. ‘Poetic metaphor with documentary discipline.’ 104 min.
“By showing the lived contradictions of life under occupation, Khleifi’s film marked an important shift in the history of Palestinian cinema, one that he would explore further in his subsequent work.”1https://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=2687
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Return to Haifa (1981)
Kassem Hawal. Fiction, 85 min.
Kassem Hawal made the film based on a novella by Ghassan Kanafani in 1981. The film was financed with money raised by the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) in the refugee camps in northern Lebanon. Thousands participated in opening scenes of the film and, “as if by a miracle the film set on the port of Tripoli came to resemble that of Haifa in 1948”.
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3. And, another 1200 films

See https://www.palestinecinema.com/.

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