Palestinian cinema is relatively young in comparison to Arab cinema as a whole, many Palestinian movies are made with European and Israeli funding and support. Palestinian movies are not exclusively produced in Arabic and some are made in English, French and Hebrew. It is believed that there have been over 800 films produced about Palestinians, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and other related topics.

Notable directors

• Hany Abu-Assad
• Mustafa Abu Ali
• Osama Al-Zain
• Mohammed Bakri
• Cherien Dabis
• Jamal Dajani
• Tarek Al Eryan
• Annemarie Jacir
• Michel Khleifi
• Rashid Masharawi
• Mai Masri
• Akram Al-Ashqar
• Montaser Marai
• Izidore Musallam
• Rosalind Nashashibi
• Leila Sansour
• Elia Suleiman

Notable films

• They Don't Exist
• Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) (Best First Film Prize at the 1996 Venice Film Festival)
• Divine Intervention (2002).
• Arna's Children (2003)
• Paradise Now. (2006 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film winner)
• The Color of Olives (2006)
• Iron Wall (2006)
• Goal Dreams] (2006)
• First Picture (2006)

Notable film festivals

• Chicago Palestine Film Festival
• London Palestine Film Festival
• Al-Kasaba International Film Festival , in Ramallah, West Bank

See also

• Al-Kasaba Theatre

References

Further reading

• Rapfogel, Jared: A Report of Dreams of a Nation - A Palestinian Film Festival, January 24-27, 2003, Senses of Cinema.
• Palestinian film festival planned, 18 May, 2004, BBC
• Dabashi, Hamid: For a Fistful of Dust: A Passage to Palestine, 23 - 29 September 2004, Al-Ahram
• Film Jan. 14, 2006, IMEU,
• Kemp, Rebecca: “Interviews with Palestinian Filmmakers” , 6 Degrees Film, Fall 2006
• Rastegar, Kamran, "Palestine Only Exists in Cinema", Bidoun Magazine, Issue 8, Vol. 1, Fall 2006
• Provan, Alexander Requesting Permission to Narrate: Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema. Stop Smiling Magazine. (2007). Retrieved on 2007-04-09..
• Annemarie Jacir: Coming Home: Palestinian Cinema, 27 February 2007, The Electronic Intifada
• Khaled Elayya: A Brief History of Palestinian Cinema, This week in Palestine
• Khadija Habshneh: Palestinian Revolution Cinema, This week in Palestine

External links

• Dreams of a Nation, an independent project founded to provide resources and information on Palestinian cinema. Based at Columbia University, USA.
• Palestinian Film: News and Reviews at IMEU.net
• Review of a film that explores the story of the lost archives of the PLO film unit
• History and Trends in Palestinian Filmmaking

Literature

• Dabashi, Hamid, and Said, Edward (preface) (2006): Dreams Of A Nation: On Palestinian Cinema, Verso Books, London, United Kingdom, ISBN 1844670880
• Gertz, Nurith; Khleifi, George (2008): Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma, and Memory, Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253220076