Picture Palestine
Overview of films
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Introduction to the End of an Argument
Snippets from Western films, documentaries and news coverage are woven together to expose their racial bias when depicting the Middle East, Arab cu
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A Magical Substance Flows into Me
An ode to music that undoes the distinction between ‘Arabs’ and ‘Jews’, national borders and political differences. Jumana
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One Minute
Gaza, Shuja’iyya, summer 2014: Salma is sheltering from the bombing. Her mobile phone is her lifeline to the world, but it also announces her
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Flower Seller
Hiding his true identity behind the role of an innocent flower seller, Abu El Ward is confronted by destiny in this thriller about a Palestinian co
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In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain
A narrative resistance group tries to change the history and fate of its people in the future by manipulating its past through underground porcelai
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A Boy, a Wall and a Donkey
Three young boys want to make a film in a village without cameras. There is a place they know with plenty of cameras.
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Like Twenty Impossibles
A Palestinian film crew is stopped at a checkpoint. A visual poem and a narrative about the fragmentation of a people that also questions the polit
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The Pessoptimist
The protagonist, an anti-hero, finds himself out of place and out of time. A victim of both his own existential crisis and his surroundings.
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And Yet My Mask Is Powerful
A richly layered film in which 3D-printed Neolithic masks worn in destroyed Palestinian villages in Israel become a counterpoint to the dominant im
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20 Handshakes for Peace
The Oslo Accords handshake between Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Bill Clinton repeated 20 times; tainted by countless shattered hopes.
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Port of Memory
Once a thriving Palestinian port city, Jaffa has now become an extension of Tel Aviv. Aljafari offers a subtle portrait and memoir of a disappearin