20. The Crossing

• Nicolas E Jarad
• Ghantus Wael

The trials and tribulations faced by ordinary Palestinians attempting to travel a few hundred meters inside their own land are sadly, only too well known. This heartbreaking story articulates what...Read more happens with Shady and Maryam when trying to visit their sick grandfather, who lives on the other side of the separation barrier.

19. Frontiers of Dreams and Fears

• Manar Faraj
• Mona Zaaroura

A documentary that tells the story of Mona and Manar from the Shatila camp in Lebanon and the Dheisheh camp in the occupied territories through their exceptional journey to the borders of exile that...Read more separate them from their homeland.

18. Mars at Sunrise

• Meirav Koperberg
• Nael Kanj

A story about how fantasy can be warred against, through the story of a Palestinian painter who gets severely tortured to the point where his mind loses its ability to imagine and create art,...Read more demonstrating how a creative mind can successfully flourish in spite of any pressure.

17. Ghost Hunting

• Ramzi Maqdisi
• Muhammad Khatab

In order to confront the ghosts of his past, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to build a replicate of Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre,...Read more where he was himself jailed at age 18. From fragmentary memory, day after day, they give shape to the interrogation centre they all experienced, and re-enact its stories. As the walls of the cells rise, the tongues and the emotions loosen.

16. The Wanted 18

• Rosann Nerenberg
• Holly Uloth

Through stop-motion animation, drawings and interviews, directors Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan recreate an astonishing true story from the First Palestinian Intifada: the Israeli army’s pursuit of...Read more eighteen cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel."

15. Wedding in Galilee

• Mohamad Ali El Akili
• Bushra Karaman

In Galilee, a Palestinian man petitions the Israeli governor to allow him to hold his son's wedding ceremony. The governor agrees, provided that he and his men attend the ceremony.

14. Ya Tayr El Tayer

• Tawfeek Barhom
• Qais Attaallah

The story of Palestinian star Muhammad Assaf, who won the Arab Idol title in 2013, becoming an icon in his country. The film focuses on his early life, the difficulties faced in Gaza, his sister's...Read more illness, and the challenges he faced in order to get to Egypt to participate in the Arab Idol program.

13. Wajib

• Mohammad Bakri
• Saleh Bakri

A father and his estranged son must come together to hand deliver his daughter's wedding invitations to each guest as per local Palestinian custom. As the estranged pair spend the day together, the...Read more tense details of their relationship come to a head, challenging their fragile and very different lives. 

12. 3000 Nights

• Maisa Abd Elhadi
• Nadira Omran / Nadera Khaled

Layal is a Palestinian teacher, who is arrested by the Israeli forces for a crime she did not commit. She is placed in a women’s prison in Israel, and is put under pressure to eventually spy on the...Read more other inmates. Things get more complicated when she gives birth during her time in jail.

11. Milh hdha albahr

• Suheir Hammad
• Saleh Bakri

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Soraya returns to her homeland of Palestine, only to discover that her grandfather's accounts in the bank of Jaffa were frozen after his exile in 1948. Soraya is...Read more determined to restore her rights, even if she has to break the law.