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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

Palestinian movies

Iranian filmmaker and activist Sepideh Farsi looks at a portrait of the Palestinian photographer Fatima Hassouna, during a photo session at her home in Paris on May 5, 2025. (JOEL SAGET / AFP)
May 11, 2025, 7:21 pm
Film about Gaza photojournalist premieres at Cannes this week after her death in airstrike
Fatima Hassouna and 10 relatives were killed in northern Gaza in a strike last month targeting a Hamas operative, the day after she learned the film had been chosen
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Basel Adra, from left, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham accept the award for best documentary feature film for 'No Other Land,' during the Oscars on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Pizzello)
March 7, 2025, 5:42 am
BDS movement rejects Israeli-Palestinian Oscar winner ‘No Other Land’
Anti-Israel boycott group says film about West Bank home demolitions violates ‘anti-normalization guidelines’; Israeli government has denounced it as slanderous
By Luke Tress
Basel Adra, from left, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham accept the award for best documentary feature film for 'No Other Land,' during the Oscars on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Pizzello)
March 3, 2025, 5:21 am
‘No Other Land,’ about Israel razing Palestinian village, wins best documentary Oscar
Two of film’s four co-directors, an Israeli and a Palestinian, use acceptance speeches to call for Palestinian rights; Israeli Yuval Avraham also calls for release of hostages
By Ben Sales
A still from 'No Other Land.' (Antipode Films)
January 26, 2025, 3:20 pm
Lacking distributors, Oscar-nominated film about West Bank village still hits US cinemas
Directed by a team of Israelis and Palestinians, ‘No Other Land,’ about IDF demolitions and settler attacks in Masafer Yatta, snags Academy Award nod, will screen in NYC next week
By Andrew Lapin
Arab-Israeli director Maha Haj poses during a photocall for the film "Mediterranean Fever" at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 25, 2022. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)
May 26, 2022, 10:33 am
Israel-born director dedicates film at Cannes Festival to ‘assassinated’ reporter
‘We will never forget you Shireen… We dedicate this premiere to you,’ says Maha Haj, director of the Palestinian film ‘Mediterranean Fever’
By Tobias Siegal
Still from Israeli director Eran Kolirin's latest film, 'Let It Be Morning,' written by Sayed Kashua. (Courtesy Cohen Media Group)
November 14, 2021, 7:05 am
Eran Kolirin thought ‘Let It Be Morning’ was ‘career suicide.’ He was dead wrong
Recently shown at NYC’s Other Israel festival, the Israeli director’s latest film features an all-Arab cast, won an Ophir Award, and will represent the Jewish state at the Oscars
By Jordan Hoffman
A scene from 'Ave Maria' by Basil Khalil. (Incognito Films)
October 15, 2021, 6:23 pm
Netflix launches film collection of 32 ‘Palestinian Stories’
Palestinians praise move as helping local cinema escape Israeli shadow; library will include several award-winning movies and documentaries
By ToI Staff
Kais Nashif, right, and Yaniv Biton in 'Tel Aviv on Fire.' (Courtesy Cohen Media Group)
August 1, 2019, 4:11 am
Chuckle and sigh at new film about checkpoints, occupation and unhappy neighbors
Director Sameh Zoabi says ‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ is reaping accolades because it avoids heavy-handed politics and finds the comedy in regular people living through a bizarre situation
By Jordan Hoffman
Adam, played by writer and director Shady Srour, gets the endorsement of the clergy in 'Holy Air.' (© 2017 Tree M Productions)
June 29, 2018, 11:11 pm
It will take more than BDS to stop a Christian Arab director from walking on air
Boycotters condemning Nazareth-native Shady Srour for letting his film ‘Holy Air’ appear at London’s Seret film festival can’t stifle the movie’s buoyant festival reception
By Yaakov Schwartz
Outside the School of Visual Arts theater for the inaugural Israeli Film Center Festival. (photo credit: Jordan Hoffman)
June 5, 2018, 3:18 pm
Six movies not to be missed at the Israel Film Center Festival in New York
Beginning June 5, the annual celebration features eight crazy nights of sabra cinema in what is a canny predictor of which Israeli films will mesmerize US moviegoers this year
By Jordan Hoffman
In this Aug. 8, 2015, photo, people walk on a bridge with the financial skyline of Singapore seen in the background, a day ahead of the nation's 50th year of independence. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
January 4, 2018, 11:55 am
Singapore bans ‘inflammatory’ Palestinian film
State media says documentary about soldier-slapping teen Ahed Tamimi has a ‘skewed narrative’ and could provoke disharmony
By AFP and ToI Staff
Palestinian Kholoud al-Faqih, who became the Middle East's first female sharia court judge, featured in the movie 'The Judge,' released September 11, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
September 12, 2017, 8:53 am
First Palestinian woman sharia court judge stars in Toronto festival doc
Erika Cohn’s ‘The Judge’ tells story of Kholoud al-Faqih, who shattered glass ceiling of Islamic jurisprudence in Middle East
By Michel COMTE
A Palestinian leads a donkey cart on the red carpet during a film festival showcasing films focusing on human rights, in Gaza City on May 12, 2017. (AFP/Mohammed Abedi)
May 13, 2017, 9:53 pm
Gazans walk the ‘Red Carpet’ for film festival, and trample on Balfour Declaration
With no movie theaters in the Strip, Palestinians flock to a week of outdoor screenings — with simultaneous shows in Haifa and Ramallah
By AFP and ToI Staff
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