A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.

“What would you do if you grew up seeing your home repeatedly raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, for just a moment, to imagine that this was your life. How would you want the world to react?”

Ahed Tamimi is a world-renowned Palestinian activist, born and raised in the small West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, which became a center of the resistance to Israeli occupation when an illegal, Jewish-only settlement blocked off its community spring. Tamimi came of age participating in nonviolent demonstrations against this action and the occupation at large. Her global renown reached an apex in December 2017, when, at sixteen years old, she was filmed slapping an Israeli soldier who refused to leave her front yard. The video went viral, and Tamimi was arrested.

But this is not just a story of activism or imprisonment. It is the human-scale story of an occupation that has riveted the world and shaped global politics, from a girl who grew up in the middle of it . Tamimi’s father was born in 1967, the year that Israel began its occupation of the West Bank and he grew up immersed in the resistance movement. One of Tamimi’s earliest memories is visiting him in prison, poking her toddler fingers through the fence to touch his hand. She herself would spend her seventeenth birthday behind bars. Living through this greatest test and heightened attacks on her village, Tamimi felt her resolve only deepen, in tension with her attempts to live the normal life of a daughter, sibling, friend, and student.

An essential addition to an important conversation, They Called Me a Lioness shows us what is at stake in this struggle and offers a fresh vision for resistance. With their unflinching, riveting storytelling, Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri shine a light on the humanity not just in occupied Palestine but also in the unsung lives of people struggling for freedom around the world.

Mustafa Abu Ali, born in 1940 in Maliha, Palestine, is a Palestinian filmmaker. Died 30 July 2009 in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Ali studied cinema in London, graduating in 1967. One of the founders of Palestinian cinema under the auspices of the PLO, and the Palestinian Cinema Association in Beirut in 1973, (re-established in Ramallah in 2004), he has written four screenplays and directed more than 30 films, for which he has won more than 14 awards, the most recent from the 2003 Ismailia Film Festival.

Call her a freedom fighter or a terrorist; Leila Khaled was the first woman to ever hijack an airplane. Born and raised in Haifa, in the 1960s Khaled became one of the most celebrated and reviled public figures of the PFLP. Raised by Palestinian exiles in Sweden, the filmmaker considered Khaled her teenage idol. Yet, settled into a seemingly conventional middle age in exile in Jordan, Khaled hardly seems the picture of revolutionary zeal the filmmaker imagined. Archival footage and engaging interviews with a still fierce Khaled, as well as the pilots, flight attendants, and passengers from the planes Khaled and her comrades hijacked, bring together public context and personal history with the passage of time to tell the stories of those harrowing flights and the woman who was willing to die to free her country

A young Palestinian living in a refugee camp in 1949 struggles to escape the imminent death when him and his little brother heedlessly enter a minefield.

Remembering the 1948 siege of Deir Yassim, Jerusalem

On April 9, 1948, the small Muslim village of Deir Yassin just outside Jerusalem was attacked by Jewish Israelis, and 100 unarmed civilians were massacred.

With powerful archive footage from the siege itself, we relive the terror that has inspired Palestinian suicide attacks ever since.

A 42 minute documentary film that combines the cactus and the memories it stands for. The film addresses the story of the destruction of the Palestinian villages of Latroun in the Occupied West Bank and the forcible transfer of their civilian population in 1967. Over 40 years later, the Israeli occupation continues, and villagers remain displaced.

The film follows two separate but parallel journeys. Aisha Um Najeh takes us down the painful road that Palestinians have been forcefully pushed down, separating them in time and place from the land they nurtured; while Israelis walk freely through that land, enjoying its fruits. The stems of the cactus, however, take a few of them to discover the reality of the crime committed.

اختزل الفيلم الوثائقي الفلسطيني "ذاكرة الصبار" في 42 دقيقة قصة معاناة فلسطينيي قرى اللطرون الذين هجروا على أيدي الجيش الإسرائيلي عام 1967. الفيلم من إنتاج مؤسسة الحق وإخراج حنا مصلح.

لاتزال قصة (عمواس ويالوا وبيت نوبا) قرى اللطرون محفورة في ذاكرة من بقوا من الجيل الفلسطيني الشاهد على عمليات تهجير الفلسطينيين من القدس عام 1967 . حكايات يجسدها فيلم ذاكرة الصبار الوثائقي الفلسطيني والذي يحكي قصص من اقتــلعوا من منازلهم التي تحولت الآن إلى متنزه لأبناء المستوطنين في القدس.


خوف وحيرة وذكريات لا تنتهي جمعها الفيلم الذي أنتجته مؤسسة "الحق" الفلسطينية وأخرجه حنا مصلح والذي عرض من خلاله نماذج من معاناة سكان قرى اللطرون غربي القدس ساردا حكايتهم على ألسنهم فأعاد الفيلم المشاهدين الى الوراء عشرات السنين وكأن الحدث كان البارحة.

وقد حاز الفيلم على الجائزة الأولى كأفضل فيلم وثائقي في مهرجان دبي السينمائي للسنة الثالثة على التوالي

In this lyrical and searing debut novel written by a rising literary star and MacDowell Fellow, a young man is preparing to serve in the Israeli army while also trying to reconcile his close relationship to two Palestinian siblings with his deeply ingrained loyalties to family and country.

The story begins in an Israeli military jail, where — four days after his nineteenth birthday — Jonathan stares up at the fluorescent lights of his cell, and recalls the series of events that led him there.

Two years earlier: Moving back to Israel after several years in Pennsylvania, Jonathan is ready to fight to preserve and defend the Jewish state, which his grandfather — a Salonican Jew whose community was wiped out by the Nazis — helped establish. But he is also conflicted about the possibility of having to monitor the occupied Palestinian territories, a concern that grows deeper and more urgent when he meets Nimreen and Laith — the twin daughter and son of his mother’s friend.

From that winter morning on, the three become inseparable: wandering the streets on weekends, piling onto buses toward new discoveries, laughing uncontrollably. They share joints on the beach, trading snippets of poems, intimate secrets, family histories, resentments, and dreams. But with his draft date rapidly approaching, Jonathan wrestles with the question of what it means to be proud of your heritage and loyal to your people, while also feeling love for those outside of your own tribal family. And then that fateful day arrives, the one that lands Jonathan in prison and changes his relationship with the twins forever.

Powerful, important, and timely, Sadness Is a White Bird explores one man’s attempts to find a place for himself, discovering in the process a beautiful, against-the-odds love that flickers like a candle in the darkness of a never-ending conflict.

Founded by Palestinian George Totari, exiled to Sweden after Israel's 1967 war, the Kofia band gained a name in leftist music scenes internationally. Kofia: a revolution through music (2021) tells their story.

Trapped in "the world's largest open-air prison" and ruled by war, a new generation is drawn to the beaches. Sick of occupation and political gridlock, they find their own personal freedom in the waves of the Mediterranean - they are the surfers of Gaza.

置于历史与战争的背景下，录音带里的“抹除”一词被赋予了新的意义。1948年以色列建国时，战争爆发，数百个巴勒斯坦村庄在战后人口锐减。这被以色列人称为独立战争，而对巴勒斯坦人而言则是“Nakba”（灾难）。上世纪九十年代末，研究生泰迪·卡兹对一场大屠杀展开研究，据说其发生于1948年的坦图拉村。后来这项工作遭受到抨击，并使他声誉俱毁，但长达140小时的音频证词幸免于难。

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family historyIn 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members―mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists―The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invation of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process. Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluting the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.

儘管可蘭經沒有明文禁止女性在伊斯蘭法庭出任法官， 胡露德法琪最初想擔任此職，簡直是異想天開。2012 年， 她終於獲委任，是巴勒斯坦第一人，亦是中東第一人。 她在約旦河西岸的法院，按照伊斯蘭法律，審理家暴及家庭糾紛，判決離婚及子女撫養權。但她的裁決及能力仍會受到無理質疑，必須耐心改變世俗的性別偏見，才能捍衛社會公義。高恩以真實電影方式記錄，釐清外界對伊斯蘭法律的誤解，如實呈現巴勒斯坦女性的生活面貌。