FILMS
@ Palestine Online Store
(home video and institutional)
:: FEATURE FILMS
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- General Overviews (11 films)
- The Wall/Settlements (2)
- Feature Films (7)
- Shorts, Music, Dance, Sports (6)
- Gaza, W. Bank, Jerusalem, '48 territories (13)
- Children (7)
- Refugees (15)
- Education, International Law & Media (4)
- Personalities (10)
IMPORTANT: Home Video, Institutional Orders, and Screening Rights
The "home video" price denotes the pricing for private personal use.
For institutional purchases, please e-mail us and request a copy of our institutional catalog, which includes institutional pricing for films that we are authorized to sell to institutional buyers.
Most filmmakers charge a fee for a public screening; please make sure you secure the needed permission for such. We are authorized to sell such licensing for some of the films, and provide the relevant contact for others.
Shipping &
Handling
A flat fee of $6.00 is added to all orders; we do not charge extra for overseas shipments. However, for VHS orders to customers outside of North America, please click on the "international order" button, which includes an additional shipping surcharge.
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Divine Intervention
Elia
Suleiman, 2002, 92 minutes, DVD
In this
darkly comic masterpiece, Palestinian director Elia
Suleiman utilizes irreverence, wit, mysticism and insight
to craft an intense, hallucinogenic and extremely adept
exploration of the dreams and nightmares of Palestinians
and Israelis living in uncertain times.
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Paradise Now ***HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED!***
Hany Abu-Assad, 2005, 90 minutes, DVD
“PARADISE
NOW” is the story of two young Palestinian men as they
embark upon what may be the last 48 hours of their lives.
On a typical day in the West Bank city of Nablus, where
daily life grinds on amidst crushing poverty and the
occasional rocket blast, we meet two childhood best
friends who are selected to do a suicide bombing.
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Private
Saverio
Costanzo,
2004, 90 minutes, DVD
The
Israeli army decides to seize a Palestinian family's
home, confining them to a few downstairs rooms in daytime
and a single room at night. Mohammad refuses to leave
this home and, reinforced by his principles against
violence, decides to find a way to keep his family together
in the house until the Israeli soldiers move on.
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Rana's Wedding
Hany Abu-Assad, 2002, 90 minutes, DVD
Shooting on location in East Jerusalem, Ramallah and
at checkpoints in-between, Palestinian director Hany
Abu-Assad (Ford Transit) sees the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict through the eyes of a young woman who, with
only ten hours to marry, must negotiate her way around
roadblocks, soldiers, stonethrowers, overworked officials
... and into the heart of an elusive lover.
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Slingshot Hip Hop ***HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED!***
Jackie Salloum, 2008, 83 minutes, DVD
Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.
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Tale of the Three Jewels
Michel
Khleifi, 1995, 107 minutes, DVD
This feature
film tells the story of Yussef, a twelve-year-old boy
who lives in an imaginary world of his own and often
escapes from the surrounding violence to the beautiful
Gaza countryside. One
day he meets a ravishing gypsy girl with whom he falls
in love. When Yussef declares his intention of marrying
her when they grow up, she tells him that he must first
find three jewels missing from her grandmother’s
necklace, which was brought from South America by her
grandfather.
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The Dupes
Tawfik Saleh, 1972, 107 minutes, VHS
This black and white film traces the destinies of three
Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession,
despair and hope for a better future. The setting is
Iraq in the 1950's and the protagonists, concealed in
the steel tank of a truck, are trying to make their
way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised
land." A masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's
acclaimed novella, Men Under the Sun, The Dupes is also
one of the first Arab films to address the Palestinian
predicament.
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