Updated 22 May 2021
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Now you can watch films by female Palestinian directors for free

Now you can watch films by female Palestinian directors for free

Streaming service Another Screen is showcasing films by more than 15 Palestinian women filmmakers through their online program “For a Free Palestine: Films by Palestinian Women.”

 

  • ‘Your Father Was Born… A 100 Years Old, And So Was The Nakba’

    A heartbreaking tribute to the first generation of Palestinian refugees directed by Razan Al-Salah.

     

  • ‘The Silent Protest: Jerusalem 1929’

    On Oct 26, 1929, Palestinian women launched their women's movement in Jerusalem and held a silent protest through a car convoy. Director Mahasen Nasser-Eldin tells the story of that day.

     

  • ‘A Space Exodus’

    Larissa Sansour’s 2009 short film revives scenes from Stanley Kubrick's cult film “A Space Odyssey.”

     

  • ‘The Road to Palestine’

    Directed by Layaly Badr, this short animated children’s film tells the story of a seven-year-old girl named Layla who lives in a refugee camp outside of Palestine.

     

  • ‘Blessed, Blessed Oblivion’

    A portrait of male “thug culture” in East Jerusalem, manifested in gyms, body shops and hair dressing parlors by Jumana Manna.

     

  • ‘Electrical Gaza’

    In this 2015 film, Rosalind Nashashibi combines her footage of Gaza, and the fixer, drivers and translator who accompanied her there with animated scenes in order to present Gaza as an enchanted place behind sealed borders.