Movies and TvShows featuring "palestinian-identity" theme.

Twins Simon and Jeanne travel to the Middle East following their mother's death to uncover their family's past. Through a series of flashbacks, the movie tells the story of their mother Nawal, who was impregnated by a refugee and faced numerous challenges during the Lebanese Civil War. Nawal joins a radical organization, becomes a prisoner, and gives birth to twins. Upon her death, Nawal's will requests that her children find their father and lost brother. Simon initially refuses, but Jeanne continues the search and eventually uncovers the truth.

In It Must Be Heaven, a Palestinian filmmaker travels to different cities searching for funding for his film, only to encounter unexpected and amusing situations that reflect the complexities of his homeland and personal identity.

Tel Aviv on Fire is a comedy/drama/romance film that takes place in the 2010s and revolves around a Palestinian man named Salam, who works as an assistant on a popular soap opera called "Tel Aviv on Fire." The soap opera is set in the Israeli-Palestinian border and focuses on a forbidden love story between a Palestinian spy and an Israeli general's wife. Salam is unexpectedly promoted to be the main scriptwriter of the soap opera, but he soon finds himself caught in a conflict between the Israeli military and the Palestinian security forces. As Salam faces challenges in writing the storylines, he becomes entangled with real-life events and must navigate the politics and tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian relationship. Along the way, he develops a unique relationship with an Israeli officer at a checkpoint and finds himself in unexpected situations that test his creativity, determination, and understanding of both cultures.

During the 1967 war, a young Palestinian boy runs away from a refugee camp in Jordan and joins a rebellious group. He forms a bond with a teacher and finds solace in their shared struggle for freedom.

Somewhere in the West Bank, Chaim, an Israeli soldier is injured during an accident, losing his memory as a result. When the young man is found wandering lost by a Palestinian villager, he is mistaken for Nasim, a young Palestinian man who has long been disappeared in an Israeli prison.

Trump’s declarations concerning Israel and a Palestinian immigrant’s uncle’s medical diagnosis conspire to throw the latter into crisis, push him into provocative encounters, and jeopardize his relationship.

Jeremy Hardy vs. the Israeli Army is a 2003 feature documentary directed by Leila Sansour and starring Jeremy Hardy. It follows the International Solidarity Movement and their activities in Palestine, with London-based comedian Jeremy Hardy as an outsider looking in.

Long before the first Intifada drew international media to focus on Palestinian life under Israeli rule, David Koff produced this in-depth portrait of the daily conflict being waged in Israel/Palestine. It was recently rediscovered. With a combination of candid interviews and remarkable historic footage, Occupied Palestine unpicks the strategic and ideological motors of Israeli rule in Palestine, powerfully depicting that the roots of today's crises were firmly planted in the ground decades ago. Met with bomb threats and censorship on its initial release in the US in 1981, Occupied Palestine remains a singular work of engaged filmmaking and a unique record of an overlooked chapter in the course of the conflict.