A bitter and tragic reality that the Palestinians are experiencing these days, after the Gaza Strip was bombed by the Israeli occupation.
This resulted in a huge toll of martyrs and wounded and resulted in a response from the Palestinian resistance, coinciding with that of the solidarity of many stars of the Arab world and Hollywood with the people of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and their refusal to displace them from their homes.
Most likely, we will witness these events on the cinema screen soon, as the Palestinian issue has always been one of the most rich stories - human and dramatic - that directors have been passionate about with different nationalities, and these are some of the most important films that documented this.
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Paradise Now
A Palestinian film by director Hani Asaad, released in 2005, combining drama, excitement and crime, as its events revolved around the last two nights of the lives of two Palestinian youths who decide to carry out a martyrdom operation with the aim of drawing the world's attention to the Palestinian cause and the enemy's continuous attempts to eradicate the roots of identity and national consciousness.
Although the work achieved a strong artistic success - on the one hand, it won the Golden Globe Awards, the Berlin International Film Festival and the European Film Award, in addition to being nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film - that did not prevent him from being attacked, as he accused the director of confessing to the operations described by The West committed suicide and gave it a human character to pass it on and accept it socially.
Hope you have life
Palestinian refugees are the focus of the dramatic film "When I Saw You", which was released in 2012, and succeeded in grabbing the award for the best Arab film at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
The work sheds light on the Palestine refugees who were displaced to Jordan in 1967, when the 11-year-old is forced to leave with his mother to the refugee camp, and there we witness the challenges facing the heroes, especially children, and how many of them try to hold onto hope, no matter how flimsy it seems, before they grow up and join the fedayeen camp. To take back their rights.
The other side of the coin
Inch'Allah is a Canadian drama film, produced in 2012, about a Canadian doctor affiliated with the Red Crescent Society and working in one of the clinics in a refugee camp in the West Bank.
There she meets two women;
The first is a Palestinian, her husband was forcibly imprisoned in Israeli prisons, and the other is her Jewish friend who is recruited in the Israeli army.
And between this and that, and in light of the violence and aggressive and barbaric behavior they witness almost daily from the Israeli occupation towards unarmed civilians;
Over time, its long-adopted view of the Arab-Israeli conflict changes.
People of the other beach
The green card is the way to salvation, so she thought the heroine of the movie "Amreeka", who feels the harshness of life in Ramallah, is looking for a better opportunity for her child, to avoid the fate that was written on her and her grandparents.
As soon as she actually migrates - leaving behind all her old dreams and intending to open a new page with high aspirations and expectations - she is surprised that the American dream is an illusion for those like her, the children of the other world, which worsens even more, especially after the events of September 11, 2001.
Dream of return
Of the generations that deserve to learn about the Palestinian cause;
Young people who do not know anything about what the older generations lived, so having cartoons that tell what happened years ago or what is happening today is very important
Therefore, the joint Norwegian-French-Swedish film "The Tower" had to be included in this list.
The film tells the Palestinian story with the modern and attractive "Stop Motion" technology through an interesting plot, which shows how the old generations were forced to leave the homeland, through the eyes of the child "Warda", who belongs to the fourth generation after the 1948 Nakba, and who knows her homeland only the camp that She lived her whole life in it.
Which is stronger instinct;
Survival or the ghost of death?
Long fictional films are not the only ones whose makers are interested in monitoring the Palestinian pain, but the short films are also able to review the reality and the impact of war and aggression on the lives of citizens from the slightest detail to the biggest human concerns.
Among the films whose makers have succeeded in embodying this are two films:
The first is "Condom Lead", which was nominated for the Palme d'Or for short films at the Cannes Festival 2013, and its title was intended and sarcastic, as it adapted from the name of the military operation launched by the Israeli aggression on Gaza in 2008, which was called "Cast Lead" (at the time). Cast Lead).
The events of the film revolve around a married couple whose married life is troubled by violent events, which was highlighted by the decision of the brothers Ahmed and Muhammad Abu Nasser to free the work of dialogue and soundtracks and to be satisfied with the daily noise lurking in the background of the Palestinian street.
Although the idea of work is dramatic in the first place, it embodied the suffering of generations and generations and how they clung to the instinct of survival despite the bitterness of living in the shadow of a life always clouded by the shadow of war and death, so that love remains the only hope out of the womb of the tragedy.
"Flat 10-14" is another short film that succeeded in capturing the consequences of the Palestinian cause and the daily and humanitarian consequences in the simplest and smallest details.
His plot revolved around a man waiting for his girlfriend to come to celebrate his birthday, before it was disrupted by the Israeli separation wall that was built in the occupied Palestinian territories, and when she tried to cross, she finds herself exposed to searches and remains in detention indefinitely.