Palestinians have been forced to live a life of war since 1947, leaving behind their families and homes. During the war, they were exposed to many painful events that words alone cannot describe, but films are one of the artistic images that can express what the Palestinian people are going through more clearly, and even make you experience a feeling Life in occupied Palestine.

Films allow us to look through other people's window by taking our clothes off and putting on their clothes, even giving up our ideas and adopting theirs, and they also allow us to understand their lives and what they are going through more deeply.

Movies bring us closer to people of other cultures, we laugh, we cry, we get angry, we empathize with them.

Here are the top 5 Palestinian films that will help you with that and bring you back your revolutionary spirit towards the Palestinian cause.

200 meters

Mustafa, his wife Salwa and their two children are a loving family, but the separation wall prevented them from living under the same roof, however, they live barely 200 meters from each other, every evening they look at each other from afar, and say “good night” from their balconies in their own way about by turning their lights on and off.

On the day their son falls ill, Mustafa is prevented from entering Israel, and forced to take a long journey to cross the border illegally in order to reach his family, the film stars Ali Suleiman, Lana Zureik and Anna Amtenburger, directed and written by Amin Nayfeh.

The salt of this sea

Soraya and Imad are two people looking for the same thing, but on two different paths. The two are trying to break free from the shackles of their lives, and this is what brought them together in Palestine.

Soraya, 28, was born and raised in Brooklyn, and decided to return to live in Palestine, the country from which her family had been displaced since 1948.

When she arrives in Ramallah, Soraya tries to retrieve her grandfather's frozen money in an account in Jaffa, but the bank refuses to try. Then she meets Imad, a young Palestinian who is trying to leave Palestine forever.

Soraya and Emad are tired of the restrictions, but they work hard for their goals even if it means breaking the law.

The film stars Suhair Hammad and Saleh Bakri, and is directed and written by Anne Marie Jacir.

Omar

Omar is a young Palestinian fighter who spends his spare time practicing a reckless operation against the Israelis with his two childhood friends. soldier.

It is the story of 3 friends caught in an endless war, torn between their individual desires for a normal life and their devotion to their homeland Palestine.

The film stars Adam Bakri, Walid Zuaiter, and William Loubani, and is directed and written by Hani Abu Asaad.

when i saw you

A touching film between statelessness and the experience of losing a father, the child Tarek and his mother Ghaida, who live in a refugee camp displaced to Jordan after the 1967 war, are waiting to cross the border from Palestine to Jordan, are separated from the father and hope that he will come one day.

They live in a kind of state of postponement and waiting forever in this bleak camp, their lives hanging in emotional exile.

Although Tariq is smart, he does not do well in the temporary school and escapes to find himself in a guerrilla training camp where he sees himself a future as a fighter.

The film stars Mahmoud Asfa and Ruba Bilal, and is directed and written by Anne Marie Jacir.

on God `s will

Chloe is a Canadian doctor who works in a Palestinian clinic, lives in Israel, cares for pregnant Palestinian women in a refugee camp, and makes her way every day to a clinic in a refugee camp in the West Bank.

One of them becomes her friend, and she is in such difficult circumstances and poverty that her only way to earn a living is to pick up the garbage left by Israeli settlers.

Chloe's heart is broken when she sees her friend reduced to such poverty and grief, and she tries to comfort her.

It is an emotionally touching story about the ways in which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is crushing goodwill and compassion among people.

The film stars Evelyn Brochu as Chloe, and is directed and written by Agnès Barbu.