Two years ago, students from the San Francisco State University branch of the General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) set out to have a mural depicting Palestinian culture in the Diaspora displayed on their Student Union.

A Palestinian cab driver in Los Angeles struggles to become a legitimate actor while trying to make money to pay the utilities amidst the chaos of post-9/11 American passengers and Homeland Security. All the while, memories of his life in the theater back in palestine pose big questions for his fate and role in this new country.

A portrait of the stresses and strains imposed on Palestinian society by Israel’s almost total control over access to water resources in the West Bank, told in the words of ordinary people

Slideshow images of abandoned homes and emptied out public spaces carries along the story of two girls who find themselves in a kind of pre-apocalyptic paradise.

In Inside Outside generations of émigrés explain the sickness of exile to the filmmaker.

The latest shipment of history is the Israeli occupation. In 1948, the western part of the city fell under Israeli control; in 1967, the eastern part fell under Israeli occupation. Since then, Israel has pursued a policy of Judaizing the city, aiming to achieve “Jewish demographic superiority.” Part of this policy is to drive Palestinian Muslims and Christians out of the city; denying their presence, history, and ties to the land.

No Choice Basis tries to answer the question of whether life must be lived on a 'no choice basis'.

The director, Ryuichi Hirokawa went to Israel in 1967 and worked in a Kibbutz, an agricultural community. One day, Hirokawa found rubble at the edge of the Kibbutz, which later proved to be the remains of one of the villages once lived in by the Palestinian people.

A new generation slings rhymes instead of rocks as Palestinian rappers form alternative voices of resistance within the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Interweaving multiple stories of young Palestinians in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, filmmaker Jackie Reem Salloum spotlights a vibrant hip-hop scene as emerging artists discover rap and employ it as a means to surmount age-old schisms deepened by occupation and poverty.

Palestinian director Osama Qashoo travels to Cuba and discovers Havana’s own Palestinians — poor black migrants; ‘Palestino’ is a term of racist abuse. He befriends a homeless Palestino, Louisito, a singer-musician who lives in a wooden box. Louisito had not been home for seven years, so he and Qashoo set off to meet his family, on a musical-comedy journey into the politics of today’s Cuba.

With the disengagement of the Jewish settlers on 17th April 2005 begins a new chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but most Palestinians do not believe that the withdrawal will change the general situation. Though both sides have had their fill of violence, it is clear that the Israeli occupation has been an hotbed for numerous extremists and brutal acts of revenge. The Palestinian situation is characterized by injustice and helplessness.

Part essayistic meditation, part family portrait, The Roof is an eloquent and understated exploration of physical and psychic place in the context of filmmaker Kamal Aljafari’s family history.

USA vs AL-ARIAN is a close portrait of an Arab-American family facing terrorism charges levelled by the U.S. Government.

While traveling to Palestine to begin production on a new film project, Norma Marcos was denied entry into Israel through Ben-Gurion Airport and detained by Israeli authorities. She was held in a jail and later under house arrest in Bethlehem, her home town. Marcos insisted that the charges against her were false and she ended up spending seven weeks trapped in Bethlehem waiting for her case to be sorted out.