All Palestine articles
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Reviews‘From Ground Zero’: Review
Oscar-shortlisted documentary presents 22 sobering shorts on everyday life in wartorn Gaza
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NewsPalestinian drama ‘Thank You For Banking With Us’ lands sales (exclusive)
Female-empowerment drama marks the feature directorial debut of Laila Abbas
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Features‘No Other Land’ filmmakers on making Palestinian-Israeli documentary: “The camera is the one and only tool we have”
Filmmakers Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham tell Screen about the challenges of shaping thousands of hours of footage in award-winning Palestinian-Israeli documentary No Other Land.
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FeaturesHow Cherien Dabis moved ‘All That’s Left Of You’ from Palestine to Cyprus and Greece to avoid the war
“It’s unheard of to have to re-prep a movie as many times as we had to on this one,” says the Palestine-US filmmaker.
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Features“It’s humour that will save us,” says ‘Bye Bye Tiberias’ director Lina Soualem as she prepares first fiction feature
‘Alicante’ is about a woman’s relationship with her Algerian parents who have moved to Spain to open a restaurant.
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Reviews‘Passing Dreams’: Cairo Review
Cairo opens with a defiantly upbeat Palestinian road movie about a young boy and his missing pigeon
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NewsBerlin’s Tricia Tuttle says ‘No Other Land’ directors’ comments are not antisemitic
“Discourse which suggests this creates danger for them inside and outside Germany.”
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NewsWorld premiere of ‘Passing Dreams’ to open Cairo International Film Festival; full line-up revealed
The festival will feature a programme of Palestinian cinema.
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NewsLina Soualem, Djanis Bouzyani, and Mouloud Ouyahia projects selected for Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops
The Atlas Workshops nurture and showcase projects by filmmakers from the MENA region.
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Reviews‘Thank You For Banking With Us’: London Review
Two sisters strain against Palestine’s patriarchal bonds in this effective Ramallah-set debut
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NewsAsif Kapadia “unequivocally apologises” for sharing Israel-Gaza social media posts
The Grierson Trust withdrew Kapadia’s patronage earlier today over the posts.
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NewsPalestinian thriller ‘To A Land Unknown’ scores UK-Ireland deal ahead of LFF premiere (exclusive)
Mahdi Fleifel’s fiction feature debut follows two refugees who pose as smugglers.
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Reviews‘Happy Holidays’: Venice Review
Scandar Copti follows the Oscar-nominated Ajami with this compelling spliced drama
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FeaturesGalway Film Fleadh heads on new awards, funding challenges and Ireland’s connection with Palestine
As the 36th edition gets underway, Maeve McGrath and Miriam Allen talk 2024’s line-up and why decision makers are ”beating the path to Galway”.
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NewsMunich festival’s admissions rise as ‘To A Land Unknown’ leads winners
The festival reported 71,000 admissions to films and events, up from 58,000 in 2023.
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FeaturesWhy no one knows how to talk about Israel and Gaza
How does an industry that prides itself on free speech and healthy debate navigate the traumas of war?
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Reviews‘To A Land Unknown’: Cannes Review
Two Palestinian refugees are stranded in Athens in Mahdi Fleifel’s raw, resonant drama
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NewsTarzan and Arab Nasser to make ’Once Upon a Time in Gaza’ in Jordan (exclusive)
Bac Films is handling international sales and French distribution.
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NewsPalestinian filmmakers aim to challenge perceptions at Cannes
‘To A Land Unknown’ is playing in Directors’ Fortnight, with a documentary-in-progress showcase for Palestinian projects also taking place.
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NewsIsraeli industry figures in Cannes call for dialogue with international industry
”Our work definitely changed since October 7. It is harder to sell films and it’s harder to create co-productions.”