In It Must Be Heaven, Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman writes, directs, and stars as a version of himself, a character identified only by his initials. E.S. escapes from Palestine seeking for a new homeland, while also trying to raise money for his new film. Soon, E.S. will come to find out that Palestine is trailing behind him: however far he travels, from Paris to New York, something always reminds him of home. From award-winning director Elia Suleiman, a comic saga exploring identity, nationality and belonging, in which Suleiman asks the fundamental question: where is the place we can truly call home?

The final installment in a trilogy that includes Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention, Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains is a semi-biographical film in four chapters that chronicles Palestinian life from 1948 to the present day. Inspired by his father’s diaries, letters his mother sent to exiled family members, and the director’s own recollections, the film portrays the daily life of that group of Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled “Israeli-Arabs,” living as a minority in their own homeland. A powerful lens on the absurdity of occupation, blending humor, rage, and resilience.

Trip along Exodus is a poetic multi-format documentary about the fall of the PLO as seen through the personal life of director’s Hind Shoufani’s father, Elias Shoufani —leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, academic and leftist intellectual, and one of the key figures who led the opposition to Arafat within Fatah for 20 years. The film explores a unique Palestinian story through dramatic personal testimonies casting a light on exiled families and corrupt politicians, from the 1948 Nakba to Shoufani’s dejected resignation from Fatah in 1992, to the unexpected hope inspired by the Arab Spring.

At the center of the Middle East conflict, Divine Intervention has hearts beating in tragic comedy and deadpan irony: a sexy young Palestinian woman defies Israeli soldiers and struts through a check-point as if it were the catwalk of a fashion show; Santa Claus is chased up the sun-drenched hills of Nazareth by a gang of knife-wielding school kids; Israeli police use a blindfolded prisoner to provide directions to tourists in Jerusalem; and a female ninja descends from the sky, holding the map of Palestine as her battle shield. A surreal black comedy co-produced, written and directed by Elia Suleiman.

UNRWA, 75 Years of a Temporary History explores the history of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), drawing on both Israeli and Palestinian perspectives. Through never-before-seen archives and exclusive testimonials, the film traces UNRWA's complex legacy: lifeline to millions, yet under fire and fighting for survival. In telling the story of the agency, this gripping documentary by Lyana Saleh and Nicolas Wadimoff reveals the enduring plight of the Palestinian refugees it was built to serve.

A Palestinian projectionist embarks on a journey through the West Bank, seeking parts to restore an old movie theater's projector while clinging to hopes of reclaiming his former position: then a German NGO arrives to renovate the old cinema, radically changing the dynamic. Alex Bakri’s power-conscious documentary Habibi Hussein dismantles the feel-good façade of “aid work”, revealing the power imbalances, condescension and erasure that underpin a German-led attempt to revive Jenin’s cinema. It reflects on power imbalances and raises questions about the practices of Western projects in war-torn countries.

Twin brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser in their feature debut, Dégradé, a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict are enjoying a leisurely day in Christine’s beauty salon. But as gunfire breaks out across the street, the women are trapped in the salon for thirteen hours. The film blends caricature and reality to emphasize the complexity of life in Gaza where people are afflicted by multiple nodes of pressure, and where the social space of women is increasingly circumscribed by these pressures.

On the morning of October 11, 1985, a Palestinian-American activist, teacher and poet named Alex Odeh opened his office door in Orange County for the last time. A trip-wire bomb exploded. He died hours later in a nearby hospital. Decades later, the case remains open under FBI investigation. The suspects are American-born extremists who joined the Israeli settler movement to colonize the West Bank, where Alex’s hometown, Jifna, is located. In Who Killed Alex Odeh?, Jason Osder and Willian Youmans set out to reexamine the case. A socio-political true crime mystery that highlights the fundamentally transnational nature of the Israel/Palestine conflict.

In Saverio Costanzo’s Private, Mohammed, a Palestinian teacher, lives with his family in an isolated house in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. When violence erupts near their house, Mohammed refuses to evacuate, despite the fears of his wife, Samia. Israeli soldiers occupy the residence's top floor, confining the family to a few downstairs rooms in daytime and a single room at night, and arousing the hatred of their son Yusef and of their daughter Mariam, who spies on the men. Despite being given freedom to leave, Mohammed refuses to abandon the family home, instead opting for trying to keep his family together until the Israeli soldiers move on.

Haifa, nicknamed after the city he longs for, comes and goes in a Palestinian refugee camp. Although he is seen as the town fool, there are many things that only he knows. He is closely related to the family of Abu Said, a former policeman who is has high hopes for the political developments promised by the peace process. Oum Said, his wife, hangs her hope instead on the imminent release of their eldest son, Said, from jail. Their youngest son, Siad, is cynical and rebellious. Sabah, their twelve year old daughter sees the future through the eyes of a romantic, searching for what it might hold in store for her.

A Palestinian pirate captain traveling on her ghost ship through the centuries, rescuing shipwrecked people and boarding imperial vessels to reclaim looted colonial artefacts; a merchant bound for the 1900 Paris Exposition having encounters with ghostly figures that share insight into a future he has yet to see; a film connecting cherished objects from Palestine with personal life stories. Larissa Sansour’s A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed challenges our perceptions of physical space, temporality, objects, history, and all their interconnections.

Imagine that you have siblings but you can’t talk to them because you don’t speak the same language. Imagine that you have parents but you were raised without them. You Come from Far Away is a personal and historical investigation into the participation of Arab volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. Through testimonies, archives, and family memories, the film tells the extraordinary story of a Palestinian family, dispersed by several turmoils that stirred the past century: from the Spanish Civil War in which the father, Najati Sidki fought against Franco, to World War II, to the Nakba and then the Lebanese Civil War.

A Palestinian pirate captain traveling on her ghost ship through the centuries, rescuing shipwrecked people and boarding imperial vessels to reclaim looted colonial artefacts; a merchant bound for the 1900 Paris Exposition having encounters with ghostly figures that share insight into a future he has yet to see; a film connecting cherished objects from Palestine with personal life stories. Larissa Sansour’s A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed challenges our perceptions of physical space, temporality, objects, history, and all their interconnections.

Imagine that you have siblings but you can’t talk to them because you don’t speak the same language. Imagine that you have parents but you were raised without them. You Come from Far Away is a personal and historical investigation into the participation of Arab volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. Through testimonies, archives, and family memories, the film tells the extraordinary story of a Palestinian family, dispersed by several turmoils that stirred the past century: from the Spanish Civil War in which the father, Najati Sidki fought against Franco, to World War II, to the Nakba and then the Lebanese Civil War.