The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is often times viewed as a political struggle. It is within this theater of conflict that the cultural and political rights of millions of Palestinians are viewed as a necessary right for the preservation of these people’s identities.

Due to its long history involving wars and displacement, the Palestinian struggle has given birth to various individuals and movements within the cultural and artistic communities around the region that lead to a sharp increase in using mediums to communicate with the world. Elements of the persecution the Palestinians faced during the events of Al-Nakba (the Palestinian Catastrophe) became headlines in a period that let artists rush to capture those events using lenses and narratives such as Al-Fatah: Palestina (1970) where the story follows the formation of the Palestinian struggle from refugee camps made after the fleeing of civilians from their homeland after the events of Al-Nakba.

Beyond the historical context in the formation of the conflict, Palestinian cinema in modern-day times also shapes itself through individual stories told from a perspective relevant to the everyday life of various characters. Be it the tiresome routine of a father who has to cross borders designed to monitor and extensively burden Palestinians in 200 Meters (2020) or the capturing of the daily lives of three Arab women who live in Israel and are exploring their chances and capabilities in their society, titled In Between (2016).

Throughout its history as an artistic expression to describe political violence or a chronicle of the development of a character in a region devoid of political rights, cinema has warranted many young or professional filmmakers from this region to tell stories not just as means to collect words and to shape documents but to capture scenes that grant the average audience an idea of how does it feel like to live in areas ravaged by war, all through a lens.