The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

Mustafa Abu Ali, born in 1940 in Maliha, Palestine, is a Palestinian filmmaker. Died 30 July 2009 in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Ali studied cinema in London, graduating in 1967. One of the founders of Palestinian cinema under the auspices of the PLO, and the Palestinian Cinema Association in Beirut in 1973, (re-established in Ramallah in 2004), he has written four screenplays and directed more than 30 films, for which he has won more than 14 awards, the most recent from the 2003 Ismailia Film Festival.

Remembering the 1948 siege of Deir Yassim, Jerusalem

On April 9, 1948, the small Muslim village of Deir Yassin just outside Jerusalem was attacked by Jewish Israelis, and 100 unarmed civilians were massacred.

With powerful archive footage from the siege itself, we relive the terror that has inspired Palestinian suicide attacks ever since.

A 42 minute documentary film that combines the cactus and the memories it stands for. The film addresses the story of the destruction of the Palestinian villages of Latroun in the Occupied West Bank and the forcible transfer of their civilian population in 1967. Over 40 years later, the Israeli occupation continues, and villagers remain displaced.

The film follows two separate but parallel journeys. Aisha Um Najeh takes us down the painful road that Palestinians have been forcefully pushed down, separating them in time and place from the land they nurtured; while Israelis walk freely through that land, enjoying its fruits. The stems of the cactus, however, take a few of them to discover the reality of the crime committed.

اختزل الفيلم الوثائقي الفلسطيني "ذاكرة الصبار" في 42 دقيقة قصة معاناة فلسطينيي قرى اللطرون الذين هجروا على أيدي الجيش الإسرائيلي عام 1967. الفيلم من إنتاج مؤسسة الحق وإخراج حنا مصلح.

لاتزال قصة (عمواس ويالوا وبيت نوبا) قرى اللطرون محفورة في ذاكرة من بقوا من الجيل الفلسطيني الشاهد على عمليات تهجير الفلسطينيين من القدس عام 1967 . حكايات يجسدها فيلم ذاكرة الصبار الوثائقي الفلسطيني والذي يحكي قصص من اقتــلعوا من منازلهم التي تحولت الآن إلى متنزه لأبناء المستوطنين في القدس.


خوف وحيرة وذكريات لا تنتهي جمعها الفيلم الذي أنتجته مؤسسة "الحق" الفلسطينية وأخرجه حنا مصلح والذي عرض من خلاله نماذج من معاناة سكان قرى اللطرون غربي القدس ساردا حكايتهم على ألسنهم فأعاد الفيلم المشاهدين الى الوراء عشرات السنين وكأن الحدث كان البارحة.

وقد حاز الفيلم على الجائزة الأولى كأفضل فيلم وثائقي في مهرجان دبي السينمائي للسنة الثالثة على التوالي

2023 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2022 film directed by Alon Schwartz

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.

With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.”

Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.