A young girl attempts to work with a group of children who sell chewing gum to make a film about their lives. The film ends up chronicling her relationship with them, and their relationships with each other and society.

How do you represent that which has been drained of meaning, misrepresented to the point of oversaturation, yet underappreciated and neglected to the point of absurdity? Time stretches eternally, oppressing your daily life to the smallest and largest degree, in humiliating detail, regular check points, opening boxes, behavior engulfed by silence. Masharawi succeeds brilliantly in silently depicting the daily abuses of life under occupation, the regulation and control superimposed, and the suffocating repression enacted and enforced by the Israeli military presence in Palestine. (Jayce Salloum, fragment)

SlingShot Hip Hop is a documentary film that focuses on the daily life of Palestinian rappers living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel. It aims to spotlight alternative voices of resistance within the Palestinian struggle and explore the role their music plays within their social, political and personal lives.

New and established Palestinian filmmakers came together in a project that reflects the “mood” of the summer of 2006, when Israel carried out military assaults in Gaza and Lebanon. In three minutes or less, filmmakers were asked to tell their stories in a single shot. Despite the fact that Palestinians have been dispersed across the globe, with the majority of them unable to return to their homeland, this project, initiated by the Palestinian Film Collective, was limited to filmmakers who live in Palestine. The result is a mosaic of 13 short films, each less than 3 minutes in length, produced across Palestine that convey the personal, political and poetic spirit of a people struggling for freedom.

The demolished house that marks the site of the death of American peace activist Rachel Corrie is only the first of the troubling markers in the landscape charted by “Palestine Blues”, as the director travels the route of the infamous security wall. A bereft farmer grieves for his ancient orchard as the bulldozers lay it to waste, but a new movement based on non-violent resistance grows in its place. Focusing on the village of Jayyous (close to Qalqilia) and its non-violent campaign against the wall, the film documents the heroic victories and tragic defeats of this farming community's fight for survival.

A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict, Occupation 101 presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions. The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace.