Although in recent years the entire world has been increasingly concernedwith the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are few truly reliable sources ofinformation about Palestinian society and culture. One of the best sources forunderstanding Palestinian culture is the cinema, which has strived to delineatePalestinian history and to portray the daily lives of Palestinian men, women, andchildren. Here, an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar, in a rare and welcomecollaboration, follow the development of Palestinian cinema, commenting on itsresponse to political and social transformations. They reveal that the more thatsocial, political, and economic conditions have worsened and chaos and pain prevail, the more Palestinian cinema has engaged with the national struggle.