India, Dec. 13 -- At the Academy Awards early this year, No Other Land, a Palestinian-Israeli film, turned heads with its stinging portrayal of demolition and displacement in the West Bank, eventually landing the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

In the months that followed, almost all major international film festivals in the world have embraced new movies based on the war in Gaza, handing over top honours for their artistic achievements, strong narratives and historical rigour.

For a non-existent Palestinian film industry, the long list of new feature, documentary and hybrid movies produced in the past two years since the Israeli war in Gaza that claimed 70,400 lives has been a remarkable feat.

One of the first movies to come out o...