directed by: Julia Bacha, year: 2021
actors: Naila Ayesh

Naila and the Uprising follows Naila Ayesh, a Palestinian woman who rises to a leadership role during the late 1980s intifada. Through intimate interviews, archival footage, and personal letters, it shows how a community’s courage, fear, and solidarity moved women to organize protests, sustain resistance, and demand self-determination. Julia Bacha crafts an intimate, insurgent portrait of resilience, family, and political awakening that reshapes Palestinian resistance narratives.

Cultural Impact, Documentary, Historical Documentary, Palestinian History, Intifada, Women In Activism, Non Fiction