Sleeping on Stones is the first dramatic feature film to be shot in Hebron and chronicles the lives of three 10-year-old boys as they grow up during the First Intifada. Despite their different identities-Hamza, a talented Palestinian soccer player; Yousef, also Palestinian, with a voice for the old Arabic ballads; and Jacob, a rebellious Jewish-American settler with difficulties adapting to his new life-the boys become close friends through their mutual passion for soccer. 

Underground train travel to bypass a chaotic traffic system? Welcome to Gaza, one of the world's most crowded places, where a conceptual art installation expresses this tantalising idea. Palestinian artist Mohamed Abusal erected luminous red metro signs in 50 different, and often unlikely places, across the Gaza strip, the dusty coastal territory measuring 40 square kilometres and home to some 1.6 million people. 

A festival celebrating the artistic achievements of Palestinians with disabilities launched this month at Bethlehem's Palestine Ahliya University. The opening of Palestine's National Festival of People with Disabilities featured an exhibition of drawings by Echlas Al-Azzeh, 37, who lives in Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem and has muscular dystrophy. 

Bazinga Ramallah started the way most coworking spaces do--with too much coffee. "We were building mobile and web apps and we spent our time working in cafes, but we felt we were being too unproductive. And it was too expensive," says Mohammad Khatib. So he and some friends rented a storefront and invited others to join them--a space, among the first of its kind, to foster tech startups in the Palestinian territories. But even now, nearly a year later, nobody has joined. That's not to say there isn't interest. 

On Monday, Palestinian photographer Hisham Sarsour won second place in the Oman Sultanate Competition for Journalists and Photographers. More than 1500 photographers from all over the world - including Malaysia, the Palestinian Territories, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, France, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates - participated in the competition. 

The Gaza Strip is known to indulge in political murals but water murals are definitely a new thing. Over the summer months, US activists along with local artists, teachers and school children got together to paint 8 murals exploring the water struggles of the Gaza Strip. Murals were painted on the walls of elementary schools and near water desalination units in areas such as Beit Hanoun, Rafah and Bureij Camp. 

Last Saturday, I arrived at the Nablus train station, a low, thick-walled stone structure, in time to board the 3:20 pm to Jerusalem. Some 20 passengers were waiting at the entrance, mostly young men and women, with a few people old enough to remember the days of train travel during the British Mandate over Palestine. The excitement was palpable: It was our chance to take a ride to Jerusalem, a city we are barred from visiting, bypassing the Israeli checkpoints along the way. As I entered the station, a porter in a dark blue uniform issued me a ticket on the Green Line. 

Ahmed and Mohamed Abu Nasser, identical twins from the Palestinian territory of Gaza, are in Austin to get something: A chance to see their first theatrical movie. In exchange, they brought along something to give, as well: a screening of their own film for an Austin audience. Growing up in Gaza, the boys, now 24, did see films on TV and fell deeply in love with them. They dreamed of becoming actors and directors. Their father encouraged them and urged them to paint, as well.