Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.

以色列新上任的國防部長，遷新居到邊境的一個小山丘上，為了安全的理由，派有軍隊保護，在住家附近蓋了瞭望塔，還設了重重的鐵絲網，把隔鄰的檸檬樹果園也包圍起來，不准果農進入，任其荒蕪。 果園的擁有者是一位寡居的婦女薩瑪，薩瑪繼承了這一片父親種植了60年的檸檬果園，丈夫幾年前去世，女兒出嫁，兒子到美國學電腦、打零工生活，龐大的果園只有她和一位未婚、跟著薩瑪的父親從小工作、視她如己出的長工。薩瑪雖然生活清苦，卻也很滿足地經營這片祖傳的家園。 情報局擔心部長會受到恐怖份子的攻擊，決定砍掉果樹，補償一點費用給薩瑪。薩瑪護園心切，決定告上國防部，一位年輕的律師，明知官司難打，卻也義不容辭拔刀相助。雖然一路敗訴，最後打到最高法院，還成了國際新聞。

故事发生在上个世纪末，希特勒的上台导致大批犹太难民逃往巴勒斯坦，犹太人和巴勒斯坦人的种族矛盾抵达了一触即发的最顶峰。在这个节骨眼上，英国政府出面主持大局，然而它们的努力换来的只有巴勒斯坦人民的不满和犹太人的仇恨。 阿兰（克里斯蒂安·库克 Christian Cooke 饰）是一名善良的英国士兵，一次偶然中，他邂逅了名为克拉拉（卡塔琳娜·舒特勒 Katharina Schüttler 饰）的犹太女子，两人坠入了爱河。与此同时，阿兰还保持着同巴勒斯坦青年默罕默德（阿里·苏莱曼 Ali Suliman 饰）之间的友谊，只是，在紧张的局势下，阿兰的爱情和友情都经历着巨大的考验。

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled "Israeli-Arabs," living as a minority in their own homeland.

Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, but separated by the wall. Their unusual living situation is starting to affect their otherwise happy marriage, but the couple does what they can to make it work. Every night, Mustafa flashes a light from his balcony to wish his children on the other side a goodnight, and they signal him back. One day Mustafa gets a call that every parent dreads: his son has been in an accident. He rushes to the checkpoint where he must agonisingly wait in line only to find out there is a problem with his fingerprints and is denied entry. Desperate, Mustafa resorts to hiring a smuggler to bring him across. His once 200-meter journey becomes a 200-kilometer odyssey joined by other travellers determined to cross.

A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.

2019 film directed by Elia Suleiman