Shashat has outlined four areas of work in order to achieve its objectives:

SHASHAT‘s Annual Women’s Film Festival in Palestine:
The festival is the only ongoing annual women’s film festival in the entire Arab world. It showcases the creativity of Palestinian, Arab, and international women filmmakers. The Women‘s Film Festival was first held in 2005, and has continued annually through the preceding years up until the present. The festival hosts opening screenings in four cities – Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus and Jerusalem, and select films proceed on a national Palestinian tour, in partnership with ten universities. The festival also holds professional filmmaker workshops, public panels and debates, and school screenings, in addition to subtitling festival films into Arabic. 

Capacity Building of the Palestinian filmmaking sector with emphasis on women filmmakers:
a. Production support, subsidized equipment use and young filmmaker training\production mentoring. 
b. Promotion and networking of Palestinian cinema nationally, regionally and internationally.
c. Training Workshops and Consultancies on production, project development and funding in co-operation with international film festivals and organizations.
d.  Facilitation of festival submissions and shipping.
e.  Networking with regional and international film/video organizations.

"Films for Everyone" Year-long Discussion/Screening Program:
In the belief that "culture is a human right," Shashat has held nearly 700 screenings throughout the last five years, primarily of women’s cinema, in partnership with over 100 community organizations and nine universities in towns, villages and refugee camps throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Cultural Outreach:
a.  Film Library: Shashat has founded three de-centralized film libraries in different sites to address the lack of mobility in Palestine – Shashat\Ramallah in the mid-West Bank region, An-Najah National University\Nablus in the North and Bethlehem Peace Center\Bethlehem in the South.
b.  Research and Publications.
c.  Weekly Cinè-Club curated screenings\discussions, "Film Conversations" featuring masterpieces of world cinema to promote awareness of the international film heritage.