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BPFF 2025 comes October 17 - 26!

The Boston Palestine Film Festival centers Palestinian voices by showcasing the extraordinary narrative and culture of Palestinians through the medium of cinema and the arts. Now in its 18th year, the Boston Palestine Film Festival showcases the Palestinian narrative through the medium of cinema to audiences in the New England area. The Boston Palestine Film Festival screens at venues throughout t

he city, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Coolidge Corner Theatre and the Paramount Center Bright Family Screening Room

This year's festival will be taking place live and virtually October, 2024. The Boston Palestine Film Festival is a program of the Middle East Charitable and Cultural Society Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization.

04/04/2026

📽️✨ TODAY (4/4): Gaza’s Living Cinema is presented by film friends of the fest—SPOCS for Gaza (), PYM Boston (), and the Muslim Justice League ().

🗓️ April 4, 2:00 - 5:00p
📍 The Nonprofit Center ()

The event will be screening films made by students in Gaza for a film studies course taught by Professor Ahlam Muhtaseb, followed by a live panel discussion and Q&A with the student filmmakers.

Come be in community to witness and honor these works. Suggested donation is $30 and the proceeds go directly to the students in Gaza.

🎟️ RSVP link: tinyurl.com/SPOCSFilmScreenBoston

03/26/2026

Join BPFF and SFF () this weekend for the East Coast Premiere of American Doctor. In this feature documentary, as three American doctors, Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian, enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.

🎬 American Doctor by Poh Si Teng ()
🗓️ Sunday, March 29, 3:00p
📍 Cinema Salem ()

Tickets available now at: salemfilmfest.com

03/18/2026

Join BPFF and SFF () for the New England Premiere of Traces of Home. In this feature documentary, filmmaker Colette Ghunim takes her parents to find the ancestral homes in Mexico and Palestine that they had fled from decades earlier.

🎬 Traces of Home by Colette Ghunim ()
🗓️ Saturday, March 28, 6:20p
📍 Cinema Salem ()

Tickets available now at: salemfilmfest.com

03/17/2026

Come to Salem, see the world! Boston Palestine Film Festival is proud to be co-presenting two feature documentaries at this year's Salem Film Fest ().

🎬 Traces of Home by Colette Ghunim ()
🗓️ Saturday, March 28, 6:20p
📍 Cinema Salem ()
⭐️ New England Premiere

🎬 American Doctor by Poh Si Teng ()
🗓️ Sunday, March 29, 3:00p
📍 Cinema Salem ()
⭐️ East Coast Premiere

Tickets available now at: salemfilmfest.com

03/16/2026

Join our friends at Irish Film Festival, Boston () for their March series this weekend at Somerville Theatre ()!

Bringing contemporary Irish Film to Boston, the fest is showing four films across three screenings from March 20-21 including an Oscar nominee for Best Animated Short Film.

BPFF is happy to support and to offer our community a discount code for tickets: SPECIAL26

03/15/2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN 🎬✨

Be a part of the 20th Annual Boston Palestine Film Festival this October! BPFF is now accepting submissions for films of any length of filmmakers of any nationality about Palestine, the Palestinian people, or the Palestinian narrative.

📍Entries can be made on: filmfreeway.com/bostonpalestinefilmfestival

03/02/2026

📽️✨ SPECIAL SCREENING: A State of Passion by Carol Mansour & Muna Khalidi (.of.passion, )

This Thursday (3/5), MAPA () is hosting a screening of A State of Passion at St. James Episcopal in Cambridge followed by a Q&A facilitated by BPFF () Programming Director Michael Maria ().

After a sold out event, A State of Passion won Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Boston Palestine Film Festival. After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza's Al Shifa and Al Abli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah (.ghassan.as), emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance.

🎟️ Tickets are available now through Massachusetts Peace Action.

02/04/2026

Thank you to everyone who participated in our ticket giveaway! The fest is so grateful to our community for supporting greater access to Palestinian film—our winner has received their tickets via DM. 🤍

🎬 All That's Left of You by Cherien Dabis () is screening NOW at AMC Loew's Boston Common 19.

All That's Left of You () is a multigenerational drama spanning seven decades. The film traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, bearing witness to the scars of dispossession and the enduring legacy of survival.

🎟️ Tickets available through AMC ().

02/02/2026

🎟️ TICKET GIVEAWAY ALERT! BPFF has a pair of tickets to give to our community to see All That's Left of You by Cherien Dabis this Wednesday (2/4) at 6:30p at AMC Loews Boston Common 19.

To enter, please leave a comment before 6:00p EST Tuesday (2/3) for a chance to win...and be sure to be following the fest! We will reach out to the randomly selected winner by DM. 🤍

01/30/2026

🎬 All That's Left of You by Cherien Dabis () opens in Boston TONIGHT with regular screenings at AMC Loew's Boston Common 19.

Jordan's Official Selection for the 98th Academy Awards, All That's Left of You () is a moving, multigenerational drama that follows a Palestinian teenager who gets swept into a protest in the Occupied West Bank, his mother recounting the political and emotional threads that led to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, the film traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, bearing witness to the scars of dispossession and the enduring legacy of survival.

🎟️ Tickets available now through AMC ()

01/25/2026

Never stop talking about Palestine. Even when it feels there are no words, the fest is always grateful to be in community and to give Palestinians agency to frame our own narratives.

Thank you to our co-panelists and to Coolidge Corner Theatre () for hosting.

The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania (), recent 2026 Academy Award nominee for Best International Feature Film, is now playing at the Coolidge. Boston Palestine Film Festival discount code is BPFFHB126.

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