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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.

08/11/2026

Thank you to The Coolidge (Coolidge Corner Theatre) and Aya El Abdallah (Aya El Abdallah) for bringing Lana Daher's Do You Love Me (Do You Love Me) to Boston!

The film is a beautiful journey and homage to Beriut and the people of Lebanon. Grateful to have our Programming Director, Michael Maria (Michael Maria) as part of the Panorama panel alongside Boston Little Syria Project Co-Founder, Dr. Lydia Harrington, to discuss archival art, fragmented histories, memory as resistance, and how these works are felt and interpreted across borders and generations.

07/22/2026

On Monday, August 10, join our friends at The Coolidge (Coolidge Corner Theatre) for a special screening of Lana Daher's documentary Do You Love Me (Do You Love Me), followed by a Panorama discussion moderated by Aya El Abdallah (Aya El Abdallah).

Do You Love Me is a personal journey through Lebanon's audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. It is a love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos, and photography, exploring the Lebanese collective psyche marked by joy and intimacy, destruction and loss.

A discount code has been provided for the BPFF community. 🎟️ For $3 off you ticket, enter: DYLMP836

07/10/2026

SAVE THE DATE ✨ Boston Palestine Film Festival is returning for our TWENTIETH annual fest from October 16-25.

We are honored to reach our 20th season and for our growing community's continued support of Palestinian arts and culture.

Stay tuned for programming details, we will see you soon!

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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.

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