Boston Palestine Film Festival is back for a third year! The Boston Palestine Film Festival has an incredible expanded line-up for our third annual Festival, which runs October 16 - November 1, 2009
Official website: http://www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org/
Highlights of BPFF 2009: 
We’re bringing Rashid Masharawi and his new feature film Laila’s Birthday (Eid Milad Laila) (2008), starring Mohammed Bakri (Since You Left, Private, Jenin Jenin). Mr. Masharawi will be here to answer your questions during a retrospective of his career, including his famous films Curfew (1993), which won the UNESCO prize in Cannes in 1994 and other awards, and Ticket to Jerusalem (2002), which also won numerous awards.
Najwa Najjar will also be with us to present her debut feature film, Pomegranates and Myrrh (al-Murr w’al-Rumman), a love story about the struggles of a young Palestinian dancer whose new husband is imprisoned for refusing to give up his land to settlers. The film, starring Hiam Abbas (Paradise Now, The Syrian Bride), Ali Suleiman and Yasmine Al Massri, recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
We’re bringing some rare, older films about Palestine too like The Dupes (1971), which is a compelling tale based on Ghassan Kanafani’s acclaimed novella, Men in the Sun (1962).
And, of course, we have the latest films coming out of Gaza as well as a lot of very interesting new documentaries and experimental films about life in Palestine.
As a special sneak preview to our festival, on September 3rd, we’ll be screening one of the first Palestinian films to receive a nationwide theater distribution in the US. It’s called Amreeka, and it’s a debut feature film from American-Palestinian filmmaker Cherien Dabis. Through a special arrangement with the distributors, we’re bringing it to our audiences first (at the MFA) before it opens in Boston theaters in mid-September.
We thank you for your ongoing support, and we look forward to hearing from you.
BPFF Organizing Committee: Salma Abu Ayyash, Emna Ben Salem, Maha Chourafa, Christine Giraud, Katherine Hanna and Kate Rouhana
