This Year's Festival is Entirely Virtual
We bring you 20 films from around the world that you can enjoy from the safety and comfort of your own home. You don’t have to live in Boston to enjoy the festival this year!
All films are available to stream throughout the entire Festival, starting at 6 pm EST October 16 through October 25. Some georestrictions apply, meaning that some screenings can only be viewed in particular areas. See details in the 2020 BPFF Program.
Tickets for all films are $12 and are now on sale! Get more for less with a 3-film Pass.
Opening Film: Between Heaven and Earth
Najwa Najjar
2019 | Narrative Feature | 93 min
A poignant love story about divorce under military occupation. Based on a true story, the film follows a 30-something married couple, Salma and Tamer, who have been living in the occupied West Bank for five years and are now divorcing. The first time Tamer, a West Bank ID holder and the son of a famous Palestinian revolutionary killed in Beirut, is ever granted a three-day permit to cross the checkpoint and enter Israel, is to file for divorce in the courts in Nazareth, Salma’s home town. At the courthouse, they are unexpectedly confronted with a staggering discovery, a secret that sends them spinning on a wild road trip exploring the loss and betrayal of the past, and of themselves.
Director Najwa Najjar in Conversation
FREE Online October 18, 2:00p EST
Closing Film: Mayor
David Osit
2020 | Documentary Feature | 89 min
Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah and an engineer by training, oversees a bustling and creative city. As a Palestinian leader in a challenging historical moment, he’s persistent in response to the constraints of military occupation and settlement. This masterful observational film shows the mayor’s steady resistance to challenges that keep cropping up.
Director David Osit in Conversation
FREE Online
Featured Films
TINY SOULS
Dina Nasser
2019 | Documentary Feature | 85 min
After escaping the Syrian war, a free-spirited young girl and her family must navigate confined lives when stranded in the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan. Over four years, the director follows her charactersʼ lives.
THIS IS NOT A MOVIE
Yung Chang
2019 | Documentary Feature | 109 min
For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, including Palestine, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home.
Featured Film Series
SHORTS SERIES: AGAINST ALL ODDS
Various Directors
Various Genres
A curation of stories of Palestinians caught in extraordinarily surreal situations and still persisting in their personal quests to achieve ordinary goals: completing a sticker collection to win a prize; buying an anniversary present; reaching a holy site to pray; having a baby; sending a loved one home from abroad to be buried.
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