Reviews Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk — Sepideh Farsi Fatima Hassouna might have had the brightest smile and biggest eyes in all of Gaza.
Reviews Leila and the Wolves — Heiny Srour [Review] Leila and the Wolves ... holds a special place within that tradition of boundary-pushing Leftist filmmaking from the Arab Levant.
Reviews REVIEW: From Ground Zero (2024) dir. various One of the most terrifying things ever filmed takes place in one of the 22 shorts featured by Palestinian directors from and about Gaza in the wartime anthology From Ground Zero.
Reviews Boston Palestine Film Festival (2023) Dispatch 3: Norwegian Co-Productions and Solidarity “Somebody watches something, they’re touched, and then [what]?”
Reviews Boston Palestine Film Festival (2023) Dispatch 2: Memories of the Land Palestinian cinema is unlike any other national or regional cinema.
Reviews Boston Palestine Film Festival (2023): Dispatch 1: Two Documentaries The Boston Palestine Film Festival runs in person across various venues from October 18 through October 27.
Reviews Chronicle of a Disappearance — Elia Suleiman The staff of In Review Online have come to the collective decision to abide by the international call from Strike Germany. We will be withholding coverage of the Berlin International Film Festival on the grounds that its institutional backing from the German government is marred by the latter’s censorship
Reviews Boston Palestine Film Festival Review: A House in Jerusalem (2023) dir. Muayad Alayan The largely aloof Michael Shapiro (Johnny Harris) and his fearless daughter Rebecca (Miley Locke) mourn their recently departed wife/mother and move to Israel, in land that once belonged to Palestinians displaced in 1948, to begin anew.
Reviews Boston Palestine Film Festival (2023) Dispatch 3: More Documentaries The Boston Palestine Film Festival runs online from October 13 through October 22. The live component has been postponed due to the tragic current events in Palestine and Israel. Click here for the schedule and ticket info, and watch the site for Joshua Polanski’s continuing coverage. THE LAW AND
Reviews Boston Palestine Film Festival (2023) Dispatch 2: Alam and Bir'em The Boston Palestine Film Festival runs online from October 13 through October 22. The live component has been postponed due to the tragic current events in Palestine and Israel. Click here for the schedule and ticket info, and watch the site for Joshua Polanski’s continuing coverage. ALAM (2022) dir.
Reviews Boston Palestine Film Festival (2023) Dispatch #1: Transnational Documentaries The Boston Palestine Film Festival runs online from October 13 through October 22. The live component has been postponed due to the tragic current events in Palestine and Israel. Click here for the schedule and ticket info, and watch the site for Joshua Polanski’s continuing coverage. Here Joshua reviews
Reviews BPFF Dispatch: Hush (2022) dir. Samar Qutpy / Salma's Home (2022) dir. Hanadi Elyan One doesn’t expect to go into a screening of two small-budget Palestinian dramas and to come out hating Disney and Netflix even more… but what I learned at Thursday night’s double screening of Samar Qupty’s narrative short Hush and Hanadi Elyan’s feature length Salma’s Home is that one must always b
Reviews BPFF Review: Boycott (2022) Available online through the Boston Palestine Film Festival, Brazilian documentary filmmaker Julia Bacha’s newest educational piece Boycott probes and de-legitimizes the anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against the State of Israel) legal campaign at the state government level in the United States. Worried about the more than 30 states
Reviews BPFF Review: Huda's Salon Like a Greene novel, Huda’s Salon has its share of suicides and suicides gone amiss; affairs, perceived affairs, and could’ve-been affairs; and, of course, espionage and treason.
Reviews BPFF Review: Farha The young actress playing the title character appears to be a first-time performer and can’t be much older than her character—a rather astonishing gamble on Sallam’s behalf to bet her entire debut film (and thus, career) on. And she doesn’t just win the bet: she found
Reviews BPFF Review: Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege A little over a year ago, Yarmouk was the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world. A long-term siege by Syrian forces that killed 181 people, a brief ISIS reign, and a destructive bombing campaign by the Russian Federation later, Yarmouk has been almost completely battered and its inhabitants scattered
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