Boston Palestine Film Festival closes its 20th edition with Palestine Comedy Club
Ten days of screenings across Boston ended at the Coolidge Corner Theatre with a documentary following six comedians touring a stand-up show across Palestine.
The 20th Boston Palestine Film Festival closed on Sunday at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline with Palestine Comedy Club, a documentary by Alaa Aliabdallah about six Palestinian comedians taking a stand-up show on tour across Palestine.
The festival opened on 16 October at the Museum of Fine Arts with Edward Said: Between Worlds, Maiken Baird's portrait of the Palestinian-American scholar. Screenings were also held at the Brattle Theatre, MassArt and UMass Amherst.
The programme included Abdallah Al-Khatib's Chronicles from the Siege, Kamal Aljafari's With Hasan in Gaza, built from footage shot in 2001, and Alex Bakri's Habibi Hussein, about a projectionist in the West Bank.
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