The relationship between filmic representation and cultural politics is important to understanding the Palestinian diaspora’s relationship to Palestinian national identity. The rise of Palestinian-American representations in the Palestinian cinematic movement indicates a shift toward queer and feminist politics in diaspora that complicate and challenge the discourse on Palestinian national identity, its representation in film, and the role of cinema in the struggle for Palestinian justice. This paper examines the Boston Palestine Film Festival (BPFF) as a site where Palestinian-American cultural politics are contested and affirmed through a community engagement with narrative film. Since the birth of the Palestinian cinematic movement in the 1980s, narrative film has become a powerful site for the construction and affirmation of Palestinian national identity. In turn, the production of Palestine Film Festivals in diaspora serves to affirm transnational Palestinian communities while also complicating the scholarly conceptions of Palestinian national identity. Using Gayatri Gopinath’s theory of “queer diaspora” as an analytic, this paper will explore the ways in which Palestine film festivals constitute a site where diasporic and transnational Palestinian identity politics are constructed, contested, and mobilized. Qualitative ethnographic interview data will be analyzed—in conjunction with visual and discursive analysis of the films referenced by interviewees—in order to explore how diasporic Palestinians in the US understand themselves in terms of Palestinian national identity through their engagements with Palestinian cinema and film festivals.