A Cowboy Named Jazz (Lesley University)

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

Don’t change your song to fit someone else’s melody.

A Derailment

Apr 24 @ 5:15 PM

At 8:55pm on February 3, 2023, a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.

A Matter Of Light

Apr 26 @ 12:15 PM

A small group of artists transform a former industrial city into a culturally rich, vibrant community.

A Picture Of My Father

Apr 25 @ 8:45 PM

Estranged from her imprisoned father, John MacKenzie, Danielle learns how he profoundly shaped the lives of countless others following his death.

Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]

Apr 23 @ 6:45 PM

Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as Tribal Repatriation specialists fight to return Indigenous human remains.

Adam’s Apple

Apr 27 @ 5:00 PM

A transgender teen and his mother chronicle their lives, artistically weaving a rare and intimate portrait of a family in transition.

Ali Eats America

Apr 25 @ 5:00 PM

Ali Allouche, a teenage cancer survivor, braves his way through treatments and chemotherapy with dreams of a culinary journey across the USA, inspired by his hero, Anthony Bourdain.

All My Friends

Apr 24 @ 10:00 PM

In the weeks leading to Allie moving across the country, her best friend (and bandmate) Jacob considers life without her in this intimate story of leaving and feeling left.

Ani Liu: Eye Heart Womb

Apr 26 @ 12:15 PM

Ani Liu transforms pregnancy, care, and invisible labor into visceral artworks—challenging who gets to create, whose bodies are controlled, and how love, science, and survival are materialized.

Are We Breaking Up?

Apr 25 @ 8:45 PM

When Shandaeya and Nic watch a theatrical reenactment of the fight that nearly ended their relationship, they are confronted with the raw truth of their past and begin to see their love—and their flaws—with new clarity.

As I Am

Apr 25 @ 12:00 PM

A 60-year-old Iranian man travels to a quiet coastal town in Massachusetts and comes face to face with a former comrade—revealing a love they were never able to live.

Ball Lightning

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

The true story of a refugee who fled the personal and social effects of Soviet-run East Germany after the end of WWII and immigrated to the United States in the 1960s.

Barbara Prey: Painting to Scale

Apr 26 @ 12:15 PM

Artist Barbara Prey undertakes the unprecedented challenge of creating the world’s largest known watercolor painting for MASS MoCA’s Building 6.

Beast Of The Seine

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

When the children of a quaint Parisian village are terrorized by a sinister threat, a remarkable dog emerges as the unlikely hero, until a shocking revelation changes the town forever.

Between Moon Tides

Apr 25 @ 2:15 PM

Against the backdrop of rising sea levels, three retirees and a young intern forge deep bonds while scouring the saltmarsh, banding birds, and witnessing firsthand the devastating effects of climate change.

Blue Heron

Apr 26 @ 8:00 PM

Within a re-creation of childhood joys lies a more troubling story of a family’s growing crisis in Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut.

Born Secret

Apr 24 @ 5:15 PM

A filmmaker returns to his Tennessee hometown, the secret city that built the atomic bomb. There he meets the workers who created humanity''s greatest weapon, while their grandchildren inherit a world on the brink of nuclear catastrophe.

Boston Open Screen

Apr 26 @ 12:00 PM

Open Screen is Boston’s one and only open mic night for movies! Whether you sold your home to finance your 35mm masterpiece, or you made it last night in your basement—if your movie is 10 minutes or less, we’ll screen it at IFFBoston.

Breadsong

Apr 23 @ 8:45 PM

A rural 19th-century family hears a pop song from the future. The more they listen, the greater the cost — a tale of greed, blindness, and the treasures we fail to see.

Burnout (UMass Lowell)

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

A young man spirals through nicotine addiction in reverse, uncovering how one moment with a girl led him to his lowest point.

Carolina Caroline

Apr 25 @ 8:00 PM

A sweet, slick road movie about a woman yearning to find herself. Finding love instead, she starts robbing banks. From Adam Carter Rehmeier, director of DINNER IN AMERICA.

Chasing Dragonflies (Fitchburg State University)

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

An investigation into our relationships with time, family, consumption, and our own mortality through the lens of Estate Sales and how objects can assume a life of their own, even becoming an intergenerational thread.

Cookie Queens

Apr 24 @ 6:00 PM

It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which innocence and ambition collide.

Daddy Is A Hunter

Apr 23 @ 8:45 PM

A school counselor meets with a troubled student where he learns about the boy''s intense at-home life, his father''s late night desertions, and a monstrous secret beneath it all.

Daddy’s Little Meatball

Apr 24 @ 5:00 PM

A teenage girl accompanies her embarrassingly earnest father on a business trip to New York, where he’s pitching his period-underwear brand. As tensions rise, a moment of public humiliation shifts how they see each other.

Dawnland (MassArt)

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

An apathetic museum archivist is tasked with returning a mythical artifact back to its resting place, deep in the forest.

Debt I Owe

Apr 25 @ 12:00 PM

Burdened by gambling debts, a Pakistani-American widower searches for redemption while struggling to be a good father to his two daughters.

December, Day Zero

Apr 26 @ 2:45 PM

A recovering alcoholic comes face-to-face with his bartender ex-girlfriend when he attempts to drop off a Christmas gift at her bar.

Doors (Wheaton College)

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

After Clary and her boyfriend, Bran, break up, Clary faces an internal battle of whether this is a relationship worth fighting for.

Draft Paper

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

An unfulfilled fashion designer faces the moral implications of creating his art when given an intriguing new opportunity during World War II.

Everybody To Kenmure Street

Apr 28 @ 8:00 PM

In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors.

Failed Transmission (Tufts University)

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

When Peter abandons his body for a digital simulation, his fiancée, Renn, must enter the machine to save their relationship.

Family Sunday

Apr 25 @ 12:00 PM

In a forgotten housing unit in Mexico City, two scheming scoundrels attempt to extort local merchants, but the fed-up neighbors band together to fight back against their relentless abuse.

Filipiñana

Apr 27 @ 7:30 PM

At a pristine resort on the outskirts of Manila, 17-year-old tee-girl Isabel tries to return a mislaid golf club to Dr. Palanca, the club president, discovering sinister revelations about her workplace, its elite members, and her own past.

First They Came For My College

Apr 23 @ 7:00 PM

The inside story of the right-wing campaign to “reconquer” higher education in America.

G.O.A.T.

Apr 26 @ 2:45 PM

Goat farmers Chantal and Gerard head to the quirky GekkigGeit Festival to win a weekend getaway with their goat Ermeralda. But when Chantal finds out Gerard brought a pregnant goat, old birth traumas resurface–and things spiral out of control.

Gatorville

Apr 25 @ 2:15 PM

In Colorado’s forgotten valley, two siblings face alligators and the ache of leaving youth behind.

Grandchild 139

Apr 24 @ 5:15 PM

In December 2024, Ramón received a phone call that would change his life: after nearly 30 years of searching, his sister, one of the nearly 500 babies stolen during Argentina’s last military dictatorship, was found.

Hail Mary

Apr 23 @ 8:45 PM

Two clueless best friends pose as priests to cash in on a desperate family''s plea for an exorcism, only to find themselves way over their heads when the possessed girl might actually be the real deal.

High Street Hangover

Apr 26 @ 2:45 PM

Marnie wakes up with a killer hangover and people keep showing up at her house. Pot, munchies, hair of the dog—nothing works, and these people need to leave.

Hokum

Apr 24 @ 10:30 PM

When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Soon, disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw him into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.

Huong

Apr 23 @ 6:00 PM

When a daughter unearths her mother’s long-buried past, she discovers a powerful story of love, loss, and the generational journey toward healing.

I Love Boosters

Apr 22 @ 7:30 PM

A crew of professional shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It’s like community service.

I Want Your Sex

Apr 24 @ 8:30 PM

When fresh-faced Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth in the latest film from Gregg Araki.

Insensible Losses

Apr 23 @ 6:30 PM

A doctor puts aside concerns about her own pregnancy as she works to care for a miscarrying patient.

Is Gang Stalking Real

Apr 25 @ 8:45 PM

A raw, unflinching look at a friendship haunted by meth-fueled paranoia, and fragile moments of clarity behind bars.

Jane Elliot Against the World

Apr 26 @ 1:00 PM

For more than fifty-five years, Jane Elliott has confronted white America with truths it still fights to deny. She does not ask for admiration. She demands courage.

Je m’appelle Mariia

Apr 23 @ 6:00 PM

Ukrainian Mariia and her mother depart their newly adopted wintery hometown of Somero and start on a journey through Europe, towards Mariia’s big dream of visiting Paris and studying in France.

Joybubbles

Apr 27 @ 5:30 PM

A boy discovers he can control the global telephone system by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and yearning for connection, his early obsession with the telephone sparks a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and technology.

Koi

Apr 24 @ 5:00 PM

An Asian father and his son must confront their differences as they find their lives strangely paralleling those of Asian carp.

Late Fame

Apr 28 @ 8:00 PM

Legendary New York poet Ed Saxberger’s forgotten works captivate an eccentric group of young creatives, reigniting his artistic passion. Their intrigue intertwines with the bewitching presence of actress Gloria.

Leaving Angola

Apr 24 @ 7:30 PM

The story of Justin Singleton, a man serving life without parole for murder, who forms a powerful bond with Derek Moss, a young father preparing for early release. When Derek returns home, events unfold that ultimately change the course of both of their lives. Filmed over seven years, with rare access inside America’s largest and most notorious prison.

Letter to My Past (Bridgewater State University)

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

An elderly woman peers through time to watch her younger self, with all of her success and struggle yet to come.

Like Father

Apr 23 @ 6:00 PM

A poignant look at the work of renowned children's author Richard Scarry as his son carries on the family legacy.

Long Live The Magic: A Swiftie Roadtrip

Apr 23 @ 6:00 PM

A 54 to year-old tomboy mom follows her tween daughter, and her daughter’s best friend, into their world of glitter, unapologetic feminine power and Taylor Swift.

Maddie’s Secret

Apr 23 @ 9:30 PM

The unmissable directorial debut satirizing and skewering content culture from iconic alt-comedian John Early, who plays the titular role, alongside a troupe of comedians including Kate Berlant, Vanessa Bayer, and Conner O’Malley.

Make A Joyful Noise

Apr 26 @ 12:15 PM

An ensemble of world-class musicians with disabilities defies conventional expectations, showcasing how their unique challenges lead to groundbreaking creativity on stage.

Marblehead Morning: 50 Years in Harmony

Apr 26 @ 12:00 PM

A story of friendship, family, creativity, aging and the power of music to entertain, inspire and connect. Nine studio songs form the centerpiece in a profile of singer/songwriters Mason Daring and Jeanie Stahl and their 50 years as a New England folk duo.

Mata Hari

Apr 26 @ 5:30 PM

In 1975, television star David Carradine came up with a novel way to forge a relationship with his estranged daughter Calista: he would make a movie with her. This is the story of David and Calista’s relationship through the lens of their unfinished, years-long film project, an epic telling of the life of the Dutch courtesan and spy, Mata Hari.

Me: JFK, You: ICN

Apr 23 @ 6:30 PM

A young Korean flight attendant expected to return home for her abusive brother’s wedding secretly reroutes her journey instead.

Morphia (Endicott College)

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

An athlete battling body dysmorphia pushes himself to his breaking point under his father’s relentless training, until a medical crisis forces them both to confront the cost of perfection.

Mother Mary

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

A shadow puppet music video blending Creole jazz, spiritual folk imagery, and hand-cut animation.

Mouthfeel

Apr 26 @ 2:45 PM

After a tumultuous breakup with her powerful wine importer ex, struggling wine rep Rachel fights to carve out her own place in New York’s cutthroat beverage world—all while battling a fragile sobriety, temptation, and the ghosts of her past.

Newport & The Great Folk Dream

Apr 26 @ 3:30 PM

Revels in a generation’s discovery of its voice through their rediscovery of American musical traditions. Showcases rare performances from the Newport Folk Festivals 1963 to 1966, including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Howlin’ Wolf, Odetta, and many more greats.

Nothing But The End

Apr 23 @ 6:30 PM

As the end of the world seems to loom, Dax, a young man living in a remote trailer park, must choose between staying with his paranoid mother, who wants to turn their trailer into a bunker, or finally living his own life.

Noumena

Apr 26 @ 2:45 PM

Elise and Noah, former high school classmates, reconnect one night via a dating app at a bar in their hometown of Brooklyn, New York.

Nuns vs. The Vatican

Apr 25 @ 3:15 PM

Gloria, a former Italian nun, breaks 30 years of silence to name her abuser: Father Marko Rupnik, the “Michelangelo” of the modern Catholic Church close to the Vatican’s highest circles, forcing a long-buried crisis into the public eye and exposing a system built to protect power.

Oh Yeah!

Apr 25 @ 8:45 PM

The story of the iconic electronic music duo Yello and the phenomenon of their 80s hit song.

One In A Million

Apr 28 @ 5:30 PM

Filmed over ten years, one girl’s epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again. She and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience.

Paper Trail

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

A high-speed study of someone’s life, seen only through pieces of paper.

Planty

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

A plant and a bird are in a relationship, but they live at a totally different speed.

Power Ballad

Apr 27 @ 7:30 PM

When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick’s songs into a hit, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves. From writer/director John Carney (ONCE, SING STREET).

Projecting Protest

Apr 24 @ 5:15 PM

Light projection as a form of protest has become a tool for activists across the political spectrum, pushing the boundaries of free speech.

Puisque Tout Brûle

Apr 25 @ 2:15 PM

Marseille, a scorching summer. A group of skaters in their twenties ride recklessly in border places. Driven by their passion for skating, they chase a dream of absolute freedom, pushing the limits of their own bodies.

R.I.P. Chip

Apr 23 @ 6:00 PM

An exploration of children processing the death of beloved pets, often their first real encounter with loss, and how families try—sometimes awkwardly, sometimes tenderly—to guide them through it.

Recesses

Apr 23 @ 8:45 PM

A midwestern elementary school secretary waits with a student to be picked up after being disciplined for an “inappropriate” drawing.

Remake

Apr 25 @ 7:30 PM

Legendary filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. Drawing

Romeria

Apr 26 @ 5:15 PM

In this delicate and poignantly autobiographical film from Carla Simón (ALCARRÀS), 18-year-old Marina negotiates her idealized memories of her parents, whom she lost at a young age, when she arrives in sun-kissed Galicia to meet her extended family for the first time.

Rooftop Lempicka

Apr 26 @ 2:45 PM

2002, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. While her mother is expecting a second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in their family home.

Rose Of Nevada

Apr 25 @ 3:00 PM

A fishing boat lost with all hands thirty years ago reappears in the old harbor. A new crew sets out to sea but slips back in time to a village that thinks they never left.

School For Defectors

Apr 25 @ 5:30 PM

In an industrial area of Busan, South Korea sits the tiny Jangdaehyun School. It has just 20 students—all of whom are North Korean defectors. SCHOOL FOR DEFECTORS tells a joyful story of youth, inspiration, and our shared humanity.

Seized

Apr 24 @ 8:00 PM

When the small town of Marion, Kansas, is thrust into the international spotlight after a police raid on the Marion County Record and the death of its 98-year-old co-owner, a fierce debate ignites about the abuse of power, journalistic ethics, local journalism, and the United States Constitution.

Shucking Tradition

Apr 25 @ 2:15 PM

New England women prove themselves in their region''s age-old oyster farming industry by bringing new energy and perspectives to a tradition bound male-dominated industry.

Si Solamente (Boston University)

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

17-year-old Esme, faced with fear and uncertainty, must shield her 8-year-old baby brother, Juan, from the truth when humanity takes part in separating her family.

Silent Tears (Suffolk University)

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

After fleeing war-torn Armenia, composer, and pianist Grigori Balasanyan channels the voices of his displaced people into an opera that captures their pain and resilience, proving that even in the darkest times music can preserve history and heal the soul.

Slug (Middlesex Community College)

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

As a broken man fights night after night in underground arenas to earn his way back to the people he loves, the line between redemption and self-destruction begins to blur.

Szyplizski

Apr 23 @ 6:30 PM

Sam, a middle-aged romantic en route to Poland to meet his perfect match, spends an overnight layover with his niece and her girlfriend.

The Ambassador’s Daughter

Apr 25 @ 12:00 PM

An Iranian-American actor is considered for a supporting role in a major film with mysterious political intentions.

The Big Cheese

Apr 26 @ 7:00 PM

A determined and eccentric team of American cheesemongers dares to challenge elite French fromagers at the Olympics of Cheese, navigating cultural clashes, self-doubt, and plenty of melting cheese in pursuit of respect, redemption, and a historic victory.

The Dreaming Game

Apr 25 @ 8:45 PM

Seventy-year-old baseball fan and Boston native, Raymond Gaines, returns to Fenway Park for the first time since 1964, after being wrongfully convicted of murder and serving 47 years in prison.

The Forest In The Trees

Apr 25 @ 2:15 PM

A New England forest ecologist’s humble, decades-long study on trees unearths unexpected insight into a changing climate and humanity’s place in the natural world.

The Great Experiment

Apr 25 @ 7:45 PM

Reflects on this nation once called “the last great experiment in democracy,” by documenting one four-year period of political upheaval from 2017 to 2021 to create a deeply affecting portrait of a nation and its people.

The Invite

Apr 29 @ 7:30 PM

Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?

The Last Critic

Apr 25 @ 12:30 PM

Robert Christgau, The Dean of American Rock Critics whose work has inspired and infuriated readers for sixty years is still at it in his eighties: grading records, interrogating commas, and listening to absolutely everything (except metal and prog).

The Last Yztari

Apr 23 @ 8:30 PM

Mary Dague lost both arms defusing bombs in Iraq. She tried for years to write her story and couldn't. Eighteen years later, she's building a world where that trauma belongs to someone else—narrated by DANI, the artificial consciousness she created to watch over her fictional selves. The film reveals her rebuilding identity through imagination, and asks what happens when the only way to tell the truth is through fiction.

The Lord of All Future Space & Time

Apr 23 @ 8:45 PM

A grief-stricken cowboy is saved by a duffel bag from the future. The rest is history.

The Oldest

Apr 24 @ 5:00 PM

12-year-old Kate longs to escape her lonely reality as the oldest of five under the shadow of her father's addiction in this coming-of-age story set in late 80s rural Iowa.

The Petal Pusher

Apr 26 @ 12:15 PM

An ode to Penn Station and one of its longest-running businesses, THE PETAL PUSHER is a story of love, loss, and family set against the station’s recent transformation into a kind of mall filled with chain stores.

The Rise of Documentary Storytelling in Commercials

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

Featuring both filmmakers and clients, this conversation will unpack how documentary style has transformed the commercial landscape, what brands are actually looking for, and how filmmakers can move between passion projects and paid work without losing their voice.

The Six Billion Dollar Man

Apr 28 @ 6:00 PM

Julian Assange. WikiLeaks. Truth on trial... Eugene Jarecki’s groundbreaking film confronts the cost of truth in a world where those in power attempt to control the flow of information itself.

The Spanish Lesson

Apr 23 @ 6:30 PM

When Marisol''s tutoring session is interrupted by a strange man accusing her of salacious goings on with his wife, a page of Spanish homework turns a confrontation of pride and jealousy into an unexpected communion of loss between strangers.

The Xenogender

Apr 26 @ 2:45 PM

Kenzo, a Japanese immigrant living in New York, loves watching crocodile videos. On a first date, he confesses his identity as a crocodile.

The Zoo

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

A caged lion festers in anger and silence until an unlikely friend comes along to help him tell his story.

Their Town

Apr 28 @ 8:30 PM

When Abby’s boyfriend drops out of the high school play, she finds herself helping a school outlier step into the role opposite her. Directed by Katie Aselton, and written by Mark Duplass.

There’s A Small Hotel

Apr 26 @ 12:15 PM

The Brevoort, an old Hollywood apartment building with a notorious past, has been managed for the last 18 years by former Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro.

Tiananmen Tonight

Apr 27 @ 7:45 PM

Reveals the powerful human drama of Dan Rather and the CBS Evening News team battling for life and reputation while courageously reporting the extraordinary student uprising in 1989 that brought China to the brink of democratic reform.

Tick (Emerson College)

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

A couple tries to conceive a child on Martha’s Vineyard, but their idyllic vacation unravels when strange rashes begin to appear on their bodies.

Tiha

Apr 24 @ 5:00 PM

Deni navigates the complex worlds of gender, family, and adolescent friendship in the harbor city of Split, Croatia. Encircled by patriarchal and conservative customs, Deni struggles to find connection and understanding both within the confines of her domestic life and school cliques.

To Your Hands

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

On the divided island of Cyprus, the quiet motion of hands shaping lace and making cheese shed new light on a decades old conflict.

To-Go

Apr 24 @ 5:00 PM

A desperate dad ruins lunch when he tries to get his daughter to help him pass a drug test.

Toxic Tides

Apr 24 @ 5:15 PM

Toxic water, toxic air—and the neighbors who refuse to stay silent.

Transaction Cancelled

Apr 25 @ 12:00 PM

A desperate young man spins an increasingly elaborate web of lies to get cash, triggering a chaotic chain reaction he can no longer control.

Tuner

Apr 24 @ 7:30 PM

A piano tuner with sensitive hearing gets caught up with a gang of safecrackers in documentarian Daniel Roher’s (NAVALNY) narrative debut. Starring Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman and Havana Rose Liu.

Where is Samuel?

Apr 24 @ 5:15 PM

Samuel and his grandmother exchange messages about his new life in the USA.

Whoopin’

Apr 23 @ 8:45 PM

Two brothers come to blows over how to discipline a child for trying to drown the family cat.

Winter After Winter

Apr 25 @ 12:00 PM

Returning home to Toronto after years away, Nell runs into Jackie, an old friend. As they spend the day together, a buried past rises to the surface, leaving them reckoning with their shared history.

WIWA

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

A flock of migratory birds land in the suburbs and fuel up for the rest of their journey.

Yard Sale

Apr 24 @ 5:00 PM

Two estranged sisters gather on the weekend after their mothers sudden death. In a stumbling reactionary effort to begin the foreign process of settling their mothers lapsed life, they have a yard sale.

Your Attention Please

Apr 25 @ 4:30 PM

A quiet revolution is underway: As AI reshapes every part of our lives, ordinary people are pushing back against addictive tech. Are we willing to reclaim autonomy and human connection before it’s too late?

Your Cookie

Apr 23 @ 6:30 PM

A young fashion stylist treats a friend to lunch with his boss’s credit card. The rest of the day does not go as planned.

I Love Boosters

Apr 22 @ 7:30 PM

A crew of professional shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It’s like community service.

Shorts Gloucester: Documentary

Apr 23 @ 6:00 PM

Shorts: LIKE FATHER, LONG LIVE THE MAGIC: A SWIFTIE ROADTRIP, HUONG, JE M'APPELLE MARIIA, R.I.P. CHIP

Shorts Berkeley: Narrative

Apr 23 @ 6:30 PM

Shorts: THE SPANISH LESSON, INSENSIBLE LOSSES, "ME: JFK, YOU: ICN", YOUR COOKIE, SZYPLIZSKI, NOTHING BUT THE END

Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]

Apr 23 @ 6:45 PM

Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as Tribal Repatriation specialists fight to return Indigenous human remains.

First They Came For My College

Apr 23 @ 7:00 PM

The inside story of the right-wing campaign to “reconquer” higher education in America.

The Last Yztari

Apr 23 @ 8:30 PM

Mary Dague lost both arms defusing bombs in Iraq. She tried for years to write her story and couldn't. Eighteen years later, she's building a world where that trauma belongs to someone else—narrated by DANI, the artificial consciousness she created to watch over her fictional selves. The film reveals her rebuilding identity through imagination, and asks what happens when the only way to tell the truth is through fiction.

Shorts Exeter: Narrative

Apr 23 @ 8:45 PM

Shorts: WHOOPIN’, RECESSES, DADDY IS A HUNTER, BREADSONG, HAIL MARY, THE LORD OF ALL FUTURE SPACE & TIME

Maddie’s Secret

Apr 23 @ 9:30 PM

The unmissable directorial debut satirizing and skewering content culture from iconic alt-comedian John Early, who plays the titular role, alongside a troupe of comedians including Kate Berlant, Vanessa Bayer, and Conner O’Malley.

Shorts Arlington: Narrative

Apr 24 @ 5:00 PM

Shorts: TO-GO, KOI, THE OLDEST, YARD SALE, TIHA, DADDY'S LITTLE MEATBALL

Shorts Fairfield: Documentary

Apr 24 @ 5:15 PM

Shorts: BORN SECRET, TOXIC TIDES, PROJECTING PROTEST, WHERE IS SAMUEL?, GRANDCHILD 139, A DERAILMENT

Cookie Queens

Apr 24 @ 6:00 PM

It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which innocence and ambition collide.

Tuner

Apr 24 @ 7:30 PM

A piano tuner with sensitive hearing gets caught up with a gang of safecrackers in documentarian Daniel Roher’s (NAVALNY) narrative debut. Starring Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman and Havana Rose Liu.

Leaving Angola

Apr 24 @ 7:30 PM

The story of Justin Singleton, a man serving life without parole for murder, who forms a powerful bond with Derek Moss, a young father preparing for early release. When Derek returns home, events unfold that ultimately change the course of both of their lives. Filmed over seven years, with rare access inside America’s largest and most notorious prison.

Seized

Apr 24 @ 8:00 PM

When the small town of Marion, Kansas, is thrust into the international spotlight after a police raid on the Marion County Record and the death of its 98-year-old co-owner, a fierce debate ignites about the abuse of power, journalistic ethics, local journalism, and the United States Constitution.

I Want Your Sex

Apr 24 @ 8:30 PM

When fresh-faced Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth in the latest film from Gregg Araki.

All My Friends

Apr 24 @ 10:00 PM

In the weeks leading to Allie moving across the country, her best friend (and bandmate) Jacob considers life without her in this intimate story of leaving and feeling left.

Hokum

Apr 24 @ 10:30 PM

When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Soon, disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw him into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.

Shorts Dartmouth: Narrative

Apr 25 @ 12:00 PM

Shorts: THE AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTER, WINTER AFTER WINTER, DEBT I OWE, TRANSACTION CANCELLED, FAMILY SUNDAY

As I Am

Apr 25 @ 12:00 PM

A 60-year-old Iranian man travels to a quiet coastal town in Massachusetts and comes face to face with a former comrade—revealing a love they were never able to live.

The Last Critic

Apr 25 @ 12:30 PM

Robert Christgau, The Dean of American Rock Critics whose work has inspired and infuriated readers for sixty years is still at it in his eighties: grading records, interrogating commas, and listening to absolutely everything (except metal and prog).

Student Short Showcase

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

Shorts Mass Ave: Documentary

Apr 25 @ 2:15 PM

Shorts: BETWEEN MOON TIDES, THE FOREST IN THE TREES, SHUCKING TRADITION, GATORVILLE, PUISQUE TOUT BRÛLE

Rose Of Nevada

Apr 25 @ 3:00 PM

A fishing boat lost with all hands thirty years ago reappears in the old harbor. A new crew sets out to sea but slips back in time to a village that thinks they never left.

Nuns vs. The Vatican

Apr 25 @ 3:15 PM

Gloria, a former Italian nun, breaks 30 years of silence to name her abuser: Father Marko Rupnik, the “Michelangelo” of the modern Catholic Church close to the Vatican’s highest circles, forcing a long-buried crisis into the public eye and exposing a system built to protect power.

Your Attention Please

Apr 25 @ 4:30 PM

A quiet revolution is underway: As AI reshapes every part of our lives, ordinary people are pushing back against addictive tech. Are we willing to reclaim autonomy and human connection before it’s too late?

Ali Eats America

Apr 25 @ 5:00 PM

Ali Allouche, a teenage cancer survivor, braves his way through treatments and chemotherapy with dreams of a culinary journey across the USA, inspired by his hero, Anthony Bourdain.

School For Defectors

Apr 25 @ 5:30 PM

In an industrial area of Busan, South Korea sits the tiny Jangdaehyun School. It has just 20 students—all of whom are North Korean defectors. SCHOOL FOR DEFECTORS tells a joyful story of youth, inspiration, and our shared humanity.

Shorts Arlington: Narrative

Apr 25 @ 6:15 PM

Shorts: TO-GO, KOI, THE OLDEST, YARD SALE, TIHA, DADDY'S LITTLE MEATBALL

Remake

Apr 25 @ 7:30 PM

Legendary filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. Drawing

The Great Experiment

Apr 25 @ 7:45 PM

Reflects on this nation once called “the last great experiment in democracy,” by documenting one four-year period of political upheaval from 2017 to 2021 to create a deeply affecting portrait of a nation and its people.

Carolina Caroline

Apr 25 @ 8:00 PM

A sweet, slick road movie about a woman yearning to find herself. Finding love instead, she starts robbing banks. From Adam Carter Rehmeier, director of DINNER IN AMERICA.

Shorts Kenmore: Documentary

Apr 25 @ 8:45 PM

Shorts: ARE WE BREAKING UP?, A PICTURE OF MY FATHER, IS GANG STALKING REAL, THE DREAMING GAME, OH YEAH!

Shorts Kenmore: Documentary

Apr 26 @ 12:00 PM

Shorts: ARE WE BREAKING UP?, A PICTURE OF MY FATHER, IS GANG STALKING REAL, THE DREAMING GAME, OH YEAH!

Boston Open Screen

Apr 26 @ 12:00 PM

Open Screen is Boston’s one and only open mic night for movies! Whether you sold your home to finance your 35mm masterpiece, or you made it last night in your basement—if your movie is 10 minutes or less, we’ll screen it at IFFBoston.

Marblehead Morning: 50 Years in Harmony

Apr 26 @ 12:00 PM

A story of friendship, family, creativity, aging and the power of music to entertain, inspire and connect. Nine studio songs form the centerpiece in a profile of singer/songwriters Mason Daring and Jeanie Stahl and their 50 years as a New England folk duo.

Shorts Hereford: Documentary

Apr 26 @ 12:15 PM

Shorts: ANI LIU: EYE HEART WOMB, A MATTER OF LIGHT, BARBARA PREY: PAINTING TO SCALE, THE PETAL PUSHER, MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE, THERE’S A SMALL HOTEL

Jane Elliot Against the World

Apr 26 @ 1:00 PM

For more than fifty-five years, Jane Elliott has confronted white America with truths it still fights to deny. She does not ask for admiration. She demands courage.

Shorts Gloucester: Documentary

Apr 26 @ 2:30 PM

Shorts: LIKE FATHER, LONG LIVE THE MAGIC: A SWIFTIE ROADTRIP, HUONG, JE M'APPELLE MARIIA, R.I.P. CHIP

Shorts Clarendon: Narrative

Apr 26 @ 2:45 PM

Shorts: MOUTHFEEL, HIGH STREET HANGOVER, "DECEMBER, DAY ZERO", NOUMENA, ROOFTOP LEMPICKA, G.O.A.T., THE XENOGENDER

The Rise of Documentary Storytelling in Commercials

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

Featuring both filmmakers and clients, this conversation will unpack how documentary style has transformed the commercial landscape, what brands are actually looking for, and how filmmakers can move between passion projects and paid work without losing their voice.

Shorts Animated

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

Shorts: MOTHER MARY, BEAST OF THE SEINE, TO YOUR HANDS, THE ZOO, PLANTY, DRAFT PAPER, WIWA, BALL LIGHTNING, PAPER TRAIL

Newport & The Great Folk Dream

Apr 26 @ 3:30 PM

Revels in a generation’s discovery of its voice through their rediscovery of American musical traditions. Showcases rare performances from the Newport Folk Festivals 1963 to 1966, including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Howlin’ Wolf, Odetta, and many more greats.

Romeria

Apr 26 @ 5:15 PM

In this delicate and poignantly autobiographical film from Carla Simón (ALCARRÀS), 18-year-old Marina negotiates her idealized memories of her parents, whom she lost at a young age, when she arrives in sun-kissed Galicia to meet her extended family for the first time.

Shorts Mass Ave: Documentary

Apr 26 @ 5:30 PM

Shorts: BETWEEN MOON TIDES, THE FOREST IN THE TREES, SHUCKING TRADITION, GATORVILLE, PUISQUE TOUT BRÛLE

Mata Hari

Apr 26 @ 5:30 PM

In 1975, television star David Carradine came up with a novel way to forge a relationship with his estranged daughter Calista: he would make a movie with her. This is the story of David and Calista’s relationship through the lens of their unfinished, years-long film project, an epic telling of the life of the Dutch courtesan and spy, Mata Hari.

The Big Cheese

Apr 26 @ 7:00 PM

A determined and eccentric team of American cheesemongers dares to challenge elite French fromagers at the Olympics of Cheese, navigating cultural clashes, self-doubt, and plenty of melting cheese in pursuit of respect, redemption, and a historic victory.

Shorts Berkeley: Narrative

Apr 26 @ 7:45 PM

Shorts: THE SPANISH LESSON, INSENSIBLE LOSSES, "ME: JFK, YOU: ICN", YOUR COOKIE, SZYPLIZSKI, NOTHING BUT THE END

Blue Heron

Apr 26 @ 8:00 PM

Within a re-creation of childhood joys lies a more troubling story of a family’s growing crisis in Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut.

Shorts Fairfield: Documentary

Apr 27 @ 5:00 PM

Shorts: BORN SECRET, TOXIC TIDES, PROJECTING PROTEST, WHERE IS SAMUEL?, GRANDCHILD 139, A DERAILMENT

Adam’s Apple

Apr 27 @ 5:00 PM

A transgender teen and his mother chronicle their lives, artistically weaving a rare and intimate portrait of a family in transition.

Shorts Hereford: Documentary

Apr 27 @ 5:15 PM

Shorts: ANI LIU: EYE HEART WOMB, A MATTER OF LIGHT, BARBARA PREY: PAINTING TO SCALE, THE PETAL PUSHER, MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE, THERE’S A SMALL HOTEL

Joybubbles

Apr 27 @ 5:30 PM

A boy discovers he can control the global telephone system by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and yearning for connection, his early obsession with the telephone sparks a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and technology.

Power Ballad

Apr 27 @ 7:30 PM

When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick’s songs into a hit, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves. From writer/director John Carney (ONCE, SING STREET).

Filipiñana

Apr 27 @ 7:30 PM

At a pristine resort on the outskirts of Manila, 17-year-old tee-girl Isabel tries to return a mislaid golf club to Dr. Palanca, the club president, discovering sinister revelations about her workplace, its elite members, and her own past.

Tiananmen Tonight

Apr 27 @ 7:45 PM

Reveals the powerful human drama of Dan Rather and the CBS Evening News team battling for life and reputation while courageously reporting the extraordinary student uprising in 1989 that brought China to the brink of democratic reform.

Shorts Exeter: Narrative

Apr 27 @ 8:00 PM

Shorts: WHOOPIN’, RECESSES, DADDY IS A HUNTER, BREADSONG, HAIL MARY, THE LORD OF ALL FUTURE SPACE & TIME

Shorts Animated

Apr 28 @ 5:15 PM

Shorts: MOTHER MARY, BEAST OF THE SEINE, TO YOUR HANDS, THE ZOO, PLANTY, DRAFT PAPER, WIWA, BALL LIGHTNING, PAPER TRAIL

Shorts Dartmouth: Narrative

Apr 28 @ 5:30 PM

Shorts: THE AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTER, WINTER AFTER WINTER, DEBT I OWE, TRANSACTION CANCELLED, FAMILY SUNDAY

One In A Million

Apr 28 @ 5:30 PM

Filmed over ten years, one girl’s epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again. She and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience.

The Six Billion Dollar Man

Apr 28 @ 6:00 PM

Julian Assange. WikiLeaks. Truth on trial... Eugene Jarecki’s groundbreaking film confronts the cost of truth in a world where those in power attempt to control the flow of information itself.

Shorts Clarendon: Narrative

Apr 28 @ 7:45 PM

Shorts: MOUTHFEEL, HIGH STREET HANGOVER, "DECEMBER, DAY ZERO", NOUMENA, ROOFTOP LEMPICKA, G.O.A.T., THE XENOGENDER

Late Fame

Apr 28 @ 8:00 PM

Legendary New York poet Ed Saxberger’s forgotten works captivate an eccentric group of young creatives, reigniting his artistic passion. Their intrigue intertwines with the bewitching presence of actress Gloria.

Everybody To Kenmure Street

Apr 28 @ 8:00 PM

In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors.

Their Town

Apr 28 @ 8:30 PM

When Abby’s boyfriend drops out of the high school play, she finds herself helping a school outlier step into the role opposite her. Directed by Katie Aselton, and written by Mark Duplass.

The Invite

Apr 29 @ 7:30 PM

Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?

I Love Boosters

Apr 22 @ 7:30 PM

A crew of professional shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It’s like community service.

Shorts Gloucester: Documentary

Apr 23 @ 6:00 PM

Shorts: LIKE FATHER, LONG LIVE THE MAGIC: A SWIFTIE ROADTRIP, HUONG, JE M'APPELLE MARIIA, R.I.P. CHIP

Shorts Berkeley: Narrative

Apr 23 @ 6:30 PM

Shorts: THE SPANISH LESSON, INSENSIBLE LOSSES, "ME: JFK, YOU: ICN", YOUR COOKIE, SZYPLIZSKI, NOTHING BUT THE END

Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]

Apr 23 @ 6:45 PM

Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as Tribal Repatriation specialists fight to return Indigenous human remains.

First They Came For My College

Apr 23 @ 7:00 PM

The inside story of the right-wing campaign to “reconquer” higher education in America.

The Last Yztari

Apr 23 @ 8:30 PM

Mary Dague lost both arms defusing bombs in Iraq. She tried for years to write her story and couldn't. Eighteen years later, she's building a world where that trauma belongs to someone else—narrated by DANI, the artificial consciousness she created to watch over her fictional selves. The film reveals her rebuilding identity through imagination, and asks what happens when the only way to tell the truth is through fiction.

Shorts Exeter: Narrative

Apr 23 @ 8:45 PM

Shorts: WHOOPIN’, RECESSES, DADDY IS A HUNTER, BREADSONG, HAIL MARY, THE LORD OF ALL FUTURE SPACE & TIME

Maddie’s Secret

Apr 23 @ 9:30 PM

The unmissable directorial debut satirizing and skewering content culture from iconic alt-comedian John Early, who plays the titular role, alongside a troupe of comedians including Kate Berlant, Vanessa Bayer, and Conner O’Malley.

Shorts Arlington: Narrative

Apr 24 @ 5:00 PM

Shorts: TO-GO, KOI, THE OLDEST, YARD SALE, TIHA, DADDY'S LITTLE MEATBALL

Shorts Fairfield: Documentary

Apr 24 @ 5:15 PM

Shorts: BORN SECRET, TOXIC TIDES, PROJECTING PROTEST, WHERE IS SAMUEL?, GRANDCHILD 139, A DERAILMENT

Cookie Queens

Apr 24 @ 6:00 PM

It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which innocence and ambition collide.

Tuner

Apr 24 @ 7:30 PM

A piano tuner with sensitive hearing gets caught up with a gang of safecrackers in documentarian Daniel Roher’s (NAVALNY) narrative debut. Starring Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman and Havana Rose Liu.

Leaving Angola

Apr 24 @ 7:30 PM

The story of Justin Singleton, a man serving life without parole for murder, who forms a powerful bond with Derek Moss, a young father preparing for early release. When Derek returns home, events unfold that ultimately change the course of both of their lives. Filmed over seven years, with rare access inside America’s largest and most notorious prison.

Seized

Apr 24 @ 8:00 PM

When the small town of Marion, Kansas, is thrust into the international spotlight after a police raid on the Marion County Record and the death of its 98-year-old co-owner, a fierce debate ignites about the abuse of power, journalistic ethics, local journalism, and the United States Constitution.

I Want Your Sex

Apr 24 @ 8:30 PM

When fresh-faced Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth in the latest film from Gregg Araki.

All My Friends

Apr 24 @ 10:00 PM

In the weeks leading to Allie moving across the country, her best friend (and bandmate) Jacob considers life without her in this intimate story of leaving and feeling left.

Hokum

Apr 24 @ 10:30 PM

When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Soon, disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw him into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.

Shorts Arlington: Narrative

Apr 25 @ 6:15 PM

Shorts: TO-GO, KOI, THE OLDEST, YARD SALE, TIHA, DADDY'S LITTLE MEATBALL

Shorts Dartmouth: Narrative

Apr 25 @ 12:00 PM

Shorts: THE AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTER, WINTER AFTER WINTER, DEBT I OWE, TRANSACTION CANCELLED, FAMILY SUNDAY

As I Am

Apr 25 @ 12:00 PM

A 60-year-old Iranian man travels to a quiet coastal town in Massachusetts and comes face to face with a former comrade—revealing a love they were never able to live.

The Last Critic

Apr 25 @ 12:30 PM

Robert Christgau, The Dean of American Rock Critics whose work has inspired and infuriated readers for sixty years is still at it in his eighties: grading records, interrogating commas, and listening to absolutely everything (except metal and prog).

Student Short Showcase

Apr 25 @ 1:00 PM

Shorts Mass Ave: Documentary

Apr 25 @ 2:15 PM

Shorts: BETWEEN MOON TIDES, THE FOREST IN THE TREES, SHUCKING TRADITION, GATORVILLE, PUISQUE TOUT BRÛLE

Rose Of Nevada

Apr 25 @ 3:00 PM

A fishing boat lost with all hands thirty years ago reappears in the old harbor. A new crew sets out to sea but slips back in time to a village that thinks they never left.

Nuns vs. The Vatican

Apr 25 @ 3:15 PM

Gloria, a former Italian nun, breaks 30 years of silence to name her abuser: Father Marko Rupnik, the “Michelangelo” of the modern Catholic Church close to the Vatican’s highest circles, forcing a long-buried crisis into the public eye and exposing a system built to protect power.

Your Attention Please

Apr 25 @ 4:30 PM

A quiet revolution is underway: As AI reshapes every part of our lives, ordinary people are pushing back against addictive tech. Are we willing to reclaim autonomy and human connection before it’s too late?

Ali Eats America

Apr 25 @ 5:00 PM

Ali Allouche, a teenage cancer survivor, braves his way through treatments and chemotherapy with dreams of a culinary journey across the USA, inspired by his hero, Anthony Bourdain.

School For Defectors

Apr 25 @ 5:30 PM

In an industrial area of Busan, South Korea sits the tiny Jangdaehyun School. It has just 20 students—all of whom are North Korean defectors. SCHOOL FOR DEFECTORS tells a joyful story of youth, inspiration, and our shared humanity.

Remake

Apr 25 @ 7:30 PM

Legendary filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. Drawing

The Great Experiment

Apr 25 @ 7:45 PM

Reflects on this nation once called “the last great experiment in democracy,” by documenting one four-year period of political upheaval from 2017 to 2021 to create a deeply affecting portrait of a nation and its people.

Carolina Caroline

Apr 25 @ 8:00 PM

A sweet, slick road movie about a woman yearning to find herself. Finding love instead, she starts robbing banks. From Adam Carter Rehmeier, director of DINNER IN AMERICA.

Shorts Kenmore: Documentary

Apr 25 @ 8:45 PM

Shorts: ARE WE BREAKING UP?, A PICTURE OF MY FATHER, IS GANG STALKING REAL, THE DREAMING GAME, OH YEAH!

Shorts Gloucester: Documentary

Apr 26 @ 2:30 PM

Shorts: LIKE FATHER, LONG LIVE THE MAGIC: A SWIFTIE ROADTRIP, HUONG, JE M'APPELLE MARIIA, R.I.P. CHIP

Shorts Berkeley: Narrative

Apr 26 @ 7:45 PM

Shorts: THE SPANISH LESSON, INSENSIBLE LOSSES, "ME: JFK, YOU: ICN", YOUR COOKIE, SZYPLIZSKI, NOTHING BUT THE END

Shorts Mass Ave: Documentary

Apr 26 @ 5:30 PM

Shorts: BETWEEN MOON TIDES, THE FOREST IN THE TREES, SHUCKING TRADITION, GATORVILLE, PUISQUE TOUT BRÛLE

Shorts Kenmore: Documentary

Apr 26 @ 12:00 PM

Shorts: ARE WE BREAKING UP?, A PICTURE OF MY FATHER, IS GANG STALKING REAL, THE DREAMING GAME, OH YEAH!

Boston Open Screen

Apr 26 @ 12:00 PM

Open Screen is Boston’s one and only open mic night for movies! Whether you sold your home to finance your 35mm masterpiece, or you made it last night in your basement—if your movie is 10 minutes or less, we’ll screen it at IFFBoston.

Marblehead Morning: 50 Years in Harmony

Apr 26 @ 12:00 PM

A story of friendship, family, creativity, aging and the power of music to entertain, inspire and connect. Nine studio songs form the centerpiece in a profile of singer/songwriters Mason Daring and Jeanie Stahl and their 50 years as a New England folk duo.

Shorts Hereford: Documentary

Apr 26 @ 12:15 PM

Shorts: ANI LIU: EYE HEART WOMB, A MATTER OF LIGHT, BARBARA PREY: PAINTING TO SCALE, THE PETAL PUSHER, MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE, THERE’S A SMALL HOTEL

Jane Elliot Against the World

Apr 26 @ 1:00 PM

For more than fifty-five years, Jane Elliott has confronted white America with truths it still fights to deny. She does not ask for admiration. She demands courage.

Shorts Clarendon: Narrative

Apr 26 @ 2:45 PM

Shorts: MOUTHFEEL, HIGH STREET HANGOVER, "DECEMBER, DAY ZERO", NOUMENA, ROOFTOP LEMPICKA, G.O.A.T., THE XENOGENDER

The Rise of Documentary Storytelling in Commercials

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

Featuring both filmmakers and clients, this conversation will unpack how documentary style has transformed the commercial landscape, what brands are actually looking for, and how filmmakers can move between passion projects and paid work without losing their voice.

Shorts Animated

Apr 26 @ 3:00 PM

Shorts: MOTHER MARY, BEAST OF THE SEINE, TO YOUR HANDS, THE ZOO, PLANTY, DRAFT PAPER, WIWA, BALL LIGHTNING, PAPER TRAIL

Newport & The Great Folk Dream

Apr 26 @ 3:30 PM

Revels in a generation’s discovery of its voice through their rediscovery of American musical traditions. Showcases rare performances from the Newport Folk Festivals 1963 to 1966, including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Howlin’ Wolf, Odetta, and many more greats.

Romeria

Apr 26 @ 5:15 PM

In this delicate and poignantly autobiographical film from Carla Simón (ALCARRÀS), 18-year-old Marina negotiates her idealized memories of her parents, whom she lost at a young age, when she arrives in sun-kissed Galicia to meet her extended family for the first time.

Mata Hari

Apr 26 @ 5:30 PM

In 1975, television star David Carradine came up with a novel way to forge a relationship with his estranged daughter Calista: he would make a movie with her. This is the story of David and Calista’s relationship through the lens of their unfinished, years-long film project, an epic telling of the life of the Dutch courtesan and spy, Mata Hari.

The Big Cheese

Apr 26 @ 7:00 PM

A determined and eccentric team of American cheesemongers dares to challenge elite French fromagers at the Olympics of Cheese, navigating cultural clashes, self-doubt, and plenty of melting cheese in pursuit of respect, redemption, and a historic victory.

Blue Heron

Apr 26 @ 8:00 PM

Within a re-creation of childhood joys lies a more troubling story of a family’s growing crisis in Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut.

Shorts Exeter: Narrative

Apr 27 @ 8:00 PM

Shorts: WHOOPIN’, RECESSES, DADDY IS A HUNTER, BREADSONG, HAIL MARY, THE LORD OF ALL FUTURE SPACE & TIME

Shorts Fairfield: Documentary

Apr 27 @ 5:00 PM

Shorts: BORN SECRET, TOXIC TIDES, PROJECTING PROTEST, WHERE IS SAMUEL?, GRANDCHILD 139, A DERAILMENT

Shorts Hereford: Documentary

Apr 27 @ 5:15 PM

Shorts: ANI LIU: EYE HEART WOMB, A MATTER OF LIGHT, BARBARA PREY: PAINTING TO SCALE, THE PETAL PUSHER, MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE, THERE’S A SMALL HOTEL

Adam’s Apple

Apr 27 @ 5:00 PM

A transgender teen and his mother chronicle their lives, artistically weaving a rare and intimate portrait of a family in transition.

Joybubbles

Apr 27 @ 5:30 PM

A boy discovers he can control the global telephone system by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and yearning for connection, his early obsession with the telephone sparks a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and technology.

Power Ballad

Apr 27 @ 7:30 PM

When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick’s songs into a hit, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves. From writer/director John Carney (ONCE, SING STREET).

Filipiñana

Apr 27 @ 7:30 PM

At a pristine resort on the outskirts of Manila, 17-year-old tee-girl Isabel tries to return a mislaid golf club to Dr. Palanca, the club president, discovering sinister revelations about her workplace, its elite members, and her own past.

Tiananmen Tonight

Apr 27 @ 7:45 PM

Reveals the powerful human drama of Dan Rather and the CBS Evening News team battling for life and reputation while courageously reporting the extraordinary student uprising in 1989 that brought China to the brink of democratic reform.

Shorts Dartmouth: Narrative

Apr 28 @ 5:30 PM

Shorts: THE AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTER, WINTER AFTER WINTER, DEBT I OWE, TRANSACTION CANCELLED, FAMILY SUNDAY

Shorts Clarendon: Narrative

Apr 28 @ 7:45 PM

Shorts: MOUTHFEEL, HIGH STREET HANGOVER, "DECEMBER, DAY ZERO", NOUMENA, ROOFTOP LEMPICKA, G.O.A.T., THE XENOGENDER

Shorts Animated

Apr 28 @ 5:15 PM

Shorts: MOTHER MARY, BEAST OF THE SEINE, TO YOUR HANDS, THE ZOO, PLANTY, DRAFT PAPER, WIWA, BALL LIGHTNING, PAPER TRAIL

One In A Million

Apr 28 @ 5:30 PM

Filmed over ten years, one girl’s epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again. She and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience.

The Six Billion Dollar Man

Apr 28 @ 6:00 PM

Julian Assange. WikiLeaks. Truth on trial... Eugene Jarecki’s groundbreaking film confronts the cost of truth in a world where those in power attempt to control the flow of information itself.

Late Fame

Apr 28 @ 8:00 PM

Legendary New York poet Ed Saxberger’s forgotten works captivate an eccentric group of young creatives, reigniting his artistic passion. Their intrigue intertwines with the bewitching presence of actress Gloria.

Everybody To Kenmure Street

Apr 28 @ 8:00 PM

In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors.

Their Town

Apr 28 @ 8:30 PM

When Abby’s boyfriend drops out of the high school play, she finds herself helping a school outlier step into the role opposite her. Directed by Katie Aselton, and written by Mark Duplass.

The Invite

Apr 29 @ 7:30 PM

Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?