IFFBoston Fall Focus 2025:
Oct. 9 – 12 + Oct. 30 – Nov. 4 at the Brattle
We’re back for our eleventh annual celebration of the Fall’s buzziest films. And to fit everything in, we’re expanding the festival to two weekends!
All Events (A-Z)
A Poet
Nov 02 @ 2:30 PM
An aging, obscure writer mentors a talented teen, hoping to give her what he never had. But their bond—rooted in good intentions—spirals into a web of poor decisions and the weight of unmet ambitions, leading to a hilarious series of misadventures.
Info & Tickets
After the Hunt
Oct 09 @ 6:30 PM
In his razor-sharp new drama, Luca Guadagnino gives Julia Roberts one of the most complex and gratifying starring roles of her career as a philosophy professor whose life is thrown into chaos after her protégée (Ayo Edebiri) accuses her longtime colleague and friend (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault.
Info & Tickets
Arco
Oct 11 @ 12:00 PM
Time travel gets a magical spin in Ugo Bienvenu’s animated adventure—produced by Natalie Portman—a charming paean to friendship between two children from different eras and a warning about our failure to preserve our environment.
Info & Tickets
Blue Moon
Oct 12 @ 8:30 PM
Ethan Hawke delivers a charming, lived-in performance as lyricist Lorenz Hart, holding court at Sardi’s on the historic night of his former collaborator Richard Rodgers’ (Andrew Scott) greatest triumph: the premiere of Oklahoma!
Info & Tickets
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Oct 10 @ 7:00 PM
With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist (Conan O'Brien).
Info & Tickets
Is This Thing On?
Nov 04 @ 8:00 PM
As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family—forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form.
Info & Tickets
It Was Just an Accident
Oct 11 @ 5:30 PM
Winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, the latest from Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi—his first following his most recent prison sentence—follows a group of citizens pondering revenge against a man they believe was their torturer.
Info & Tickets
Kontinental ’25
Nov 02 @ 12:00 PM
After a municipal worker in Transylvania oversees an eviction that goes wrong, she spirals into an existential crisis that forces her to confront her place in a frenzied world in award-winning filmmaker Radu Jude’s latest furious and hysterical moral parable.
Info & Tickets
La Grazia
Nov 02 @ 5:15 PM
Paolo Sorrentino (THE GREAT BEAUTY) returns to the baroque world of Italian presidential politics, crafting an elegantly restrained portrait of a fictional ruler (Toni Servillo) reckoning with age, power, and moral obligation as his term comes to a close.
Info & Tickets
Left-Handed Girl
Nov 02 @ 8:00 PM
When a single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, they encounter new challenges and generations of secrets that threaten to upend their family unity in the brilliant solo debut from Sean Baker’s longtime creative partner Shih-Ching Tsou.
Info & Tickets
Miroirs No. 3
Oct 12 @ 3:45 PM
Past and present collide in this sly psychodrama by German auteur Christian Petzold (PHOENIX, TRANSIT), as Laura (Paula Beer), a young woman from Berlin, survives a countryside car crash before she gradually enters the fold of a mysterious, pained family.
Info & Tickets
My Father’s Shadow
Oct 12 @ 1:45 PM
A stunning debut set in 1993 Lagos; a lyrical, emotionally resonant story of two brothers reconnecting with their distant father over a single, transformative day.
Info & Tickets
Next Life
Oct 12 @ 12:00 PM
A Tibetan family seeks moments of “temporary happiness” amid feelings of loss, as their father suffers from a mysterious illness. The father dies; his family prepares the deceased and themselves for the next life, set against an American backdrop.
Info & Tickets
No Other Choice
Nov 03 @ 8:30 PM
From director Park Chan-wook and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel THE AX, the story follows Man-su on his desperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company he served for 25 years.
Info & Tickets
Palestine 36
Oct 31 @ 6:00 PM
In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on Palestine, Yusuf is caught between his village home and his work in Jerusalem. Amidst an anti-colonial revolt, and Jewish refugees fleeing persecution from Europe, all sides converge in a decisive moment for the entire region. Jeremy Irons and Hiam Abbass round out a tremendously strong international cast.
Info & Tickets
Queens Of The Dead
Oct 09 @ 9:30 PM
A zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night of a giant warehouse party, where an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies must put aside their drama and use their unique skills to fight against the brain-thirsty, scrolling undead.
Info & Tickets
Rental Family
Nov 03 @ 6:00 PM
In modern-day Tokyo, an American actor (Brendan Fraser) struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese “rental family” agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients’ worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.
Info & Tickets
Resurrection
Nov 01 @ 12:00 PM
This phantasmagoric dream machine from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, KAILI BLUES) is an elusive yet monumental love letter to a century of cinema, unfolding over five chapters that feature a dazzling array of styles and genres.
Info & Tickets
Sentimental Value
Oct 11 @ 8:15 PM
Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve lead an incomparable cast in Joachim Trier’s moving drama about a director’s bid to revive his career and repair his family’s broken bonds.
Info & Tickets
Sirât
Nov 01 @ 8:45 PM
The glorious and forbidding Moroccan desert provides the backdrop for this extraordinary psychological journey from Oliver Laxe, a sensory experience of audacity and shock about a middle-aged father (Sergi López) searching for his missing daughter.
Info & Tickets
Sound Of Falling
Oct 11 @ 2:00 PM
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
Info & Tickets
The Love That Remains
Nov 01 @ 3:30 PM
A year in the life of a family as parents navigate their separation. Through playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet nature of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons. From the director of GODLAND.
Info & Tickets
The Mastermind
Oct 12 @ 6:00 PM
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney (Josh O’Connor) sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
Info & Tickets
The Plague
Oct 10 @ 9:30 PM
At an all-boys water polo camp, a socially anxious twelve-year-old is pulled into a cruel tradition targeting an outcast with an illness they call “The Plague.” But as the lines between game and reality blur, he fears the joke might be hiding something real.
Info & Tickets
The Secret Agent
Oct 30 @ 7:00 PM
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
Info & Tickets
Train Dreams
Nov 01 @ 6:15 PM
Set in the Pacific Northwest during the first decades of the 20th century, Clint Bentley’s beguiling adaptation of Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson’s novella stars Joel Edgerton as a humble labourer immersed in a rapidly changing world of natural splendour and voracious industry. From the creative team behind SING SING (IFFBoston 2024).
Info & Tickets
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Oct 31 @ 8:30 PM
Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) faces his most dangerous mystery yet in the latest entry in Rian Johnson’s beloved KNIVES OUT series.
Info & Tickets
Upcoming Events
After the Hunt
Oct 09 @ 6:30 PM
In his razor-sharp new drama, Luca Guadagnino gives Julia Roberts one of the most complex and gratifying starring roles of her career as a philosophy professor whose life is thrown into chaos after her protégée (Ayo Edebiri) accuses her longtime colleague and friend (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault.
Info & TicketsQueens Of The Dead
Oct 09 @ 9:30 PM
A zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night of a giant warehouse party, where an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies must put aside their drama and use their unique skills to fight against the brain-thirsty, scrolling undead.
Info & TicketsIf I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Oct 10 @ 7:00 PM
With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist (Conan O'Brien).
Info & TicketsThe Plague
Oct 10 @ 9:30 PM
At an all-boys water polo camp, a socially anxious twelve-year-old is pulled into a cruel tradition targeting an outcast with an illness they call “The Plague.” But as the lines between game and reality blur, he fears the joke might be hiding something real.
Info & TicketsArco
Oct 11 @ 12:00 PM
Time travel gets a magical spin in Ugo Bienvenu’s animated adventure—produced by Natalie Portman—a charming paean to friendship between two children from different eras and a warning about our failure to preserve our environment.
Info & TicketsSound Of Falling
Oct 11 @ 2:00 PM
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
Info & TicketsIt Was Just an Accident
Oct 11 @ 5:30 PM
Winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, the latest from Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi—his first following his most recent prison sentence—follows a group of citizens pondering revenge against a man they believe was their torturer.
Info & TicketsSentimental Value
Oct 11 @ 8:15 PM
Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve lead an incomparable cast in Joachim Trier’s moving drama about a director’s bid to revive his career and repair his family’s broken bonds.
Info & TicketsNext Life
Oct 12 @ 12:00 PM
A Tibetan family seeks moments of “temporary happiness” amid feelings of loss, as their father suffers from a mysterious illness. The father dies; his family prepares the deceased and themselves for the next life, set against an American backdrop.
Info & TicketsMy Father’s Shadow
Oct 12 @ 1:45 PM
A stunning debut set in 1993 Lagos; a lyrical, emotionally resonant story of two brothers reconnecting with their distant father over a single, transformative day.
Info & TicketsMiroirs No. 3
Oct 12 @ 3:45 PM
Past and present collide in this sly psychodrama by German auteur Christian Petzold (PHOENIX, TRANSIT), as Laura (Paula Beer), a young woman from Berlin, survives a countryside car crash before she gradually enters the fold of a mysterious, pained family.
Info & TicketsThe Mastermind
Oct 12 @ 6:00 PM
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney (Josh O’Connor) sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
Info & TicketsBlue Moon
Oct 12 @ 8:30 PM
Ethan Hawke delivers a charming, lived-in performance as lyricist Lorenz Hart, holding court at Sardi’s on the historic night of his former collaborator Richard Rodgers’ (Andrew Scott) greatest triumph: the premiere of Oklahoma!
Info & TicketsThe Secret Agent
Oct 30 @ 7:00 PM
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
Info & TicketsPalestine 36
Oct 31 @ 6:00 PM
In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on Palestine, Yusuf is caught between his village home and his work in Jerusalem. Amidst an anti-colonial revolt, and Jewish refugees fleeing persecution from Europe, all sides converge in a decisive moment for the entire region. Jeremy Irons and Hiam Abbass round out a tremendously strong international cast.
Info & TicketsWake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Oct 31 @ 8:30 PM
Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) faces his most dangerous mystery yet in the latest entry in Rian Johnson’s beloved KNIVES OUT series.
Info & TicketsResurrection
Nov 01 @ 12:00 PM
This phantasmagoric dream machine from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, KAILI BLUES) is an elusive yet monumental love letter to a century of cinema, unfolding over five chapters that feature a dazzling array of styles and genres.
Info & TicketsThe Love That Remains
Nov 01 @ 3:30 PM
A year in the life of a family as parents navigate their separation. Through playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet nature of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons. From the director of GODLAND.
Info & TicketsTrain Dreams
Nov 01 @ 6:15 PM
Set in the Pacific Northwest during the first decades of the 20th century, Clint Bentley’s beguiling adaptation of Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson’s novella stars Joel Edgerton as a humble labourer immersed in a rapidly changing world of natural splendour and voracious industry. From the creative team behind SING SING (IFFBoston 2024).
Info & TicketsSirât
Nov 01 @ 8:45 PM
The glorious and forbidding Moroccan desert provides the backdrop for this extraordinary psychological journey from Oliver Laxe, a sensory experience of audacity and shock about a middle-aged father (Sergi López) searching for his missing daughter.
Info & TicketsKontinental ’25
Nov 02 @ 12:00 PM
After a municipal worker in Transylvania oversees an eviction that goes wrong, she spirals into an existential crisis that forces her to confront her place in a frenzied world in award-winning filmmaker Radu Jude’s latest furious and hysterical moral parable.
Info & TicketsA Poet
Nov 02 @ 2:30 PM
An aging, obscure writer mentors a talented teen, hoping to give her what he never had. But their bond—rooted in good intentions—spirals into a web of poor decisions and the weight of unmet ambitions, leading to a hilarious series of misadventures.
Info & TicketsLa Grazia
Nov 02 @ 5:15 PM
Paolo Sorrentino (THE GREAT BEAUTY) returns to the baroque world of Italian presidential politics, crafting an elegantly restrained portrait of a fictional ruler (Toni Servillo) reckoning with age, power, and moral obligation as his term comes to a close.
Info & TicketsLeft-Handed Girl
Nov 02 @ 8:00 PM
When a single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, they encounter new challenges and generations of secrets that threaten to upend their family unity in the brilliant solo debut from Sean Baker’s longtime creative partner Shih-Ching Tsou.
Info & TicketsRental Family
Nov 03 @ 6:00 PM
In modern-day Tokyo, an American actor (Brendan Fraser) struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese “rental family” agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients’ worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.
Info & TicketsNo Other Choice
Nov 03 @ 8:30 PM
From director Park Chan-wook and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel THE AX, the story follows Man-su on his desperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company he served for 25 years.
Info & TicketsIs This Thing On?
Nov 04 @ 8:00 PM
As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family—forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form.
Info & Tickets
Oct 09 Events
After the Hunt
Oct 09 @ 6:30 PM
In his razor-sharp new drama, Luca Guadagnino gives Julia Roberts one of the most complex and gratifying starring roles of her career as a philosophy professor whose life is thrown into chaos after her protégée (Ayo Edebiri) accuses her longtime colleague and friend (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault.
Info & TicketsQueens Of The Dead
Oct 09 @ 9:30 PM
A zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night of a giant warehouse party, where an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies must put aside their drama and use their unique skills to fight against the brain-thirsty, scrolling undead.
Info & Tickets
Oct 10 Events
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Oct 10 @ 7:00 PM
With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist (Conan O'Brien).
Info & TicketsThe Plague
Oct 10 @ 9:30 PM
At an all-boys water polo camp, a socially anxious twelve-year-old is pulled into a cruel tradition targeting an outcast with an illness they call “The Plague.” But as the lines between game and reality blur, he fears the joke might be hiding something real.
Info & Tickets
Oct 11 Events
Arco
Oct 11 @ 12:00 PM
Time travel gets a magical spin in Ugo Bienvenu’s animated adventure—produced by Natalie Portman—a charming paean to friendship between two children from different eras and a warning about our failure to preserve our environment.
Info & TicketsSound Of Falling
Oct 11 @ 2:00 PM
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
Info & TicketsIt Was Just an Accident
Oct 11 @ 5:30 PM
Winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, the latest from Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi—his first following his most recent prison sentence—follows a group of citizens pondering revenge against a man they believe was their torturer.
Info & TicketsSentimental Value
Oct 11 @ 8:15 PM
Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve lead an incomparable cast in Joachim Trier’s moving drama about a director’s bid to revive his career and repair his family’s broken bonds.
Info & Tickets
Oct 12 Events
Next Life
Oct 12 @ 12:00 PM
A Tibetan family seeks moments of “temporary happiness” amid feelings of loss, as their father suffers from a mysterious illness. The father dies; his family prepares the deceased and themselves for the next life, set against an American backdrop.
Info & TicketsMy Father’s Shadow
Oct 12 @ 1:45 PM
A stunning debut set in 1993 Lagos; a lyrical, emotionally resonant story of two brothers reconnecting with their distant father over a single, transformative day.
Info & TicketsMiroirs No. 3
Oct 12 @ 3:45 PM
Past and present collide in this sly psychodrama by German auteur Christian Petzold (PHOENIX, TRANSIT), as Laura (Paula Beer), a young woman from Berlin, survives a countryside car crash before she gradually enters the fold of a mysterious, pained family.
Info & TicketsThe Mastermind
Oct 12 @ 6:00 PM
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney (Josh O’Connor) sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
Info & TicketsBlue Moon
Oct 12 @ 8:30 PM
Ethan Hawke delivers a charming, lived-in performance as lyricist Lorenz Hart, holding court at Sardi’s on the historic night of his former collaborator Richard Rodgers’ (Andrew Scott) greatest triumph: the premiere of Oklahoma!
Info & Tickets
Oct 30 Events
The Secret Agent
Oct 30 @ 7:00 PM
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
Info & Tickets
Oct 31 Events
Palestine 36
Oct 31 @ 6:00 PM
In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on Palestine, Yusuf is caught between his village home and his work in Jerusalem. Amidst an anti-colonial revolt, and Jewish refugees fleeing persecution from Europe, all sides converge in a decisive moment for the entire region. Jeremy Irons and Hiam Abbass round out a tremendously strong international cast.
Info & TicketsWake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Oct 31 @ 8:30 PM
Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) faces his most dangerous mystery yet in the latest entry in Rian Johnson’s beloved KNIVES OUT series.
Info & Tickets
Nov 01 Events
Resurrection
Nov 01 @ 12:00 PM
This phantasmagoric dream machine from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, KAILI BLUES) is an elusive yet monumental love letter to a century of cinema, unfolding over five chapters that feature a dazzling array of styles and genres.
Info & TicketsThe Love That Remains
Nov 01 @ 3:30 PM
A year in the life of a family as parents navigate their separation. Through playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet nature of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons. From the director of GODLAND.
Info & TicketsTrain Dreams
Nov 01 @ 6:15 PM
Set in the Pacific Northwest during the first decades of the 20th century, Clint Bentley’s beguiling adaptation of Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson’s novella stars Joel Edgerton as a humble labourer immersed in a rapidly changing world of natural splendour and voracious industry. From the creative team behind SING SING (IFFBoston 2024).
Info & TicketsSirât
Nov 01 @ 8:45 PM
The glorious and forbidding Moroccan desert provides the backdrop for this extraordinary psychological journey from Oliver Laxe, a sensory experience of audacity and shock about a middle-aged father (Sergi López) searching for his missing daughter.
Info & Tickets
Nov 02 Events
Kontinental ’25
Nov 02 @ 12:00 PM
After a municipal worker in Transylvania oversees an eviction that goes wrong, she spirals into an existential crisis that forces her to confront her place in a frenzied world in award-winning filmmaker Radu Jude’s latest furious and hysterical moral parable.
Info & TicketsA Poet
Nov 02 @ 2:30 PM
An aging, obscure writer mentors a talented teen, hoping to give her what he never had. But their bond—rooted in good intentions—spirals into a web of poor decisions and the weight of unmet ambitions, leading to a hilarious series of misadventures.
Info & TicketsLa Grazia
Nov 02 @ 5:15 PM
Paolo Sorrentino (THE GREAT BEAUTY) returns to the baroque world of Italian presidential politics, crafting an elegantly restrained portrait of a fictional ruler (Toni Servillo) reckoning with age, power, and moral obligation as his term comes to a close.
Info & TicketsLeft-Handed Girl
Nov 02 @ 8:00 PM
When a single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, they encounter new challenges and generations of secrets that threaten to upend their family unity in the brilliant solo debut from Sean Baker’s longtime creative partner Shih-Ching Tsou.
Info & Tickets
Nov 03 Events
Rental Family
Nov 03 @ 6:00 PM
In modern-day Tokyo, an American actor (Brendan Fraser) struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese “rental family” agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients’ worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.
Info & TicketsNo Other Choice
Nov 03 @ 8:30 PM
From director Park Chan-wook and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel THE AX, the story follows Man-su on his desperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company he served for 25 years.
Info & Tickets
Nov 04 Events
Is This Thing On?
Nov 04 @ 8:00 PM
As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family—forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form.
Info & Tickets
