ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

Moving from urban bustle to seaside idyll, this exquisitely beautiful and heartfelt fiction feature debut from Payal Kapadia follows two nurses experiencing personal turning points tinged with the possibility of romance.

BIRD

Andrea Arnold (FISH TANK) returns with a story about a distracted father (Barry Keoghan) and his lonely and imaginative 12-year-old daughter, Bailey (Nykiya Adams), who must seek attention (and adventure) elsewhere.

THE BRUTALIST

Screening on 70mm film at the Somerville Theatre.

Brady Corbet delivers another bold vision with this American epic starring Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, and Joe Alwyn, about a Hungarian architect who flees from Europe after the war, giving up more and more of himself in the hopes of rebuilding his life and career.

EEPHUS

Director Carson Lund is scheduled to attend.

As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England Sunday league teams face off for the last time over the course of a day. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades in to an uncertain future.

FLOW

A motley but irresistible crew of animals band together for an unforgettable adventure in the watery world created by animator and filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis.

GAUCHO GAUCHO

A celebration of a community of Argentine cowboys and cowgirls, known as Gauchos, living beyond the boundaries of the modern world.

HARD TRUTHS

In his 23rd film, British director Mike Leigh reunites with Marianne Jean-Baptiste (SECRETS & LIES) to create a challenging but ultimately compassionate look at modern family life.

IT’S NOT ME

A self-portrait of director Leos Carax (HOLY MOTORS) and his oeuvre, revisiting in free-form more than 40 years of the author’s filmography.

NICKEL BOYS

A bright, striving Black teenager navigating the terrors of Jim Crow South makes a split-decision that recasts the course of his life. On the cusp of college, he’s instead sentenced to time at a notorious reformatory. There he encounters a kindred spirit, forming an alliance, but one with incalculable consequences. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead.

NIGHTBITCH

A woman (Amy Adams) pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her new domesticity takes a surreal turn. Directed and written by Marielle Heller (CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL), based on the acclaimed debut novel by Rachel Yoder.

ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s (I AM NOT A WITCH) surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.

A REAL PAIN

Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

IFFBoston Fall Focus 2025: Oct. 9 – 12 + Oct. 30 – Nov. 2 at the Brattle

IFFBoston Fall Focus 2025:
Oct. 9 – 12 + Oct. 30 – Nov. 2 at the Brattle