IFFBoston 2025: April 23 — 30
Join us this Spring at the Somerville, Brattle, and Coolidge for our 22nd annual festival.
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Important Dates:
Today: Memberships, including Badge-levels, on sale now. (Become a member today).
April 8*: Tickets on sale for IFFBoston members.
April 9*: Tickets on sale for the general public.
April 23: Opening Night at the Somerville Theatre.
*Note: These are our target dates. Please be cool if they slip a bit. Thanks.
VOLUNTEER FOR THE FESTIVAL:
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Opening Night Film:
COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT
April 23 at the Somerville
Directed by Ryan White
Director Ryan White is expected to be in attendance.
Closing Night Film:
SORRY, BABY
April 30 at the Coolidge
Directed by Eva Victor
Writer/Director Eva Victor is expected to be in attendance
Centerpiece Spotlight:
PAVEMENTS
April 26 at the Brattle
Directed by Alex Ross Perry
Festival Highlights:
- Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, and Kate Mara star in FRIENDSHIP, about a suburban dad who falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor.
- CRACKING THE CODE: PHIL SHARP AND THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION chronicles farm boy turned Nobel laureate Phil Sharp’s discovery of RNA splicing that revolutionized biology and put Boston on the map as a leader in a life-saving industry.
- Nyle DiMarco & Davis Guggenheim’s DEAF PRESIDENT NOW! recounts the eight days of historic protests held at Gallaudet University in 1988 after the school’s board of trustees appointed a hearing president over several very qualified Deaf candidates.
- Sareen Hairabedian’s debut feature-length documentary MY SWEET LAND, a coming-of-age story set against a multigenerational war in the post-Soviet Caucasus Mountains, will screen in honor of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
- NIGHT FIGHT, from MA-based filmmaker Khary Saeed Jones, is a haunting, visceral exploration of race, survival, and memory.
- A grief-stricken arborist and her son awaken a malevolent spirit when they begin felling trees at the estate of a mysterious recluse in THE ARBORIST, Cambridge filmmaker Andrew Mudge’s sophomore feature film.
- Jeff Ryan returns to IFFBoston with MOOCH, a millennial man-boy detective story.
- FREE LEONARD PELTIER, Jesse Short Bull & David France’s comprehensive documentary on the struggle of Native activists to win Peltier’s freedom.
- GBH Frontline’s 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA, the latest documentary from Oscar-winner Mstyslav Chernov (20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, IFFBoston 2023).
- IFFBoston will be screening 11 short film programs this season, including a program of indigenous documentary shorts entitled DREAMS SPUN FROM THE SAME WEB.
- IFFBoston is honored to be participating in the regional celebration of legendary local documentarian Frederick Wiseman by screening his 1993 film ZOO as part of the festival.
- IFFBoston will team up with the Mass Production Coalition to present the Eighth Annual Student Short Film Showcase, where short films selected by and representing thirteen local colleges and universities will be screened. This program is free and open to the public.
Narrative Features
40 ACRES directed by R.T. Thorne
APRIL directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili
THE ARBORIST directed by Andrew Mudge
DESCENDENT directed by Peter Cilella
DICIANNOVE directed by Giovanni Tortorici
FRIENDSHIP directed by Andrew DeYoung
HAPPYEND directed by Neo Sora
HOT MILK directed by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
THE KINGDOM directed by Julien Colonna
LINDA directed by Mariana Wainstein
MOLOKAʻI BOUND directed by Alika Tengan
MOOCH directed by Jeff Ryan
OBEX directed by Albert Birney
PEACOCK directed by Bernhard Wenger
SORRY, BABY directed by Eva Victor
Documentary Features
2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA directed by Mstyslav Chernov
AMONG NEIGHBORS directed by Yoav Potash
¡AOQUIC IEZ IN MEXICO! / MEXICO WILL NO LONGER EXIST! directed by Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco
BABY DOE directed by Jessica Earnshaw
COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT directed by Ryan White
COSMIC CODA directed by MJ Doherty
CRACKING THE CODE: PHIL SHARP AND THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION directed by Bill Haney
DEAF PRESIDENT NOW! directed by Nyle DiMarco & Davis Guggenheim
THE DELLS directed by Nellie Kluz
FREE LEONARD PELTIER directed by David France & Jesse Short Bull
THE HOLE STORY… AND NOTHING BUTT directed by Tom Stern
MICHEL GONDRY: DO IT YOURSELF! directed by François Nemeta
MISTRESS DISPELLER directed by Elizabeth Lo
MY SWEET LAND directed by Sareen Hairabedian
NIGHT FIGHT directed by Khary Saeed Jones
PAVEMENTS directed by Alex Ross Perry
PREDATORS directed by David Osit
REBEL WITH A CLAUSE directed by Brandt Johnson
STOLEN KINGDOM directed by Joshua Bailey
WTO/99 directed by Ian Bell
ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT directed by Charlie Shackleton
ZOO directed by Frederick Wiseman
Narrative Shorts
3, 2 ,1, 0 directed by Mingun Kim
AMBUSH AT ST. MARY’S directed by Anthony Parisi
AWIT NATIN (OUR SONG) directed by Pacqui Pascual
THE BABY PROJECT directed by Proof Schubert Reed
A BIG HUG directed by Yael Grunseit
BRAISED (THIT KHO) directed by Huong Vu
BUYBACK directed by Jared Goodman
CHOOCH directed by Peter Horgan
COLD TRAIL directed by Werner Traut
THE DOER directed by Richard Williams
ECHOES OF POMEGRANATE directed by Alex Bijan Zandi
FORTUNE directed by Matthew Perkins
FRANCIS BACON directed by Darcy Cagen
GOOD BOY BANJO directed by Jackie! Zhou
HEIRESS directed by Mandy Chen
HUMAN AFFAIRS directed by Eric Schuman
HUSTLE MODE directed by Jeffrey Liu
IF THE CREEK DON’T RISE directed by Andrew Stevens
KATEH GOJEH FARANGI directed by Armon Mahdavi
LOSER directed by Colleen McGuinness
THE LOT directed by Raffaele Vesco
MR. ANKLES directed by Mike Canale
OFF TO BATTLE directed by Charlie Fonville
PICKUP, THE directed by Karen Wang
RAT! directed by Neal Suresh Mulani
THE ROUTINE directed by Peter Gerard & Kingston Trinder
SICK DAY directed by Hughes Ransom
SOMETHING BLUE directed by Jinsui Song
SUMMER’S END directed by Grant Conversano & Adam Conversano
TEDDY directed by Nini Bull Robsahm
WE ARE ALWAYS HIDING directed by Marcus Soltzberg
WHISPER IN MY EAR directed by Douglas Williams
Documentary Shorts
1001CUTS directed by Sarah Temkin
THE ART OF GROWING UP directed by Margaret Lampert
BORN OF THE ICE directed by Stephanie Jo Alton
A CITY THAT CARES directed by Aaron Hosé
CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG directed by Hao Zhou
THE HUMAN COMPONENT directed by Megan May Wilson & Daisy Squiers
LOLA directed by Carlo Ang
LONDON, KY directed by Cody Duncum
MY BACK PAGES directed by Nick Canfield & Paul Lovelace
MYSTERY SEEDS directed by Nathan Truesdell
NGARRIDURNDENG KURED directed by Emma Masters & Dean Munuggullumurr Yibarbuk
NIITSITAPI directed by Bryan Gunnar Cole
OF THE HEART directed by Alex Salsberg
ON THE WATERFRONT directed by Wojtek Jakubiec
PB&P directed by Eleanor Galloway
THE REALITY OF HOPE directed by Joe Hunting
THE RETURN directed by Jeremy S. Levine
SIGNS FROM THE MAINLAND directed by Michael Cestaro
SIMPLE MACHINE directed by Sara Hendren
TE PITO O TE HENUA directed by Martin Kingman & Nils Cowan
THIS LAND directed by Mike Bradley
TOWN SQUARE directed by Josh Izenberg
WHIT’S END directed by Andrew Quinn
WILD GIRL OF BRUSHVALLEY TOWNSHIP directed by Heather Cassano