IFFBoston 2025

April 26 @ 1pm Somerville Theatre - Screen 1

Free Admission

Description

Package Shorts

Client Zero (Middlesex Community College) image

Client Zero (Middlesex Community College)

A trauma therapist, struggling with the weight of her own unresolved trauma, takes on an unconventional client, hoping their connection will unlock her path to healing.

A Globster (Emerson College) image

A Globster (Emerson College)

An outcast woman falls for a man washed up on the beach who is secretly a carnivorous sea slug.

Keytar Bear (Suffolk University) image

Keytar Bear (Suffolk University)

A street busker dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the evils that plague his home. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld—Keytar Bear.

Scalae Sensus (Fitchburg State University) image

Scalae Sensus (Fitchburg State University)

Only in sonder do we find we aren't alone.

Skate or Die (Endicott College) image

Skate or Die (Endicott College)

After an up-and-coming skateboarder experiences a traumatic physical injury, he struggles to find his place in the world as a paraplegic.

Sleep Walkers (Lesley University) image

Sleep Walkers (Lesley University)

A woman navigates a world where nobody sleeps.

Smile, Beautiful (Curry College) image

Smile, Beautiful (Curry College)

When an ominous stranger outside her window gets closer with every blink, a young woman must take matters into her own hands after the threat and her distress are dismissed by her boyfriend as a symptom of exhaustion.

Supernova (Bridgewater State University) image

Supernova (Bridgewater State University)

Stella meditates on her college experience before graduating.

Tierra (University of Massachusetts Boston) image

Tierra (University of Massachusetts Boston)

In a ritual of remembrance, Tierra unearths the paradox of Caribbean identity, where history stains the soil.

Until Then (Wheaton College) image

Until Then (Wheaton College)

A story about relationships and time.

Untitled (Mass College of Art) image

Untitled (Mass College of Art)

With society on the brink of collapse, a determined couple expecting their first child must brave moral dilemmas and treacherous landscapes as they forge a path to safety.

Wilbur, The King (Tufts University) image

Wilbur, The King (Tufts University)

A washed-up Elvis Presley impersonator loses his job at a kitschy amusement park, so he must find work as a middle school music teacher. In the process, he rediscovers his passion for music and confidence in his own identity outside of Elvis.

pópo (Boston University) image

pópo (Boston University)

Set in Boston, the film follows a family of Hong Kong immigrants during the final stage of a loved one’s life, offering an intimate, unembellished portrait of their time together within the context of hospice care.