Independent Film Festival Boston
Wed, Apr 23 – Wed, Apr 30
Brattle Screenings Apr 24–29
We are so excited to welcome back our frequent partners, the Independent Film Festival Boston, for their 22nd edition! Packed with great films, guests, and parties, IFFBoston is one of our favorite cinematic events of the year. Last year’s festival screenings at The Brattle included the premieres of I Saw the TV Glow, Good One, Didí, and Janet Planet among many others. Don’t miss out on this year’s lineup!
Visit IFFBoston.org for the full schedule and to buy tickets. Brattle Passes not accepted.
An Unfinished Film
- Thu, Apr 24
Director: Lou Ye Run Time: 106 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Chinese with English subtitles
Starring: Huang Xuan, Liang Ming, Mao Xiaorui, Qi Xi, Qin Hao
Relevant and moving, deeply personal yet universally resonant, AN UNFINISHED FILM by Lou Ye (SUZHOU RIVER) revisits footage...
Descendent
- Thu, Apr 24
Director: Peter Cilella Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Charlene Amoia, Dan O'Brien, Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger, Susan Wilder
Set in present-day Los Angeles, DESCENDENT follows Sean Bruner, a school security guard who is haunted by childhood...
Aoquic iez in Mexico! Mexico Will No Longer Exist!
- Fri, Apr 25
Director: Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco Run Time: 80 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Spanish, Nahuatl with English subtitles
A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of “mestizaje”...
Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself
- Fri, Apr 25
Director: François Nemeta Run Time: 80 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2023 Language: French with English subtitles
Starring: Étienne Charry, François Gondry, Michel Gondry, Olivier Gondry, Tom Rowlands
If Georges Méliès had a modern-day heir, it would be Michel Gondry. A brilliant, eccentric jack-of-all-trades, Gondry’s unique...
OBEX
- Fri, Apr 25
Director: Albert Birney Run Time: 91 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, Frank Mosley, Paisley Isaacs, Tyler Davis
It's just a game...
Dreams Spun From The Same Web: Indigenous Doc Shorts
- Sat, Apr 26
Run Time: 98 min.
Shorts Program
Free Leonard Peltier
- Sat, Apr 26
Director: David France, Jesse Short Bull Run Time: 120 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Leonard Peltier, one of the surviving leaders of the American Indian Movement, has been in prison for 50...
The Kingdom
- Sat, Apr 26
Director: Julien Colonna Run Time: 108 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: French with English subtitles
Starring: Andrea Cossu, Anthony Morganti, Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Saveriu Santucci, Thomas Bronzini de Caraffa
Set in 1995 Corsica, 15-year-old Lesia’s (Ghjuvanna Benedetti) coming-of-age summer is interrupted when she must abruptly depart to...
Pavements
- Sat, Apr 26
Director: Alex Ross Perry Run Time: 128 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Kathryn Gallagher, Mark Ibold, Michael Esper, Scott Kannberg, Stephen Malkmus
"You've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life"
Caught by the Tides
- Sun, Apr 27
Director: Jia Zhangke Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring: Pan Jianlin, Zhao Tao, Zhou Lan, Zhou You, Zhubin Li
The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest approach...
Happyend
- Sun, Apr 27
Director: Neo Sora Run Time: 113 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Arazi, Hayato Kurihara, Shina Peng, Yukito Hidaka, Yuta Hayashi
Something big is about to change.
Peacock
- Sun, Apr 27
Director: Bernhard Wenger Run Time: 102 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: German, English with English subtitles
Starring: Albrecht Schuch, Anton Noori, Julia Franz Richter, Salka Weber, Theresa Frostad Eggesbø
Am I Real?
Zodiac Killer Project
- Sun, Apr 27
Director: Charlie Shackleton Run Time: 92 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Against the backdrop of sunbaked parking lots, deserted courthouses, and empty suburban homes—the familiar spaces of true crime,...
Rebel With a Clause
- Mon, Apr 28
Director: Brandt Johnson Run Time: 86 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
We have so much in comma.
Night Fight
- Mon, Apr 28
Director: Khary Saeed Jones Run Time: 78 min. Format: DCP
It’s been seven years since director Khary Saeed Jones was followed by a vigilante down back roads in...
Deaf President Now!
- Tue, Apr 29
Director: Davis Guggenheim, Nyle DiMarco Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: ASL with English subtitles
Starring: Bridgetta Bourne-Firl, Greg Hlibok, I. King Jordan, Jerry Covell, Tim Rarus
Open Caption Screening
Friendship
- Tue, Apr 29
Director: Andrew DeYoung Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Jack Dylan Grazer, Kate Mara, Paul Rudd, Rick Worthy, Tim Robinson
Men shouldn't have friends.