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Preview: Opening highlights at this week’s 2017 Independent Film Festival Boston

Between the schizophrenic weather and the weird playoff showings of the Bruins and Celtics, it’s been hard to be excited about much this April outside of Free Fire and Fate of the Furious hitting theaters.

But fear not, Bostonians: The 15th annual Independent Film Festival Boston is back to give you a week’s worth of stimulating and interesting new movies for you to see and talk about, and a bevy of panels and parties to attend, as well. It runs from April 26 through May 3 at several locations around the city (though mainly the screenings are at the Somerville Theatre and Brattle Theatre). Over the next three days, we’ll be posting about some of our most-anticipated movies at the festival this year, and today we’re covering the first three days of the festival, which include films about Jersey rappers, arm transplants, architecture, and aging western stars. Join us tomorrow for a preview of the best of the weekend’s films.

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Rat Film

No, this isn’t another Whitey Bulger documentary. Rat Film is a movie about the little fuzzy guys who lived in your first Allston apartment’s walls, and how they can bring people together and divide them. Director Theo Anthony uses rats as a way to talk about the class divisions and the local history of a place like Baltimore (trust us, it’s about rats as much as Manda Bala was about frogs), and it sounds like one fascinating new perspective on a city covered so well in media before.

Rat Film screens at the Brattle Theatre on Thursday, April 27, at 9:30 p.m. Advance tickets are available here.

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