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Preview Part 2: Weekend highlights at the 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 few days, we'll be posting about some of our most-anticipated movies at the festival this year. Earlier in the week we covered the first three days of IFFB, and now today, we’re covering the festival’s weekend programming, which features films about blind magicians, bad nuns, behind-the scenes looks at Italian spectaculars and portrait photography, and a breakthrough role for Jessica Williams.

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The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

Errol Morris, one of our nation’s greatest documentary filmmakers and Cambridge resident, comes to IFFB with a fascinating new film about a master craftsman and her beautiful work. Elsa Dorfman is a Cambridge-based artist who is one of the few people in the world to use a large-size Polaroid camera to do her portrait photography, and she’s captured luminaries of the 20th century like Allen Ginsberg, Jonathan Richman and Bob Dylan over the course of her 50-year career. Morris, perhaps known too well for his serious work, captures the beauty of her format and her skill, and is given unprecedented access to her archives in a free-flowing documentary full of insight and respect for its subject. Write this one down in your calendar, everyone- you won’t want to miss this.

The B-Side screens at the Brattle Theatre on April 29 at 7 p.m. Advance tickets are available here.

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