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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 Incredible Jessica James

Destined to be drunkenly mispronounced as “The Incredible Jessica Jones” at least once by everyone who goes to the festival, this comedy has some excellent buzz surrounding it and the performance of its star, Jessica Williams (The Daily Show, Two Dope Queens). Williams stars at the titular James, a talented-yet-undiscovered playwright who’s nursing a case of the breakup blues. She’s forced by a friend into meeting Boone (Chris O’Dowd), a recent divorcee, and the two of them start to fall for each other. Will the couple survive in a culture that’s moved on from the relationship? Williams has received stunning accolades for her work in the film, and you really won’t want to miss her performance in this one, even if you can’t say the damn name right.

The Incredible Jessica James screens at the Somerville Theatre on April 29 at 8 p.m. Advance tickets are available here.

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