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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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Dean

Dean, the first feature from alt-comedy legend Demetri Martin, just won the prize for Best Narrative Feature at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, and we can’t wait to see it. Martin plays the titular character, who recently lost his mother and doesn’t know how to cope. He journeys to Los Angeles in order to interview with an ad agency, while his dad (Kevin Kline) stays behind in New York and sells the family home. The two of them embark on their own journey through the stages of grief, each full of surprises and Martin’s trademark humor. This and The Little Hours screening so close to each other presents the most difficult choice for any festival-goer this year, and it’s an incredibly difficult one.

Dean screens at the Somerville Theatre on Sunday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets are available here.

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