After two full years away from in-person events, the Independent Film Festival Boston (also best known around these parts as IFFBoston) is finally back with a brand-new and live edition of the festival. Even better, they’ve got an absolutely fan-fucking-tastic line-up full of local premieres, world premieres, and festival hits from around the country. Want to see the new Peter Strickland or Claire Denis before all of your cool Gauloises-smoking pals? How about witnessing the metal-as-hell Dio: Dreamers Never Die or Piggy? Or maybe you really like Ron Howard’s doc career (no judgment here!). Well, there’ll be something for everyone, playing at either the Brattle, the Coolidge, the Somerville, or WBUR’s CitySpace at the end of the month.
Here’s the full line-up, complete with links to some of our reviews of choice cuts that we’ve seen at other festivals:
Narrative Features
Both Sides Of The Blade, directed by Claire Denis
Cha Cha Real Smooth, directed by Cooper Raiff
Dos Estaciones, directed by Juan Pablo González
Emily The Criminal, directed by John Patton Ford
Every Day In Kaimuki, directed by Aliki Tengan
Flux Gourmet, directed by Peter Strickland
Girl Picture, directed by Alli Haapasalo
God’s Country, directed by Julien Higgins
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, directed by Sophie Hyde
How To Rob, directed by Peter Horgan
I Love My Dad, directed by James Morosini
A Love Song, directed by Max Walker-Silverman
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp
Montana Story, directed by Scott McGehee & David Siegel
One Second, directed by Yimou Zhang
Piggy, directed by Carlotta Pereda
Resurrection, directed by Andrew Semans
Documentary Features
Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life In The Blues, directed by Bestor Cram
A Decent Home, directed by Sara Terry
Descendant, directed by Margaret Brown
Dio: Dreamers Never Die, directed by Don Argott & Demian Fenton
Fire Of Love, directed by Sara Dosa
Girl Talk, directed by Lucia Small
Hold Your Fire, directed by Stefan Forbes
The House We Lived In, directed by Tim O’Donnell
My Old School, directed by Jono McLeod
The Pez Outlaw, directed by Amy Bandlien Storkel & Bryan Storkel
Riotsville, U.S.A., directed by Sierra Pettengill
The Territory, directed by Alex Pritz
We Feed People, directed by Ron Howard
Narrative Shorts
Candlepin, directed by Gautam Chopra
Cashback, directed by Zoe Eisenberg
Eddie, directed by Daniel Blake Schwartz
An Encounter, directed by Kelly Campbell
The F-Word, directed by Alex Cannon and Paul Cannon
Five Minutes, directed by Christine Khalafian
Lift, directed by Charles Burmeister
Plum Town, directed by Kelly Yu
Pressed, directed by Stacie Hawkins
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know, directed by Neal Suresh Mulani
Vacuum, directed by Ace Norton
Documentary Shorts
The Act of Coming Out, directed by Alexandra Stergiou
Aguilas/Eagles, directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Diiyeghan Naii Taii Tr’eedaa (We Will Walk The Trail Of Our Ancestors), directed by Princess Daazhraii Johnson
Dress A Cow, directed by Dawn Luebbe
The Intersection, directed by Daniel Quintanilla & Jessamine Irwin
It’s Coming It’s Real, directed by Alexia Oldini & Steven Gray
Last Days of August, directed by Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck
Lydia Emily’s Last Mural, directed by Christoph Johannes Superstar Green
Ma’s House, directed by Jeremy Dennis
Meantime, directed by Michael T Workman
Never Again Para Nadie, directed by Anna Feder, Dan Frank, Justin Reifert
Pili Ka Mo’o, directed by Justyn Ah Chong
Pony Boys, directed by Eric Stange
Shattering Stars, directed by Peter Galison
Shut Up and Paint, directed by Titus Kaphar & Alex Mallis
Silt, directed by Emilie Upczak
Weckuwapasihtit (Those Yet To Come), directed by Geo Neptune & Brianna Smith
Weckuwapok (The Approaching Dawn), directed by Jacob Bearchum, Taylor Hensel, Adam Mazo, Chris Newell, Roger Paul, Kavita Pillay, Tracy Rector
Unity Mosque, directed by Nicole Teeny
ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught), directed by Brit Hensel
IFFBoston 2022 will start up on April 27 with Emily the Criminal and wrap a week later on May 4, with Marcel the Shell. Tickets will go on sale to the general public around April 14, so keep your eyes peeled for an announcement on their official website.