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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 8d

The wait is over! Tickets for this year's #FallFocus are now available for everyone!

Head to iffboston.org to grab your tickets.

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 8h

Our 11th annual Fall Focus at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social begins now!

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Vanyaland @vanyaland.bsky.social · 14h

Film Preview: Independent Film Festival Boston's Fall Focus returns for another installment at the Brattle Theatre, but it's a bit different than usual -- now it's two weekends long.

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IFFBoston Fall Focus 2025: Five movies to see for week one

IFFBoston's Fall Focus returns for another installment at The Brattle, but it's a bit different than usual: Now it's two weekends long.

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 15h

The air is crisp, the leaves are changing color... it's a perfect weekend to spend with us at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social 🍂🍿

This year's Fall Focus kicks off tonight with AFTER THE HUNT and QUEENS OF THE DEAD!

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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 17h

For @cambridgeday.com this week I’ve got some picks from round one of @iffboston.bsky.social’s Fall Focus, which kicks off tonight at @brattletheatre.bsky.social!

There's so much Independent Film Fest Boston it's in two parts, leading off with these five titles - Cambridge Day

Each year around this time Independent Film Festival Boston sets up shop at The Brattle Theatre for its annual Fall Focus series, a multiday bonanza of early screenings of some of the season’s most an...

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 1d

A Tibetan family in exile seeks moments of happiness, even as they grapple with the loss of their father and prepare him for the next life.

NEXT LIFE plays this Sunday, October 12 at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social during this year's #FallFocus: ow.ly/7T2150X8EL4

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 2d

"With top notch performances, richly drawn visuals, and a compelling story, SENTIMENTAL VALUE is the stuff of arthouse dreams for many." — Paste Magazine

See Joachim Trier's complex family drama this Saturday at the Brattle Theatre during the #FallFocus: ow.ly/bOoU50X6NZf

Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 2d

A magical journey through time, ARCO is a dazzling adventure about a boy from a peaceful, distant future who accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril.

See it this Saturday at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social as part of the #FallFocus: ow.ly/y1ei50X6NH8

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 3d

Four girls each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.

SOUND OF FALLING plays this Saturday, October 11 at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social as part of the #FallFocus: ow.ly/Pr0J50X6NwS

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 3d

"The kind of film in which the things that should be scary are funny, and the things that should be funny are terrifying." — @indiewire.com

IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU plays this Friday, October 10 at the Brattle Theatre as part of the #FallFocus: ow.ly/6gri50X6Nk1

Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 4d

A motley crew of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies must put their bickering aside and stave off the zombie apocalypse.

QUEENS OF THE DEAD plays this Thursday at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social as part of this year's #FallFocus: ow.ly/XHVz50X6G6k

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 4d

"THE PLAGUE has a familiar coming-of-age narrative, but stranger, subtler undercurrents of creeping dismay at the men these boys will become." — @variety.com

See it this Friday, October 10 at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social as part of the #FallFocus: ow.ly/9jzb50X6G2T

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 5d

Not everything is supposed to make you comfortable.

Julia Roberts leads a star-studded cast in Luca Guadagnino's AFTER THE HUNT — this year's #FallFocus opening night film!

See it this Thursday, October 9 at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social: ow.ly/cq1e50X6FM4

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 8d

The wait is over! Tickets for this year's #FallFocus are now available for everyone!

Head to iffboston.org to grab your tickets.

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 8d

Fall Focus tickets will be available to the general public soon! We’re experiencing a temporary website issue and are actively working on it.

Thanks for your patience — we’ll keep you updated here.

Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 9d

Two weekends, 27 films, one festival: the full lineup for this year's #FallFocus has arrived!

Tickers are on sale NOW for members. Tickets will go on sale to the general public tomorrow around noon.

Head to iffboston.org to take a look at the schedule, grab your tickets, or become a member.

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 16d

Schedule and ticket info will be announced soon! Stay tuned here, or sign up for our newsletter at iffboston.org.

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 16d

WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet.

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 16d

SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve lead an incomparable cast in Joachim Trier’s moving drama about a director’s bid to revive his career and repair his family’s broken bonds.

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 16d

THE MASTERMIND
In a sedate 70's Massachusetts suburb, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney (Josh O’Connor) sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks. From filmmaker Kelly Reichardt.

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 16d

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, the latest from Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi—his first following his most recent prison sentence—follows a group of citizens pondering revenge against a man they believe was their torturer.

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 16d

IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU
With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 16d

BLUE MOON
Ethan Hawke delivers a charming, lived-in performance as lyricist Lorenz Hart, holding court at Sardi’s on the historic night of his former collaborator Richard Rodgers’ (Andrew Scott) greatest triumph: the premiere of Oklahoma!

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 16d

AFTER THE HUNT
Luca Guadagnino gives Julia Roberts one of the most complex and gratifying starring roles of her career as a philosophy professor whose life is thrown into chaos after her protégée accuses her longtime colleague and friend of sexual assault.

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 16d

We're excited to announce the first wave of titles for this year's #FallFocus — and to fit everything in, we're expanding to two weekends at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social!

Join us from October 9–12 and October 30–November 2 for some of the fall's buzziest films... (🧵)

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Independent Film Festival Boston @iffboston.bsky.social · 27d

"An ambitious swing at what movies can still be." — @indiewire.com

June Squibb stars in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut ELEANOR THE GREAT! See it early and for free on Thursday at AMC Boston Common: ow.ly/shUh50WW9bI

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