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items: BUFF 2025 Lineup Revealed
items: BUFF Named Best Fest For Horror + Experimental Films By Boston Magazine
items: Wicked Queer: Docs 2024
items: IFFBoston Fall Focus 2024
items: Cinefest Latino Boston 2024
items: Fresh Kill
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IFFBoston 2025
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creator: Nicole McControversy
date: 2025-04-19T13:30:44Z
subject: Events
description: IFFBoston 2025 returns to the Brattle, Somerville, and Coolidge Corner Theatre on April 23rd, bearing gifts of indie goodness from near and far. The post IFFBoston 2025 appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.
encoded: The Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston) 2025 returns to the Brattle, Somerville, and Coolidge Theaters, kicking off a diverse program of independent cinema beginning April 23rd and running through April 30th! If your calendar isn’t already cleared for Boston’s annual cinefeast, you have time to get a jump on this year’s most hotly anticipated releases. BUFF is delighted to lend screening support to the following cadre of cinematic splendor: DESCENDENT Brattle Theatre Get tickets A troubled LA school guard, haunted by family tragedy, experiences strange visions after a mysterious light appears in the sky. As his wife’s due date approaches, he races to face his demons before his growing obsession consumes him. THE ARBORIST Somerville Theatre Get tickets A grief-stricken arborist and her son awaken a haunting when they begin felling trees at the estate of a mysterious recluse. <img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-12130" src="https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/obex.jpg?resize=1024%2C420&ssl=1" alt="" width="1024" height="420" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/obex.jpg?resize=1024%2C420&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/obex.jpg?resize=500%2C205&ssl=1 500w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/obex.jpg?resize=150%2C62&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/obex.jpg?resize=768%2C315&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/obex.jpg?w=1340&ssl=1 1340w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> OBEX Brattle Theatre Get tickets In pre-internet 1987, Conor and his dog Sandy live a life of seclusion, lost in the slow-rendering graphics of early Macs and televisions aglow with late night horror movie marathons. But when he begins playing OBEX, a new and mysterious, state-of-the-ar…

Wicked Queer 2025
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creator: Nicole McControversy
date: 2025-03-25T13:42:10Z
subject: Events
description: Wicked Queer returns April 4–13, 2025, and BUFF is psyched to co-present these fearlessly queer films from this year's lineup. The post Wicked Queer 2025 appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.
encoded: Wicked Queer returns April 4–13, 2025, with screenings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Brattle Theatre. BUFF is psyched to co-present the following from this year’s electric lineup: <img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-12136" src="https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/salome.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/salome.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/salome.jpg?resize=500%2C281&ssl=1 500w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/salome.jpg?resize=150%2C84&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/salome.jpg?resize=768%2C432&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/salome.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/salome.jpg?resize=800%2C450&ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/salome.jpg?w=1920&ssl=1 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> SALOMÉ Coolidge Corner Theatre Get tickets Cecília, a successful young model, returns to Recife, her hometown, to spend Christmas with her mother. One night, a neighbour she hadn’t seen for a long time, João, shows her a bottle with a mysterious and intoxicating green substance. Cecília begins to fall in love with João, but also discovers he is involved in a secret cult around the figure of Salomé, the luxurious biblical princess. <img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-12137" src="https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/the_visitor.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/t…

Bacchus Awards 2025
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creator: Nicole McControversy
date: 2025-03-24T20:33:53Z
subject: Awards
subject: News
description: And the bunny goes to...announcing our 2025 award winners! The post Bacchus Awards 2025 appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.
encoded: While we love every film in the festival, in the end only a few can take home one of the coveted Bacchus Awards… Audience Choice Award: Best of Fest Feature ALMA & THE WOLF dir. Michael Patrick Jann Audience Choice Award: Best of Fest Short SOGNO ROSSO dir. Coco Roy Audience Choice Award: Best Debut Feature FUCKTOYS dir. Annapurna Sriram Best New England Film (David Kleiler Memorial Award) NADIR: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SURFING IN NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND IN THE SUMMER AND MOST OF THE OTHER TIMES AS WELL dir. Jack Galvin Director’s Choice: Best Feature THE UGLY STEPSISTER dir. Emilie Blichfeldt Director’s Choice: Best Short MAKE ME A PIZZA dir. Talia Shea Levin We’d like to express our most sincere thanks and gratitude to this year’s awards sponsors: AVID, Blackmagic Design, Kodak, and the Massachusetts Production Coalition for their invaluable support; to festival supporters at the Brattle Theatre, BudgetDCP, Kush Groove Dispensary, Space Poppers, and Letterboxd; to all the BUFF and Brattle volunteers and staff; to all the participating filmmakers; and to our incredible audience, who came out over the past five days to celebrate cinema. It’s an enormous labor of love to put this event together year after year and we do it with just a handful of cash, no corporate sponsorship, and very few hours of sleep; a feat of a 100%-volunteer team driven by passion for films and our film community. It’s been an incredible 25 years. Thank you. The post Bacchus Awards 2025 appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.

BUFF 2025 Lineup Revealed
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creator: Nicole McControversy
date: 2025-03-05T11:42:02Z
subject: News
description: The 25th Annual Boston Underground Film Festival Returns to Cambridge March 19th–23rd With Incredible Line-Up Of Genre-Shattering Films! The post BUFF 2025 Lineup Revealed appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.
encoded: Featuring Lorcan Finnegan’s Sun-Soaked Nic-Cage-Thriller The Surfer on Opening Night and a Spotlight Screening of the World Premiere of the 4K Restoration of Re-Animator Hosted by Barbara Crampton Additional highlights include the World Premiere of Michael Patrick Jann’s gritty horror thriller Alma & the Wolf, East Coast Premieres of gnarly Norwegian Sundance-smash The Ugly Stepsister and fresh-from-SXSW bubblegum grindhouse romp Fucktoys—and more! March 5, 2025 | Cambridge, MA – The Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF) returns to the Brattle Theatre for its 25th annual celebration of all things weird, wicked, and wonderful, running from March 19th–23rd, 2025. This year’s program is a high-voltage mix of hallucinatory horror, transgressive comedy, and unclassifiable genre chaos featuring world premieres, festival darlings, deep-cut rediscoveries, and more than a few films that defy polite description. BUFF kicks off with the Boston Premiere of Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer, starring Nicolas Cage as a man who returns to his childhood beach only to find himself in a psychological death match with territorial locals. A sun-drenched descent into madness, Cage delivers a tour-de-force performance that will have audiences gripping their armrests and reconsidering any future surf trips. BUFF is beyond honored to world premiere Alma & The Wolf, the latest from Michael Patrick Jann (Drop Dead Gorgeous), a slow-burn psychological thriller about a troubled cop (Ethan Embry) investigating a vicious wolf attack that quickly spirals into the uncanny, the unexplainable, and the deeply unsettling. Jann and actor Lukas Jann will be in attendance to discuss their eerie, Oregon-set mystery. Another major highlight: the world premiere of the 4K restoration of Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator for its 40th anniversary, with horror icon Barbara Crampton in attendance. This landmark screening will showcase the brand-new 4K UHD restoration from Ignite Films and Eagle Rock Pictures. BUFF’s East…

BUFF Named Best Fest For Horror + Experimental Films By Boston Magazine
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creator: Nicole McControversy
date: 2024-12-02T16:44:48Z
subject: News
description: Thank you to: our team of volunteer staff, all the participating filmmakers (past/present/& future), the Brattle Theatre, our partners and sponsors, and the best audience on the East Coast! The post BUFF Named Best Fest For Horror + Experimental Films By Boston Magazine appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.
encoded: What a lovely surprise! BUFF has been named Best Fest for Horror + Experimental Films by the eminent Boston Magazine! Thank you to: our team of volunteer staff, all the participating filmmakers (past/present/& future), the Brattle Theatre, our partners and sponsors, and the best audience on the East Coast! Massive congrats Boston Sci-Fi, Roxbury International Film Festival, and CineFest Latino Boston Film Festival for being recognized for their invaluable contributions to our vibrant, thriving local film community ❤️ <img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-11591" src="https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/boston_magazine_2024.jpg?resize=354%2C448&ssl=1" alt="" width="354" height="448" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/boston_magazine_2024.jpg?resize=808%2C1024&ssl=1 808w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/boston_magazine_2024.jpg?resize=394%2C500&ssl=1 394w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/boston_magazine_2024.jpg?resize=118%2C150&ssl=1 118w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/boston_magazine_2024.jpg?resize=768%2C973&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/boston_magazine_2024.jpg?w=931&ssl=1 931w" sizes="(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px" /> Read the article The post BUFF Named Best Fest For Horror + Experimental Films By Boston Magazine appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.

Wicked Queer: Docs 2024
type: item
creator: Nicole McControversy
date: 2024-11-05T14:49:11Z
subject: BUFF Intermission
subject: Events
description: Wicked Queer: Docs returns November 15–22, 2024, and BUFF is psyched to co-present a handful of gems from this year's eclectic lineup. The post Wicked Queer: Docs 2024 appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.
encoded: Wicked Queer: Docs returns November 15–22, 2024, with screenings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Brattle Theatre. BUFF is psyched to co-present the following from this year’s eclectic lineup: <img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-11561 size-large" src="https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/vollupya.jpeg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/vollupya.jpeg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/vollupya.jpeg?resize=500%2C281&ssl=1 500w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/vollupya.jpeg?resize=150%2C84&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/vollupya.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/vollupya.jpeg?resize=1536%2C864&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/vollupya.jpeg?resize=800%2C450&ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/vollupya.jpeg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> Vollúpya Saturday Nov 16 @ 4:00 pm, Brattle Theater Vollúpya (Screening with: A House Is Not A Disco) | Ticket Info Directed by Jocimar Dias Jr.& Éri Sarmet, Short Documentary, 21 min, Brazil, 2024 In a post-apocalyptic future, an intergalactic explorer lands at an abandoned museum on a quest to find traces of his long-lost ancestors, and ends up being teleported to the dance floor of a Brazilian queer nightclub in the 1990s. <img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-large wp-image-11565" src="https://i0.wp.com/bostonunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/teaches_of_peaches.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1" alt="Still from Teaches of Peaches" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://…

IFFBoston Fall Focus 2024
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creator: Nicole McControversy
date: 2024-10-22T16:12:28Z
subject: Events
description: BUFF is chuffed to provide screening support for this year's IFFBoston Fall Focus opener NIGHTBITCH, screening at the Brattle on October 31st! The post IFFBoston Fall Focus 2024 appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.
encoded: Eight days in April just aren’t enough. So IFFBoston is back again to host a mini-festival at the Brattle (and the Somerville) to give New England cinephiles more opportunities to see great films on the big screen. Check out the 10th (!!) annual Fall Focus lineup, running October 31 — November 3, 2024. BUFF is chuffed to provide screening support for this year’s opener: NIGHTBITCH October 31, 2024 @ 7:00 PM, Brattle Theatre | Ticket Info The post IFFBoston Fall Focus 2024 appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.

Cinefest Latino Boston 2024
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creator: Nicole McControversy
date: 2024-09-23T21:39:28Z
subject: Events
description: CineFest Latino Boston returns September 25 - 29, 2024! The post Cinefest Latino Boston 2024 appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.
encoded: CineFest Latino Boston returns September 25 – 29, 2024! The festival is committed to using the power of film to break stereotypes, bring cultures and communities together and reveal the complex issues affecting the Latinx community in the United States, as well as communities in Latin America and Spain. We’re pleased to co-present the following films at this year’s fest: SHORTS PROGRAM #2 – El Sueño Americano September 28, 2024 @ 12:00 PM, Museum of Fine Arts | Ticket Info No Se Ve Desde Acá Directed by Enrique Pedraza Botero Experimental, 19 mins, USA, 2024 A spatial exploration of Miami, and the endless pursuit of the American Dream in an era of immigrant mass mobilization, the absurd dominance of wealth and border securocracy. EL SIGNO VACÍO (The Empty Sign) September 28, 2024 @ 3:30 PM, Emerson Paramount Theatre | Watch Trailer | Ticket Info Directed by Kathryn Ramey Documentary, 75 mins, USA, 2023 Mixing a hundred years of found footage – tourism, agricultural and propaganda films – with contemporary portraits of artists and activists this film is a journey through the complex layers of the United States’ occupation of Puerto Rico. Using an experimental and ethnographic approach the film reveals how carefully crafted American fictions of “democracy” and “debt” obscure a capitalist and military domination. Q&A with Director Kathyrn Ramey! The post Cinefest Latino Boston 2024 appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.

Fresh Kill
type: item
creator: Bryan McKay
date: 2024-08-22T18:25:48Z
subject: BUFF Intermission
description: September 13, 2024 at the Brattle Theatre! New Restored 35mm Print! Filmmaker in Person! Co-Presented with Strictly Brohibited and Wicked Queer! The post Fresh Kill appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.
encoded: September 13, 2024 at the Brattle Theatre | Watch Trailer | Ticket Info Director: Shu Lea Cheang Run Time: 80 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1994 Starring: Ching Gonzalez, Erin McMurtry, Kate Valk, M. Cochise Anderson, Pedro Pietri, Sarita Choudhury New Restored 35mm Print! Filmmaker in Person! Co-Presented with Strictly Brohibited and Wicked Queer! The place is New York City and the time is now(ish). Raw fish lips are the rage on trendy menus across Manhattan. A ghost barge, bearing nuclear refuse, circles the planet in search of a willing port. Household pets start to glow ominously and then disappear altogether. The sky opens up and snows soap flakes. People start speaking in dangerous tongues. This stylized, avant-anarcho-ecosatire, envisions a post-apocalyptic landscape strewn with electronic detritus and suffering the toxic repercussions of mass marketing in a high-tech commodity culture. FRESH KILL tells the story of two young lesbian parents caught up in a battle over the global exchange of industrial waste when their child disappears after eating contaminated fish. A riveting and densely packed film, FRESH KILL was perhaps too ahead of its time when The Brattle premiered it thirty years ago but it has since become a cult classic that feels even more resonant today. The post Fresh Kill appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.

IFFBoston 2024
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creator: Bryan McKay
date: 2024-04-24T13:45:58Z
subject: Events
description: IFFBoston 2024 returns to the Brattle, Somerville, and Coolidge Corner Theatre on May 1st, bringing with it a load of indie gems. The post IFFBoston 2024 appeared first on Boston Underground Film Festival.
encoded: The Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston) 2024 returns to the Brattle, Somerville, and Coolidge Theatres, kicking off a diverse program of independent cinema beginning May 1st and running through May 8th! If your calendar isn’t already cleared for Boston’s annual cinefeast, you have time to get a jump on this year’s most hotly anticipated releases. BUFF is delighted to lend screening support to the following duo: I SAW THE TV GLOW Thu. 5/2 – 7:00pm – Brattle Theatre Get tickets Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show—a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack. EVIL SUBLET Sat. 5/4 – 9:00pm – Somerville Theatre Get tickets A New York couple finds their dream apartment. Who cares if it’s haunted if the rent is cheap? But when murderous ghosts come after them, their lives soon depend on escaping the evil of their sublet. We must also highlight these unmissable films for the BUFF audience: HANDLING THE UNDEAD Tue. 5/7 – 9:30pm – Coolidge Corner Theatre Get tickets On a hot summer day in Oslo, the newly dead awaken. Three families faced with loss try to figure out what this resurrection means and if their loved ones really are back. Based on the book by John Ajvide Lindqvist. ANIMALIA Sat. 5/4 – 8:45pm – Somerville Theatre Get tickets Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the Moroccan privileged codes of her husband’s family. But when supernatural events put the country in a state of emergency, Itto finds herself separated from her husband and new family. THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF IBELIN Sat. 5/4 – 2:30pm – Somerville Theatre Get tickets Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends…