October 31 - November 4, 2024 | Various venues

About IFF Boston: Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston) was started in 2003 to provide Boston with the type of film event it had been looking for: one that discovers emerging talent and celebrates the leading edge of cinematic story tellers. Eight days in April just aren’t enough. So we’re back again to host a mini-festival with our friends at the Brattle (and the Somerville) to give you more opportunities to see great films.

RoxFilm is co-presenting the following screenings:

• ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL — Saturday, November 2 @ 6:00pm at | Brattle Theatre

  • On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family. Rungano Nyoni’s follow-up to I AM NOT A WITCH is a surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.

• NICKEL BOYS — Sunday, November 3 @ 1:45pm | Brattle Theatre

  • Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead