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Entering its seventh year, the Independent Film Festival of Boston furthers the variety and extent it has ably established in its previous iterations. 2009’s festival is a day longer, and expands into an additional venue—the Institute of Contemporary Art on Boston’s south shore. As per usual, the lineup is screened predominantly at the Somerville Theater, and the program plays like a “Best of” the recent festival circuit, including the requisite SXSW holdovers (Winnebago Man, Make-Out with Violence, Pontypool), a robust shorts program, and a generous variety of nonfiction features. Despite this, there remains a trend toward films of topical interest to Boston: Children of Invention, Blood, Sweat & Cheers, Chip on My Shoulder, For the Love of Movies (made by local critic Gerald Peary), I Need That Record!, and Luckey. With these and many, many other offerings, the IFFB continues to develop a recognizeable identity within the festival circuit. The 2009 Independent Film Festival of Boston runs from April 22–28. Please refer to this page during the next few weeks for reviews of select festival films.

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Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison	24 APRIL
I Need That Record!	25 APRIL
Children of Invention	29 APRIL
Bronson	04 MAY
Trimpin	08 MAY
Invisible Girlfriend	11 MAY
500 Days of Summer	12 MAY
Pontypool	15 MAY
Children of Invention	18 MAY
Unmistaken Child	20 MAY
Big Fan	22 MAY
World’s Greatest Dad	26 MAY
Nollywood Babylon	07 JUNE
Shooting Beauty	10 JUNE
I Knew It Was You	11 JUNE
Helen	17 JUNE
Prom Night in Mississippi	29 JUNE
Mine	08 JULY
Stingray Sam	13 JULY
The Lost Son of Havana	01 JULY
For the Love of Movies	02 JULY

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By Rumsey Taylor, Katherine Follett, and Victoria Large   ©2009 NotComing.com