Co-presented with the Boston Palestine Film Festival, If Not Now, Kavod, Boston Workers Circle, and Jewish Voice for Peace Boston, Emerson Faculty for Justice in Palestine and Emerson Students for Justice in Palestine Directed by Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen, documentary, English, United States, 84 minutes, 2023 When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally...

Co-presented with the Boston SciFi Film Festival, the Salem Film Festival, the Boston Women’s Film Festival, and the Boston Underground Film Festival Directed by Amanda Kramer, documentary/sci-fi, English, United States, 101 minutes, 2023 A documentary that is both a history and philosophical exploration of cyberspace cinema, from 1981 to 2001 (The Matrix, Tron, Tetsuo, eXisTenz,...

Co-presented with the Boston Women’s Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival Boston, GlobeDocs and the Salem Film Festival Directed by Nicole Newnham, documentary, English, United States, 118 minutes, 2023 Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Her findings rocked...

Co-presented with the Boston Underground Film Festival, Wicked Queer: the Boston LGBT Film Festival, Cinefest Latino, and the Boston SciFi Film Festival Directed by Juan Felipe Zuleta, comedy/drama/sci-fi, English, United States, 100 minutes, 2022 Peter is a misanthropic dwarf hiding from the world in his shabby New York City apartment. But an unexpected visit from...

Co-presented with the Roxbury International Film Festival, the Salem Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival Boston, the Boston Women’s Film Festival, Harvard University Native American Program, United American Indians of New England and North American Indian Center of Boston Directed by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler, documentary, English, United States, 98 minutes, 2023 When the...

Co-presented with the Roxbury International Film Festival, Harvard University Native American Program, United American Indians of New England and North American Indian Center of Boston This program, curated by Lisa Simmons, celebrates the vibrant diversity and rich cultural tapestry of Indigenous communities around the world. The program is a carefully curated selection of films that...

Co-presented with Bagche Farsi School, Boston PYPE, the Roxbury International Film Festival, the Boston Women’s Film Festival, the Boston Asian American Film Festival and Wicked Queer: the Boston LGBT Film Festival Directed by Maryam Keshavarz, drama/comedy, English and Farsi with English subtitles, United States, 107 minutes, 2023 Coming from two countries at odds with each...

Co-presented with Independent Film Festival Boston, the Salem Film Festival, the Boston Women’s Film Festival, the Emerson College Office of Sustainability, and the Engagement Lab Directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon, documentary, English, United States, 80 minutes, 2023 A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, King Coal meditates on the complex history and future of...

Co-presented with the Boston Underground Film Festival Directed by Robert Morgan, animation/horror, English, United Kingdom, 94 minutes, 2023 Ella Blake, a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother, embarks upon the creation of a film that becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture,...

Co-presented as part of Wicked Queer: the Boston LGBT Film Festival with the Boston Underground Film Festival and the Boston Women’s Film Festival Directed by Agniia Galdanova, documentary, Russian with English subtitles, United States and France, 98 minutes, 2023 Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, dresses in otherworldly costumes made from...

This event is free and open to the public.  Doors open at 6:30PM and seating is available on a first-come basis. Directed by Andrew Durham, drama, United States, English, 114 minutes. Set against the backdrop of San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene in the 1970's and 80's, chronicling a father-daughter relationship as it evolves from an...

Co-presented with the Roxbury International Film Festival and the Independent Film Festival Boston Directed by Cord Jefferson, drama/comedy, English, United States, 117 minutes, 2023 Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Monk is a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that...