Independent Film Festival of Boston April 21, 2009

INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON
April 22 - 28, 2009

Venues: Somerville Theatre, Brattle Theatre, Coolidge Corner Theatre and Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)

IFFBoston 2009 kicks off with the Opening Night film THE BROTHERS BLOOM starring Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody and Rachael Weisz. Director Rian Johnson and select cast members will be in attendance.

Other films screening are Ondi Timoner’s (“Dig!”) Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, Guillermo Arriaga’s ( writer of “Babel”, “21 Grams”) directorial debut THE BURNING PLAIN starring Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger, 500 DAYS OF SUMMER starring Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, LA MISSION starring Benjamin Bratt, IN THE LOOP starring James Gandolfini, Hirokazu Koreeda’s STILL WALKING, Robert Siegel’s (writer of “The Wrestler”) BIG FAN starring Patton Oswalt and Kevin Corrigan, and Olivier Assayas’ SUMMER HOURS starring Juliette Binoche, and WORLD’S GREATEST DAD directed by Bobcat Goldthwait.

Special guests attending the festival are Chris Cooper, Benjamin Bratt, Bobby and Peter Farelly, Kevin Corrigan, Luis Tiant, and certainly more to come.

To see the entire list of films and events, purchase tickets and festival passes, please visit: http://www.iffboston.org

Official Website: http://www.iffboston.org