Independent Film Festival Boston 2009

Director Robert Kenner connects with Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and a host of experts to trace some of the innumerable effects of commercial food production.

Gerald Peary’s unapologetic argument in favor of the vocation of film criticism includes interviews with critics like Roger Ebert, Lisa Schwartzbaum and Boston’s own Wesley Morris.

Writer/director John Bergin’s (musician, creator graphic novels Golgothika) animated tale about a pregnant woman torn between protecting her unborn child and need to escape the post apocalyptic hell into which she has been plunged.

A would-be comic practices his routine in his bathroom mirror, then takes it to the streets with disastrous results.

A Ukrainian family living illegally in Germany, struggles to raise their young son, Mischa.

Sal, a junior-level mob hit man, discovers that his next assignment is to kill his childhood friend, Warren Winkler.

A woman must make a mother's ultimate decision when the dead child she's carried to term returns to life with a sinister appetite.

Yoni, a jaded nonconformist incapable of holding down a job, is taken by his older brother on a most curious aquatic hunting trip.