Independent Film Festival Boston 2009

When a wealthy teenager named Joy goes missing, shy Helen is asked to help re-enact her disappearance by the police. Intrigued by the girl, she slowly immerses herself in the role, trying on different elements of Joy’s life to see how they feel.

This portrait of Herb and Dorothy Vogel, an unassuming postal worker and librarian, who live in a one bedroom apartment in Manhattan and as it turns, out are internationally known art collectors.

Portly, sad-sack David is a laughingstock amongst Iceland’s criminal would-be elite. As an ineffectual debt collector for a local hooligan he harbors secret dreams of becoming a professional poet and kung fu master.

Essentially, the title says it all—A man is hounded, assumedly for eons, by a mysterious pale specter ceaselessly attacking him.

This new film by existential animator Don Hertzfeldt is the third chapter in the trilogy about the character Bill, from EVERYTHING WILL BE OK (IFFBoston 2007).

A tribute to the brief career of actor John Cazale who is best known for his portrayal of Fredo in THE GODFATHER

This barely bucolic, forest foray features a maniacal woodsman describing his arboreal world, its creatures, and God.

When two unexpected guests arrive, the tower’s lone operator learns the high cost of his ignorance about its purpose.