2018 Boston Underground Film Festival Announces Final Wave of Titles

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Along with the reveal of their poster, the 2018 Boston Underground Film Festival announced its final wave of films selected for its 20th edition. While I am interested in all of the films listed, Tigers Are Not Afraid by Issa López is of particular interest to me.

Check out all of the newly announced films below and click over to the official website here for more information. Click here to view the previously announced first wave of titles.

GOOD MANNERS – New England Premiere | Closing Night Film

Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra | Brazil, France | 2017

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.


MEXMAN – East Coast Premiere

Josh Polon | USA | 2018 | Documentary

Germán is a young artist and filmmaker striving to complete his first feature film while plagued by the ghost of a long-lost love and a battle for creative control with his producers.


SECRET SCREENING – East Coast Premiere

For the brave, bold & beautiful creatures who crave a little terror at midnight.


SPOOR – New England Premiere

Agnieszka Holland | Poland | 2017

Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what the murderer is, but nobody believes her.


THE QUEEN OF HOLLYWOOD BLVD – World Premiere

Orson Oblowitz | USA | 2018

On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five year old debt to the mob, leading her on a downward spiral of violence and revenge through the underbelly of Los Angeles.


THE RANGER – East Coast Premiere

Jenn Wexler | USA | 2018

When Chelsea and her friends get in trouble with the cops, they flee the city and go on the run. Fueled by a hallucinogenic drug called Echo, they hope to lay low—and get high—in an old family hideout in the woods. But Chelsea’s got reservations about going back to nature and secrets she’s not sharing with her friends. When a shot rings out, her past comes crashing back, and the punks find themselves pitted against the local authority— an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind.


THE THETA GIRL – New England Premiere

Christopher Bickel | USA | 2017

Gayce, a take-no-shit young woman, deals a hallucinogenic drug called “theta,” facilitating an audience for her friends’ all-girl rock band. When Gayce’s friends are brutally murdered, she must solve the mystery behind the murders and protect herself from the killer. She discovers the connections between theta and the murders – and learns a terrifying truth. That the world — indeed her whole reality — is not as it seems.


TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID – New England Premiere

Issa López | Mexico | 2017

A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.


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