Filmmakers! Mark your calendars: Our Bi-Annual Filmmaker Mixer returns Wednesday, July 24 @ 6pm

Last December’s kickoff bash was a total blast—and this one’s shaping up to be even bigger. If you’re a filmmaker, producer, DP, soundie, editor, come connect with Boise’s production community.

Want your demo reel projected at the event? Email us a download link to info@idahofilm.org.

Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to a condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.

“What more could you possibly want from an 80s slasher than a weekend getaway, an all-girl high school rock band, and a supernatural rockabilly hunk with a drill guitar? Female directed, costumes to die for, and one of my all-time summer favorites.” - Grace Lovera (Curator)

Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.

Collateral is a 2004 American neo-noir action thriller film directed and produced by Michael Mann, written by Stuart Beattie, and starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. The supporting cast includes Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Javier Bardem, and Bruce McGill. The film follows Max Durocher, a Los Angeles cab driver, and his customer, Vincent. When offered a high fare for driving to several locations, Max agrees but soon finds himself taken hostage by Vincent who turns out to be a hitman on a contract killing spree.

Join us for our 8pm or IFS Afterdark 10pm screening!

Boise’s own Senator Church took on the CIA, NSA, and FBI—and won. A gripping local political story that shaped national surveillance policy.

This feature documentary by James Mulryan traces Senator Frank Church’s fight to check presidential power and defend democracy. Balancing Idaho’s conservative base with national reform, Church opposed the Vietnam War and led the groundbreaking Church Committee, which exposed CIA assassination plots, illegal surveillance, and corporate corruption. His legacy endures as a principled leader who risked everything to speak truth to power. Filmmaker Q & A post-screening.

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.

In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

Join us at IFS for a night of music, food, and a raffle to support Tropico.fm!
7-11pm
Featuring DJ Maestra Mo, a screening of Totem, and food by Roots of Mexico!

Certain Women- Books on Film Series with the Lit Room

Certain Women is a 2016 American drama film edited, written, and directed by Kelly Reichardt. Based on "Native Sandstone", "Travis, B." and "Tome"—three short stories from Maile Meloy's collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It—it stars Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone, James Le Gros, and Jared Harris.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space is a 1988 American science fiction comedy horror film produced by the Chiodo Brothers, who also created the practical effects and makeup, with Stephen directing from a script he co-wrote with Charles; it is the only film written or directed by any of the Chiodos. The film features an ensemble cast starring Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson and John Vernon. It concerns evil extraterrestrials that resemble clowns arriving on Earth and invading a small town in order to capture, kill and harvest the human inhabitants for sustenance.

“The greatest low-budget alien clown carnival-themed ‘horror’ film the world has ever known! From incredible practical effects to eclectic costuming, this one’s a classic for a reason. Come for the Big Top spaceship, stay for the insanity.” - Grace Lovera (Curator)

Join us for our AfterDark screening of Jaws!

The horror movie "Jaws," which took American beachgoers by storm in the mid-1970s, turns 50 this summer!

When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

The horror movie "Jaws," which took American beachgoers by storm in the mid-1970s, turns 50 this summer!

When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Enjoy your 4th of July! We’ll see you on the 5th for our 50th anniversary screening of Jaws!

IFS Presents Secret Cinema—you won’t know what you’re watching until it starts, but it’s guaranteed to be a good time!

Hong Kong starlet Maggie Cheung arrives in France to portray Irma Vep in a remake of Les Vampires (1915), but the production is plagued by behind-the-scenes intrigues.

Vincent, an "In-Valid", assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect.

Join us for the 8pm or IFS AfterDark 10pm screening!

Martin Creed presents the first rough cut of a new film. There will be the chance to engage with Martin in discussion after the screening. This is Creed's first feature length film. His many short films include 'Sick Film' (2006) and 'What The Fuck Am I Doing?' (2017).

Synopsis: A little boy growing up, seen through the eyes and hair of a young woman. A coming-of-age story told in episodes from conception through the very earliest memories of infanthood to high school, art education and first love. An interwoven story of clothes moves up the body from socks and shoes to trousers and hats. Along the way some various helpful guides to sides of life are offered in the form of chapters on “The Trouser Problem” and “What Are Moustaches For?”. Based on a true story, memories were filmed in the places where they happened, including Lenzie Academy, Glasgow, where current-day students of the school perform in scenes from the classroom of bullying, misbehaviour and sports. Other, dreamlike acts were filmed in an odd admixture of locations including Las Vegas, USA, and Ascoli Piceno, Italy. John McEnroe features in one fantastical scene on a Malibu tennis court.

Written and directed by Martin Creed. Cinematography, music and clothes by Martin Creed. Featuring Layla Burns, Heidi Rider, Laurie Luxe, Sita Pieraccini, Lorena Randi, William Forest, Cyril Rabbath, Martin Creed, Delphine Gaborit,  Luigi Randi, Rafael Schilt, Kerry Biggin, Isis Clooney, Alessandor Earnest, Students of Lenzie Academy, Sonny Jones Randi, Students of Ilkley Grammar School, Students of PACE Youth Theatre Paisley, Students of Miniera delle Arti and Frida Art Academy, Ascoli Piceno, John McEnroe, Lisa Edelstein and Lily Cole. 

About the Filmmaker: Martin Creed's work has been shown worldwide, including at Hauser & Wirth London, 2004, Trussardi Foundation, Milan, 2006; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2012; Hayward Gallery, London, 2014; Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2016; Centro Botin, Santander, 2019; Summer Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2022 and at the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt, Germany, 2023.

He won the Turner Prize in 2001 with ‘Work No. 227: The lights going on and off’ and this work is now part of the Museum of Modern Art collection in New York. Public works include ‘Work No. 975: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT’ on the façade of Christ Church Art Gallery in New Zealand; ‘Work No. 1059: The Scotsman Steps’, Edinburgh; and ‘Work No. 1197: All the bells in the country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes’, which was commissioned for the opening of the London Olympics. Orchestral works include commissions for the London Sinfonietta and Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra.

A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.

“ Five years after Jaws horrified audiences across the nation, a creature even scarier, more sinister and more heart-stopping has emerged: Ramon. He started his life as an adorable baby alligator who was banished to the dingy sewers running beneath Chicago. After twelve years on his own, consuming three meals a day (plus snacks) of lab-treated stray dogs, he is seeking his revenge. This giant alligator will have you on the edge of your seat as he takes out many blue collar workers, children, and wedding guests.” - Harley Elliott (Curator)

Join us for the 8pm or 10pm IFS AfterDark screening!

IFS remembers Brian Wilson, the lead singer and visionary musician of The Beach Boys, with a special screening of Love & Mercy.

In the 60s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 80s, he's a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist, Dr. Eugene Landy.

“You can practically smell the pheromones wafting off this kaleidoscopic odyssey, which finds director Gregg Araki crossing soap-operatic elements with blasts of science fiction, indie-kid cool, and shiny pop-art subversion. On the day when the world is foretold to end, a group of terminally horny, disillusioned, zonked-out teens in Los Angeles see their lives explode in a glitter bomb of drugs, sex, death, and alien abduction. Bisexual lust, vaporizing Valley girls, sinister televangelists, nipple-ring S&M, murder by Campbell’s-soup can—Araki folds it all into an anarchic orgy that brings his Teen Apocalypse Trilogy to an explosively caustic close.” -Criterion

"Viewers who can turn their mental dials to Araki's wavelength are likely to marvel at his ability to pile on the excess with hair-raising exuberance, then extract from the rubble images of startling beauty and nuggets of genuine feeling." - Lisa Hite (Curator)

“Gregg Araki takes a road trip to hell in this wild, meth- and fast-food-fueled joyride through the margins of a menacing American wasteland. When they inadvertently link up with a dangerously alluring drifter (Johnathon Schaech), a chilled-out Cali bro (James Duval) and his spiky, foulmouthed girlfriend (Rose McGowan) find themselves on an increasingly violent, kinky, and darkly comic journey in which erotic tensions rise along with the body count. Working with a significant budget for the first time, Araki employs boldly stylized lighting and art direction to create a heightened sense of unreality in a shocking, shoegaze-soundtracked chronicle of young lives careening toward oblivion.”- Criterion

"Gregg Araki envisages the final decade of the century as a rampant forest fire of kitsch and catastrophe." - Lisa Hite (Curator)

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“A delirious mix of punk nihilism and deadpan irony, the first film in Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy puts an audaciously queer spin on Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Masculin féminin. Across fifteen jagged episodes, Totally F***ed Up plunges headlong into the lives of a group of queer, disaffected Los Angeles teenagers who form a kind of makeshift family as they navigate desire and heartbreak, societal and familial rejection, and the alienation of growing up gay in an era of relentless moralizing. Both a defiantly raw anthem of outsiderhood and a furious reckoning with all-American homophobia, Araki’s answer to the 1980s teen comedy captures youthful angst with an immediacy that still bruises.” - Criterion

"Totally F***d Up never really lets us get to know these young people, but that works in a way, because they don't really know themselves" - Lisa Hite (Curator)

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The Swimmer is a 1968 American surreal drama film starring Burt Lancaster. The film was written and directed by Academy Award-nominated husband-and-wife team of Eleanor Perry and Frank Perry. The story is based on the 1964 short story "The Swimmer" by John Cheever, which appeared in the July 18, 1964, issue of The New Yorker. A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.

Nashville is a 1975 American musical comedy drama film directed and produced by Robert Altman. The film follows various people involved in the country and gospel music industry in Nashville, Tennessee, over the five-day period leading up to a gala concert for a populist outsider running for president on the Replacement Party ticket. Nashville is often noted for its scope; the film contains 24 main characters, an hour's worth of musical numbers, and multiple storylines.

Nashville is a 1975 American musical comedy drama film directed and produced by Robert Altman. The film follows various people involved in the country and gospel music industry in Nashville, Tennessee, over the five-day period leading up to a gala concert for a populist outsider running for president on the Replacement Party ticket. Nashville is often noted for its scope; the film contains 24 main characters, an hour's worth of musical numbers, and multiple storylines.

Badlands is a 1973 American neo-noir period crime drama film written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, in his directorial debut. The film stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and follows Holly Sargis, a 15-year old who goes on a killing spree with her partner, Kit Carruthers. While the story is fictional, it is loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958.

"True Romance" is a 1993 romantic crime film directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino. It follows a young couple, played by Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette, who go on the run from the Mafia after stealing a shipment of drugs, blending elements of romance and action with a cult following over the years.

Join us for our 8pm screening, or as a part of our new series, IFS Afterdark at 10pm!

Street Trash is a 1987 American black comedy body horror film directed by J. Michael Muro. The film has acquired a status as a cult classic independent horror-comedy and is one of a number of films known as "melt movies". In the film, a liquor store in Brooklyn starts selling cheap alcoholic beverages to local hobos. The beverages date to the 1920s, and are actually poisonous.

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Cure (1997) is a neo-noir psychological horror film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Kōji Yakusho as a detective investigating a series of murders by hypnotized killers. The film explores themes of memory, identity, and evil, and is considered a precursor of the Japanese horror boom of the late 1990s.