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Boston SciFi Film Festival

Somerville, MA · Arts & Culture

When

February 6–15, 2027

Where

Somerville Theatre · Somerville · MA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

The oldest genre film festival in the country runs ten days at the Somerville Theatre each winter, screening science fiction features, shorts and revival prints. It closes with a 24 hour marathon that has been a Boston tradition since the 1970s. The 2027 edition marks its 52nd year.

The history within reach

• Independent Film Festival Bostonsame spot

  An independent film festival founded in 2003 that screens roughly 90 narrative features, documentaries and shorts across historic Boston-area theaters including the Somerville Theatre, Brattle Theatre and Coolidge Corner Theatre.

• HONK! Festival0.1 mi

  HONK! brings activist street bands from around the world to Somerville and Cambridge each October, with free concerts in Davis Square and a closing parade to Harvard Square.

• The Somerville Theatre opens for vaudeville in Davis Square0.1 mi

  The 1,100 seat house opened in May 1914 as a vaudeville stage and movie theatre, designed by the firm of Funk and Wilcox.

• The Powder Alarm empties the magazine above Powder House Square0.4 mi

  British soldiers carried 250 half barrels of colonial gunpowder out of the stone magazine above this rotary on 1 September 1774.

• The Cooper-Frost-Austin House, the oldest house in Cambridge0.8 mi

  Samuel Cooper put up one room and a chimney bay on Linnaean Street in 1681, on ground his father had held since 1657, and the town clerk wrote it down in 1689 in the register of houses in the New Towne.