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Boston Underground Film Festival

Cambridge, MA · Arts & Culture

When

March 17–21, 2027

Where

The Brattle Theatre & Coolidge Corner Theatre · Cambridge · MA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

BUFF screens genre, horror and cult cinema each spring across the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square and the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline. Now in its mid twenties, it has become one of the country's leading showcases for underground and boundary pushing film, with director Q&As and New England premieres. The 2026 edition ran March 18 to 22.

The history within reach

• The Brattle Theatre still projects from behind the screen0.1 mi

  The single screen inside Brattle Hall started showing foreign and repertory films in February 1953 and has not stopped since.

• Harvard College founded0.2 mi

  Harvard College founded was the first institution of higher learning in the colonies, founded to train ministers and named for a clergyman who left it his library of 400 books..

• The Washington Elm, a legend Cambridge kept for a century0.2 mi

  Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge on 3 July 1775, and by the 1830s the town had decided it happened under one particular elm on the Common.

• Head of the Charles Regatta0.3 mi

  The largest two-day rowing regatta in the world, contested on the Charles River since 1965..

• Old Cambridge Baptist Church, built from Somerville granite0.3 mi

  The congregation broke off from Cambridge's First Baptist Church in 1844 and sold its first meeting house to the Congregationalists.