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The Berkshire International Film Festival kicks off a weekend of 80 domestic and international indie flicks today.
The 17th annual festival will feature narrative and documentary shorts and features and moderated talks with artists, including actor Stephen Lang. “Food and Country,” a documentary about the impact of cheap food production on independent farmers, ranchers and chefs, opens the festival at 6 p.m. today. “It’s Only Life After All,” the story of the acclaimed folk-rock duo Indigo Girls, will close out BIFF at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday with an after party to follow.
Other select titles include the documentary short “Below Surface,” tracing the power of Aquafit in processing grief, stress and illness, in-person June 2 and 3 and online all weekend; feature-length portraits of author Joyce Carol Oates and filmmaker Jane Campion at 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. respectively on June 4; and the historical noir “Chile ’76” set during the early years of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime at 4 p.m. on June 4. A complete schedule is available online.
Cinephiles can purchase individual tickets for in-person showings and all-access passes online. Screenings will be held at the Triplex Cinema and Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and the Tanglewood Learning Institute and the Lenox Town Hall in Lenox, Massachusetts with select titles available to stream online for passholders; streaming passes start at $200.