 Films shown at the festival in the first six years included "Half Nelson", "Murderball", "The Corporation", "The Proposition", "The Saddest Music in the World", "Ivans XTC", "Lonesome Jim", "The Puffy Chair", "Fay Grim", "Hannah Takes the Stairs", "Mutual Appreciation", "Me and You and Everyone We Know", "Transsiberian", "My Winnipeg", "Medicine for Melancholy", "Ballast", "Encounters at the End of the World", "The Story of the Weeping Camel" and "" as well as the U.S. premier of "Azumi".The festival shows narrative features, documentary features, short films, animation, and experimental works.The Independent Film Festival Boston awards Grand Jury, Special Jury prizes, and Audience Awards in the categories of narrative feature, documentary feature and short film.