Is tomorrow really the first of April? The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and if you feel like singing, you’re not alone. Try to hit the high notes when the Coolidge Corner Theatre screens a ‘‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Sing-a-Long (April 27 at 7:30 and 10 p.m.), a chance for anyone to sink their teeth - literally - into an evening of fun. To celebrate, the Coolidge is giving every audience member a goody bag from the dark side, complete with vampire teeth. Heart-piercing stakes and kickboxing lessons not included.

Folks with more serious inclinations can check out the Independent Film Festival of Boston (April 19-24) at various venues, where a worldly group of narrative, documentary and short-film entries will be shown.

Extending its run to a six-day anti-Hollywood extravaganza, this year’s selections promise to inspire more cocktail conversation starters than all the ‘‘Mission: Impossible” movies combined. Opening the fest is ‘‘Half Nelson,” directed by Ryan Fleck and starring Ryan Gosling. The story centers around Dan, a drug-addicted teacher who forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students.

The Museum of Fine Arts wraps up its International Women’s Film Fest (through April 8), a collection of cinema by and about women from around the world.

Alice Nellis’ ‘‘Some Secrets” (April 7 at 6 p.m.) is the Eastern European equivalent of a comedy-drama road movie. When a family sets out to bury the ashes of its patriarch in Slovakia, several strange and humorous encounters leave them questioning their actions and relationships.

Get back to basics with a double screening of two classics starring some ugly (but oh-so-charming) beasts. The Coolidge gets a round of high-fives for bringing two original masterpieces back to a darkened theater - ‘‘King Kong” and ‘‘Godzilla” (April 26 at 7 and 9 p.m.).

Still bloodthirsty? Stay to watch them duke it out at 11 p.m. with ‘‘King Kong vs. Godzilla,” the 1962 hit in which the pair go head-to-head in a terror-ridden Tokyo.

With these fantastic Japanese films being revived, why not continue the trend and mosey on down to Harvard Film Archive for a screening of ‘‘Rashomon” (April 5 at 7 p.m.)? A timeless piece by the great Akira Kurosawa and considered one of the finest works of Japanese cinema, the film centers on the aftermath of a crime and four different versions of what happened.