BIFF Offscreen: One tree

A tree moves around in a fixed landscape.

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BIFF Offscreen: The Wind Blows Wherever it Wants

Through the hands we get to know the world, not only the space and the objects that occupy it, but life and death, violence and love giving.

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BIFF Offscreen: The Swan

A woman finds a version of beauty and acceptance on the stage of reality television programming.

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BIFF Offscreen: Stereo Nostalgia & Telematic Rides Along the Caribbean. Day 1.

A meditation on photography and memories of a city.

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Night Zero Party

Stop by to pick up and your Bison Pass and toast the chaos to come – stay for the Stereo Nostalgia & Telematic Rides Along the Caribbean...

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Malaisia

An exploration of the intoxicating rhythms of city life told through a love triangle.

Pacarrete

An eccentric, aging ballet dancer is hellbent on giving the town she grew up in the gift of one last performance.

Koi w/ Children of Spring

Lorenzo Squaricia’s moving portrait of two men honoring the twenty thousand victims of Japan’s 2011 tsunami.

BIFF Shorts: Global

International narratives from Austria, Spain, Japan, Denmark, and Croatia.

My Summer as a Goth

A tender, coming-of-age story about the search for love and belonging.

Frances Ferguson

Ripped from the headlines, Frances Ferguson is the tale of a substitute teacher’s marriage and affair.

JJ Lankes: Yankee Printmaker in Virginia

Eduardo Montes-Bradley directs this enlightening documentary about Buffalo native, woodcut master printmaker JJ Lankes.

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A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem

This documentary shines a spotlight on the NFL and its affiliate teams’ practices of wage theft and illegal employment of cheerleaders.

BIFF Episodic

Comedic and dramatic short form, multi-arch storytelling.

Jump Off Party~

Come for some laughs and spirits with fellow filmmakers, film fanatics, creatives-of-all-stripes...

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Live From The Astroturf w/ Freedom

40 years after the band parted ways, Alice Cooper reunites with the surviving members of the original band.

BIFF Shorts: Life and Times

Captivating slices of life from exciting cinematic voices.

Float w/ Backyard Astronaut

In the indoor sport of stunningly-designed model airplanes, a newcomer threatens to knock a teammate off his world champion throne.

Ovacik

A portrait of the daily lives of residents in Ovacik and efforts to create a sustainable economy via community-based agriculture.

Nose to Tail w/ The Dishwasher

A fading culinary star is haunted by his demons as he struggles to keep his Toronto bistro afloat.

Women in Film

Join the female identifying filmmakers helping to create parity in the industry one film at a time.

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The Fan Connection

A portrait of multiple generations of Buffalo Sabres fans and their unwavering devotion to their team.

BIFF Shorts: Local Youth

Curated by Squeaky Wheel students, this program features family friendly works from makers under age 18. Free admission.

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Below-the-line

This panel celebrates the behind-the-scenes talent that brings cinematic stories to life.

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Nonfiction Storytelling

An in-depth discussion with our documentary filmmakers on techniques and tactics for nonfiction storytelling.

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Spiral Farm

After two strangers arrive in her isolated commune, 17-year old Anahita begins to question her place in the world.

Surviving Lunch w/ Parkland: Stories from the Survivors

School shooting survivor Gabriella relocates to a Florida and navigates the cruel culture of her new high school.

The Butler

In Filip Bajon’s sweeping epic, an orphaned Kashubian boy is taken in by a Prussian aristocrat and grows up in her palace.

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Marion Stokes archived television broadcasts amassing a 70,000 VHS tape collection capturing wars, triumphs, catastrophes, and more.

BIFF Shorts: Influence Operation

Comedies, dramas and thrillers about role models, muses and social media influencers.

The True Adventures of Wolfboy

A 13-year-old social outcast runs away from his home to to search for his estranged mother.

The Sympathy Card w/ Jones

When Emma’s cancer takes a turn for the worst, she presents her new wife Josie with her dying wish.

Clover

Brothers Jackie and Mickey along with a teen witness Clover find themselves on the run from the city’s most notorious crime boss.

Della Bella

Festa! Sets by DJs JonLuc, Ellen Degenerate and Rufus Gibson.

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King Bibi

Chronicling Benjamin Netanyahu’s rise to power and the four decades of public appearances that changed Israel forever.

Dosed w/ Hope Served Fresh

After years of prescription medications failed her, a suicidal young woman turns to psychedelic medicine and healers.

I Am Human

Directors Taryn Southern and Elena Gaby explore thought provoking paradoxes and ethical quandaries with trailblazing subjects.

BIFF Shorts: Change-makers

Intimate documentary portraits.

Go Back to China

An aspiring, LA-based fashion designer finds her trust fund suspended and must return to China.

BIFF Shorts: Experimental

Cinematic poetry and essays in pixels and celluloid.

The Garden Left Behind w/ Welcome to the Ball

A Mexican trans woman struggles to make a life for herself as an undocumented immigrant in New York City.

BIFF Shorts: WNY Stories

Work by Western New York storytellers.

Rendezvous in Chicago

Three relationships in the process of life changing transformations.

BIFF Shorts: Students

Narrative, animated and documentary films celebrating emerging voices from around the region.

Buffaloed

A street-smart South Buffalo hustler finds herself in over her head when she takes on the debt king of Buffalo.

Foosballers

Joe Heslinga’s quirky documentary uncovers a forgotten piece of sports history.

Sunday Night Lights

Hang out and unwind Sunday night.

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BIFF Shorts: Danger Zone

NSFW meets WTF in our signature collection of late night shorts.

The Other Side of Mars

Do images capture reality or create it?

Decade Of Fire

A personal history of the Bronx in the 1970s when abandoned by city government, nearly a half-million people were displaced

Alive w/ This Happened to You?

A non-linear exploration of human relationships, love, and time shared through the denouement of terminal diagnosis.

Playing Hard

The worlds of a prosecutor, surgeon and student collide in Kinga Debska’s gripping drama.

Online Billie

He’s an aspiring actor looking for love. She’s a cam girl who has virtual sex with strangers as a side gig.

Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America w/ Lolo

The untold stories of LGBT+ refugees and asylum seekers who have fled intense persecution in their home countries to resettle in the U.S.

The Condor & The Eagle

Four Indigenous environmental leaders embark on a transcontinental adventure to unite the peoples of the Americas.

Working Man w/ The Cunning Man

An act of civil disobedience by a life-long employee of a recently closed plastic factory gives hope to his rustbelt community.

Crown Vic

A jaded LAPD veteran cop supervises a rookie’s wild first night on the streets in this chilling police procedural filmed in WNY.

Vanilla

A fledgling comedian sets out on a cross-country roadtrip to sell a van with a struggling tech entrepreneur.

Schemers

A fledgling promoter scams his way into bringing Iron Maiden to his small village.

Wrap Party

Closing night party.

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