BIFF Shorts: WNY Stories
Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A
October 4-8, 2018
BIFF Shorts: WNY Stories
Shorts by Western New York media makers. (92 minutes total runtime)
Sherman, Patrick Houge, (Dir.), 25 minutes, USA, 2018
A man returns for his father’s funeral and becomes consumed with finding his family’s cat that’s gone missing in this Medina-shot family drama.
Sefid, Maliheh Rahrovan (Dir.), 3 minutes, USA, 2018
A 13-year-old boy imagines his death in this unconventional, animated thriller.
YanYan, Yuxin Zhao (Dir.), 9 minutes, USA, 2018
A deaf Chinese immigrant and her husband find “home” in this captivating poetic documentary.
The Last Year, Liam Peterson (Dir.), 23 minutes, USA, 2018
A worldwide phenomenon known as The Calendar Plague comes to town in this thrilling local pilot.
Zero Shapiro, Brett Roedel (Dir.), 12 minutes, USA, 2018
A 13-year-old boy runs across the country in search of the man who raised him.
My Neighborhood, Annette Daniels Taylor (Dir.), 10 minutes, USA, 2018
A poetic documentary exploring Buffalo’s Leroy-Fillmore district as told through the eyes of its residents.
Post Verba, Collin Hotchkiss (Dir.), 10 minutes, USA, 2018
A woman with a hyper-sensitivity to sound moves to the forest to escape in this tightly constructed psychological thriller.