BIFF Shorts: Danger Zone

BIFF Shorts: Danger Zone, 99 minutes

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

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Chowboys: An American Folktale

Astron-6 (Dir.), 9 minutes, WNY Premiere, Canada

Canada’s cult collective Astron-6 reunite to present a dark comedy that lampoons the winter western subgenre with absurdist hijinx and grotesque splatters. Festivals: Fantastic Fest, Sundance

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Kill

Quentin Guobadia (Dir.), 14 minutes, WNY Premiere, USA

A boy (Adam Giannone) is summoned by his government to give a testimony about his right to free speech in this Orwellian thriller.

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To Have and To Hold

Travis Carlson (Dir.), 8 minutes, Buffalo City Premiere, USA

When his pregnant wife (Maria Braun) becomes infected with a bizarre disease, a husband (Marc Braun) struggles with the possibility that their child will be born with the same affliction in this thriller.

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Boo

Rakefet Abergel (Dir.), 15 minutes, Buffalo City Premiere, USA

Over the course of a rough night, Devi (BIFF alum writer/director Rakefet Abergel), 7 years sober, must make a difficult choice between WHO she loves and WHAT she loves.

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Beachworld

Jackie Perez (Dir.), 14 minutes, WNY Premiere, USA

A lieutenant and her crew struggle to find her way off a mysterious desert planet in this thriller based upon a short story by Stephen King.

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Still Watching

Nick Green (Dir.), 3 minutes, World Premiere, USA

A young man comes home from a normal day...and then things get tense.

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It’s Not Custard

Kate McCoid (Dir.), 7 minutes, WNY Premiere, England

A magical gift with bizarre consequence grants bullied teenage the most delicious of revenges in this twisted, gooey comedy. Festivals: SXSW

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Re-Rehab

Daeil Kim (Dir.), 10 minutes, Festival Premiere, USA

A man, desperate to find his wife after her disappearance, searches for answers through the very technology that may have caused her disappearance in the first place in this WNY-based thriller.