BIFF Offscreen: Barbara Hammer’s Evidentiary Bodies

Barbara Hammer’s first and only multi-channel installation is a hauntingly beautiful piece and is not to be missed!

Free Event

BIFF Offscreen: The Vasulkas – Orbital Obsessions + Art of Memory

Orbital Obsessions + Art of Memory on view sunset to sunrise Oct 8–12 on The Front Lawn @ Burchfield Penney Art Center.

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Runaway

In the summer '73 Content Knowles runs away from an upscale New England summer camp, hitchhiking cross-country to California.

Givers of Death (G.O.D.)

A hitman searches for redemption while on the run from a cop seeking revenge, in this apocalyptic, sci-fi tale.

BIFF Shorts: WNY Stories

Celebrating unique perspectives, voices and stories from Western New York.

Go/Don’t Go w/ Bodies

Heartbroken and paranoid, wallflower Adam traverses a barren landscape.

BIFF Offscreen: The Sun Also Rises, The Sun Also Sets

A literal cross-border exchange of perspectives and performances.

Free Event

BIFF Panels: The Vasulka Effect

This panel explores the life and work of video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka, and their extensive archive and storied legacy.

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BIFF Offscreen: Burst Elements – Carrier Band 2020

Using digital + analog electronics, + Harold Bode's music archive as source material, Carrier Band will perform a live audiovisual concert.

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BIFF Roundtables: Racial Justice in View

Discussion will focus on the film selections and related topics.

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BIFF Panels: Queer Genius

Panelists will discuss the film, their work, collaborative poiesis and exchange, the concept of genius, and more.

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BIFF Panel: Decolonial Film Panel

This panel takes deeper look at and discusses the films Woman Dress and K'i Tah Amongst the Birch.

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BIFF Panels: Distribution

This panel celebrates the behind-the-scenes talent that distributes, markets and sells films before, after and during their festival run.

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BIFF Roundtables: How to Overthrow the US Government (Legally)

Discussion will focus on the film, its unique production and related topics.

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Fall Back Down

Simultaneously a murder mystery and a RomCom, Fall Back Down is an anarchic, queer-punk romp brimming with heart and attitude.

BIFF Shorts: International Narratives

Stories from across the globe and into your home.

BIFF Shorts: WNY Stories

Celebrating unique perspectives, voices and stories from Western New York.

BIFF Shorts: Racial Justice in View

Works exploring issues of race, immigration, visibility, (in)justice and more.

Free Event

BIFF Shorts: Global Docs

Nonfiction dispatches from Poland, France, Greenland and Spain.

Two Komachis w/ Those Beautiful Moments

A grim reaper falls in love with the women he’s sworn to take to hell in this innovative genre-bending horror romance.

BIFF Shorts: Danger Zone

OMG / WTF / NSFW / LMFAO movies.

Queer Genius

Radical artists Barbara Hammer, Eileen Myles, Black Quantum Futurism, Moor Mother, and Dynasty Handbag / Jibz Cameron on genius.

BIFF Shorts: Lost Connections

Films about those lost and found moments in life.

BIFF Shorts: Students

A first look at exciting new voices in cinema.

The Last Out

Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their Major League dreams.

Beautiful Dreamer w/ A Dinner Party

This witty ensemble drama centers around a group of 40 somethings navigating messy secrets.

Freeland w/ Hung Up

An aging pot farmer suddenly finds her world shattered as she races to bring in what could be her final harvest.

The Donut Dollies

Director Norm Anderson follows his mother Dorset as she reunites with the Red Cross Donut Dollies 47 years later in Vietnam.

BIFF Shorts: Decolonial Spotlights

Anti-ethnographic works that provide windows into the lives, minds and cultures of some of N. America's most exciting Indigenous filmmakers.

Free Event

La Fameuse Invasion des Ours en Sicile

The story of Léonce the King of Bears, his lost son and brave clan, and their famous invasion of the land of men.

How To Stop a Recurring Dream w/ Two Winters

Faced with a split custody break-up, a family’s older daughter kidnaps her hostile sister.

Paper Spiders

College bound Melanie navigates senior year and her mother Dawn’s struggles with mental illness.

Marcus

Marcus, an unstable man with a history of mental illness sets out to reconnect with his pregnant daughter.

The Vasulka Effect

This intimate portrait explores the life and work of video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka.

Higher Love

A father of eight struggles to cope with his girlfriend's Nani’s crippling crack and heroin addiction.

BIFF Episodic

BIFF’s ongoing screening series about ongoing stories.

There’s No Place Like This Place Anyplace

A moving tribute to the changing landscape of Toronto’s Bloor and Bathurst Streets follows the demolition of longtime neighborhood staple.

Landfall

Kaleidoscopic portrait of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

The Walrus and the Whistleblower w/ Sleepless Flight

An ex-trainer at Niagara Falls, Ontario’s MarineLand exposes the park’s practices and is sued for plotting to steal a walrus.

How To Overthrow The US Government (Legally) w/ The Deepest Hole

Caveh Zahedi and Jacques Servin team up to teach an experimental media production class on How To Overthrow The US Government (Legally).

The Songpoet

Folk musician Eric Andersen dives deep into conflicts of career, ego, relationships and the unrelenting pursuit of one’s purpose.

Tahara

A casual game at their former Hebrew school classmate’s funeral service turns into a sexual awakening for two teen girls.

Determined: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Avraham Perlmutter w/ Alina

Keren Perlmutter traces her father’s incredible life from Nazi-occupied Vienna to his daring escape to the U.S.

Small Town Wisconsin

Wayne, a fun-loving, party animal living in the tiny town of Rhinelander, Wisconsin reconnects with his nine-year old son Tyler.

The Grand Unified Theory of Howard Bloom w/ Flag Country

Howard Bloom believes he’s figured out what the universe wants from each of us – he just needs to get it all down in the time he has left.

No Bone: Scars of Survival

Co-founder of the Wooster Collective Marc Schiller was working in the worlds of street art, music and film until a stroke altered reality.

Toprak w/ alterSchädel

An orphaned teenager dreams of life beyond his remote, impoverished Turkish village.

County Lines

An introverted 14-year-old eases into a life of crime when he’s befriended by a drug trafficker.

Runaway

In the summer '73 Content Knowles runs away from an upscale New England summer camp, hitchhiking cross-country to California.

The Disrupted w/ Dear Georgina

A rich observational portrait of three people in search of the American Dream.

Work

Buffalo-based experimental music ensemble Wooden Cities sets about to create their new album.

United We Sing

An a cappella group flies halfway around the world to collaborate with a choir of orphans in rural Kenya.

Cold Feet w/ Black Hearts, Red Hands

A bachelor party takes a supernatural turn.

Up On The Glass w/ Treeline Lake

Covering up a heinous act leads to an opportunity to live the life he’s always wanted.

Icarus: The Legend of Mietk Kosz

The true story of Mieczyslaw “Mietek" Kosz, a Polish jazz pianist who died in tragic circumstances.

Free Event

I Never Cry

When Ola’s father dies on a building site in Ireland, she must travel there to bring his remains back to Poland.

Youth Shorts Block

The next generation of storytellers – exciting new voices and work by filmmakers under 18.

Free Event