BIFF Shorts: WNY Stories
Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A
BIFF Shorts: WNY Stories
Celebrating unique perspectives, voices and stories from Western New York.
Bound by Spring
Susan Kehl (Dir), 18 minutes, World Premiere, USA
An emotionally distant father (Mick O'Keefe) and daughter (Tina Mistric) find common ground on a stone that wields the power to transport them to a different world.
attention at tension
Azalia Muchransyah (Dir), 9 minutes, World Premiere, USA
University at Buffalo PhD candidate Azalia Muchransyah ponders anxiety, her career, global politics, isolation, motherhood and a Western New York winter through the COVID19 pandemic in a video journal told entirely through her computer screen.
Enid & Mami
Julia Reagan (Dir), 18 minutes, Festival Premiere, USA
Director Julia Reagan’s moving and often humorous short documentary explores the bond between a mother, a feisty Westside, Buffalo-based senior citizen and her daughter – an educator, pastor, and caretaker to her mother.
Maxine
Brandon Schila (Dir), 30 minutes, World Premiere, USA
This nod to no wave cinema, finds Frazier (Singer Jazmine) traversing a lonely WNY landscape, as she takes time off from performing for a self-discovery.
Father
Erika Mary Frase (Dir), 10 minutes, Buffalo City Premiere, USA
The worlds of two men with different life experiences collide when they realize that they’re not so different after all.
From A Distance
Akram Shibly (Dir), 22 minutes, World Premiere, USA
Syrian-American siblings (including WNY-based director Akram Shibly) reflect on the impact of the refugee crisis during a visit to Lebanon, uncovering the personal price the catastrophe has had on their family from a distance.
BIFF's WNY Stories Shorts Block is available online, and will also be screening at the Dark Alley Drive-in on Saturday, October 10, 2020 from 7:30 - 9:30 PM.
Watch the Virtual Red Carpet Interview for Enid & Mami here!
Video from
Bound by Spring
Directed by:
Susan Kehl
Video from
attention at tension
Directed by:
Azalia Muchransyah

Still from
Enid & Mami
Directed by:
Julia Reagan

Still from
Maxine
Directed by:
Brandon Schila

Still from
Father
Directed by:
Erika Mary Frase

Still from
From A Distance
Directed by:
Akram Shibly
Bound by Spring
— BIFF 2022 | Buffalo Int’l Film Festival (@BuffaloFilmFest) October 4, 2020
Dir by Susan Kehl#BIFF2020 Shorts: #WNYStories
An emotionally distant father and daughter find common ground on a stone that wields the power to transport them to a different world.
🚗 Drive-In
Oct 10 - 7:30pm @darkalleycinema
+ Online 👩🏾💻
attention at tension#BIFF2020 Shorts: #WNYStories
— BIFF 2022 | Buffalo Int’l Film Festival (@BuffaloFilmFest) October 4, 2020
Azalia Muchransyah ponders anxiety, her career, politics, isolation, motherhood and winter through the pandemic in a video journal told through her computer screen.
🚗 Drive-In
Oct 10 - 7:30pm @darkalleycinema
+ Online 👩🏾💻
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