BIFF Shorts: WNY Stories
Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A
October 8-12, 2020
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!
