BIFF SHORTS: DOING NONE OF THE THINGS

Slackers, burnouts, and drama queens make unintentional self-discoveries. Total runtime is 95 minutes.

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INDIVISIBLE DIVIDE

Linan Xian (Dir), 16 minutes, China, US Premiere

In Mandarin w/ English subtitles.

A woman flees to Dali in search of an ideal life, only to find—through a dispute over a high-voltage pylon and a hallucinatory poisoning episode—that so-called “healing” is merely a gentle veil cast over reality.

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CREDIT QUEEN

Holly Moore (Dir), 23 minutes, USA, Western New York Premiere

Writer/Director Holly Moore and Star Amanda Baxter in attendance.

Straining to mirror the ideal tradwife, Marigold lives in a 1950s-inspired dystopian world where perfection is currency. She builds her life on precisely curated rituals and rehearsed, pretty lies until even she starts to believe them. As the pressure mounts, the cracks in her performance begin to show.

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PRINCESS SPARKLES

Marlena Lerner (Dir), 15 minutes, USA, Western New York Premiere

When her girlfriend dumps her for being an unreliable mess, Lucie accidentally signs up to pet-sit a “Princess”–only to discover she’s actually a nippy, Fox News-watching pig. What starts as an inconvenience turns into an unhinged crash course in responsibility, as Lucie learns that sometimes the only thing standing between you and self-improvement… is 200 pounds of attitude on a leash.

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WAKING UP FROM A NAP ON A LONG DAY OF DOING NOTHING

Thom Hilton (Dir), 29 minutes, USA, New York State Premiere

With the guidance of his best friend and mystical grandfather, a young painter – anxiously awaiting his first gallery show – embarks on a surreal skateboard odyssey through Portland to discover the true value of his art.

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I'M AUTISTIC AND ALSO THAT B!TCH

Izzy Rabey (Dir), 6 minutes, UK, US Premiere

Late diagnosed Autistic woman, Rayne, explores the after care support, or lack of, for late diagnosed adults whilst going on a journey through the history of diagnosis.