BIFF SHORTS: SECRETS

Interior lives and exterior spaces. Total runtime is 74 minutes.

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HABIBI

Alexey Evstigneev (Dir), 16 minutes, Kazakhstan / France, Western New York Premiere

In Kazakh w/ English subtitles.

Kazakhstan. Laura and Daur live in an isolated village high in the mountains. Today, Laura will be traveling to the city to give birth.

Many thanks to Manifest Pictures.

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BURY ME HOME

Adel Kamal (Dir), 15 minutes, USA, Western New York Premiere

In English + Arabic w/ English subtitles.

A Syrian man flees a tragic past and arrives in New York to join his estranged brother, but as he struggles with assimilation, a devastating secret threatens to unravel their fractured bond.

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THE RUG

Camil Ghajary (Dir), 23 minutes, Canada / Iran, Western New York Premiere

In Persian w/ English subtitles.

Hamed, a hardworking rug cleaner in Tehran, faces a dilemma after discovering that one of the expensive Persian rugs he picked up for cleaning is missing. Desperate to find it and avoid the hefty cost of replacement, he retraces his steps, growing increasingly suspicious of his friends who handled the order the previous evening.

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CAPTAIN LIMA

Filipe Carvalho (Dir), 20 minutes, Brazil, Western New York Premiere

Director Filipe Carvalho in attendance.

In Portuguese w/ English subtitles.

In the future no one could be free. A man returns to Capitão Lima Street, in downtown Recife, trying to relive the night he kissed another man for the first time. But is it possible to relive the freedom of a memory?

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