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BIFF Shorts: WNY StoriesBIFF Shorts: WNY Stories

BIFF Shorts: WNY Stories

October 4-8, 2018

Virtual Screening

BIFF Shorts: WNY Stories

Shorts by Western New York media makers. (92 minutes total runtime)

Sherman, Patrick Houge, (Dir.), 25 minutes, USA, 2018

A man returns for his father’s funeral and becomes consumed with finding his family’s cat that’s gone missing in this Medina-shot family drama.


Sefid, Maliheh Rahrovan (Dir.), 3 minutes, USA, 2018

A 13-year-old boy imagines his death in this unconventional, animated thriller.


YanYan, Yuxin Zhao (Dir.), 9 minutes, USA, 2018

A deaf Chinese immigrant and her husband find “home” in this captivating poetic documentary.


The Last Year, Liam Peterson (Dir.), 23 minutes, USA, 2018

A worldwide phenomenon known as The Calendar Plague comes to town in this thrilling local pilot.


Zero Shapiro, Brett Roedel (Dir.), 12 minutes, USA, 2018

A 13-year-old boy runs across the country in search of the man who raised him.


My Neighborhood, Annette Daniels Taylor (Dir.), 10 minutes, USA, 2018

A poetic documentary exploring Buffalo’s Leroy-Fillmore district as told through the eyes of its residents.


Post Verba, Collin Hotchkiss (Dir.), 10 minutes, USA, 2018

A woman with a hyper-sensitivity to sound moves to the forest to escape in this tightly constructed psychological thriller.

  • Video from Zero Shapiro

    Directed by: Brett Roedel

    Still from Zero Shapiro

    Still from Zero Shapiro

    Directed by: Brett Roedel

  • Video from Sherman

    Directed by: Patrick Hogue

    Still from Sherman

    Still from Sherman

    Directed by: Patrick Hogue

  • Video from My Neighborhood

    Directed by: Annette Daniels Taylor

    Still from My Neighborhood

    Still from My Neighborhood

    Directed by: Annette Daniels Taylor

  • Video from Post Verba

    Directed by: Collin Hotchkiss

    Still from Post Verba

    Still from Post Verba

    Directed by: Collin Hotchkiss

October 4-8, 2018

Virtual Screening

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