2024 All-Access Bison Pass
Buffalo, NY
BIFF's 2024 All-Access Pass to theatrical screenings and official events in Buffalo, NY
Read moreBIFF's 2024 All-Access Pass to theatrical screenings and official events in Buffalo, NY
Read moreSoft, fleshy, resourceful– the oyster is a talented creature of the sea– and has created a special, vintage BIFF brew w/ Aquadisia Water™!
Music, musicians, muses and fishes!
A neon fever dream in zebra print, wrapped in bubble gum. Girl Space is the place!
A "Mattel spokesperson" Daryl Hannah made a stunning announcement – all future Barbie dolls will be made from biodegradable mushrooms!
Energetic entities – performances + installation!
Electric palettes! Geometric abstractions!
Enjoy 'Unity Island' across the street from Unity Island at Turning Bridge Tavern!
Intimate choreographies of care and labor.
The next generation of great storytellers, now.
Read morePat Rowe becomes a mentor to countless people when he starts Silver Wheels, a wheelchair football team in Buffalo, N.Y.
Read moreKhanyisa - a 3-month-old, orphaned, albino elephant calf is brought to an 'elephant orphanage' to recover and find a new family.
Read moreA bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel - a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs.
Read moreThe Amazon Labor Union (ALU) takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.
Read moreTeen dreams and drama queens. The young and the restless.
Read moreFiction and nonfiction stories from around the world about the people trapped between the politics.
Read moreThe story of Detroit’s innovative and influential jazz musicians, and the meteoric rise and fall of this iconic, Rust Belt Sister City.
Read moreSome of Buffalo's brightest stars discuss their work in this year's fest and more!
This party will be marvvvelous ... Kiki + Karaoke = heaven!
Sometimes you have to rewind to move forward.
Read moreBIFF's Annual Awards Ceremony for Official Selections in Competition.
Quadrillions of invasive mussels are re-engineering the ecosystems of the Great Lakes at a scale unseen since the last glacial retreat.
Read moreJJ’88 serves a double-life prison sentence – he's committed and experienced violent harm – now he makes Hip-Hop and Soul music to survive.
Read moreA reflection on oral histories and their relationship to the land via Colombia's famed Páramo region; a living, elusive archive.
Read moreThree generations of Ukrainian women – the director, her mother, and her grandmother – experience loss as they live through the war.
Read moreWhen her hardworking husband suddenly dies, Alison is left to care for an alcoholic father-in-law, a failing farm, and two young children.
Read moreWhen her best friend moves away, Jazzy experiences both a sense of loss and her first inkling of independence.
Read moreDiasporic tales from around the globe.
Read moreAn exploration of the vanishing culture of private film collecting — an obsessive, secretive, often illicit world of basement film vaults.
Read moreAnti-ethnographic works that provide windows into the lives, minds and cultures of some of the world's most exciting Indigenous filmmakers.
After the death of her best friend, Ava is thrown into her senior year of high school alone.
Read moreJudge Iman grapples w/ paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his family, imposing draconian measures.
Read moreSit back, relax, and get uncomfortable.
Read moreA collective portrait of the Midwestern Swing State Michigan during cataclysmic events in 2020 - including a plot to kidnap the governor.
Read moreA young single mother defies societal norms by becoming a professional wrestler during a time when it was illegal in most of the U.S.
Read moreA couple find their lives turned upside-down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial star.
Read moreThe next generation of great storytellers, now.
Read moreRay once had everything. A job that he loved with the Coast Guard. The father to a family. But his addiction took it all away.
Read moreJoin us as we celebrate the work of industry veteran David L. Snyder – BIFF's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award Winner!
Read moreA verité portrait of a fractured America, offering an unprecedented look at right-wing activists as they search for purpose and power.
Read moreAfter losing everything, Desiree Wood takes a second lease on life as a long-haul truck driver.
Read moreA Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.
Read moreBIFF's Closing Night Gala film in focus – featuring Cabrini Star Cristiana Dell'Anna + Director Marco Gianfreda!
In a mysterious interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, lives interweave with each other in surreal and surprising ways.
Read moreKick back and unwind after 8 days of film, music and art!
A single mother and her son both fall in love, and struggle to find a balance between their home and romantic lives.
Read moreA witch and other strange things live in the attic above a lonely, dope-addled artist's home.
Read moreBIFF's Night Zero party is back at House of Charm! Psychic TV + New Wave listening party!
Reflecting on the Vietnamese new wave music scene, Ai takes a vulnerable, personal look at her community and revisits their unexamined past.
Read moreTwo friends make a disturbing pact. After they fail, one of them must return home to deal with the legal and emotional repercussions.
Read moreCinematic poetry in pixels and on celluloid; and works that experiment with the form, function and structure of film and media ecosystems.
Read moreFiction and nonfiction shorts that share decolonial themes, and focus on reciprocity and gratitude.
Read moreBIFF's Opening Night Gala Film in focus – featuring cast and crew!
The Navajo Nation struggles to restore vital living space in the radioactive desert of the American Southwest.
Read moreIntimate portraits of Western New Yorkers who have left a lasting impact on our region.
Read moreA folk-opera-romance and coming-of-age tale set in a commune, a runaway explores the contradictions and costs of living in utopia.
Read moreTwo brothers discover lost archives, and uncover the secrets behind this infamous film/production and its director (their father).
Read moreCarl decides to crash a wedding he was first invited to but isn't expected to attend, igniting a day of betrayal, violence, and redemption.
Read moreFun, family friendly cartoons made by creators across the globe and WNY’s leading animation programs.
Read moreEvocative shorts exploring racial and social justice issues.
Place-based nonfiction from Western New York, Southern Ontario and beyond.
Read moreCinematic poetry in pixels and on celluloid; and works that experiment with the form, function and structure of film and media ecosystems.
Read moreMovers, shakers, forgers, scrappers + more – films about scams, negotiations and doing the work.
Read moreFresh out of prison, Billy Skinner returns to his transformed low-income neighborhood.
Read moreThe story of Gaetano Tony Gaudio – the first Italian immigrant to win an Academy Award.
Read moreA collective effort from five Myanmar filmmakers to speculate on the future of the country that has been torn apart since the coup in 2021.
Episodics and shorts – a blend of lighthearted laughs, satire, (b)romances + more!
Read moreHe opened for the Rolling Stones, was a top attraction in San Francisco, performed for 2 Presidents and 1 Queen – all without saying a word!
Read moreVery few artists lived their art, but Genesis died three times for it. An intimate portrait that asks – 'what does magic mean to you?'
Read moreCroquet, pâté, surveys, small dairies/big feelings, Big Slurps – BIG FUN!
In 1997, tweens with a VHS camera filmed a horror epic. 25 years later, they edited it...
Tzeli humorously describes herself as "a double lesbian" – a woman who grew up on Lesbos, and a lesbian. Plus a tortoise named Tony!
Read moreJoin Mike and Jeff of media-hacking activist-art group The Yes Men for a live (mis)guided mixtape of recent corporate impersonations!
The life, films, and crew surrounding infamous independent Low budget filmmaker Mark Pirro.
Read moreUnique stories from around the block and around the region.
Read moreA buddy comedy about independence and the price of (regional) fame.
Read moreAn experimental nonfiction portrait of the Church of Satan, a global, half-century old religion that celebrates carnality and individualism.
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