Every Contact Leaves a Trace

Since 1990, filmmaker Lynne Sachs has collected 600 business cards—together they form an archive of encounters.

BIFF Panel: Bah, Humboldt!

In focus + on location w/ the directors + producers of HUMBOLDT + HUMBOLDT USA!

Free Event

Variations on Violence

Consumed by the distant violence he witnesses daily, a military drone pilot drifts toward self-destruction.

Human Resource

Working in HR, Fren closely observes people’s lives through interviews with numerous young new hires at her unjust company.

499 Days

A sweet Kentucky boy is diagnosed with an incredibly rare "orphan" brain cancer, and fights alongside his family with resilience and hope.

Take Me Home

A middle-aged Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s needs.

Possible Love

A fired factory worker and his wife become the focus of an affluent couples' documentary in Lee Chang-dong’s layered narrative.

BIFF X0: Bodies! Bodies?! Bodies.

Human bodies are physical instruments that move us through the environments we inhabit – they generate, amplify, and modulate meaning.

BIFF Shorts: Portraits

The iconic and the intimate!

BIFF Party: City of Bad Neighbors

Bad (but like, good bad – the best)!

Free Event

Humboldt USA

Countless places across the US still bear the name of Alexander von Humboldt — queer traveler, visionary naturalist, now largely forgotten.

Save the Queen w/ Getting Almost Naked

Memphis-based drag queen Bella DuBalle embodies resilience and the courage to be authentic in the face of adversity.

Little Audrey

A skeptical child psychologist is drawn into a world where faith and reason collide.

Josephine

After a young child witnesses a brutal assault in Golden Gate Park, she begins acting out violently to protect herself.

Anna by the Window w/ Dirty Myrtle

An aimless teenager roams the streets of NYC.

BIFF Shorts: Danger Zone

NSFW / WTF / LMFAO Movies!

BIFF Shorts: Saturday Morning Cartoons

Fun, family friendly cartoons from WNY’s leading animation programs and global creators.

Ideas of Order

A collision between the macro-collapse of ecosystems and the minutiae of cellular colonies.

Party USA

When Taylor can't get her shift covered after her dad dies, a downward spiral of red, white and blue-collared chaos ensues!

BIFF Shorts: Students (Saturday Showcase)

The next generation of storytellers, now!

BIFF Shorts: In Community

Films made by and about local and global communities.

BIFF X0: Imprints

Films about ecological relationships and exchanges, and our connections to our land and each other.

Line of Control

Some lines are drawn on maps. Others are drawn through lives. Based on the novel THE COLLABORATOR by Mirza Waheed.

BIFF Shorts: Pop Romance

Stories about love, heartbreak, relationships, pop music, and pop culture.