THE PLAYGROUND   Dir: Jack Tarling, England, 12 min, Short A man with learning difficulties becomes the target of a teenage gang. Can he escape the downward spiral his life has become,... + more info + watch trailer




CARNY   Dir: Alison Murray, Canada, 75 min, Documentary CARNY is an intimate, gritty and poetic adventure following the lives of 'carnys' - traveling fairground workers whose exper... + more info + watch trailer

COCAIS, THE REINVENTED TOWN   Dir: Ines Cardoso, Brazil, 15 min, Documentary A poetic documentary film made with the patients and employees of an asylum town in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This is t... + more info




SWASHBUCKLERS   Dir: Jean Baptiste Saurel, France, 10 min, Short Paris, December 31st, 2007. Arthur, his friend Clément and Clément's sister, Constance, are going to a fancy dress party. Pla... + more info




REINDEER AT WAR   Dir: Svein Andersen & Karl Rikardsen, Norway, 51 min, Documentary Military authorities want the Oskal family to slaughter their entire herd of 2,000 reindeer and abandon their traditional way... + more info

EARANO   Dir: Luke Matheny, United States, 13 min, Short In this comic twist on the classic Cyrano de Bergerac tale, a shy, big-eared tutor named Earl longs for a romance with the lo... + more info




THE LONELY BLISS OF THE CANNONBALL LUKE   Dir: Levi Abrino, United States, 11 min, Short A human cannonball named Luke returns home to a small town in Pennsylvania to launch himself back into the lives of his ex-fl... + more info




TRAIN TOWN   Dir: Keith Bearden, United States, 15 min, Short Two middle aged men stage a culture war in miniature at their model train shop.... + more info + watch trailer




WALNUT   Dir: Amy Gebhardt, Australia, 11 min, Short A lifelong bond between a teenage boy and his dog is coming to an end. Bottled up, the boy’s grief becomes a wall that sits b... + more info + watch trailer




JUST MAKE BELIEVE   Dir: Jadrien Steele, United States, 12 min, Short Two lonely dreamers masquerade in lives that are not their own in a search for happiness. But when they discover an uncommon... + more info




WELL-FOUNDED CONCERNS   Dir: Tim Cawley, United States, 14 min, Short Nathan Weller is an unapologetic germophobe. Aside from weekly group therapy, he lives in isolation, happily spending his day... + more info + watch trailer

SMALL APARTMENT   Dir: Andrew Betzer, United States, 8 min, Short A middle aged man, his son, and his daughter-in-law explore love and perversion in 700 square feet of space.... + more info




NOTHING ELSE MATTERS   Dir: Julia von Heinz, Germany, 100 min, Feature Carla runs away from home with grand plans of traveling to Lyon to study fashion. When her luggage is stolen at the train sta... + more info + watch trailer

FIX   Dir: Tao Ruspoli, United States, 93 min, Feature Racing across Los Angeles in one, unwieldy day, documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo must race from Beverly Hills to Watts--... + more info + watch trailer

PADAM...   Dir: Jose Manuel Carrasco, Spain, 12 min, Short Pilar doesn’t want to be alone, so she decides to go to a dating agency and she gets a blind date. What she doesn’t know is t... + more info




SAVE ANGEL HOPE   Dir: Lukas Erni, Switzerland, 99 min, Feature "Angel Hope" is a fictitious nun - a little like Mother Teresa, only much younger and prettier - who works at a fictitious ho... + more info + watch trailer

CRAWFORD   Dir: David Modigliani, United States, 74 min, Documentary What happens to the 705 residents of Crawford, Texas when George W. Bush moves to town? Shoved into the spotlight for politic... + more info + watch trailer

ON THE SAFE SIDE?   Dir: David Dietl, Germany, 72 min, Feature Journalist Sandra Harkow is producing an Infomercial for the Biometric-Lobby. It is to be presented in front of important Sta... + more info + watch trailer

(free) | 10:00pm | Sunday June 8 | Brooklyn Lyceum

awards ceremony
Through the resources of industry-related sponsors, the BiFF will award the winners with a total of $80,000 in prizes and film services. The ceremony will take place Sunday June 8 at 10pm. Where: Brooklyn Lyceum
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