The 2023 Buffalo Int'l Film Festival will be a multi-day, multi-venue festival occurring over Indigenous Peoples' Day holiday weekend. The festival will bring diverse, high quality programming of unique, independent and experimental films and filmmakers to Buffalo, and make them accessible to all. 150+ films will be presented, with screenings and events hosted at venues across the City of Buffalo. There will be Offscreen art/music/performance events, Red Carpet interviews, filmmaker Q+As, panels, and workshops.

Schedule of Events:

October 5, 2023:

1:00 PM: Where The Road Leads w/ Midnight Ride - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
3:00 PM: BIFF Shorts: Vast Confinements - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
4:30 PM: The Golden Thread - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
7:00 PM: unseen - Journey's End Cinema
9:00 PM: Eight Eyes - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

October 6, 2023:

10:30 AM: Tradition, Trauma & Tenderness - Burchfield Penney Art Center
12:00 PM: Meera - North Park Theatre
1:30 PM: Maria Schneider, 1983 + The Passenger - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
2:30 PM: Everybody Wants To Be Loved w/ Learning to Dance - North Park Theatre
2:30 PM: Aurora's Sunrise - Burchfield Penney Art Center
4:15 PM: BIFF Shorts: Film on Film - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
5:00 PM: BIFF Shorts: Local Portraits - North Park Theatre
5:00 PM: A Thousand Pines - Buffalo Toronto Public Media
5:30 PM: BIFF Offscreen: The Flicker - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
6:00 PM: Space Is the Place Party - House of Charm
6:15 PM: BIFF Offscreen: II - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
6:45 PM: Razing Liberty Square - Buffalo Toronto Public Media
7:00 PM: Starting From Zero - Journey's End Cinema
7:15 PM: If You Were The Last - North Park Theatre
7:30 PM: New Strains - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
9:30 PM: Only the Good Survive - North Park Theatre
9:30 PM: Poundcake - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

October 7, 2023:

11:00 AM: BIFF Shorts: Saturday Morning Cartoons - North Park Theatre
11:00 AM: BIFF Shorts: Racial Justice in View - Buffalo & Erie County Downtown Central Library – Mason O. Damon Theater
12:00 PM: BIFF Shorts: Connections - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
1:00 PM: The Only Doctor - Buffalo & Erie County Downtown Central Library – Mason O. Damon Theater
1:00 PM: BIFF Shorts: Experimental - North Park Theatre
2:00 PM: BIFF Shorts: Next Gen - Journey's End Cinema
2:15 PM: BIFF Shorts: Community - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
2:45 PM: BIFF Shorts: Coming of Age - Buffalo & Erie County Downtown Central Library – Mason O. Damon Theater
4:00 PM: Heartbreak Falls - North Park Theatre
4:30 PM: Eat Bitter - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
6:00 PM: Spare Key Party - Duende
6:45 PM: BIFF Shorts: WNY Stories - North Park Theatre
7:00 PM: BIFF Shorts: Episodic Stories - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
9:00 PM: Unfriending - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
9:30 PM: BIFF Offscreen: Stress Dolls - Duende
9:30 PM: The Puppetman - North Park Theatre
11:00 PM: BIFF Offscreen: Starjuice - Duende

October 8, 2023:

12:00 PM: BIFF Shorts: Students - North Park Theatre
12:00 PM: I Like It Here w/ Gone Before Your Eyes - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
12:30 PM: Into the Spotlight - Buffalo & Erie County Downtown Central Library – Mason O. Damon Theater
1:00 PM: Sunday Funday Party - Community Beer Works
2:15 PM: BIFF Shorts: Homefronts - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
2:30 PM: DMS@50+ - North Park Theatre
2:30 PM: BIFF Shorts: Family Films - Buffalo & Erie County Downtown Central Library – Mason O. Damon Theater
4:30 PM: Break The Game w/ Pronoia - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
4:45 PM: [six years] - North Park Theatre
6:15 PM: Under the Influencer - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
6:45 PM: Chasing Chasing Amy - North Park Theatre
8:15 PM: Scrap - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
9:00 PM: A Decade At DBs - North Park Theatre

October 9, 2023:

12:00 PM: Go On, Be Brave - North Park Theatre
12:30 PM: Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
2:30 PM: Love Is Not an Orange - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
2:45 PM: ????? / We Will Speak - North Park Theatre
4:30 PM: Alien Food - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
5:00 PM: 98 Degrees West - Zamir Discovers Bourdain's America - North Park Theatre
6:30 PM: Plan C - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
6:45 PM: Award Ceremony - North Park Theatre
6:50 PM: 2023 Tilke Hill W.i.P. Award - North Park Theatre
7:15 PM: Fancy Dance - North Park Theatre
8:45 PM: Kim's Video - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
9:30 PM: BIFF Shorts: Danger Zone - North Park Theatre

Dates: October 5 - 9, 2023

Location:

Various Venues,
Buffalo, NY 14201.

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