This listing is only the films screening at Hallwalls. Other locations are the North Park Theater, Squeaky Wheel, and Burchfield Penney Art Center.

A full schedule, festival passes, and individual tickets are available at the BIFF website.

12:00 p.m. - Chasing Portraits (Elizabeth Rynecki, 77 minutes, USA, 2018)
The great-granddaughter of painter Moshe Rynecki, a victim of the Majdanek concentration camp, seeks to regain her family's lost history.

2:00 p.m. - Dominee Tienie (Sallas de Jagar, 97 minutes, South Africa, 2018)
International Premiere. A reverend must face his fears and win back his confidence in order to lead his fragmented congregation into a new era in Sallas de Jagar's powerful drama.
Idol (Luisa Taraz, 9 minutes, Austria, 2018)
Struggling to finish a long commissioned work, artist Loudo finds himself inspired to create a masterpiece that changes his entire life.

4:15 p.m. - Mexman (Josh Polon, 90 minutes, USA, 2018)
NY Premiere. Germán is a young artist and filmmaker striving to complete his first feature film, while plagued by the ghost of a long-lost love and a battle for creative control with his producers in Josh Polon's obsessively crafted character study.
Lotte That Silhouette Girl (Carla Patullo, 10 min., USA, 2018)
This film animates the life of pioneering animator Lotte Reiniger who ignited the screen with shadows, light, and a pair of magical scissors.

6:45 p.m. - The Sentence (Rudy Valdez, 85 minutes, USA, 2018)
An examination of how draconian mandatory drug sentencing laws affect families.

8:45 p.m. - One Bedroom (Darien Sills-Evans, 83 minutes, 2018)
A 30-something couple in a gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood spend their final afternoon arguing and remembering better days.