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Media Arts Program

Sunday, October 12 at 12:00 pm

Buffalo International Film Festival & Hallwalls present

Buffalo International Film Festival 2025

Join us for screenings of shorts and features happening throughout the day at Hallwalls as part of the 2025 Buffalo International Film Festival. Click on the links below to see more about the individual shows, many with the filmmakers in attendance!

BIFF Panel: Building A Career in Film Production
10:45 am
Join the team behind The Revenge of La Llorona and Film Commissioner Tim Clark for a look behind the lens!

BIFF Shorts: Trips + Transformations
12:00 pm
Tender, funny and trippy stories from around the world. Expect the unexpected. Filmmakers Jessica Kourkounis (The Space Between Attack and Decay), Antonio Enrique Cavallo (Metamorphosis), Sarah Galasso (Shalom), and Christine Banna (Retreat Into The Swamp) will be in attendance. Program runtime is 91 minutes.

BIFF Shorts: Resilience + Resistance
2:15 pm
Stories of resilience and resistance, and bold cinematic visions exploring cultural connections to the past, present and future. Runtime is 89 minutes.

BIFF X0 Program 4: Medicine + Magic
4:30 pm
Medical interventions and magical reels! A collection of experimental sci-fi and magical realism. Elisa Gonzalez (Freya) and Kathy High (Lazarus: Becoming Vulture) will be in attendance. Total runtime is 72 minutes.

Apostasy Blues + The Pitch
6:15 pm
Peter Pavlakis (director of Apostasy Blues) and David Ebert (writer and co-director of The Pitch) will be in attendance.

The Stingy Tailor
8:15 pm
Vit Horejs performs a on-man show of Czech fairy tales. His marionettes speak in a dozen voices, dance, play violin, swim and fly. Buy a ticket to Wooden Hearts and receive a complimentary beer!

Wooden Hearts
8:30 pm
An aging puppeteer worries about his son, who is terribly sad, for he too was once a performer, until the puppeteer cursed him with the worst fate of all - existence. Filmmakers Onur Tukel (writer/director), Bonnie Stein (producer), star, Vít Hořejš, and composer, Michael Montes, will all be in attendance.