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BIFF 2013 Winners

BIFF Winners 2013 Low-Budget Feature (budget over €250k) StringCaesar Director: Paul Schoolman Micro-Budget Feature (budget under €250k) The Taiwan Oyster Director: Mark Jarrett No-Budget Feature (under €25k) Rumblestrips  Director: Toby Poser Sci-Fi/Horror Feature Route 30 Too!  Director: John Putch Documentary Feature People of a Feather Director: Joel Heath Female Director Johnny Ghost Director: Donna McRae Short Documentary (under 30 minutes) Between Borders Director: Dark Foterek Experimental...

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BIFF announces Official Selection for 2013 Festival

 BIFF Official Selection 2013 Feature Films: Little Red (83m) dir. by Tate Bunker Fat Cat (88m) dir. by Michele Fiascaris Ticket to the Circus (75m) dir. by Barbara Troy Route 30, Too! (87m) dir. by John Putch People of a Feather (52m) dir. by Joel Heath StringCaesar (88m) dir. by Paul Schoolman Kanse i Morgon “Maybe Tomorrow” (97) dir. by Mariken Halle Confine (91m) dir. by Tobias Tobbell The Final Member (75) dir. by Jonah Bekhor & Zach Math Welcome to Harlem (105m) dir. by Mark Blackman Weekend Retreat (75) dir. by Brett Harvey Verity's Summer (102) dir. by Ben Crowe Der...

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Submissions open for BIFF 2013

The Berlin Independent Film Festival has now begun accepting submissions for its 2013 festival.  Full submission info can be found here.

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BIFF Winner plays New York Festival

BIFF festival winner HAMBURG HAMBURG will play at the top Human Rights Film festival.  The New York-based 23rd Human Rights Watch Film Festival (a co-presentation of Human Rights Watch and the Film Society of Lincoln Center) has locked down its full lineup of 16 documentary and fiction films from 12 counrtries, 14 of which will be making their New York premieres at the Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater. This year's program is organized around five themes: health, development and the environment, LGBT and migrants' rights, personal testimony and witnessing, reporting in crises, and women's...

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BIFF announces Official Selection for 2012 Festival

BIFF OFFICIAL SELECTION 2012 Feature Films NOTES FROM THE OVERGROUND(83m, Germany) dir. by. Jens Volker ___ TONGUE TIED (108m, Canada) dir. by Sarah Ames ___ WAR ZONE (101m USA) dir. Tommy de Ferro ___ HEMMINGWAY (90m, France) dir. by Gregor Tsykov ___ PAPA DEATH (98m, Mexico) dir. by Mateo Torres ___ BROOKLYN HIEGHTS (76, USA) dir. by Samantha Rubins ___ MY LAST NIGHT ALIVE (54m, Sweden) dir. by Lara Axelsson ___ SAD SONGS SAY SO MUCH(87m, USA) dir. by Peter Tolley SHORTS AN EVENING WITH MY COMATOSE MOTHER (33m, U S A) Jonathan Martin LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK...

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