Boulder International Film Festival

BIFF offers filmmakers superb hospitality, excellent exposure opportunities and huge, enthusiastic audiences, all combining to create an incredible festival experience. Filmmakers enjoy luxurious accommodations and receive a VIP pass to the legendary parties and galas. Great food and drink, skiing just 45 minutes from Boulder, and fantastic parties every night all add up to one of the most welcoming, filmmaker-friendly festivals on the circuit.

BIFF attracts more than 20,000 film enthusiasts, media, and industry each year, and has been proud to host and celebrate some of film's most talented artists, including Award-winning actors Martin Sheen and William H. Macy at BIFF 2012, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and Oscar-nominated actor James Franco at BIFF 2011 (one week before he hosted the Academy Awards) and Oscar-nominated actor Alec Baldwin at BIFF 2010 (three weeks before he hosted the Academy Awards).

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3^rd edition

2007 | 15 - 18 February

Selected short films

Edition details

Badgered

United Kingdom | 2005 | 7:00

Director: Sharon Colman

A pair of pesky crows disrupts a grumpy badger's quest for sleep.

Bawke

Norway | Jun 2005 | 15:00

Director: Hisham Zaman

Two Kurdish refugees from Iraq, a father and son, approach their goal after being on the run for a long time. However, it is only when they arrive at ...

A Cigar at the Beach

United States | 2006 | 15:00

Director: Stephen Keep Mills

A man withdraws to an empty beach to smoke a cigar and fantasize. An approaching storm out across the water mirrors the storm inside him as his fantas...

Lucky

United Kingdom | 2005 | 20:00

Director: Avie Luthra

Lucky is a South African AIDS orphan who learns about life through an unlikely bond with a racist Indian woman.

Silence is Golden

United Kingdom | 2006 | 14:00

Director: Chris Shepherd

My neighbour’s a right loony. He's always banging our wall down. I'm used to it. I think other people's houses are well weird. There's no knocking - r...

The Wraith of Cobble Hill

United States | 2006 | 15:00

Director: Adam Parrish King

On a cold winter street in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, in a worn-down shoebox apartment, lives a teenage boy named Felix. Felix chooses the direction of hi...