Cries and Whispers

Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad.

Showcasing the best in documentary short films from around the world!

A bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories, from filmmaker From Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley & Christian Bale.

A frisky, feminine, film noir about psychoanalysis and many other things… 

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

It wants to be heard.

Showcasing the best in animated short films from around the world!

Among the most important documentaries ever made, The Thin Blue Line, by Errol Morris, erases the border between art and activism.

Showcasing the best in live action short films from around the world!

A six week course taught by Kaj Wilson!

Pre-film seminar by Dr. Shilpa Parnami of Boston University. 

The rain is coming...and so is the family.

In this five-week class, explore women's voices at the intersection of direction and cinematography.

With her take on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as a great visual tone poet of our time.

An unlikely friendship. An impossible mission.

Winner of the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

See it before, or after, watching Boorman and the Devil at BUFF! 

Presented by BUFF!

71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water. That's a big place to find one fish.

Peter Jackson brings J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings from page to screen in this epic, Academy-Award winning trilogy.

The new film from acclaimed director Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Transit).