48-HOUR MOVIE MAKING CHALLENGE Please join us for the 7th Annual CUFF 48-Hour Movie Making Challenge completed shorts showcase!
THE ABCS OF DEATH Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die. The ABCs of Death is perhaps the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived and directed by over two dozen of the world’s leading talents in contemporary genre film.
THE ACT OF KILLING A documentary that challenges former Indonesian death squad leaders to reenact their real-life mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
A BAND CALLED DEATH A documentary on the 1970s punk trio Death, and their new-found popularity decades after they disbanded.
BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.
BIG ASS SPIDER The latest offering from director Mike Mendez (Gravedancers, Bimbo Movie Bash), Big Ass Spider! is the ULTIMATE Tremors-style horrorcomedy creature feature!
CAFÉ CAFÉ Taking place in Montreal, Cafe Cafe is a romantic comedy of errors which follows Vlad, a lonely poet in search of love, who falls for Vanessa, a student working at his favourite cafe.
CLIP (KLIP) Jasna is a teenage girl living in the poor suburbs in the south of Belgrade, Serbia. She likes to record everything around her using a mobile phone camera. She is making videos of herself, her school friends, family and Djole - the boy of her dreams.
COMPUTER CHESS A 1980s-set story centered around a man vs. machine chess tournament.
THE CONSPIRACY A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.
THE FINAL MEMBER The world’s only penis museum has every animal specimen except one. Human. The Final Member follows the curator’s incredible journey to complete his collection.
FRANCES HA Frances, an apprentice in a dance company wants so much more than she has but lives life with unaccountable joy and lightness. This modern fable from Noah Baumbach explores youth, friendship, class, ambition, failure and redemption.
THE HISTORY OF FUTURE FOLK Two aliens form a Brooklyn bluegrass band.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY SELLING DRUGS Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.
I AM DIVINE A brand new documentary about the most beautiful woman in the world... the filthiest person alive... the legendary, the outrageous, the one and only... DIVINE!
I DECLARE WAR I Declare War is Stand By Me meets Full Metal Jacket as a group of 13-year-old friends play an innocent game of Capture the Flag in the neighborhood woods, arming themselves with nothing more than sticks and their imagination.
JUG FACE Jug Face is a modern folk tale steeped in rich atmosphere that follows a backwoods community where life is based around the worship of a deity known as The Pit.
LIFE, LOVE, LYRICS AND LOBSTERS Here you will find a fun (extreme) mixture of short films from around the world, in a variety of genres!
THE LORDS OF SALEM Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record -- a "gift from the Lords." The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?
MURDER OF COURIERS Murder of Couriers documents the lives of a group of bike messengers in Vancouver over a nearly three-year span.
NO ONE LIVES The director of Versus and The Midnight Meat Train returns with this exuberantly gory thriller about a clan of backwoods road bandits whose latest victims are far less helpless than they seem.
PICTURE DAY A rebellious teenager forced to repeat her last year of high school is caught between adolescence and adulthood - and between two very different male admirers.
PIETA A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
THE RAMBLER After being released from prison, a man known as The Rambler (Dermot Mulroney) stumbles upon a strange mystery as he attempts a dangerous journey through treacherous back roads and small towns en route to reconnecting with his long lost brother.
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON PARTY Back by popular demand is our retro Saturday morning cartoons special, perfect for all ages. Three hours of cartoon, plus all you can eat sugar cereal!
SIGHTSEERS Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.
UPSTREAM COLOR Upstream Color follows a man and woman who are drawn together and entangled in the life-cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
VANISHING WAVES Vanishing Waves, the second solo feature from Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte (The Collectress) is a bold work of science fi ction cinema that recalls the genre in its cerebral 1960s and 70s golden age.
BANANA MOTHERFUCKER Six adventurers go on a quest for a mystical cemetery and trigger an ancient curse that will destroy the entire world.
BIO-COP Astron-6 conducts another hysterical assault on late 80s cine-culture in this goopy, gooey and gross straight-to-videodisc send up of the likes of MANIAC COP & DEAD HEAT.
BLACK METAL After a career spent mining his music from the shadows, the actions of one fan create a chain reaction for the lead singer of a black metal band.
THE CAPTAIN A man wakes up with a hangover, only to discover the consequences of his actions.
CATERWAUL An aging fisherman develops and intimate relationship with a lobster as he struggles to find closure after losing his wife.
CATNIP: EGRESS TO OBLIVION? Catnip is all the rage with today's modern feline, but do we really understand it? This film frankly discusses the facts about this controversial substance.
ELEPHANT (ELEPHANTE) A doctor has diagnosed Manuel with a rare disease: Manuel is going to turn into an elephant.
FOR THE LOVE OF THE LAND An interpretive western captured on 16mm film, For Love of the Land is an ode to cinematic western motifs, fragmented story-telling, conquests for love, and vast Albertan landscapes.
THE HUNT A father and son, on a hunting trip to repair their fractured relationship, find themselves under siege by a strange and horrifying creature.
LITTLE APPLIANCE Two strangers on their first date will have a meeting out of the ordinary.
LOLLIPOP Audrey starts a grim new weight loss program after she loses a couple pounds due to the common cold.
POSTHUMAN A genius hacker and his dog help an enigmatic young woman to free the remaining test subject of a black-ops ESP test lab.
RECORD/PLAY War, fate, and a broken walkman transcend time and space in this sci-fi love story.
THE RIVER Desperate for a cooling swim on a sweltering hot day, a very pregnant Maria encounters a series of obstacles on her path to the river
SUPER EXPOSURE A tale of one super hero's accidental and embarrassing moment as an exhibitionist.
THANK YOU From the creator of Adventure Time, comes the story of an unlikely friendship that develops between a snow golem and a fire wolf cub.
TRAM It’s the humdrum daily routine for Tram’s conductress until one day the tram conductress’ desire turns the reality into a surrealistic and phallic fantasy.
THE TRANSMISSION While a storm rages outside and Henry drinks his bottle of absinthe, he receives a television transmission...from his dead wife.
The Calgary Underground Film Festival
