22nd Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 17-27, 2025

12th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 20-24, 2024

CUFFcade 2016

Calgary’s first independent video game arcade with custom-built cabinets!

Each April, the Calgary Underground Film Festival launches five new indie video games that are free to play, and they remain accessible at Globe Cinema throughout the year. These arcade cabinets feature five new, independent video games. CUFFcade is the only curated arcade of its type in Canada. CUFFcade will remain at Globe Cinema throughout the year, and will be free to play. 

2016 GAMES

3.2.1. GRENADES by BANYANGO - CALGARY, CANADA
A snowball fight with high explosives. Go up against a friend and blast them away.   

ASTERVOID 2000 by MAD CAPACITY - CALGARY, CANADA
Head to head dogfight through a sea of asteroids to be the first to rack up your kills.

PARADISE PERFECT BOAT RESCUE by KITTY LAMBDA GAMES - CALGARY, CANADA
Drive from island to island rescuing people, search for items, and perform missions.

SEEDSCAPE by DAPPER SWINE - MORRILTON, USA / CALGARY, CANADA
Defend and nurture the land, but don’t forget to find time to relax and enjoy life.

SEMISPHERES by VIVID HELIX - CALGARY, CANADA
Simultaneously control two characters in connected parallel realities.

More about CUFFcade

CUFFcade is an initiative which we started in 2015. Each year we will launch a new set of games at the April festival. These custom cabinets that house the games are portable and can be set up at off-season events. If you are interested in CUFFcade being a part of something in particular, please drop us a line! The games are curated by Mike Lohaus.

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