Overview
You love movies, but you're tired of watching the same old film fare. You want to venture outside of your viewing comfort zone, and out of your home as well. That's where underground film festivals come in, sampling the weird and wonderful delights never to grace mainstream cinemas. In Brisbane, that's BUFF, the city's only festival championing the overlooked and the under-seen.
Since 2010, founder Nina Riddel has celebrated the eclectic and the experimental with the city's film fans, and her 2015 picks continue the trend. The highest-profile movie of the bunch is Alex Ross Perry's excellent acerbic comedy Listen Up Philip, starring Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss and Kristen Ritter; however there's something for all offbeat tastes at BUFF.
In its new January spot, the festival opens with a documentary about local legend and former Trash Video proprietor Andrew Leavold, and a look at internet-famous kitty Lil Bub. Want more? There's Doomsdays' wayward vagabonds, American Arab's insightful, intimate exploration of identity and perception, and I Am A Knife With Legs' tale of an international rock star on the run from an assassin. That's your weekend viewing sorted.
