Brisbane Underground Film Festival 2016

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 2016 picks continue the trend. The highest-profile movie of the bunch is Sebastian Silva's excellent Nasty Baby starring Kristen Wiig and TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe; however there's something for all offbeat tastes at BUFF.

Moving yet again — this time from January to February on the calendar, and to New Farm Cinemas, too — the festival opens with an effort about trying to create a follow-up to a Joe Swanberg film, and then keeps the movies about movies theme going with a documentary look at outsider artist and filmmaker Giuseppe Andrews. Want more? There's Applesauce' combo of radio talkback and severed limbs, A Feast of Man's cannibal dinner party and 600 Miles' drug-trafficking drama . That's your weekend viewing sorted.