Berkshire International Film Festival

Berkshire International Film Festival
Location	Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Founded	2005
Directors	Kelley R. Vickery
Website	http://www.biffma.com/

The Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) was founded in 2005 by Kelley Vickery in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The four-day festival features independent films for filmmakers and film aficionados, with showings of features, documentaries, shorts, and animation—as well as panel discussions and special events focusing on filmmakers and talented artists from both sides of the camera.

It is scheduled in mid-May as a kick-off to the Berkshires cultural season.^[1] BIFF aims to provide filmmakers, producers, directors, writers and actors a place to present their work and to interact with each other and with the audience. The Festival aims to showcase challenging and relevant documentaries, and to provide a platform for Berkshire filmmakers. In 2010 the festival attracted 500 submissions, of which 77 were selected for screening.^[1]

Selected films

2016

Untouchable, directed by David Feige

2012

2 Days in New York, directed by Julie Delpy
Café de Flore, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée

2011

Pina, directed by Wim Wenders

2010

Cairo Time directed by Ruba Nadda
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg
Atletu (The Athlete) directed by Davey Frankel and Rasselas Lakew
Countdown to Zero directed by Lucy Walker
My Year Without Sex directed by Sarah Watt
Waste Land directed by Lucy Walker
Last Train Home directed by Lixin Fan

2009

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, directed by Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler
The Yes Men Fix the World, directed by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno
Spike, directed by Robert Beaucage
Burning Plain directed by Guillermo Arriaga
Pressure Cooker directed by Mark Becker and Jennifer Grausman