What a wild and wonderful Day Two!
After an intimate Artist Talk with Islands filmmaker Martin Edralin at the AFCOOP office, we camped out in the Light House Arts Centre for a Friday night double bill of Amalia Ulman's El Planeta and the Ryan Steel Retrospective.
Then we packed Good Robot's speakeasy space for a sold-out late-night screening of Jane Schoenbrun's We're All Going to the World's Fair.
Read MoreHIFF 2022's opening night was truly a blast. The fest made its return to in-person screenings to a packed-house presentation of Martin Edralin's Islands, followed by an insightful and genuinely moving Q+A with the filmmaker. Then we basked in the dreamy beauty of Rhayne Vermette's Ste. Anne before wandering off into the night.
Read MoreThe 16th annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival makes its triumphant return to in-person screenings TONIGHT at 7 p.m. We're very excited to kick things off with ISLANDS, the celebrated feature debut from Martin Edralin, who will join us for a live Q+A after the screening.
Read MoreWe're just one day away from HIFF 2022!
Read MoreHIFF Day Three will begin with Short Vacation, Seo Han-sol and Kwon Min-pyo's story of four middle-school girls in search of the end of the world. They hop on the Seoul Metropolitan Subway line with just backpacks and disposable cameras, and what starts as a whimsical class project soon becomes a quietly moving ode to facing the unknown. This gentle, wise-beyond-its-years debut forgoes narrative conflict to produce a cinema of pure joy, packed with moments as blissful and unstructured as summer break.
Read MoreOn HIFF Day Two, we’re thrilled to present EL PLANETA, Amalia Ulman’s stylish debut drama, which hearkens back to the pre-code comedies of the 1930s while carving out a fresh, effervescent filmic sensibility that's entirely its own.
Read MoreJoin the HIFF team! The Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is now hiring two positions for our 2022 fest, set to take place June 9–12, 2022.
Read MoreAFCOOP is accepting applications from the community for emerging programmers for the inaugural HIFF After Images series debuting in the fall of 2021.
Read MoreThe HIFF staff would like to send out a huge thank you to everyone who joined us online during this challenging year. Your enthusiasm and support kept the HIFF spirit alive for this 15th annual fest, and we can't wait to put in serious hours in a dark cinema together again as soon as possible.
Read MoreLoath as we are to admit it, the final day of HIFF 2021 is here. Fortunately we've got one last day of incredible screenings, plus a double bill of illuminating live panels on the books to close it out right. Check the Dailies below and go forward with full confidence you're in on all Day Four has to offer!
Read MoreIt's the weekend, which means the serious watching can truly begin on HIFF Day Three! Our lineup of online panel discussions and artist talks also takes off today with two can't-miss sessions featuring some truly thoughtful and inspiring filmmakers from near (Nova Scotia New Wave Panel) and far (Artist Talk: The American Sector's Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez).
Read MoreLook around you: film lovers everywhere are uniformly sun-baked and grass-stained this morning, and it's because HIFF 2021 kicked off yesterday with an incredible virtual Garden Party! It had everything: films, trivia, a person in a banana suit, exactly one ice-cream sandwich. Thank you to everyone who joined us!
Read MoreThe 15th annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is upon us, and we're thrilled to take in four days of beautiful, boundary-pushing cinema online together—and it's all available RIGHT NOW! We've also got a stellar program of virtual artist talks, panels and discussions ahead of us. Be sure to check the HIFF Dailies each morning so you don't miss a thing!
Read MoreEvery year, HIFF presents a selection of Atlantic Canada’s most bold and exciting new short films in our Atlantic Auteurs program. As we celebrate our 15th anniversary this year, we’re taking a look back at some of the most moving and innovative works from Atlantic Auteurs’ history in this FREE retrospective screening. Join us in revisiting the classics, discovering new favourites, and revelling in the stunning range of talent our region has to offer.
Read MoreAt HIFF 2021, we're thrilled to present Nadège Trebal's fiction feature debut, Twelve Thousand, a film she not only wrote and directed, but in which she delivers a magnetic performance in the co-starring role.
Read MoreIn The Cloud In Her Room, the debut feature from Xinyuan Zheng Lu, a young woman named Muzi returns home to Hangzhou to find the remains of her life in a state of slow decay. Her parents have separated and are already tangled in new relationships; their old apartment is empty and deteriorating. Figures from her past come and go as the city prepares for Chinese New Year celebrations.
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