The Big Apple Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing and promoting the highest quality films from the New York City independent film community, as well as additional specially selected films from across the country and around the world. Additionally, the festival is proud to honor a variety of New York City based filmmakers, writers, actors and artists who have played an influential role in the growth of independent filmmaking in the Big Apple. Each season, BAFF presents awards in a various categories in filmmaking and screenwriting.

Schedule of Events:

November 2, 2023

Opening Reception
Runtime: 120 minutes
Celebrate with the filmmakers at the opening night party of the 2023 Big Apple Film Festival (Fall Edition)! Includes a free drink ticket and light hors d'oeuvre.

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November 3, 2023

1:00 PM: From Zero to a Hundred
Runtime: 115 minutes
Director: Matteo Banfo

3:15 PM: Short Documentaries

Aureo & Mirele
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Filipe Galvon

Resurgence
Runtime: 19 minutes
Director: Krushan Naik

Rossi and Company
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Agata De Santis

Before the Oil
Runtime: 12 minutes
Director: Roel Swierenga

Enduring Spirit
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Suyorukun

5:00 PM: Sweetwater
Runtime: 118 minutes
Director: Martin Guigui

7:30 PM: Opening Night Program

The Shepherd
Runtime: 39 minutes
Director: Iain Softley

I Am What You Imagine
Runtime: 7 minutes
Director: Matthew Modine

The Arrival
Runtime: 74 minutes
Director: Alyssa Rallo Bennett

9:45 PM: Unicorns
Runtime: 93 minutes
Director: ALEX LORA

November 4, 2023

1:00 PM: Short Films

The One Note Man
Runtime: 21 minutes
Director: George C. Siougas

being
Runtime: 16 minutes
Director: Ziyne Abdo

Inhuman Tethers
Runtime: 21 minutes
Director: George Anthony Richardson

Five Flights
Runtime: 9 minutes
Director: Daryl Denner

Promises, Promises
Runtime: 14 minutes
Director: Yunyi Zhu

Order My Steps
Runtime: 19 minutes
Director: Augusta Palmer

Missing Her
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Karl Shefelman

Strangers
Runtime: 6 minutes
Director: Slav Velkov

3:30 PM: Salta
Runtime: 60 minutes
Director: Trevor Hillis

5:30 PM: Glue Trap
Runtime: 89 minutes
Director: Justin Geldzahler

8:00 PM: Short Films

Let's Get Crazy
Runtime: 3 minutes
Director: Jonathan Fine

No Rain (No Rainbow) and Dog Named Snake
Runtime: 6 minutes
Director: Gabriel Simone, Carlos Ramirez

Lovejoy: Portrait of a Blank Slate
Runtime: 4 minutes
Director: Ted Nivison

The Beginning of the End
Runtime: 23 minutes
Director: Justin Cole Mossa

The Casting Couch on Greenwich St
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Aliza Brugger

The Flip Side
Runtime: 7 minutes
Director: Sophie Worm

The Last Fare
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: David Breckman

Footprints In The Forest
Runtime: 18 minutes
Drector: Juhaidah Joemin, Sandra Khoo

My  [New York]
Runtime: 17 minutes
Director: Alrick A Brown

Rabbit Hole
Runtime: 25 minutes
Director: Aaron Schoonove

November 5, 2023

1:00 PM: Don't Tell Larry
Runtime: 95 minutes
Director: Greg Porper, John Schimke
After lying to her new eccentric coworker Larry about a company party, an ambitious corporate flunky must deal with the deadly consequences.

3:15 PM: Exile
Runtime: 90 minutes
Director: Jason James
Just prior to his release from prison, Ted Evans receives a threat from the man whose family he killed in a DUI – ‘if you make contact with your family, I’ll kill them’. Believing that the danger is real, Ted exiles himself to a reclusive life to protect his family. However, Ted’s wife, Sara, knows the threat is merely a manifestation of her husband’s profound guilt. Determined to rebuild their family, she tracks Ted down to confront him with hard evidence that the threat is imagined. Sara has no idea just how unhinged Ted has become… or how real the threat may be.

5:30 PM: Undivide Us
Runtime: 73 minutes
Director: Kristi Kendall
America is at a crossroads where politicians, traditional media, and social media fan the flames of toxic partisanship that have led many Americans to question whether they can trust their fellow citizens. UNDIVIDE US stands as a beacon of hope and a call to action. Through the intimate lens of six focus groups across three American cities, the film explores the twisted landscape of toxic polarization, revealing how it drives us to places fundamentally un-American places.

7:30 PM: A Basement In Queens
Runtime: 77 minutes
Director: Adam Forgash
This film is a personal journey that pulls back the curtain on the secretive and often abusive world of the troubled teen industry (TTI), that preyed on teens and their unwitting parents, often leading to lifelong psychological damage, PTSD and hosts of other issues that changed their lives forever

9:30 PM: Anything You Lose
Runtime: 64 minutes
Director: Irina Vodar
Anything You Lose explores the world of Reproductive Technologies and its effects on mental health. The documentary delves into the booming industry, where clinics compete for clientèle with high success rates, and follows the director on her personal seven-year journey. Irina Vodar and her husband Eddie are a couple who want to have a child but face challenges and pressures along the way. Through cinema vérité footage and narration, Vodar shares her intimate story of hope and resilience, and examines the psychological impact of reproductive technologies on patients, such as addiction, shame, isolation and silence.

November 6, 2023

1:00 PM: Left Alone Rhapsody - The Musical Memoir of Pianist John Bayless
Runtime: 110 minutes
Director: Stewart M. Schulman

3:00 PM: Short Documentaries

Remember the Children
Runtime: 23 minutes
Director: Arlo Iron Cloud

Kingdome
Runtime: 21 minutes
Director: Shawn Antoine II

Stealing Home: How Deed Theft Makes Homeowners Homeless
Runtime: 20 minutes
Director: Jonathan Lief

Forgiving Johnny
Runtime: 20 minutes
Director: Ben Proudfoot

The Dream Machine
Runtime: 9 minutes
Director: Andrew J Segreti

Signal
Runtime: 7 minutes
Director: Joey Mathews

5:30 PM: The Activated Man
Runtime: 115 minutes
Director: Nicholas Gyeney

8:00 PM: Episodic/Series

Awesome
Runtime:16 minutes
Director: Paul D'Arcy Munger

Nurses Station
Runtime: 7 minutes
Director: Nicholas Garr

The Big Below, Below The Big Below
Runtime: 13 minutes
Director: Leon Joosen

Canusa Street
Runtime: 34 minutes
Director: Zack Morrison

Migrants
Runtime: 7 minutes
Director: Bryan Torresdey

Body Snatchers
Runtime: 22 minutes
Director: Nathan Colby

Marvin?
Runtime: 21 minutes
Director: Anton van der Linden

November 7, 2023

1:00 PM: Clocked
Runtime: 102 minutes
Director: Noah Salzman

3:00 PM: Short Films (Comedy)

Dulce
Runtime: 4 minutes
Director: Aleyda Ortiz

Amplifying Feedback Loop
Runtime: 3 minutes
Director: Vanessa Sweet

Pee Pee Platter
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Jon Conklin

The Swap
Runtime: 17 minutes
Director: Natasha Kaminsky

Stalled
Runtime: 12 minutes
Director: Eric Rich

Jackpot
Runtime: 9 minutes
Director: Josh Ricks

Tiny Joy
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Leena Pendharkar

Stuck
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: C. Fraser Press

Shadow Brother Sunday
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Alden Ehrenreich

Orson
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Bobby Paraknight

A Simple Stone
Runtime: 12 minutes
Director: Virginia Scaro

5:30 PM: Nothing Will Ever Be The Same
Runtime: 20 minutes
Director: Matthew A. Handal

5:30 PM: No Right Way
Runtime: 103 minutes
Director: Chelsea Bo

8:15 PM: Short Films

GrownUp
Runtime:  5 minutes
Director: Jee Kim

The Overlook
Runtime: 19 minutes
Director: John Gray

Mutual Feelings
Runtime: 37 minutes
Director: LaQuin Alexander

My New Cello
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Nick Canellakis

My Over There
Runtime: 13 minutes
Director: Bob

Imaginary Friends
Runtime: 14 minutes
Director: David T Wagner, David Allensworth

Purpose
Runtime: 16 minutes
Director: Jennifer Arjune

Catch Him
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Leah Bleich

November 8, 2023

1:00 PM: Student Films

End of Summer
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Weiqi Cai

I'm Just Gonna Talk to Her
Runtime: 17 minutes
Director: Megan Higley

Embrace
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Thomas Webster

New Lives
Runtime: 20 minutes
Director: Joey Schweitzer

& yet here we are
Runtime: 5 minutes
Director: Andy Clay Huey

Lip Service
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Arnav Mangla

BOXED
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Alam Virk

Space Coast
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Caroline Bates

Masked Men
Runtime: 24 minutes
Director: Ralph Calle-Schulz

3:30 PM: Tabula Rasa (Kora Kagazz)
Runtime: 102 minutes
Director: Nawneet Ranjan

5:30 PM: Out of My Comfort Zone
Runtime: 105 minutes
Director: Ivy Vale

8:00 PM: Stories for my Children’s Children: Lessons from the Holocaust
Runtime: 62 minutes
Director: Christopher Wells

9:30 PM: A Table of Our Own
Runtime: 89 minutes
Director: Ayize Jama-Everett

November 9, 2023

1:00 PM: Short Films

Dream Girl
Runtime: 25 minutes
Director: Jeremy Max

Adult Children of the American Revolution
Runtime: 7 minutes
Director: Juliette Fairley

Night Hawkes
Runtime: 13 minutes
Director: Atlas Ferrera

All Choked Up
Runtime: 4 minutes
Director: Allison Volk

The Ocean Listens to No One
Runtime: 19 minutes
Director: Jasiel Louison

Same As It Ever Was
Runtime: 7 minutes
Director: Sam Wilson

Springs
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Morgan Healani Mein

3:45 PM: Short Films

Our Ukranian Sky
Runtime: 12 minutes
Director: Bobby Roth

The World Is Lit by Lightning
Runtime: 16 minutes
Director: Greg Roderick

Civic Duty
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Arthur Woo

The Sperm Donor
Runtime: 14 minutes
Director: Alana McNair

One More
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Alex Grybauskas

Two Shovels and a Will
Runtime: 21 minutes
Director: Nicholas Cirillo

Grace
Runtime: 18 minutes
Director: SuzanMarie

6:30 PM: Horror Program

The Bargain
Runtime: 15 minutes
Director: Alec Patchin

Sleep Study
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Natalie Metzger

Alone Together
Runtime: 94 minutes
Director: William Kresch

9:00 PM: Closing Night Feature

I Shoot Pictures!
Runtime: 18 minutes
Director: Steven Greenes

Bibi
Runtime: 96 minutes
Director: Christopher William Beatty

Date: November 3 - 9, 2023

Location: Cinema Village Theater, 22 East 12th Street And University Place, New York, NY 10003

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