Calgary Underground Film Festival

CUFF Docs Review: 'People's Republic of Desire' Exposes the Dark Side of Chinese Social Media

Directed by Hao Wu

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2018

Obsolescence is the threat looming over every streaming host in People's Republic of Desire, the same that hangs over many content producer...

Jack of All Trades

Directed by Stuart Stone and Harvey Glazer

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2018

Stuart Stone and Harvey Glazer's documentary Jack of All Trades balances being an exposé of the baseball-card bubble of the '80s and '90s w...

Slave to the Grind: A Film About Grindcore

Directed by Doug Brown

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2018

It's almost hard to believe that, until now, a documentary on grindcore hadn't been made, given its multiple decades of existence and the i...

Roller Dreams

Directed by Kate Hickey

PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2018

Roller Dreams sneaks in a darker message underneath a veneer of candy-coloured '80s workout gear and breezy Californian nostalgia. It break...

Paper Year

Directed by Rebecca Addelman

PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2018

Paper Year tells the story of young newlyweds Dan Delaney (Avan Jogia) and Franny Winters (Eve Hewson) moving through their first year of m...

Pin Cushion

Directed by Deborah Haywood

PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2018

Deborah Haywood's Pin Cushion moves between gauzy fantasy and harsh reality, even as the stark real world doesn't always feel recognizably...

Vampire Clay

Directed by Sôichi Umezawa

PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2018

Vampire Clay introduces a monster peculiar enough to carry the movie on his own; in some ways, he could be an odd version of Terminator 2:...

Here's the Lineup for the 2018 Calgary Underground Film Festival

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2018

Today, the Calgary Underground Film Festival has pulled the curtain on the lineup for their 15th annual event, and we've got the full batch...