One year later, we’re back. Not just watching. Not just reacting. Interviewing filmmakers. Hosting events. Filling chairs with new friends. And once again—talking about movies that made us squirm, gasp, argue, and occasionally question our emotional stability.
đź“ą Why CUFF Still Matters (Especially to Us)
CUFF isn’t your average film festival. It’s weird in all the right ways.
The programming leans bold, sometimes campy, often beautifully uncomfortable. It champions the undistributed, the emerging, and the offbeat. If Sundance is the studio audition, CUFF is the secret basement tape that gets passed around until it changes everything.
And for us, CUFF was the first time we really sat down to watch, reflect, and record what we thought—not as critics, but as real people. It’s our cinematic hometown. So yeah… we were a little emotional this year.
🎥 Five Films That Caught Us Off Guard
Across a packed 10 days, we saw a lot. But five films stuck with us. Each for completely different reasons.
Some were devastating. Some were absurd.
Some made us question genre boundaries.
Others made us… avert our eyes.
We’ll be sharing full reviews of each one in the coming days, but here’s a taste of the ride:
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One short film tore itself apart, limb by limb… and we kind of loved it.
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One feature had us staring at the floor in secondhand embarrassment (and full-body blush).
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One adorable rug turned out to be... hungry. Very hungry.
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One laundromat opened a portal to hell. No really. That happened.
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And one Alberta-made exorcism film asked us: what if God showed up and we didn’t like what He had to say?
We’ll let you guess which is which.
(Or just stick around and read the reviews—there are twists coming.)
The other thing that hit us this year?
The number of you who sat down beside us. Introduced yourselves.
Told us you’d listened. Argued with our ratings. Agreed with our hot takes.
Brought snacks. Brought questions. Brought your own perspectives.
That’s the dream. Because not everyone has a crew to go to movies with.
And if you don’t? You can always sit with us. That’s what Cade & Kit is really about.
🎯 What Comes Next
Over the next few days, we’re posting five full reviews—one for each of our top CUFF picks. Each post will follow our usual format: premise, reaction, breakdown, rating, pairings, and of course... us spiraling.
But before we get into that:
Thank you, CUFF.
For being weird. For being wonderful.
For giving us a home to come back to—and a reason to keep talking.
🎤 We’re Cade & Kit. Real People. Real Reviews.
And CUFF 2025 was a trip.
See you in the next post.
And until then, if you’re heading to a festival… you can sit with us.
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