muff

Muff or MUFF may refer to:

• Muff (handwarmer), a fashion accessory, usually of fur, for keeping the hands warm
  • Earmuffs, a device for protecting the ears
• Muff (chicken), a mutation found in chickens, which causes extra feathering under the chicken's face

The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) was formed out of disagreements over the content and running of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). When director Richard Wolstencroft's film Pearls Before Swine was not accepted by the Melbourne International Film Festival, Wolstencroft claimed it was because his film was too confrontational for the tastes of MIFF. As a response to the film's rejection by MIFF, Wolstencroft founded MUFF in 2000 as an alternative independent film festival, featuring mostly genre, controversial, transgressive and avant garde material. MUFF has been known for controversy with a recent public disobedience screening of Bruce LaBruce's LA Zombie gaining worldwide attention including coverage in the New York Times. Over the years, the festival has been outspoken on the poor state of the Australia film industry and the need to make more local genre films, and has championed many issues of freedom of speech and outsider politics and ideas. The festival has also discovered (first world festival to show the work of) Australian directors like James Wan, Greg McLean, Scott Ryan, Spierig brothers, Stuart Simpson, Patrick Hughes, Andrew Traucki, Dave de Vries, David Nerlich, Neil McGregor  and many others. International Guests of MUFF have included Bruce LaBruce, Lloyd Kaufman, William Lustig, Ron Jeremy, American film director Chris Folino, Michael Tierney, Peter Christopherson, Jim Van Bebber, Bret Easton Ellis, Gene Gregorits, Terry McMahon and Geretta Geretta.

Muff steht für:

• Muff (Geruch), einen Geruch, Synonym zum Begriff Mief
• Muff (Irland), Ort in Irland
• Muff (Kleidung), ein Kleidungsstück für die Hände

Muff (Magh in gaelico irlandese) è un centro abitato irlandese situato nella parte meridionale di Inishowen, in Donegal, Repubblica d'Irlanda, a pochissima distanza dal confine con l'Irlanda del Nord e dalla città di Derry. Nonostante le esigue dimensioni, Muff ha conosciuto un esponenziale incremento della popolazione negli ultimi anni a causa di una forte immigrazione di cittadini di Derry e zone vicine per il vantaggioso scambio con la sterlina britannica e la minor pressione fiscale della Repubblica rispetto all'Irlanda del Nord.

Muff (irl. Magh) – miejscowość w Irlandii, w hrabstwie Donegal, kilkanaście kilometrów od miasta Derry na terenie Irlandii Północnej. Mieszka tu około 1271 osób (stan z roku 2011).

Mufka (niem. Muffe) – część garderoby, która chroni ręce przed zimnem; rodzaj tunelu wykonanego z futra lub ocieplanego materiału, do którego wsuwało się dłonie z obu stron.