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VTIFF presents films throughout the year.

Upcoming films

Wednesday, July 8 @ 7 pm
THE GOLEM (1920)
The Screening Room

Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + Will Andrews (aka Willverine). Widely recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, the ancient Hebrew legend of the Golem provided actor/director Paul Wegener with the substance for one of the most adventurous films of the German silent cinema.

Thursday, July 9 @ 7 pm
RASHOMON (1950)
The Screening Room

Without a doubt one of the 20th century’s most influential pieces of storytelling, movie or otherwise, Akira Kurosawa’s breakout international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema to the Western world.

Friday, July 10 @ 3 pm
LAND (2026)
The Film House

Includes a Q&A with filmmaker Orly Yadin. Born into a family of influential Zionist thinkers and archaeologists whose work helped shape the ideology of early Israel, filmmaker Orly Yadin sets out to examine the foundations of the worldview that defined her upbringing.

Friday, July 10 @ 7 pm
LAND (2026)
The Film House

Includes a Q&A with filmmaker Orly Yadin. Born into a family of influential Zionist thinkers and archaeologists whose work helped shape the ideology of early Israel, filmmaker Orly Yadin sets out to examine the foundations of the worldview that defined her upbringing.

Saturday, July 11 @ 4 pm
POMPEI: BELOW THE CLOUDS (2025)
The Screening Room

Shot in beautiful black and white, distinguished Italian documentarian Gianfranco Rosi details with pointillist precision a region in Naples living under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and above the simmering Campi Flegrei volcanic caldera.

Saturday, July 11 @ 7 pm
POMPEI: BELOW THE CLOUDS (2025)
The Screening Room

Shot in beautiful black and white, distinguished Italian documentarian Gianfranco Rosi details with pointillist precision a region in Naples living under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and above the simmering Campi Flegrei volcanic caldera.

Sunday, July 12 @ 3 pm
PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE (1985)
The Screening Room

Is it overstating things to call Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, the first film for both director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman, one of the high-water marks of American comedic cinema? Well, maybe, but it’s very, very funny and has definitely achieved “comedy classic” status.

Thursday, July 16 @ 7 pm
THRONE OF BLOOD (1957)
The Screening Room

Hands down the best Shakespeare adaptation in cinema history, this vivid, visceral take on Macbeth sets the Bard’s immortal tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded feudal Japan.

Friday, July 17 @ 4 pm
ASK E. JEAN (2025)
The Film House

The thrilling story of E. Jean Carroll’s life, from her early days as Miss Cheerleader USA to her rise as a trailblazing journalist, author, and beloved advice columnist to her tenacity as the only woman to beat Donald Trump in court… twice.

Friday, July 17 @ 7 pm
ASK E. JEAN (2025)
The Film House

The thrilling story of E. Jean Carroll’s life, from her early days as Miss Cheerleader USA to her rise as a trailblazing journalist, author, and beloved advice columnist to her tenacity as the only woman to beat Donald Trump in court… twice.

Saturday, July 18 @ 4 pm
UNDERLAND (2025)
The Screening Room

Based on the bestselling book by Robert Macfarlane, and narrated by Oscar-nominee Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall), Underland follows several “astronauts of the underworld” as they travel deep below the Earth’s surface.

Saturday, July 18 @ 7 pm
UNDERLAND (2025)
The Screening Room

Based on the bestselling book by Robert Macfarlane, and narrated by Oscar-nominee Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall), Underland follows several “astronauts of the underworld” as they travel deep below the Earth’s surface.

Sunday, July 19 @ 3 pm
MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN (1979)
The Screening Room

Monty Python’s Life of Brian remains the famously anarchic British comedy troupe’s most controversial work, a brazen and hilarious satire of dogma and blind faith in which nothing is sacred.

Thursday, July 23 @ 7 pm
THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (1958)
The Screening Room

A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could create, this rip-roaring ride, among the director’s most beloved films, was a primary influence for George Lucas’s Star Wars.

Friday, July 24 @ 4 pm
HONEYJOON (2025)
The Film House

In this layered, sexy comedy, June and her Persian-British mom, Lela, travel to the romantic Azores islands for a grief anniversary, with contrasting ways of coping.

Friday, July 24 @ 7 pm
HONEYJOON (2025)
The Film House

In this layered, sexy comedy, June and her Persian-British mom, Lela, travel to the romantic Azores islands for a grief anniversary, with contrasting ways of coping.

Saturday, July 25 @ 4 pm
FORASTERA (2025)
The Screening Room

Teenager Cata is summering at her grandparents’ house in Mallorca but her idyllic vacation is cut short when her beloved grandmother abruptly dies. As the family mourns the loss, Cata begins to feel an unexpected and meaningful pull toward her abuela’s belongings.

Saturday, July 25 @ 7 pm
FORASTERA (2025)
The Screening Room

Teenager Cata is summering at her grandparents’ house in Mallorca but her idyllic vacation is cut short when her beloved grandmother abruptly dies. As the family mourns the loss, Cata begins to feel an unexpected and meaningful pull toward her abuela’s belongings.

Sunday, July 26 @ 3 pm
PLAYTIME (1967)
The Screening Room

Jacques Tati’s brand of nearly-wordless comedy reached its apotheosis here, thrusting his lovably old-fashioned avatar, Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffling modern Paris.

Wednesday, August 5 @ 7 pm
HELL’S HINGES (1916)
The Screening Room

Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + Avery Cooper. This violent, morally shocking early feature-length Western features America’s first cinematic cowboy hero, William S. Hart, who became one of silent cinema’s most famous actors.

Thursday, September 17 @ 7 pm
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928)
The Film House

Live improvised score by Freeway Clyde. Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era.