Movies
VTIFF presents films throughout the year.
- Weekly at The Screening Room, 60 Lake Street, 1st floor
- Curated movies and special series presented in our micro-cinema.
- $12 general admission | $6 student | member benefits apply
- Monthly at the Film House at Main Street Landing, 3rd floor
- International and independent cinema presented on the big screen.
- $12 general admission | $6 student | member benefits apply
- Host sponsor: Main Street Landing | Corporate sponsor: Northfield Saving Bank
Upcoming films
Thursday, May 7 @ 4 pm
BLUE HERON (2025)
The Film House
Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut, the story of childhood joy embedded in the confusion of a family’s growing crisis, confirms her status as one of Canada’s most exceptional emerging filmmakers.
Thursday, May 7 @ 7 pm
BLUE HERON (2025)
The Film House
Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut, the story of childhood joy embedded in the confusion of a family’s growing crisis, confirms her status as one of Canada’s most exceptional emerging filmmakers.
Friday, May 8 @ 7 pm
THE PIANO (1993)
The Screening Room
One of the great films of the 1990s, this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity earned Jane Campion the Palme d’Or at Cannes, the first woman so honored, and Holly Hunter an Oscar for her achingly eloquent silent performance.
Saturday, May 9 @ 7 pm
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
The Screening Room
Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously wicked as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid?
Friday, May 15 @ 7 pm
SWEETIE (1989)
The Screening Room
A feast of colorful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, Jane Campion’s tough and tender debut heralded the emergence of a startlingly gifted filmmaker, and ignited an international renaissance of Australian cinema.
Saturday, May 16 @ 3 pm
BILLY PRESTON: THAT’S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT (2024)
The Screening Room
Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, this is an exhilarating documentary about the legendary musician whose signature sound shaped the work of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Eric Clapton, and countless others.
Saturday, May 16 @ 7 pm
BILLY PRESTON: THAT’S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT (2024)
The Screening Room
Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, this is an exhilarating documentary about the legendary musician whose signature sound shaped the work of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Eric Clapton, and countless others.
Sunday, May 17 @ 3 pm
THE BIG HEAT (1953)
The Screening Room
This scorching tale of vice and retribution finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style—stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, fatalistic to the core—and features two of the most shocking scenes in all of noir.
Thursday, May 21 @ 4 pm
SILENT FRIEND (2025)
The Film House
At the heart of a German university grows a majestic ginkgo tree, its lifespan measured in centuries. The distinguished plant bears witness to the private lives of those who seek shade under its boundless branches (Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux), forming a nexus across time and space.
Thursday, May 21 @ 7 pm
SILENT FRIEND (2025)
The Film House
At the heart of a German university grows a majestic ginkgo tree, its lifespan measured in centuries. The distinguished plant bears witness to the private lives of those who seek shade under its boundless branches (Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux), forming a nexus across time and space.
Friday, May 22 @ 7 pm
FORCE OF EVIL (1948)
The Screening Room
This gritty, quintessential, eternally underrated noir is drenched in greed, cynicism, and corruption of the soul, as embodied by the great John Garfield. Renowned for its unique, poetic script, first-time director Abraham Polonsky creates a heightened, lyrical atmosphere that contrasts with the harsh, criminal underworld.
Saturday, May 23 @ 3 pm
AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (1990)
The Screening Room
With An Angel at My Table, Jane Campion brought to the screen the harrowing autobiography of Janet Frame, New Zealand’s most distinguished author, breaking new ground for female filmmakers everywhere and earning a sweep of her country’s film awards.
Saturday, May 23 @ 7 pm
AGATHA’S ALMANAC (2025)
The Screening Room
Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she resolutely tends to her land, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Shot by an all-female crew over six years on 16mm film, the project’s handmade materiality beautifully mirrors Agatha’s tactile world.
Sunday, May 24 @ 3 pm
AGATHA’S ALMANAC (2025)
The Screening Room
Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she resolutely tends to her land, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Shot by an all-female crew over six years on 16mm film, the project’s handmade materiality beautifully mirrors Agatha’s tactile world.
Friday, May 29 @ 7 pm
THE POWER OF THE DOG (2021)
The Screening Room
Jane Campion returned to the mythic frontier landscape to plumb the masculine psyche, becoming only the third woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. She charts this story’s repressed desires and psychic violence with the control of a master at the height of her powers.
Saturday, May 30 @ 7 pm
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
The Screening Room
A high-water mark in the genre, Out of the Past has everything you want in a film noir: a tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good, a drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good, and a moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark’s grin, plus double crosses, fall guys, shadowy rooms, and bleak souls.
Sunday, June 7 @ 3 pm
SUN RA: A JOYFUL NOISE (1980)
The Film House
Acclaimed musicologist and documentarian Robert Mugge’s most celebrated portrait captures the visionary artist-philosopher-Afrofuturist and his avant-garde jazz Arkestra in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. VTIFF is thrilled to welcome filmmaker Robert Mugge for a post-screening Q&A.
Wednesday, June 10 @ 7 pm
THAT NIGHT’S WIFE (1930)
The Screening Room
Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + a special guest. Unfolding over the course of one night, Yasujiro Ozu’s That Night’s Wife combines suspense with the emotional domestic drama one associates with the filmmaker’s later masterpieces.
Thursday, June 11 @ 7 pm
HORSESHOE (2025)
The Screening Room
Horseshoe is a deliciously prickly dramedy set in the wild west of Ireland. When the head of the Canavan family dies suddenly, his four estranged adult children return to handle the family estate, but more than one Canavan sibling is harboring secrets.
Saturday, June 13 @ 4 pm
HORSESHOE (2025)
The Screening Room
Horseshoe is a deliciously prickly dramedy set in the wild west of Ireland. When the head of the Canavan family dies suddenly, his four estranged adult children return to handle the family estate, but more than one Canavan sibling is harboring secrets.
Saturday, June 13 @ 7 pm
NO PICNIC (1986)
The Screening Room
Featuring very early parts for Steve Buscemi and Luis Guzmán (not to mention a prominent turn from Richard Hell), Philip Hartman’s forgotten indie is an invaluable artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village, finally unearthed and given the 4K restoration treatment.
Sunday, June 14 @ 2 pm
NO PICNIC (1986)
The Screening Room
Featuring very early parts for Steve Buscemi and Luis Guzmán (not to mention a prominent turn from Richard Hell), Philip Hartman’s forgotten indie is an invaluable artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village, finally unearthed and given the 4K restoration treatment.
Saturday, June 27 @ 4 pm
MAD BILLS TO PAY (OR DESTINY, DILE QUE NO SOY MALO) (2025)
The Screening Room
Shot guerilla-style in 14 days in the Bronx, Joel Alfonso Vargas’ debut feature is a one of the most visually striking movies of the year, a life-on-the-margins comedy about a teenage “nutty” hustler unceremoniously thrust into adulthood.
Saturday, June 27 @ 7 pm
MANAS (2024)
The Screening Room
Island of Marajó, Amazon rainforest. 13-year-old Marcielle lives by the riverbanks with her father, mother, and three siblings. As Tielle matures, her idealized visions shatter, leaving her trapped between two abusive environments.
Sunday, June 28 @ 1 pm
MANAS (2024)
The Screening Room
Island of Marajó, Amazon rainforest. 13-year-old Marcielle lives by the riverbanks with her father, mother, and three siblings. As Tielle matures, her idealized visions shatter, leaving her trapped between two abusive environments.
Sunday, June 28 @ 3:30 pm
MAD BILLS TO PAY (OR DESTINY, DILE QUE NO SOY MALO) (2025)
The Screening Room
Shot guerilla-style in 14 days in the Bronx, Joel Alfonso Vargas’ debut feature is a one of the most visually striking movies of the year, a life-on-the-margins comedy about a teenage “nutty” hustler unceremoniously thrust into adulthood.
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.
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.