BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.4//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140522T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140522T210000 DTSTAMP:20140508T011019Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/maidentrip/ SUMMARY:Maidentrip DESCRIPTION:Maidentrip\nA film by Jillian Schlesinger\nA BURLINGTON FILM S OCIETY SCREENING\n(FREE for VTIFF Members\, CLICK HERE to find out more about membership)\n Documentary / First Run Features / English\, Dutch w . English Subtitles / 2013 / 82 Min\nGenevieve Jacobs\, a professor\, ps ychotherapist\, writer and native Vermonter who grew up sailing and boat-b uilding with her parents\, will be introducing the film.\nWinner Visions A udience Award – 2013 SXSW Film Festival\n15-year-old Laura Dekker sets o ut—camera in hand—on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be t he youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. In the wake of a y ear-long battle with Dutch authorities that sparked a global storm of medi a scrutiny\, Laura now finds herself far from land\, family and unwanted a ttention\, exploring the world in search of freedom\, adventure\, and dist ant dreams of her early youth at sea. Jillian Schlesinger’s debut featur e amplifies Laura’s brave\, defiant voice through a mix of Laura’s own video and voice recordings at sea and intimate vérité footage from loca tions including the Galapagos Islands\, French Polynesia\, Australia\, and South Africa.\nView trailer HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/mai dentripposter1.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140611T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140611T190000 DTSTAMP:20140508T000904Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/belvedere/ SUMMARY:Belvedere DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ahmed Imamovic | Bosnia-Herzegovina | 2010 | 90 min\nBosnian w/English subtitlesBianka LeGrand\, Bosnian-born Burlington C ity councilor will be present for Q&\;A\n\n \;\nAn emotionally rich portrait of war’s troubled aftermath\, Belvedere paints an uncommon i mage of patience\, faith\, love\, and above all\, forgiveness.\nBosnia &am p\; Herzegovina’s official submission to the 2012 Academy Awards ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bel vedere-poster.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140626T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140626T210000 DTSTAMP:20140626T220326Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beyond-the-hills/ SUMMARY:Beyond the Hills DESCRIPTION:A film by Cristian Mungiu\nA Burlington Film Society Screenin g\n(FREE for VTIFF Members\, CLICK HERE to find out more about membershi p)\nUnrated | Romania | Romanian w. English Subtitles | Sundance Selects & amp\; IFC Films | 2012 | 150 Minutes\nIn an isolated Orthodox convent in R omania\, Alina has just been reunited with Voichita after spending several years in Germany. The two young women have supported and loved each other since meeting as children in an orphanage. Alina wants Voichita to leave and return with her to Germany\, but Voichita has found refuge in faith an d a family in the nuns and their priest\, and refuses. Alina cannot unders tand her friend’s choice. In her attempt to win back Voichita’s affect ion\, she challenges the priest. She is taken to hospital and the people o f the monastery start to suspect that she is possessed. After ruling out a ll other options\, the priest and nuns decide to read her prayers to deliv er those possessed by the Evil One. They perform an exorcism\, but the res ult is not what they had hoped\, and Voichita begins to doubt the religiou s choice she has made. She decides to free Alina – but her decision come s too late.\nView trailer HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Bey ond_the_Hills-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140702T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140702T213000 DTSTAMP:20140709T225702Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bonsai-people/ SUMMARY:Bonsai People DESCRIPTION:Synopsis Celebrating the Vision of Muhammad Yunus from micro-c redit to social business. What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty\, hunger\, and inequality? To some \, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is do ing exactly that. Yunus did his part to fight poverty by micro-lending $27 to 42 women\, an effort which has now grown to 8 million women and 8 bill ion dollars. But he didn’t stop there\; whenever he sees a problem he st arts a social business – showing the world that complex problems sometim es do have simple answers. It’s not about handouts\, it’s about a hand up.\n\nFor more information about other films in the BAMF series\, click here. LOCATION:ArtsRiot\, 400 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United Stat es GEO:44.468216;-73.21477800000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=400 Pine Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ArtsRiot:geo:44. 468216,-73.21477800000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140713T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140713T190000 DTSTAMP:20140820T194448Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/quarnatina/ SUMMARY:Qarantina DESCRIPTION:Drama | Arabic w/English subtitles | 90 min | 2010\nDirected by Oday Rasheed\n\n\nA broken family lives uneasily within the gated courtya rd of a dilapidated Baghdad house. Hard up for money\, the family must li ve with a sullen and imperious boarder\, a contract killer. Iraqi filmmak er Oday Rasheed’s second feature gorgeously captures contemporary Baghda d’s moody interior and stunned atmosphere\, echoed in performances by a formidable cast who suggest unexpected resilience in the wake of catastrop he.\n\nSponsored by:\nJoel & Hinda Miller\nMarcia Hemley\nJane Kramer\n\n\ n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Muh anad-the-son.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140717T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140717T000000 DTSTAMP:20140625T052128Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/main-street-landing-presents-documented/ SUMMARY:Main Street Landing presents: Documented DESCRIPTION:In 2011\, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in an essay published in the N ew York Times Magazine. Documented chronicles his journey to America from the Philippines as a child\; his journey through America as an immigration reform activist\; and his journey inward as he re-connects with his mothe r\, whom he hasn’t seen in person in over 20 years. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/php Thumb_generated_thumbnail.jpeg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:12@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140724T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140724T200000 DTSTAMP:20140728T001957Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/best-of-nyc-childrens-film-festival-animated- shorts/ SUMMARY:Best of NYC Childrens Film Festival: Animated Shorts DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing\n\nAnimation\, 60 minutes\nIn English or Musical/No Dialogue\nRecommended for all ages!\n\nA kaleidoscop ic showcase of the best short film and animation from around the world. Pr ogram includes films from Sweden\, New Zealand\, France\, Switzerland\, Au stralia\, the UK\, and the United States.\n\nThe Little Bird and the Leaf\ nSwitzerland\nAnimation\, Lena von Döhren\, 2011\, 4 min \nIt’s winter. At the end of a branch hangs a single leaf. A little black bird comes alo ng to water it but just as the bird reaches the end of the branch\, a swi ft winter wind carries the leaf away.\n\nElia\nFrance\, Matthieu Gaillard\ , 2012\, 4.5 min\nIn this stunning watercolor-come-to-life\, a young girl is preparing for a trip to the beach with her dad and decides that her pe t goldfish should come along for the ride!\n\nNotebook Babies\nUSA\, Tony Dusko\, 2011\, 1 min x 3\nFrom NYICFF alumnus Tony Dusko\, a series of sho rt\, humorous meditations on life calibrated for the self-actualized presc hooler. Selected titles include “Believe in Yourself”\,” Moving Forw ard”\, and “Sharing”.\n\nGoat Herder and His Lots and Lots and Lots of Goats\nUK. Will Rose\, 2012\, 7 min \nBeneath a fuchsia sky\, a goat he rder leads his flock of goats up and down the mountains of Spain. Inspired by the filmmaker’s daughter\, this multi-award winning film uses a love ly muted color palette\, beautiful design and subtle humor to excellent ef fect.\n\nHow Can You Swallow So Much Sleep?\nUK\, Anna Ginsburg\, 2012\, 3 .5 min\nA little boy visits the moon as it exists in dreams an iridescent orb surrounded by translucent jellyfish and cellophane streams. Based on an Italo Calvino short story.\n\nThe Squeakiest Roar\nUK\, Maggie Rogers\, 2011\, 4 min \nThe littlest lion in the family just can’t seem to find his big bad roar\, but his little squeak might turn out to be his greatest asset.\n\nAnimal Beatbox\nAustralia\, Damon Gameau\, 2011\, 3 min\nDogs a nd cats and dogs and cats and dogs and cats and dogs and cats and dogs and cats and dogs and cats and\n\nMunggee\, Not Again\nSwitzerland\, Rothlin/ Walthert\, 2011\, 6 min\nSleepwalking can be very dangerous\, especially i n the mountains! In this delightful stop-motion movie\, two marmots and a hedgehog attempt to rescue their somnambulant friend.\n\nApache (Danger Be ach)\nNew Zealand\, Ned Wenlock\, 2011\, 2.5 min \nNeon paper cutouts crea te a continuously spiraling stage for an Apache guitarist and his Yeti ban d mate\, as they perform a twangy throwback to 60′s surf-rock and spaghe tti western soundtracks.\n\nThe Day of the Dead\nUSA\, Gary McGivney\, 201 1\, 8 min\nWith sugar skulls\, sweet-smelling marigold petals\, and joyful songs\, a family welcomes back its ancestors in this spirited and colorfu l tribute to a unique holiday.\n\nRed Sand\nFrance\, Audrey Bussi\, 2011\, 2 min \nA little boy picks up a shell on an empty\, secluded beach. Putti ng it to his ear\, he becomes lost in the sounds of the sea.\n\nAston’s Presents\nSweden\, Lotta and Uzi Geffenblad\, 2012\, 9 min \nImpatient for his birthday\, Aston whiles away the hours giftwrapping everything he can lay his hands on. When the big day arrives\, he discovers that the “rea l” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/BFS July-goat-herder-3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140804T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140804T213000 DTSTAMP:20140802T203548Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/max-and-mona/ SUMMARY:Max and Mona DESCRIPTION:Director: Teddy Mattera | 2004 | 98 minutes \nEnglish with some Tswana\, Afrikaans & Zulu\, w/English subtitles\nPresented with Arts Riot as part of the BAMF movie and dinner series Watch Global – Eat Local\n\ nSynopsis \nTraditional beliefs say that the souls of the dead will not jo in their ancestors until the mourners cry at their graves. Max Bua\, 19\, from a South African farm community\, has inherited his grandfathers talen t for mourning. Despite this heaven-sent gift\, Max has his sights set on becoming a doctor and must travel to Johannesburg to begin his studies. Wi th money the villagers collected for his tuition fees\, and a wedding gift \, he sets off to the city. Arriving too late to register and secure his r oom at the university\, Max must seek out his infamous Uncle Norman. Direc tor Teddy Mattera has constructed a slapstick comedy about a young boys co ming of age and his wild adventure with a most unlikely partner in crime.\ n\nAbout the Director\nTeddy Mattera was born in South Africa in 1963\, an d studied at the London International Film School and the Maurits Binger F ilm Institute in Amsterdam. He interned on the Oscar-nominated Hoop Dreams (1993). His early experience ranged from work on documentaries for televi sion in South Africa and the UK\, and on shorts\, commercials and music vi deos. He scripted the short Waiting for Valdez (2001) and directed the sho rt Norman Comes to Jozi (2002). Max and Mona is his first feature film.\n\ nFor information about other films in the BAMF series click here. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Max Mona-1024x685.jpg LOCATION:ArtsRiot\, 400 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United Stat es GEO:44.468216;-73.21477800000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=400 Pine Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ArtsRiot:geo:44. 468216,-73.21477800000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140806T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140806T213000 DTSTAMP:20140728T001027Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/future-of-hope/ SUMMARY:Future of Hope DESCRIPTION:This feature-length documentary film tells the story of a few I celandic people\,\nnot afraid to stand out from the crowd\, who are taking a different path towards a\nmore sustainable future.\n\nAcademics\, polit icians\, farmers\, scientists and visionaries all demonstrate how\nthe iso lated country of Iceland could – with a little help from their friends –\nbecome not only a testing ground for new technologies but also a comp letely\nsustainable ecosystem.\n\nPunctuated with beautiful photography an d a rousing soundtrack from Ampop\nfrontman\, Biggi Hilmars and featuring Damien Rice\, ‘Future of Hope’ is an\ninspiration for a changing world .\n\nFor more information\, visit http://www.futureofhope.co.uk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/172 -still_frame-1335543608.jpg LOCATION:ArtsRiot\, 400 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United Stat es GEO:44.468216;-73.21477800000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=400 Pine Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ArtsRiot:geo:44. 468216,-73.21477800000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140810T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140810T190000 DTSTAMP:20140714T221214Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sudan-film-factory-shorts/ SUMMARY:Sudan Film Factory (Shorts) DESCRIPTION:Shorts | Arabic w/English subtitles | 2010-2012 | 75 min\n\nThe Sudan Film Factory is a project of the Goethe-Institut Sudan. The projec t’s mission is to train young Sudanese talents in the area of filmmaking – script writing\, directing\, cinematography\, and editing. Through t he films created\, Sudanese daily lives and worlds\, stories and thoughts\ , dreams\, hopes and frustrations as well as passion for cinema are expres sed. \n\nTo read more about the Sudan Film Factory and the Goethe-Institut \, visit their website here.\n\nSponsored by:\nJoel & Hinda Miller\nMarcia Hemley\nJane Kramer ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Sud anFilmFactory-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140828T210000 DTSTAMP:20140828T190832Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/borgman/ SUMMARY:Borgman DESCRIPTION:Directed by Alex van Warmerdam | Netherlands | English &\; D utch w/English Subtitles | 113 Minutes\n\nA dark suburban fable exploring the nature of evil in unexpected places\, Borgman follows an enigmatic vag rant who enters the lives of an upper class family and quickly unravels th eir carefully curated lifestyle. Charming and mysterious\, Camiel Borgman seems almost otherworldly\, and it isn’t long before he has the wife\, c hildren and nanny under his spell in a calculated bid to take over their h ome life. However\, his domestic assimilation takes a malevolent turn as h is ultimate plan comes to bear\, igniting a series of increasingly maddeni ng and menacing events.\nAwards\nAFI Fest 2013\, Nominated\, Grand Jury Pr ize\nAthens International Film Festival 2013\, City of Athens Award\, Best Director\nCannes Film Festival 2013\, Nominated\, Palme d’Or\nSitges – Catalonian International Film Festival 2013\, Best Motion Picture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bor gman.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140903T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140903T213000 DTSTAMP:20140709T230420Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mugabe-me-and-a-million-tampons/ SUMMARY:Mugabe\, Me\, and a Million Tampons DESCRIPTION:Mugabe\, Me and a Million Tampons is a documentary gonzo odysse y into the darkness of a nation held in fear and torn apart by corruption. Beginning in South Africa\, a disillusioned photojournalist is employed t o document a charity trying to organise the transportation of women’s sa nitary aid into Zimbabwe.\n\nFrustrated by the complications\; packing a m illion tampons\, a camera and a romantic notion of being able to alter thi s reality\, he decides to head off alone and undercover into Zimbabwe hell -bent on trying to document the unseen horrors.\n\nDiscovering people who risk their lives every day to defy Mugabe\, he begins to question the medi a industry and the ethical dilemmas faced when photographing the dead\, th e dying and those on Mugabe’s hit-list to sell a story.\n\nWeaving inter esting characters\, comic moments and tragic stories to show the contradic tions that exist\, the film offers a personal view and surreal solution to the world’s greater inability to stop the slow genocide. The journey as ks us to contemplate our own role as witnesses by opening a live visual do orway to events that are happening right now. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mug abe-me-and-a-million-tampons-scaled.jpg LOCATION:ArtsRiot\, 400 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United Stat es GEO:44.468216;-73.21477800000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=400 Pine Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ArtsRiot:geo:44. 468216,-73.21477800000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140905T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140905T210000 DTSTAMP:20140829T235030Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/208-flynn-hop-party/ SUMMARY:208 Flynn Hop Party DESCRIPTION:208 Flynn Ave. is hosting a huge Art Hop Party this year! \n\n2 08 FLYNN HOPFriday\, Sept. 5th\, 5:00-9:00pmFREE AND ALL AGES\n\nPresented in partnership between VCAM\, RETN Vermont and Flynndog with live mus ic and films provided by Vermont International Film Foundation and Waki ng Windows.\n\nLive Vermont music presented by Waking Windows\, outside on the porch and west side lot\, featuring:\nAnd the Kids - "accessible un conscious existential indie glitter popsicle crisis music"\n&\; Great Valley - "chivalrous rock and roll duo."\n\nAward-winning Vermont-made f ilms presented by VTIFF\, featuring:\n\n"Toby McNutt: A Body of Work\," by Elizabeth Rossano and Ashley DeLucco – 7 mins. [Winner of the Goldstone Award]\n\n"It's Fresh!" By Stephen Maas – 6 mins. [Winner of the Footag e Farm USA Award]\n\n"Fuck You\, Lucy Pickens (The Orientation)\," by Matt Lennon – 17 mins. [Winner of Best Acting Ensemble and Best Screenplay]\ n\n"I am in here: A view of my daily life with good suggestions for improv ement from my intelligent mind\," by Emily Anderson – 35 mins. [Winner t he Ben &\; Jerry Award &\; VCAM Audience Favorite Award]\n\n"Still M oving: Pilobolus at Forty\," by Jeffrey Ruoff – 38 mins. [Winner of Best Cinematography]\n\nAll films are 2013 Vermont Filmmakers’ Showcase Awar d Winners!\n\nThere will also be food\, merriment\, and of course\, lots o f great art hanging throughout the building.\n\nMake this the place you st art or end your art hopping this year! ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/208 flynnhop.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T220000 DTSTAMP:20140907T003122Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/films-green-mood-indigo/ SUMMARY:Films on the Green: Mood Indigo DESCRIPTION:Films on the Green:Mood Indigo\nSeptember 11\, 2014\n6:30 - 10 PM\nCity Hall Park\n\n\n\nFREE ADMISSION!\n\nFood and music at 6:30pm\nFil m shorts at 8pm followed by Michel Gondry’s 2014 Mood Indigo\n\nJoin us for an evening of free movies for cinema-lovers\, Francophiles\, and all w ho appreciate outdoor summer arts festivities. There will be food trucks f rom ArtsRiot\, music by the popular Québécois singer Michèle Choinièr e\, followed by film short(s) and our feature: Michel Gondry’s highly ac claimed Mood Indigo (2014) all in City Hall Park.\n\nCo-sponsored by the  French Consulate in Boston\, the Department of Romance Languages and Ling uistics at UVM\, BCA\, Vermont International Film Foundation (VTIFF)\, th e Vermont Council on World Affairs\, Rhode Island International Film Fes tival (FLICKERS)\, VCAM\, Pomerleau Real Estate\,Funflicks Outdoor Movie s and Seven Days.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MIC over.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:15@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140914T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140914T190000 DTSTAMP:20140903T224647Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/4380/ SUMMARY:The Parade DESCRIPTION:\n\n \;\n\nDirector: Srdjan Dragojević Serbia  |  Serbo- Croatian\, with subtitles in English | 2011 | 115 minutes \n\nPresented in Partnership with Pride VT\n\nA group of gay activists in Belgrade strik es a tense alliance with Limun\, a Serbian crime boss\, whose fiancée dem ands an extravagant wedding that only struggling gay theater director Mirk o and his friends can provide. In exchange\, macho Limun reluctantly agree s to provide security for the group’s Pride parade. It’s a tall order: previous attempts to march met with mass violence from right-wing skinhea ds. When Limun’s gang balks at the assignment\, he recruits a band of fo rmer Balkan war combatants\, now dear friends\, who will stand up to the a ggressors Seven Samurai style\, in this rollickingly shrewd and humane com edic take on a vital human rights issue.\n\nThis event will also be part o f The North End Studios‘ birthday weekend celebrations!\nSponsored by\nJ oel &\; Hinda Miller\nMarcia Hemley\nJane Kramer\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/par ade34_lores.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:19@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140916T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140916T190000 DTSTAMP:20140914T180937Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/peace-justice-film-series-wounds-waziristan/ SUMMARY:Peace & Justice Film Series: The Wounds of Waziristan DESCRIPTION:\n\nDirected by Madiha Tahir | Pakistan | 2013 | 129 min.\n\n" It sounds very basic\, but it’s very hard when you try to execute it in journalism: the sense that we all are human." –Anthony Shadid\n\nWOUNDS highlights the stories of those directly impacted by drone attacks in Paki stan–in their own words.\n\nSince the drone attacks began in Pakistan in 2004\, much of the focus has been on the technology. And\, although the b orderlands between Pakistan and Afghanistan are endlessly debated and decl ared upon by journalists and pundits\, the ordinary people who actually li ve there are rarely heard from. WOUNDS records the voices of those who hav e been either labeled “militants\,” or summarily dismissed as “colla teral damage.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Waz iristan2.png CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140918T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140918T210000 DTSTAMP:20140914T060039Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/burlington-film-society-hard-days-night/ SUMMARY:A Hard Day's Night DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing\n\nA film by Richard Lester\n5 0th Anniversary Release - Based on new 4K restoration from the original c amera negative - NEW 5.1 surround mix produced by Giles Martin\n\nUK– 19 64 • running time: 87 minutes\n\nMeet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance\, John\, Paul\, George\, and Ringo began working on a project that would br ing their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A Hard Day’s Night\, i n which the bandmates play wily\, exuberant versions of themselves\, captu red the astonishing moment when they officially became the singular\, irre verent idols of their generation and changed music forever. Directed with raucous\, anything-goes verve by Richard Lester and featuring a slew of ic onic pop anthems\, including the title track\, “Can’t Buy Me Love\,” “I Should Have Known Better\,” and “If I Fell\,” A Hard Day’s Night\, which re-conceived the movie musical and exerted an incalculable i nfluence on the music video\, is one of the most deliriously entertaining movies of all time.\nAbout The Film Restoration\nUsing the latest in digit al restoration technology\, the Criterion Collection was able to restore A Hard Day’s Night from the 35 mm original camera negative\, which\, thou gh incomplete\, was in excellent condition. The missing material was taken from two original interpositives. The image was scanned in 4K resolution on a Scanity film scanner to retain the character of the film’s original printing stock without any generational loss\, and the raw data was caref ully treated using a variety of digital tools to remove dirt\, scratches\, flicker\, and other damage. The final result was approved by director Ric hard Lester\, and is in its original theatrical\naspect ratio of 1.75:1.\n About The 5.1 Surround Mix\nTo create the best possible 5.1 surround mix f or A Hard Day’s Night\, our first mission was to identify the best avail able original audio sources. In the case of the songs\, that was easy\, as we still have all of the original Beatles tapes here at Abbey Road. The s ongs from With the Beatles are on 2-track tapes. The later songs\, from th e album A Hard Day’s Night\, were recorded by the Beatles on 4-track tap es. Sadly\, in the case of the single “She Loves You\,” only the monau ral mix of the track still exists.\n\nIt is worth noting that\, as well as having different mixes than the original album tracks do\, the songs are slower in the film than on the albums. This difference is quite noticeable during the scenes where the Beatles are rehearsing and performing in the television studio. Our understanding is that these scenes were filmed at 2 5 frames per second\, rather than the usual 24 frames per second\, so the TV monitors could be shown without any aliasing effect (flickering). The o riginal underscore\, written by George Martin\, was recorded at CTS Studio s in London\; the original 3-track tapes for it were found at Capitol Stud ios in Los Angeles. To begin the remix process for the movie\, the tapes o f both the Beatles’ songs and Martin’s underscore were transferred to digital at high resolution (192kHz/24-bit).\n\nMore problematic for us was identifying the original master dialogue and effects track. Having evalua ted a number of different transfers and sources\, we chose the best monaur al tape based on tonal balance\, dynamic range\, and lack of distortion an d hiss. This track was then transferred digitally\, and we carefully remov ed such unwanted artifacts as clicks\, pops\, and distortion.\n\nWhen remi xing the Beatles’ songs in 5.1 surround\, our objective is to retain the original spirit\, vibrancy\, quality\, and charm while making subtle impr ovements to the balance\, tonal color\, and stereo picture. We employ many of the actual compressors\, echo chambers\, and plate reverbs used in the original recordings and mixes of these songs. Hopefully\, this approach b rings an authenticity to what we are doing and\, at the same time\, gives the listener a new way of experiencing the Beatles.\n\nOnce the mixes of t he songs were completed at Abbey Road\, we were fortunate enough to travel across London to Twickenham Studios\, returning A Hard Day’s Night to t he place where it was shot fifty years ago. It was there that we finalized the immersive 5.1 mix of the entire film.\n\nGiles Martin and Sam Okell\, Abbey Road Studios\, 2014\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bea tles.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:48@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140930T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140930T210000 DTSTAMP:20140918T205441Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/architecture-design-film-series-objectified/ SUMMARY:Architecture & Design Film Series: Objectified DESCRIPTION:FREE SCREENING\n6:00pm: food and cash bar\n6:30pm: screening\, followed by discussion\nIn Affiliation with VTIFF\n \n\nThe essence of d esign lies in its profound ability to affect how we think about and experi ence the world. Returning this fall\, a film series about architecture and design that engages\, provokes and inspires the community by exploring th e impact and importance of design and beauty in our lives.\nWe invite you to join us for thoughtful discussion and light refreshments in hopes that this creative gathering will broaden awareness\, foster connections\, spar k new ideas\, and ultimately build momentum towards positive action.\nMore at www.ADfilmseries.org\n\n\nAbout the Film:\nObjectified\nDirected by G ary Hustwit\, 2009\nUSA\, 75 minutes\nwww.objectifiedfilm.com\nObjectified is a documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work b ehind the objects and the designers\, who re-examine\, re-evaluate and re- invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about persona l expression\, identity\, consumerism\, and sustainability. What can we le arn about who we are\, and who we want to be\, from the objects with which we surround ourselves? Objectified encourages us to stop and notice our s urroundings and to think critically about creativity and consumption - how can good\, intentional design make these manufactured objects - and by ex tension our lives - better?\nThe Architecture + Design Film Series is spon sored by:TruexCullins\, Vermont Eco-Floors\, Riven\, Peregrine Design/B uild\,  AIAVT\, Emerging Professionals Network-AIAVT\,American Flatbrea d Burlington Hearth\, Wagner Hodgson Landscape Architecture\, Radio Bean /Duino Duende\, Roland Batten Fund\, John Bossange\, Mark and Marilyn Neag ley\, William Cats-Baril and Isabelle Desjardins\, Jared Gange &\;amp\; Virginia Loughren\, Anonymous Donors\nBCA Center video projector and scre en generously donated by the John M. Bissell Foundation\, Inc. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Obj ectified2.jpg LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:49@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140930T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140930T190000 DTSTAMP:20140918T210743Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/peace-justice-film-series-gasland/ SUMMARY:Peace & Justice Film Series: Gasland DESCRIPTION:GasLand\n\n\nDirected by Josh Fox\nUSA | 2010 | 107 min.\n\nWhe n filmmaker Josh Fox received an unexpected offer of $100\,000 for the nat ural gas drilling rights to his property in the Delaware River Basin\, on the border of New York and Pennsylvania\, he resisted the urge to accept. Instead\, he set off on a cross-country journey to investigate the environ mental risks of agreeing to the deal.\n\nGasland is Fox's urgent\, caution ary and sometimes darkly comic look at the largest domestic natural gas dr illing campaign in history\, which is currently sweeping the country and p romising landowners a quick payoff.\n\nThis screening and following discus sion presented by Rising Tide Vermont. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gas land2.png LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:104@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141001T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141001T200000 DTSTAMP:20140924T202144Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bamf-short-films-around-world/ SUMMARY:BAMF: Short Films From Around the World DESCRIPTION:The final BAMF screening at ArtsRiot will feature short documen taries from around the world\, including:\n\nDANCING THE REVOLUTION - Albi no Tanzanians face persecution and murder -- and organize dances in protes t.\n\nE-WASTELAND - Where our e-junk goes to junk up the world.\n\nWOMEN O F FUKUSHIMA - Six women talk Fukushima.\n\nTWO GIRLS AGAINST THE RAIN - A lesbian couple survives the Kmer Rouge.\n\n\n\nSponsored by:\n\n     ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bam fshorts3.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:ArtsRiot\, 400 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United Stat es GEO:44.468216;-73.21477800000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=400 Pine Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ArtsRiot:geo:44. 468216,-73.21477800000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:51@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141007T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141007T183000 DTSTAMP:20140918T212930Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/american-promise/ SUMMARY:American Promise DESCRIPTION:American Promise\n\n\nDirected by Joe Brewster &\; Michele S tephenson\nUSA | 2013 | 135 min.\n\nAmerican Promise spans 13 years as Jo e Brewster and Michèle Stephenson\, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn\, N.Y.\, turn their cameras on their son\, Idris\, and his be st friend\, Seun\, who make their way through Dalton\, one of the most pre stigious private schools in the country. Chronicling the boys' divergent p aths from kindergarten through high school graduation\, this provocative\, intimate documentary presents complicated truths about America’s strugg le to come of age on issues of race\, class and opportunity. Winner\, U.S . Documentary Special Jury Award\, 2013 Sundance Film Festival.\n\nThis ev ent and film will be introduced by Hal Colston\, director of Partnership f or Change. It is being presented with support from Peace &\; Justice Ce nter Members\, a grant through Haymarket Peoples’ Fund and a co-sponsors hip with Partnership for Change. This event is free and open to all but be cause there is limited seating we recommend picking up tickets. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ame rican-Promise4.jpg LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:97@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T130000 DTSTAMP:20141009T222942Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-1/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 1 DESCRIPTION:Showcase sponsor: Ben &\; Jerry's and Vermont Arts Council \n\nThreshold\nDirector: Angus McCullough | Experimental Documentary | 2 014 | 21 mins\nWe are often lulled into ignorance about the forces at work all around us. Banal environments are dominated by philosophies and conve ntions\, whether man-made or "natural.” Threshold exists exactly between the cultural and the natural to bring either side of that gateway into sh arper focus. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Thr eshold_02.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:98@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T140000 DTSTAMP:20141009T223010Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-2/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 2 DESCRIPTION:Showcase sponsor: Ben &\; Jerry's and Vermont Arts Counci l\n\nGreen Mountain Dreamers\nDirector: Mt. Mansfield Media | Documentary  | 2014 | 29 mins\nA heartwarming documentary about Boston Red Sox fans\; these Vermonters redefine what it means to 'B Strong'. Enjoy their storie s of passion\, perseverance\, and pride\, inspired by a team that never gi ves up. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Gre enMountainDreamers_forVTIFF.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:61@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T150000 DTSTAMP:20141010T183753Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/web-junkie-2/ SUMMARY:Web Junkie at Vermont Tech Jam DESCRIPTION:Director: Hilla Medalia\, Shosh Shlam | Israel/USA | Documen tary | 2014 | 74 mins\nFilm source: Kino Lorber\nSponsor: Champlain Colleg e and VTIFF\n\nIn 2008\, China became the first country to classify Inter net addiction as a clinical disorder. Today\, there are more than 200 mili tary-style treatment centers in China for youths suffering from the afflic tion known in Mandarin as wangyin. Co-directed in fly-on-the-wall style by Israeli filmmakers Hilla Medalia and Shosh Shlam\, Web Junkie takes us in side one of these boot camps\, where compulsive online gamers are subjecte d to rigorous exercise and therapy sessions designed to rid their minds an d bodies of the addictive sway of role-playing games like World of Warcraf t. Compassionate yet unflinching\, Web Junkie examines the effects of Inte rnet addiction on both the teenage patients and their often bewildered and belligerent parents. And like Spike Jonze’s Her\, it suggests that mode rn human discourse is increasingly gravitating toward an alternate cyber-r eality\, where real life becomes indistinguishable from the comforting blu r of ones and zeroes on a computer screen.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Web -Junkie-Dogwoof-Documentary-4-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Memorial Auditorium\, 250 Main Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476356;-73.20941299999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=250 Main Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Memorial Auditor ium:geo:44.476356,-73.20941299999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:99@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T151500 DTSTAMP:20141009T223030Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-3/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 3 DESCRIPTION:Showcase sponsor: Ben &\; Jerry's and Vermont Arts Counci l\n\nLoser's Crown \nDirector: Colin Thompson | Fiction | 2014 | 105 m ins\nA 30-year-old man in crisis goes home to Vermont (from Los Angeles) f or Christmas and finally realizes that trying to be cool is an exhausting waste of time. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Los ers-Crown2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:100@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T180000 DTSTAMP:20141009T223052Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-4/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 4 DESCRIPTION:Showcase sponsor: Ben &\; Jerry's and Vermont Arts Counci l\n\n100: Head/Heart/Feet\nDirector: William Peters | Documentary  | 20 14 | 102 mins\nIf you thought 26.2 miles was tough\, lace up your running shoes for a journey into the world of ultra-running. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/HEA D-HEART-FEET_promostill2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:60@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T183000 DTSTAMP:20141014T233730Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/best/ SUMMARY:We Are The Best! DESCRIPTION:Opening Night Film\nDirector: Lukas Moodysson | Sweden | Fict ion | 2013 | 102 mins\nFilm source: Magnolia Pictures\nSponsor: Vermont Wo rks for Women and former board member Kate Schubart in honor of VWW's crit ical work on behalf of women and girls\n\nStockholm in the early ‘80s. B obo\, a restless thirteen year old\, is best friends with fellow outsider Klara\, a rebel without applause. The two defiantly decide to start a band – who cares that they have no musical skills or experience? They soon e ntangle a third girl\, Hedvig (a bit square – and Christian – but hey\ , she’s got real talent) in their dream\, and the three begin practicing at the local teen center. Adapting his wife Coco Moodysson’s graphic no vel\, Never Goodnight\, Swedish director Lukas Moodysson (Show Me Love\; T ogether) creates an invigorating portrait of teenage punk – that boister ous\, rambunctious energy that’s re-fueled anew by each generation’s s ense of righteous passion\, impatient desire for independence\, and uneasy brew of angst\, anger\, and ambition. Thankfully\, music is the map that serves to navigate the vagaries of our comings-of-age. We Are the Best! is a delightfully vivacious experience\, brimming with infectious humanism\, that perfectly captures the irrepressible spirit of youthful rebellion.  \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1.j pg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:95@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141024T203000 DTSTAMP:20141015T003322Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/opening-night-party/ SUMMARY:Opening Night Party DESCRIPTION:Join us at Skinny Pancake after Opening Night Film for a celebr ation of the start of the Vermont International Film Festival and the anno uncement of the VT Filmmakers' Showcase Award-winners. Snacks and cash b ar.\nAwards ceremony presented by Eva Sollberger.\n\nThe 2014 Awards are:\ n* The James Goldstone Award\, a $500 cash award given to an emerging Verm ont filmmaker and sponsored by the Vermont Film Commission.\n* The Ben &am p\; Jerry Award\, a $300 cash prize given to recognize and support a Vermo nt filmmaker who\, through the lens\, documented and raised awareness of a n important social or environmental issue with verve and ingenuity\n* The Footage Farm USA Award\, a credit for stock footage worth $600 from the Footage Farm collection given to a Vermont Documentary Filmmaker who\, thr ough film\, strives to raise questions about the world we live in.\n* The  VCAM Audience Favorite Award - $250 by popular ballot\n* The VTIFF awa rds for Best Cinematography\, Best Screenwriting\, Best Acting.\n\n \ ;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Par ty.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Skinny Pancake\, 60 Lake Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, U nited States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, Burlington \, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Skinny Panca ke:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:63@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T110000 DTSTAMP:20141007T234053Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/boy-world-o-menino-e-o-mundo/ SUMMARY:The Boy and the World (O Menino e o Mundo) DESCRIPTION:Director: Alê Abreu | Brazil | Animation | 2013 | 80 mins\nF ilm source: GKids\n\nSomewhere in a rural part of a distant world\, a youn g boy named Cuca lives with his parents. The images are soft\, simple and uncluttered\; flute music scores the scene. One day\, Cuca’s father leav es to go find work in the city. Notes of sadness and complication are intr oduced\, and Cuca decides to set off on a journey of his own. As he wander s far and wide\, encountering a colorful myriad of characters and circumst ances\, discovering the richness and vagaries of the world\, the animation reflects his expanding perspective\, becoming more vibrant and vivid. Sou nds of samba and Brazilian hip-hop underscore Cuca’s adventure and issue s of progress\, class\, industry\, and the environment are subtly raised. Director Alê Abreu’s beautifully rendered\, dialogue-free film is an em otionally resonant\, visually enthralling\, utterly charming tale perfectl y suited for audiences of all ages.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Boy -in-the-World_01.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:101@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T124500 DTSTAMP:20141009T223113Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-5/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 5 DESCRIPTION:Showcase sponsor: Ben &\; Jerry's and Vermont Arts Counci l\n\nUnited We Ski\nDirector: Tyler Wilkinson-Ray | Documentary  | 201 3 | 35 mins\nUnited We Ski examines the importance of small ski areas to t he sport of skiing and New England life. The film looks at the rise and de cline of the region’s small ski areas and tells the story of three survi ving areas in Vermont--Hardack\, Cochran's\, and Northeast Slopes-- which rely on community support\, volunteerism\, and Yankee ingenuity to provide affordable skiing to local families. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Uni ted-We-Ski1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:66@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T133000 DTSTAMP:20141007T200925Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/granito-nail-dictator/ SUMMARY:Granito: How to Nail a Dictator DESCRIPTION:Director: Pamela Yates | USA/Guatemala/Spain | Documentary | 2011 | 103 mins + 6 mins addendum\nFilm source: Filmmakers\nSponsor: Gr een Valley Media\nFilmmaker will attend\, post screening Q&\;A\n\n In 1982\, a young first-time filmmaker\, Pamela Yates\, gained unprecedented access to Ríos Montt\, his generals and leftist guerrillas waging a cland estine war deep in the mountains. The resulting film\, When the Mountains Tremble (1983) revealed that the Guatemalan army was killing Mayan civilia ns. 30 years later former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt found hi mself indicted by a Guatemalan court for crimes against humanity\, Against all odds\, he was charged with committing genocide in the 1980s against t he country's poor\, Mayan people. Some of the evidence against him came fr om outtakes in Yates's early film. Granito: How To Nail a Dictator is a fi lm about a film and its remarkable afterlife for a filmmaker\, a nation an d\, most dramatically\, as evidence in a long struggle to give a dictator' s victims their day in court.  The Q&\;A will be followed at 4pm by t he launch of a a new initiative for the digitization of Vermont films and the importance of archival footage.\n\n\n\nAbout the filmmaker:\nPamela Y ates is an American documentary filmmaker. She was born and raised in the Appalachian coal-mining region of Pennsylvania but ran away at the age of 16 to live New York City.\nYates is a co-founder of Skylight Pictures (wit h Peter Kinoy)\, a company dedicated to creating films and digital media t ools that advance awareness of human rights and the quest for justice by i mplementing multi-year outreach campaigns designed to engage\, educate and activate social change.\nFour of Yates’ films as a Director - When the Mountains Tremble\; Poverty Outlaw\; Takeover\, and The Reckoning: The Bat tle for the International Criminal Court — were nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival\, and When the Mountains Tremble won the Special Jury Award in 1984. Her film\, State of Fear: The Truth ab out Terrorism\, has been translated into 47 languages and broadcast in 154 countries. Her most recent directorial effort\, The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court (ICC)\, is an epic tale about the fi rst six tumultuous years of the ICC\, filmed across 4 continents in 6 lang uages over 4 years.\nShe was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in support of her current Sundance offering\,Granito a feature-length documentary that is part political thriller\, part memoir\, transporting audiences through a riveting\, haunting tale of genocide and justice spanning four decades. She also directed the development of Granito:Every Memory Matters\, a tran smedia project using mobile applications to restore the collective memory of the Guatemalan genocide.\nYates recently completed Disruption (2014)\, a documentary which explores innovative strategies to reduce poverty throu gh women’s economic empowerment in Latin America. She is currently worki ng on 500 Years\, the third in a triology of films (following When the Mou ntains Tremble and Granito)\, which explores the battle for the national n arrative in present-day Guatemala. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/GRA NITO-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:102@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T140000 DTSTAMP:20141009T223136Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-6/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 6 DESCRIPTION:Showcase sponsor: Ben &\; Jerry's and Vermont Arts Counci l\n\nWe Are Small\nDirector: Jeremy MacKenzie | Fiction | 2014 | 11 mins \n\nWhen a little girl is shunned for being "too small" by other kids in t he neighborhood who are making a snowman\, she is inspired by her doll col lection to prove that smallness has its strengths\, too.\n\nAll the Wonder s\nDirector: Tim Joy | Fiction | 2013 | 8 mins\n\nA man who is on the b rink of suicide is visited by a magical being who gives him a new perspect ive on life.\n\nDark Legacy\nDirector: Daniel Sparling | Fiction | 2014 | 8 mins\n\nA young boy is pulled into a fight for his life with a dark s pirit who transforms her victims into pigs before she eats them.\n\n11 Pap er Place\nDirector: Daniel Houghton | Animation | 2014 | 7 mins\n\n11 Pap er Place is a love story about two 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper that magically transform into paper people as they are spit out of a malfunctioning prin ter into a recycling bin. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/We- Are-Small.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:103@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T151500 DTSTAMP:20141009T223158Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-7/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 7 DESCRIPTION:Showcase sponsor: Ben &\; Jerry's and Vermont Arts Counci l\n\nDo Not Disturb\n\nDirector: Matt Lennon | Fiction | 2014 | 11 mins\ nA man spends the last night of his life alone in a hotel room. Things don 't go as smoothly as expected.\n\nThaw\nDirector: Sheryl Glubok | Fictio n | 2014 | 10 mins\nOn a winter weekend getaway\, a woman picks up a musi cian who ignites her creative passion.\n\nThe North Star\n\n\nDirector: Ro b Koier | Fiction | 2013 | 5 mins\nBased on actual texts from fugitive slave memoirs transcribed in the 1830s\, The North Star is a haunting recr eation of a slave escaping from the South to New England.\n\nGive In\nDire ctor: Benjamin Savard | Fiction | 2014 | 10 mins\nA young woman struggl ing with anxiety sits down with a therapist after her self-destructive act ions reach a boiling point. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/THA W.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:106@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T160000 DTSTAMP:20141017T172642Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/green-valley-mediavtiff-vermont-film-s-o-s-in itiative/ SUMMARY:Green Valley Media/VTIFF Vermont Film S.O.S. Initiative DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Green Valley Media and Nat Winthrop\n\nPanel/audie nce discussion and announcement of a new initiative for the digitization o f Vermont films and the presentation of the first two grantees. This event will include clips from the films awarded the grant\, a short compilation of clips and footage of VT films through the ages\, and a panel/audience  talk about the importance\, value and special challenges of identifying\ , documenting\, preserving and digitizing these historically and culturall y important films. Panelists include: Nora Jacobson (filmmaker)\, Fred Pon d (led the digitization project at the VT Historical Society)\, Nat Winthr op (producer\, The Vermont Movie)\, Taylor Downing (producer of archive-ba sed documentaries)\, Anne Fleming (former Curator of the National Film &a mp\; TV Archive\, UK). Moderator: Doreen Kraft (President\, Green Valley M edia). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ver mont-history.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:114@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T164000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T164000 DTSTAMP:20141009T223218Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-8/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 8 DESCRIPTION:Showcase sponsor: Ben &\; Jerry's and Vermont Arts Counci l\n\nPast Tense\nDirector: Robert Fritz | Fiction | 2013 | 91 mins\n\nEl izabeth’s parents died in a car crash when she was 11 years old\, and he r visits to the cemetery\, where she begins to do grave rubbings\, open he r eyes to the other gravestones and other past lives\, and she starts to w rite their stories. Two important women in Elizabeth's life\, her therapis t and her writing teacher\, pull her in vastly different directions\, espe cially when a spirit from one of her grave rubbings appears\, asking for h elp. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/PAS T-TENSE2crop-e1412373024221.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:119@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T173000 DTSTAMP:20141007T201446Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-italian-club-reception/ SUMMARY:Vermont Italian Club Reception DESCRIPTION:A special reception to celebrate the screening of Human Capita l (Il Capitale Umano)\nSponsored by the Vermont Italian Club\, with food p repared courtesy of Little Garden Market with pasta and sauces provided courtesy of Rana Pasta &\; Sauces. Cash bar. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/pas ta.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:35@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T183000 DTSTAMP:20141007T202655Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/human-capital-il-capitale-umano-2/ SUMMARY:Human Capital (Il Capitale Umano) DESCRIPTION:Director: Paolo Virzi | Italy| Fiction | 2014 | 110 mins\nFi lm source: Film Movement\nSponsor: Vermont Italian Club\nFilm introduced by David Tomasi\, followed by Q&\;A. \nPlease join us at 5:30 for a pr e-screening reception in the Lake Lobby: sponsored by Rana Pasta &\; Sa uces and Little Market Garden. Cash bar.\n\nThe term “human capital” i s legalese that designates an accident victim’s net worth in compensatio n claims. Here it defines the Bernaschi family\, elegant capitalists\, and the Ossolas - struggling middle-classers. The film's prologue reveals a w orker cleaning up a banquet hall and who leaves early to bike home on a co ld winter night before being hit by an SUV. Three chapters follow\, each t elling different parts of the story of the accident's cause and aftermath from the viewpoint of a different character. Each chapter layers on new in formation that deepens—and sometimes upends—our understanding of the m ain characters. One segment often brings words or actions that played out in the background of another to the foreground\, revealing that they meant something very different than we had first assumed. But the film is more than just a very chic thriller: it is a nuanced account of desire\, greed and the value of human life in an age of rampant capitalism and financial manipulation.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hum an-capital.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:70@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141025T190000 DTSTAMP:20141007T202055Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jingle-bell-rocks-2/ SUMMARY:Jingle Bell Rocks! DESCRIPTION:Director: Mitchell Kezin | Canada | Documentary | 2014 | 92 mins\nFilm source: Filmmaker\n\nA hilarious backstage pass into a fascin ating underground world of alternative Christmas music. It all began with Nat King Cole's The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot. As a child\, film maker Mitchell related to the song's emotional message about a lonely litt le boy with an absent father. From there\, he realized that Christmas mus ic was broader and more complex than the generic mainstream fare we often hear. He began digging through dusty crates at records stores\, looking for the most obscure LPs he could find. Mitchell's sincere excitement is extremely contagious. Even the biggest haters will gain a new appreciatio n for seasonal ditties. Starring an eclectic cast of characters - The Flam ing Lips\, Run DMC\, John Waters - plus two dozen amazing &\; original songs\, Jingle Bell Rocks! is a cinematic sleigh ride into the strange and sublime universe of alternative Christmas music. Filmmaker Mitchell Kezin uncovers the stories behind twelve of the most amazing Christmas songs yo u've likely never heard. Equal parts social history\, pop culture pilgrima ge and revealing character study\, Jingle Bell Rocks! confronts the Christ mas music mainstream\, reinventing the seasonal soundtrack for the 21st ce ntury.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/JIn gle-Bell-Rocks.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:26@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T133000 DTSTAMP:20141009T203738Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/born-fly-2/ SUMMARY:Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs Gravity & Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Director: Catherine Gund | USA | Doc | 2014 | 82 mins\nFilm source: The Film Collaborative\nSponsor: Chiropractic Works and Old Spok es Home\nFollowed by Bodies in Action Panel\, led by dancers and choreogr aphers Lida Winfield\, Hannah Dennison\, Paul Besaw\, &\; Selene Colbur n. They will discuss Streb’s work and the issues associated with the phy sical demands\, limitations\, and considerations of the art form.\n\n“If you’re not flying\, what’s the point?” Action-obsessed choreographe r Elizabeth Streb has spent more than three decades creating spectacles\, sensations\, controversies\, and provocations. Her work – drawn from a m yriad of influences\, including dancer Trisha Brown\, photographer Lois Gr eenfield\, and daredevil Evel Knievel – pushes the boundaries of categor ization and challenges assumptions about dance\, physicality\, age\, gende r\, time and space. Born to Fly charts Streb’s trajectory from her roots in Rochester to her early efforts alone in a studio in New York City\, ex ploring the ideas and expressions of force\, endurance\, and velocity that would become the cornerstones of her “pop action” technique. It shows how the incorporation of tools\, including props\, harnesses\, trampoline s\, scaffolding\, lifts and wires led to works of greater ambition and pav ed the way for her success and impact on the world of dance. The film conc ludes with Streb's incredible\, culminating performances of six grand scal e events at the London Olympics. Throughout her entire career\, Streb has continually questioned convention\, limitation\, possibility\, and – esp ecially – gravity.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bor ntofly_speed.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T140000 DTSTAMP:20141009T203841Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/informants/ SUMMARY:Informants & Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Director: Jeremy Young &\; Trevor Aaronson | USA | Docume ntary | 2014 | 47 mins\nFilm source: Al Jazeera Network\nSponsor: John D ouglas\n\nOn the surface\, the scene unfolds without any hint of intrigue. A young Muslim convert named Darren Griffin meets fellow congregants at a local mosque in northwest Ohio. In addition to sharing the same faith as his new friends\, they enjoy similar interests: watching sports\, playing video games\, working out at the local gym\, and discussing international affairs. Except the scene ends tragically with a string of arrests\, a nat ional media frenzy\, and self-congratulation among federal officials claim ing to have foiled yet another terrorist plot. The only problem is that Gr iffin was an FBI plant and the terror plot he supposedly helped thwart was entirely manufactured by the United States government. In addition to sha ring the heart-wrenching stories of the victims of these entrapment tactic s\, the film is unique because it shines a light on the informants themsel ves\, highlighting the crucial role that they played in actively enlisting young men who never demonstrated any inclinations toward engaging in viol ence.\n\nPost screening panel with Informants producer Jeremy Young\, Ala n Gilbert - Executive Director ACLUVT and Dan Barrett\, Attorney with ACLU VT.\n\nAbout Jeremy Young: Young is currently the Senior Investigative Pro ducer for Al Jazeera Media Network based in Washington DC. He first joined Al Jazeera English television in 2006 and has worked all across the globe producing reports for the channel. He focuses on a range of different sto ry topics including criminal justice\, US foreign policy\, human rights ab uses and national security. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Inf ormants-2.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:75@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T160000 DTSTAMP:20141007T201346Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nothing-man-2/ SUMMARY:Nothing But A Man DESCRIPTION:Director: Michael Roemer | USA | Fiction | 1964 | 95 mins\nF ilm source: Cinedigm\nSponsors: Kate and Bill Schubart\n\nPerhaps the best movie ever made about the African-American experience during the Civil Ri ghts era\, Nothing But a Man remains just as powerful and relevant today\, 50 years after its release. Starring Ivan Dixon as Duff Anderson\, a fier cely proud workingman who refuses to bow to the racism of the Jim Crow Sou th\, and jazz singer Abbey Lincoln (in her film debut)\, as a shy schoolte acher whose quiet dignity makes Duff reconsider his drifter’s lifestyle\ , Nothing But a Man eschews the grandiose moralizing of other “message ” films of the period to tell a simple and universal story of perseveran ce in the face of prejudice. Eloquently directed by Michael Roemer (who ha d experienced a different form of prejudice as a Jewish youth in Nazi-era Germany) and co-written and lensed by Robert M. Young (who would go on to direct the definitive illegal immigration drama ¡Alambrista!)\, Nothing B ut a Man is a true landmark of independent filmmaking.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Not hing-But-A-Man.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:37@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T163000 DTSTAMP:20141007T204155Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jealousy-la-jalousie-2/ SUMMARY:Jealousy (La Jalousie) DESCRIPTION:Director: Philippe Garrel | France | Fiction | 2013 | 77 min s\nFilm source: Distribfilm\n\nLike the best films of the French New Wave \, Philippe Garrel’s Jealousy pays homage to its cinematic forefathers w hile also making movies seem new again and full of endless possibilities. Garrel literally came of age during the New Wave (he made his first short film in 1964\, at age 16)\, and Jealousy contains subtle tips of the cap t o François Truffaut\, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean Eustache. But it’s also a highly personal work\, starring his son\, Louis Garrel\, as an aimless y oung actor who leaves the mother of their 8-year-old daughter for an equal ly adrift actress\, played with subtle detachment by Anna Mouglalis. With luminous black-and-white cinematography by Willy Kurant (who shot Godard ’s 1966 masterpiece Masculin Féminin)\, Jealousy examines with a gently comedic touch the momentary thrills and complicated consequences of roman tic longing and infidelity.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Jea lousy.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:109@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T180000 DTSTAMP:20141008T215717Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/misery-loves-company-tasting-reception/ SUMMARY:Misery Loves Company Tasting Reception DESCRIPTION:Reception sponsored by Misery Loves Company preceding the scree ning of Dr. Strangelove. Cash bar. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mis -2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:82@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T183000 DTSTAMP:20141007T204235Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ukraine-brothel-2/ SUMMARY:Ukraine is Not a Brothel DESCRIPTION:Director: Kitty Green | Australia/Ukraine | Documentary | 20 13 | 80 mins\nFilm source: Cinephil\nQ&\;A with Jennifer Dickinson\,  Director\, Center for Teaching and Learning\, Associate Professor\, Ant hropology\n\n“The world sees our country as one big brothel. Tourists co me here to find whores. We believe that we need to protest against this. W e need to do everything we can so the world sees Ukraine as a country wher e naked girls protest\, not sell their bodies”\, says Inna Sevchenko\, a member of the activist group Femen which is in the center of Kitty Green ’s\, an Australian director with Ukrainian roots\, debut documentary. Fe men is a feminist group of topless crusaders who write slogans on their b are breasts shouting protests against the world’s perception of Ukrainia n women as brides for sale or objects of sex tourism and\, like the punk a rtists from Pussy Riot\, they stand up to dictators. Green spent 14 months living with four of the members. The result is an intriguing portrait of the state of feminism in Ukraine and much more than that. Half way through the film shifts focus to the founder of group - an abusive patriarch who claims that he is “the father of new feminism”. Most of the girls are in conflict with his views but it’s hard to break free.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/UKR AINE-IS-NOT-BROTHEL.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T193000 DTSTAMP:20141007T205019Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dr-strangelove-learned-stop-worrying-love-bom b/ SUMMARY:Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bom b DESCRIPTION:Director: Stanley Kubrick | USA | Fiction | 1964 | 95 mins |\nFilm source: Sony Pictures Repertory\nIntroduced by: Taylor Downing\ nSponsor: Eyes of the World\n\nHas it really been 50 years since Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War masterpiece made the fallout shelter generation fall out of its seats laughing at the terrifying yet absurd prospect of mutual assured nuclear destruction? Originally conceived as a deadly serious thri ller—like Fail-Safe\, released later that year—the unique impact of Dr . Strangelove stems from its combination of a documentary aesthetic and ci néma vérité-influenced cinematography with ribald black comedy and a cu ltural irreverence which dared to mock the president\, the military and th e general paranoia of the American public in the aftermath of the Cuban Mi ssile Crisis. With an all-star cast\, including George C. Scott\, Sterling Hayden and Peter Sellers (in three roles)\, Dr. Strangelove remains the b enchmark for political satires.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Dr. -Strangelove.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:84@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141026T220000 DTSTAMP:20141007T232621Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/girl-walks-home-alone-night/ SUMMARY:A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night DESCRIPTION:Director:  Ana Lily Amirpour | Iran/USA | Fiction | 2014 | 99 mins\nFilm source: Kino Lorber\n\nWriter/Director Ana Lily Amirpour’ s first feature A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night has been described as a “Middle Eastern feminist vampire romance” but it’s much more than th at. In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City\, a place that reeks of death and l oneliness\, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a vampir e. Lavishly shot in black and white\, the camera floats through each scene \, hypnotizing the viewer just as the main character The Girl (Sheila Vand ) might do before she finishes off her victims. She fills her days listeni ng to American indie-rock &\; pop records and nights picking off despic able men one by one. Exec-produced by Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings\, Man iac)\, Girl is far from a traditional vampire or horror film. Similarities can be drawn to independent standouts in the genre like John Landis’s I nnocent Blood\, and the David Lynch produced Nadja. At its dark\, comedic (and romantic) heart\, Girl is a tale of a lonely soul trying to find her place in a world - a world where a vampire isn’t the worst monster.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Gir l-Walks-Home-Alone1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:ArtsRiot\, 400 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United Stat es GEO:44.468216;-73.21477800000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=400 Pine Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ArtsRiot:geo:44. 468216,-73.21477800000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:32@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T101500 DTSTAMP:20141027T162819Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dr-strangelove-learned-stop-worrying-love-bom b-2/ SUMMARY:Student Matinee: Dr. Strangelove... DESCRIPTION:Director: Stanley Kubrick | UK/USA | Fiction | 1964 | 95 m ins\nFilm source: Sony Pictures Repertory\nSponsor: Eyes of the World\n\ nBAFTA Award for Best British Film\, 1964\nWriters Guild of America Best W ritten American Comedy Award\, 1964\nNew York Film Critics Circle Best Dir ector Award\, Stanley Kubrick\n\nHas it really been 50 years since Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War masterpiece made the fallout shelter generation fall out of its seats laughing at the terrifying yet absurd prospect of mutual assured nuclear destruction? Originally conceived as a deadly serious thr iller—like Fail-Safe\, released later that year—the unique impact of  Dr. Strangelove stems from its combination of a documentary aesthetic a nd cinéma vérité-influenced cinematography with ribald black comedy and a cultural irreverence which dared to mock the president\, the military a nd the general paranoia of the American public in the aftermath of the Cub an Missile Crisis. With an all-star cast\, including George C. Scott\, Ste rling Hayden and Peter Sellers (in three roles)\, Dr. Strangelove remain s the benchmark for political satires.\n\n\n\nInternationally renown best- selling author\, historian\, award-winning television producer\, and film scholar\, Taylor Downing will introduce the student matinee screening of D r. Strangelove. He has produced more than 300 historical documentaries\, m any of which have been shown on television in the US.\, including the Peab ody Award winning 24-part series "The Cold War." Mr. Downing regularly giv es talks and lectures on history and the media\, and his knowledge and exp ertise will surely enhance an already amazing viewing experience.\n\nwww.t aylordowning.com\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Dr. -Strangelove.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:89@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T120000 DTSTAMP:20141012T004106Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Gina Haraszti DESCRIPTION:Sponsor: Middlebury College\nLunch provided by Kountry Kart D eli included in price of ticket\n\nGina Haraszti will be present at the s creening.\n\nGina Haraszti is an acclaimed filmmaker and artist based in M ontreal and we are delighted to be hosting her.\nRunning Order:\nORISON (2 014) - World Premiere!\nBlack-and-white meditation on the tension between scientific knowledge and religious belief. A young scientist\, man of reas on\, searches for his childhood feelings\, his forgotten ability to believ e\, when his rabbi father passes away. Orison is delicate and melancholic piece about and all the hope which shapes a God and the beautiful imperfec tion of life and its heartbreaking ephemerality in the universe.\nWANING ( 2011)\nWANING investigates the questions of memory and death through the u se of multiple layers of canted angles in one stationary shot. Layer upon layer builds up as Haraszti delivers the source\, and the horror of the op ening shot.\nSneak peak of REI (2015)\nREI tells the story of a “hikikom ori” — an increasingly common phenomenon in Japan and South- Korea tha t refers to young shut-ins — who gradually loses contact not just with t he outside world\, but with reality itself. Upcoming talent Amélie Robita ille gives an stunning performance as the young recluse.)\nTRISTAN REVEUR  (2008)\nA mockumentary. This project introduces an identity\, that was c reated in collaboration between strangers on the internet. Tristan Reveur is their common fantasy. Just like himself\, his artworks are created by u nknown people from all around the world.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Ori son-still2.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:The BCA Center\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\ , United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The BCA C enter:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:52@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T140000 DTSTAMP:20141007T210506Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/regarding-susan-sontag-3/ SUMMARY:Regarding Susan Sontag DESCRIPTION:Director: Nancy Kates | USA | Documentary | 2014 | 101 mins \nFilm source: The Film Collaborative\nSponsor: Judy Gerber\n\n“Attentio n is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager .” Susan Sontag remained attentive and eager throughout her life and car eer as one of the most important literary\, political and feminist icons o f her generation. Investigating Sontag’s life through evocative experime ntal images\, archival materials\, accounts from friends\, family\, collea gues\, and lovers\, as well as her own words\, read by actress Patricia Cl arkson\, the documentary is a fascinating look at a towering cultural crit ic and writer whose works on photography\, war\, illness\, and terrorism s till resonate today. More than any other thinker of her day\, Sontag was w atched\, viewed\, photographed and stared at. She was gazed at\, and she l ooked back\, attentively and eagerly\, particularly at language and metaph or and at photography and what she called “the ecology of images.”\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Reg arding-Susan-Sontage.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:46@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T151500 DTSTAMP:20141007T204313Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/overnighters-2/ SUMMARY:The Overnighters DESCRIPTION:Director: Jesse Moss | USA | Documentary | 2014 | 100 mins \nFilm source: Drafthouse\nSponsor: Vermont Energy Investment Corporatio n\n\nThe Overnighters is a brilliant exploration of community\, compassio n\, and morality. It tells a story of a small American town in North Dakot a where jobless people from all over the country come to work hard and mak e money off the Natural Gas industry. With the help of Pastor Jay Reinke t he newcomers hope to make it in the economic downturn. Motivated by his Ch ristian obligation and human compassion\, the Pastor assists with all he c an\, even shelters several of them in his own house. The town becomes a sy mbol of hope until a stunning thriller-like turn offers a deep look into a self-destructing society. The Overnighters has the dramatic proportions of a moral tale of sacrifice and betrayal\, rejecting and accepting\, righ t and wrong. The film won the Special Jury Prize for Documentary Film in S undance Film Festival\, 2014. \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ove rnighters.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:33@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T161500 DTSTAMP:20141012T203658Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hank-asha-2/ SUMMARY:Hank and Asha DESCRIPTION:Director: James E. Duff | USA | Fiction | 2013 | 73 mins\nF ilm source: Filmrise\nSponsor: Bobbie Lanahan\nIntroduced by Ethan de Sei fe of Seven Days\n\nAn Indian woman studying in Prague and a lonely New Yo rker begin an unconventional correspondence through video letters - two st rangers searching for human connection in a hyper-connected world. When th eir relationship deepens\, they must decide whether or not to meet face to face. In this beguiling romantic comedy\, the two very seducing character s talk to each other by addressing the camera. But because we\, as audienc e\, are on the receiving end of the camera\, we feel like they are talking to us. This positions us in the middle of the relationship and has the ef fect of making us both voyeurs and a protagonists. James E Duff and Julia Morrison\, the husband and wife filmmaking team\, have created a modern lo ve story equivalent of the found footage film\, normally associated with t he horror genre. \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/han k-and-asha.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:107@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T180000 DTSTAMP:20141007T232227Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/blue-bandana-chocolate-reception/ SUMMARY:Blue Bandana Chocolate Reception DESCRIPTION:Chocolate tasting reception sponsored by Blue Bandana Chocolate Makers. Cash bar. Preceding the screening of Nothing Like Chocolate. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Cho colate02.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:58@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T183000 DTSTAMP:20141013T000551Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vessel-2/ SUMMARY:Vessel DESCRIPTION:Director: Diana Whitten | USA | Documentary | 2014 | 88 min s\nFilm source: Filmmaker\nSponsor: Main Street Landing to Honor Vermont A ccess for Reproductive Freedom\nFilmmaker in attendance\, post screening Q&\;A\n\n"The ship has always been a symbol of freedom\, but as a male domain. This ship is 100% captained by women"\, says director Dianna Whitt en\, about the vessel led by Dutch Dr. Rebecca Gomperts – founder of Wom en on Waves\, an organization dedicated to ending unsafe abortion in count ries that deny women this right . A high seas adventure\, exploiting marit ime legal loopholes\, their ship floats in treachorous international water s 12 miles off the coast of countries where their services are desperately needed - Morocco\, Spain\, Ecuador\, Ireland\, Poland and Tanzania - to o ffer a safe abortion pill. Whitten used her own camera as well as footage filmed by others on board. Vessel is inspiring both as a dramatic activist film and as a portrait of activist women worldwide. "One of my favorite m oments in the film is when a reporter asks Rebecca if she has had an abort ion\, and she responds\, “[These activists] are doing this with their he arts\, and not because they had an abortion. Are you going to ask someone that works for Amnesty International if they have been tortured?”"\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ves sel_1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:94@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T190000 DTSTAMP:20141012T210014Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cold-war-film/ SUMMARY:The Cold War On Film: The Wall Comes Down DESCRIPTION:Sponsors: Champlain College and Vermont Council on World Affai rs\nWe are delighted to welcome from England renowned film historian and television producer Taylor Downing who will present the penultimate episo de of Cold War\, Turner Broadcasting System’s landmark 24-part TV series . Downing was a producer on the series\, and has selected to show The Wall Comes Down (25 years ago\, almost to the day of the presentation\, the B erlin Wall came down) and talk about the specific challenges of making tha t program.\n\n\nTaylor Downing has produced more than 300 historical docu mentaries\, many of which have been shown on television in the US. He prod uced two episodes of the series Cold War with Sir Jeremy Isaacs for Ted Tu rner in the mid 1990s and went on to write the book of the series. His doc umentary Soviet War Scare 1983 (Discovery US/Channel 4 UK) won the Grierso n Award for the Best Historical Documentary on British television in 2008. Taylor also writes on the film and television media. His book on Leni Rie fenstahl’s Olympia was republished as a British Film Institute Classic i n 2012 and his book on the famous television history series The World at W ar was published as a BFI Television Classic in 2013. He also writes regul arly for magazines on classic films. His books on World War One and Two ha ve also been well received in the UK and the US including Churchill’s Wa r Lab on Winston Churchill and wartime scientists\, and Spies in the Sky o n aerial photo intelligence. His most recent book is Secret Warriors: Key Scientists\, Code Breakers and Propagandists of the Great War. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Col d-War-on-Film.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VAMP LOCATION:Champlain College\, Perry Hall Presentation Room\, S Willard St\, Corner of Maple\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4739361;-73.20529850000003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=S Willard St\, Corner of Ma ple\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=C hamplain College\, Perry Hall Presentation Room:geo:44.4739361,-73.2052985 0000003 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141027T190000 DTSTAMP:20141007T195613Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nothing-like-chocolate/ SUMMARY:Nothing Like Chocolate DESCRIPTION:Director: Kum-Kum Bhavnani | USA | Doc | 2012 | 64 mins\nFilm source: filmmaker\nSponsors: Blue Bandana Chocolate Maker\nEric Lampman of Blue Bandana will introduce the film\nPreceded at 6pm by chocolate tastin g reception &\; cash bar by Blue Bandana\n\nDeep in the rain forests of Grenada\, anarchist chocolate-maker Mott Green operates an unusual chocol ate factory that turns out delicious creations unknown to a world saturate d with industrially produced cocoa. Solar power\, employee shareholding an d small-scale antique equipment turn out delicious chocolate in the hamlet of Hermitage\, Grenada. Nothing like Chocolate\, narrated by Susan Sarand on\, tells the moving story of the relentless and headstrong Mott Green\, founder of the Grenada Chocolate Company\, as he pursued his unique vision to create the best chocolate in the world\, from scratch. It exposes the practices and politics of how chocolate has moved worldwide from a sacred plant to corporate blasphemy. Governments around the world\, beholden to m ulti-nationals\, sell cocoa for export at the best possible price. Industr ial chocolate dominates taste buds and the market. Threatened by boutique producers\, such as Grenada Chocolate Company\, mega-companies work hard t o buy up these small artisans. From currency to candy\, chocolate reflects a rich history saturated with sacred ritual\, endorphin highs\, hip anti- oxidants\, exotic sensuality and high quality luxury. Nothing Like Chocola te adds new depth to the stories of chocolate.\n\n\nShort playing with fil m: Makin' Friends with Ryan Miller | Nova Kim and Les Hook | 10 mins | pro duced by Hilary Hess\, Vermont PBS\nRyan Miller spends the day eating from the earth with professional wild crafters Nova Kim and Les Hook. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Not hing-Like-Chocolate.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:42@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T101500 DTSTAMP:20141027T162905Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mother-love-2/ SUMMARY:Student Matinee: Mother\, I Love You DESCRIPTION:Director: Janis Nords | Latvia | Fiction | 2013 | 83 mins\nF ilm source: New Europa Films\n\nRaimonds is basically a good kid. He plays saxophone in the school band. He rides his kickboard around town with fri ends. He tries to make his busy obstetrician mother proud. But\, like any 12-year-old\, he can’t entirely avoid a little mischief. One day\, after getting in trouble for teasing a girl in his class\, he decides to cover up the disciplinary report. A simple lie soon sets off a spiral of decepti on and questionable actions that puts Raimonds into an increasingly diffic ult ethical dilemma. Janis Nords’ highly acclaimed drama perfectly captu res the charged intensity at play in the best coming-of-age stories\, and the endearing central performance by newcomer Kristofers Konovalovs ground s the film with a captivating authenticity.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1-s caled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:90@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T120000 DTSTAMP:20141007T230836Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-2/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Animated DESCRIPTION:A Tribute to the National Film &\; Television School Animati on Department\, UK\nLunchtime Shorts Sponsor: Middlebury College\nLunch c ourtesy of Kountry Kart Deli included in price of ticket.\n\nThe animati on department of the NFTS is considered one of the best in the world and h as produced numerous award-winning animation directors\, including Nick P arks\, Mark Baker and Tony Collingwood\nWatch Trailers\n\nThe Bigger Pictu re  | Directed by Daisy Jacobs | 7mins\n\n\nCanuck Black | Directed by Re becca Archer | 9mins\n\n\nThe Last Resort | Directed by Stephanie Blakey | 8mins\n\n\nMend and Make Do | Directed by Bexie Bush | 8mins\n\n\nMy Stuf fed Granny | Directed by Effie Pappa | 9mins\n\n\nPineapple Calamari | Dir ected by Kasia Nalewajka | 8mins\n\n\nOver the Neva | Directed by | Kateri na Lavrionova | 4mins\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Big ger-Pictuire.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:The BCA Center\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\ , United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The BCA C enter:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:59@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T140000 DTSTAMP:20141013T000620Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vessel/ SUMMARY:Vessel DESCRIPTION:Director: Diana Whitten | USA | Documentary | 2014 | 88 min s\nFilm source: Filmmaker\nSponsor: Main Street Landing to Honor Vermont A ccess for Reproductive Freedom\nFilmmaker in attendance\, post screening Q &\;A\n\n"The ship has always been a symbol of freedom\, but as a male domain. This ship is 100% captained by women"\, says director Dianna Whitt en\, about the vessel led by Dutch Dr. Rebecca Gomperts – founder of Wom en on Waves\, an organization dedicated to ending unsafe abortion in count ries that deny women this right . A high seas adventure\, exploiting marit ime legal loopholes\, their ship floats in treachorous international water s 12 miles off the coast of countries where their services are desperately needed - Morocco\, Spain\, Ecuador\, Ireland\, Poland and Tanzania - to o ffer a safe abortion pill. Whitten used her own camera as well as footage filmed by others on board. Vessel is inspiring both as a dramatic activist film and as a portrait of activist women worldwide. "One of my favorite m oments in the film is when a reporter asks Rebecca if she has had an abort ion\, and she responds\, “[These activists] are doing this with their he arts\, and not because they had an abortion. Are you going to ask someone that works for Amnesty International if they have been tortured?”"\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ves sel_1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:67@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T143000 DTSTAMP:20141007T204633Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/angel-azul-2/ SUMMARY:Angel Azul DESCRIPTION:Director: Marcy Cravat | USA | Documentary | 2013 | 72 min s\nFilm source: Filmmaker\n\nNot all environmental films need to show deva station to get their message across. Sometimes it's the hauntingly dreamy images\, such as the underwater sculptures created by internationally reno wned artist Jason deCaires\, that bring the message and sense of loss back home. Director Marcy Cravat filmed deCaires and his crew creating the Ang el\, centrepiece of the of the 400+ sculptures immersed in the azur waters off Cancun in Mexico\, while the stunning underwater photography was shot by deCaire himself. The film holds your attention by showing in exciting detail the craft of an artist in action\, creating sculptures from live hu man models\, interspersed with information about the gradual erosion of re el coral reefs. Convincingly and unobtrusively narrated by Peter Coyote.\n \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ang el-azul.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:36@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T160000 DTSTAMP:20141007T204853Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/human-capital-il-capitale-umano/ SUMMARY:Human Capital (Il Capitale Umano) DESCRIPTION:Director: Paolo Virzi | Italy| Fiction | 2014 | 110 mins\nF ilm source: Film Movement\nSponsor: Vermont Italian Club\n\nThe term “ human capital” is legalese that designates an accident victim’s net wo rth in compensation claims. Here it defines the Bernaschi family\, elegant capitalists\, and the Ossolas - struggling middle-classers. The film's pr ologue reveals a worker cleaning up a banquet hall and who leaves early to bike home on a cold winter night before being hit by an SUV. Three chapte rs follow\, each telling different parts of the story of the accident's ca use and aftermath from the viewpoint of a different character. Each chapte r layers on new information that deepens—and sometimes upends—our unde rstanding of the main characters. One segment often brings words or action s that played out in the background of another to the foreground\, reveali ng that they meant something very different than we had first assumed. But the film is more than just a very chic thriller: it is a nuanced account of desire\, greed and the value of human life in an age of rampant capital ism and financial manipulation.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hum an-capital.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:22@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T163000 DTSTAMP:20141007T205104Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/abuse-weakness-2/ SUMMARY:Abuse of Weakness DESCRIPTION:Director: Catherine Breillat | France | Fiction | 2013 | 10 5 mins\nFilm source: Strand Releasing\nSponsor: Barbara McGrew\n\nAbuse of Weakness is based on a brilliant premise. In 2004\, director Catherine Br eillat (Romance\; Fat Girl) suffered a stroke\, which left her partially p aralyzed. While still recovering\, she began planning a film to star model Naomi Campbell and infamous con artist and convicted swindler Christophe Rocancourt. That film never came to be. Breillat instead allowed herself\, in her diminished mental and physical state\, to be conned by Rocancourt to the tune of nearly €700\,000. Rather than shamefully bury the inciden t\, Breillat turned it into Abuse of Weakness\, a cautionary and barely fi ctionalized retelling of her ordeal. Featuring a fearless and superbly phy sical performance by Isabelle Huppert—playing a thinly veiled version of Breillat—Abuse of Weakness is autobiographical filmmaking at its most n akedly honest.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Abu se-of-Weakness.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:39@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T183000 DTSTAMP:20141007T205151Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/manuscripts-dont-burn/ SUMMARY:Manuscripts Don't Burn DESCRIPTION:Director: Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran | Fiction | 2013 | 125 m ins\nFilm source: Kino Lorber\nSponsor: UVM Film &\; Television Studie s Program\n\nClandestinely produced in disavowal of a 20-year filmmaking b an passed down by the Iranian authorities\, Manuscripts Don't Burn is one of the most daring and politically provocative films to emerge from Iran. Drawing from the true story of the government's attempted 1995 murder of s everal prominent writers and intellectuals\, Rasoulof imagines a repressiv e regime so pervasive that even the morally righteous are subsumed or cast aside. A masterwork of understatement\, a lacerating and slow-burning thr iller filmed in a frigid palate of blues and greys\, the film's focus shif ts between various older journalists—labeled merely "intellectuals" by t he government authorities tracking them down—and the conflicted hitman f orced to torture and murder them. Manuscripts Don't Burn brings a whole ne w level of clarity and audacity to Mohommad Rasoulof's already laudable ca reer (The White Meadows\; Goodbye). Like fellow filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Th is is Not a Film)\, Rasoulof was arrested\, tried on trumped-up charges an d given a draconian prison sentence that was never implemented. Rasoulof c urrently resides in Europe\, while the rest of the cast and crew are not n amed in any credits associated with the production for the sake of their s afety.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Man uscripts.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:86@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141028T220000 DTSTAMP:20141007T205235Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/honeymoon/ SUMMARY:Honeymoon DESCRIPTION:Director: Leigh Janiak | USA | Fiction | 2014 | 87 mins\nFil m source: Magnet Releasing\n\nWriter/Director Leigh Janiak’s first feat ure Honeymoon is a doozy. Two young newlyweds head to a secluded cabin in the woods to escape the city. On their second night Paul (Harry Treadaway) rises early to go fishing and discovers Bea (Rose Leslie of Game of Thron es) out of bed and possibly missing in the pitch-black woods. He finds her standing nude in a state of shock. Following this she seems somehow wholl y different\, clearly concealing a terrible fate\, and the days following descend into terror and madness. Honeymoon deftly capitalizes on our fears – not only the fear of the unknown or the boogeyman in the woods\, but the fear of love lost and anxieties that can be found in a new relationshi p – “How well do I really know this person I married?” This taut and smoldering horror’s strength comes from two incredible performances – that will leave you gutted.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Hon eymoon_web_1_CS.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:ArtsRiot\, 400 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United Stat es GEO:44.468216;-73.21477800000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=400 Pine Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ArtsRiot:geo:44. 468216,-73.21477800000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:91@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T120000 DTSTAMP:20141015T173710Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-3/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: About Art DESCRIPTION:Sponsor: Middlebury College\nLunch provided by Kountry Kart D eli included in price of ticket\n\nRunning Order:\nDAVID HOCKNEY IN THE N OW | Directed by Lucy Walker | 6 mins | Courtesy of LACMA\nOBEY THE ARTIS T | Directed by Ondi Timoner | 16 mins\nLOMAX | Directed by Jesse Kreitzer |12 min | Courtesy of the filmmaker\nAMANDA F---ING PALMER ON THE ROCKS | Directed by Ondi Timoner | 17 mins ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Dav id-Hockney-In-the-Now.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:The BCA Center\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\ , United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The BCA C enter:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:76@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T140000 DTSTAMP:20141007T205319Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nothing-man/ SUMMARY:Nothing But A Man DESCRIPTION:Director: Michael Roemer | USA | Fiction | 1964 | 95 mins\n Film source: Cinedigm\nSponsor: Kate and Bill Schubart\n\nPerhaps the be st movie ever made about the African-American experience during the Civil Rights era\, Nothing But a Man remains just as powerful and relevant tod ay\, 50 years after its release. Starring Ivan Dixon as Duff Anderson\, a fiercely proud workingman who refuses to bow to the racism of the Jim Crow South\, and jazz singer Abbey Lincoln (in her film debut)\, as a shy scho olteacher whose quiet dignity makes Duff reconsider his drifter’s lifest yle\, Nothing But a Man eschews the grandiose moralizing of other “mes sage” films of the period to tell a simple and universal story of persev erance in the face of prejudice. Eloquently directed by Michael Roemer (wh o had experienced a different form of prejudice as a Jewish youth in Nazi- era Germany) and co-written and lensed by Robert M. Young (who would go on to direct the definitive illegal immigration drama ¡Alambrista!)\, Not hing But a Man is a true landmark of independent filmmaking.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Not hing-But-A-Man.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:78@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T143000 DTSTAMP:20141007T205728Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sol-lewitt-2/ SUMMARY:Sol LeWitt DESCRIPTION:Director: Chris Teerink | The Netherlands | 2013 | Document ary | 72 mins Film source: Icarus\nSponsored by 05401\nIntroduced by Jani e Cohen\, Executive Director\, Fleming Museum\n\nSol LeWitt is a thoughtfu l and informative film about one of the greatest American conceptual artis ts. Since LeWitt (1928 -2007) was notoriously camera-shy and opposed to pu blic appearances and interviews\, we won’t learn much about the artist ’s self -effacing persona\, but what emerges from the film is his distin ctive body of work and the philosophy behind it. Through recollections of friends\, colleagues and mainly by documenting his installations\, the Dut ch director Chris Teernik\, skillfully reveals LeWitt’s sensitivity and creates an insightful celebration of his art.  \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sol -LeWitt.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:47@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T160000 DTSTAMP:20141007T205915Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/overnighters/ SUMMARY:The Overnighters DESCRIPTION:Director: Jesse Moss | USA | Documentary | 2014 | 100 mins \nFilm source: Drafthouse\nSponsor: Vermont Energy Investment Corporatio n\n\nScreening to be followed by a Skype Q&\;A with filmmaker Jesse Mos s\n\nThe Overnighters is a brilliant exploration of community\, compassio n\, and morality. It tells a story of a small American town in North Dakot a where jobless people from all over the country come to work hard and mak e money off the Natural Gas industry. With the help of Pastor Jay Reinke t he newcomers hope to make it in the economic downturn. Motivated by his Ch ristian obligation and human compassion\, the Pastor assists with all he c an\, even shelters several of them in his own house. The town becomes a sy mbol of hope until a stunning thriller-like turn offers a deep look into a self-destructing society. The Overnighters has the dramatic proportions of a moral tale of sacrifice and betrayal\, rejecting and accepting\, righ t and wrong. The film won the Special Jury Prize for Documentary Film in S undance Film Festival\, 2014. \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ove rnighters.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:29@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T163000 DTSTAMP:20141028T233330Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/challat-tunis-2/ SUMMARY:Challat of Tunis DESCRIPTION:Director: Kaouther Ben Hania | Tunisia | Hybrid | 2014 | 90 mins\nFilm source: Jour2fete\nSponsor: The Caroline Fund\n\nOne of the m ore interesting films in this year's festival\, Challat hovers elegantly a nd humorously between documentary and fiction. It's 2003 in Tunisia and a man on a moped drives around slashing women's backsides. A mysterious figu re\, nicknamed Challat\, he spawned many legends. 10 years later\, Directo r Kaouther Ben Hania\, in post-revolutionary Tunisia\, goes in search of t he truth. But the truth is elusive and rumors abound. Ben Hania's focus is on the "collective conscious of people and the fantasy around it and what it tells us about us\, so I had to set up stories to explain this"\, she says in an interview at the Dubai Film Festival. Fact meets fiction in the way the narrative is set up\, nothing is what it seems as Ben Haniya stee rs us through the film's many threads. These stories are the backbone of t he film which has its hilarious moments (wait for the Virgin-o-meter)\; bu t the harsh reality of men's attitudes toward women never eludes us. "Howe ver"\, says Ben Haniya\, "what has changed is the fact that now you can ta lk about it."\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cha llat-of-tunis.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:108@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T173000 DTSTAMP:20141008T215756Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/single-pebble-tasting-reception/ SUMMARY:A Single Pebble Tasting Reception DESCRIPTION:Tasting Reception sponsored by A Single Pebble\npreceding the s creening of Soul of the Banquet.  Cash bar. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sin glePebblefeatured.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:77@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T183000 DTSTAMP:20141007T204108Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/soft-vengeance-albie-sachs-new-south-africa/ SUMMARY:Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa DESCRIPTION:Director: Abby Ginzberg | South Africa/USA | Documentary | 2014 | 70 mins\nFilm source: Filmmaker\nSponsor: Champlain College\nIntro and Q&\;A with filmmaker\n\nOne of the most inspiring films in the fest ival\, Soft Vengeance is the story of Albie Sachs\, a white Jewish man who has been an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa for some six decades. His story is truly amazing: here was someone who did not need to stay\, l et alone fight and put his own life at risk. He was the target\, finally\, of a bombing in which he lost an arm. He survived and devoted his life to taking "soft vengeance”: his belief that if South Africa achieves democ racy\, freedom and rule of law\, justice will be served. Bay Area filmmake r\, Abby Ginzberg\, is an American lawyer\, long interested in social just ice. She first met Sachs in the 1970s as he traveled in the U.S. to help l obby for support for the anti-apartheid movement. When she re-met him in 2 009 in South Africa she knew this would be her next film project. Ginzberg ’s film has managed to combine a gripping story with a portrait of one o f the lead forces behind South Africa’s new Constitution\, and who autho red the landmark gay marriage decision that made South Africa the first in Africa to approve same sex marriage. \n\nFILMMAKER BIO\n\n Filmmaker Abb y Ginzberg has been producing and directing award-winning documentary film s for nearly three decades . Her work has focused on character-driven stor ies\, racial and gender discrimination and social justice issues\, and has been screened at film festivals and broadcast on public television networ ks nationally and internationally.\n\nHer most recent feature-length docum entary\, SOFT VENGEANCE: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa\, was an off icial selection at IFP in 2013 and premiered at Full Frame in the US and i s currently traveling internationally throughout the festival circuit\, wh ere it has screened at the Berkshire International Film Festival\, AFI Doc s in Washington\, DC\, the Durban International Film Festival. It  won th e People's Choice Award from the Vancouver South African Film Festival and the Audience Award for Best International Documentary from the Encounters Film Festival in South Africa.\n\nAbby is currently in post-production on AGENTS OF CHANGE\, co-produced with Frank Dawson which features actor/act ivist Danny Glover\, sociologist and sports expert\, Harry Edwards\, among many others. This film seeks to tell the untold story of the civil rights movement on college campuses\, particularly at  San Francisco State and Cornell\, as emblematic examples of protests taking place all over the Uni ted States challenging the status quo and creating demands for black studi es programs and increased minority representation on campus\n\nAbby was Co nsulting Producer on THE BARBER OF BIRMINGHAM\, produced by Gail Dolgin an d Robin Fryday\, which was an Official Selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival\, was nominated for a 2012 Academy Award in the Short Documentar y category and was part of the 2012 POV television series on public televi sion.\n\nAbby's feature-length documentary\, CRUZ REYNOSO: Sowing the Seed s of Justice won Accolade and Davey Awards and screened at the Cine las Am ericas\, Mill Valley\, Boston Latino\, Chicago Latino\, Santa Cruz and Hav ana Film Festivals. It wonthe Best Feature Documentary Award from the Sacr amento Film and Music Festival. It also screened at the Human Rights Film Festival in Buenos Aires and in Montevideo\, Uruguay. The film received ma jor support from Cal Humanities and Latino Public Broadcasting.\n\nSOUL OF JUSTICE: Thelton Henderson’s American Journey is another award winning documentary which  profiles one of the first African American federal jud ges whose fearless efforts to make real the promise of the US Constitution for all Americans has won him praise and opposition. Winner of a Silver G avel award from the American Bar Association and a CINE Golden Eagle\, the film has been featured at film festivals and broadcast on public televisi on stations and become a staple of Black History Month programming.\n\nAbb y has also produced numerous award-winning films documenting the successes of programs for at-risk and under served youth that deserve\, but rarely get public attention. These films\, whose “stars” include college boun d low income students in VANGUARD IN THE VANGUARD\, graduates of successfu l drug court programs in recovering lives\, uncovering dreams and A TALE O F TWO CITIES and AmeriCorps members in EVERYDAY HEROES\, co-produced with Rick Goldsmith.  Without her sensitivity and her tenacity\, these compell ing stories would never be told.\n\nHer work documenting the need to incre ase HIV screening in cities across the country has culminated in a trio of films--GET SCREENED OAKLAND\; THE BRONX KNOWS and TEST MIAMI.  Abby also produced the Opening Session film for the 2012 International AIDS confere nce in Washington\, DC \, entitled TURNING THE TIDE.\n\nProfiling another unsung hero of the legal profession\, Abby produced and directed DOING JUS TICE: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy which portrayed civil rights law yer Kinoy’s landmark cases which began with the Rosenberg case and conti nued through Watergate. The film has become a staple in law schools helpin g to inspire the next generation of “people’s lawyers.”\n\nAbby's in terest in justice and her efforts to shine a spotlight on important legal themes stems from having started her career as an attorney. In 2014\, Abby directed the half hour dramatic film entitled\, WALK THE WALK\, which is designed to jump start a conversation about how to confront and overcome t he current obstacles to creating a truly diverse work force within the leg al profession. The film was sponsored by the State Bar of California and t he California Bar Foundation.\n\nAbby is the President of the Berkeley Fil m Foundation\, which has given out over $700\,000 to local filmmakers in t he past 6 years. She is on the Board of Advisors for The Impact Fund\; th e Thelton Henderson Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley Law School an d the Yale Law School Visual Advocacy Project. She has received a Champion of Justice award from the National Lawyers Guild and was selected as a Ge rbode Foundation Fellow in 2008. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sof t-Vengeance.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:80@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141029T190000 DTSTAMP:20141007T230638Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/soul-banquet-2/ SUMMARY:Soul of the Banquet DESCRIPTION:Director: Wayne Wang | USA | Documentary | 2014 | 78 mins\n Film source: Oscilloscope\nSponsor: A Single Pebble\nPreceded by a tasting reception prepared by A Single Pebble and cash bar.\n\nWayne Wang (Chan I s Missing\, Joy Luck Club) has brought us a deeply personal film about Cec ilia Chiang\, accidental restaurateur\, who is credited with bringing auth entic Chinese cuisine to the United States. Alice Waters\, a friend of Chi ang's and who features in the film\, compares her achievement to Julia Chi ld's introduction of French cuisine to everyday American palates. Food wri ter Ruth Reichel provides the context for the American culinary scene at t he time Chiang opened her own celebrated restaurant\, The Mandarin. Wang d ivides the film into two parts – the personal history and the food prepa ration\, but running through the film is a beautiful thread of the three w omen talking with passion and dedication about food and hospitality as a p rofession\, an art form and a sensual pleasure. The film serves both an in timate and heartbreaking history of a woman separated from her family duri ng the Cultural Revolution and a mouth-watering and hunger-inducing entré e of dishes that Chiang produces for a banquet in Waters' home in celebrat ion of the 40th anniversary of Chez Panisse. If you liked Jiro Dreams of S ushi\, you won't be disappointed with Soul of the Banquet.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sou l-banquet.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:64@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T100000 DTSTAMP:20141028T160352Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/boy-world-o-menino-e-o-mundo-2/ SUMMARY:Student Matinee: The Boy and the World (O Menino e o Mundo) DESCRIPTION:Director: Alê Abreu | Brazil | Animation | 2013 | 80 mins\n Film source: GKids\n\nSomewhere in a rural part of a distant world\, a yo ung boy named Cuca lives with his parents. The images are soft\, simple an d uncluttered\; flute music scores the scene. One day\, Cuca’s father le aves to go find work in the city. Notes of sadness and complication are in troduced\, and Cuca decides to set off on a journey of his own. As he wand ers far and wide\, encountering a colorful myriad of characters and circum stances\, discovering the richness and vagaries of the world\, the animati on reflects his expanding perspective\, becoming more vibrant and vivid. S ounds of samba and Brazilian hip-hop underscore Cuca’s adventure and iss ues of progress\, class\, industry\, and the environment are subtly raised . Director Alê Abreu’s beautifully rendered\, dialogue-free film is an emotionally resonant\, visually enthralling\, utterly charming tale perfec tly suited for audiences of all ages.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Boy -in-the-World_01.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:92@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T120000 DTSTAMP:20141007T233057Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-vermont-filmmakers/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: World Animation DESCRIPTION:Sponsor: Middlebury College\nLunch provided by Kountry Kart D eli included in price of ticket\n\nA tantalizing variety of animated film s – reflecting different styles and concerns. Animation is not just Disn ey\, nor is it special effects.At its best\, it is a singular cinematic me dium for conveying concepts in the most visually efficient and complex way .\n\nRunning Order:\nCHINTI | Directed by Natalia Mirzoyen | 8 mins\nHEAD OVER HEELS | Directed by Tim Reckart | 10 mins\nSAUSAGE | Directed by Robe rt Grieves | 7 mins\nSEQUESTERED | Directed by Lucas Spaulding | 6 mins\nT HE CAT WITH HANDS | Directed by Rob Morgan|11 mins\nLUMINARIS | Directed b y Juan Pablo Zaramella | 6 min ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hea d-over-heels.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:The BCA Center\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\ , United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The BCA C enter:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:34@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T140000 DTSTAMP:20141007T210839Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hank-asha/ SUMMARY:Hank and Asha DESCRIPTION:Director: James E. Duff | USA | Fiction | 2013 | 73 mins\n Film source: Filmrise\nSponsor: Bobbie Lanahan\n\nAn Indian woman studyi ng in Prague and a lonely New Yorker begin an unconventional correspondenc e through video letters - two strangers searching for human connection in a hyper-connected world. When their relationship deepens\, they must decid e whether or not to meet face to face. In this beguiling romantic comedy\, the two very seducing characters talk to each other by addressing the cam era. But because we\, as audience\, are on the receiving end of the camera \, we feel like they are talking to us. This positions us in the middle of the relationship and has the effect of making us both voyeurs and a prota gonists. James E Duff and Julia Morrison\, the husband and wife filmmaking team\, have created a modern love story equivalent of the found footage f ilm\, normally associated with the horror genre. \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/han k-and-asha.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T143000 DTSTAMP:20141007T211021Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/angel-azul/ SUMMARY:Angel Azul DESCRIPTION:Director: Marcy Cravat | USA | Documentary | 2013 | 72 min s\nFilm source: Filmmaker\n\nNot all environmental films need to show deva station to get their message across. Sometimes it's the hauntingly dreamy images\, such as the underwater sculptures created by internationally reno wned artist Jason deCaires\, that bring the message and sense of loss back home. Director Marcy Cravat filmed deCaires and his crew creating the Ang el\, centerpiece of the 400+ sculptures immersed in the azur waters off Ca ncun in Mexico\, while the stunning underwater photography was shot by deC aire himself. The film holds your attention by showing in exciting detail the craft of an artist in action\, creating sculptures from live human mod els\, interspersed with information about the gradual erosion of reel cora l reefs. Convincingly and unobtrusively narrated by Peter Coyote.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ang el-azul.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:53@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T154500 DTSTAMP:20141007T221650Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/regarding-susan-sontag/ SUMMARY:Regarding Susan Sontag DESCRIPTION:Director: Nancy Kates | USA | Documentary | 2014 | 101 min s\nFilm source: The Film Collaborative\nSponsor: Judy Gerber\nPost screeni ng Q&\;A with filmmaker via skype\n\n“Attention is vitality. It conne cts you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”\nSusan Sontag rema ined attentive and eager throughout her life and career as one of the most important literary\, political and feminist icons of her generation. Inve stigating Sontag’s life through evocative experimental images\, archival materials\, accounts from friends\, family\, colleagues\, and lovers\, as well as her own words\, read by actress Patricia Clarkson\, the documenta ry is a fascinating look at a towering cultural critic and writer whose wo rks on photography\, war\, illness\, and terrorism still resonate today. M ore than any other thinker of her day\, Sontag was watched\, viewed\, phot ographed and stared at. She was gazed at\, and she looked back\, attentive ly and eagerly\, particularly at language and metaphor and at photography and what she called “the ecology of images.”\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Reg arding-Susan-Sontage.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:54@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T161500 DTSTAMP:20141013T215517Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/song-forest-2/ SUMMARY:Song From The Forest DESCRIPTION:Director: Michael Obert | Germany | Documentary | 2014 | 97 mins\nFilm source: The Film Collaborative\nSponsor: Hager Strategic\nIntr oduced by David Rothenberg\, music supervisor on Song from the Forest. Dav id is a musician and philosopher\, and author of numerous books on music and nature.\n\n25 years ago the young American ethno musicologist Louis Sa rno heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the rainforest in Central Africa. He settled among the Bayka pygmies\, got married to a m ember of the tribe\, had a son\, and became one of them.  For more than t wo decades he recorded over 1000 hours of original Bayaka music\, which he recently donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in the UK. The story fascinated the German traveler/journalist Michael Obert who created this marvelous ethnographic documentary. The film opens with Sarno’s prepara tion to take his 13 years old son to a long promised trip to New York City . When visiting family and friends Sarno contemplates the choices he made and why he left behind the Western way of life.  “You realize how arti ficial life here is”\, shares Sarno in a candid conversation with his cl osest buddy Jim Jarmush.  Through elegant contrast between urban life an d beautiful images and sounds of nature\, the film takes us into an enthra lling and informative journey.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/son gfromtheforest1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:110@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T173000 DTSTAMP:20141022T184705Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/skinny-pancake-bar/ SUMMARY:Burlington Film Society Reception DESCRIPTION:\nSpecial reception of the Burlington Film Society. Snacks prov ided\, Skinny Pancake cash bar. Preceding the screening of the BFS screen ing of Life Itself. Cash bar. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cas hbar.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:56@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T183000 DTSTAMP:20141007T211141Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/strange-little-cat-2/ SUMMARY:The Strange Little Cat DESCRIPTION:Director: Ramon Zürcher | Germany | Fiction | 2013 | 72 mi ns\nFilm source: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie\n\nRamon Zürcher’s The Strange Little Cat is one of the most auspicious debuts in recent mem ory. The action (or inaction) is almost entirely confined to a Berlin apar tment\, where a delightfully dysfunctional family goes about its daily rou tine blithely unaware of the beauty and quiet revelations which surround t heir seemingly mundane lives. A former student of Béla Tarr (whose The Tu rin Horse was screened at VTIFF 2012)\, Zürcher’s deadpan sense of humo r and focus on the mechanization of modern life recalls Jacques Tati’s P laytime\, while the rigorously dispassionate performances of his actors co ntain traces of Robert Bresson and Chantal Akerman. But Zürcher’s cinem atic language\, which dispenses with traditional rules of shot composition and editing—often mismatching sound and visual cues and positioning act ors partially outside the frame—is refreshing and bracingly original. Wi tty\, humorous and strangely affecting\, The Strange Little Cat announces the arrival of a major talent.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Str ange-Little-Cat.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:122@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T190000 DTSTAMP:20141022T184301Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/life-itself/ SUMMARY:Life Itself DESCRIPTION:Director: Steve James USA | Documentary | 2014 | 115 mins Fi lm source: Magnolia Pictures A Burlington Film Society screening present ed by Main Street Landing Over nearly five decades spent writing about\, reflecting on\, advocating for\, and arguing over film\, Roger Ebert becam e one of the most recognizable and beloved movie critics in the country. A lways a populist at heart\, Ebert’s straight-forward\, Chicago-journalis m honed style and his willingness to reach wide audiences through televisi on\, radio\, and eventually the internet\, helped to make film criticism a ccessible to all. Steve James\, the acclaimed documentarian behind Hoop Dr eams\, The Interrupters\, and Head Games\, paints a vivid\, loving\, but f ar from hagiographic portrait of Ebert that includes biographical sketches \, musings on the state and history of cinema\, criticisms of the critic\, and an unflinching recording of the medical travails and physical and emo tional struggles of Ebert’s final days. Through it all\, Ebert’s indom itable spirit shines through. Included in the festival as a Burlington Fil m Society screening\, Life Itself is a perfect ode to cinephilia and movie -lovers everywhere as well as a perfect encapsulation of the Society’s m ission to keep that love alive.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ebe rt.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:116@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T193000 DTSTAMP:20141001T221855Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sam-green-yo-la-tengo/ SUMMARY:Sam Green and Yo La Tengo DESCRIPTION:“Anyone familiar or unfamiliar with Fuller is lucky to experi ence his life’s work through this enthralling interpretation.” —Fil mmaker Magazine\n\nCan one person change the world? Architect\, inventor\, and 20th-century futurist Buckminster Fuller experimented tirelessly for 50 years trying to discover the answer. Drawing equal inspiration from TED Talks and Benshi film narration\, The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller  is a new “live documentary” from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker  Sam Green (The Weather Underground). Accompanied by a score performed liv e by indie rock legends Yo La Tengo\, Green narrates the film\, exploring Fuller’s utopian vision that a design revolution could usher in radical social change.\n\nNote:VTIFF members are invited to a meet and greet with Sam Green reception after the event. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Sam -Green.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Flynn MainStage\, 153 Main Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, Unit ed States GEO:44.475682;-73.21315570000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=153 Main Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Flynn MainStage: geo:44.475682,-73.21315570000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:24@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T203000 DTSTAMP:20141007T211235Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/appropriate-behavior-3/ SUMMARY:Appropriate Behavior DESCRIPTION:Director: Desiree Akhavan | USA | Fiction | 2014 | 90 mins\ nFilm source: The Film Collaborative\nSponsor: Prime Lending\n\n“Inappr opriate Behavior” might have been a more accurate title for writer-direc tor Desiree Akhavan’s comedic romp about the misadventures of Shirin\, a bisexual Iranian-American twenty-something (played by Akhavan)\, who mana ges to bungle nearly every social situation she encounters. Akhavan\, who will have a regular role on the next season of Girls\, has clearly taken a page from Lena Dunham’s HBO series about college grads floundering in t he trendy world of Brooklyn. But Appropriate Behavior is also strongly aut obiographical (like her character\, she’s bisexual and of Iranian descen t)\, and the film’s distinctive appeal lies in its offbeat presentation of the rift between the traditional Persian values of Shirin’s parents —who either don’t know or choose to ignore that she’s bisexual—and the freewheeling hipster culture of Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. W ith a confidence behind the camera which belies the utter ineptness of her onscreen persona\, Appropriate Behavior is at turns a painfully awkward a nd wickedly funny feature debut from an up-and-coming young filmmaker.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/App ropriate-Behavior.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:87@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141030T220000 DTSTAMP:20141013T172950Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/life-beth/ SUMMARY:Life After Beth DESCRIPTION:Director: Jeff Baena | USA | Fiction | 2014 | 91 mins\nFilm source: A24\n\nIs there life (or death) left in the Rom/Com/Zom genre? Ye s! Zach (Dane DeHann) is crushed by the accidental death of his girlfriend \, Beth (Aubrey Plaza) by snakebite. When she miraculously comes back to l ife\, Zach jumps at a second chance with Beth and promises not to take the ir relationship for granted. Problem is – Beth is acting really strange. It isn’t long before Zach’s world (and relationship) spins totally ou t of control. Life is tough when you’re dating a dead girl. Writer/Direc tor Jeff Baena (I Heart Huckabees) unearths a fresh and hilarious take on zombies\, bringing together an all star comedy cast including Aubrey Plaza (Parks &\; Recreation)\, John C. Reilly\, Molly Shannon and Anna Kendr ick. Get ready for a fun and gory ride!\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/lif e-after-beth-aubrey-plaza-dane-dehaan.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:ArtsRiot\, 400 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United Stat es GEO:44.468216;-73.21477800000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=400 Pine Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ArtsRiot:geo:44. 468216,-73.21477800000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:44@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T101500 DTSTAMP:20141028T160446Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nothing-like-chocolate-2/ SUMMARY:Student Matinee: Nothing Like Chocolate DESCRIPTION:Director: Kum-Kum Bhavnani | USA | Doc | 2013 | 64 mins\nF ilm source: Filmmaker\nSponsor: Blue Bandana Chocolate Maker\nPreceded b y chocolate tasting reception &\; cash bar by Blue Bandana\n\nDeep in t he rain forests of Grenada\, anarchist chocolate-maker Mott Green\, a self -described "activist version of Willy Wonka\," operates an unusual chocola te factory that turns out delicious creations unknown to a world saturated with industrially produced cocoa. Solar power\, employee shareholding and small-scale antique equipment turn out delicious chocolate in the hamlet of Hermitage\, Grenada. Nothing like Chocolate\, narrated by Susan Sarand on\, tells the moving story of the relentless and headstrong Mott Green\, founder of the Grenada Chocolate Company\, as he pursued his unique vision to create the best chocolate in the world\, from scratch. It exposes the practices and politics of how chocolate has moved worldwide from a sacred plant to corporate blasphemy. Governments around the world\, beholden to m ulti-nationals\, sell cocoa for export at the best possible price. Industr ial chocolate dominates taste buds and the market. Threatened by boutique producers\, such as Grenada Chocolate Company\, mega-companies work hard t o buy up these small artisans. From currency to candy\, chocolate reflects a rich history saturated with sacred ritual\, endorphin highs\, hip anti- oxidants\, exotic sensuality and high quality luxury. Nothing Like Chocol ate adds new depth to the stories of chocolate.\n\n\n\nThe student matine e screening will be introduced by Eric Lampman\, founder of Blue Bandana C hocolate Maker\, a new local company dedicated to the ideals of the farm-t o-bar movement.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Not hingLikeChocolate.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:93@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T120000 DTSTAMP:20141007T233938Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-music/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Music DESCRIPTION:Sponsor: Middlebury College\nLunch provided by Kountry Kart D eli included in price of ticket\n\nEver since The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star aired on MTV on August 1st\, 1981\, music videos have done their best to translate to a visual medium. At their worst - crass commerc ialism. At their best – groundbreaking\, innovative\, often experimental works of art that have launched the careers of much-lauded directors such as Spike Jonze\, David Fincher and Michel Gondry. This selection features contemporary videos that push\, bend and break the mold of the “music v ideo.”\n\n Running Order: \n\nShugo Tokumaru – Katachi |Directed by K ijek/Adamski | 3:04\nPurity Ring – Lofticries |Directed by AG Rojas  |4:13\nArcade Fire – Afterlife |Directed by Emily Kai Bock |7:47\nWund er Wunder – Hail The Madmen |Directed by Dimitri Basil |3:13\nManchest er Orchestra – Simple Math |Directed by Daniels |5:22\nGesaffelstein – Pursuit | Directed by Fleur &\; Manu |\, 3:25\nCold Mailman – M y Recurring Dream |Directed by André Chocron |4:35\nHannah Georgas – Enemies |Directed by John Patton Ford |4:16\nM.I.A. – Bad Girls |Dire cted by Romain Gavras |4:13\nSlow Magic – Feel Flows |Directed by Pari s Zarcilla | 8:09 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Acr adeFire_Afterlife3_1500x625.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:The BCA Center\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\ , United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The BCA C enter:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:57@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T130000 DTSTAMP:20141007T221945Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/strange-little-cat/ SUMMARY:The Strange Little Cat DESCRIPTION:Director: Ramon Zürcher | Germany | Fiction | 2013 | 72 mi ns\nFilm source: Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie\n\nRamon Zürcher’s The Strange Little Cat is one of the most auspicious debuts in recent memo ry. The action (or inaction) is almost entirely confined to a Berlin apart ment\, where a delightfully dysfunctional family goes about its daily rout ine blithely unaware of the beauty and quiet revelations which surround th eir seemingly mundane lives. A former student of Béla Tarr (whose The Tur in Horse was screened at VTIFF 2012)\, Zürcher’s deadpan sense of humor and focus on the mechanization of modern life recalls Jacques Tati’s Pl aytime\, while the rigorously dispassionate performances of his actors con tain traces of Robert Bresson and Chantal Akerman. But Zürcher’s cinema tic language\, which dispenses with traditional rules of shot composition and editing—often mismatching sound and visual cues and positioning acto rs partially outside the frame—is refreshing and bracingly original. Wit ty\, humorous and strangely affecting\, The Strange Little Cat announces t he arrival of a major talent.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Str ange-Little-Cat.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:27@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T143000 DTSTAMP:20141007T233851Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/born-fly/ SUMMARY:Born to Fly DESCRIPTION:Director: Catherine Gund | USA | Doc | 2014 | 82 mins\nFilm source: The Film Collaborative\nSponsors: Chiropractic Works and Old Sp okes Home\n\n“If you’re not flying\, what’s the point?” Action-obs essed choreographer Elizabeth Streb has spent more than three decades crea ting spectacles\, sensations\, controversies\, and provocations. Her work – drawn from a myriad of influences\, including dancer Trisha Brown\, ph otographer Lois Greenfield\, and daredevil Evel Knievel – pushes the bou ndaries of categorization and challenges assumptions about dance\, physica lity\, age\, gender\, time\, and space. Born to Fly charts Streb’s traje ctory from her roots in Rochester to her early efforts alone in a studio i n New York City\, exploring the ideas and expressions of force\, endurance \, and velocity that would become the cornerstones of her “pop action” technique. It shows how the incorporation of tools\, including props\, ha rnesses\, trampolines\, scaffolding\, lifts\, and wires led to works of gr eater ambition and paved the way for her success and impact on the world o f dance. The film concludes with Streb's incredible\, culminating performa nces of six grand scale events at the London Olympics. Throughout her enti re career\, Streb has continually questioned convention\, limitation\, pos sibility\, and – especially – gravity.  \n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bor ntofly_speed.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:81@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T150000 DTSTAMP:20141007T230535Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/soul-banquet/ SUMMARY:Soul of the Banquet DESCRIPTION:Director: Wayne Wang | USA | Documentary | 2014 | 78 mins\n Film source: Oscilloscope\nSponsor: A Single Pebble\n\nWayne Wang (Chan I s Missing\, Joy Luck Club) has brought us a deeply personal film about Cec ilia Chiang\, accidental restaurateur\, who is credited with bringing auth entic Chinese cuisine to the United States. Alice Waters\, a friend of Chi ang's and who features in the film\, compares her achievement to Julia Chi ld's introduction of French cuisine to everyday American palates. Food wri ter Ruth Reichel provides the context for the American culinary scene at t he time Chiang opened her own celebrated restaurant\, The Mandarin. Wang d ivides the film into two parts – the personal history and the food prepa ration\, but running through the film is a beautiful thread of the three w omen talking with passion and dedication about food and hospitality as a p rofession\, an art form and a sensual pleasure. The film serves both an in timate and heartbreaking history of a woman separated from her family duri ng the Cultural Revolution and a mouth-watering and hunger-inducing entré e of dishes that Chiang produces for a banquet in Waters' home in celebrat ion of the 40th anniversary of Chez Panisse. If you liked Jiro Dreams of S ushi\, you won't be disappointed with Soul of the Banquet.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sou l-banquet.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:74@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T161500 DTSTAMP:20141007T222038Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nobodys-home/ SUMMARY:Nobody's Home DESCRIPTION:Director: Deniz Akçay | Turkey | Fiction | 2013 | 81 mins\ nFilm source: Mars Productions\n\nTurkish filmmaker Deniz Akçay’s feat ure debut is a delicately nuanced depiction of a dysfunctional family\, fe aturing uniformly strong performances from its ensemble cast. Nurcan is a widow who compulsively cleans the house on a daily basis in an obsessive a ttempt to manufacture an ordered home life. Feride\, her grown daughter st ill living at home\, is torn between familial duties and her fear of becom ing a spinster. Then there’s Ilker\, at 17 the de facto man of house\, w ho escapes the pressures of imminent adulthood by skipping school and gett ing high—when he isn’t sleeping with his best friend’s mother\, that is. Semi-autobiographical (Akçay’s father died when she was 16)\, Nobo dy’s Home deconstructs the patriarchal hierarchy of a traditional Turkis h family within a compact narrative which balances the messiness of heated domestic drama with splashes of understated humor and tenderness. Winner of the People’s Choice Award at the 2013 Istanbul International Film Fes tival\, Nobody’s Home is an impressive opening statement from a young wr iter-director who appears poised for future international success.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/KIS IM_04_PRORES8.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:112@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T173000 DTSTAMP:20141031T164227Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/skinny-pancake-reception/ SUMMARY:Skinny Pancake Reception DESCRIPTION:Reception sponsored by Skinny Pancake preceding the screening of the screening of Of Horses and Men. Cash bar. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cas hbar.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:30@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T180000 DTSTAMP:20141007T222447Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/challat-tunis/ SUMMARY:Challat of Tunis DESCRIPTION:Director: Kaouther Ben Hania | Tunisia | Hybrid | 2014 | 90 mins\nFilm source: Jour2fete\nSponsor: The Caroline Fund\n\nOne of the more interesting films in this year's festival\, Challat hovers elegantl y and humorously between documentary and fiction. It's 2003 in Tunisia and a man on a moped drives around slashing women's backsides. A mysterious f igure\, nicknamed Challat\, he spawned many legends. 10 years later\, Dire ctor Kaouther Ben Hania\, in post-revolutionary Tunisia\, goes in search o f the truth. But the truth is elusive and rumors abound. Ben Hania's focus is on the "collective conscious of people and the fantasy around it and w hat it tells us about us\, so I had to set up stories to explain this"\, s he says in an interview at the Dubai Film Festival. Fact meets fiction in the way the narrative is set up\, nothing is what it seems as Ben Haniya s teers us through the film's many threads. These stories are the backbone o f the film which has its hilarious moments (wait for the Virgin-o-meter)\; but the harsh reality of men's attitudes toward women never eludes us. "H owever"\, says Ben Haniya\, "what has changed is the fact that now you can talk about it."\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cha llat-of-tunis.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:45@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T183000 DTSTAMP:20141010T172100Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/horsesandmen/ SUMMARY:Of Horses and Men DESCRIPTION:Director: Benedikt Erlingsson | Iceland | Fiction | 2013 | 8 1 mins\nFilm source: Music Box Films\nIntroduced by John Killacky\n\n\nIce land’s official 2014 Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film\, B enedikt Erlingsson’s gorgeously shot Of Horses and Men is a riotously fu nny and bitingly ironic look at life and love in a small rural community i n Iceland’s northern highlands\, where horses outnumber humans and the o nly thing that travels fast is gossip and innuendo. Like Sherwood Anderson ’s collection of interconnected short stories Winesburg\, Ohio\, the vig nettes in Of Horses and Men are related but self-sufficient narratives whi ch each contribute a variation on the theme of the absurdity of the human condition. Be it the foolhardy drunk who rides his steed across frigid wat ers to obtain bootlegged vodka from a Russian tanker\, or the tentative lo vers whose courtship is soured by the lustful passions of their horses\, O f Horses and Men proposes in tragically farcical fashion that human desire s aren’t all that different from animal instincts when man is driven to desperate measures.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Of- Horses-and-Men-35865_004.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:73@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T203000 DTSTAMP:20141007T223057Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nobodys-daughter-haewon/ SUMMARY:Nobody's Daughter Haewon DESCRIPTION:Director: Hong Sang-soo | South Korea | Fiction | 2013 | 90 mins\nFilm source: Finecut\n\nHong Sang-soo is on a roll. Following the success of his quirky romantic triptych In Another Country (screened at VT IFF 2012) comes Nobody’s Daughter Haewon\, a casually profound comedy-dr ama about a depressed and restless film student/aspiring actress who drift s back into a relationship with a married professor after her mother moves to Canada. Hong’s specialty is the rhythms and nuances of everyday life \, but here he blurs dreams and reality\, questioning the very notion of c inema as a representation of “real life.” With an idiosyncratic use of digital zooms\, which serve to italicize subtle emotional and conversatio nal shifts in a narrative which moves effortlessly between ironic humor an d quiet despair\, Nobody’s Daughter Haewon is the work of a modern maste r at the peak of his powers.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/nob odys_daughter_haewon_press-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:85@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T110000 DTSTAMP:20141007T233801Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/zip-zap-marble-gang/ SUMMARY:Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang DESCRIPTION:Director: Oskar Santos | Spain | Fiction | 2013 | 92 mins\nFi lm source: Film Factory Entertainment\n\nNaughty twins Zip &\; Zap are punished and sent to summer school run by the strict headmaster Falconett i\, who rules with a heavy hand and an eyepatch\, forbidding all forms of recreation and entertainment. The twins form the Marble Gang in order to d efy the evil headmaster. Guided by intelligence\, bravery and unbreakable faith in friendship\, they uncover a mysterious secret hidden deep within the school and have the most exciting adventure of their lives. Adapted fr om a beloved Spanish comic series from the 1940s by director Óskar Santos \, Zip &\; Zap explores themes of friendship\, courage\, and acceptanc e and is a wonderful addition to the children’s adventure-film genre. It s great performances\, engaging big budget special effects\, and humorous\ , fast-paced story are sure both to entertain and to surprise you. Zip &am p\; Zap was the highest grossing film in Spain in 2013 and fans of Harry P otter or 80s classics like The Goonies are sure to adore this film!\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Zip AndZap_KeyArt-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:79@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T130000 DTSTAMP:20141008T215150Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sol-lewitt/ SUMMARY:Sol LeWitt DESCRIPTION:Director: Chris Teerink | Netherlands | Documentary | 2013 | 72 mins Film source: Icarus\nSponsored by 05401\nIntroduced by Janie Coh en\, Executive Director\, Fleming Museum\n\nSol LeWitt is a thoughtful an d informative film about one of the greatest American conceptual artists. Since LeWitt (1928 -2007) was notoriously camera-shy and opposed to public appearances and interviews\, we won’t learn much about the artist’s s elf -effacing persona\, but what emerges from the film is his distinctive body of work and the philosophy behind it. Through recollections of friend s\, colleagues and mainly by documenting his installations\, the Dutch dir ector Chris Teernik\, skillfully reveals LeWitt’s sensitivity and create s an insightful celebration of his art.  \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sol -LeWitt.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:28@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T133000 DTSTAMP:20141008T200401Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/capturing-dad/ SUMMARY:Capturing Dad DESCRIPTION:Director: Riota Nakano | Japan | Fiction | 2012 | 74 mins\nF ilm source: Fortissimo\n\nA moving but surprisingly light-hearted and quir kily humorous study of family and death. Sawa\, a long divorced mother of two complex\, angst-ridden teenaged sisters\, sends her daughters on a cro ss country trip to capture a photo of the face of their estranged father w ho they barely remember and who is now dying of cancer. She is determined to laugh in his face\, even if it's only in a photograph. He has long sinc e remarried and has a new family that they also don’t know. What starts out as a sort of mini-adventure\, becomes a journey of self-discovery\, re conciliation\, growth and coming of age. The two teenage actors are wonder ful and portray memorable character traits that carry the film through its brisk 74 minutes. Of particular charm and interest to a Western audience is the girls' mature and practical attitude towards their dead father. Thi s film will appeal to adults and teenagers alike.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Cap turing-Dad.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:62@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T150000 DTSTAMP:20141009T203938Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/web-junkie/ SUMMARY:Web Junkie & Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Director: Hilla Medalia\, Shosh Shlam | Israel/USA | Docume ntary | 2014 | 74 mins\nFilm source: Kino Lorber\nSponsor: Champlain Col lege\nPost screening discussion with Kimberly Quinn\, EHS -Department of P sychology\, Champlain College &\; Dr. David Landers\, St. Michael's Col lege\n\nIn 2008\, China became the first country to classify Internet addi ction as a clinical disorder. Today\, there are more than 200 military-sty le treatment centers in China for youths suffering from the affliction kno wn in Mandarin as wangyin. Co-directed in fly-on-the-wall style by Israeli filmmakers Hilla Medalia and Shosh Shlam\, Web Junkie takes us inside one of these boot camps\, where compulsive online gamers are subjected to rig orous exercise and therapy sessions designed to rid their minds and bodies of the addictive sway of role-playing games like World of Warcraft. Compa ssionate yet unflinching\, Web Junkie examines the effects of Internet add iction on both the teenage patients and their often bewildered and bellige rent parents. And like Spike Jonze’s Her\, it suggests that modern human discourse is increasingly gravitating toward an alternate cyber-reality\, where real life becomes indistinguishable from the comforting blur of one s and zeroes on a computer screen.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Web -Junkie-Dogwoof-Documentary-4-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:40@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T153000 DTSTAMP:20141016T202816Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mclarenwoloshen-shorts/ SUMMARY:McLaren+Woloshen Shorts DESCRIPTION:Directors: Norman McLaren\; Steve Woloshen | Canada/Québec\nF ilm source for McLaren: National Film Board\; Film Source for Woloshen: Fi lmmaker\nSponsor: Québec Government Office in Boston\n\nSpecial annivers ary screening: to honor world-renowned Academy Award winning (Neighbors) f ilmmaker/animator Norman McLaren on the 100th anniversary of his birth\, we're delighted to welcome Steve Woloshen\, considered a McLaren disciple and respected and admired for his scratch animation films in his own right . McLaren came to Canada from Scotland in 1941 to work at the National Fil m Board where he was asked to form its animation department and where he d eveloped his technique of drawing directly on film. Woloshen will present a selection of his favorite McLaren shorts and some of his own.\nFollowing the screening there will be a reception sponsored by the Québec Governme nt in Boston. \n\nMCLAREN:\n\nSpook Sport | 8 mins | 1939/1940 | It's midn ight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks\, ghosts\, bats\, bells\, and\, at the end\, the sun. As midnight strikes\, 12 spooks appea r\, then two ghosts…\n\nHen Hop | 3’40” | 1942 | a hen gradually b reaks apart into an abstract movement of lines as it dances to a barn dan ce\nBegone Dull Care | 7’52” | 1949 | Abstract images drawn directly o nto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Osca r Peterson trio\nNeighbors  | 8’07” mins | 1952 | Oscar-winning anti- war pixilation film\nBlinkity Blank | 5’17” 1955 | Experimental film p laying with persistence of vision\nLe Merle | 4’39” | 1958 | Simple wh ite cutouts on pastel backgrounds impart unusual activity to an old French -Canadian nonsense song.\n\nWOLOSHEN:\n\n\nDitty Dot Comma | 3 min  | 35m m | 2001| Ditty Dot Comma is a hand panted\, wide screen 35 mm film that honors the relationship between the eye and the ear. The dot and the comma \, literary punctuation marks\, are also used as symbols and designs\nBru Ha Ha!   | 2 min  | 35mm | 2002 | Bru Ha Ha! is a short hand made35 m m film that uses paint\, emulsion scratches\, and dry transfer lettering t o represent voices and instrumentation.  “Unplanned” as a spontaneous study of inhuman relationships of abstract characters.\nCameras Take Five  | 3 min  | 35mm | The enduring romance of the lines. A visual explorat ion of Dave Brubeck’s Jazz Classic\, “Take Five.”\nSnip  | 1 min  | 35mm | Shards of film fly from the screen with the frenetic sounds of Fats Waller on the piano. In Cinemascope!\nChanging Evan  | 1’15” mi n  | 35mm | I think my daughter is a puzzle. Just when I thought everyth ing was o.k the chicken pox struck...\nShimmer Box Drive | 3 min  | 35mm | Thoughts\, visions and reflections from the driver’s seat.\nPlaytime | 2 min  | 35mm | Jock MacDonald painted in both worlds: figurative and the abstract. Playtime pays homage to his dedication\, spirit and wonderfu l subject matter – both real and imaginary.\nFiesta Brava  | 3’30” min  | 35mm | The bull fights are over. Now\, the bulls invite you to th e world’s biggest party.\nWhen the Sun Turns into Juice | 2 min  | 35mm |\n1000 Plateaus (2004-2014)  | 3 min  | 35mm |\n\nRead more about McLa ren\nRead an interview with Woloshen\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Wol oshen.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:113@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T170000 DTSTAMP:20141007T230939Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/quebec-film-reception/ SUMMARY:Québec Film Reception DESCRIPTION:Reception sponsored by the Québec Government Office in Boston to honor Québec films and filmmakers at the festival.\nMeet renowned ani mator Steve Woloshen and representatives from the Québec Government Offi ce in Boston for animated conversation\, Shelburne Farm cheeses and Cash bar.\nReception follows the screening of McLaren/Woloshen Shorts. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ste ve-Woloshen-e1411410105403.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:23@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T174500 DTSTAMP:20141007T225506Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/abuse-weakness/ SUMMARY:Abuse of Weakness DESCRIPTION:Director: Catherine Breillat | France | Fiction | 2013 | 10 5 mins\nFilm source: Strand Releasing\nSponsor: Barbara McGrew\n\nAbuse of Weakness is based on a brilliant premise. In 2004\, director Catherine Br eillat (Romance\; Fat Girl) suffered a stroke\, which left her partially p aralyzed. While still recovering\, she began planning a film to star model Naomi Campbell and infamous con artist and convicted swindler Christophe Rocancourt. That film never came to be. Breillat instead allowed herself\, in her diminished mental and physical state\, to be conned by Rocancourt to the tune of nearly €700\,000. Rather than shamefully bury the inciden t\, Breillat turned it into Abuse of Weakness\, a cautionary and barely fi ctionalized retelling of her ordeal. Featuring a fearless and superbly phy sical performance by Isabelle Huppert—playing a thinly veiled version of Breillat—Abuse of Weakness is autobiographical filmmaking at its most n akedly honest.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Abu se-of-Weakness.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:21@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T183000 DTSTAMP:20141007T225738Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/20000-days-earth/ SUMMARY:20\,000 Days On Earth DESCRIPTION:Closing Night Film\nDirector: Iain Forsyth &\; Jane Pollard  | UK | Doc | 2013 | 95 mins\nFilm source: Drafthouse\nPreceded by Qué bec Film Reception at 5:30\n\n20\,000 Days On Earth is a bold vision of on e of music’s most mysterious and charismatic figures: Nick Cave. In thei r debut feature\, directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard fuse drama and d ocumentary by weaving a cinematically staged day in Cave’s life with nev er-before-seen vérité observation of his full creative cycle. The film d elves into Cave’s artistic processes\, unpicking the stuff that makes hi m tick. We meet those who have affected his life\, personally and professi onally\, including hilarious moments shared with his regular collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis\, actor and friend Ray Winstone\, a nd Kylie Minogue\, whom Cave duetted with on his mainstream hit single "Wh ere The Wild Roses Grow". These voices from the past revisit Cave in daydr eam-like scenes as he sits behind the wheel driving through his adopted ho metown of Brighton\, England. Avowedly neither a music documentary nor a c oncert film\, 20\,000 Days on Earth still contains electrifying performa nces. We see a song grow from the tiniest of ideas sketched out in Cave’ s office to a monstrous epic performed by the Bad Seeds on stage at Sydney Opera House. We also witness Cave open up to psychoanalyst Darian Leader as he discusses how his early years continue to inform his work\, and late r join him on a journey through his personal archive. This unique and unca tegorisable film possesses the same frankness and wry humour that run thro ugh all of Cave’s work\, and pushes the form into new territory\, explor ing universal themes and celebrating the transformative power of the creat ive spirit.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/200 00-Days.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:71@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T200000 DTSTAMP:20141007T233626Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jingle-bell-rocks/ SUMMARY:Jingle Bell Rocks! DESCRIPTION:Director: Mitchell Kezin | Canada | Documentary | 2014 | 9 2 mins\nFilm source: Filmmaker\n\nA hilarious backstage pass into a fasci nating underground world of alternative Christmas music. It all began with Nat King Cole's The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot. As a child\, fil mmaker Mitchell related to the song's emotional message about a lonely lit tle boy with an absent father. From there\, he realized that Christmas mu sic was broader and more complex than the generic mainstream fare we ofte n hear.  He began digging through dusty crates at records stores\, lookin g for the most obscure LPs he could find. Mitchell's sincere excitement i s extremely contagious. Even the biggest haters will gain a new appreciat ion for seasonal ditties. Starring an eclectic cast of characters - The Fl aming Lips\, Run DMC\, John Waters - plus two dozen amazing &\; origina l songs\, Jingle Bell Rocks! is a cinematic sleigh ride into the strange a nd sublime universe of alternative Christmas music. Filmmaker Mitchell Kez in uncovers the stories behind twelve of the most amazing Christmas songs you've likely never heard. Equal parts social history\, pop culture pilgri mage and revealing character study\, Jingle Bell Rocks! confronts the Chri stmas music mainstream\, reinventing the seasonal soundtrack for the 21st century.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/JIn gle-Bell-Rocks.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:38@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T203000 DTSTAMP:20141007T225037Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jealousy-la-jalousie/ SUMMARY:Jealousy (La Jalousie) DESCRIPTION:Director: Philippe Garrel | France | Fiction | 2013 | 77 m ins\nFilm source: Distribfilm\n\nLike the best films of the French New Wa ve\, Philippe Garrel’s Jealousy pays homage to its cinematic forefathe rs while also making movies seem new again and full of endless possibiliti es. Garrel literally came of age during the New Wave (he made his first sh ort film in 1964\, at age 16)\, and Jealousy contains subtle tips of the cap to François Truffaut\, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean Eustache. But it’s also a highly personal work\, starring his son\, Louis Garrel\, as an aim less young actor who leaves the mother of their 8-year-old daughter for an equally adrift actress\, played with subtle detachment by Anna Mouglalis. With luminous black-and-white cinematography by Willy Kurant (who shot Go dard’s 1966 masterpiece Masculin Féminin)\, Jealousy examines with a g ently comedic touch the momentary thrills and complicated consequences of romantic longing and infidelity.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Jea lousy.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:96@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141101T203000 DTSTAMP:20141017T012329Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/closing-night-party/ SUMMARY:Closing Night Party DESCRIPTION:Join us at Signal Kitchen to celebrate the (almost) end of the festival and the launch of Season 2 of Makin' Friends with Ryan Miller.\n\ nRyan\, lead singer of Guster and host of Makin' Friends with Ryan Miller will sing songs about friends with his friends in Swale. Swale set will fo llow. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/par ty-featured-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Signal Kitchen\, 70 Main Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, U nited States GEO:44.4757982;-73.2166588 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=70 Main Street\, Burlington \, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Signal Kitch en:geo:44.4757982,-73.2166588 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:88@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T110000 DTSTAMP:20141030T011423Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ragnarok/ SUMMARY:NEW SCREENING: Ragnarok DESCRIPTION:Director: Mikkel B. Sandemose | Norway | Fiction | 2014 | 96 mins\nFilm source: Magnet Releasing\n\nArcheologist Sigurd Svendsen (Pål Sverre Hagen) has for years been obsessed with the Oseberg Viking ship. Th e only inscription found is ´man knows little` written in runes. Sigurd i s sure that the ship contains the answer to the mystery of Ragnarok\, the end of days in Norse mythology. When his friend finds similar runes on a s tone from the north\, Sigurd becomes convinced that the runes are in fact a treasure map. Together with his son and daughter\, they mount an expedit ion group and their adventure leads to “No Man’s Land” between Norwa y and Russia. Here Sigurd learns the true meaning of the runes – a secre t more terrifying than he could possibly imagine. Described in reviews as “Spielbergian in the best possible way\,” Ragnarok sits on the same su mmit as many of the best adventure films of the 1980s. It steers clear of the trappings of modern family fare – there are no smarmy kids or pop cu lture references\, just great storytelling\, acting and adventure! If you are constantly telling your kids about the movies you used to watch\, then this is the film for you!\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2_t .jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:43@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T133000 DTSTAMP:20141007T210053Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mother-love/ SUMMARY:Mother\, I Love You DESCRIPTION:Director: Janis Nords | Latvia | Fiction | 2013 | 83 mins\nF ilm source: New Europa Films\n\nRaimonds is basically a good kid. He play s saxophone in the school band. He rides his kickboard around town with fr iends. He tries to make his busy obstetrician mother proud. But\, like any 12-year-old\, he can’t entirely avoid a little mischief. One day\, afte r getting in trouble for teasing a girl in his class\, he decides to cover up the disciplinary report. A simple lie soon sets off a spiral of decept ion and questionable actions that puts Raimonds into an increasingly diffi cult ethical dilemma. Janis Nords’ highly acclaimed drama perfectly capt ures the charged intensity at play in the best coming-of-age stories\, and the endearing central performance by newcomer Kristofers Konovalovs groun ds the film with a captivating authenticity.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mot her-i-love-you.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:55@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T140000 DTSTAMP:20141007T225323Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/song-forest/ SUMMARY:Song From The Forest DESCRIPTION:Director: Michael Obert | Germany | Documentary | 2014 | 97 mins\nFilm source: The Film Collaborative\nSponsors: Hager Strategic\n\n  25 years ago the young American ethno musicologist Louis Sarno heard a s ong on the radio and followed its melody into the rainforest in Central Af rica. He settled among the Bayka pygmies\, got married to a member of the tribe\, had a son\, and became one of them.  For more than two decades he recorded over 1000 hours of original Bayaka music\, which he recently don ated to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in the UK. The story fascinated t he German traveler/journalist Michael Obert who created this marvelous eth nographic documentary. The film opens with Sarno’s preparation to take his 13 years old son to a long promised trip to New York City. When visiti ng family and friends Sarno  contemplates the choices he made and why he left behind the Western way of life.  “You realize how artificial life here is”\, shares Sarno in a candid conversation with his closest buddy Jim Jarmush. Through elegant contrast between urban life and beautiful i mages and sounds of nature\, the film takes us into an enthralling and inf ormative journey.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/son gfromtheforest.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:25@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T154500 DTSTAMP:20141007T225132Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/appropriate-behavior/ SUMMARY:Appropriate Behavior DESCRIPTION:Director: Desiree Akhavan | USA | Fiction | 2014 | 90 mins\ nFilm source: The Film Collaborative\nSponsor: Prime Lending\n\n“Inappr opriate Behavior” might have been a more accurate title for writer-direc tor Desiree Akhavan’s comedic romp about the misadventures of Shirin\, a bisexual Iranian-American twenty-something (played by Akhavan)\, who mana ges to bungle nearly every social situation she encounters. Akhavan\, who will have a regular role on the next season of Girls\, has clearly taken a page from Lena Dunham’s HBO series about college grads floundering in the trendy world of Brooklyn. But Appropriate Behavior is also strongly autobiographical (like her character\, she’s bisexual and of Iranian des cent)\, and the film’s distinctive appeal lies in its offbeat presentati on of the rift between the traditional Persian values of Shirin’s parent s—who either don’t know or choose to ignore that she’s bisexual—an d the freewheeling hipster culture of Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. With a confidence behind the camera which belies the utter ineptness of he r onscreen persona\, Appropriate Behavior is at turns a painfully awkwar d and wickedly funny feature debut from an up-and-coming young filmmaker.\ n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/App ropriate-Behavior.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:65@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T160000 DTSTAMP:20141007T225417Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/buzzard/ SUMMARY:Buzzard DESCRIPTION:Director: Joel Potrykus | USA | Fiction | 2014 | 97 mins\nFi lm source: Oscilloscope\n\nMarty is a bit of a loser. He does little to no actual work at his temp job at a bank\, his diet consists of frozen pizza and Doritos sandwiches\, and he spends his free time listening to thrash metal and designing a cross between the Nintendo Power Glove and Freddy Kr ueger’s razor-clawed appendage from A Nightmare on Elm Street. Always on the lookout to make a dishonest buck\, one day he decides to sign a bunch of undeliverable checks over to himself—not realizing that banks have s ecurity measures like surveillance cameras and digital copies of checks— and in a panic he goes on the lam in a tailspin of paranoia and increasing ly poor decisions. Buzzard\, the third installment in Michigan-based cult filmmaker Joel Potrykus’ “Animal Trilogy” (preceded by the short Coy ote and Ape\, the Best New Director winner at the 2012 Locarno Film Festiv al)\, plays like a guerilla version of Office Space crossed with the nerdy aesthetic of Clerks. But it’s also\, in its own bizarre slacker generat ion way\, an unassuming indictment of American capitalism in the wake of t he 2008 financial crisis and the calamitous economic collapse of Detroit.\ n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Buz zard-still-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:83@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T174500 DTSTAMP:20141007T233533Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ukraine-brothel/ SUMMARY:Ukraine Is Not A Brothel DESCRIPTION:Director: Kitty Green | Australia/Ukraine | Documentary | 20 13 | 80 mins\nFilm source: Cinephil\n\n“The world sees our country as o ne big brothel. Tourists come here to find whores. We believe that we need to protest against this. We need to do everything we can so the world see s Ukraine as a country where naked girls protest\, not sell their bodies ”\, says Inna Sevchenko\, a member of the activist group Femen which i s in the center of Kitty Green’s\, an Australian director with Ukrainian roots\, debut documentary. Femen is a feminist group of topless crusade rs who write slogans on their bare breasts shouting protests against the w orld’s perception of Ukrainian women as brides for sale or objects of se x tourism and\, like the punk artists from Pussy Riot\, they stand up to d ictators. Green spent 14 months living with four of the members. The resul t is an intriguing portrait of the state of feminism in Ukraine and much m ore than that. Half way through the film shifts focus to the founder of gr oup - an abusive patriarch who claims that he is “the father of new femi nism”. Most of the girls are in conflict with his views but it’s hard to break free.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/UKR AINE-IS-NOT-BROTHEL.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:41@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141102T211500 DTSTAMP:20141031T012911Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mood-indigo/ SUMMARY:Mood Indigo DESCRIPTION:Director: Michel Gondry | France | Fiction | 2013 | 94 mins\n Film source: Drafthouse\nSponsor: Lyric Theater\n\nFrom Méliès to the B rothers Quay\, cinema has produced a number of remarkable movie magicians – directors who revel in the art of illusion\, the use of in-camera tric kery and sleight of sight\; fabulists who unlock the fantastical possibili ties of film. Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind\; The S cience of Sleep) is one of these magicians\, and his latest offering provi des ample evidence of his innovation and mastery of the low-fi\, high-effe ct F/X. Adapting Boris Vian’s novel\, Froth on the Daydream\, Gondry con cocts a vivid\, beguiling tale of love\, idealism\, invention\, and loss. Starring Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) as rich\, idiosyncr atic gadabout Colin and Audrey Tatou (Amélie\; Dirty Pretty Things) as Ch loe\, the one who sets Colin aglow\, the film’s romantic story – full of all the whimsy\, elation\, anxiety\, and tragedy that love entails – perfectly matches Gondry’s heightened-sensory approach to filmmaking. Vi sually stunning and endlessly surprising\, Mood Indigo is a delirious and rewarding flight of fancy from a magician in top form.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/moo d-indigo.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:125@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141113T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141113T190000 DTSTAMP:20141227T002429Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/main-street-landing-presents-force-majeure/ SUMMARY:Burlington Film Society: Force Majeure (presented by Main Street La nding) DESCRIPTION:Main Street Landing presents a Burlington Film Society screenin g of:\nForce Majeure\nDirected by Ruben Östlund\n\n2014\, 118 minutes\, F iction\, Rated R\, Swedish w/ English Subtitles\, Magnolia Pictures\n\n201 4 Official Oscar Entry Sweden\, Best Foreign Language Film\, 2014 Cannes F ilm Festival Winner: Un Certain Regard Jury Prize\n\nA critical favorite a t this year's Cannes Film Festival\, where it took the Jury Prize in Un Ce rtain Regard\, this wickedly funny and precisely observed psychodrama tell s the story of a model Swedish familyhandsome businessman Tomas\, his will owy wife Ebba and their two blond childrenon a skiing holiday in the Frenc h Alps. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but\, during a l unch at a mountainside restaurant\, an avalanche suddenly bears down on th e happy diners. With people fleeing in all directions and his wife and chi ldren in a state of panic\, Tomas makes a decision that will shake his mar riage to its core and leave him struggling to reclaim his role as family p atriarch.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2.j pg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:127@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141216T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141216T180000 DTSTAMP:20141118T233449Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/architecture-design-film-series-microtopia/ SUMMARY:Architecture & Design Film Series: Microtopia DESCRIPTION:Burlington City Arts\, in affiliation with VTIFF\, presents:\n\ nMICROTOPIA\n55min\, 2013\nDirector: Jesper Wachtmeister\nMicrotopia prese nts dreams of life in small\, mobile or temporary spaces. Successful archi tects\, builders and artists from different parts of the world propose rad ical solutions where all unnecessary things are removed and seemingly old and worn-out items are utilized. Behind this is a simple question: How muc h space\, stuff and comfort do we really need? Whether building islands fr om garbage\, tents hanging from trees\, micro-homes on wheels\, residentia l sleeping pods or experimental urban parasitic architecture\, they are un ited by the effort to find ways to form new communities without environmen tal consequences. This film explores how individuals are pushing the limit s to find answers to their dreams of portability\, flexibility– and of c reating independence from “the grid”. On the sidewalk\, on rooftops\, in industrial landscapes and in nature we learn how these abodes meet the dreams set up by their creators. Microtopia deals with contemporary ideas that are addressed\, and solved\, in very surprising ways.\nSPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER:\n\nAt 6:10\, prior to the screening\, Keith Moskow will speak on ”Swamp Hut\, Ice Chime and Rural Interventions"\n\nKeith Moskow FA IA creates finely detailed buildings attuned to their environment\, envi sions small scale urban interventions for better city living and writes b ooks on architectural design to educate the profession and public at larg e. Keith’s talk at Burlington City Arts will focus on rural projects b uilt as part of his Studio North program in Norwich\, VT\, as well as an 800 square foot home entirely heated and cooled by passive solar means an d a two story tower built in downtown Boston for the sole purpose of maki ng enormous icicles.\n\n \;\n\nThe Architecture + Design Film Series i s sponsored by: TruexCullins\, Vermont Eco-Floors\, Riven Peregrine De sign/Build\, AIAVT\, Emerging Professionals Network-AIAVT\, American Fl atbread Burlington Hearth\, Wagner Hodgson Landscape Architecture\, Reds tone\, Radio Bean/Duino Duende\, Roland Batten Fund\, John Bossange\, Ma rk and Marilyn Neagley\, William Cats-Baril and Isabelle Desjardins\, Jared Gange &\; Virginia Loughren\, Anonymous Donors\n\nBCA Center video projector and screen generously donated by the John M. Bissell Foun dation\, Inc. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mic rotopia_image.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:126@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141218T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141218T190000 DTSTAMP:20141227T002358Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/main-street-landing-presents-rich-hill/ SUMMARY:Main Street Landing Presents: Rich Hill DESCRIPTION:Rich Hill\nDirected by Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Trago s\n2014\, 91 minutes\, Documentary\, USA\, Sundance\n\n2014 Sundance Film Festival\, Winner: Grand Jury Prize\n\n“We’re not trash\, we’re good people\,” insists 14-year-old Andrew in “Rich Hill\,” an open-heart ed portrait of impoverished American life named after the tiny Missouri to wn where directors Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo went searchin g for teens who were both wholly individual and universally representative of the challenges kids face in such communities. The co-helmers settled o n three subjects\, embracing young Andrew’s words as a sort of mantra\, determined to penetrate the stereotype and reveal the lively personalities struggling beneath.\n\nAfter the film\, there will be a post-screening di scussion featuring Paul Dragon\, Chief Administrator for the State Office of Economic Opportunity\; Dana Lawrence\, MSW Policy and Practice Speciali st for DCF Family Services\; and Jane Helmstetter\, Field Director for the Agency of Human Services.\n\nMore about our guest speakers:\n\nPaul Drago n is the Chief Administrator for the State Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). Prior to this\, Paul was the Director of Vermont’s Reach Up or We lfare to Work program where he focused on an integrated teaming approach t o help families move off of Reach Up and out of poverty.  He worked with the Department of Mental Health and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program as the Integrated Services Chief in an effort to develop co-occurring mental health and substance abuse policy and practice throughout Vermont. Paul w as the Director of Vermont’s Health Care for the Homeless Program and is a former Peace Corps volunteer having served in Mali\, West Africa.\n\nDa na H. Lawrence\, MSW Policy and Practice Specialist for DCF Family Service s directs the department's community based services for adolescents. Dana began his career doing tutoring and outreach with delinquent street youth. He has worked for DCF Family Services for the last 40 years in many capac ities. For the last twenty he has worked on program development contract a nd grant oversight with an emphasis on adolescent community based services .\n\nJane Helmstetter has been the Field Director for the Agency of Human Services in the Burlington District for 10 years. She holds an MS in Human Development and Family studies\, a BA in Sociology and has worked in this field for more than 35 years. Her work passion includes developing commun ity partnerships\, with a focus on prevention\, peer support and client ce ntered services.  She is the mother of four amazing daughters and six inc redible grandchildren.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/her o_RichHill-2014-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:133@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141231T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141231T170000 DTSTAMP:20141227T002557Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiff-shorts-for-fnb/ SUMMARY:VTIFF Shorts for First Night Burlington DESCRIPTION:A PROGRAM OF AWARD-WINNING ANIMATED SHORTS\nPresented by VTIFF for First Night Burlington.\nProgram will last approximately one hour and will be repeated on the hour every hour.\n\n Sausage by Robert Grieves\n  Chinti by Natalia Mirzoyen\n Wishful Thinking by Jane Sablow\n My Stuf fed Granny by Effie Pappa\n  The Last Resort by Stephanie Blakey\n Pine apple Calamari by Kasia Nelewjka\n\nAND MORE... ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/WIS HFULTHINKING.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:128@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150120T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150120T180000 DTSTAMP:20141118T234005Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/architecture-design-film-series-first-person- singular-m-pei/ SUMMARY:Architecture & Design Film Series: First Person Singular: I.M. Pei DESCRIPTION:Burlington City Arts\, in affiliation with VTIFF\, presents:\n\ nFIRST PERSON SINGULAR: I.M. PEI\n\n90 min 1997\n\nDirector: Peter Rosen\ n\nThough known as a modernist\, Pei has rejected the implications of glob alism inherent in the “International Style\,” instead advocating conte xtual development and variation in style. He has commented that “the imp ortant distinction is between a stylistic approach to the design\; and an analytical approach giving the process of due consideration to time\, plac e\, and purpose.” This acclaimed documentary chronicles the life and wor k of I.M. Pei whose projects include the famous pyramid entrance at the Lo uvre\, the Meyerson Symphony Center\, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Pei’s personal reflections about his life and approach to design accompa ny the beautiful footage of his projects in addition to critical commentar y that reflects on the true impact and importance of his work.\n\n \;\ n\nThe Architecture + Design Film Series is sponsored by: TruexCullins\,  Vermont Eco-Floors\, Riven Peregrine Design/Build\, AIAVT\, Emerging Professionals Network-AIAVT\, American Flatbread Burlington Hearth\, Wa gner Hodgson Landscape Architecture\, Redstone\, Radio Bean/Duino Duende \, Roland Batten Fund\, John Bossange\, Mark and Marilyn Neagley\, Willi am Cats-Baril and Isabelle Desjardins\, Jared Gange &\; Virginia  Loughren\, Anonymous Donors\n\nBCA Center video projector and screen gen erously donated by the John M. Bissell Foundation\, Inc. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/i.m ._pie.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:135@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150128T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150128T210000 DTSTAMP:20150122T223055Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/internets-boy-story-aaron-swartz/ SUMMARY:The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz DESCRIPTION:Directed by Brian Knappenberger\nUSA | Documentary | 2014 | 105 min.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public.\n\nAre you concerned a bout Open Internet?  Net Neutrality? Come learn about Aaron Swartz’s l ife\, his work\, and the implications of the interplay between technology and our civil liberties.\n\nGuest panelists will include:\n\nBrian Knappen berger\, award-winning filmmaker of “The Internet’s Own Boy” and “ We are Legion: The Story of the Hactivists.”  Brian will be skyping in to attend the discussion.\n\nMartha Reid\, Vermont State Librarian and Ope n Internet Proponent.\n\nBill Simmon\, filmmaker\, writer\, media educator and the Director of Media Services at Vermont Community Access Media.\n\n Cathleen Stadecker\, Lawyer with Downs Rachlin Martin focusing on intelle ctual property counseling involving trademark\, copyright\, advertising\, unfair competition\, and Internet issues. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/int ernetsownboy.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Vermont Commons School\, 75 Green Mountain Drive\, South Burlingto n\, Vermont\, 05403\, United States GEO:44.431052;-73.20700720000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=75 Green Mountain Drive\, S outh Burlington\, Vermont\, 05403\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TIT LE=Vermont Commons School:geo:44.431052,-73.20700720000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:134@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150129T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150129T190000 DTSTAMP:20150125T005702Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/main-street-landing-presents-kumiko-treasure- hunter/ SUMMARY:Kumiko\, the Treasure Hunter DESCRIPTION:Kumiko\, the Treasure Hunter\nPresented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\nDirected by David Zellner\n2014\, 105 minutes\, unrated\, Engli sh and Japanese (with English subtitles)\, Amplify Releasing\n\n2014 Speci al Jury Prize\, Sundance and Fantasia Film Festivals \nNominated for Best Director and Best Female Lead\, 2015 Independent Spirit Awards\n\nIn this darkly comedic odyssey\, Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel\, Paci fic Rim) stars as Kumiko\, a frustrated Office Lady whose imagination tran scends the confines of her mundane life. Kumiko becomes obsessed with a my sterious\, battered VHS tape of a popular film she’s mistaken for a docu mentary\, fixating on a scene where a suitcase of stolen cash is buried in the desolate\, frozen landscape of North Dakota. Believing this treasure to be real\, she leaves behind Tokyo and her beloved rabbit Bunzo to recov er it – and finds herself on a dangerous adventure unlike anything she ’s seen in the movies.\n\nIn February\, you can catch the Coen Brothers' Fargo on the big screen with Movies at Main Street Landing on Tuesday\, 2 /10\, at 7:00pm.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Kum iko-Ending_2-copy.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:142@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150216T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150216T183000 DTSTAMP:20150211T001151Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/miss-representation/ SUMMARY:Miss Representation DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership by VTIFF\, PACT (Parents &\; Adult s Celebrating Children &\; Teens)\, and South Burlington High School\n\ nMiss Representation\n\nDirected by Jennifer Siebel Newsom\nUSA | Document ary | 2011 | 85 min.\n\nLike drawing back a curtain to let bright light st ream in\, Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with eve ry day but fail to see. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom\, t he film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representatio n of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challe nges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and g irls\, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions a nd for the average woman to feel powerful herself.\n\nIn a society where m edia is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms\, the collective message that our young women and men overwhelmingly receive is that a woma n’s value and power lie in her youth\, beauty\, and sexuality\, and not in her capacity as a leader. While women have made great strides in leader ship over the past few decades\, the United States is still 90th in the wo rld for women in national legislatures\, women hold only 3% of clout posit ions in mainstream media\, and 65% of women and girls have disordered eati ng behaviors.\n\nStories from teenage girls and provocative interviews wit h politicians\, journalists\, entertainers\, activists and academics\, lik e Condoleezza Rice\, Nancy Pelosi\, Katie Couric\, Rachel Maddow\, Margare t Cho\, Rosario Dawson and Gloria Steinem build momentum as Miss Represent ation accumulates startling facts and statistics that will leave the audie nce shaken and armed with a new perspective.\n\nThe screening will be foll owed by a teen-led discussion.\n\n[embed]http://vimeo.com/28122207[/embed] \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/mis srepresentation.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF for Schools LOCATION:South Burlington High School\, 550 Dorset Street\, South Burlingto n\, VT\, United States GEO:44.454924;-73.17789099999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=550 Dorset Street\, South B urlington\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=South Burlington High School:geo:44.454924,-73.17789099999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:129@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150217T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150217T180000 DTSTAMP:20141118T233833Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/architecture-design-film-series-sixteen-acres / SUMMARY:Architecture & Design Film Series: Sixteen Acres DESCRIPTION:Burlington City Arts\, in affiliation with VTIFF\, presents:\n\ nSIXTEEN ACRES\n1hr 36min\, 2012\n\nDirector: Richard Hankin\n\nThe rebuil ding of ground zero is one of the most architecturally\, politically\, and emotionally complex urban renewal projects in American history. From the beginning\, the effort has been fraught with controversy\, delays and poli tics. The struggle has encompassed eleven years\, nineteen government agen cies\, a dozen projects and over $20 billion. What will emerge in downtown Manhattan over the next few years will redefine the city - and the countr y - for generations.16 Acres is the story of how and why this historic pro ject got built. At the heart of the story is the dramatic tension between noblest intentions\, the desire of everyone involved to "get it right\," a nd the politics\, hubris\, ego and ideology that is the bedrock of New Yor k City. What does it say about us as New Yorkers\, as Americans?\n\n \ ;\n\nThe Architecture + Design Film Series is sponsored by: TruexCullins\ , Vermont Eco-Floors\, Riven Peregrine Design/Build\, AIAVT\, Emergin g Professionals Network-AIAVT\, American Flatbread Burlington Hearth\, W agner Hodgson Landscape Architecture\, Redstone\, Radio Bean/Duino Duend e\, Roland Batten Fund\, John Bossange\, Mark and Marilyn Neagley\, Will iam Cats-Baril and Isabelle Desjardins\, Jared Gange &\; Virginia  Loughren\, Anonymous Donors\n\nBCA Center video projector and screen gen erously donated by the John M. Bissell Foundation\, Inc. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/16a cres.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:136@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150226T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150226T190000 DTSTAMP:20150213T003446Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/main-street-landing-presents-winter-sleep-2/ SUMMARY:Winter Sleep DESCRIPTION:Winter Sleep\nPresented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\, co-s ponsored by  \nDirected by Nuri Bilge Ceylan\n2014\, 196 minutes\, unrate d\, Turkish w/ English subtitles\, Adopt Films\nWinner\, 2014 Cannes Palme d'Or\n\nThe screening will be preceded at 6pm by a reception hosted by th e Turkish Cultural Center - pastries and refreshments in the Lake Lobby.\n \nThis mesmerizing\, superbly acted portrait of a wealthy\, self-involved landowner and the various figures impacted by his reign\, is the latest by master filmmaker Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia). The story is set in Anatolia and examines the significant divide between the rich and poor as well as the powerful and powerless in Turkey.\nAydin\, a former actor\ , runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with wh om he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall\, the hotel turn s into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animositie s...\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/086 467-©-NURI-BILGE-CEYLAN.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:138@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150302T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150302T210000 DTSTAMP:20150225T234927Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/global-roots-highway/ SUMMARY:Global Roots: Highway DESCRIPTION:Highway\n\nDirected by Deepak Rauniyar\nNepal | Drama | Nepali w/ English subtitles | 2012 | 75 min.\n\nAll aboard the bus to Kathmandu! As if the mountain terrain weren’t challenging enough\, the bus is repea tedly stopped by bandhs—spontaneous civil disobedience blockades—a fre quent phenomenon since the end of the civil war. Meanwhile\, a young woman can’t decide between her boyfriend and the fiancé arriving to marry he r\; a gay man hopes to reunite with his estranged lover\; a soldier rushes to his wife in time to try out a fertility potion he’s swallowed (not k nowing she’s kept some secrets from him)\; and the bus driver knows the woman he loves may be forced back into prostitution if he doesn’t show u p with money for her sick child. Deepak Rauniyar’s debut feature has pro voked a tumultuous response from Nepali audiences with its realistic chara cters and their taboo-shrouded issues. Rendered in an improvised cinematic style that heightens an already wild ride\, Highway is being called the h arbinger of a new era in Nepali filmmaking.\n\nJeetan Khadka will introduc e the film\n\nJeetan Khadka\, a former Bhutanese refugee who resettled in Burlington\, Vermont in 2008\, is a very engaged and active youth who beli eves in the power of the youth voice to make this world a better place in which to live\, love\, and grow. Born in Bhutan\, Jeetan’s family fled t o Nepal when he was one and lived in a refugee camp there for 17 years. La cking basic needs during his upbringing\, Jeetan developed an understandin g of different walks and struggles in life early on and became inspired to become a youth advocate and international social worker.\n\nNow a Young A dult Navigator at Spectrum Youth &\; Family Services in Burlington\, Je etan works with transition-age youths. His mission there is to empower at- risk teenagers\, young adults\, and their families to make and sustain pos itive changes through prevention\, intervention\, and life skills services .\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/hig hway-nepali-movie.png CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Community College of Vermont\, 1 Abenaki Way\, Winooski\, VT\, Uni ted States GEO:44.4913574;-73.181666 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1 Abenaki Way\, Winooski\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Community College of Vermont :geo:44.4913574,-73.181666 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:140@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150313T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150313T203000 DTSTAMP:20150210T223600Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/global-roots-zarafa/ SUMMARY:Global Roots: Zarafa DESCRIPTION:Zarafa\n\nDirected by Rémi Bezançon &\; Jean-Christophe L ie \nSudan/France | Animated | In French w/ English subtitles | 2012 | 78 min.\n\nUnder a baobab tree\, an old man tells a story to the children ar ound him: The story of the everlasting friendship between Maki\, a little boy aged 10\, and Zarafa\, an orphaned giraffe\, a gift from the Pasha of Egypt to the King of France. Charles X. Hassan\, Prince of the Desert\, is instructed by the Pasha to deliver Zarafa to France\, but Maki has made u p his mind to do everything in his power to stop Hassan from fulfilling hi s mission and to bring the giraffe back to its native land – even if it means risking his own life – because he must fulfill his promise to Zara fa's late mother. During an epic journey that takes them from Sudan to Par is\, passing on the way through Alexandria\, Marseille\, and the snow-capp ed Alps\, they have many adventures\, crossing paths with the aviator Mala terre\, a pair of unusual twin cows called Mounh and Sounh\, and the pirat e queen Bouboulina.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/zar afa_hires1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:O'Brien Community Center\, 32 Mallets Bay Avenue\, Winooski\, VT\, United States GEO:44.492145;-73.19081299999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=32 Mallets Bay Avenue\, Win ooski\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=O'Brien Community Ce nter:geo:44.492145,-73.19081299999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:146@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150317T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150317T183000 DTSTAMP:20150302T225330Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mask-live/ SUMMARY:The Mask You Live In DESCRIPTION:The Mask You Live In\nPresented by PACT (Parents and Adults Ce lebrating Children and Teens)\, VTIFF\, and SBHS.\n\nThe Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves whi le negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity.\n\nPressured by the media\, their peer group\, and even the adults in their lives\, our protagonists confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their emotions\, devalue authentic friendships\, objectify and degrade women\, a nd resolve conflicts through violence. These gender stereotypes interconne ct with race\, class\, and circumstance\, creating a maze of identity issu es boys and young men must navigate to become “real” men.\n\nExperts i n neuroscience\, psychology\, sociology\, sports\, education\, and media a lso weigh in\, offering empirical evidence of the “boy crisis” and tac tics to combat it.\n\nThe Mask You Live In ultimately illustrates how we\, as a society\, can raise a healthier generation of boys and young men.\n\ nThe screening will be followed by a teen-led discussion. Part of PACT's D ialogue Nights at SBHS.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/mas kyoulivein.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF for Schools LOCATION:South Burlington High School\, 550 Dorset Street\, South Burlingto n\, VT\, United States GEO:44.454924;-73.17789099999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=550 Dorset Street\, South B urlington\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=South Burlington High School:geo:44.454924,-73.17789099999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:148@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20150319 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20150323 DTSTAMP:20150317T232647Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/irish-film-festival-boston/ SUMMARY:Irish Film Festival\, Boston DESCRIPTION:This year's festival will showcase an award-winning lineup of o ver thirty Irish feature films\, shorts\, and documentaries.  You don't w ant to miss this unique opportunity to experience the very best of contemp orary Irish cinema.\nVTIFF Patron members eligible for ticket discounts - email info@vtiff.org for special code\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Iri sh-Film-Festival.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Somerville Theater\, Davis Square\, Boston\, MA\, United States GEO:42.3967172;-71.12231509999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Davis Square\, Boston\, MA\ , United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Somerville Theater:geo:42.39671 72,-71.12231509999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:139@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150320T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150320T203000 DTSTAMP:20150210T221727Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/global-roots-highway-2/ SUMMARY:Global Roots: Highway DESCRIPTION:Highway\n\nDirected by Deepak Rauniyar\nNepal | Drama | Nepali w/ English subtitles | 2012 | 75 min.\n\nAll aboard the bus to Kathmandu! As if the mountain terrain weren’t challenging enough\, the bus is repea tedly stopped by bandhs—spontaneous civil disobedience blockades—a fre quent phenomenon since the end of the civil war. Meanwhile\, a young woman can’t decide between her boyfriend and the fiancé arriving to marry he r\; a gay man hopes to reunite with his estranged lover\; a soldier rushes to his wife in time to try out a fertility potion he’s swallowed (not k nowing she’s kept some secrets from him)\; and the bus driver knows the woman he loves may be forced back into prostitution if he doesn’t show u p with money for her sick child. Deepak Rauniyar’s debut feature has pro voked a tumultuous response from Nepali audiences with its realistic chara cters and their taboo-shrouded issues. Rendered in an improvised cinematic style that heightens an already wild ride\, Highway is being called the h arbinger of a new era in Nepali filmmaking.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/hig hway-nepali-movie.png CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:O'Brien Community Center\, 32 Mallets Bay Avenue\, Winooski\, VT\, United States GEO:44.492145;-73.19081299999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=32 Mallets Bay Avenue\, Win ooski\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=O'Brien Community Ce nter:geo:44.492145,-73.19081299999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:141@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150323T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150323T210000 DTSTAMP:20150319T192012Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/global-roots-grey-matter/ SUMMARY:Global Roots: Grey Matter DESCRIPTION:Grey Matter\n\nDirected by Kivu Ruhorahoza\nRwanda | Drama | Ki nyarwanda w/ English subtitles |2011 | 100 min\n\nFeaturing an introductio n to the film by Francine Serwili.\n\nSet in modern-day Kigali\, Rwanda ’s capital\, this radiant\, unapologetically self-referential film-withi n-a-film describes the process and vision of an astute\, determined filmma ker named Balthazar hustling for funds for his first feature\, The Cycle o f the Cockroach. But the themes of his haunted and trenchant drama\, about the aftermath of genocide on a brother and sister\, find no support from agencies interested in funding upbeat policy-related films detailing HIV p revention or gender-based violence. As Balthazar presses ahead\, borrowing recklessly from a loan shark\, two extended parts of the Cycle play out o n the screen\, measuring with profound subtlety the horror and systematic madness of events whose fundamental characteristics are anything but uniqu e to Rwanda and whose aftermath is ongoing. Powerful\, beautiful and passi onately aware filmmaking from Rwandan director Kivu Ruhorahoza makes Grey Matter much more than a “message film\,” while offering bracing insigh t into the nature of political violence.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Gre y-Matter5-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Community College of Vermont\, 1 Abenaki Way\, Winooski\, VT\, Uni ted States GEO:44.4913574;-73.181666 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1 Abenaki Way\, Winooski\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Community College of Vermont :geo:44.4913574,-73.181666 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:147@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150323T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150323T190000 DTSTAMP:20150312T211204Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/un-reve-americain/ SUMMARY:Un Rêve Américain DESCRIPTION:Directed by Bruno Boulianne\nCanada | Documentary | French w/ E nglish Subtitles | 2013 | 92 min\n\nSPONSORED by the Delegation of Quebec\ n\nFranco-Ontarian musician Damien Robitaille introduces us to the extraor dinary history of the people in the United States of French Canadian herit age. Driving from Montreal to Los Angeles\, winding his way through New En gland\, New York\, Michigan\, the Midwest and the legendary Far West\, he brings the milestone events of their exodus to life. He uncovers a paradox ical\, almost imaginary society dissolved into American life but still ver y much alive. During his travels he meets all kinds of engaging people and visits many places steeped in memory\, and we begin to understand a multi faceted diaspora three centuries old and more than 12 million strong. An e pic journey into the heart of America\, where people of French Canadian de scent\, helped open the frontiers of the American Dream.\n\nLocation: St. Michael's College - Room Cheray 101\n\nLots of free parking – Room has c omfortable seating and large screen – Snack will be provided – In Fren ch with English subtitles\n\n$3 Donation appreciated! ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/UnR eveAmericain.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Saint Michael's College\, 1 Winooski Park\, Colchester\, VT\, Unit ed States GEO:44.494;-73.16810679999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1 Winooski Park\, Colcheste r\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Saint Michael's College: geo:44.494,-73.16810679999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:130@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150324T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150324T180000 DTSTAMP:20141118T234307Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/architecture-design-film-series-henri-cartier -bresson-impassioned-eye/ SUMMARY:Architecture & Design Film Series: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impas sioned Eye DESCRIPTION:Burlington City Arts\, in affiliation with VTIFF\, presents:\n\ nHENRY CARTIER-BRESSON: THE IMPASSIONED EYE\n\n72 min\, 2003\nDirector: He inz Butler\n\nUpon his death in 2004\, photographer Henri Cartier -Bresson was mourned as "the father of photojournalism." This documentary offers a rare moment alone with the camera-shy photographer as he explores his por tfolio and offers detailed insight into the remarkable images that have mo ved millions. Focusing in particular on Cartier-Bresson's widely acclaimed work from the period ranging from the '40s through the '60s\, director He inz Bütler explores the stories behind the photographer's stunning images of such historical events as the death of Gandhi and the liberation of Pa ris.\n\n \;\n\nThe Architecture + Design Film Series is sponsored by:  TruexCullins\, Vermont Eco-Floors\, Riven Peregrine Design/Build\, A IAVT\, Emerging Professionals Network-AIAVT\, American Flatbread Burling ton Hearth\, Wagner Hodgson Landscape Architecture\, Redstone\, Radio B ean/Duino Duende\, Roland Batten Fund\, John Bossange\, Mark and Marilyn  Neagley\, William Cats-Baril and Isabelle Desjardins\, Jared Gange  &\; Virginia Loughren\, Anonymous Donors\n\nBCA Center video projecto r and screen generously donated by the John M. Bissell Foundation\, Inc. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/hen ri4.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:144@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150326T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150326T210000 DTSTAMP:20150315T195649Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/timbuktu/ SUMMARY:Timbuktu DESCRIPTION:Timbuktu\nPresented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\nCo-Sponso red by Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region\nPost-screening Q& amp\;A with Dr. Laurence Clerfeuille\n\nDirected by Abderrahmane Sissako\n Mauritania/France | Drama | Bambara\, Arabic etc w/ English Subtitles | 20 14 | 97 min.\n\n\nNominee – Best Foreign Language Film - 2015 Academy Aw ards\nOfficial Competition 2014 Cannes Film Festival (Winner: Prix du Jury Ecuménique\, François Chalais Award)\n\nNot far from Timbuktu\, now rul ed by religious fundamentalists\, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes wit h his wife Satima\, his daughter Toya\, and Issan\, their shepherd. In tow n\, the people suffer\, powerless\, from the regime of terror imposed by t he Jihadists. Music\, laughter\, cigarettes\, even soccer have been banned . The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day\, the n ew improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his fam ily had been spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu\, but when their d estiny changes abruptly\, Kidane must face the new laws of the foreign occ upants.\n\nAbderrahmane Sissako (born 13 October 1961) is a film director and producer who has often worked in Mali and France. Sissako is\, along w ith Ousmane Sembène\, Souleymane Cissé\, Idrissa Ouedraogo and Djibril D iop Mambety\, one of the few filmmakers from Sub-Saharan Africa to reach a measure of international influence. His film Waiting for Happiness (Herem akono) was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival official selection un der Un Certain Regard\, winning the FIPRESCI Prize. His 2007 film Bamako r eceived much attention. Sissako's themes include globalisation\, exile and the displacement of people. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Sti ll-6-cArnaud-Contreras_583ec0f6-ca9d-e411-b62a-d4ae527c3b65-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:143@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150401T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150401T183000 DTSTAMP:20150302T220942Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/food-chains/ SUMMARY:Food Chains DESCRIPTION:Directed by Sanjay Rawal\nUSA | Documentary | 2014 | 83 min.\n\ nLivak Ballroom\n4th Floor Davis Center\, UVM\n\nFrom a producer of Food I nc. and Fast Food Nation\, Food Chains is an award-winning documentary abo ut the workers who pick our food. In this exposé\, an intrepid group of F lorida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket ind ustry through their ingenious Fair Food Program\, which partners with grow ers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the U nited States.\n\nFollowing the film\, there will be a panel discussion wit h farmworkers and organizers from Migrant Justice (VT) and the Coalition o f Immokalee Workers (FL)\, moderated by Barry Estabrook\, Food Chains co- producer and author of Tomatoland. We will learn about Milk with Dignity\, a local campaign that has just been launched by Migrant Justice with the guidance of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.\n\nThe event is free. Dona tions will be collected to benefit the work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Migrant Justice. Registration encouraged\, not required. Regis ter HERE.\n\nThis screening kicks off the 30th Anniversary of the Vermont International Film Foundation in honor of its historical roots as a peace and justice film festival.\n\nWe are thrilled to have an incredible group of sponsors that have made this event possible: Shelburne Farms\; UVM Food Systems Initiative\; City Market\; Intervale Center\; Slow Food VT\; NOFA VT\; Vermont International Film Foundation (VTIFF)\; Migrant Justice Coal ition of Immokalee Workers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Foo dChainsPoster-2.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:UVM Davis Center\, 590 Main Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, Uni ted States GEO:44.4758282;-73.19643359999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=590 Main Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UVM Davis Center :geo:44.4758282,-73.19643359999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:131@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150414T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150414T180000 DTSTAMP:20141118T234627Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/architecture-design-film-series-strange-famil iar-architecture-fogo-island/ SUMMARY:Architecture & Design Film Series: Strange & Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island DESCRIPTION:Burlington City Arts\, in affiliation with VTIFF\, presents:\n\ nSTRANGE &\; FAMILIAR: ARCHITECTURE ON FOGO ISLAND (WILD ARCHITECTURE) \n\n2014\n\nDirected by Katherine Knight and Marcia Connolly\n\nIn a rapid ly urbanized world what does the future hold for traditional rural societi es? As Fogo Island\, a small community off the coast of Newfoundland strug gles to sustain its unique way of life in the face of a collapse of its co d fishing industry\, architect Todd Saunders and social entrepreneur Zita Cobbs’ vision for positive change result in the envisioning\, designing and building of strikingly original architecture that will become a cataly st for social change. Experience this staggeringly beautiful place and how the community and local workers together with Saunders and Cobb\, come to gether and play a role in this creative process during a time of optimism and uncertain hope. Change is coming to Fogo Island.\n\n \;\n\nThe Arc hitecture + Design Film Series is sponsored by: TruexCullins\, Vermont E co-Floors\, Riven Peregrine Design/Build\, AIAVT\, Emerging Profession als Network-AIAVT\, American Flatbread Burlington Hearth\, Wagner Hodgso n Landscape Architecture\, Redstone\, Radio Bean/Duino Duende\, Roland B atten Fund\, John Bossange\, Mark and Marilyn Neagley\, William Cats-Ba ril and Isabelle Desjardins\, Jared Gange &\; Virginia Loughren\, Anonymous Donors\n\nBCA Center video projector and screen generously dona ted by the John M. Bissell Foundation\, Inc. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/fog o-island-inn.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:151@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20150424 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20150428 DTSTAMP:20150416T011208Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wrif/ SUMMARY:WRIF DESCRIPTION:White River Indie Festival\n4 days of films and panel discussio ns ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/WRI F-logo.png CATEGORIES:VAMP END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:150@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150424T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150424T190000 DTSTAMP:20150408T205001Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/police/ SUMMARY:Police DESCRIPTION:Directed by Onur Ünlü\nTurkey | Turkish w/ English Subtitles | 2007 | 113 min.\n\nMusa Rami\, who has become a legend with his struggl e against the mafia\, is a police officer at homicide division. One day pr ior to celebrating his 63rd birthday\, with a surprise party arranged by h is family\, he finds out that he has cancer and two months left before his death. In these two months\, will he be able to fight against the mafia t hat has intensified its threats against his family and simultaneously reve al his deep love to Funda\, who is a university student 40 years younger t han him?...\nAdmission Free\nRSVP required\ninfo@tccvt.org or (802) 448-04 58\nRefreshments will be served.\n(Turkish Coffee &\; Tea\, pastries an d baklava!)\n\nVenue\nTurkish Cultural Center\n125 College Street 5th Fl\n Burlington\, VT 05401 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Pol iceTCC.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Turkish Cultural Center\, 125 College Street\, 5th Floor\, Burling ton\, VT\, United States GEO:44.47683199999999;-73.2149589 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=125 College Street\, 5th Fl oor\, Burlington\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Turkish C ultural Center:geo:44.47683199999999,-73.2149589 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:149@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20150430 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20150504 DTSTAMP:20150417T221329Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nitrate-picture-show/ SUMMARY:Nitrate Picture Show DESCRIPTION:Breathtaking. Dangerous. Nitrate.\nA new and unique four-day f ilm festival: The Nitrate Picture Show at George Eastman House’s vintage and renovated Dryden Theater in Rochester\, NY\, will present the rare o pportunity to see vintage 35mm nitrate prints from the collection of Georg e Eastman House and other international archives.\n\nGeorge Eastman House are keeping the actual titles a surprise\, except for the opening night ga la of William Wellman’s 1937 film A Star is Born\, in the presence of hi s son\, William Wellman\, Jr.\nFor more info about Eastman House and the N itrate Picture Show\nCLICK HERE\nDid you know that the origin of the expre ssion silver screen came from the silver nitrate stock that was used by al l commercial films until the early 1950s? It glowed on the screen. Because of its volatile nature\, when stored improperly it can be highly inflamma ble. For this reason\, very few film theaters today have a license to show nitrate films\, The Dryden at Eastman House being one of them. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Dry den-Theater-e1427230127788.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:George Eastman House\, 900 East Avenue\, Rochester\, NY\, 14607\, United States GEO:43.152852;-77.580017 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=900 East Avenue\, Rochester \, NY\, 14607\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=George Eastman Ho use:geo:43.152852,-77.580017 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:155@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150501T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150501T190000 DTSTAMP:20150428T214615Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/elixir-world-premiere/ SUMMARY:Elixir - World Premiere DESCRIPTION:Directed by Matthew Lipke\nUSA | Fiction | 2015 | 90 min.\n\nEl ixir is a science fiction action film with an environmental edge. By 2115\ , the world has been plagued by severe environmental disasters\, civil unr est\, anarchy and governmental collapse\, and pure chaos. Society no longe r has easy access to the basic needs of survival\, and everyday is a fight to survive. Elixir chronicles the adventures and struggles of a group of three skilled individuals as they traverse the Northeastern United States in search of the new mega-dam\, Elixir\, built by the water-controlling an d ruthless Mulholland Corporation. Without technology or basic necessities \, including water\, to aid them our group must overcome extreme obstacles including disease\, injury\, internal moral dilemmas\, and Skulks\, the m ercenary "peace-keeping" militia working for the Mulholland Corporation.\n \nThe cast includes:\nBob Bolyard\, Ken Holmes\, Dave Allen\, Sandra Gartn er\, Ben Ash\, Erik Milbauer\, Ula Klein\, Mark Dufrense\, Joseph Laston\, Lonnie Poland\, Emily Menzel\, Elliot Lafferty\, Peter Limanek\, &\; M ae DesTroismaisons\n\nThere will be a Q&\;A with the filmmakers followi ng the screening.\n\nFor more information or to purchase tickets\, go HERE . ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Eli xir2.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Merrill's Roxy Cinema\, 222 College Street\, Burlington\, United S tates GEO:44.4773039;-73.21081099999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=222 College Street\, Burlin gton\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Merrill's Roxy Cinema:geo: 44.4773039,-73.21081099999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:156@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150501T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150501T190000 DTSTAMP:20150428T220712Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/peter-and-john/ SUMMARY:Peter and John DESCRIPTION:Directed by Jay Craven\nUSA | Fiction | 2015 |\n\nPeter and Joh n is set in 1872 Nantucket\, after the demise of the whaling industry\, be fore the rise of tourism\, and in the wake of the still-reverberating Civi l War.  The film will tell the story of Peter Roland\, a sensitive\, sobe r\, and sometimes brooding town doctor in his early 30s. Peter takes pleas ure from a cozy and affectionate relationship with his strikingly beautifu l mother\, Julia\, and he enjoys a playful camaraderie with his mischievou s and sometimes reckless younger brother John.\n\nOne night at dinner\, a courier arrives with news of a surprising large inheritance for John.  Im mediately\, Peter darkens\, suspecting that John’s benefactor\, a bachel or aristocrat and family friend\, had carried on an affair with his mother and was\, in fact\, John’s true father. Burdened by his suspicions\, Pe ter can’t find the words or feelings to resolve his fears. He finds hims elf unexpectedly drawn towards a young woman\, Lucia\, who arrives on the island and knows of startling events in Peter’s past that he wishes to k eep secret. But John also finds Lucia attractive. The young doctor becomes increasingly unsure of himself\, descending into a fog as thick as the ro lling mist that regularly engulfs his seaside home. What emerges is less a tale of jealousy than a series of cathartic realizations prompted by Pete r’s crisis\, forcing him to confront what former Brandeis University Fre nch literature professor Murray Sachs described as Peter’s furtive recko ning with “the hollowness and immaturity of the illusions by which he li ved.”\n\nMaupassant’s novel was widely heralded by critics and writers – and it was cited as an influence by Tolstory\, Nabokov\, and van Gogh – for the beauty of its images and its potent themes of family\, class\ , legacy\, legitimacy\, and self-discovery.\n\nThe film stars 2014 Golden Globe winner Jacqueline Bisset (Day for Night\, Bulllitt)\, Emmy winner an d Tony nominee Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue\, Glengarry Glen Ross)\, Christian Coulson (Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets\, The Hours)\, Shane Patrick Kea rns (Blue Collar Boys) and Diane Guerrero (Orange is the New Black). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Pet erJohn.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:153@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150502T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150502T210000 DTSTAMP:20150426T005001Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tierralismo-good-earth-film-tour/ SUMMARY:Tierralismo Good Earth Film Tour DESCRIPTION:The Tierralismo Good Earth Film Tour will include screenings of the recently released documentary\, Tierralismo: Stories from a Cooperati ve Farm. Part of the AMI Cuba catalogue\, Tierralismo is about the history and practices of one of Cuba’s most successful urban farms\, the Organo ponico Vivero Alamar (Alamar Organic Cooperative). Tierralismo\, introduce s viewers to everyone from agronomists and senior management to workers wh o plant\, plow\, and propagate. Isis Salcines\, one of the co-founders of the Organoponico will accompany the tour\, creating a dynamic forum to sha re knowledge and create learning opportunities on film and food security\, and the people who are driving both movements in Cuba and the U.S. Alexan dra Halkin\, Director of AMI will accompany the Cuban visitors on the tour . ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/tie rralismo.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150507T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150507T190000 DTSTAMP:20150420T190023Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bananaland-blood-bullets-and-poison/ SUMMARY:Bananaland: Blood\, Bullets\, and Poison DESCRIPTION:Directed by Richard Fortenberry &\; Lloyd Bryan Adams\n\nEve r wonder why a banana from Central America costs a third of what an apple from Michigan costs? This documentary attempts to answer that question by examining the supply chain between Central America and the US\, and uncove r the practices that have sustained this industry for over a century. Sugg ested $10 donation. Tickets can be picked up at the door or at the Peace & amp\; Justice Center.\n\nSponsored by City Market. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ban analand.png CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Merrill's Roxy Cinema\, 222 College Street\, Burlington\, United S tates GEO:44.4773039;-73.21081099999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=222 College Street\, Burlin gton\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Merrill's Roxy Cinema:geo: 44.4773039,-73.21081099999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:159@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150512T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150512T183000 DTSTAMP:20150505T212533Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/northern-borders/ SUMMARY:Northern Borders DESCRIPTION:Vermont Commons School Film Screening of Northern Borders\n Fol lowed by Q&\;A Session with Director Jay Craven\n May 12\, 6:30pm\, Fre e to the Public\n\nVermont Commons School is hosting a screening of award- winning indie director Jay Craven’s film\, Northern Borders. Craven will introduce the film and lead a post-screening discussion. Northern Borders is based on the award-winning Howard Frank Mosher novel and was shot enti rely in Vermont. It tells the story of ten-year-old Austen Kittredge\, who is sent to live on his grandparents’ Kingdom County Vermont farm\, wher e he has wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. Set i n 1956\, Northern Borders is a humorous and sometimes startling coming-of- age story\, evoking Vermont’s wildness\, its sublime beauty\, a haunting past\, and an aura of enchantment.\n\nNorthern Borders stars Academy Awar d nominees Bruce Dern (Nebraska) and Geneviève Bujold (Anne of a Thousand Days\, King of Hearts)\, and Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick (Moonrise Kingdom\, Before Midnight). It also features 2010 Tony Award nominee Jessica Hecht (Sideways\, Friends)\, John Shea\, Jay O. Sanders\, Mark Margolis\, Tom Bo dett\, Rusty Dewees\, and John Rothman.  The musical score was composed a nd performed by Judy Hyman and Jeff Claus of the musical group The Horse F lies.\n\n Northern Borders was produced as the result of a unique partner ship between Jay Craven’s non-profit Kingdom County Productions and Marl boro College\, where Craven teaches film. The picture was made during a se mester-long film intensive\, Movies from Marlboro\, where 20 young profess ionals worked with 34 students from 15 colleges. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Nor thernBorders.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Vermont Commons School\, 75 Green Mountain Drive\, South Burlingto n\, Vermont\, 05403\, United States GEO:44.431052;-73.20700720000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=75 Green Mountain Drive\, S outh Burlington\, Vermont\, 05403\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TIT LE=Vermont Commons School:geo:44.431052,-73.20700720000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:145@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150514T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150514T190000 DTSTAMP:20150425T005525Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/girlhood/ SUMMARY:Girlhood DESCRIPTION:Girlhood\nPresented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\nDirecte d by Céline Sciamma\nFrance | Drama | French w/ English Subtitles | 2014 | 112 min.\n\nSelection: Cannes Film Festival – Opening Night Directors ’ Fortnight\nToronto International Film Festival\, Sundance Film Festiva l\, AFI Fest\n\nFed up with her abusive family situation\, lack of school prospects and the “boys’ law” in the neighborhood\, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name\, her style\, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accep ted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable\, Marieme se eks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizin g this sort of lifestyle will never result in the freedom and independence she truly desires\, she finally decides to take matters into her own hand s.\n\nCéline Sciamma's first feature film WATER LILIES attracted attentio n at the 2007 Cannes Festival in the Un Certain Regard section\, and won t he Louis Delluc Prize\, for Best First film\, awarded by French film criti cs. It was followed in 2011 by TOMBOY\, selected for the Berlin Film Festi val’s Opening Night film of the Panorama section\, where it won the Tedd y Award\, and subsequently enjoyed a successful international career (sell ing to 35 territories including the US). GIRLHOOD (Bande de filles) is her third film. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/GIR LHOOD_6.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:160@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150527T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150527T183000 DTSTAMP:20150514T194914Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/american-denial/ SUMMARY:American Denial DESCRIPTION:American Denial\nDirected by Llewellyn Smith\nUSA | Documentary | 2015\n\nPresented by Vermont PBS\, Partnership for Change\, &\; BHS\ n\nScreening will be followed by a moderated discussion.\nFree &\; open to the public\n\nFollow the story of Swedish researcher Gunnar Myrdal who se landmark 1944 study\, An American Dilemma\, probed deep into the United States' racial psyche. The film weaves a narrative that exposes some of t he potential underlying causes of racial biases still rooted in America’ s systems and institutions today.\n\nAmerican Denial sheds light on the un conscious political and moral world of modern Americans\, using archival f ootage\, newsreels\, nightly news reports\, and rare southern home movies from the ‘30s and ‘40s\, as well as research footage\, websites\, and YouTube films showing psychological testing of racial attitudes. Exploring “stop-and-frisk” practices\, the incarceration crisis\, and racially- patterned poverty\, the film features a wide array of historians\, psychol ogists\, and sociologists who offer expert insight and share their own per sonal\, unsettling stories. The result is a unique and provocative film th at challenges our assumptions about who we are and what we really believe. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ame rican_denial-01.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Burlington High School\, 52 Institute Road\, Burlington\, VT\, 054 01\, United States GEO:44.4947469;-73.23583739999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=52 Institute Road\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Hig h School:geo:44.4947469,-73.23583739999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:157@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150528T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150528T190000 DTSTAMP:20150515T203328Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-duke-of-burgundy/ SUMMARY:The Duke of Burgundy DESCRIPTION:The Duke of Burgundy\nPresented by Main Street Landing and VTIF F\n\nDirected by Peter Strickland\nUK | Drama | 2014 | 106 min.\n\n"Visua lly ravishing\, emotionally wise\, and kinky as a coiled rope..." ~ The Ho llywood Reporter\n\nSpecial door prize provided by Aristelle.\n\nDay after day\, Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna) act out a simple yet provocative ritual that ends with Evelyn's punishment and plea sure. As Cynthia yearns for a more conventional relationship\, Evelyn's ob session with erotica quickly becomes an addiction that may push the relati onship to a breaking point.\n\nDripping with eroticism and dread\, The Duk e of Burgundy is a darkly decadent melodrama from Peter Strickland\, the a ward winning writer and director of Berberian Sound Studio and Katalin Var ga.\n\n[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-xIMBnclyA[/embed] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/DOB _PLB_015-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:158@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150610T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150610T210000 DTSTAMP:20150610T193047Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jurassic-world-special-preview-event/ SUMMARY:Jurassic World Special Preview Event DESCRIPTION:5:30pm Pre Party\n7:00pm Screening\n\nVTIFF is thrilled to ann ounce a special advance screening of Jurassic World\, the long-awaited nex t installment of Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking Jurassic Park series. This special advance opportunity screening of the film from director Col in Trevorrow\, is one of only a few screenings happening in the United St ates.\n\nThere will be a pre-screening party at the theater beginning at 5 :30 pm with Kool 105 on location\, special VIP experience\, prize giveaway s and much more to be announced.\n\nThis event is a fundraiser for VTIFF ’s education programming\, VTIFF For Schools\, and a celebration of VTIF F’s 30th anniversary.\n\nTickets for general admission are $25/person an d can be purchased at the theater or online at www.majestic10.com. Special limited VIP tickets are available for $100. VIP tickets sold out!\n\nAbou t the Event:\n\n“I’m thrilled to screen Jurassic World in Vermont to b enefit the Vermont International Film Foundation. Although I’m disappoin ted I can’t be there in person\, I support the effort to grow our creati ve community and nurture the arts in our state. I look forward to coming h ome soon."\n                          -Colin Trevorrow\, Dire ctor\, Jurassic World\n\nAlong with this special early screening of the f ilm\, there is a fun event for the whole family!\n\nGreat prize giveaways: \n\n 2 Jurassic World posters\, signed by director Colin Trevorrow\n Day r ental of Film House and Lake Lobby at Main Street Landing (value $900)\n $ 229 GC One night stay at Burlington Hilton Garden Inn\n $250 GC Tandem Sk ydive for 1\, donated by Carmen George\n Dinner for two at Juniper Restaur ant in Burlington\n Fjallraven Kanken backpack (value $75)\n 2 tickets Fly nn Center\, 2015-2016 season\n $60 Buttons - 2 Adult+2 Child Buttons Fir st Night Burlington 2016 + 4 tickets Circus Smirkus\n $50 GC Pizza Putt in South Burlington\n $50 GC Crop Bistro in Stowe\n $50 GC Bayside Pavilio n in St. Albans\n $50 GC Leunig's Bistro in Burlington\n 5 sets of Kathar ine Montstream note cards\n\nAlso:\n\n Radio station Kool 105 on site for event\n The Street Team from Valley CW/WPTZ will be on site\n Hollywood st yle red-carpet photography from Kim Martin Photography\n Special video mes sage from the director and stars just for our Vermont audience before the screening\n Cash bar and tasty treats!\n\nVIP Experience:\nPrior to the ev ent\, gain access to a special\, limited VIP area at the theater\, featuri ng:\n\n Special entertainment\n Hawaiian luau-inspired food menu from the chefs at ArtsRiot\n Beer\, wine and signature event cocktails\n Movie thea ter concessions\n More special surprises!\n\nVIP tickets sold out\n\nAbout the Film:\n\nJurassic World (in 3D)\nGenre: Epic Action-Adventure\nRating : PG-13\n\nSteven Spielberg returns to executive produce the long-awaited next installment of his groundbreaking Jurassic Park series\, Jurassic Wor ld. Colin Trevorrow directs the epic action-adventure based on characters created by Michael Crichton. The screenplay is by Rick Jaffa &\; Amanda Silver and Trevorrow &\; Derek Connolly\, and the story is by Rick Jaf fa &\; Amanda Silver. Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley join the team as producers.\n\nJurassic World will be released in 3D by Universal Pictur es on June 12\, 2015. www.jurassicworld.com\n\nCast: Chris Pratt\, Bryce D allas Howard\, Vincent D’Onofrio\, Ty Simpkins\, Nick Robinson\, Omar Sy \, BD Wong and Irrfan Khan\nDirector: Colin Trevorrow\nScreenplay by: Rick Jaffa &\; Amanda Silver and Derek Connolly &\; Colin Trevorrow\nSto ry by: Rick Jaffa &\; Amanda Silver\nBased on Characters Created by: Mi chael Crichton\nProduced by: Frank Marshall\, Patrick Crowley\nExecutive P roducers: Steven Spielberg\, Thomas Tull\n\n \;\n\nEvent Sponsors:\n\n [one_half]\n\n          \n\n[/one_half] [one_half_last]\n\n         \n[/one_half_last]\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n&nb sp\;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/242 4_TP_00150R-small.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Majestic 10 Cinemas\, 190 Boxwood Street\, Williston\, Vermont\, 0 5495\, United States GEO:44.446086;-73.10994040000003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=190 Boxwood Street\, Willis ton\, Vermont\, 05495\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Majestic 10 Cinemas:geo:44.446086,-73.10994040000003 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:161@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150625T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150625T190000 DTSTAMP:20150601T205936Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/gueros/ SUMMARY:Güeros DESCRIPTION:Güeros\nPresented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\nDirected by Alonso Ruizpalacios\nMexico | Drama | Spanish w/ English Subtitles | 2 014 | 90 min.\n\nWinner Best First Feature\, Berlin International Film Fes tival 2014\nWinner Best Cinematography Tribeca Film Festival 2014\nWinner Best Picture\, Best Director\, Best New Work\, Best Cinematography\, &\ ; Best Sound Ariel Awards (Mexico’s equivalent of the Academy Awards)\n\ nEver since the National University strike broke out\, Sombra and Santos h ave been living in\nangst-ridden limbo. Education-less\, motionless\, purp oseless\, and unsure of what the strike\nwill bring\, they begin to look f or strange ways to kill time. But their idiosyncratic routine is\ninterrup ted by the unexpected arrival of Tomás\, Sombra’s kid brother. Unable t o fit in\namongst these older slackers\, Tomás discovers that unsung Mexi can folk-rock hero\nEpigmenio Cruz has been hospitalized somewhere in the city. Tomás convinces Sombra and\nSantos they must track him down in orde r to pay their final respects on his deathbed. But what\nthey thought woul d be a simple trip to find their childhood idol\, soon becomes a voyage of \nself-discovery across Mexico City’s invisible frontiers.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Gue rosFB2.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:164@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150730T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150730T213000 DTSTAMP:20150621T205745Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/when-marnie-was-there/ SUMMARY:When Marnie Was There DESCRIPTION:When Marnie Was There\nPresented by Main Street Landing and VTI FF\n\nDirected by Hiromasa Yonebayashi\nJapan | Animation | English lan guage version | 2015 | 103 min\nA special Burlington Film Society screen ing for the whole family. Rated PG\n\nThe newest feature from Japan’s fa med Studio Ghibli is a sweeping story of friendship\, mystery and discover y that delivers stirring emotions and breathtaking animation as only Ghibl i can.\n\nWhen shy\, artistic Anna moves to the seaside to live with her a unt and uncle\, she stumbles upon an old mansion surrounded by marshes\, a nd the mysterious young girl\, Marnie\, who lives there. The two girls ins tantly form a unique connection and friendship that blurs the lines betwee n fantasy and reality. As the days go by\, a nearly magnetic pull draws An na back to the Marsh House again and again\, and she begins to piece toget her the truth surrounding her strange new friend. Based on the young adult novel by Joan G. Robinson.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mar nie_hires_5_Web.png CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:167@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150812T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150812T190000 DTSTAMP:20150717T211357Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-end-of-the-tour/ SUMMARY:The End of the Tour DESCRIPTION:AN EXCLUSIVE PRE-RELEASE SCREENING\nTO BENEFIT THE 2015 BURLING TON BOOK FESTIVAL\n\nFREE SCREENING * $8.50 DONATION RECOMMENDED\nCOME SEE A GREAT MOVIE FOR A GREAT CAUSE!\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nTHE END OF THE TOUR tells the story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter ( and novelist) David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel)\, which took place right after the 1996 publi cation of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel\, Infinite Jest.  As the d ays go on\, a tenuous yet intense relationship seems to develop between jo urnalist and subject.  The two men bob and weave around each other\, sha ring laughs and also possibly revealing hidden frailties - but it's never clear how truthful they are being with each other.   Ironically\, the in terview was never published\, and five days of audio tapes were packed awa y in Lipsky's closet.  The two men did not meet again.  The film is ba sed on Lipsky's critically acclaimed memoir about this unforgettable encou nter\, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace\, written following Wallace's 2008 suicide.  Both Segel and Eisenberg reveal great depths of emotion in their performances a nd the film is directed with humor and tenderness by Sundance vet James Po nsoldt from Pulitzer-Prize winner Donald Margulies' insightful and heartbr eaking screenplay.\n\n\n\n\nPresented by:\n\n\n        \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/End OfTheTour.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Merrill's Roxy Cinema\, 222 College Street\, Burlington\, United S tates GEO:44.4773039;-73.21081099999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=222 College Street\, Burlin gton\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Merrill's Roxy Cinema:geo: 44.4773039,-73.21081099999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:168@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150827T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150827T190000 DTSTAMP:20150814T192454Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pather-panchali/ SUMMARY:Pather Panchali DESCRIPTION:Pather Panchali\nPresented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\n Directed by Satyajit Ray\nIndia | Bengali w/ English Subtitles | 1955 | 12 5 min.\n\nPre-Screening discussion led by Barry Snyder\, 6:00-6:30\nDobra Tea sponsored tea reception\, 6:15-7:00\nScreening starts at 7:00pm\n\nNew 4K restoration made by the Criterion Collection in collaboration with\nth e Academy Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\ n\nBest Human Document\, Cannes Film Festival\, 1956\nBest Foreign Film\, National Board of Review\, 1957\nBest Picture\, Best Director\, San Franci sco International Film Festival\, 1957\n\nThe release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray’s debut\, Pather Panchali\, introduced to the world an\neloquent and important new cinematic voice. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a sty le\ninspired by Italian neorealism\, this naturalistic but poetic evocatio n of a number of years in\nthe life of a family introduces us to both litt le Apu and\, just as essentially\, the women who will\nhelp shape him: his independent older sister\, Durga\; his harried mother\, Sarbajaya\, who\, with\nher husband often away\, must hold the family together\; and his ki ndly and mischievous elderly\n“auntie\,” Indir—vivid\, multifaceted characters all. With resplendent photography informed by\nits young protag onist’s perpetual sense of discovery\, the Cannes-awarded Pather Panchal i is\nan immersive cinematic experience and a film of elemental power.\n “Never having seen a Satyajit Ray film is like never having seen the sun or the moon.”\n—AKIRA KUROSAWA\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Pat her-Panchali-976x755.png CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:163@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20150912 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20150916 DTSTAMP:20150616T155821Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/stowe-story-labs/ SUMMARY:Stowe Story Labs DESCRIPTION:Stowe Story Labs brings screenwriters\, filmmakers and creativ e producers together with seasoned industry professionals to help get pro jects made and seen.\n\nVTIFF is pleased to be a Fellowship sponsor for th e 3rd year running. Previous VTIFF -sponsored fellows: Rob Koier (2013) an d Seth Jarvis (2014)\n\nFor detailed information about the event and how t o apply CLICK HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/201 3.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Helen Day Art Center\, 90 Pond Street\, Stowe\, Vermont\, 05672\, United States GEO:44.4637772;-72.68465520000001 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=90 Pond Street\, Stowe\, Ve rmont\, 05672\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Helen Day Art Cen ter:geo:44.4637772,-72.68465520000001 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:170@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150912T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150912T173000 DTSTAMP:20150819T193716Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-state-of-marriage/ SUMMARY:The State of Marriage DESCRIPTION:Directed by Jeffrey Kaufman\nUSA | Documentary | 2015 | 82 min. \n\nAll Proceeds Benefit Pride Center of Vermont\n\nThe inspirational stor y of how Vermont attorneys Beth Robinson and Susan Murray formed Vermont F reedom to Marry\, partnered with legal pioneer Mary Bonauto of Gay &\; Lesbian Advocates\, and Defenders (GLAD)\, and led a determined group of a ctivists in a two-decade long struggle for marriage equality in Vermont th at built the foundation for the entire national movement. Despite fierce o pposition\, Vermont became the first state to grant same sex couples legal recognition through a groundbreaking 1999 State Supreme Court decision\, Civil Unions in 2000\, and in 2009 became the first state to legalize marr iage equality by legislative vote.\n\nIn June\, the Supreme Court of the U nited States handed down a landmark ruling granting same-sex couples acros s the country the right to marry.\n\nOn September 12th please join us for the screening of the State of Marriage and meet the brave and brilliant ar chitects of Vermont Marriage Equality.\n\nThe Evening'’s Schedule:\n5:30- 6:30: Cocktail Reception: Light hors d’oeuvres by Velvet Catering and Eve nts\, cash bar\n6:30-6:45: Welcome\n6:45-8:15: THE STATE OF MARRIAGE\n8:15 -9:00: Panel discussion\n\nYour evening'’s host: Kim Fountain\, Pride Cen ter of Vermont\n\nPanel discussion:\nBennett Law: Moderator\nSusan Murray\ nBill Lippert\nShap Smith\nSherry Corbin\n\nJeff Kaufman: Producer/Directo r\nMarcia Ross: Producer ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/sta teofmarriage.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:171@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150924T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150924T190000 DTSTAMP:20150826T223405Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wolfpack/ SUMMARY:The Wolfpack DESCRIPTION:The Wolfpack\nPresented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\nDir ected by Crystal Moselle\nUSA | Documentary | 2015 | 89 min.\n2015 Sundan ce Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize: Best Documentary\nThe six Angulo br others have spent their entire lives locked away from society in an apartm ent on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Nicknamed "The Wolfpack\," they'r e all exceedingly bright\, are homeschooled\, have no acquaintances outsi de their family and have practically never left their home. All they know of the outside world is gleaned from the films they watch obsessively an d recreate meticulously\, using elaborate homemade props and costumes. Fo r years this has served as a productive creative outlet and a way to stav e off loneliness - but after one of the brothers escapes the apartment (we aring a Michael Meyers mask for protection)\, the power dynamics in the h ouse are transformed\, and all the joys begin to dream of venturing out. Armed with unprecedented access into the subjects' world and vast archive of home movies\, first-time director Crystal Moselle crafts a fascinatin g portrait of an extraordinary family\, capturing the thrill of the Wolfp ack's discoveries without skirting the darker questions of abuse and confi nement that weigh upon all of them. THE WOLFPACK charts a fascinating com ing of age story and becomes a true example of the power of movies to tra nsform and save lives.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Wol fpack.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:172@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150926T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150926T150000 DTSTAMP:20150827T212036Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nelson-algren-the-end-is-nothing-the-road-is- all/ SUMMARY:Nelson Algren: The End is Nothing\, the Road is All DESCRIPTION:EXCLUSIVE SCREENING\nFEATURING AN AUDIENCE Q&\;A WITH DIRECT OR DENIS MUELLER\n\nNELSON ALGREN: THE END IS NOTHING\, THE ROAD IS ALL&nb sp\;\n\n\nAn in-depth feature length 2015 documentary of one of America’ s greatest and least understood authors. This never before told compelling life story reveals a unique literary voice through rare interviews and ar chival footage. Kurt Vonnegut and Studs Terkel\, literary giants in their own right\, sing songs of praise along with many of his old friends\, whic h makes this film seem like a hymn from the grave. This stylishly produced film embeds us in the 1950’s cold war world when Algren worked. Algren ’s touching love affair with Simone de Beauvoir weaves it’s way throug h the film along with the damaging impact of FBI and CIA surveillance.\n\n SATURDAY\, SEPTEMBER 26 * 3 PM\nIRA ALLEN LECTURE HALL\nUVM’S BILLINGS M EMORIAL LIBRARY\n\nFREE SCREENING * $5 SUGGESTED DONATION\nA Benefit for t he 2015 Burlington Book Festival\n\nPresented in Part By:\n\n    ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/nel sonalgren.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Ira Allen Lecture Hall\, UVM\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United St ates GEO:44.4778528;-73.19646369999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=UVM\, Burlington\, VT\, 054 01\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Ira Allen Lecture Hall:geo:4 4.4778528,-73.19646369999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:245@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150930T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150930T180000 DTSTAMP:20150928T210342Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/diller-scofidio-renfro-reimagining-lincoln-ce nter-the-high-line/ SUMMARY:Diller Scofidio & Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center & the High Lin e DESCRIPTION:BCA and UVM Department of Art and Art History present\n\nArch itecture + Design Film Series\n\nFree screenings once a month\nWednesdays at Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\n\nDiller Scofidio + Renfro: Rei magining Lincoln Center and the High Line\nSeptember 30\, 6pm (snacks and cash bar before film)\n\nDirected by Muffie Dunn &\; Tom Piper\n2012\, USA\, 54 minutes\n\nDiller Scofidio + Renfro has long been at the forefron t of design. The interdisciplinary design firm\, founded in 1979\, first s tirred interest with its provocative exhibitions of theoretically based pr ojects that blurred the boundaries between art and architecture. In 1999\, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio\, the firm’s founding principals\ , were awarded the prestigious “genius" grant by the MacArthur Foundatio n\, in recognition of their commitment to integrating architecture with is sues of contemporary culture. With the almost simultaneous completion of t wo large-scale projects in New York City — the renovation of the High Li ne and revitalization and expansion of Lincoln Center for the Performing A rts — Diller Scofidio + Renfro has galvanized the public's attention. Be tween 2004 and 2011\, the firm\, in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations\, converted the derelict High Line railroad tracks on the city ’s West Side (from Gansevoort to 30th streets) into a sophisticated 1.5 mile elevated urban park. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Dil lerRenfro.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:165@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20151007 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20151019 DTSTAMP:20150623T224345Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/festival-du-nouveau-cinema/ SUMMARY:Festival du nouveau cinema DESCRIPTION:The Festival du nouveau cinéma is a showcase for cinema of all types\, from offbeat\, one-of-a-kind niche works to crowd-pleasers to dar ingly innovative big events. Films that make your heart race\, bowl you ov er and change your life. Films that break down the language of cinema only to reinvent it\; films that leave you breathless on the edge of your seat . In every one of its sections\, the Festival sets itself the goal of supp orting and spotlighting major works\, serving as a springboard for their o riginality and variety. Cinema at its best? shorts and features\, document aries and fiction from Quebec and around the world? awaits you at the Fest ival\, where you’ll discover new trends\, new horizons\, eagerly awaited releases and up-and-coming talents. While keeping in mind what happens to these carefully selected films after their appearance at the Festival\, t he programming team puts together a rich\, varied lineup to celebrate loca l and international cinema the way it deserves\, year after year. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/FNC -44_Logo-gris-e1435084761274.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:FNC\, 3805\, boulevard Saint-Laurent\, Montreal\, QC\, H2W 1X9\, C anada GEO:45.5155806;-73.5760262 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=3805\, boulevard Saint-Laur ent\, Montreal\, QC\, H2W 1X9\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=FNC:geo: 45.5155806,-73.5760262 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:234@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151009T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151009T203000 DTSTAMP:20150928T204520Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/unslut-a-documentary-film/ SUMMARY:UnSlut: A Documentary Film DESCRIPTION:UnSlut: A Documentary Film\nVermont Premiere\n\nFriday\, Octobe r 9\nSocial hour 6PM - 7PM\nScreening 7PM - 7:40PM\, followed by Q+A with director\n\nThe film will begin promptly at 7:00pm\, followed by a Q&\; A with director Emily Lindin and one of the women featured  in the film\, Gina Tron. Presented by Burlington City Arts and TheUnSlut Project.\nFREE \n\nDirected by Emily Lindin\n2015\, USA\, 40 minutes\n\nIn 2013\, sevente en-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons took her own life. The Halifax teenager had be en gang-raped a year and a half earlier by her classmates and labeled a "s lut" as a result. Despite transferring schools many times\, she could not escape constant cyber harassment and in-person bullying. Rehtaeh's is not the only story like this to make headlines in recent years. Why is the sex ual shaming of girls and women\, especially sexual assault victims\, stil l so prevalent in the United States and Canada?\n\nUnSlut: A Documentary F ilm features conversations with those who have experienced sexual shaming \, including the family and friends of Rehtaeh Parsons. We also spoke with Samantha Gailey Geimer\, who was publicly shamed by the media after being sexually assaulted by director Roman Polanski at the age of thirteen in 1 977\; Gina Tron\, who  was  shamed  by defense attorneys out of pursuin g charges against a serial rapist in Brooklyn\, New York\; N'Jaila Rhee\, who coped with her sexual assault and the subsequent loss of support from her family and church by reclaiming her sexuality\; and Allyson Pereira\, who was ostracized in her New Jersey town after texting a photo of her bre asts to an ex-boyfriend.\n\nThrough interviews with sexuality experts\, ad vocates\, and media figures\, UnSlut: A Documentary Film explores  the  manifestations  and often tragic results of sexual shaming in North Ameri ca and offers immediate and long-term goals for personal\, local\, and ins titutional solutions. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/UnS lut2.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:173@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151021T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151021T183000 DTSTAMP:20150928T164455Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/most-likely-to-succeed/ SUMMARY:Most Likely to Succeed DESCRIPTION:Directed by Greg Whiteley\nUSA | Documentary | 2015 | 86 mins\n Source: One Potato Productions\n\nThis screening is free &\; open to th e public. A discussion will follow the screening.\n\nFor most of the last century\, entry-level jobs were plentiful\, and college was an affordable path to a fulfilling career. That world no longer exists. The feature-leng th documentary Most Likely to Succeed examines the history of education\, revealing the growing short-comings of our school model in today’s innov ative world. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Greg Whiteley\, the film has been named “among the best edu-documentaries ever produced” by Edu cation Week\, and called a “smart and engaging look at education in the 21st century” by The Hollywood Reporter. Film Threat stated that “this film should be a required course for all parents and educators.” Most L ikely to Succeed is an official selection of many of the nation’s top fi lm festivals\, including the prestigious 2015 Sundance Film Festival\, Tri beca Film Festival\, and VTIFF.\n\nhttps://vimeo.com/122502930 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MLT S.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF for Schools LOCATION:Burlington High School\, 52 Institute Road\, Burlington\, VT\, 054 01\, United States GEO:44.4947469;-73.23583739999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=52 Institute Road\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Hig h School:geo:44.4947469,-73.23583739999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:255@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T153000 DTSTAMP:20151010T175100Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-1-2/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers Showcase 1 DESCRIPTION:Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing\, The Road Is All\n\nDocument ary | 2015 | 87 min\nDirectors/Producers: Denis Mueller\, Mark Blottner &a mp\; Ilko Davidov\n\nThis feature-length documentary tells the compelling life story of one of America's greatest and least understood authors\, Nel son Algren\, whose unique literary voice is revealed through historic arch ival footage\, rare interviews with Studs Terkel and Kurt Vonnegut\,  and the voice of Algren himself.\n\nThe filmmakers will be present for a post -screening Q&\;A. Special thanks to Ben &\; Jerry's for sponsoring t he VT Filmmakers Showcase and to the Vermont Arts Council for supporting o ur work with Vermont films.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/nel sonalgren1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:256@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T161500 DTSTAMP:20151010T175134Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-2-2/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers Showcase 2 DESCRIPTION:Immortal Dear\n\nFiction | 2015 | 21 min\nDirector: Dan Holodak | Producer: Tyler Killer\n\nFive friends\, who were members of a band cal led Immortal Dear in college\, have spent the four years following their g raduation apart. When they are forced to return to their college town – after their friend\, the drummer in the band\, commits suicide – they ea ch must confront their guilt about his death\, while remembering a time wh en they were all together.\n\nThe filmmakers will be present for a post-sc reening Q&\;A.Special thanks to Ben &\; Jerry's for sponsoring the V T Filmmakers Showcase and to the Vermont Arts Council for supporting our w ork with Vermont films.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/imm ortal-dear-screenshot.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:257@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T174500 DTSTAMP:20151010T175204Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-3-2/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers Showcase 3 DESCRIPTION:Freedom &\; Unity TV - Youth Competition\nBlue Light: Living in a Technology Addicted World: Ben Shumlin\; Herman &\; Rob: Sam Casw ell\; The F 35: A Noisy Problem: Audrey Lee\; VTrees: Jacob Covell &\; others\; Angela’s documentary: Angela Murphy\; Can’t Get There From He re: Amelia Hutchins Moore\; Home: Danielle Hazelton\; How Vermonters Deal With the Cold Weather: Becky Kelecy\; Race to Vermont: Anna Steeley\; What Vermont Means To Me: Rhiannon Mattison\; What Does Vermont Mean To Me: Ma tt Bingenot.\n\nCurated by Nora Jacobson. Freedom and Unity TV is a Vermon t-based youth filmmaking contest that was initiated in 2014 by filmmakers from the collaborative film series\, Freedom &\; Unity: The Vermont Mov ie. We asked young Vermonters\, ages 14-25\, to make short films about Ver mont from their points of view and experience. Questions that were posed i ncluded: What contributions do young people make to their communities? Wha t are their stories and dreams for the future? What are the challenges of growing up in Vermont? What aspects of Vermont history fascinate them? (Fo r more information\, visit: www.freedomandunitytv.net).\n\nNora Jacobson a nd some of the filmmakers will be present for a post-screening Q&\;A.\ nSpecial thanks to Ben &\; Jerry's for sponsoring the VT Filmmakers Sho wcase and to the Vermont Arts Council for supporting our work with Vermont films.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fre edomUnityTV.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:258@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T193000 DTSTAMP:20151010T175228Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-4-2/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers Showcase 4 DESCRIPTION:Whaddya Gonna Do with All Those Zucchinis?\n\nFiction | 2014 | 4 min\nWriter/Director/Producer: Kenric Kite\n\nA dastardly evildoer with an overabundance of giant zucchinis looks for unlocked cars.\n\n \;\n\ n \;\n\n\n\nHurt\n\nFiction | 2015 | 16 min\nWriter/Director/Producer: Ethan Murphy\n\nA group of college friends set out for a relaxing weekend at the lake\, but when they encounter an abandoned car on the back roads of Vermont\, a mystery ensues. What they discover that night will change t heir lives forever.\n\n\n\nPillow Talk\n\nFiction | 2014 | 5 min\nDirector : Neil Fennell | Producer\, Editor: Lincoln Hayes\nWriters: Lincoln Hayes and Rachel Riendeau Hayes\n\nTwo friends\, Jenny and Sophie\, meet up for coffee in the park. Jenny complains about a guy she's been seeing\, and So phie illustrates how much worse it could be.\n\n\n\nHeadliner\n\nFiction | 2015 | 10 min\nDirector/Producer: Michael Fisher\n\nA seasoned stand-up c omic loses his edge\, forcing him to choose between his two passions.\n\n& nbsp\;\n\n \;\n\n\n\nThe Story of Ebola\n\nAnimation | 2015 | 7 min\nD irector: Yoni Goodman | Producer\, Writer: Deborah Van Dyke\n\nThis educat ional film makes visible the invisible Ebola germs to help people see and understand how Ebola spreads and how to protect themselves. Critical messa ges are woven through the story so that people better understand Ebola\, s ee themselves within the context of an outbreak\, and see how to act in wa ys that can keep themselves safe from the disease and protect their commun ities.\n\nThe filmmakers will be present for a post-screening Q&\;A.Spe cial thanks to Ben &\; Jerry's for sponsoring the VT Filmmakers Showcas e and to the Vermont Arts Council for supporting our work with Vermont fil ms.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Hea dliner-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:246@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T203000 DTSTAMP:20151009T005520Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/taxi/ SUMMARY:Taxi DESCRIPTION:Opening Night Film\n\nDirected by Jafar Panahi | Iran | Persian w/ English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction/Documentary | 82 mins\nSponsors: 05 401\, Champlain College and Green Cab VT\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\n\nFol lowed by Opening Night Party in the Lake Lobby and announcement of VT film makers Awards\n\nCall it guerilla cinema\, Iranian neorealism or an act of political dissent. But whatever the label\, Jafar Panahi’s Taxi is simp ly great filmmaking in the face of considerable adversity. Since 2010\, Pa nahi has been banned by the Iranian government from making movies. But tha t hasn’t stopped him from surreptitiously turning out the autobiographic al This Is Not a Film (which was smuggled from Iran to the 2011 Cannes Fil m Festival in a flash drive hidden in a birthday cake and was also screene d at VTIFF 2013) and the similarly self-reflexive Closed Curtain. Like fel low Iranian Abbas Kiarostami’s 2002 film Ten\, Taxi is set entirely with in the confines of an automobile. Panahi himself is at the wheel\, with a dashboard camera capturing his interactions with a variety of passengers – including a bootlegger of American videos and Panahi’s precocious ni ece\, who longs to make a “distributable” film. Like the earlier Kiaro stami film\, Panahi’s movie deals with the subjugation of women in Irani an society\, but it also overtly addresses issues of state censorship and Iran’s disturbing propensity for meting out capital punishment for minor offenses. Taxi is bold\, uncompromising cinema\, which should on no accou nt be missed.\n\n\n\nFor a comprehensive review of the film by A. O. Scott in the New York Times\, CLICK HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Tax i-01.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:259@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T204500 DTSTAMP:20151012T232948Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-5-2/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers Showcase 5 DESCRIPTION:Einstein’s Miracle Year\n\nDocumentary Animation | 2015 | 5 m in\nDirector: Jon Portman\n\nAs the year 1905 began\, Albert Einstein face d life as a "failed" academic. Yet within the next 12 months\, he would pu blish four extraordinary papers\, each on a different topic\, that were de stined to radically transform our understanding of the universe.\n\n \ ;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nThe Fairies’ Child\n\nFiction | 2015 | 19 min \nDirector: Victoria Vaughn | Writer: Annelise Sanders\n\nYears after the death of her father\, Emilia Evans is drawn back to her childhood home\, w here she discovers the fairies she thought were once just a dream are deat hly real.\n\n \;\n\nmens rea\n\nExperimental | 2015 | 7 min\nWriter/Di rector: Celina Brogan\n\nAn experimental short film about a young woman wh o attempts to wash away the guilty conscience she has begun to lose hersel f to. In its essence\, "mens rea" embodies the message: "To see ourselves\ , to own our truths\, to continue moving on."\n\nThe filmmakers will be pr esent for a post-screening Q&\;A. Special thanks to Ben &\; Jerry's for sponsoring the VT Filmmakers Showcase and to the Vermont Arts Council for supporting our work with Vermont films.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fai ries-Child.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:222@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T223000 DTSTAMP:20151004T192213Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/2015-opening-night-party/ SUMMARY:2015 Opening Night Party DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Skinny Pancake\n\nAnnouncement of the VT Filmmaker s' Showcase Award-winners (except for Audience Favorite). Food and cash ba r. Fun for all.\n\nThe Vermont Filmmakers' Awards are:\n\n The James Golds tone Award\, a $500 cash award given to an emerging Vermont filmmaker and sponsored by Bill Stetson &\; VTIFF\n The Ben &\; Jerry Award\, a $3 00 cash prize given to recognize and support a Vermont filmmaker who\, thr ough the lens\, documented and raised awareness of an important social or environmental issue with verve and ingenuity\n The Hotel Vermont Award\, a $250 cash prize\,  given to a film that creates the best sense of place \n The Footage Farm USA Award\, a credit for stock footage worth $600 fr om the Footage Farm collection given for most creative use of archival foo tage.\n The VTIFF awards for: Best Cinematography\, Best Screenwriting\, Best Acting\, Best Film About a Vermonter\n The VCAM Audience Favorite A ward – $200 by popular ballot. The Audience Favorite will be announced before the Closing Night film by the House of Lemay.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Par ty.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:263@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T133000 DTSTAMP:20151004T001803Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/creatives-mixer/ SUMMARY:Creatives Mixer DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by VCAM &\; RETN\n\nA networking opportunity for all creatives. VCAM and RETN will be talking about their new Media Making Factory!\nLunch and cash bar. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/The MediaFactory-72x361-e1443625916305.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Atrium\, 60 Lake Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05 401\, United States GEO:44.4774721;-73.2196927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, Burlington \, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landi ng Atrium:geo:44.4774721,-73.2196927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:260@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T144500 DTSTAMP:20151010T175311Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-6-2/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers Showcase 6 DESCRIPTION:Sabra\n\nDocumentary | 2015 | 57 min\nDirector: Bill Phillips | Exec. Producer: Bill Stetson\n\nFormer Vermont governors Howard Dean and Madeleine Kunin have called Sabra Field the state’s best-known artist. S abra explores her popular work\, but also less well-known prints – some springing from a joyous sense of play\, others from intense personal trage dy.\n\n\n\nSabra Field will be present at the screening. The filmmakers w ill be present for a post-screening Q&\;A. Special thanks to Ben &\; Jerry's for sponsoring the VT Filmmakers Showcase and to the Vermont Arts Council for supporting our work with Vermont films.\n\nThe screening will be followed by a reception in the Lake Lobby. Wine and snack. Reception s ponsored by Bill Stetson. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ear ly-Winter.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:219@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T153000 DTSTAMP:20151005T195937Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/on-the-edge-au-bord-du-monde-2/ SUMMARY:On The Edge (Au Bord du Monde) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Claus Drexel | France | French w/English subtitles | 2014 | Documentary | 98 mins\nSponsored by Duncan Wisniewski Architectur e and by Allan Nicholls\, Nancy Bercaw and David Nicholls\nFilm Source: Da isy Day Films\n\n25% of ticket sales will be donated to COTS\n\nThe best w ay to describe this most exquisite\, haunting and unforgettable film\, whi ch prompted one of our programmers to comment: “I’ll never think of Pa ris in the same way again\,” is to quote from the words of the filmmaker himself: “For many years I was hounded by the desire to meet Paris' hom eless population\, those phantoms who haunt the city's sidewalks and metro stations\, omnipresent yet invisible to those who walk right by them with out ever stopping. Rather than a question of media-type curiosity as to ho w they ended up on the street\, I simply wanted to give them a voice.… P lacing the viewer face to face with the subject was inspired by the work o f two photographers\, Walker Evans and August Sander. It gives dignity and strength to the people being filmed\, and acts like a mirror for the view er.” Not to be missed.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Jen i1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:230@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T154500 DTSTAMP:20151004T193334Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-sabra-the-film/ SUMMARY:Reception: Sabra\, the film DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Bill Stetson\n\nFollowing the VT film Sabra\, with the filmmakers and artist Sabra Field in attendance\, including a display of Sabra’s prints\, in partnership with BCA.\nWine and snacks provided. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sab ra-and-Bill.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:261@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T170000 DTSTAMP:20151010T175334Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-7-2/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers Showcase 7 DESCRIPTION:The Resurrection of Victor Jara\n\nDocumentary | 2015 | 89 min\ nDirector: John Travers | Writer/Producer: John Summa\n\nThis feature-leng th documentary chronicles the professional life and legacy of iconic Chile an singer-songwriter Victor Jara\, who was executed while detained in pris on following a right-wing military coup in 1973. The film captures events surrounding the rebirth of Victor's music and story – including his 2009 reburial homage – after decades of clandestine cultural existence.\n\nT he filmmakers will be present for a post-screening Q&\;A. Special thank s to Ben &\; Jerry's for sponsoring the VT Filmmakers Showcase and to t he Vermont Arts Council for supporting our work with Vermont films.\n\n&nb sp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Vic tor-Jara.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:239@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T171500 DTSTAMP:20151007T022620Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/song-of-the-street-cancion-de-barrio/ SUMMARY:Song of the Street (Canción de Barrio) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Alexandro Ramirez | Cuba | Spanish w/English subtit les | 2014 | Documentary | 80 mins\nFilm Source: Americas Media Initiative \nThere will be a post-screening Q &\; A via skype with Cuban journalis t Mónica Rivero Cabrera\, moderated by Alexandra Halkin\, Director\, Ame ricas Media Intiative\n\nIn 2010\, famed Cuban musician Silvio Rodriguez s tarted an ongoing tour through the poorest neighborhoods of Havana. Follow ing Silvio for two years\, Song of the Street explores a largely invisible and silenced Cuba\, the complexity of which is revealed through the voice s of the film’s participants. Song of the Street is a documentary that u nveils\, layer by layer\, neighborhood by neighborhood\, the pain\, deteri oration\, imagination\, violence\, resignation\, humor\, outrage\, despair and precarious hope of Cuba’s poor.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Son gof-the-Street-02.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:227@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T181500 DTSTAMP:20151008T205442Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-burlington-bethlehem-arad-sister-ci ty-program-sister-miram-ward-book-launch/ SUMMARY:Reception: Sister Miriam Ward Book Launch & Burlington-Bethlehem-A rad Sister City Program DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program and Friends of Miriam Ward.\n\nLaunch of Sister Miriam Ward’s book Behind th e Wall: Palestinians Under Occupation. There will be short readings from t he book.\nPreceding the 6:15 pm screening of A Borrowed Identity. Cash ba r\, hummus and baklava. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Oli ve-tree.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:262@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T193000 DTSTAMP:20151010T175359Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-8-2/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers Showcase 8 DESCRIPTION:She Sings to the Stars\n\nFiction | 2014 |108 min\nDirector: Je nnifer Corcoran | Producer: Jonnie Corcoran\nWinner Best Low-Budget Featu re - Toronto Independent Film Festival\n\nA Native American grandmother w ho lives alone and very simply in the desert inhabits a world that her hal f-Hispanic grandson and a white\, aging magician are surprised to rediscov er.\n\nThe filmmakers will be present for a post-screening Q&\;A. Spec ial thanks to Ben &\; Jerry's for sponsoring the VT Filmmakers Showcase and to the Vermont Arts Council for supporting our work with Vermont film s.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/SHE -SINGS-TO-THE-STARS-01.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:183@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T200000 DTSTAMP:20151005T180458Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-borrowed-identity/ SUMMARY:A Borrowed Identity DESCRIPTION:Directed by Eran Riklis | 2014 | Israel | Arabic/Hebrew w/Engli sh subtitles | Fiction | 105  mins\nSponsors: The Burlington-Bethlehem-Ar ad Sister City Program\nFilm Source: Strand Releasing\n\nPreceded by a rec eption for Sister Miriam Ward at 5:00 pm in the Lake Lobby. Humus and bakl ava served. Cash bar.\n\nThis is arguably the most compelling film that Is raeli director Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride) has made in a long while. Ba sed on two separate fictional autobiographies by acclaimed Palestinian wri ter Seyad Kashua\, the film is "a sharply mounted drama about a young Arab who finds reasons to ‘pass’ as Jewish" (Godfrey Cheshire\, RogerEbert .com). This moving\, non-polemical\, coming-of-age drama about the hurdles faced by an Arab boy living in a Jewish culture is not only a sharp repre sentation of that particular conflict and region\, but it also resonates u niversally – identity and assimilation being a major social struggle wor ldwide. There’s marvelous pacing in the film and the acting – especial ly of veteran actor Yael Abecassis – is impressive.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ABI _3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:182@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T220000 DTSTAMP:20151005T194204Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution/ SUMMARY:Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution DESCRIPTION:Directed by Stanley Nelson | 2015 | USA | Documentary | 113 min s\nGrand Jury Prize\, Berlin\; Sundance\; Audience Choice Award\, River Ru n International Film Festival\nCo-sponsors: John Douglas &\; the Peace &\; Justice Center\nFilm Source: Longshot\n\nThe first feature-length d ocumentary about the revolutionary Black Panther Party is an intensely com pelling survey of the militantly radical\, historically significant\, ofte n controversial group. Charting the Party’s seismic influence on the cou nter-cultural landscape of the sixties and seventies\, the organizational and political struggles within the movement\, and the impact of the Black Panthers' presence on the country’s attitudes and discussions of race re lations\, acclaimed documentarian Stanley Nelson (Freedom Riders\; Jonesto wn: The Life &\; Death of Peoples Temple) has crafted an important soci al and historical document with deeply trenchant relevance to a host of is sues still facing us today.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/3-B lack-Panthers-from-Sacramento-Free-Huey-Rally-Bobby-Hutton-Memorial-Park-i n-Oakland-CA-1969.-Photo-courtesy-of-Pirkle-Jones-and-Ruth-Marion-Baruch.j pg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:208@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T224500 DTSTAMP:20151005T195619Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/living-in-oblivion/ SUMMARY:Living in Oblivion DESCRIPTION:Directed by Tom DiCillo | USA | 1995 | Fiction | 92 mins\nSpons or: Todd Lockwood &\; Shout Factory\nFilm Source: Shout Factory\n\nFilm maker in attendance for post-screening Q&\;A and signing of the newly m astered Blu-Rays of the film for its 20th anniversary\n\nWhatever can go w rong does go wrong in Tom DiCillo’s hilarious send-up of the maddeningly chaotic vicissitudes of ultra-low-budget filmmaking. Indie film stalwart Steve Buscemi stars as Nick Reve\, DiCillo’s directorial alter ego\, who is in the midst of a disastrous film shoot with an absurdly unreliable ca st and crew. DiCillo\, who served as cinematographer on Jim Jarmusch’s 1 984 masterpiece Stranger Than Paradise\, channels the frustrations he expe rienced shooting the early Brad Pitt vehicle Johnny Suede into a screenpla y that ambiguously mixes dream sequences and reality and blurs the line be tween cinematic artifice and real life. Also featuring Dermot Mulroney and Catherine Keener (in one of her earliest roles)\, Living in Oblivion is a true cult classic and an enduring tribute to the determination of cash-st rapped independent filmmakers everywhere.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Din klage-Buscemi-LIO-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:207@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T123000 DTSTAMP:20151011T055132Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-incredible-adventures-of-jojo-and-his-ann oying-little-sister-avila/ SUMMARY:The Incredible Adventure of Jojo (And His Annoying Little Sister Av ila) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Brian Schmidt &\; Ann-Marie Plastino | USA | 201 4 | Fiction | 79 mins\nFilm Source: Filmmakers\nFamily-Friendly film\, 5 a nd up\n\nIn this humorous\, slapstick adventure tale\, Jojo and his younge r sister Avila are left alone after a car accident injures their mother on the way to grandma’s house. The two travelers must survive the treacher ous journey alone in the woods with only Skittles and a pocketknife for su pplies – encountering wolves\, bear traps\, cliffs\, raging rivers and m enacing hobos along the way (and they’re out of clean diapers). Husband and wife directing team Brian Schmidt and Ann-Marie Plastino deliver a mem orable movie that will make the overprotective parents in the audience squ irm in their seats\, much to the delight of their children.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Inc redible-Adventures-of-Jojo-02.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:180@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T153000 DTSTAMP:20151005T201810Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beyond-zero-1914-1918-war-work-8-songs-with-f ilm/ SUMMARY:Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 & War Work: 8 Songs with Film DESCRIPTION:Double Bill\n\n\nBeyond Zero: 1914-1918\nDirected by Bill Morri son | USA | 2015 | Doc/Experimental | 39 mins\nFilm source: Icarus Films\n \nA work for quartet with film. Utilizing only original 35 mm nitrate film shot during World War I\, director Bill Morrison (Decasia) creates a uniq ue\, mesmerizing cinematic experience that is both historical document and experimental meditation. Rare and fascinating footage – most of it unse en by modern audiences\, all of it in some stage of deterioration – evok es the fragmentary and elusive nature of memory and illustrates our tenuou s and mutable relationship with the past. Serbian composer Aleksandra Vreb alov’s score was inspired by “the writings of Wilfred Owen and Siegfri ed Sassoon\, the music of Satie and Debussy\, and the Dada movement\,” a nd is performed by the Kronos Quartet\, for whom the film was originally c ommissioned.\n\n\n\n\nWar Work: 8 Songs With Film\nDirected by Michael Nym an | UK | 2015 | Doc/experimental |65 mins\nUS Premiere\nFilm Source: Film makers\n\nVTIFF is proud to present the North American premiere of this po werful new work. Internationally renowned composer Michael Nyman (whose sc ores for films include Jane Campion’s The Piano and multiple collaborati ons with Peter Greenaway) directs this experimental\, musically driven med itation on the horrors of WWI. Comprised of archival material and document ary footage from the period\, examples of visual arts and films made in re sponse to the war\, as well as chanson vieilles and other texts from Engli sh and European poets\, War Work is an immersive rumination on the devasta ting impact of armed conflict. With its recurring images of disfigured and debilitated veterans and its depiction of everyday life affected by war\, the film is a powerful and haunting statement that resonates profoundly w ith current circumstances around the globe.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/BZ- 1058-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:266@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T153000 DTSTAMP:20151011T055011Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/war-work-8-songs-with-film/ SUMMARY:War Work: 8 Songs with Film (see Beyond Zero) DESCRIPTION:Double Bill with Beyond Zero: 1914-1918\n\nDirected by Michael Nyman | UK | 2015 | Doc/experimental |65 mins\nUS Premiere\nFilm Source: Filmmakers\n\nVTIFF is proud to present the North American premiere of thi s powerful new work. Internationally renowned composer Michael Nyman (whos e scores for films include Jane Campion’s The Piano and multiple collabo rations with Peter Greenaway) directs this experimental\, musically driven meditation on the horrors of WWI. Comprised of archival material and docu mentary footage from the period\, examples of visual arts and films made i n response to the war\, as well as chanson vieilles and other texts from E nglish and European poets\, War Work is an immersive rumination on the dev astating impact of armed conflict. With its recurring images of disfigured and debilitated veterans and its depiction of everyday life affected by w ar\, the film is a powerful and haunting statement that resonates profound ly with current circumstances around the globe.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WW- still-6.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:194@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T153000 DTSTAMP:20151005T201732Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/down-in-shadowland/ SUMMARY:Down in Shadowland DESCRIPTION:Directed by Tom DiCillo | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 70 mins\nS ponsor: Todd Lockwood\nFilm Source: filmmaker\nFilmmaker in attendance to introducer and for Q&\;A\n\nDiCillo (Living in Oblivion\, also showing at this year’s festival) descends into the subterranean world of the NY C subway and records humanity passing by in a highly stylized\, poetic fil m. Structured in eight parts\, with a mesmerizing soundtrack\, we delve de ep into the psyches of the people who either inhabit this world or are mer ely passing through. No hidden cameras were used and mostly the people we see on screen are aware of being filmed and yet they remain unself-conscio us. At no time do we feel voyeuristic.  The camera constantly shifts and explores and\, just as in real life\, people come and go and we are left w ondering what might happen to them.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Dow n-in-Shadowland1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:221@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T173000 DTSTAMP:20151005T201659Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/once-in-a-lifetime-les-heritiers/ SUMMARY:Once in a Lifetime (Les Héritiers) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | France | French w/ English subtitles | 2014 | Fiction | 105 mins\nSponsored by Frank and Duck y Donath\nFilm Source: Menemsha Films\n\nBased on a true story and co-writ ten by one of its teenage stars\, Once in a Lifetime tells the story of an unruly and antagonistic group of students who are entered into a scholast ic competition. Assigned a project involving the Holocaust\, the multicult ural class is forced to confront an array of questions\, prejudices and mi sconceptions as they figure out how to collaborate with one another. Featu ring authentic performances across the board\, the film explores how seemi ngly irreconcilable differences can actually become assets when used to co llectively confront a challenge.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MOR 1695small-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:188@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T171500 DTSTAMP:20151005T221804Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/crumbs-2/ SUMMARY:Crumbs DESCRIPTION:Directed by Miguel Llansó | Spain/Finland/Ethiopia | Afrikaans /Amharic w/English subtitles | 2014 | Fiction | 68 mins\nSponsors: Indiepi x\nFilm Source: Indiepix\n\nA hunchback dwarf. A derelict spacecraft. A fr ightening Santa Claus. A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle orbiting a planet. Al l par for the course in this outlandish and captivating post-apocalyptic s ci-fi oddity from Ethiopia. Spanish-born\, Addis Ababa-based director Migu el Llansó has fashioned an eccentrically charming\, low-budget bizarro lo ve story about two survivors\, Birdy and Candy\, who brave the new world t ogether from the bunker of an abandoned bowling alley and protect themselv es from wasteland marauders. This head-scratching headtrip is a gem of a c urio and a true offbeat delight.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/5-C rumbs-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:231@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T180000 DTSTAMP:20151005T192907Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-vermont-italian-club/ SUMMARY:Reception: Vermont Italian Club DESCRIPTION:Vermont Italian Club reception preceding the screening of The D inner.\n\nPasta tastings prepared by Little Market Garden and cash bar.\n\ nSponsored by VIC\, Little Market Garden and Rana Pasta. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/gio vanni-rana-apre-ristorante-a-new-york-03.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:216@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T193000 DTSTAMP:20151020T201510Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-skinny-sister-min-lilla-syster/ SUMMARY:My Skinny Sister (Min lilla syster) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Sanna Lenken | Sweden/Germany | Swedish w/English s ubtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 92 mins\nBest Screenplay Award\, Special Fipre sci Award\, Special Audience Award (Festival del Cinema Europeo)\; Crystal Bear Award for Best Film &\; Special Mention from the international ju ry (Berlinale Generation Section)\; Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film (Got eborg Film Festival)\nSponsor: Paula Routly\nFilm Source: Wide Management\ n\nYoung Stella stands on the verge of adolescence – navigating friendsh ips\, nurturing crushes\, dreaming of what’s to come. But when she begin s to realize that her older sister\, a popular high-schooler and star skat er\, is harboring a dark secret\, Stella is torn between seeking help and keeping her sister’s trust. The remarkable performances and undeniable c hemistry between the two young leads\, Rebecka Josephson and Amy Deasismon t – aka Swedish teen pop sensation Amy Diamond – provide the heart of this emotionally engaging Swedish drama.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/MyS kinnySister5.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:191@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T194500 DTSTAMP:20151017T023759Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-dinner-i-nostri-ragazzi/ SUMMARY:The Dinner (I nostri ragazzi) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ivano De Matteo | Italy | Italian w/ English subtit les | 2014 | Fiction | 93 mins\nSponsored by the Vermont Italian Club\nAKA I International Film Fest Award\, Venice\; Italian National Syndicate of F ilm Journalists 2015 Silver Ribbon\; FICE - Federazione Italiana Cinema d' Essai 2014 Award\nFilm Source: Film Movement\nIntro and Q&\;A led by Da vid Tomasi\nPreceded by a pasta reception (co-sponsored with Little Market Garden and Rana Pasta) at 5:30 in the Lake Lobby (Sunday only)\n\nBased o n Herman Koch’s New York Times bestselling novel\, this masterful adapta tion and taut morality play chronicles the downward spiral of a bourgeois family coming unhinged at its foundation after a grisly act of violence. T he ‘dinner’ of the title is a regular event in which two wealthy broth ers and their wives meet at a fashionable restaurant to exchange banalitie s. Both couples’ teenage children become entwined in a terrible crime. W hen the police get involved\, the two families face heavy moral dilemmas – how can they protect their children and at what price? As the tension rises\, their comfortable lives utterly change. The film goes beyond the e xploration of family relationships and troubled teenagers\, following the characters’ surprising transformations. Similarly to Human Capital (show n at VTIFF 2014)\, The Dinner develops into an intense examination of the insulated and hypocritical Italian bourgeoisie.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/715 6-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:195@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T213000 DTSTAMP:20151005T195212Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eisenstein-in-guanajuato-2/ SUMMARY:Eisenstein in Guanajuato DESCRIPTION:Directed by Peter Greenaway | Netherlands/Mexico/Finland/Belgiu m/France | English &\; Spanish w/ English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 106 mins\nFilm Source: Strand Releasing\n\nIn 1931 the Soviet director Ser gei Eisenstein travels to Guanajuato to direct his film Que viva México. There he encounters a new culture and its dealings with death\; he also d iscovers another revolution – and his own body. Greenaway (The Cook\, Th e Thief\, His Wife and Her Lover) is more playful and less cerebral here t han in some of his previous films. In a hugely enjoyable and entertaining film\, he lavishly re-imagines Eisenstein’s experience\, consciously bor rowing from that filmmaker’s cinematic language (including split-screens \, extreme close-ups\, and wondrous montages) to paint the transformation of a national hero\, a highly conceptual filmmaker\, into a flesh and bloo d man who presents himself as a clown.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Eis enstein_Image_1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:249@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T221500 DTSTAMP:20151005T201616Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tu-dors-nicole-youre-sleeping-nicole-2/ SUMMARY:Tu Dors Nicole (You're Sleeping Nicole) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Stéphane Lafleur | Canada/Québec | French w/ Engl ish subtitles | Fiction | 93 mins\nSponsored by Allan Nicholls &\; Nanc y Bercaw\nFilmmaker in attendance for Q&\;A\n\nListed as "Canada's Top Ten" feature films of 2014\, Tu Dors Nicole is the third film from the Q uebec filmmaker\, Stéphane Lafleur\, who is probably best known as the ed itor of the Oscar –nominated Monsieur Lazar.  Tu dors Nicole is a film about a 22 year-old woman spending a hot\, uneventful summer in the subur ban house of her parents while they are away on vacation. Fresh out of col lege\, without a real road map in front of her\, Nicole makes her steps in to early adulthood with a languor suggesting that the lazy summer will las t forever. Shot in gorgeous black-and-white 35 mm\, the film captures the unspoken uncertainties of early adult life with a sustained absurdist ton e. Unlike so many coming-of-age films\, Lafleur offers no easy answers abo ut transitions and crises.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Tu- Dors-Nicole-still01-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:206@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T234500 DTSTAMP:20151005T200204Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiff-after-dark-turbo-kid/ SUMMARY:VTIFF AFTER DARK: Turbo Kid DESCRIPTION:Directed by RKSS (Roadkill Superstar [aka François Simard]\, A nouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell)| 2015\, 93 min | Canada/New Zealan d | Unrated\nStarring: Munro Chambers\, Laurence Leboeuf\, Michael Ironsid e\nIn association with The Green Mountain Gore Society\nFilm Source: Epic Pictures\n\nTurbo Kid creates a decidedly throwback post-apocalyptic futur e that seems imagined in the early 1980s. It’s the year 1997 – the wor ld is destroyed\, and unlikely heroes The Kid and Apple must fight to surv ive the relentless evil overlord Zeus (played by genre veteran Michael Iro nside). Quebec collective RKSS (Roadkill Superstar – aka François Simar d – Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell) have created a fun\, earnest \, raucous splatter fest. It’s a film made with love by genre fans\, for genre fans\, featuring a pounding synth soundtrack and oozing retro style .\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/TK_ STILL_01_d48f87b5-91a6-e411-8748-d4ae527c3b65.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:ArtsRiot\, 400 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United Stat es GEO:44.468216;-73.21477800000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=400 Pine Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ArtsRiot:geo:44. 468216,-73.21477800000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:240@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T120000 DTSTAMP:20151020T194539Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/student-matinee-breaking-a-monster/ SUMMARY:Student Matinee: Breaking a Monster DESCRIPTION:Directed by Luke Meyer | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 92 mins\nFi lm Source: SeeThink Films\nSponsored by Lorna-Kay Peel\nPost-screening dis cussion led by director Luke Meyer via skype\n\n\nVTIFF FOR SCHOOLS is spo nsored by the John M Bissell Foundation and by Jane Kramer\n\nFor informat ion about bringing student groups to the festival or to reserve a block of tickets at a special group rate\, email seth@vtiff.org\n\nA few years ago \, videos of three pre-teen boys from Brooklyn performing raucous heavy me tal music in Times Square went viral\, with some of the clips garnering ov er a million views\, making the young musicians social media sensations. M anagers\, agents\, and record companies soon came calling. Luke Meyer’s documentary picks up just before Sony Records offers an astonishing $1.8 m illion contract. The film follows the fledgling band Unlocking the Truth – Malcolm Brickhouse\, Jarad Dawkins\, and Alec Atkins – as they learn how to navigate the ins and outs\, tensions and triumphs\, exciting highs and boring lows of building a career\, creating a body of music\, and bre aking into an industry that views them as outsiders. All while trying to j ust be kids! The boys struggle with both the adult demands their new fame brings and the usual challenges any teenagers face. As Malcolm says at one point\, “I’m too young for responsibility.”\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Mal colm-Brickhouse_Unlocking_the_Truth.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF for Schools LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:210@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T130000 DTSTAMP:20151005T193647Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-2015-sundance-film-festival- short-film-tour/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: 2015 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime Shorts Are Sponsored By Middlebury College\nPresented daily\, Monday through Friday at BCA Center\, 12pm – 1pm. Ticket includ es lunch courtesy of Kountry Kart Deli.\n\nShowcasing a wide variety of st ory and style\, the 2015 Sundance Short Film Tour is a theatrical program of six award-winning short films from the 2015 edition of the January Fest ival\, including fiction\, documentary and animation from around the world \, the 2015 program traverses vibrant styles from wild comedy to quiet poe try.\n\n\n\nSMILF | Short Film Jury Prize: US | Fiction | Written and dire cted by Frankie Shaw | USA. Oh Lucy! | Short Film Jury Prize: Internationa l Fiction |Written and directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi | Japan/Singapore/USA . The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul | Short Film Jury Prize: Non-F iction | Written and directed by Kitty Green | Russian and Ukrainian. Stor m hits jacket | Short Film Jury Prize: Animation | Written and directed by Paul Cabon | 2014 | France. Object | Short Film Special Jury Prize for Po etic Vision | Written and directed by Paulina Skibińska | Poland. World o f Tomorrow | Short Film Jury Award (Best of Fest) | Written and directed b y Don Hertzfeldt | USA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sto rm-hits-jacket-by-Paul-Cabon.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:The BCA Center\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\ , United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The BCA C enter:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:184@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T173000 DTSTAMP:20151005T194037Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/breaking-a-monster/ SUMMARY:Breaking A Monster DESCRIPTION:Directed by Luke Meyer | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 92 mins\nFi lm Source: SeeThink Films\nSponsor: Lorna-Kay Peal\nFilmmaker attending sc reening for Q&\;A\n\nA few years ago\, videos of three young African-Am erican boys from Brooklyn performing raucous heavy metal music in Times Sq uare went viral\, with some clips garnering over a million views\, making the young musicians social media sensations. Managers\, agents and record companies soon came calling. Luke Meyer’s documentary picks up just befo re Sony Records offers an astonishing $1.8 million contract. The film foll ows the fledgling band Unlocking the Truth as they confront the complex an d sometimes harsh realities behind the dream of “making it.” The boys struggle not only with the adult demands their new fame brings\, but also with the pressures any teenagers face. As frontman Malcolm Brickhouse says at one point\, “I’m too young for responsibility.”\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Mal colm-Brickhouse_Unlocking_the_Truth.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:237@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T174500 DTSTAMP:20151005T200103Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-second-mother-que-horas-ela-volta/ SUMMARY:The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Anna Muylaert | Brazil | Portuguese w/English subt itles | 2015 | Fiction | 105 mins\nSponsor: Barbara McGrew\nFilm Source: O scilloscope\n\nBrazil’s official submission to this year’s Oscars is a n acutely well-observed and engaging comedy-drama about the unspoken class barriers that exist within a household\, especially once they come crashi ng down after the live-in housekeeper's daughter suddenly appears. The cas t is uniformly terrific\, particularly Regina Case\, a celebrated Brazilia n actor and television personality. Muylaert has an understated assurance that quietly pulls you in\, producing what feels like a story-driven narra tive while exploring many complex ideas just beneath the surface.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sec ond-Mother-01.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:228@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T183000 DTSTAMP:20151005T192854Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-a-single-pebble/ SUMMARY:Reception: A Single Pebble DESCRIPTION:A Single Pebble reception of General Tso dishes\, cash bar.\n\n Preceding the screening of In Search of General Tso.\n\nSponsored by A Sin gle Pebble. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Gen eralTso-3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:254@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T200000 DTSTAMP:20151005T195144Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wonders-le-meraviglie/ SUMMARY:The Wonders (Le Meraviglie) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Alice Rohrwacher | Italy/Switzerland | Italian/Fren ch/German w/ English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 110 mins\nWinner Grand P rix Cannes Film Festival\nFilm Source: Oscilloscope\n\nThe mysteries of ad olescence have seldom been as lyrically rendered as in Alice Rohrwacher’ s gentle coming-of-age tale The Wonders. The central character is a 12-yea r-old girl named Gelsomina (a nod to the Federico Fellini classic La Strad a)\, who enters her eccentric family of working-class beekeepers in a real ity TV talent competition without the permission of her stern father. The carnival spirit of Fellini is present in Rohrwacher’s poetic and occasio nally surreal compositions\, but it’s also a highly personal film\, with autobiographical aspects drawn from her childhood in central Italy. With warm\, sun-drenched cinematography and a documentary-like accuracy in its meticulous depiction of the intricacies of beekeeping\, The Wonders is a s trikingly nuanced work from a young director with a mature cinematic eye. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Won ders-01.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:236@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T194500 DTSTAMP:20151005T195116Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-search-for-general-tso/ SUMMARY:The Search for General Tso DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ian Cheney | USA | 2014 | Documentary | 73 mins\nSp onsor: A Single Pebble\nFilm Source: IFC Films\nIntroduced by Chiuho Duval \, Single Pebble.\n\nScreening preceded by a General Tso tasting reception by A Single Pebble\n\nScan the menu of any Chinese restaurant in America and you’ll likely find some variation of General Tso’s chicken. The sp elling might vary (General Tsao\, Tao\, Chau\, etc.)\, but the sweet and s picy chicken dish\, deep-fried with a side of broccoli\, will invariably b e near the top of the list. But who exactly was General Tso\, and how did his namesake dish become a staple in the American takeout diet? Those are the questions asked and answered in Ian Cheney’s lighthearted but surpri singly enlightening documentary\, which uses the most widely ordered Chine se food as a springboard to examine the history of Chinese emigration – and the racism\, discrimination and cultural stereotypes faced by Chinese- Americans during the 20th century.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Gen eralTso-3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:196@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151026T214500 DTSTAMP:20151005T195041Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eisenstein-in-guanajuato/ SUMMARY:Eisenstein in Guanajuato DESCRIPTION:Directed by Peter Greenaway | Netherlands/Mexico/Finland/Belgiu m/France | English &\; Spanish w/ English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 106 mins\nFilm Source: Strand Releasing\n\nIn 1931 the Soviet director Ser gei Eisenstein travels to Guanajuato to direct his film Que viva México. There he encounters a new culture and its dealings with death\; he also d iscovers another revolution – and his own body. Greenaway (The Cook\, Th e Thief\, His Wife and Her Lover) is more playful and less cerebral here t han in some of his previous films. In a hugely enjoyable and entertaining film\, he lavishly re-imagines Eisenstein’s experience\, consciously bor rowing from that filmmaker’s cinematic language (including split-screens \, extreme close-ups\, and wondrous montages) to paint the transformation of a national hero\, a highly conceptual filmmaker\, into a flesh and bloo d man who presents himself as a clown.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Eis enstein_Image_1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:242@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T120000 DTSTAMP:20151020T191713Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/student-matinee-once-in-a-lifetime/ SUMMARY:Student Matinee: Once in a Lifetime DESCRIPTION:Directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | France | French w/ English subtitles | 2014 | Fiction | 105 mins\nSponsored by Frank &\; D ucky Donath\nFilm Source: Menemsha Films\nPost-screening discussion led by UVM Associate Professor of French Meaghan Emery\n\nVTIFF FOR SCHOOLS is s ponsored by the John M Bissell Foundation and by Jane Kramer\n\nFor inform ation about bringing student groups to the festival or to reserve a block of tickets at a special group rate\, email seth@vtiff.org\n\nBased on a tr ue story and co-written by one of its teenage stars\, Once in a Lifetime t ells the story of an unruly and antagonistic group of students who are ent ered into a scholastic competition. Assigned a project involving the Holoc aust\, the multicultural class is forced to confront an array of questions \, prejudices\, and misconceptions as they figure out how to collaborate w ith one another. Featuring authentic performances across the board\, the f ilm explores how seemingly irreconcilable differences can actually become assets when used to collectively confront a challenge.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MOR 1695small-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF for Schools LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:211@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T130000 DTSTAMP:20151026T211714Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-bread-puppet-videos/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Bread & Puppet videos DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime Shorts Are Sponsored By Middlebury College\nPresented daily\, Monday through Friday at BCA Center\, 12pm – 1pm. Ticket includ es lunch courtesy of Kountry Kart Deli.\n\nThis screening is also sponsore d by Green Valley Media\n\nLongtime artists and lovers of Bread and Puppet will discuss their favorite moments and images from the 50 year history o f artistic production of the renowned puppet theater.  With Deedee Hallec k\, Robin Lloyd and Mark Estrin.\n\nBread and Puppet founder Peter Schuman n and his partner\, Elke Schumann\, will be in attendance for the screenin g.\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Bre ad-Puppet.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:The BCA Center\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\ , United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The BCA C enter:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:220@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T173000 DTSTAMP:20151005T193934Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/on-the-edge-au-bord-du-monde/ SUMMARY:On The Edge (Au Bord du Monde) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Claus Drexel | France | French w/English subtitles | 2014 | Documentary | 98 mins\nSponsored by Duncan Wisniewski Architectur e and by Allan Nicholls\, Nancy Bercaw and David Nicholls\nFilm Source: Da isy Day Films\n\n25% of ticket sales will be donated to COTS\n\nThe best w ay to describe this most exquisite\, haunting and unforgettable film\, whi ch prompted one of our programmers to comment: “I’ll never think of Pa ris in the same way again\,” is to quote from the words of the filmmaker himself: “For many years I was hounded by the desire to meet Paris' hom eless population\, those phantoms who haunt the city's sidewalks and metro stations\, omnipresent yet invisible to those who walk right by them with out ever stopping. Rather than a question of media-type curiosity as to ho w they ended up on the street\, I simply wanted to give them a voice.… P lacing the viewer face to face with the subject was inspired by the work o f two photographers\, Walker Evans and August Sander. It gives dignity and strength to the people being filmed\, and acts like a mirror for the view er.” Not to be missed.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Jen i1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:186@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T174500 DTSTAMP:20151005T201641Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-club-el-club-2/ SUMMARY:The Club (El Club) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Pablo Larraín | 2015 | Chile | Fiction | 98 mins\n Grand Jury Prize\, Berlinale\nFilm Source: Musicbox\n\nThe Club\, Chile’ s official submission to this year’s Oscars\, finds director Pablo Larra ín (Post Mortem\; No) at his most masterful\, steering the picture throug h complex tonal shifts without letting it capsize into hysteria\, even whe n the characters do. The "club" in the title refers to a kind of clandesti ne retirement home for scandal-plagued priests\, quietly put out of sight (and mind) of the Vatican. Don't be put off by the subject matter: This is an original and brilliantly acted chamber drama with every scene composed \, choreographed and lit in an unforgettable way. Despite the dark setting \, humor filters through and the dramatic tension never subsides. The Club is unforgettable.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Clu b-3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:269@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T190000 DTSTAMP:20151011T054736Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception/ SUMMARY:Reception DESCRIPTION:Reception for Very Semi-Semi Serious\n\nCash bar and snacks. Me et Cartoonists Ed Koren and Harry Bliss and the filmmakers. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/VER Y_SEMI_SERIOUS_KIRSTEN_JOHNSON_3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:252@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T200000 DTSTAMP:20151027T213730Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/very-semi-serious/ SUMMARY:Very Semi-Serious DESCRIPTION:Directed by Leah Wolchok | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 93 mins\n Sponsor: Bobbie Lanahan\nFilm Source: Producers\n\nFollowed by a discussio n with Executive Producer Deborah Shaffer &\; cartoonists Ed Koren & \; Harry Bliss\n\nGo behind the drawing board with this affable portrait o f cartooning at The New Yorker magazine. Featuring interviews and art by a n impressive number of cartoonists – both established icons and aspiring hopefuls – Leah Wolchok’s warm-hearted documentary follows longtime e ditor Bob Mankoff as he goes about the business of making careers and brea king hearts with a genial nature and a professional demeanor. Along the wa y\, we catch glimpses of what makes these humorists tick and the subtle in s and outs of creating an effective single panel.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/VER Y_SEMI_SERIOUS_LIAM_DALZELL_4-smaller.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:267@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T190000 DTSTAMP:20151005T213824Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/movies-at-main-street-landing-brazil/ SUMMARY:Movies at Main Street Landing: Brazil DESCRIPTION:Terry Gilliam | UK | 1985 | 114 min\n\nThis 30th Anniversary sc reening of Gilliam's classic will screen as part of the Movies at MSL seri es during the 30th Anniversary VTIFF film festival.\n\nFREE - Donations we lcome\n\nBrazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment in a trilogy of Gilliam films on imagination versus reality\, that began with B andits and ended in 1989 with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. To creat e this wild\, visually audacious satire\, Gilliam combines dystopian eleme nts from Orwell\, Huxley and Kafka (plus a central character who mirrors W alter Mitty) with his own trademark\, Monty Python-esque\, jet black Briti sh humor and his gift for extraordinary visual invention. The results are thoroughly unprecedented in the cinema. Jonathan Pryce stars as Sam Lowry\ , a civil servant who chooses to blind himself to the decaying\, drone-lik e world around him. Gilliam ran into enormous problems with Brazil. Univer sal - which produced the picture - originally slated it for release in 198 4\, but the studio - intimidated by the film's whopping length of 142 minu tes - demanded that Gilliam trim the film to bring it in under two hours a nd alter the pessimistic ending. Gilliam refused\; Universal shelved the p icture for a year. In response\, the director took out a full page ad in V ariety asking studio president Sid Sheinberg when the film would be releas ed. Sensing tremendous pressure\, Universal bowed to Gilliam's insistence on fewer cuts but still demanded a happy ending. Gilliam trimmed only elev en minutes and altered the conclusion just slightly (instead of cutting to black\, it fades into puffy white clouds on a blue sky\, with a reprise o f the title tune). It was thus released in early 1985 at 131 minutes\, and of course became a seminal work. Many critics regarded it at the time of release as the best film of the eighties and it is now a beloved classic. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Bra zil.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:204@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151027T234500 DTSTAMP:20151005T194953Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiff-after-dark-the-hallow/ SUMMARY:VTIFF AFTER DARK: The Hallow DESCRIPTION:In association with the Green Mountain Gore Society\nDirected b y Corin Hardy | 2015\, 97 min | Ireland | unrated\nStarring: Joseph Mawle \, Bojana Novakovic\, Michael McElhatton\nFilm Source: IFC Films\n\nDrippi ng with dread and steeped in dark folklore\, this Irish creature feature f rom director Corin Hardy delivers a visceral experience in horror. New par ents Adam and Claire move into a crumbling millhouse in the middle of nowh ere\, despite warnings by the locals of legendary creatures that inhabit t he darkest places of the woods. The young family comes face to face with t hese beings and must fight to protect their home and their baby.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/the hallow-stills-272_lighter1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:ArtsRiot\, 400 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United Stat es GEO:44.468216;-73.21477800000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=400 Pine Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ArtsRiot:geo:44. 468216,-73.21477800000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:214@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T130000 DTSTAMP:20151028T170041Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-the-land/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: The Land DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime Shorts Are Sponsored By Middlebury College\nPresented daily\, Monday through Friday at BCA Center\, 12pm – 1pm. Ticket includ es lunch courtesy of Kountry Kart Deli.\n\nA documentary film about the na ture of play\, risk and hazard set in The Land\, a Welsh “adventure” p layground. At The Land children climb trees\, light fires and use hammers and nails in a play-space rooted in the belief that kids are empowered whe n they learn to manage risks on their own. Filmmaker Erin Davis will be at the screening to present the film.\n\n\n\nThe Importance of Playing With Fire (Literally) from Play Free Movie on Vimeo. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/The -Land.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:The BCA Center\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\ , United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The BCA C enter:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:253@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T154500 DTSTAMP:20151005T194907Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/warriors-from-the-north/ SUMMARY:Warriors from the North DESCRIPTION:Directed by Nasib Farah &\; Søren Steen Jespersen | Denmark | Danish w/English subtitles | 2015 | Documentary | 58 mins\n\nUS Premier e\n\nFilm Source: Made in Copenhagen\n\nWinner of the Best Mid-Length Awar d at the prestigious Hot Docs Festival in Toronto\, Warriors from the Nort h offers an intimate look at Danish jihadists joining the ranks of Al–S habaad. The topic is highly relevant\, but what makes this film exceptiona l is the unprecedented access to a number of young Muslims who leave Europ e to fight with Islamic terrorists and kill in the name of God. Over a fo ur-year period the filmmakers (Danish-Somali journalist Nashib Farah and documentarian Soren Steen Jespersen) were able to infiltrate a terrorist c ell in Copenhagen and get close up and personal with several radicalized y oung Danes from Somali origin. The film sheds light on rootless young peo ple whose lives went so wrong. “It’s so easy to write off militant fun damentalists as psychopaths who should be locked up for life\,” said Jes persen in a recent interview. “You’re either with us or with them has been the rhetoric. But in this film I get to discuss the processes that le ad up to a young man pushing the trigger and taking 24 people with him in death. I get to discuss the human aspect of violence and the human consequ ences of his action.”\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/war riors_of_the_north_still.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:244@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T173000 DTSTAMP:20151005T194850Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sweet-micky-for-president/ SUMMARY:Sweet Micky for President DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ben Patterson | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 89 mins\ nFilm Source: Filmmakers\n\nMany years of civil unrest\, bloody conflict\, and turbulent politics laid the groundwork for one of the more unpredicta ble and astonishing presidential campaigns in recent history. In the wake of destruction left by the 2010 earthquake\, Pras Michel of Fugees fame\, returns to Haiti to find a country wracked with turmoil\, corruption\, fai ling infrastructure and despair. In an effort to help find someone who cou ld offer some unifying leadership\, Pras chose to endorse musician and out landish entertainer Michel Martelly - aka “Sweet Micky.” The political ly inexperienced but sincerely intentioned duo embark on a spirited run fo r office\, only to be confronted with the harsh realities of electioneerin g in an incipient democracy. Things only become more complicated when Pras ’s former bandmate Wyclef Jean decides to also throw his hat into the ri ng. With ground floor\, front row access\, Ben Patterson delivers a riveti ng\, incisive look at politics in the raw. And with a beat.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sti ll8.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:224@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T174500 DTSTAMP:20151005T194707Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/radical-grace-2/ SUMMARY:Radical Grace DESCRIPTION:Directed by Rebecca Parrish | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 77 min s\nBest of Fest\, AFI Docs\nSponsored by The Caroline Baird Crichfield Fun d\nFilm Source: Producers\n\nAt a time when the Pope is the focus of the w orld’s attention and portrayed as speaking up for the poor and for the e nvironment\, we get to see and hear nuns who are speaking up for women’s equality. “This film comes at a major crossroads in the Catholic Church \, and the nuns are everything that’s right with the institution. They s tand with the marginalized\, and won’t be bullied by the hierarchy\,” writes Susan Sarandon\, executive producer of Radical Grace. The film foll ows three radical\, feminist nuns who may well be the most inspiring women you have ever seen on screen\, regardless of your beliefs. We laugh and c ry with them\, but mainly we’re in awe of their fierce independence of s pirit working within a patriarchal institution. The film follows the nuns on their cross-country campaigns\, giving voice to their frustrations and inner struggles\, and showing us how these sisters are transforming Americ an politics.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Rad ical_Grace_2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:270@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T181500 DTSTAMP:20151011T054413Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-2/ SUMMARY:Reception DESCRIPTION:Cash bar and snacks. We're hoping Chad Gracia\, director of Rus sian Woodpecker will be present at the reception and to introduce his film . ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Rus sian-Woodpecker-Fedor-Torch-Gas-Masks-1-copy-e1444527831678.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:233@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T193000 DTSTAMP:20151005T194636Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-russian-woodpecker/ SUMMARY:The Russian Woodpecker DESCRIPTION:Directed by Chad Gracia | Ukraine/UK/USA | English &\; Russi an w/ English subtitles | 2015 | Documentary | 80 mins\n\nGrand Jury Prize World Documentary\, Sundance\n\nSponsor: Duncan Wisniewski Architecture\n \nFilm Source: Roast Beef Productions\n\n“It’s not the Russia we used to know. It’s the Soviet Union again\,” Fedor Alexandrovich states in Chad Gracia’s The Russian Woodpecker\, an enlightening and boldly real ized documentary which is part conspiracy theory\, part sobering history l esson\, part microcosm of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. The film’ s primary subject is the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Ukrainian S oviet Socialist Republic\, which remains the worst nuclear power plant acc ident in history. Alexandrovich\, a Chernobyl native who grew up in the w ake of the disaster\, serves as the film’s wild-eyed\, bushy-haired inve stigative reporter who believes that the nuclear catastrophe was a cover-u p job linked to the Soviets’ monstrous Duga radar system\, which alleged ly attempted to infiltrate American intelligence communications during the waning days of the Cold War. Gracia’s film – in thrilling fashion – uncovers a possible culprit in the Chernobyl tragedy\, but perhaps its bolder suggestion is that the scars of Chernobyl and the Soviet-era polic e state continue to resonate in last year’s Russian military interventio n in the Ukraine.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Rus sian-Woodpecker-Fedor-Torch-Gas-Masks-1-copy-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:176@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T201500 DTSTAMP:20151005T194601Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-assassin/ SUMMARY:The Assassin DESCRIPTION:Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan/China/Hong Kong/France\nMa ndarin w/English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 107 mins\nBest Director at C annes Film Festival 2015\nFilm Source: Well Go USA\n\nTaiwan’s official submission for this year’s Oscars is a stunning masterwork by renowned d irector Hou Hsiao-hsien (A Time to Live\, A Time to Die\; Café Lumière).   Set during the Tang Dynasty of the 9th Century in China\, The Assassin transports the viewer to the distant land and time through its meticulousl y recreated mise-en-scène and ravishing cinematography. Acclaimed Taiwane se actress Shu Qi (Three Times\; The Transporter) is mesmerizing in her po rtrayal of the titular assassin who\, after failing to execute a mission\, is commanded to kill her betrothed\, forcing her to choose between her sw orn allegiance to the order and her devotion to the one she loves. This ma y be the most visually arresting film in this year’s festival and needs to be seen on a big screen.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ASS ASSIN-THE-Still-4-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:217@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T201500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T220000 DTSTAMP:20151005T194528Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-new-girlfriend/ SUMMARY:The New Girlfriend DESCRIPTION:Directed by François Ozon | France | French w/English subtitle s | 2015 | Fiction | 109 mins\nFilm Source: Cohen Media\n\nWhile Ozon’s work has gone in countless directions since the enfant terrible days of Se a the Sea and Sitcom\, the filmmaker has always retained his provocateur ’s spirit. Here\, adapting mystery writer Ruth Rendell’s short story\, the director constructs a wryly bemused thriller about the vagaries of ge nder\, identity\, and fidelity. Anaïs Demoustier is wonderfully beguiling as a young woman grief-stricken by the illness and death of her childhood friend. When she checks in on her friend’s widowed husband and infant c hild\, she discovers the husband has been dealing with the loss in a rathe r unconventional manner. In a César-nominated performance\, Romain Duris (Mood Indigo\; The Beat That My Skipped) is bewitchingly poignant as the b ereaved lover. The two begin spending time together and as many secrets ar e created as revealed while a complex web of shifting perspectives\, perfo rmative transformations\, and mounting tensions develops.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NEW -GIRLFRIEND-Anaïs-Demoustier.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:197@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T221500 DTSTAMP:20151005T201552Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/experimenter-2/ SUMMARY:Experimenter DESCRIPTION:Michael Almereyda | USA | Fiction | 2015 | 98 mins\nFilm Source : Magnolia\n\nMaverick director Michael Almereyda (Nadja\; Hamlet with Eth an Hawke) here tackles the famed and infamous Milgram Experiments\, wherei n ordinary folks found themselves willing to administer potentially lethal electric shocks to others simply because they were told to do so. The ini tial experiments created by Stanley Milgram\, along with the subsequent tr ials he conducted\, have been a cornerstone of discussions and debates con cerning human nature and obedience ever since he first released the findin gs in the 1960s. In Almereyda’s wryly innovative and cerebrally probing drama\, Peter Sarsgaard plays the controversial experimenter. He is joined by a fantastic cast of character actors including John Leguizamo\, Jim Ga ffigan\, Winona Ryder\, Taryn Manning\, and Anton Yelchin.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/42- scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:213@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T130000 DTSTAMP:20151028T170156Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-no-gender/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: No Gender DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nLunchtime Shorts Are Sponsored By Middlebury College \nPresented daily\, Monday through Friday at BCA Center\, 12pm – 1pm. Ti cket includes lunch courtesy of Kountry Kart Deli.\n\nThis screening is al so sponsored by Vermont Art Supply &\; Dostie Bros. Frame Shop\n\nNo G ender is a beautiful multi media project by internationally renowned artis t Sylvain Tremblay and his team about children born with indeterminate gen der\, comprised of a video and paintings that complement and speak to each other. The program will include a screening of the video and display of t wo of Tremblay’s paintings. Tremblay will be present at the screening to talk about his work.\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/12. -HIKER-Portrait-2014_mixte-72x72.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:The BCA Center\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\ , United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The BCA C enter:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:198@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T154500 DTSTAMP:20151005T201457Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/experimenter/ SUMMARY:Experimenter DESCRIPTION:Directed by Michael Almereyda | USA | Fiction | 2015 | 98 mins\ nFilm Source: Magnolia\n\nMaverick director Michael Almereyda (Nadja\; Ham let with Ethan Hawke) here tackles the famed and infamous Milgram Experime nts\, wherein ordinary folks found themselves willing to administer potent ially lethal electric shocks to others simply because they were told to do so. The initial experiments created by Stanley Milgram\, along with the s ubsequent trials he conducted\, have been a cornerstone of discussions and debates concerning human nature and obedience ever since he first release d the findings in the 1960s. In Almereyda’s wryly innovative and cerebra lly probing drama\, Peter Sarsgaard plays the controversial experimenter. He is joined by a fantastic cast of character actors including John Leguiz amo\, Jim Gaffigan\, Winona Ryder\, Taryn Manning\, and Anton Yelchin.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/42- scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:192@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T173000 DTSTAMP:20151005T202732Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-dinner-i-nostri-ragazzi-2/ SUMMARY:The Dinner (I nostri ragazzi) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ivano De Matteo | Italy | Italian w/ English subtit les | 2014 | Fiction | 93 mins\nSponsored by the Vermont Italian Club\nAKA I International Film Fest Award\, Venice\; Italian National Syndicate of F ilm Journalists 2015 Silver Ribbon\; FICE - Federazione Italiana Cinema d' Essai 2014 Award\nFilm Source: Film Movement\n\nBased on Herman Koch’s N ew York Times bestselling novel\, this masterful adaptation and taut moral ity play chronicles the downward spiral of a bourgeois family coming unhin ged at its foundation after a grisly act of violence. The ‘dinner’ of the title is a regular event in which two wealthy brothers and their wives meet at a fashionable restaurant to exchange banalities. Both couples’ teenage children become entwined in a terrible crime. When the police get involved\, the two families face heavy moral dilemmas – how can they pro tect their children and at what price? As the tension rises\, their comfor table lives utterly change. The film goes beyond the exploration of family relationships and troubled teenagers\, following the characters’ surpri sing transformations. Similarly to Human Capital (shown at VTIFF 2014)\, T he Dinner develops into an intense examination of the insulated and hypocr itical Italian bourgeoisie.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/715 6-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:189@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T174500 DTSTAMP:20151005T201438Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/democrats-2/ SUMMARY:Democrats DESCRIPTION:Directed by Camilla Nielssen | Denmark | Shona w/ English subti tles | 2014 | Documentary | 99 mins\nBest Doc Feature\, Tribeca\nFilm Sour ce: Upfront Films\n\nCamilla Nielssen’s astutely observed\, darkly humor ous\, rousingly energetic chronicle of the drafting of the new Zimbabwean constitution has been rightly dubbed “one of the year’s most invaluabl e documentaries” by The Guardian. Given incredible access over a four-ye ar period\, the filmmakers offer a firsthand\, ground-floor view of nascen t democracy in action\, following the two men who have been tasked with ov erseeing the drafting process: Paul Mangwana of President Mugabe’s ZANU- PF party and Douglas Mwonzora of Movement for Democratic Change. Although opposed in their affiliations and beliefs\, the two share a mutual respect and great odd-couple chemistry as they navigate the organizational challe nges\, negotiations\, compromises\, setbacks\, arguments\, frustrations an d small triumphs of the process – all the while operating under the cons tant specter of authoritarian repression and violence. Nielssen's masterfu l film captures the intimate dynamics of the struggle toward representatio nal government with a wonderful balance of humor\, outrage\, contemplation and candor.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/dem ocrats.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:271@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T190000 DTSTAMP:20151011T051840Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/burlington-film-society-reception/ SUMMARY:Burlington Film Society Reception DESCRIPTION:Cash bar and snack. Meet Film Society members and find out more about the BFS program. CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:178@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T194500 DTSTAMP:20151005T201356Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-babushkas-of-chernobyl-2/ SUMMARY:The Babushkas of Chernobyl DESCRIPTION:Directed by Holly Morris &\; Anne Bogart | 2015 | Ukraine/US A | Documentary | 72 mins\nSpecial Jury Award for Directing at the Los Ang eles Film Festival\nSponsors: Vermont Council on World Affairs\nFilm Sourc e: Filmmakers\nHolly Morris attending screening for Q&\;A\n\nTwenty-ni ne years ago\, on April\, 26 1986\, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor No. 4 blew up after a routine test. The resulting fire lasted 10 d ays\, spewing 400 times as much radiation as the atomic bomb dropped on Hi roshima. Despite the severely contaminated ground and government objection s\, a community of amazingly strong\, no-nonsense and self-sufficient “b abushkas” (meaning “grandma” in Russian) remains. These proud\, char ming\, witty women defied orders to relocate because their connections to the homeland they grew up in were stronger than the fear of radiation. Wha t better proof of the power of “home” than the fact that they are stil l alive? In Holly Morris’s totally immersive film\, we watch in awe at t heir resilience (where are the men?) and at the same time laugh at their w it and humor. After all\, who can resist the babushka who cheerfully toast s\, “Goodbye\, brains … see you tomorrow\,” before downing a shot of vodka.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bab ushkas_clouds_no_title-copy-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:199@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T204500 DTSTAMP:20151030T005814Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/final-cut-ladies-and-gentlemen/ SUMMARY:Final Cut - Ladies and Gentlemen DESCRIPTION:György Pálfi | Hungary | English/German/Hungarian/French/Cant onese | Fiction/Experimental | 2012 | 84 mins\nOfficial selection Cannes F ilm FestivalFilm Source: HVD Productions\nNew England Premiere.  A Burlin gton Film Society Presentation\n\nThis “recycled movie” plays as the s upreme montage\, the ultimate supercut\, and a great piece of renegade fil mmaking. Pálfi\, the unpredictable director of Hukkle and Taxidermia\, ha s assembled a narrative feature consisting entirely of footage from other films\, using clips from more than 450 different movies and television ser ies. But what could have been just a cheeky gimmick turns out to be a bril liant distillation of cinema’s tropes\, truisms and subtexts. By stitchi ng together our shared cinematic experiences\, our darkened theater collec tive dreams\, Pálfi has created a fascinating illustration of the continu ity of storytelling in film. The Burlington Film Society is delighted to p resent a rare screening of this kaleidoscopic love letter to the movies\, Final Cut - Ladies &\; Gentlemen.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/fin al-cut-ladies-and-gentlemen.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:232@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T220000 DTSTAMP:20151029T171809Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-russian-woodpecker-2/ SUMMARY:The Russian Woodpecker DESCRIPTION:Directed by Chad Gracia | Ukraine/UK/USA | English &\; Russi an w/ English subtitles | 2015 | Documentary | 80 mins\nGrand Jury Prize W orld Documentary\, Sundance\nSponsor: Duncan Wisniewski Architecture\nFilm Source: Roast Beef Productions\n\n“It’s not the Russia we used to kno w. It’s the Soviet Union again\,” Fedor Alexandrovich states in Chad Gracia’s The Russian Woodpecker\, an enlightening and boldly realized d ocumentary which is part conspiracy theory\, part sobering history lesson\ , part microcosm of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. The film’s prim ary subject is the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic\, which remains the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. Alexandrovich\, a Chernobyl native who grew up in the wake of the disaster\, serves as the film’s wild-eyed\, bushy-haired investigat ive reporter who believes that the nuclear catastrophe was a cover-up job linked to the Soviets’ monstrous Duga radar system\, which allegedly att empted to infiltrate American intelligence communications during the wanin g days of the Cold War. Gracia’s film – in thrilling fashion – unco vers a possible culprit in the Chernobyl tragedy\, but perhaps its bolder suggestion is that the scars of Chernobyl and the Soviet-era police state continue to resonate in last year’s Russian military intervention in the Ukraine.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Rus sian-Woodpecker-Fedor-Torch-Gas-Masks-1-copy-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:205@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T234500 DTSTAMP:20151022T203200Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiff-after-dark-he-never-died/ SUMMARY:VTIFF AFTER DARK: He Never Died DESCRIPTION:In association with The Green Mountain Gore Society\nDirected b y Jason Krawczyk |2015| USA| 99 min | unrated\nStarring: Henry Rollins\, B ooboo Stewart\, Steven Ogg\nFilm Source: Vertical Entertainment\n\nIn He N ever Died\, actor\, activist\, poet and punk rock legend Henry Rollins del ivers a deadpan\, understated performance as Jack\, a social outcast and r eluctant cannibal. Jack has lived … for a long time. He carries the weig ht of his years\, and spends his days trying to avoid others and ignore hi s past. Pushed by the need to protect his friend and teenage daughter from violent criminals\, the beast within Jack is awakened. Smartly written an d often quite funny\, He Never Died delivers the perfect balance of humor and bloody brutality.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/HeN everDied1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:ArtsRiot\, 400 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United Stat es GEO:44.468216;-73.21477800000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=400 Pine Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ArtsRiot:geo:44. 468216,-73.21477800000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:212@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T130000 DTSTAMP:20151028T170243Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-masks-mascaras/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Masks (Mascaras) DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime Shorts Are Sponsored By Middlebury College\nPresented daily\, Monday through Friday at BCA Center\, 12pm – 1pm. Ticket includ es lunch courtesy of Kountry Kart Deli.\n\nIn the macho world of Cuban cul ture\, Margot and Roxana stand out – they are two of the country’s bes t-known drag queens. Both share insights into the art of drag and its conn ections to the broader struggle for equality. Cuban filmmaker Lázaro J. G onzález González will be at the screening to present his film. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Mas ks.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:The BCA Center\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\ , United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The BCA C enter:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:177@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T150000 DTSTAMP:20151005T201318Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-babushkas-of-chernobyl/ SUMMARY:The Babushkas of Chernobyl DESCRIPTION:Directed by Holly Morris &\; Anne Bogart | 2015 | Ukraine/US A | Documentary | 72 mins\nSpecial Jury Award for Directing at the Los Ang eles Film Festival\nSponsors: Vermont Council on World Affairs\nFilm Sourc e: Filmmakers\n\nTwenty-nine years ago\, on April\, 26 1986\, the Chernoby l Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor No. 4 blew up after a routine test. The resulting fire lasted 10 days\, spewing 400 times as much radiation as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Despite the severely contaminated groun d and government objections\, a community of amazingly strong\, no-nonsens e and self-sufficient “babushkas” (meaning “grandma” in Russian) r emains. These proud\, charming\, witty women defied orders to relocate bec ause their connections to the homeland they grew up in were stronger than the fear of radiation. What better proof of the power of “home” than t he fact that they are still alive? In Holly Morris’s totally immersive f ilm\, we watch in awe at their resilience (where are the men?) and at the same time laugh at their wit and humor. After all\, who can resist the bab ushka who cheerfully toasts\, “Goodbye\, brains … see you tomorrow\, ” before downing a shot of vodka.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bab ushkas_clouds_no_title-copy-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:265@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T150000 DTSTAMP:20151005T200038Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tired-moonlight/ SUMMARY:Tired Moonlight DESCRIPTION:Directed by Britni West | USA | 2014 | Fiction/Documentary | 76 mins\nJury Award for Narrative Feature\; New Directors/New Films\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\n\nEvery town has a post office\, lovers\, guns\, swit chblades and beer. You just have to know where to look and when to look th e other way. West’s inspired directorial debut discovers homespun poetry among the good folk of her native Kalispell\, Montana. Rarely has Big Sky Country cast such a sweetly comic and tender spell. Photographed in Super 16mm and featuring a mostly non-professional cast (with the exception of indie favorite Alex Karpovsky)\, this is a wonderful slice of contemporary naturalism.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/TIR ED-MOONLIGHT.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:218@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T170000 DTSTAMP:20151005T201224Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-new-girlfriend-2/ SUMMARY:The New Girlfriend DESCRIPTION:Directed by François Ozon | France | French w/English subtitle s | 2015 | Fiction | 109 mins\nFilm Source: Cohen Media\n\nWhile Ozon’s work has gone in countless directions since the enfant terrible days of Se a the Sea and Sitcom\, the filmmaker has always retained his provocateur ’s spirit. Here\, adapting mystery writer Ruth Rendell’s short story\, the director constructs a wryly bemused thriller about the vagaries of ge nder\, identity\, and fidelity. Anaïs Demoustier is wonderfully beguiling as a young woman grief-stricken by the illness and death of her childhood friend. When she checks in on her friend’s widowed husband and infant c hild\, she discovers the husband has been dealing with the loss in a rathe r unconventional manner. In a César-nominated performance\, Romain Duris (Mood Indigo\; The Beat That My Skipped) is bewitchingly poignant as the b ereaved lover. The two begin spending time together and as many secrets ar e created as revealed while a complex web of shifting perspectives\, perfo rmative transformations\, and mounting tensions develops.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NEW -GIRLFRIEND-Anaïs-Demoustier.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:203@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T170000 DTSTAMP:20151005T201155Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/gtfo-get-the-f-out/ SUMMARY:GTFO: Get the F&#% Out! DESCRIPTION:Directed by Shannon Sun-Higginson | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 76 mins\nSponsor: Champlain College\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nFilmmaker in attendance at screening and for post screening panel\n\nThe gaming world is a 20 billion dollar industry that caters to millions of players across multiple demographics. It is also a world rife with misogyny and harassmen t. While female gamers constitute a full 50% of players (with one study re porting that up to 96% of teen girls engage in gaming)\, they are routinel y subjected to mistreatment\, ranging from insults and bullying to threats of violence\, rape\, and death. Shannon Sun-Higginson’s Kickstarter-bac ked documentary explores the landscape and culture of the industry with a personable\, persuasive temperament\, exposing the troubling dynamics at w ork while also highlighting the efforts being made to counteract them.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/GTF O_Still_11.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:223@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T174500 DTSTAMP:20151005T192923Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/panel-gaming-and-gender-bias/ SUMMARY:Panel: Gaming and Gender Bias DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Champlain College\n\nThe screening of GTFO will be followed by a panel discussion about women and gaming\, moderated by Kath eryn Wright. The panel will include Jonathan Ferguson\, Squinky\, and film maker Shannon Sun-Higginson. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/GTF O_Still_11.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:229@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T183000 DTSTAMP:20151005T192837Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-champlain-college/ SUMMARY:Reception: Champlain College DESCRIPTION:Reception sponsored by Champlain College\, following the screen ing of GTFO and panel about women and gaming. Food and cash bar. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/GTF O_Still_11.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:193@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T194500 DTSTAMP:20151019T030850Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dont-think-ive-forgotten/ SUMMARY:Don't Think I've Forgotten DESCRIPTION:Directed by John Pirozzi | USA/Cambodia | French/Khmer w/ Engli sh Subtitles | 2015 | Documentary | 106 mins\nSponsor: Judy Gerber\nFilm S ource: Argot Pictures\n\nThis moving and informative documentary by John P irozzi\, takes its name from a hit song of the 1960s which\, like most of the music on the soundtrack\, was part of a flourishing music scene in Cam bodia before the Khmer Rouge regime put an end to it all. The music scene under the reign of Prince Sihanouk\, himself a lover of pop music\, a sing er and a patron of the arts\, is vibrantly portrayed in Pirozzi’s absorb ing portrayal of the musicians and their fans. But the film\, while focusi ng on the music\, is a fresh reminder of the suffering and loss when all t hat stopped. And yet\, while we aren’t spared testimonies of the cruel f ate of most of these stars\, Pirozzi manages to let us leave the theater i nspired by the power of art.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/don tthink_still_full2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:202@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T200000 DTSTAMP:20151005T201000Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/gringo-trails/ SUMMARY:Gringo Trails DESCRIPTION:Directed by Pegi Vail | USA | 2014 | Documentary | 79 mins\nSpe cial Jury Award\, Visions of Nature Environmental Film Festival\nSponsor: SSG Advisors\, Inc\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nFilmmaker attending screening for post-screening discussion with Megan Epler Wood\n\nGringo Trails raise s urgent questions about one of the most powerful global industries of our time: tourism. With stunning footage from Bolivia\, Thailand\, Mali\, and Bhutan\, anthropologist Pegi Vail asks: How do travelers change the remot e places they visit\, and how do the places change the travelers? She reve als a complex web of relationships between cultures that collide yet need one another: host countries looking for financial security and the tourist s who provide it in their quest for authentic experiences. Through the lif e-changing stories of travelers and locals\, Gringo Trails explores the dr amatic impact of tourism around the world over the past three decades and gives examples of sustainable alternatives.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Gri ngo-Trails-02.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:187@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T201500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T220000 DTSTAMP:20151005T200943Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-club-el-club/ SUMMARY:The Club (El Club) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Pablo Larraín | 2015 | Chile | Fiction | 98 mins\n Grand Jury Prize\, Berlinale\nFilm Source: Musicbox\n\nThe Club\, Chile’ s official submission to this year’s Oscars\, finds director Pablo Larra ín (Post Mortem\; No) at his most masterful\, steering the picture throug h complex tonal shifts without letting it capsize into hysteria\, even whe n the characters do. The "club" in the title refers to a kind of clandesti ne retirement home for scandal-plagued priests\, quietly put out of sight (and mind) of the Vatican. Don't be put off by the subject matter: This is an original and brilliantly acted chamber drama with every scene composed \, choreographed and lit in an unforgettable way. Despite the dark setting \, humor filters through and the dramatic tension never subsides. The Club is unforgettable.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Clu b-3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:200@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T224500 DTSTAMP:20151005T202824Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-forbidden-room/ SUMMARY:The Forbidden Room DESCRIPTION:Directed by Guy Maddin &\; Evan Johnson | Canada | 2015 |  Fiction | 130 mins\nWinner of Bildrausch Ring of Film Award\, 2015\nFilm S ource: Kino Lorber\n\nGuy Maddin is a singular figure in today’s cinemat ic landscape. For 30 years he has been creating distinctive\, wildly inven tive films that feel as much discovered as they do made\, existing simulta neously outside of and at the heart of cinematic tradition. His latest\, T he Forbidden Room\, is another spirited phantasmagoria – a heady\, heart y brew of silent and underground filmmaking tropes\, pulp fictions\, forma l experimentalism\, camp sensibility and nitrate-induced psychedelia. Conc erning a woodcutter who mysteriously appears on a submarine\, Maddin’s d igressive tale weaves together multiple storylines and disparate storytell ers. Endlessly innovative and often quite beautiful\, The Forbidden Room i s a dream worth having.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/for bidden_room_mariade_medeiros-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:215@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T144500 DTSTAMP:20151020T210415Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/most-likely-to-succeed-3/ SUMMARY:Most Likely to Succeed DESCRIPTION:Directed by Greg Whiteley | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 90 mins\ nSponsor: Lorna-Kay Peal\nFilm Source: One Potato Productions\nPost-screen ing panel discussion with Executive Producer Ted Dintersmith\n\nOver 120 y ears ago\, the American educational system was designed based on industria l models of organizational structure rather than educational principles. M ost Likely to Succeed makes a passionate case for the urgent need of refor m. Providing a clear and concise look at the history of education in the c ountry\, the documentary primarily focuses on possible solutions\, featuri ng an array of insightful interviews with teachers\, specialists\, and pol icy-makers as well as an insider’s look at the efforts of one particular Californian high school that has completely revised its structure and cur riculum to incorporate more modern educational models and philosophies. Gr eg Whiteley’s engaging\, impassioned yet personal documentary is sure to inspire much needed reflection and discussion about the way forward for t oday’s educators and schools.\n\nThe panelists:\n\nTed Dintersmith (Exec utive Producer)\nAfter a twenty-five year career in venture capital\, Ted Dintersmith is now focused on issues at the intersection of innovation and education. He is actively involved with a number of initiatives that seek to deliver vastly improved learning experiences to people around the glob e. He is particularly interested in the role of film in effecting social c hange.\n\nLindsey Cox (Partnership for Change)\nLindsey Cox is the project manager for the Partnership for Change working in the Burlington and Wino oski School districts.  She holds her undergraduate degree in Secondary E ducation from UVM and received her master’s in International Education from The SIT Graduate Institute. She began her professional career at Bel low’s Free Academy – St. Albans\, where she taught English and led stu dents on educational excursions to Nicaragua. Lindsey also worked with The Governor’s Institute of Vermont in the Asian Studies program and took h igh school students to China. Before joining the Partnership\, she managed Yogani Studios\, a yoga and wellness studio in Tampa\, FL.  When not wor king to support educational change in Vermont you can find her biking\, sk iing\, practicing yoga or brewing kombucha.\n\nMark Cline-Lucey (Vermont C ommons School)\nMark Cline Lucey has been teaching high school Social Stud ies for sixteen years\, the last eleven of them at Vermont Commons School where he has had the support and autonomy to try\, fail\, try again . . . and again.  Mark believes that he has the most exciting\, dynamic\, chall enging job in the world - as a  teacher in a dizzyingly changing world.\n \nFaith Yacubian (Champlain College)\nFaith Yacubian (preferred pronouns: she\, her and they) is the Education and Human Studies Signature Course Co ordinator at Champlain College and teaches in the Social Work Program and Core Division. She is a white\, lesbian\, abled body/mind\, born Christian \, raised middl-class\, Armenian-American\; these identities inform how sh e views\, interprets and creates the world in which she lives. Faith has b een working and learning in the field of Social Justice Education since 20 01. And\, since that time\, Faith has engaged students who take her classe s with the contributions that radical activists\, such as Sylvia Rivera\, critical educators\, such as Paulo Freire\, and feminist theories\, as in bell hooks' writing\, have offered to the discourse of social justice. She is grateful for their courage to speak and lead. Faith is driven by the b elief that students can do the same.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/304 3107-poster-p-1-shows-how-classrooms-modeled-after-real-life-can.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:209@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T144500 DTSTAMP:20151005T200733Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-look-of-silence/ SUMMARY:The Look of Silence DESCRIPTION:Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark/Indonesia/UK/Norway/Fi nland | Indonesian w/ English subtitles | 2014 | Documentary | 99 mins\nSp ecial Mention\, Venice Film Festival\, UNESCO Award for Best Documentary\, Sofia International Film Festival\; Berlinale\; 2015 Peace Film Award.\nF ilm Source: Drafthouse Films\nFilmmaker appearance via Skype for a post-sc reening Q&\;A\n\nThis film is a must see. In his previous film\, The Ac t of Killing (shown at VTIFF 2013)\, Oppenheimer focused on the perpetrato rs of the 1965 Indonesian genocide.  His follow-up\, The Look of Silence\ , focuses on a family of survivors who discover how their son was murdered \, as well as the identities of the killers. The film avoids the usual cli chés of presenting survivors as saintly victims\; rather\, it explores th e meaning of silence borne of terror and\, in Oppenheimer’s own words\, “it is a poem about the necessity of breaking that silence\, but also ab out the trauma that comes when silence is broken.” This riveting\, distu rbing and eye-opening film will stay with you long after you've left the t heater.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/TLO S_GLASSES.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:247@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T171500 DTSTAMP:20151005T200711Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/theeb/ SUMMARY:Theeb DESCRIPTION:Directed by Naji Abu Nowar | Jordan/UK/United Arab Emirates/Qat ar | Arabic w/ English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 96 mins\nNew Directors / New Films\; Best Director\, Venice\nFilm source: Film Movement\n\nFans o f David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia might recognize the World War I-era cl ash of the British and Ottoman empires amidst the windswept desert landsca pes of the Arabian Peninsula\, but the taut narrative and unadorned action of Theeb more closely resemble the barebones Westerns of Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann than the epic leanings of Lean. Set in the Hijaz region o f present-day Saudi Arabia\, Theeb (meaning “wolf” in Arabic) focuses on a Bedouin boy who tags along with his brother on an ill-fated journey t o guide a British solider to a strategically situated water well. But unli ke George Stevens’ archetypal Western Shane – told through the merely observant eyes of a hero-worshipping boy during the late 19th century Wyom ing range wars – an ironic twist of fate turns the young Bedouin protago nist of Theeb into a reluctant hero in director Naji Abu Nowar’s beautif ully shot and morally ambivalent feature debut. Theeb is Jordan’s offici al submission to the Oscars this year.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/THe eb1small-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:238@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T174500 DTSTAMP:20151005T200535Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-second-mother-que-horas-ela-volta-2/ SUMMARY:The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Anna Muylaert | Brazil | Portuguese w/English subt itles | 2015 | Fiction | 105 mins\nSponsor: Barbara McGrew\nFilm Source: O scilloscope\n\nBrazil’s official submission to this year’s Oscars is a n acutely well-observed and engaging comedy-drama about the unspoken class barriers that exist within a household\, especially once they come crashi ng down after the live-in housekeeper's daughter suddenly appears. The cas t is uniformly terrific\, particularly Regina Case\, a celebrated Brazilia n actor and television personality. Muylaert has an understated assurance that quietly pulls you in\, producing what feels like a story-driven narra tive while exploring many complex ideas just beneath the surface.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sec ond-Mother-01.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:272@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T183000 DTSTAMP:20151011T054056Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-3/ SUMMARY:Reception DESCRIPTION:Cash bar and snacks. Mingle\, meet Doreen Kraft who will intro duce Sweet Micky for President and fellow cinephiles. Prior to the screeni ng of Sweet Micky for President. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Sti ll4.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:243@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T194500 DTSTAMP:20151005T202346Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sweet-micky-for-president-2/ SUMMARY:Sweet Micky for President DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ben Patterson | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 89 mins\ nFilm Source: Filmmakers\nIntroduced by Doreen Kraft\n\nMany years of civi l unrest\, bloody conflict\, and turbulent politics laid the groundwork fo r one of the more unpredictable and astonishing presidential campaigns in recent history. In the wake of destruction left by the 2010 earthquake\, P ras Michel of Fugees fame\, returns to Haiti to find a country wracked wit h turmoil\, corruption\, failing infrastructure and despair. In an effort to help find someone who could offer some unifying leadership\, Pras chose to endorse musician and outlandish entertainer Michel Martelly - aka “S weet Micky.” The politically inexperienced but sincerely intentioned duo embark on a spirited run for office\, only to be confronted with the hars h realities of electioneering in an incipient democracy. Things only becom e more complicated when Pras’s former bandmate Wyclef Jean decides to al so throw his hat into the ring. With ground floor\, front row access\, Ben Patterson delivers a riveting\, incisive look at politics in the raw. And with a beat.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sti ll8.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:248@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T184500 DTSTAMP:20151011T001438Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/transformations/ SUMMARY:Transformations (short w/Radical Grace) DESCRIPTION:Made by a Vermont collective of women led by Barbara Hirschfeld &\; Julia Haines.\nShort film before the screening of Radical Grace | 1972 | USA | 9 mins\nSponsors: VAMP\n\nA fascinating feminist experimental fiction shot on location in Vermont about a group of witches performing w hite magic.\n\nNewly digitized from 16mm courtesy of Film Video Digital. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Tra nsformations.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:225@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T200000 DTSTAMP:20151005T193918Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/radical-grace/ SUMMARY:Radical Grace DESCRIPTION:Directed by Rebecca Parrish | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 77 min s\nBest of Fest\, AFI Docs\nSponsored by The Caroline Baird Crichfield Fun d\nFilm Source: Producers\n\nAt a time when the Pope is the focus of the w orld’s attention and portrayed as speaking up for the poor and for the e nvironment\, we get to see and hear nuns who are speaking up for women’s equality. “This film comes at a major crossroads in the Catholic Church \, and the nuns are everything that’s right with the institution. They s tand with the marginalized\, and won’t be bullied by the hierarchy\,” writes Susan Sarandon\, executive producer of Radical Grace. The film foll ows three radical\, feminist nuns who may well be the most inspiring women you have ever seen on screen\, regardless of your beliefs. We laugh and c ry with them\, but mainly we’re in awe of their fierce independence of s pirit working within a patriarchal institution. The film follows the nuns on their cross-country campaigns\, giving voice to their frustrations and inner struggles\, and showing us how these sisters are transforming Americ an politics.\n\nShort Film Also Screening: Transformations\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Rad ical_Grace_2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:190@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T201500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T220000 DTSTAMP:20151005T201422Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/democrats/ SUMMARY:Democrats DESCRIPTION:Directed by Camilla Nielssen | Denmark | Shona w/ English subti tles | 2014 | Documentary | 99 mins\nBest Doc Feature\, Tribeca\nFilm Sour ce: Upfront Films\n\nCamilla Nielssen’s astutely observed\, darkly humor ous\, rousingly energetic chronicle of the drafting of the new Zimbabwean constitution has been rightly dubbed “one of the year’s most invaluabl e documentaries” by The Guardian. Given incredible access over a four-ye ar period\, the filmmakers offer a firsthand\, ground-floor view of nascen t democracy in action\, following the two men who have been tasked with ov erseeing the drafting process: Paul Mangwana of President Mugabe’s ZANU- PF party and Douglas Mwonzora of Movement for Democratic Change. Although opposed in their affiliations and beliefs\, the two share a mutual respect and great odd-couple chemistry as they navigate the organizational challe nges\, negotiations\, compromises\, setbacks\, arguments\, frustrations an d small triumphs of the process – all the while operating under the cons tant specter of authoritarian repression and violence. Nielssen's masterfu l film captures the intimate dynamics of the struggle toward representatio nal government with a wonderful balance of humor\, outrage\, contemplation and candor.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/dem ocrats.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:201@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151031T221500 DTSTAMP:20151005T200519Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/goodnight-mommy-ich-seh-ich-seh/ SUMMARY:Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh\, Ich seh) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Veronika Franz &\; Severin Fiala | Austria | Ger man w/English subtitles | Fiction | 2015 | 99 mins\nFilm Source: Radius TW C\n\nAustria’s official submission to this year’s Oscars is a slow-bur ning doozie of a psychological thriller. A bracingly assured directorial d ebut by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz (produced by Ulrich Seidl for who m Franz has scripted a number of films including Dog Days and Import/Expor t)\, this maternal horror show concerns a woman returning home after havin g plastic surgery\, only to be taken for an imposter by her twin sons. As the fear and distrust mount\, the situation grows increasingly tense\, and the shocking twists and grisly turns keep coming. Much more than just a c reepy under-the-skin flick (though it succeeds as that\, too)\, this strin gent chiller conjures inchoate fears and buried primal insecurities. Goodn ight Mommy is no lullaby.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/GOO DNIGHTMOMMY_6-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:235@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T130000 DTSTAMP:20151005T193903Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/scratchatopia-workshop-with-steve-woloshen/ SUMMARY:Scratchatopia Workshop: with Steve Woloshen DESCRIPTION:Internationally renowned animator Woloshen returns to VTIFF wit h a special animation workshop. Young and old alike will explore the multi ple techniques of camera-less filmmaking and discover new ones along the w ay. Participants are encouraged to choose materials and tools that work ef fectively\, then scratch\, paint and collage directly on to the surface of clear leader\, black leader or previously shot material. The goal of this exceptional workshop is to explore\, play and take risks with animation. All films will be digitized and viewed publicly on the day. See Woloshen's website: https://scratchatopia.wordpress.com/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/scr atchatopia-Woloshen.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:226@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T150000 DTSTAMP:20151005T200456Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rebels-of-the-neon-god/ SUMMARY:Rebels of the Neon God DESCRIPTION:Directed by Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan | Mandarin/Min Nan w/ Engl ish subtitles | 1992/2015 | Fiction | 106 mins\nFilm source: Big World Pic tures\n\nTsai Ming-liang is perhaps the most stylistically audacious direc tor to come of age during the Taiwanese cinema’s “Second New Wave” o f the 1990s. Rebels of the Neon God – which made its U.S. theatrical pre miere earlier this year\, 23 years after its release in Taiwan – marked Tsai’s feature debut\, and his first collaboration with actor Lee Kang-s heng\, who has starred in all of Tsai’s films to date. Rebels is set on the neon-lit and rain-soaked streets of Taipei\, where the disillusioned y outh of the city’s underbelly turn to petty crime and cheap thrills to e scape the harsh realities of lower-class living. Containing shades of Mart in Scorsese’s Mean Streets and Wong Kar-wai’s As Tears Go By\, Rebels of the Neon God naturalistically touches on the themes of urban alienation and romantic longing that Tsai would explore in increasingly experimental form throughout his career. Rebels remains Tsai’s most accessible and e ntertaining film.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Reb elsoftheNeonGod4.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:268@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T160000 DTSTAMP:20151013T231354Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sleepless-in-burlington/ SUMMARY:Sleepless in Burlington DESCRIPTION:\nSleepless in Burlington is a 40-hour film competition in whic h four teams of 4-6 film students from area colleges create short films ov er the course of a weekend. Returning to the festival as part of VTIFF’s 30th Anniversary Celebration\, the competition provides an excellent show case for the talent and passion of tomorrow’s filmmakers. The completed films will screen on November 1\, the final day of the festival\, at 2:00p m and will be adjudicated by a jury of professionals headed by director Co lin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed\; Jurassic World) and including Eva S ollberger (Stuck in Vermont) and Mark Covino (A Band Called Death). Awards for Best Film\, Best Actor\, Best Actress\, and Audience Choice will be p resented and there will be a reception in the Film House Lobby following t he event.\n\nParticipating teams: Burlington College Champlain College\, M iddlebury College\, University of Vermont.\n\nJudges: Colin Trevorrow\, Ev a Sollberger\, Mark Covino ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Tea m-Middlebury-double-winners.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:181@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T164500 DTSTAMP:20151005T200358Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-2/ SUMMARY:Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution DESCRIPTION:Directed by Stanley Nelson | 2015 | USA | Documentary | 113 min s\nGrand Jury Prize\, Berlin\; Sundance\; Audience Choice Award\, River Ru n International Film Festival\nCo-sponsors: John Douglas &\; the Peace &\; Justice Center\nFilm Source: Longshot\n\nThe first feature-length d ocumentary about the revolutionary Black Panther Party is an intensely com pelling survey of the militantly radical\, historically significant\, ofte n controversial group. Charting the Party’s seismic influence on the cou nter-cultural landscape of the sixties and seventies\, the organizational and political struggles within the movement\, and the impact of the Black Panthers' presence on the country’s attitudes and discussions of race re lations\, acclaimed documentarian Stanley Nelson (Freedom Riders\; Jonesto wn: The Life &\; Death of Peoples Temple) has crafted an important soci al and historical document with deeply trenchant relevance to a host of is sues still facing us today.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/3-B lack-Panthers-from-Sacramento-Free-Huey-Rally-Bobby-Hutton-Memorial-Park-i n-Oakland-CA-1969.-Photo-courtesy-of-Pirkle-Jones-and-Ruth-Marion-Baruch.j pg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:185@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T180000 DTSTAMP:20151008T225001Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/chester-grimes/ SUMMARY:Chester Grimes DESCRIPTION:Directed by Herb Di Gioia &\; David Hancock | 1971/2015 | Do cumentary | 30 mins\nSponsored by Green Valley Media &\; VAMP (The Verm ont Movie Archive Project)\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\n\nDi Gioia will be pre sent to introduce his film. \n\nChester Grimes\, made in 1971 by Herb Di Gioia and his partner\, the late David Hancock\, has not been available fo r public viewing in years. It tells the story of a 70-year-old logger who still worked in northern Vermont at that advanced age with his team of hor ses. Di Gioia\, who lives in Sutton\, Vt. and is well known in the world o f film documentary and ethnography\, pioneered “observational cinema” by focusing on exploring the lives of ordinary people.\n\nThe screening wi ll be followed by a discussion of the film\, the announcement of this year ’s recipient of the VAMP Award\, and a reception in the Lake Lobby at 6p m.\n\nThe Vermont Archive Movie Project (VAMP) is a new program within VTI FF. Its mission is to preserve and protect the legacy of Vermont film and to create the first archive of films made by Vermont filmmakers. The initi ative includes the creation of an accessible database of Vermont films – from 1916 to the present – as well as the preservation\, digitization\, housing and public dissemination of the films. The VAMP steering committee is made up of filmmakers\, archivists and librarians. Key collaborators i nclude the Vermont Folklife Center\, the Vermont Historical Society\, the University of Vermont\, and Vermont PBS. Thanks to a grant from Green Vall ey Media\, Chester Grimes is the first film to be digitized as part of VAM P’s ongoing work. More information is available at vtiff.org/vamp.\n\n&n bsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/VAM P-Chester-Grimes-Horse-logs-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:250@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T184500 DTSTAMP:20151005T194434Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tu-dors-nicole-youre-sleeping-nicole/ SUMMARY:Tu Dors Nicole (You're Sleeping Nicole) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Stéphane Lafleur | Canada/Québec | French w/ Engl ish subtitles | Fiction | 93 mins\nSponsored by Allan Nicholls &\; Nanc y Bercaw\n\nListed as "Canada's Top Ten" feature films of 2014\, Tu Dors Nicole is the third film from the Quebec filmmaker\, Stéphane Lafleur\, who is probably best known as the editor of the Oscar –nominated Monsieu r Lazar.  Tu dors Nicole is a film about a 22 year-old woman spending a hot\, uneventful summer in the suburban house of her parents while they ar e away on vacation. Fresh out of college\, without a real road map in fron t of her\, Nicole makes her steps into early adulthood with a languor sugg esting that the lazy summer will last forever. Shot in gorgeous black-and -white 35 mm\, the film captures the unspoken uncertainties of early adult life with a sustained absurdist tone. Unlike so many coming-of-age films\ , Lafleur offers no easy answers about transitions and crises.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Tu- Dors-Nicole-still01-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:251@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T190000 DTSTAMP:20151005T193845Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vamp-reception/ SUMMARY:VAMP Reception DESCRIPTION:Vermont Movie Archive Project (VAMP) reception following the sc reening of Chester Grimes.  Snacks and cash bar.\nSponsored by VAMP. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/VAM P-Chester-Grimes-Horse-logs-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:179@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151101T204500 DTSTAMP:20151005T194314Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/before-the-last-curtain-falls/ SUMMARY:Before the Last Curtain Falls DESCRIPTION:Closing Night Film\nDirected by Thomas Wallner | 2015 | Germany /Canada/Belgium | Documentary | 92 mins\nSpecial Jury Prize\, Hot Docs\; G rand Prize FIFA\nSponsors: Main Street Landing\nFilm Source: Gebrueder Bee tz Filmproduktion\n\nSpecial Guests presenting Audience Favorite Awards: T he House of LeMay\nFollowed by Closing Night Party at Skinny Pancake\n\nBe fore the Last Curtain Falls is inspired by a spectacular dance show called “Gardenia” which toured for two years in 25 countries and gave over 2 00 performances. We meet the performers\, a group of transgender women and drag-queens in their 60s and 70s\, when they take the stage one last ti me. Thomas Wallner’s heartfelt documentary studies each of the six perfo rmers with a rare emotional depth. One of the most moving offerings in thi s year’s festival program\, the film is an endearingly honest exploratio n of queer identity in a pre-Reality TV era when publicly voicing one’s convictions was a risky and courageous thing to do. Before the Last Curtai n Falls is a film about passion\, bravery\, aging\, acting out one’s dr eams\, and\, above all\, love.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/06_ Gardenia©Luk-Monsaert.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:174@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151112T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151112T183000 DTSTAMP:20150916T205230Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/most-likely-to-succeed-2/ SUMMARY:Most Likely to Succeed DESCRIPTION:Directed by Greg Whiteley\nUSA | Documentary | 2015 | 86 min.\n \nThis screening is free &\; open to the public. A discussion will foll ow the screening.\n\nFor most of the last century\, entry-level jobs were plentiful\, and college was an affordable path to a fulfilling career. Tha t world no longer exists. The feature-length documentary Most Likely to Su cceed examines the history of education\, revealing the growing short-comi ngs of our school model in today’s innovative world. Directed by acclaim ed documentarian Greg Whiteley\, the film has been named “among the best edu-documentaries ever produced” by Education Week\, and called a “sm art and engaging look at education in the 21st century” by The Hollywood Reporter. Film Threat stated that “this film should be a required cours e for all parents and educators.” Most Likely to Succeed is an official selection of many of the nation’s top film festivals\, including the pre stigious 2015 Sundance Film Festival\, Tribeca Film Festival\, and VTIFF.\ n\nhttps://vimeo.com/122502930 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MLT S.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF for Schools LOCATION:Winooski School Performing Arts Center\, 60 Normand Street\, Winoo ski\, VT\, United States GEO:44.501081;-73.18008900000001 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Normand Street\, Winoosk i\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Winooski School Performi ng Arts Center:geo:44.501081,-73.18008900000001 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:273@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151119T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151119T213000 DTSTAMP:20151107T035530Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/louder-than-bombs/ SUMMARY:Louder Than Bombs DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\nLouder Than Bombs \nDirected by Joachim Trier (Oslo\, August 31st\, Reprise)\nNorway (Englis h Language) | Fiction/Drama | 2015 | 109 min.\n\nStarring Amy Ryan\, Gabri el Byrne\, Isabelle Huppert\, Jesse Eisenberg\, David Strathairn\n\nCannes Film Festival 2015\, Nominated for Palme d'Or\nNorwegian International Fi lm Festival 2015\, Won Norwegian Film Critics Award \nStockholm Film Festi val 2015\, Nominated for Bronze Horse\, Best Film\n\nOn the eve of an exhi bition honoring noted war photographer Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert)\, whose career was cut short in the wake of her untimely death\, a father an d two sons grapple with her domestic and professional legacy. Flashbacks o f Isabelle's conflated role of wife\, mother and photojournalist interming le with the present-day attempts of the Reeds to manage their grief amid c ombat of a different kind. Family patriarch Gene (Gabriel Byrne) discovers secrets about his late spouse while pursuing a new romance and struggling to connect with teenage son Conrad (Devin Druid)\, who hides in video gam es and introspection. Adult son Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) takes leave from a cademic and married life to organize his mother's archive\, only to slip i nto reckless behavior. Past and present coalesce in sharp focus as the sur viving Reeds come to terms with love and loss — locating in memories bot h painful and joyous the skills they need to soldier on...\n\nABOUT THE FI LMMAKERS\n\nJOACHIM TRIER (director\, co-writer) is an internationally cel ebrated director and screenwriter. His critically acclaimed and award-winn ing feature films REPRISE (2006) and OSLO\, AUGUST 31st (2011)\, both co-w ritten with Eskil Vogt\, have won awards at international film festivals i ncluding Cannes\, Sundance\, Toronto\, Karlovy Vary\, Gothenburg\, Milan\, and Istanbul. OSLO\, AUGUST 31st was selected for Un Certain Regard at th e Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and nominated for the César award for Best Foreign Film 2013 after reaching over 180\,000 admissions at theatres in France. REPRISE received the 2007 Amanda Award (Norway’s top film prize) for Best Norwegian Film\, Best Director and Best Script. The film was rel eased in the U.S. by Miramax and was the Norwegian Oscar candidate for Bes t Foreign Film in 2006. Hailed as ”a sublimely natural talent\,“ Trier was named one of “20 Directors to Watch” by the New York Times in 201 3. LOUDER THAN BOMBS is his English language debut.\n\nESKIL VOGT (co-writ er) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter whose films include REPR ISE and OSLO\, AUGUST 31st\, directed by Joachim Trier with screenplays co -written by Vogt and Trier. He wrote and directed the drama BLIND\, which screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival\, where it received the World Cinema Screenwriting Award. The film also screened at the 64th Berlin Inte rnational Film Festival.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/A4_ IsabelleHuppert_JakobIhre_Motlys-web.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:274@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151121T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151121T170000 DTSTAMP:20151107T002123Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hotel-vermont-presents-award-winning-vtiff-20 15-shorts/ SUMMARY:Hotel Vermont Presents: Award-Winning VTIFF 2015 Shorts DESCRIPTION:Hotel Vermont will be screening four award-winning shorts from the 2015 Vermont International Film Festival\, including Hurt (Winner of t he Hotel Vermont Award for Best Use of Place)\, Pillow Talk (Winner of the Best Writing and The James Goldstone Awards)\, Headliner (Winner of the B est Cinematography Award)\, and Sous-Titres (Winner of the Audience Favori te Award at Sleepless in Burlington).\n\nThis is a free event.\nLight refr eshments will be provided. Cash bar.\n\n \;\n\nHurt\n\nFiction | 2015 | 16 min\nWriter/Director/Producer: Ethan Murphy\n\nA group of college fri ends set out for a relaxing weekend at the lake\, but when they encounter an abandoned car on the back roads of Vermont\, a mystery ensues. What the y discover that night will change their lives forever.\n\nPillow Talk\n\nF iction | 2014 | 5 min\nDirector: Neil Fennell | Producer\, Editor: Lincoln Hayes\nWriters: Lincoln Hayes and Rachel Riendeau Hayes\n\nTwo friends\, Jenny and Sophie\, meet up for coffee in the park. Jenny complains about a guy she’s been seeing\, and Sophie illustrates how much worse it could be.\n\nHeadliner\n\nFiction | 2015 | 10 min\nDirector/Producer: Michael Fi sher\n\nA seasoned stand-up comic loses his edge\, forcing him to choose b etween his two passions.\n\nSous-Titres (Sub-Titles)\n\nFiction | 2015 | 1 0 min\nWritten/Directed/Edited by Team Champlain College\nProduced for Sle epless in Burlington at VTIFF 2015 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Hur t-copy.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Hotel Vermont\, 41 Cherry Street\, Burlington\, VT\, United States GEO:44.4786825;-73.21753760000001 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=41 Cherry Street\, Burlingt on\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Hotel Vermont:geo:44.47 86825,-73.21753760000001 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:275@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151217T213000 DTSTAMP:20151210T011933Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rams/ SUMMARY:Rams DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\nCo-sponsored and refreshments before the screening graciously provided by Shelburne Farms\n \nRams\nDirected by Grímur Hákonarson\nIceland | Fiction | Icelandic w/ English subtitles | 2015 | 93 min\n\n*Cannes International Film Festival 2015 – Winner Un Certain Regard\n*Hamptons International Film Festival 2 015 – Best Narrative Feature \n*Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Winner Best Feature Film\n\nIceland's Official Entry for Best Foreign L anguage Film to the 2016 Academy Awards\n\nIn a secluded valley in Iceland \, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side\, tending to their sheep. Their ances tral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two bro thers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient li neage. Although they share the land and a way of life\, Gummi and Kiddi ha ve not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenl y infects Kiddi’s sheep\, the entire valley comes under threat. The auth orities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak . This is a near death sentence for the farmers\, whose sheep are their ma in source of income\, and many abandon their land. But Gummi and Kiddi don ’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaste r in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits . As the authorities close in\, the brothers will need to come together to save the special breed passed down for generations\, and themselves\, fro m extinction.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Ram s2.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:276@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151231T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151231T170000 DTSTAMP:20151223T021459Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiff-presents-short-animation-films-at-first -night-burlington/ SUMMARY:VTIFF Presents: Short Animation Films at First Night Burlington DESCRIPTION:A specially curated selection of some of the best short animate d films - suitable for the whole family. The program is about 1 hour long and will loop 3 times from 2pm onward.\n\nSWEET DREAMS  - running time 9' 58"\n\nTHE SAND CASTLE - running time 13'18"\n\nPEPE LUU - running time 4' \;53"\n\nMONKEY SYMPHONY - running time 6'12"\n\nMOUSE FOR SALE - running time 4'19"\n\nTHE LAST BOTTLE - running time 5'25"\n\nGIVE A PRESENT - run ning time 1'34" ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Bot tle_still_02SM.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:278@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160116T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160116T170000 DTSTAMP:20151214T210642Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiffmidd-the-club/ SUMMARY:VTIFF@MIDD: The Club DESCRIPTION:VTIFF has partnered with Middlebury College to showcase 3 films from the best of the 2015 Vermont International Film Festival as part of  the Hirschfield International Film Series 2015-2016.\nThe Club by Pablo Larraín\n\nThe Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer\n\nAssassin by Hou H siao-Hsien ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Clu b-3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Dana Auditorium\, College Street\, Middlebury\, United States GEO:44.0101869;-73.17946799999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=College Street\, Middlebury \, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Dana Auditorium:geo:44.0101869 ,-73.17946799999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:279@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160116T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160116T220000 DTSTAMP:20151214T210729Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiffmidd-the-club-2/ SUMMARY:VTIFF@MIDD: The Club DESCRIPTION:VTIFF has partnered with Middlebury College to showcase 3 films from the best of the 2015 Vermont International Film Festival as part of  the Hirschfield International Film Series 2015-2016.\nThe Club by Pablo Larraín\n\nThe Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer\n\nAssassin by Hou H siao-Hsien ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Clu b-3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Dana Auditorium\, College Street\, Middlebury\, United States GEO:44.0101869;-73.17946799999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=College Street\, Middlebury \, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Dana Auditorium:geo:44.0101869 ,-73.17946799999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:281@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160123T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160123T170000 DTSTAMP:20151214T210748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiffmidd-the-look-of-silence-2/ SUMMARY:VTIFF@MIDD: The Look of Silence DESCRIPTION:VTIFF has partnered with Middlebury College to showcase 3 films from the best of the 2015 Vermont International Film Festival as part of  the Hirschfield International Film Series 2015-2016.\nThe Club by Pablo Larraín\n\nThe Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer\n\nAssassin by Hou H siao-Hsien ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/TLO S_GLASSES.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Dana Auditorium\, College Street\, Middlebury\, United States GEO:44.0101869;-73.17946799999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=College Street\, Middlebury \, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Dana Auditorium:geo:44.0101869 ,-73.17946799999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:280@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160123T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160123T220000 DTSTAMP:20151214T210806Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiffmidd-the-look-of-silence/ SUMMARY:VTIFF@MIDD: The Look of Silence DESCRIPTION:VTIFF has partnered with Middlebury College to showcase 3 films from the best of the 2015 Vermont International Film Festival as part of  the Hirschfield International Film Series 2015-2016.\nThe Club by Pablo Larraín\n\nThe Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer\n\nAssassin by Hou H siao-Hsien ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/TLO S_GLASSES.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Dana Auditorium\, College Street\, Middlebury\, United States GEO:44.0101869;-73.17946799999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=College Street\, Middlebury \, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Dana Auditorium:geo:44.0101869 ,-73.17946799999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:284@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160129T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160129T213000 DTSTAMP:20160114T035552Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mustang/ SUMMARY:Mustang DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\nMustang\nDirected by Deniz Gamze Ergüven\nFrance | Fiction | Turkish w/ English subtitles | 2015 | 94 min\n\nOne early summer in a village in Northern Turkey\, five free-spirited teenaged sisters splash about on the beach with their male classmates. Though their games are merely innocent fun\, a neighbor passes by and reports what she considers to be illicit behavior to the girls’ family. The family overreacts\, removing all “instruments of corruption\ ,” like cell phones and computers\, and essentially imprisoning the girl s\, subjecting them to endless lessons in housework in preparation for the m to become brides. As the eldest sisters are married off\, the younger on es bond together to avoid the same fate. The fierce love between them empo wers them to rebel and chase a future where they can determine their own l ives in Deniz Gamze Ergüven debut\, a powerful portrait of female empower ment.\n\nWinner – Europa Cinemas Prize\, Cannes Film Festival\nWinner – Heart of Sarajevo Award\, Sarajevo Film Festival\nWinner – Audience Award\, Chicago International Film Festival\nWinner – Best First Film Aw ard\, Philadelphia Film Festival\nWinner – New Auteurs Audience Award\, AFI Festival \n\nFrance’s official submission to the Academy Awards\n\n Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language Golden Globes Award\n \n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Mus tang.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:282@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160130T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160130T170000 DTSTAMP:20151214T210831Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiffmidd-the-assassin/ SUMMARY:VTIFF@MIDD: The Assassin DESCRIPTION:VTIFF has partnered with Middlebury College to showcase 3 films from the best of the 2015 Vermont International Film Festival as part of  the Hirschfield International Film Series 2015-2016.\nThe Club by Pablo Larraín\n\nThe Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer\n\nAssassin by Hou H siao-Hsien ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The -Assassin-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Dana Auditorium\, College Street\, Middlebury\, United States GEO:44.0101869;-73.17946799999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=College Street\, Middlebury \, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Dana Auditorium:geo:44.0101869 ,-73.17946799999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:283@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160130T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160130T220000 DTSTAMP:20151214T210849Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiffmidd-the-assassin-2/ SUMMARY:VTIFF@MIDD: The Assassin DESCRIPTION:VTIFF has partnered with Middlebury College to showcase 3 films from the best of the 2015 Vermont International Film Festival as part of  the Hirschfield International Film Series 2015-2016.\nThe Club by Pablo Larraín\n\nThe Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer\n\nAssassin by Hou H siao-Hsien ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The -Assassin-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Dana Auditorium\, College Street\, Middlebury\, United States GEO:44.0101869;-73.17946799999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=College Street\, Middlebury \, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Dana Auditorium:geo:44.0101869 ,-73.17946799999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:277@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20160211 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20160215 DTSTAMP:20160210T232246Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/global-roots-middle-east-film-festival/ SUMMARY:Global Roots Film Festival: The Middle East DESCRIPTION:The 2016 Global Roots Film Festival highlights 8 films from th e Middle East\nThis year’s festival was made possible with a grant from the Sisters of Mercy Peace Initiative and the co-sponsorship of the Bu rlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program\, as a celebration of their 2 5th anniversary. Thank you also to Hilton Garden Inn for assisting in the accommodation of the guest filmmakers and to Slow Food Vermont for providi ng Middle East food tastings. Thank you to UVM Hillel for sponsoring the s creening of In Search of Israeli Cuisine.\n\nWe’re thrilled to announce that two of the filmmakers\, Leila Sansour and Roger Sherman\, will be attending the festival to introduce their films and for post-screenings Q&\;As. Receptions and cash bars before or after each screening are a wonderful opportunity to welcome them and engage in conversation. All sc reenings will include introductions and Q&\;As.\n\nPasses and Tickets:\ n\nFestival Passes give you a free ticket to each Global Roots screening \nGeneral Pass: $30\nVTIFF Members Pass (Patron level only): $20\nStudent Pass (w/ID at door): $15\n\nTo purchase your Global Roots pass CLICK HERE\ n\nTickets or passes can also be purchased at the door -30 minutes before showtime. General Admission tickets: $10. VTIFF Patrons - $8. Seniors - $8. Students w/ID - $5. If you are a VTIFF Patron and wish to purchase ind ividual tickets instead of a pass - email us for your unique code - maximu m 2 discounted tickets per screening.\nIndividual film tickets - click on the title of the film(s) of your choice below or CLICK HERE.\n\nFESTIVAL S CHEDULE:Thursday\, Feb 11\n6:00pm – Middle East snacks/cash bar\, meet f ilmmaker Leila Sansour\n7:00pm – Screening: Open Bethlehem\n\nFriday\, Feb 12\n11:15am – Almost Friends\n4:00pm – Theeb\n6pm – Catered r eception by Slow Food VT + cash bar\n7pm – Double Bill: Women in Sink  + Write Down\, I’m an Arab\n\nSaturday\, Feb 13\n12:45 pm – Omar\n 3:00 pm – In Search of Israeli Cuisine\n5:30 pm – Catered reception  from chef Solomonov's book by Kosher VT /cash bar – meet filmmaker Roge r Sherman\n6:30 pm – Wadjda\n\n\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Ope n-Bethlehem-Sansour.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:286@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160211T213000 DTSTAMP:20160201T002720Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/open-bethlehem/ SUMMARY:Open Bethlehem DESCRIPTION:Open Bethlehem\nDirected by Leila Sansour\nPalestine| Document ary | English | 2014 | 92 min\nSponsored by the Burlington-Bethlehem-Ar ad Sister City Program\, celebrating their 25th anniversary\n\nDirector Le ila Sansour will attend the screening\, introduce it and host a Q&\;A.\ n***The screening will be preceded by a reception with snacks and cash bar starting at 6pm\, sponsored by Slow Food Vermont***\n\nFilmed over four critical years in the life of Bethlehem\, this most famous little town als o happens to be Palestinian director Leila Sansour’s hometown. She left it as a teenager\, pledging never to return. But in 2004 she went home for Christmas. The journey changed her life. Armed with a camera and a family car that keeps breaking down\, she sets out to create an intimate chronic le of a historical town in peril. Ten years on\, with 700 hours of footage \, the result is nothing like she had expected.\n\nThis film is an emotion al journey of one woman in a struggle to save her hometown. It takes viewe rs deep into the world of Bethlehem and paints a portrait of the city as i t has never been seen before.\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more information abo ut passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ope n-Bethlehem-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:287@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T124500 DTSTAMP:20160210T041951Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/almost-friends/ SUMMARY:Almost Friends DESCRIPTION:Almost Friends\nDirected by Nitzan Ofir and Barak Heyman\nIsrae l | Fiction | Hebrew &\; Arabic w/English subtitles | 2014 | 60 min\nSt udent matinee open to the general public.\nIntro and Q&\;A with Orly Ya din\nCo-sponsored by the Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program\, c elebrating their 25th anniversary\n\nSamar\, 12\, lives in Lod\, a mixed c ity marred by poverty and crime. She has an Arab Israeli mother and a Pale stinian father from the Occupied Territories. Linor\, 11\, lives in Tlamim \, a religious jewish settlement. There are only some 40 miles between Lo d and Tlamim\, but the girls are separated by a vast national\, cultural a nd ideological abyss. As participants in an education and technology progr am\, their relationship starts from online correspondence. Meeting face-to -face adds an intense component to the two girls’ lives\, sweeping them and their families into a profound and complex experience.\n\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Alm ost-Friends-7.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:288@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T173500 DTSTAMP:20160116T231312Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/gr-theeb/ SUMMARY:Theeb DESCRIPTION:Theeb\nDirected by Naji Abu Nowar | Jordan/UK/United Arab Emira tes/Qatar | Arabic w/ English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 96 mins\nNomina ted for the 2016 Academy Awards\; New Directors/ New Films\; Best Director \, Venice\nCo-sponsored by the Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Progr am\, celebrating their 25th anniversary\nWe are very pleased to offer our audience a second chance to watch one of the 2015 Vermont International Fi lm Festival favorites.\n\nFans of David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia might re cognize the World War I-era clash of the British and Ottoman empires amids t the windswept desert landscapes of the Arabian Peninsula\, but the taut narrative and unadorned action of Theeb more closely resemble the barebone s Westerns of Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann than the epic leanings of L ean. Set in the Hijaz region of present-day Saudi Arabia\, Theeb (meaning "wolf" in Arabic) focuses on a Bedouin boy who tags along with his brother on an ill-fated journey to guide a British solider to a strategically sit uated water well. But unlike George Stevens' archetypal Western Shane told through the merely observant eyes of a hero-worshipping boy during the la te 19th century Wyoming range wars an ironic twist of fate turns the young Bedouin protagonist of Theeb into a reluctant hero in director Naji Abu N owar's beautifully shot and morally ambivalent feature debut.\n\n\n\nFor t he best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festi val pass. For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/THe eb1small-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:289@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160212T203500 DTSTAMP:20160210T042419Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/gr-double-bill/ SUMMARY:Double Bill: Women in Sink + Write Down I Am An Arab DESCRIPTION:Women in Sink\nBy Iris Zaki\nIsrael | Hebrew w/English subtitle s | 36\nMost Innovative Mid-Length/ Visions du Réel 2015\nSpecial Jury Me ntion\, Karlovy Vary 2015\nIntroduced by Orly Yadin\nCo-sponsored by the B urlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program\, celebrating their 25th anni versary\nPreceded by cash bar and Middle East tastings at 6pm\, prepared a nd sponsored by Slow Food Vermont \n\nAt "Fifi's"\, a hair salon owned by a Christian Arab in Haifa\, Zaki installs a minimalist film set over the sink\, where she converses with the clients she's shampooing. She thus pai nts an unexpected choral portrait of this space that provides temporary fr eedom\; where women share their differences and/or a community of views on politics\, history and love.\n\n**************\nWrite Down\, I Am An Ar ab\nby Ibtisam Mara'ana Menuhin\nIsrael | Arabic/Hebrew with English subti tles | 73 mins\n\nWinner of the Audience Award at Doc Aviv\, 2014 and Offi cial selection Hot Docs\, 2014. Mahmoud Darwish is the Palestinian nationa l poet and one of the most influential writers of the Arab world. In 1964 Darwish was imprisoned for his defiant poem\, Write Down\, I am an Arab. A t around this time he met and fell in love with Tamar Ben-Ami\, a young Je wish-Israeli to whom he wrote love letters in Hebrew\, which she kept secr et for decades. Darwish was speech writer and confidant to Yasser Arafat\, and for years during and after his exile\, was a powerful voice for Pales tinian people until his death in 2008. Through his poetry\, secret love le tters and exclusive archival materials\, this film unearths the story behi nd the man. Poignantly\, the filmmaker herself is also an Arab Israeli mar ried to a Jewish Israeli.\n\n\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more information abo ut passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Wri te-Down-Im-an-Arab.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:290@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160213T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160213T142000 DTSTAMP:20160112T011540Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/omar/ SUMMARY:Omar DESCRIPTION:Omar\n\n\nDirected by Hani Abu-Assad\nPalestine | Arabic/Hebrew w/English subtitles | 96 mins\nPalestinian entry to Oscars in 2014\, Cann es 2014 Un Certain Regard - Special Jury Prize\nCo-sponsored by the Burlin gton-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program\, celebrating their 25th anniversa ry\n\nJonathan Romney in the London Observer: "This is a subtle political film: one that fully dramatises a situation and lets us think out its cont radictions for ourselves. Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad made a mark in 2006 with his Paradise Now\, a deeply provocative drama about suicide b ombers. In a similar but somewhat more thrilleresque vein comes Omar\, abo ut a young man caught between love and his commitment to the Palestinian c ause. Adam Bakri plays the hero\, a young militant who goes on a mission w ith his two best friends\, gets captured by Israeli intelligence\, and rea lises that compromise and subterfuge may be the only way to win Nadia (Lub any)\, his friend's sister\, whom he intends to marry. As the intrigue tig htens\, so do the visuals a leitmotif\, in the film's many chase sequences \, has Omar racing between walls that seem to be forever closing in on him . Sharply and sensitively acted\, largely by newcomers\, vibrantly shot by Ehab Assal (lots of Middle Eastern shades of terracotta and orange) and v ery briskly edited\, Omar has the intimacy of a star-crossed romance and t he political and moral complexity of a le Carré story. It's a lean\, cont rolled film and most compelling."\n\n\n\nFor the best value and experience \, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more informati on about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/OMA R-smaller02.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:291@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160213T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160213T163500 DTSTAMP:20160126T234208Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/israeli-cuisine/ SUMMARY:In Search of Israeli Cuisine DESCRIPTION:In Search of Israeli Cuisine\n\n\nDirected by Roger Sherman\nUS A | Mostly English | 97 mins\nFeaturing chef Solomonov\nDirector Sherman i n attendance for intro and Q&\;A\nSponsored by UVM Hillel\nNOTE: Follo wing the screening we'll be offering food tastings from chef Solomonov's b ood Zahav\, with cash bar\n\nMike Solomonov is the chef/guide of In Search of Israeli Cuisine. He is a 2011 James Beard Award winner for Best Chef\, Mid-Atlantic\; and a 2015 semi-finalist for Rising Star Chef of the Year. \nDirector's statement: "It may be surprising to learn that a major culina ry revolution is taking place in a country so frequently associated with p olitical drama. In just thirty years\, Israel has gone from having no fine food to call its own to a cuisine that is world-renowned. Like many\, hum mus and falafel were all I knew about Israeli Cuisine. I discovered a vibr ant restaurant scene in Tel Aviv that rivals New York\, San Francisco\, Lo ndon and\, yes\, Paris. And\, more and more of Jerusalem's restaurants\, o nce thought stuffy\, are must-experience destinations. I tasted wines from some of the 350 boutique wineries gaining international acclaim. I savore d distinctive cheeses that you'd find in France or Italy. And\, I found re markable food traditions as diverse as Moroccan\, Persian\, and Lebanese\, French\, Italian\, and Russian\, in the most cutting-edge restaurants Jew ish\, Arabs\, Palestinians\, Christian\, and Druze kosher and non-kosher\, secular and religious. I learned that home cooks are preserving their gra ndmothers' recipes and dynamic chefs are updating them."\n\n\n\nFor the be st value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival p ass. For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Isr aeli-Cuisine-Poster-v12.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:292@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160213T201500 DTSTAMP:20160112T204249Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wadjda/ SUMMARY:Wadjda DESCRIPTION:Wadjda\n\n\nDirected by Haifaa Al-Mansour\nSaudi Arabia | Arabi c w/English subtitles | 98 mins\nPreceded by an Israeli/Palestinian food r eception and cash bar - starting at 5:30\nCo-sponsored by the Burlington-B ethlehem-Arad Sister City Program\, celebrating their 25th anniversary\n\n \n\nA rebellious Saudi girl (Waad Mohammed) enters a Koran recitation comp etition at her school and hopes to win enough money to buy her own bicycle . Understated yet expressly political\, Wadjda is a story of a simple\, u niversal desire that becomes a bold provocation only in the context of its setting. Wadjda is a spunky\, loud preteen who parades in her room to Ame rican pop songs and doesn’t hide the dirty sneakers she wears underneath her abaya. She sneaks playdates with Abdullah\, a neighbor boy from a dif ferent tribe. When she decides she wants to race Abdullah on wheels\, she  enters a Quran recitation competition at her school in the hopes of buyi ng a bike with the prize money.\nDirector's statement: "I’m so proud to have shot the first full-length feature ever filmed entirely inside the Ki ngdom. I come from a small town in Saudi Arabia where there are many girls like Wadjda who have big dreams\, strong characters and so much potential . These girls can\, and will\, reshape and redefine our nation. It was imp ortant for me to work with an all-Saudi cast\, to tell this story with aut hentic\, local voices. Filming was an amazing cross-cultural collaboration that brought two immensely talented crews\, from Germany and Saudi Arabia \, into the heart of Riyadh. I hope the film offers a unique insight into my own country and speaks of universal themes of hope and perseverance tha t people of all cultures can relate to."\n\n\n\nFor the best value and exp erience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more in formation about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/wad jda-mv-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:293@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160225T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160225T200000 DTSTAMP:20160204T000729Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/leith/ SUMMARY:Welcome to Leith DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\nIn partnership with the Peace &\; Justice Center of Vermont\n\nWelcome to Leith\nDirected by Michael Beach Nichols &\; Christopher K. Walker\nUSA | Documentary | 2015 | 86 min\n\nScreening will be followed by a panel discussion\n\nWel come to Leith is a feature documentary chronicling the attempted takeover of a small town in North Dakota by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb. As his behavior becomes more threatening\, tensions soar\, and the reside nts desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor. With incre dible access to both long time residents of Leith and white supremacists\, the film examines a small community in the plains struggling for sovereig nty against an extremist vision.\n\nWinner Best Documentary - East End Fil m Festival\, UK\nWinner Filmmaker-to-Filmmaker Award - Hot Docs Canadian I nternational Documentary Festival\nWinner Grand Jury Prize &\; Best Edi ting - Independent Film Festival of Boston\nWinner Special Jury Prize - Ri ver Run International Film Festival\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bur ningswastika.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:294@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160225T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160225T223000 DTSTAMP:20160112T214218Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dog/ SUMMARY:Heart of a Dog DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\nHeart of a Dog\nD irected by Laurie Anderson\nUSA | 2015 |  75 min\n\n"Hello\, little bone head. I'll love you forever." So begins Heart of a Dog\, creative pioneer Laurie Anderson's wry\, wondrous and unforgettable cinematic journey throu gh love\, death and language.\n\nCentering on Anderson's beloved rat terri er Lolabelle\, who died in 2011\, Heart of a Dog is a personal essay that weaves together childhood memories\, video diaries\, philosophical musings on data collection\, surveillance culture and the Buddhist conception of the afterlife\, and heartfelt tributes to the artists\, writers\, musician s\, and thinkers who inspire her.\n\nFusing her own witty\, inquisitive na rration with original violin compositions\, hand-drawn animation\, 8mm hom e movies and artwork culled from exhibitions past and present\, Anderson c reates a hypnotic\, collage-like visual language out of the raw materials of her life and art\, examining how stories are constructed and told - and how we use them to make sense of our lives.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/HOA D_Stills_04_Christmas-Card.png CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:298@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160312T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160312T210000 DTSTAMP:20160229T212333Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/she-sings-to-the-stars/ SUMMARY:She Sings to the Stars DESCRIPTION:Circeo Films of Monkton\, Vermont presents:\nShe Sings to the S tars\n\nFiction | 2014 |108 min\nDirector: Jennifer Corcoran | Producer: J onnie Corcoran\nWinner Best Low-Budget Feature - Toronto Independent Fil m Festival\nWinner Audience Favorite Award - Vermont Filmmakers Showcase\, VTIFF 2015\nWinner Best Actor - Vermont Filmmakers Showcase\, VTIFF 2015\ n\nShe Sings to the Stars returns for a final preview screening before se eking a commercial release. A story that values soulfulness\, foregrounds simplicity\, quiet and stillness\, it offers a glimpse into an unknown Ame rica: without water\, a Native American grandmother continues to inhabit t he desert. Her half-Mexican grandson rushes to 'make it big'. A faded whit e magician finds himself lost at her doorstep. The film raises enduring qu estions\, yet touches on the zeitgeist when it comes to the current ecolog ical crises of the planet and the human spirit\, asking: What exactly is ' reality'? What is 'magic'? And who are the real magicians?\n\nTom Verner o f Magicians Without Borders from Lincoln\, VT\, says\, "What a gorgeous te lling of the old story of death and rebirth\, of the need to be connected to the real magic once again if we are to bring the world back to life. Th is film is still and deep as the night sky. How the dry soul of our world needs the water of films like this."\n\nDescribed as "a film to be experie nced"\, it takes time so viewers have to make the decision to be a part of it. It will be screened on the largest screen in Burlington: says actor\, Sam Waterston\, "It's not an ordinary look at the world\, you will find t he images and the vision coming back to mind long after you've finished wa tching. Watch on the biggest screen you can get at: in this movie\, the si ze of the night sky matters.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/SHE -SINGS-TO-THE-STARS-01.jpeg CATEGORIES:Other Events,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:301@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160319T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160319T233000 DTSTAMP:20160313T171947Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/seven-days-presents-a-media-movie-marathon/ SUMMARY:Seven Days Presents: Spotlight on Journalism DESCRIPTION:Seven Days Presents: Spotlight on Journalism\nA full day of fr ee movie screenings featuring films about journalism and media.\n\n11:00am - His Girl Friday\nHoward Hawks | 1940 | 92 min\nIntroduction by Paula Ro utly\n\n1:00pm - Shattered Glass\nBilly Ray | 2003 | 94 min\nIntroduction by Matthew Roy\n\n3:00pm - Gonzo: The Life &\; Work of Dr. Hunter S. Th ompson\nAlex Gibney | 2008 | 120 min\nIntroduction by Rick Kisonak\n\n5:30 pm - Broadcast News\nJames L. Brooks | 1987 | 133 min\nIntroduction by Ken Picard\n\n8:00pm - Capote\nBennett Miller | 2005 | 114 min\nIntroduction by Margot Harrison\n\n10:15pm - Almost Famous\nCameron Crowe | 2000 | 122 min\nIntroduction by Dan Bolles\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/His GirlFriday.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:300@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160323T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160323T180000 DTSTAMP:20160304T215951Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ad-film-series-sign-painters/ SUMMARY:A+D Film Series: Sign Painters DESCRIPTION:Burlington City Arts and UVM Department of Art and Art History  present\n\nArchitecture + Design Film Series \n\nFree screenings once a month\nWednesdays at Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\n\nSign Paint ers\nDirected by Faythe Levine and Sam Macon\n2014\, Denmark\n\nWe see the m almost every day without a second thought. Weathered by time\, distinct characteristics shining through\, hand-painted signs are a product of a fa scinating 150 year-old American history. What was once a common job has no w become a highly specialized trade\, a unique craft struggling with techn ological advances. Sign Painters\, directed by Faythe Levine &\; Sam Ma con\, stylistically explores this unacknowledged art form through anecdota l accounts from artists across the country including Ira Coyne\, Bob Dewhu rst\, Keith Knecht\, Norma Jeane Maloney and Stephen Powers. These vanguar ds of unseen originality are leading a renaissance with a keen creative pu rpose and exemplify the working class American success story. Sign Painter s celebrates those keeping the tradition intact with a bespoke approach an d appreciation for a balance between art and commerce. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/sig npainters.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:303@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160326T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160326T173000 DTSTAMP:20160320T200116Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-vermont-romance/ SUMMARY:A Vermont Romance DESCRIPTION:A Vermont Romance\n\nProduced by the Vermont Progressive Party | Directed by Ralph Newman\nUSA | 1916 |  35 min (3 reels)\nWith a new m usic score composed and played by Bob Merrill\nTour sponsors: Vermont Huma nities Council\; National Life\; Urban Rhino Digital\; John M Bissell Foun dation\; Media sponsors VPR\n\n[caption id="attachment_6847" align="align left" width="150"] Burlington Free Press announce: First screening of A Ve rmont Romance\, Tuesday\, Sept 12\, 1916 at the Majestic Theater[/caption] \n\nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Paul Carnaha n\, Vermont Historical Society\, Gregory Sanford\, previously State Archiv ist\, Steve Bissette\, author\, historian and cartoonist\, and Orly Yadin \, Executive Director of VTIFF.\n\nWe're delighted to present the results of this restored and digitally remastered 2K version of the film produced through a partnership with the Vermont Historical Society. The screening\,  a fundraiser for VAMP\, is a special celebration of the film's centenar y and is part of a statewide tour - traveling Vermont throughout the sprin g of 2016.\n\nThe 1916 film\, A Vermont Romance\, is the first feature fil m ever made in Vermont. The Vermont Movie Archive Project (VAMP) and the Vermont Historical Society partnered on the digital restoration of the fi lm to create a high definition 2K version. This screening is part of a sta tewide tour presenting the the film with live piano accompaniment and a p anel of experts\, in six large venues and 12 small ones throughout Vermont in the spring of 2016 to celebrate the film's 100th birthday.\n\nThis mov ie is an extraordinary piece of Vermont folklore. It was commissioned by t he Vermont Progressive Party (affiliated with Theodore Roosevelt's nationa l Bull Moose party) and its newspaper\, The Vermont Advance. Scenes were f ilmed in Burlington\, Grand Isle\, Newport\, St. Johnsbury\, White River J unction\, Rutland\, Chester and Bellows Falls. This fueled interest from t heater owners from all corners of the state to host screenings. The plot i s a fairly standard silent melodrama with no apparent political bent. The film is both a romance and a scenic tour of Vermont. It tells the tale of Dorothy\, a country girl who befriends a rich girl and two city gents who are out for a drive in the country. Upon the death of her father she loses the farm where she lives and works. Almost penniless\, she moves to Burli ngton to find work\, and her adventures begin. Filming began Wednesday Jun e 21\, 1916 and was completed 10 days later! The first screening of the fi lm was held Saturday\, Sept 16\, 1916 in Burlington to an audience of 4\,0 00 followed byEssex Junction\, Waterbury\, St. Johnsbury\, Rutland\, South Royalton\, Bethel and more..\nFor samples of the Call for Actors that Th e Vermont Advance published April 1\, 1916 CLICK HERE.\n\nThe original mus ic score for A Vermont Romance is yet to be discovered. As part of the pro ject VAMP has commissioned Bob Merrill\, a veteran silent film composer a nd pianist to create a new score and the screening will be accompanied\, as were most silent films of that time\, by live piano\, played by Merrill to his new score.\n\nA Vermont Romance is a window through which the pub lic can view the people and landscape of Vermont one hundred years ago. I ts tour will help VAMP build a statewide appreciation of Vermont films and filmmakers and increase awareness of VAMP's growing digital archive of fi lms.\n\nFind out more about VAMP\n\n\nThe film will also screen in the fol lowing locations:\n\nFriday\, April 15th\, 7:00pm:  Catamount Arts\, St. Johnsbury\n\nSunday\, April 17th\, 7:00pm: Briggs Opera House\, White Riv er Junction\n\nThursday\, April 28\, 6:pm: Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center\, Burlington (a Burlington Film Society screening\, followed b y cash bar &\; reception)\n\nSunday\, May 8\, 4:00pm:  Latchis Theater \, Brattleboro\n\nFriday\, May 13th\, 7:00pm:  Town Hall Theater\, Middle bury ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ver mont-Romance-Stills-012.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Pavilion Auditorium\, 109 State Street\, Montpelier\, 05602\, Unit ed States GEO:44.261321;-72.579589 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=109 State Street\, Montpeli er\, 05602\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Pavilion Auditorium: geo:44.261321,-72.579589 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:299@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160326T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160326T203000 DTSTAMP:20160217T220408Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/high-water-mark-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-pant s/ SUMMARY:High Water Mark: The Rise and Fall of the Pants DESCRIPTION:High Water Mark: The Rise and Fall of the Pants\nDirected by: B ill Simmon\nWorld premiere | USA | documentary | 60 mins\nThe Pants ruled the Burlington\, Vermont\, music scene in the 1990s\, combining the lo-fi underground aesthetic of bands such as Guided By Voices and Pavement with songwriting chops reminiscent of the Pixies and Weezer’s River Cuomo. Th e Pants played “indie rock” before it had a name. They could tear the roof off with crunching post-punk suffused with jazzy chords and rhythms. They could just as easily leave ladies swooning and guys crying in their b eers with their bittersweet ballads. Their singular sound garnered the att ention of music labels as well as the enduring admiration of BTV contempor aries such as Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz\, James Kochalka Superstar an d Trey Anastasio of Phish. \nBut as the ’90s came to a close\, this buz z band from Burlington seemed to burn out as quickly as it had blown up\, leaving many to wonder what had happened. In 2006\, nearly a decade after calling it quits\, the band reunited for one triumphant\, sold-out show at the Higher Ground Ballroom\, the city’s largest rock venue. \nNow\, al most exactly 10 years after that show and as the band members have moved o n to new bands\, new careers\, families\, etc\; the songs of the Pants sti ll live on through a dedicated network (cult?) of fans and artists inspire d by a band that few outside of northern Vermont have still ever heard of.  \nHigh Water Mark: The Rise &\; Fall of the Pants explores the band ’s lasting footprint on Burlington's vibrant music scene and the intense \, devoted fandom they've enjoyed. It chronicles their struggle to “make it” in the late 1990s\, in the last days before the internet era would forever change the music industry. The film also asks hard questions about the personal toll of ambition and what can happen when a big fish tries t o swim upstream to a larger pond. High Water Mark is a story that happened in Burlington. But it’s a tale that no doubt rings familiar in countles s music scenes around the country.  \nAre the Pants “the best band you ’ve never heard\,” or one of thousands of talented acts that got caugh t up in the tumultuous shifting tides of the music biz? The answer might b e both. Experience the story and music of the Pants\, then\, you decide.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Hig h-Water-Mark.png CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Higher Ground\, 1214 Williston Road\, Burlington\, VT\, 05403\, Un ited States GEO:44.468887;-73.17563999999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1214 Williston Road\, Burli ngton\, VT\, 05403\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Higher Groun d:geo:44.468887,-73.17563999999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:297@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160331T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160331T210000 DTSTAMP:20160329T193400Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/embrace/ SUMMARY:Embrace of the Serpent DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\nEmbrace of the Se rpent\nDirected by Ciro Guerra\nColombia | Spanish/Portugese/German/Catala n/Latin w/ English Subtitles | 2015 | 125 min\n\nIntroduction and post-scr eening discussion led by Megan Epler Wood\n\n\n\nAcademy Award® Nominee – Best Foreign Language Film\n2015 Cannes Film Festival – Directors’ Fortnight – Winner – CIACE Art Cinema Award\n 2015 Toronto Internatio nal Film Festival – Official Selection\n 2015 AFI FEST – Official Sele ction\n 2015 Mar Del Plata International Film Festival – Winner – Gold en Astor\n 2015 Macondo Awards (Colombian Academy Awards) – Winner – E ight awards including Best Film 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards – No minee – Best International Film\n 2016 Sundance Film Festival – Offici al Selection\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt once blistering and poetic\, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in Emb race of the Serpent\, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white\, Serpent centers on Karamakate\, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people\, and the two scientists who\, over the c ourse of 40 years\, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richar d Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the las t century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakrun a plant.\n\nMegan Epler Wood is the Director of the International Sustaina ble Tourism Initiative at the Center for Health and the Global Environment \, at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University where sh e leads an international research program on tools to mitigate tourism’s growing global impacts.  In 1986\, she and her husband Greg were Fulbrig ht Scholars in Colombia\, where they produced\, shot and edited a science documentary\, Destino Nublado\, on the unique biodiversity of the that co untry's rain forest and the importance of conservation\, distributed by W orld Wildlife Fund-U.S.  She has received support from the Nature Conserv ancy\, Cultural Survival\, USAID and local entrepreneurs to develop ecotou rism strategies to conserve the Amazon and its indigenous cultures since 1 995.\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Emb race.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:310@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160405T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160405T200000 DTSTAMP:20160323T211510Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dreamers-among-us/ SUMMARY:DREAMers Among Us DESCRIPTION:DREAMers Among Us\nDirected by Ilene Cutler\nUSA | Documentary | 2015 | 22 min\n\nScreening and Q&\;A with filmmaker Ilene Cutler\, Je ssa Karki (Champlain Office of International Education)\, and Ally Guizler (High School Graduate)\n\nFour New York Hudson Valley youth tell their st ory in this 20 minute award winning documentary of what it is like to be a n undocumented student in today's United States and their struggle for pas sage of the DREAM ACT in NY State which would enable them to pursue their dreams of a college education. They worked with award winning filmmakers R obin Romano and Ilene Cutler to bring to fruition this moving portrait of despair\, courage\, and perseverance in the face of opposition and the hop e for a better future.\n\nPresented by: Champlain College Division of Comm unication and Creative Media\, Core Division\, Office of Diversity and Inc lusion\, and Office of Institutional Advancement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DRE AMers.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Champlain College\, Perry Hall Presentation Room\, S Willard St\, Corner of Maple\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=S Willard St\, Corner of Ma ple\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=C hamplain College\, Perry Hall Presentation Room:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:308@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160406T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160406T200000 DTSTAMP:20160323T205125Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mimi-dona/ SUMMARY:Mimi & Dona DESCRIPTION:Mimi &\; Dona\nDirected by Sophie Sartain\nUSA | Documentary | 2014 | 65 min\n\n Filmmaker Sophie Sartain will be in attendance for t he screening &\; community discussion.\n\nThe event is free but pre-reg istration is encouraged: support.vermontpbs.org/mimidona\n\nAn unforgetta ble story of love and tough choices\, exploring issues of autism\, long-te rm care and the realities of aging.\n\nPresented by VermontPBS and Howard Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mim iDona.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Hilton Burlington / Green Mountain Room\, 60 Battery Street\, Burl ington\, VT\, United States GEO:44.4779509;-73.21799349999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Battery Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Hilton Burlington / Gr een Mountain Room:geo:44.4779509,-73.21799349999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:304@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T203000 DTSTAMP:20160327T213722Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-vermont-romance-2/ SUMMARY:A Vermont Romance DESCRIPTION:A Vermont Romance\nProduced by the Vermont Progressive Party | Directed by Ralph Newman\nUSA | 1916 |  35 min (3 reels)\nWith a new mus ic score composed and played by Bob Merrill\nTour sponsors: Vermont Humani ties Council\; National Life\; Urban Rhino Digital\; John M Bissell Founda tion\; Media sponsors VPR\n\n[caption id="attachment_6847" align="alignle ft" width="150"] Burlington Free Press announce: First screening of A Verm ont Romance\, Tuesday\, Sept 12\, 1916 at the Majestic Theater[/caption]\n \nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Gregory Sanfor d\, previously VT state archivist\, Rick Winston\, film historian and Nat Winthrop\, film producer and VAMP steering committee.\n\nWe're delighted t o present the results of this restored and digitally remastered 2K version of the film produced through a partnership with the Vermont Historical So ciety. The screening\, a fundraiser for VAMP\, is a special celebration of the film's centenary and is part of a statewide tour - traveling Vermon t throughout the spring of 2016.\n\nThe 1916 film\, A Vermont Romance\, is the first feature film ever made in Vermont. The Vermont Movie Archive P roject (VAMP) and the Vermont Historical Society partnered on the digital restoration of the film to create a high definition 2K version. This scre ening is part of a statewide tour presenting the the film with live piano accompaniment and a panel of experts\, in six large venues and 12 small o nes throughout Vermont in the spring of 2016 to celebrate the film's 100th birthday.\n\nThis movie is an extraordinary piece of Vermont folklore. It was commissioned by the Vermont Progressive Party (affiliated with Theodo re Roosevelt's national Bull Moose party) and its newspaper\, The Vermont Advance. Scenes were filmed in Burlington\, Grand Isle\, Newport\, St. Joh nsbury\, White River Junction\, Rutland\, Chester and Bellows Falls. This fueled interest from theater owners from all corners of the state to host screenings. The film is both a romance and a scenic tour of Vermont. It te lls the tale of Dorothy\, a country girl who befriends a rich girl and two city gents who are out for a drive in the country. Upon the death of her father she loses the farm where she lives and works. Almost penniless\, sh e moves to Burlington to find work\, and her adventures begin. Filming beg an Wednesday June 21\, 1916 and was completed 10 days later! The first scr eening of the film was held Saturday\, Sept 16\, 1916 in Burlington to an audience of 4\,000 followed byEssex Junction\, Waterbury\, St. Johnsbury\, Rutland\, South Royalton\, Bethel and more..\nFor samples of the Call fo r Actors that The Vermont Advance published April 1\, 1916 CLICK HERE.\n\n The original music score for A Vermont Romance is yet to be discovered. As part of the project VAMP has commissioned Bob Merrill\, a veteran silent film composer and pianist to create a new score and the screening will b e accompanied\, as were most silent films of that time\, by live piano\, p layed by Merrill to his new score.\n\nA Vermont Romance is a window throu gh which the public can view the people and landscape of Vermont one hund red years ago. Its tour will help VAMP build a statewide appreciation of V ermont films and filmmakers and increase awareness of VAMP's growing digit al archive of films.\n\nFind out more about VAMP\n\n\nThe film also screen s in the following locations:\n\nSaturday\, March 26\, 4:00pm:  Pavillion Auditorium\, Montpelier\nPart of the Green Mountain Film Festival\n\nSund ay\, April 17th\, 7:00pm: Briggs Opera House\, White River Junction\n\nTh ursday\, April  28\, 6pm: Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center\, Bu rlington (A Burlington Film Society screening followed by cash bar and foo d)\n\nSunday\, May 8\, 4:00pm:  Latchis Theater\, Brattleboro\n\nFriday\, May 13th\, 7:00pm:  Town Hall Theater\, Middlebury\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \ ;\n\nThe special limited edition 18" x 24" commemorative poster for the ce ntenary tour is a beautiful silk screen. $20.00 + $5.00 postage and packin g. The poster can also be purchased at each screening at $20.00 or by se nding a check for $25.00 to VTIFF\, PO Box 483\, Burlington VT 05402. It a lso makes a wonderful gift. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ver mont-Romance-Stills-012.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Catamount Arts\, 115 Eastern Ave\, St Johnsbury\, 05819\, United S tates GEO:44.41816499999999;-72.01832230000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=115 Eastern Ave\, St Johnsb ury\, 05819\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Catamount Arts:geo: 44.41816499999999,-72.01832230000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:305@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160417T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160417T203000 DTSTAMP:20160327T210409Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-vermont-romance-3/ SUMMARY:A Vermont Romance DESCRIPTION:A Vermont Romance\nProduced by the Vermont Progressive Party | Directed by Ralph Newman\nUSA | 1916 |  35 min (3 reels)\nWith a new mus ic score composed and played by Bob Merrill\nTour sponsors: Vermont Humani ties Council\; National Life\; Urban Rhino Digital\; John M Bissell Founda tion\; Media sponsors VPR\n\n[caption id="attachment_6847" align="alignle ft" width="150"] Burlington Free Press announce: First screening of A Verm ont Romance\, Tuesday\, Sept 12\, 1916 at the Majestic Theater[/caption]\n \nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Steve Bissette \, cartoonist and author of Green Mountain Cinema\; Nora Jacobson\, filmma ker and Bruce Posner\, film historian.\n\nWe're delighted to present the r esults of this restored and digitally remastered 2K version of the film pr oduced through a partnership with the Vermont Historical Society. The scre ening\, a fundraiser for VAMP\, is a special celebration of the film's c entenary and is part of a statewide tour - traveling Vermont throughout th e spring of 2016.\n\nThe 1916 film\, A Vermont Romance\, is the first feat ure film ever made in Vermont. The Vermont Movie Archive Project (VAMP) a nd the Vermont Historical Society partnered on the digital restoration of  the film to create a high definition 2K version. This screening is part of a statewide tour presenting the the film with live piano accompaniment and a panel of experts\, in six large venues and 12 small ones throughout Vermont in the spring of 2016 to celebrate the film's 100th birthday.\n\n This movie is an extraordinary piece of Vermont folklore. It was commissio ned by the Vermont Progressive Party (affiliated with Theodore Roosevelt's national Bull Moose party) and its newspaper\, The Vermont Advance. Scene s were filmed in Burlington\, Grand Isle\, Newport\, St. Johnsbury\, White River Junction\, Rutland\, Chester and Bellows Falls. This fueled interes t from theater owners from all corners of the state to host screenings. Th e plot is a fairly standard silent melodrama with no apparent political be nt. The film is both a romance and a scenic tour of Vermont. It tells the tale of Dorothy\, a country girl who befriends a rich girl and two city ge nts who are out for a drive in the country. Upon the death of her father s he loses the farm where she lives and works. Almost penniless\, she moves to Burlington to find work\, and her adventures begin. Filming began Wedne sday June 21\, 1916 and was completed 10 days later! The first screening o f the film was held Saturday\, Sept 16\, 1916 in Burlington to an audience of 4\,000 followed byEssex Junction\, Waterbury\, St. Johnsbury\, Rutland \, South Royalton\, Bethel and more..\nFor samples of the Call for Actors that The Vermont Advance published April 1\, 1916 CLICK HERE.\n\nThe orig inal music score for A Vermont Romance is yet to be discovered. As part of the project VAMP has commissioned Bob Merrill\, a veteran silent film co mposer and pianist to create a new score and the screening will be accomp anied\, as were most silent films of that time\, by live piano\, played by Merrill to his new score.\n\nA Vermont Romance is a window through which the public can view the people and landscape of Vermont one hundred year s ago. Its tour will help VAMP build a statewide appreciation of Vermont f ilms and filmmakers and increase awareness of VAMP's growing digital archi ve of films.\n\nFind out more about VAMP\n\n\nThe film will also screen in the following locations:\n\nSaturday\, March 26\, 4:00pm:  Pavillion Aud itorium\, Montpelier\nPart of the Green Mountain Film Festival\n\nFriday\, April 15th\, 7:00pm:  Catamount Arts\, St. Johnsbury\n\nThursday\, April 28\, 6:pm: Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center\, Burlington. A Bur lington Film Society screening followed by food and cash bar.\n\nSunday\, May 8\, 4:00pm:  Latchis Theater\, Brattleboro\n\nFriday\, May 13th\, 7:0 0pm:  Town Hall Theater\, Middlebury\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nThe specia l limited edition 18" x 24" commemorative poster for the centenary tour is a beautiful silk screen. $20.00 + $5.00 postage and packing. The poster c an also be purchased at each screening at $20.00 or by sending a check f or $25.00 to VTIFF\, PO Box 483\, Burlington VT 05402. It also makes a wo nderful gift. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ver mont-Romance-Stills-012.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Briggs Opera House\, 5 South Main Street\, White River Junction\, 05001\, United States GEO:43.64844;-72.31887389999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=5 South Main Street\, White River Junction\, 05001\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Briggs Opera House:geo:43.64844,-72.31887389999997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:312@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160424T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160424T160000 DTSTAMP:20160417T140721Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-hollow-crown/ SUMMARY:The Hollow Crown DESCRIPTION:The Hollow Crown\nDirected by Richard Eyre\nUK | BBC Mini-Serie s | 2012\nStarring Jeremy Irons\, Tom Hiddleston\, Simon Russell Beale\, J ulie Walters\n\nOn the 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare's death\, and in preparation for the Burlington Film Society screening of Orson Well es' Chimes at Midnight\, join film historian and BFS co-founder Barry Snyd er for a screening and discussion of "The Hollow Crown."\n\nThe 2012 BBC s eries “The Hollow Crown” is the best film version of the tetrology of Shakespeare’s history plays telling the touching story of the relationsh ip between Prince Hal\, the future Henry V\, and his erstwhile companion i n hedonistic revelry\, Falstaff. Both are among the most fully delineated characters in all of Shakespeare and form the basis for Orson Welles’ 19 66 masterpiece Chimes at Midnight\, the culminating work of his lifelong e ngagement with Shakespeare’s work in general and Falstaff in particular\ , and Welles’ personal favorite among all his films. Film historian Barr y Snyder will talk about the parallels people see between Welles and his f ictional alter-ego Falstaff\, screen some scenes from the BBC series (prim arily Henry IV Parts I and II) that set up the story of Chimes at Midnight \, and discuss some of the ways critics read the themes engaged by the Fal staff storyline\, in anticipation of the Burlington Film Society’s speci al screening of the newly restored and rediscovered Chimes of Midnight on April 28th. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Hol lowCrown.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Fletcher Free Library\, 235 College Street\, Burlington\, United S tates GEO:44.4768628;-73.21032909999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=235 College Street\, Burlin gton\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Fletcher Free Library:geo: 44.4768628,-73.21032909999997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:295@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160428T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160428T193000 DTSTAMP:20160426T144124Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-romance-bfs/ SUMMARY:A Vermont Romance DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing and Burlington Film Society\n \nA Vermont Romance\nProduced by the Vermont Progressive Party | Directed by Ralph Newman\nUSA | 1916 |  35 min (3 reels)\nWith a new music score composed and played by Bob Merrill\nTour sponsors: Vermont Humanities Coun cil\; National Life\; Urban Rhino Digital\; John M Bissell Foundation\; Me dia sponsors VPR\n\n[caption id="attachment_6847" align="alignleft" width ="150"] Burlington Free Press announce: First screening of A Vermont Roman ce\, Tuesday\, Sept 12\, 1916 at the Majestic Theater[/caption]\n\nThe scr eening will be followed by a panel discussion with Steve Bissette\, cartoo nist and author of Green Mountain Cinema\; Andy Kolovos\, Co-Director & \; Archivist at Vermont Folklife Center\, Ethan de Seife\, film historian and journalist\, Margorie Allard\, Preservation Burlington\, &\; Orly Yadin\, Executive Director of VTIFF. Please stay on for the food receptio n and cash bar (7:00pm - 8:00pm) and for the second screening of the nig ht at 8:15: Chimes at Midnight.\n\nWe're delighted to present the results of this restored and digitally remastered 2K version of the film produced through a partnership with the Vermont Historical Society. The screening\,  a fundraiser for VAMP\, is a special celebration of the film's centenar y and is part of a statewide tour - traveling Vermont throughout the sprin g of 2016.\n\nThe 1916 film\, A Vermont Romance\, is the first feature fil m ever made in Vermont. The Vermont Movie Archive Project (VAMP) and the Vermont Historical Society partnered on the digital restoration of the fi lm to create a high definition 2K version. This screening is part of a sta tewide tour presenting the the film with live piano accompaniment and a p anel of experts\, in six large venues and 12 small ones throughout Vermont in the spring of 2016 to celebrate the film's 100th birthday.\n\nThis mov ie is an extraordinary piece of Vermont folklore. It was commissioned by t he Vermont Progressive Party (affiliated with Theodore Roosevelt's nationa l Bull Moose party) and its newspaper\, The Vermont Advance. Scenes were f ilmed in Burlington\, Grand Isle\, Newport\, St. Johnsbury\, White River J unction\, Rutland\, Chester and Bellows Falls. This fueled interest from t heater owners from all corners of the state to host screenings. The plot i s a fairly standard silent melodrama with no apparent political bent. The film is both a romance and a scenic tour of Vermont. It tells the tale of Dorothy\, a country girl who befriends a rich girl and two city gents who are out for a drive in the country. Upon the death of her father she loses the farm where she lives and works. Almost penniless\, she moves to Burli ngton to find work\, and her adventures begin. Filming began Wednesday Jun e 21\, 1916 and was completed 10 days later! The first screening of the fi lm was held Saturday\, Sept 16\, 1916 in Burlington to an audience of 4\,0 00 followed by Essex Junction\, Waterbury\, St. Johnsbury\, Rutland\, Sout h Royalton\, Bethel and more..\nFor samples of the Call for Actors that T he Vermont Advance published April 1\, 1916 CLICK HERE.\n\nThe original mu sic score for A Vermont Romance is yet to be discovered. As part of the pr oject VAMP has commissioned Bob Merrill\, a veteran silent film composer and pianist to create a new score and the screening will be accompanied\, as were most silent films of that time\, by live piano\, played by Merril l to his new score.\n\nA Vermont Romance is a window through which the pu blic can view the people and landscape of Vermont one hundred years ago. Its tour will help VAMP build a statewide appreciation of Vermont films an d filmmakers and increase awareness of VAMP's growing digital archive of f ilms.\n\nFind out more about VAMP\n\n\nThe tour continues in the followin g locations:\n\n \;\n\nSunday\, May 8\, 4:00pm:  Latchis Theater\, Br attleboro\nFriday\, May 13th\, 7:00pm:  Town Hall Theater\, Middlebury\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nThe special limited edition 18" x 24" commemorativ e poster for the centenary tour is a beautiful silk screen. $20.00 + $5.00 postage and packing. The poster can also be purchased at each screening at $20.00 or by sending a check for $25.00 to VTIFF\, PO Box 483\, Burlin gton VT 05402. It also makes a wonderful gift. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ver mont-Romance-Stills-012.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:296@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160428T201500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160428T221500 DTSTAMP:20160404T171320Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/chimes-at-midnight/ SUMMARY:Chimes at Midnight DESCRIPTION:Directed by Orson Welles\nUSA | 1966 | 119 min\nWith: Orson We lles\, Jeanne Moreau\, Margaret Rutherford\, John Gielgud\, Marina Vlady\n \nThe crowning achievement of Orson Welles’s later film career\, Chimes at Midnight returns to the screen after being unavailable for decades. Th is brilliantly crafted Shakespeare adaptation was the culmination of Welle s’s lifelong obsession with the Bard’s ultimate rapscallion\, Sir John Falstaff\, the loyal\, often soused childhood friend of King Henry IV’s wayward son\, Prince Hal. Appearing in several plays as a comic supportin g figure\, Falstaff is here the main event: a robustly funny and ultimatel y tragic screen antihero\, played by Welles with lumbering grace. Integrat ing elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II\, Henry V\, an d The Merry Wives of Windsor\, Welles created an unorthodox Shakespeare fi lm that is also a gritty period piece\, one that he called “a lament . . . for the death of Merrie England.” Poetic\, philosophical\, and viscer al—with a kinetic battle sequence centerpiece as impressive as anything else Welles directed—Chimes at Midnight is as monumental as the figure a t its center.\n\nNote: The screening will be preceded at 6pm by a special fundraiser screening for A Vermont Romance. There will be a food reception and cash bar between screenings. Optional: Special ticket prices both fil ms combined.\n\n\n“If I wanted to get into heaven on the basis of one mo vie\, that’s the one I would offer up. I think it’s because it is\, to me\, the least flawed . . . I succeeded more completely\, in my view\, wi th that than with anything else.” —Orson Welles ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Chi mes-at-Midnight.jpeg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:309@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160429T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160429T203000 DTSTAMP:20160323T211716Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/healing-voices/ SUMMARY:Healing Voices DESCRIPTION:Healing Voices\nDirected by Patrick Moynihan\nUSA | Documentary | 2014 | 100 min\n\nA feature-length documentary that explores the experi ences commonly labeled as psychosis or mental illness. The film highlights the real-life stories of three individuals who are working to overcome ex treme mental states and integrate these experiences into their lives in me aningful ways and challenges us to rethink our cultural understanding of m ental illness.\n\nThe evening is free and open to the public and registrat ion is not required\, seating is first-come\, first-served.  A panel disc ussion will immediately follow the movie.\n\nPresented by Howard Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Hea lingVoices.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:302@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160506T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160506T210000 DTSTAMP:20160421T162217Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/how-to-lose-your-virginity/ SUMMARY:How to Lose Your Virginity DESCRIPTION:How to Lose Your Virginity\nDirected by Therese Shechter\nUSA | Documentary | 2014 | 67 min.\n\nPresented in partnership by the Lund Fami ly Center\, Planned Parenthood of New England\, &\; Main Street Landin g\n\n\n\n\n6:00pm - Sexual health games\, educational resources\, free sn acks!\n7:00pm - Film screening and panel discussion\n\n\n\n\nFree &\; o pen to the public\n\nHow to Lose Your Virginity is an eye-opening journey to uncover why virginity still holds such importance in our otherwise hype rsexualized American society. Engages a cast of abstinence ideologues\, hy men repair specialists\, sex educators\, porn producers and teenage girls\ , the film uncovers the unexplored-and damaging-impact idealized\, fetishi zed and commoditized virginity has on young women. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/How ToLoseVirginity.png CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:306@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160508T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160508T180000 DTSTAMP:20160424T202635Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-vermont-romance-4/ SUMMARY:A Vermont Romance DESCRIPTION:A Vermont Romance\nProduced by the Vermont Progressive Party | Directed by Ralph Newman\nUSA | 1916 |  35 min (3 reels)\nWith a new mus ic score composed and played by Bob Merrill\nTour sponsors: Vermont Humani ties Council\; National Life\; Urban Rhino Digital\; John M Bissell Founda tion\; Media sponsors VPR\n\n[caption id="attachment_6847" align="alignle ft" width="150"] Burlington Free Press announce: First screening of A Verm ont Romance\, Tuesday\, Sept 12\, 1916 at the Majestic Theater[/caption]\n \nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Paul Carnahan\ , Vermont Historical Society\; Nora Jacobson\, filmmaker.\nThis screening is in partnership with the Brattleboro Film Festival and ARTsravaganza.\n\ nWe're delighted to present the results of this restored and digitally rem astered 2K version of the film produced through a partnership with the Ver mont Historical Society. The screening\, a fundraiser for VAMP\, is a sp ecial celebration of the film's centenary and is part of a statewide tour - traveling Vermont throughout the spring of 2016.\n\nThe 1916 film\, A Ve rmont Romance\, is the first feature film ever made in Vermont. The Vermo nt Movie Archive Project (VAMP) and the Vermont Historical Society partner ed on the digital restoration of the film to create a high definition 2K version. This screening is part of a statewide tour presenting the the fi lm with live piano accompaniment and a panel of experts\, in six large ven ues and 12 small ones throughout Vermont in the spring of 2016 to celebrat e the film's 100th birthday.\n\nThis movie is an extraordinary piece of Ve rmont folklore. It was commissioned by the Vermont Progressive Party (affi liated with Theodore Roosevelt's national Bull Moose party) and its newspa per\, The Vermont Advance. Scenes were filmed in Burlington\, Grand Isle\, Newport\, St. Johnsbury\, White River Junction\, Rutland\, Chester and Be llows Falls. This fueled interest from theater owners from all corners of the state to host screenings. The plot is a fairly standard silent melodra ma with no apparent political bent. The film is both a romance and a sceni c tour of Vermont. It tells the tale of Dorothy\, a country girl who befri ends a rich girl and two city gents who are out for a drive in the country . Upon the death of her father she loses the farm where she lives and work s. Almost penniless\, she moves to Burlington to find work\, and her adven tures begin. Filming began Wednesday June 21\, 1916 and was completed 10 d ays later! The first screening of the film was held Saturday\, Sept 16\, 1 916 in Burlington to an audience of 4\,000 followed byEssex Junction\, Wat erbury\, St. Johnsbury\, Rutland\, South Royalton\, Bethel and more..\nFor samples of the Call for Actors that The Vermont Advance published April 1\, 1916 CLICK HERE.\n\nThe original music score for A Vermont Romance is yet to be discovered. As part of the project VAMP has commissioned Bob Me rrill\, a veteran silent film composer and pianist to create a new score a nd the screening will be accompanied\, as were most silent films of that time\, by live piano\, played by Merrill to his new score.\n\nA Vermont Ro mance is a window through which the public can view the people and landsc ape of Vermont one hundred years ago. Its tour will help VAMP build a sta tewide appreciation of Vermont films and filmmakers and increase awareness of VAMP's growing digital archive of films.\n\nFind out more about VAMP\n \n\nThe film will also screen in the following locations:\n\nSaturday\, Ma rch 26\, 4:00pm:  Pavillion Auditorium\, Montpelier\nPart of the Green Mo untain Film Festival\n\nFriday\, April 15th\, 7:00pm:  Catamount Arts\, S t. Johnsbury\n\nSunday\, April 17\, 7pm: Briggs Opera House\, White River Junction\n\nThursday\, April 28\, 6:pm: Main Street Landing Performing Art s Center\, Burlington. A Burlington Film Society screening followed by foo d and cash bar.\n\nFriday\, May 13th\, 7:00pm:  Town Hall Theater\, Middl ebury\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nThe special limited edition 18" x 24" comm emorative poster for the centenary tour is a beautiful silk screen. $20.00 + $5.00 postage and packing. The poster can also be purchased at each sc reening at $20.00 or by sending a check for $25.00 to VTIFF\, PO Box 483\ , Burlington VT 05402. It also makes a wonderful gift. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ver mont-Romance-Stills-012.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Latchis Theater\, 50 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, United State s GEO:42.8512944;-72.55785850000001 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=50 Main Street\, Brattlebor o\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Latchis Theater:geo:42.8 512944,-72.55785850000001 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:314@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20160513 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20160518 DTSTAMP:20160510T164651Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/2016-white-river-indie-festival/ SUMMARY:2016 White River Indie Festival DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n2016 WHITE RIVER INDIE FESTIVAL FEATURES “LOCAL HER OES”\n\nLocal talent has a strong presence at the 2016 White River Indie Festival (WRIF) that runs from May 13-16 in the new Barrette Center for t he Arts in downtown White River Junction.\n\nOne of the real highlights of the Festival promises to be the Opening Night Gala that features a film f resh from the festival circuit. Coming Through the Rye is about a sensitiv e young man\, obsessed with Holden Caulfield\, who runs away from his prep school in search of J.D. Salinger. It’s the Upper Valley premiere for t he film by Woodstock\, VT\, director James Sadwith\, whose TV movies\, min i-series and drama series have won or been nominated for more than thirty- five Emmy Awards and Golden Globes.\n\nTwenty films by “local heroes” comprise the Regional Filmmaker Showcase--shorts and features-- including Winter Light by Upper Valley native Julian Higgins\, who won the gold meda l in 2011 Student Academy Awards. Others include Sabra about artist Sabra Field by Dartmouth Film Studies professor Bill Phillips and Zephyr\, a tal e about “a gang of outlaws-turned-pop-stars\,” by Vermont filmmaker Li am O’Connor-Generaux. Saturday night will feature the premiere of Parmal ee\, a web series based on life in the Upper Valley and featuring Emmy Awa rd winner Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue).\n\nThis year showcases three films abo ut the Deaf world. Deaf Jam is a documentary about a poetry performance wo rkshop for Deaf youth. Deaf Club is a fictional film made by Deaf actors a nd filmmakers about a Deaf club threatened with extinction. The Tribe is a celebrated fictional film about a boarding school for Deaf youngsters. Th ere will be panel discussions after Deaf Jam and The Tribe with representa tives from the Deaf community.\n\nOther features being screened this year explore topics ranging from Cuban car culture\, gun safety and drones to m igration and fitness culture. The ever-popular CATV/WRIF Film Slam contest returns for the fourth year with a record 24 teams competing for more tha n $2\,000 in prize money\, and the winners of the second “Freedom &\; Unity TV” youth filmmaking contest will be announced at WRIF again this year.\n\nThe big wrap-up event for this year’s festival will feature th e documentary Zydeco Crossroads\, which documents concerts by zydeco artis ts and explores the Creole culture of Southwest Louisiana. The film will b e followed by a Q &\; A with director Robert Mugge and Diana Zelman. Th e night will conclude with a musical dance concert performance by Planet Z ydeco.\n\nTo see the complete schedule and information on tickets\, go to: www.wrif.org\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/201 6-White-River-Indie-Festival.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Other Events LOCATION:Barrette Center for the Arts\, 74 Gates Street\, White River Junct ion\, VT\, United States GEO:43.6480851;-72.32021079999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=74 Gates Street\, White Riv er Junction\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Barrette Cente r for the Arts:geo:43.6480851,-72.32021079999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:307@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160513T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160513T203000 DTSTAMP:20160504T144359Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-vermont-romance-5/ SUMMARY:A Vermont Romance DESCRIPTION:A Vermont Romance\nProduced by the Vermont Progressive Party | Directed by Ralph Newman\nUSA | 1916 |  35 min (3 reels)\nWith a new mus ic score composed and played by Bob Merrill\nTour sponsors: Vermont Humani ties Council\; National Life\; Urban Rhino Digital\; John M Bissell Founda tion\; Media sponsors VPR\n\n[caption id="attachment_6847" align="alignle ft" width="150"] Burlington Free Press announce: First screening of A Verm ont Romance\, Tuesday\, Sept 12\, 1916 at the Majestic Theater[/caption]\n \nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Andy Kolovos\, Vermont Folklife Center\, David Giancola\, filmmaker.\n\nWe're delighted to present the results of this restored and digitally remastered 2K versio n of the film produced through a partnership with the Vermont Historical S ociety. The screening\, a fundraiser for VAMP\, is a special celebration of the film's centenary and is part of a statewide tour - traveling Vermo nt throughout the spring of 2016.\n\nThe 1916 film\, A Vermont Romance\, i s the first feature film ever made in Vermont. The Vermont Movie Archive Project (VAMP) and the Vermont Historical Society partnered on the digital restoration of the film to create a high definition 2K version. This scr eening is part of a statewide tour presenting the the film with live pian o accompaniment and a panel of experts\, in six large venues and 12 small ones throughout Vermont in the spring of 2016 to celebrate the film's 100t h birthday.\n\nThis movie is an extraordinary piece of Vermont folklore. I t was commissioned by the Vermont Progressive Party (affiliated with Theod ore Roosevelt's national Bull Moose party) and its newspaper\, The Vermont Advance. Scenes were filmed in Burlington\, Grand Isle\, Newport\, St. Jo hnsbury\, White River Junction\, Rutland\, Chester and Bellows Falls. This fueled interest from theater owners from all corners of the state to host screenings. The plot is a fairly standard silent melodrama with no appare nt political bent. The film is both a romance and a scenic tour of Vermont . It tells the tale of Dorothy\, a country girl who befriends a rich girl and two city gents who are out for a drive in the country. Upon the death of her father she loses the farm where she lives and works. Almost pennile ss\, she moves to Burlington to find work\, and her adventures begin. Film ing began Wednesday June 21\, 1916 and was completed 10 days later! The fi rst screening of the film was held Saturday\, Sept 16\, 1916 in Burlington to an audience of 4\,000 followed byEssex Junction\, Waterbury\, St. John sbury\, Rutland\, South Royalton\, Bethel and more..\nFor samples of the Call for Actors that The Vermont Advance published April 1\, 1916 CLICK HE RE.\n\nThe original music score for A Vermont Romance is yet to be discove red. As part of the project VAMP has commissioned Bob Merrill\, a veteran silent film composer and pianist to create a new score and the screening  will be accompanied\, as were most silent films of that time\, by live p iano\, played by Merrill to his new score.\n\nA Vermont Romance is a wind ow through which the public can view the people and landscape of Vermont one hundred years ago. Its tour will help VAMP build a statewide appreciat ion of Vermont films and filmmakers and increase awareness of VAMP's growi ng digital archive of films.\n\nFind out more about VAMP\n\n\n \;\n\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nThe special limited edition 18" x 24" commemorative poster for the centenary tour is a beautiful silk screen. $20.00 + $5.00 p ostage and packing. The poster can also be purchased at each screening at  $20.00 or by sending a check for $25.00 to VTIFF\, PO Box 483\, Burlingt on VT 05402. It also makes a wonderful gift. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ver mont-Romance-Stills-012.jpg CATEGORIES:VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Town Hall Theater\, 68 S Pleasant St\, Middlebury\, VT\, 05753\, U nited States GEO:44.0132124;-73.16687330000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=68 S Pleasant St\, Middlebu ry\, VT\, 05753\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Town Hall Theat er:geo:44.0132124,-73.16687330000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:313@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160519T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160519T183000 DTSTAMP:20160421T171815Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/love-is-a-verb/ SUMMARY:Love Is a Verb DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nLove Is a Verb\nDirected by Terry Spencer Hesser &\; S tephan Mazurek\nUSA | Documentary | 2014 | 55 min.\n\nFollowing the screen ing\, there will be remarks by co-writer and editor Jan Sutcliffe.Love Is a Verb is an examination of a social movement of Sufi inspired Muslims tha t began in Turkey in the 1960s and now reaches across the globe. The group is called Hizmet\, the Turkish word for service or The Gulen Movement aft er its inspiration\, leader and beloved teacher Fethullah Gulen\, a man th at Time Magazine named as one of the most influential leaders in the world in 2013. As it is explained to us in the film by Marcia Hermansen\, Direc tor of the Islamic World Studies\, Loyola University of Chicago: "This mov ement is not about individual enlightenment\, this is about making the wor ld a better place. But while making the world a better place\, at the same time\, this altruism is also transformative."\n\nPresented by the Turkish Cultural Center of Vermont\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Lov eIsAVerb.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Merrill's Roxy Cinema\, 222 College Street\, Burlington\, United S tates GEO:44.4773039;-73.21081099999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=222 College Street\, Burlin gton\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Merrill's Roxy Cinema:geo: 44.4773039,-73.21081099999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:311@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160526T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160526T210000 DTSTAMP:20160517T211436Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/thefits/ SUMMARY:The Fits DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\nIn partnership with Swan Dojo\n\nThe Fits\nDirected by Anna Rose Holmer\nUSA | 2015 | 72 min\ n\n\n\nWorld Premiere – Venice International Film Festival 2015 \nNorth American Premiere – Sundance Film Festival 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEleven- year-old tomboy Toni (a showstopping Royalty Hightower) is bewitched by th e tight-knit dance team she sees practicing in the same Cincinnati gymnasi um where she boxes. Enamored by the power and confidence of the strong com munity of girls\, Toni spends less and less time boxing with her older bro ther\, and instead eagerly absorbs the dance routines and masters drills f rom a distance\, and even pierces her own ears in an effort to fit in. But when a mysterious outbreak of fainting spells plagues the team\, Toni’s desire for acceptance becomes more complicated. Gorgeously shot and with a mesmerizing score\, THE FITS is a transformative experience and a marvel ous portrait of adolescence.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Fit s.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:315@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160630T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160630T200000 DTSTAMP:20160609T220123Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/10-000-km/ SUMMARY:10\,000 KM DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\n10\,000 KM\nDirec ted by Carlos Marques-Marcet\nSpain | English\, Spanish &\; Catalan w/ English subtitles | 2014 | 99 min\n\nThe screening will be followed by a S kype Q&\;A with director Carlos Marques-Marcet\n\nAlexandra (Natalia Te na) and Sergi (David Verdaguer) make love in their tiny Barcelona apartm ent. They’ve decided to have a baby\, but find their plans dashed when A lex receives an offer for an artistic residency in Los Angeles. Understand ing this may be Alex’s last chance to re-launch her photography career\, the couple decides to put their plans on hold for a year. Separated by 10 \,000 kilometers\, Alex and Sergi must rely on virtual communication to ke ep the flame of their relationship alive. But with their realities no long er shared and the touch of one another gone\, the technology that has supp osedly brought the world closer together may just tear them apart.\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/100 00km1.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:317@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160708T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160708T183000 DTSTAMP:20160624T170707Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/twa-flight-800/ SUMMARY:TWA Flight 800 DESCRIPTION:TWA Flight 800\nDirected by Kristina Borjesson\nUSA | Documenta ry | 2013 | 90 min\nTHE REAL STORY BEHIND TWA FLIGHT 800\nAn Evening with Investigative Journalist and Whistleblower Kristina Borjesson\nDirector Kr istina Borjesson will screen her acclaimed investigative documentary “TW A Flight 800” and reveal how regulations and procedures protect governme nt agencies from being held accountable for engaging in cover-ups. \n\nTwe nty years after TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air off the cost of Long Is land\, NY\, killing all 230 passengers bound for France\, the one provable crime connected to the crash is that employees of several government agen cies—the CIA\, FBI\, NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) and the Pentagon— colluded to undermine the official investigation and hide the truth about what really happened. The possibility of a disastrous mistake made by military assets in the area has never been fully investigated.\n\ nIn her documentary\, “TWA Flight 800”\, Borjesson features six whistl eblowers\, former members of the official investigation who present the ph ysical evidence showing what really happened to the jetliner. The whistleb lowers also explain how officials from the National Transportation Safety Board\, the FBI and the CIA stepped in to undermine their investigation.\n \nWhy have these officials not been held accountable for their malfeasance ? In her talk following the film\, Borjesson exposes how the procedures an d regulations of different government agencies affect each other in ways t hat create a blanket of protection for the agencies and their employees\, making accountability virtually impossible.\n\nDuring discussion Borjesson will present some possibilities and pathways for reforming this instituti onalized corruption. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/twa -flight-800-trailer-horizontal.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:316@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160728T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160728T210000 DTSTAMP:20160610T214521Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/only-yesterday/ SUMMARY:Only Yesterday DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\nOnly Yesterday\nD irected by Isao Takahata\nJapan | Animated | English language version | 19 91 | 118 min\nRated PG\n\nIt’s 1982\, and Taeko (Daisy Ridley) is 27 yea rs old\, unmarried\, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her relatives in the countryside\, and as the train travels through the night\, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature stirrings of romance\, the onset of puberty\, and the frustrations of math and boys. At the station she is met by young farmer Toshio (Dev Patel)\, and the encounters with him begin to reconnect her to forgotten longings. In lyrical switches between the present and the past\, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life\, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of he r childhood self.\n\nFrom Academy Award®-nominated director Isao Takahata (The Tale of The Princess Kaguya) and general producer Hayao Miyazaki\, O nly Yesterday is a masterpiece of time and tone\, rich with humor and stir ring emotion\, and beautifully animated by one of the world’s most rever ed animation studios. Critically acclaimed but never before released in No rth America\, the film is receiving a national theatrical release in a new \, Studio Ghibli-produced\, English-language version in celebration of its 25th anniversary.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/100 7694-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:320@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160825T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160825T210000 DTSTAMP:20160822T182002Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/do-not-resist/ SUMMARY:Do Not Resist DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\nDo Not Resist\nDi rected by Craig Atkinson\nUSA | Documentary | 2016 |  72 min\n2016 Tribec a Film Festival – Best Documentary Feature\n2016 Indianapolis Film Festi val – Best Documentary Feature\nDirector Craig Atkinson and Producer/Co- Editor Laura Hartrick will be in attendance. Following the screening\, the re will be a Q&\;A with Atkinson and Burlington Deputy Chief of Police Shawn Burke.\nStarting on the streets of Ferguson\, Missouri\, as the comm unity grapples with the death of Michael Brown\, DO NOT RESIST - the direc torial debut of DETROPIA cinematographer Craig Atkinson - offers a stunnin g look at the current state of policing in America and a glimpse into the future. The Tribeca Film Festival winner for Best Documentary puts viewers in the center of the action - from a ride-along with a South Carolina SWA T team and inside a police training seminar that teaches the importance of "righteous violence" to the floor of a congressional hearing on the proli feration of military equipment in small-town police departments - before e xploring where controversial new technologies including predictive policin g algorithms could lead the field next.\n \;\nwww.donotresistfilm.com\ nwww.facebook.com/donotresistfilm\nwww.twitter.com/donotresistfilm\n \ ;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/VAN ISH_DNR_SC-training.jpeg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:321@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160929T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160929T214500 DTSTAMP:20160922T183946Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/chevalier/ SUMMARY:Chevalier DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF\n\nChevalier\nDirect ed by Athina Rachel Tsangari\nGreece | Greek w/ English subtitles | 2015 |  99 min\n\n\n\n\nBest Film - London Film Festival\nGreece's official sub mission to the 2016 Academy Awards\nIn the middle of the Aegean Sea\, on a luxury yacht\, six men on a fishing trip decide to play a game. During th is game\, things will be compared\, measured and blood will be tested. Fri ends will become rivals\, but at the end of the voyage\, when the game is over\, the winner will wear the victorious signet ring: the “Chevalier. ”\n\n\n\n\n\nThere will be a free preview of the 2016 Vermont Internati onal Film Festival at 6:30pm\, followed by a reception.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CHE VALIER_4.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:318@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T220000 DTSTAMP:20160729T150405Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/benefitdinner/ SUMMARY:Five Easy Courses - Benefit Dinner at Penny Cluse DESCRIPTION:A special Benefit Dinner to support the 2016 Vermont Internati onal Film Festival.\n\nLocal chefs Charles Reeves and Maura OSullivan of P enny Cluse Cafe will delight gourmets and film buffs alike with a deliciou s multi-course dinner featuring five courses inspired by some of our favo rite food films: Eat\, Drink\, Man\, Woman\; Tortilla Soup\; Julie and Ju lia\; Like Water for Chocolate\; Ratatouille and La Grande Bouffe.\n\nWi th all this occurring as our 2016 Festival Program is released\, we promis e a wonderful evening you won't want to miss. VTIFF staff and Board member s will highlight some of their favorite films from this year's festival p rogram.\n\nNote: Cash bar\n\nThe festival takes place Oct 21 - Oct 30. The full program and online ticketing will be available in October.\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fiv e-easy-pieces-white-toast.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Penny Cluse Cafe\, 169 Cherry Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, U nited States GEO:44.4791731;-73.21136030000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=169 Cherry Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Penny Cluse Ca fe:geo:44.4791731,-73.21136030000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:322@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T143000 DTSTAMP:20160927T175312Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-1-3/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 1 DESCRIPTION:\nIn the Bight\nDirected\, written\, edited &\; produced by Ben Finer\nFiction | 28 min\nEight-year-old twins explore the woods of Ver mont. Gradually\, the beauty of the natural setting blends with the myster ies of childhood imaginations.\n\n \;\n\n\nDad’s 50th Surprise Party \nDirected\, written &\; edited by Matt Lennon\nFiction | 9 min 31 sec\ nTwo brothers team up to finally one up their prankster dad for his 50th b irthday.\n\n \;\n\n\nJoan in Owl Land\nDirected\, written\, edited &am p\; produced by Martin Castaneda\nFiction | 8 min 51 sec\nAn imaginative g irl sets to bring back her father\, with help of the Owl Thing.\n\nA Q& \;A with the filmmakers will follow the screenings.\nThe 2016 Vermont Film makers’ Showcase is underwritten by the Grace Jones Richardson Trust w ith additional funding from Ben &\; Jerry Scoop Shops and a grant from the Arts Council of Vermont. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/InT heBight2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:323@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T154500 DTSTAMP:20161016T164321Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-2-3/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 2 DESCRIPTION:\nLast Night\nDirected &\; written by Jon Andrews\nFiction | 17 min\nA young woman struggles with mixed emotions on the last night of an intense and unusual summer romance.\n\n \;\n\n\nAwake\nDirected\, a nimated &\; written by Sofy Maia\nAnimation | 7 min 48 sec\nA young boy tries to make peace with a growing\, lurking enemy that follows him throu ghout life.\n\nA Q&\;A with the filmmakers will follow the screenings.\ n\nThe 2016 Vermont Filmmakers’ Showcase is underwritten by the Grace J ones Richardson Trust with additional funding from Ben &\; Jerry Scoop Shops and a grant from the Arts Council of Vermont. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Las t-Night-screenshot-Lee-beach.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:324@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T174500 DTSTAMP:20160927T175423Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-3-3/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 3 DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n\nBecoming a Woman\nWritten &\; produced by Maria nne DiMascio &\; Angie Albeck\nDirected by Kevin Christopher\nFiction | 7 min\nYoung Sally anticipates the many changes associated with becoming a woman and seeks advice from the always helpful Nurse Jenkins.\n\n \; \n\n\nSunday 1287\nDirected &\; written by Brandon del Pozo\nFiction | 11 min\nWhile her sister and daughter wait in the car\, Vanessa tries to l eave her abusive boyfriend for the last time.\n\n \;\n\n\nBlack Canari es\nDirected &\; produced by Jesse Kreitzer\nFiction | 18 min 30 sec\nI solated\, desperate\, and haunted by his coal-stained birthright\, Clarenc e Lockwood continues his daily descent into the accursed Maple mine—even after it has crippled his father and blinded his youngest son.\n\n \; \n\n\nThe Collinwood Fire\nDirected by Daniel Houghton\nAnimation | 6 min\ nOn March 4\, 1908\, the Collinwood Elementary School burned to the ground \, trapping and killing 172 school children inside.\n\nA Q&\;A with the filmmakers will follow the screenings.\n\nThe 2016 Vermont Filmmakers’ Showcase is underwritten by the Grace Jones Richardson Trust with additi onal funding from Ben &\; Jerry Scoop Shops and a grant from the Arts C ouncil of Vermont.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/06_ collapse-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:355@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T204500 DTSTAMP:20161020T164904Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-hanji-box/ SUMMARY:The Hanji Box DESCRIPTION:The Hanji Box\nDirected by Nora Jacobson\nUSA | Fiction | 201 6 | 62 min\nFilm Source:  Filmmaker\nSponsors: Duncan Wisniewski Architec ture / A Single Pebble / VTIFF Board President Lorna-Kay Peal\n\nShowtim e: Friday\, October 21 | 7:00 p.m. | FH\n\n* Opening Night film\, world p remiere  *\n\nDirector Nora Jacobson and lead actors Suzanne C. Dudley &a mp\; Natalie Kim will be in attendance.\n\nA tense cross-cultural love sto ry\, inspired by Meg Dean Daiss’ essay about her own experiences. Han nah\, a recently divorced art historian\, has decided to downsize. Her ado pted daughter Rose helps pack the house\, but resists clearing out her own room. The tension between mother and daughter escalates until finally\, a n item of great importance to both of them gets broken: Rose's Hanji box \, which Hannah and her husband bought for Rose years ago in New York City ’s Koreatown. Or did they? Determined to prove a point\, Hannah takes the train to Koreatown to find the store where she purchased the decora tive box made from traditional Korean paper. In the process\, she meets a Korean artist and compulsively spends time with him and his friends. The e ncounter leads to a mental journey of cultural discovery and a form of rev erse adoption: her desire to be adopted by her daughter’s birth culture. On another level\, through its narrative of interracial adoption\, The  Hanji Box magnifies familiar and complex mother-daughter relationships.   ~OY\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Han ji-Box.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:325@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T130000 DTSTAMP:20160927T175444Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-4-3/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 4 DESCRIPTION:\nThe Sign\nDirected\, edited &\; produced by James Lantz\nD ocumentary | 14 min\nWhen their homemade "Trump 4 President" sign is vanda lized twice\, a Vermont filmmaker travels back to Virginia to interview hi s parents about their support for the Republican candidate for President.\ n\n \;\n\n\nThe Tent Village\nCo-Directed\, produced &\; edited by Nilima Abrams\nDocumentary | 27 min 34 sec\nA nuanced view into the lives of roadside tent dwellers in India\, filmed by their teenaged children.\n\ nA Q&\;A with the filmmakers will follow the screenings.\n\nThe 2016 Ve rmont Filmmakers’ Showcase is underwritten by the Grace Jones Richardso n Trust with additional funding from Ben &\; Jerry Scoop Shops and a g rant from the Arts Council of Vermont.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/IMG _2065.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:326@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T153000 DTSTAMP:20161021T033226Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-5-3/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 5 DESCRIPTION:Freedom and Unity TV is an annual film contest for young Vermon ters who make short films about their lives\, passions and interests in th eir home state of Vermont.  The films are judged by professionals in the film industry and awarded prizes.  In 2016\, 94 films were submitted. Thi s is a selection of some of the films. There will be a Q&\;A with the f ilmmakers following the screening.\n\nSincerely\, Vermont\nby James Abrams |3 min 45 sec | Rochester Institute of Technology\nAn experimental film w ith a raw interpretation of the things I see in my town.\n\nBreaking Binar y\nby Eva Rocheleau\, Becca Cottrell\, Fiona Nelson | 14 min 58 sec | Cham plain Valley Union High School and home schooled\nDepicts the complication s of a binary gender system in today's education system.\n\nExtreme Walkin g\nby Reilly Dillon | 3 min 3 sec | Saint Michaels College\nExtreme walker Mike Hunt takes walking to the next level. Check out his incredible skill s in this action packed three minute video. This was a school project. Fil med in under a hour.\n\nRed Roots\nby Zane Swift | 2 min 5 sec | South Bur lington High School\nAn exploration into the roots of political parties in Vermont.\n\nHumans Of Burlington \nby Danielle Hazelton | 5 min 44 sec  | Champlain College\nA short experimental documentary portraying the stori es of individuals all connected through the city of Burlington\, Vermont. The stories highlight ideas of failure\, passion\, disabilities\, love\, s uccess\, beauty\, and advice.\n\nLake Champlain: The Untold Story\nby Maso n Mashtare | 9 min | Northwest Technical Center\nThis film is informative \, but at the same time it has heart and perspective from locals. The voic eover is backed up by strong visuals.\n\nThe Saint Alban’s Raid (3:44)\n by Laurent Gagne | 3 min 44 sec | Bellows Free Academy\nIt was made to loo k like an old film. I was greatly inspired by the 1903 film\, “The Great Train Robbery”.\n\nStolen\nby Rhea Hayes and Alex Schlater | 13 min 48 sec | Champlain College\nA documentary about cyber deception and telling b oth sides of the story\n\nPeace or Prozac\nby Leah Kaliski | 2 min 5 sec | Thetford Academy\nThis is the story of my depressive episode in 9th grade \, told entirely in pictures.\n\n \;\n\n\n\nA Q&\;A with the filmma kers will follow the screenings.\n\nThe 2016 Vermont Filmmakers’ Showcas e is underwritten by the Grace Jones Richardson Trust with additional fu nding from Ben &\; Jerry Scoop Shops and a grant from the Arts Council of Vermont.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Sto len-by-Rhea-Hayes-and-Alex-Schlater2.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:341@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T173000 DTSTAMP:20161012T203348Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-confessions-2/ SUMMARY:The Confessions DESCRIPTION:Directed by Roberto Ando\nItaly/France | Italian/French/English w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 2016 | 100 min\nFilm Source: Breaking Gl ass Pictures\nSponsor: 05401 PLUS\n\nShowtime: Saturday\, October 22 | 2:4 5 p.m. | FH\n\nThe peerless Toni Servillo has made a career of turning i n one exquisitely realized performance after another\, impressing audience s in films like The Great Beauty\, Il Divo and Gomorrah. In The Conf essions\, Servillo reteams with his Viva la Libertà director Roberto Ando to play a monk summoned to a G8 meeting in Germany to hear the confe ssion of the director of the International Monetary Fund. After the IMF di rector is discovered dead the following morning\, a sly mystery begins to unfold\, rich with political undertones\, philosophical musings and Agatha Christie echoes. The superb cast also includes Daniel Auteuil\, Connie Ni elsen and a host of familiar character actors from around the globe.  ~S J\n\nAlso showing: Sunday\, October 23 | 8:30 p.m. | BB\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The -confessions-10-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:327@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T174500 DTSTAMP:20160928T184237Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-6-3/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 6 DESCRIPTION:Peace Has No Borders\nDirected by Deb Ellis &\; Denis Muelle r\nDocumentary | 70 min\n\nBetween 1965-1973\, over 50\,000 Americans made their way to Canada\, refusing to participate in the Vietnam War. Forty y ears later\, Canada has another moral choice - whether to give refuge to U .S. veterans of the Iraq War. Caught between two countries\, today’s war resisters fight the law\, politics\, and the court of public opinion for the opportunity to remain in Canada.\n\nA Q&\;A with the filmmakers wil l follow the screening.\n\nPeace Has No Borders Trailer from Peace Has No Borders on Vimeo.\n\nThe 2016 Vermont Filmmakers’ Showcase is underwritt en by the Grace Jones Richardson Trust with additional funding from Ben &\; Jerry Scoop Shops and a grant from the Arts Council of Vermont.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Pea ce-Has-No-Borders.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:328@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T193000 DTSTAMP:20160927T175548Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-7-3/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 7 DESCRIPTION:\nDon’t Touch the Camera\nDirected by Anna Cuevas &\; Sere na Gauthier\nDocumentary | 17 min 37 sec\nA documentary discussing gender inequality in the film industry and at film school by the female film majo rs of the 2018 graduating class at Champlain College.\n\n \;\n\n\nOne Night\nDirected\, written &\; produced by Cal Hopwood\nFiction | 12 min 30 sec\nAfter a night of partying\, Jake and Katie wake up with different opinions on the consensual nature of their hook-up.\n\nA Q&\;A with th e filmmakers will follow the screenings.\n\nThe 2016 Vermont Filmmakers’ Showcase is underwritten by the Grace Jones Richardson Trust with addit ional funding from Ben &\; Jerry Scoop Shops and a grant from the Arts Council of Vermont.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Don t-Touch-The-Camera.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:366@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T200000 DTSTAMP:20161012T215455Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/miss-sharon-jones/ SUMMARY:Miss Sharon Jones! DESCRIPTION:Directed by Barbara Kopple\nUSA | Documentary | 2015 | 93 min\ nFilm Source: Cabin Creek Films\nSponsor: Todd Lockwood\n\nShowtimes: Satu rday\, October 22 | 6:00 p.m. | FH\n\nAwards:  Best Documentary – Sara sota Film Festival\n\nBarbara Kopple\, who won Oscars for her documentari es Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) and American Dream (1990)\, has a long history of documenting people — especially women — of great resilience . In this masterful documentary\, you’ll be swept away by the sheer posi tive energy of Sharon Jones\, the amazing singer and phenomenal force of n ature who headlines the Dap-Kings. But it’s more than a joyous music doc umentary\; following Jones’ cancer diagnosis\, her indomitable battle to continue her work\, her high spirits and stage presence will keep you glu ed to the screen. Jones holds the film together throughout the tumultuous year of being on the verge of releasing a new album and embarking on a tou r. "You think you've seen something / Lord\, I've just begun\," Sharon J ones sings. And you don't doubt her for a second.  ~OY\n\nAlso showing: S unday\, October 23 | 11:15 a.m. | BB\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Mis sSharonJones-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:329@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T220000 DTSTAMP:20160927T175610Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-8-3/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 8 DESCRIPTION:\nHigh Water Mark: The Rise &\; Fall of The Pants\nDirected\ , written\, edited &\; co-produced by Bill Simmon\nDocumentary | 60 min \nIn the last days before the internet changed the music industry forever\ , one small-town-band's will succeed became the stuff of legend. High Wate r Mark: The Rise &\; Fall of The Pants explores the lasting footprint t hat The Pants had on Burlington\, Vermont’s vibrant music scene in the 1 990s and the intense\, devoted fandom the band has enjoyed since. It chron icles their struggle to “make it” in the last days before the Internet era would forever change the music industry. But as the ’90s came to a close\, this buzz band from Burlington seemed to burn out as quickly as it had blown up\, leaving many to wonder what had happened. The film also as ks hard questions about the personal toll of ambition and what can happen when a big fish tries to swim upstream to a larger pond. High Water Mark i s a story that happened in Vermont\, but it’s a tale that no doubt rings familiar in countless music scenes around the country. Are The Pants “t he best band you’ve never heard\,” or one of thousands of talented act s that got caught up in the tumultuous shifting tides of the music biz? Th e answer might be both. Experience the story and music of The Pants\, then \, you decide.\n\nA Q&\;A with the filmmaker will follow the screening. \n\nThe 2016 Vermont Filmmakers’ Showcase is underwritten by the Grace Jones Richardson Trust with additional funding from Ben &\; Jerry Scoo p Shops and a grant from the Arts Council of Vermont.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hig hWaterMark-web.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:344@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T204500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161022T221500 DTSTAMP:20161012T205523Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/demon-2/ SUMMARY:Demon DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Marcin Wrona\nPoland/Israel | Polish/Yiddish/En glish w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 2015 | 94 min\nFilm Source:  The O rchard\nSponsor:  Barbara McGrew\n\nShowtime: Saturday\, October 22 | 8:4 5 p.m. | FH\n\nAwards:  Best Picture – Austin Fantastic Fest\n\nWeddi ngs traditionally hold deep significance in Polish culture. The wedding in  Demon is no exception: lavish preparations and seemingly endless imbibi ng of vodka fill the screen in gargantuan and comic spectacle. But when th e groom becomes possessed by an unquiet spirit\, things go terribly wrong. The spirit in this maximalist and disturbing film is a reincarnation of t he dybbuk\, a traditional Jewish fable of a soul who takes possession of the body of its love object. In Demon\, though\, it is a soul murdered in the Holocaust that is bogged down in the blood-soaked soil of Poland. In recent years Polish cinema has trended toward uncovering secrets from Worl d War II\, as those who saw the superb Ida may remember. Here too\, bone s are uncovered and reveal unexpected truths. The extraordinary power of  Demon lies in its fusion of physicality and spirituality. The festivities and what lies beneath them will keep you glued to the screen.  ~OY\n\nA lso showing: Monday\, October 24 | 4:15 p.m. | BB\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dem on3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:367@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T131500 DTSTAMP:20161012T205754Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/miss-sharon-jones-2/ SUMMARY:Miss Sharon Jones! DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Barbara Kopple\nUSA | Documentary | 2015 | 93 mi n\nFilm Source: Cabin Creek Films\nSponsor: Todd Lockwood\n\nShowtime: Su nday\, October 23 | 11:15 a.m. | BB\n\nAwards:  Best Documentary – Sar asota Film Festival\n\nBarbara Kopple\, who won Oscars for her documentar ies Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) and American Dream (1990)\, has a long history of documenting people — especially women — of great resilienc e. In this masterful documentary\, you’ll be swept away by the sheer pos itive energy of Sharon Jones\, the amazing singer and phenomenal force of nature who headlines the Dap-Kings. But it’s more than a joyous music do cumentary\; following Jones’ cancer diagnosis\, her indomitable battle t o continue her work\, her high spirits and stage presence will keep you gl ued to the screen. Jones holds the film together throughout the tumultuous year of being on the verge of releasing a new album and embarking on a to ur. "You think you've seen something / Lord\, I've just begun\," Sharon Jones sings. And you don't doubt her for a second.  ~OY\n\nAlso showing: Saturday\, October 22 | 6:30 p.m. | FH\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Mis sSharonJones-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:350@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T130000 DTSTAMP:20161014T150326Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fiddlesticks/ SUMMARY:Fiddlesticks DESCRIPTION:Directed by Veit Helmer\nGermany | Dubbed in English | Fictio n | 2014 | 82 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\n\nShowtime: Sunday\, October 23 | 11:30 a.m. | FH\n\nAwards: Best Children’s Film - Traverse City Film Festival\, Zurich Film Festival\, &\; Cinekid\n\nColorful\, fanciful fun from the director of Tuvalu and Absurdistan. Fiddlesticks conjure s the rakish fun of Our Gang and the whimsical cinematic spirit of Miche l Gondry and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. A group of kindergarteners (convincing ly played by actual 4 year olds)\, along with their equally prankish grand parents and their mascot (a croati named Fiddlesticks)\, wreak havoc on their oppressively average town in this buoyant romp of a comedy. Gotta  love a film that features a Rube Goldberg-creating rodent\, a cow-fart mac hine\, and a series of Flight of the Conchords styled musical numbers!   ~SJ\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Fid dlesticks3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:357@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T151500 DTSTAMP:20161014T144648Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-interrogation/ SUMMARY:The Interrogation DESCRIPTION:Directed by Erez Pery\nIsrael/Germany | German w/ English sub titles | Fiction | 2016 | 80 min\nFilm Source:  Corinth Films\nSponsor: U VM Hillel\n\nShowtime: Sunday\, October 23 | 1:45 a.m. | FH\n\nBased on th e memoirs of Rudolf Höss\, the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz\,  The Interrogation is a taut examination of the psychological complexiti es of the perpetrators of the Holocaust. First-time director Erez Pery\, who also co-wrote the screenplay\, frames the narrative as a cat-and-mous e interrogation between Höss and a young Polish investigation judge\, w ho’s tasked with obtaining an ironclad confession from the man who overs aw the mass killing of millions of Jews. Pery\, who wrote a Ph.D. dissert ation titled “The Cinematic Logic of the Nazi Death Camp and Its Influen ce on Modern Post War Cinema\,” takes a scholar’s approach to the cont emplation of man’s capacity for evil. But his assured direction provides a rare level of tension for a historical drama\, including a well-execute d narrative twist that upends the moral compass of the film’s daunted in vestigator.  ~LB\n\n*Preceded by Silence\, an 11-minute animated docume ntary about the learned and self-imposed postwar silences of a young girl who survived the Holocaust. Co-directed by VTIFF executive director Orl y Yadin\, Silence was short-listed for the 1999 Academy Awards.\n\n  \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Int errogation_0110-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:368@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T153000 DTSTAMP:20161012T210047Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/morris-from-america-2/ SUMMARY:Morris From America DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Chad Hartigan\nGermany/USA | English/German w/ E nglish subtitles | Fiction | 2016 | 91 min\nFilm Source: A24\nSponsor: Bri dget Meyer\n\nShowtime: Sunday\, October 23 | 2:00 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards:   Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Sundance\n\nThirteen-year-old Morris (Markees Christmas)\, a fish out of water navigating the rapids of teen life\, lives in Heidelberg with his father (Craig Robinson of The Office  and This Is the End). With ambitions of rap stardom and attractions for a popular schoolmate\, Morris seeks guidance from his German tutor (Carla  Juri of Wetlands) and respect from his dad while facing the casual cru elty of high school and negotiating the cultural anxieties of life as a st ranger in a strange land. The perceptive script offers a fresh take on you ng black experience\, while winning performances imbue this endearing tale with a convivial spirit and a whole lot of heart.  ~SJ\n\nAlso Showing: Thursday\, October 27 | 3:45 p.m. | FH\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Mor ris-From-America.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:359@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T171500 DTSTAMP:20161014T150230Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-last-laugh/ SUMMARY:The Last Laugh DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ferne Pearlstein\nUSA | Documentary | 2016 | 88 m in\nFilm Source:  Film Collaborative\nSponsor:  UVM Hillel\n\nShowtime: Sunday\, October 23 | 3:45 p.m. | FH\n\nDirector Ferne Pearlstein &\; Producer Robert Edwards will be in attendance.\n\nCan comics make jokes a bout the Holocaust? This documentary by Ferne Pearlstein — featuri ng Mel Brooks\, Sarah Silverman\, Carl Reiner\, Rob Reiner and Larry Cha rles — explores the often unspoken rules of humor and bad taste. Who g ets to decide what is funny and what is offensive? The comics? The Holoc aust survivors? The audience? In her search for answers\, Pearlstein cas ts far and wide\, from a Holocaust survivors’ meeting to newly discovere d footage of the Jerry Lewis comedy film that takes place at a concentrati on camp\, The Day the Clown Cried\, which Lewis has never allowed to be s hown publicly. The Last Laugh will make you laugh. How you feel about th at laughter is up to you. Pearlstein digs deep into the issues\, but lets the audience make up its own mind.  ~JS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Las tLaugh.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:383@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T173000 DTSTAMP:20161012T210308Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sand-storm-sufat-chol-2/ SUMMARY:Sand Storm (Sufat Chol) DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Elite Zexer\nIsrael/France | Arabic w/ English s ubtitles | Fiction | 2016 | 87 min\nFilm Source:  Kino Lorber\n\nShowtim es: Sunday\, October 23 | 4:00 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards:  Grand Jury Prize fo r World Cinema – Sundance Film Festival / Roger Ebert Prize for Best For eign Film for a First-Time Filmmaker – Traverse City Film Festival\n\nDe but writer/director Elite Zexer’s tale of familial relationships acros s three generations\, set in a Bedouin village in Southern Israel\, is at once a condemnation of its misogynistic culture and a nuanced portrait of its women. In this polygamous society\, we witness Jalila preparing the wedding celebrations for her husband’s new second wife. To add to her wo es\, Jalila discovers that her daughter Layla has a secret boyfriend i n school. Drama after quiet drama follows. What makes this film stand out is Zexer’s ability to flesh out complex characters (including the fath er) and her understanding that the oppression of these women manifests its elf not only through the action of the men\, but also by the way the women themselves have internalized it. Sand Storm is an intelligent and mesme rizing film about a culture that few outsiders get to see.  ~OY\n\nAlso S howing: Tuesday\, October 25 | 4:00 p.m. | FH\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/San d-Storm-01-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:352@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T194500 DTSTAMP:20161012T210359Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/girl-asleep-2/ SUMMARY:Girl Asleep DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Rosemary Myers\nAustralia | Fiction | 2016 | 87 m in\nFilm Source:  Oscilloscope\nSponsor: Bobbie Lanahan\n\nShowtimes: Su nday\, October 23 | 6:15 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards:  Best Feature Film – Sea ttle International Film Festival &\; Adelaide Film Festival\n\nFollowin g in the groundbreaking tradition of Australian young adult films\, Girl Asleep is a wild ride through a teenage girl's struggle to hold onto her childhood\, while everyone in her life seems bent on pushing her into adul thood. First-time feature director Rosemary Myers uses sound\, color a nd vivid imagery — blending traditional narrative and experimental art house styles — to plunge the viewer into this bubbly\, pop-culture wo rld of teen confusion and insecurity. You'll be tapping your toes to the music as you root for Greta to find her own path in this crazy world. ~J S  \n\nAlso showing: Friday\, October 28 | 8:45 p.m. | BB\n\n \;\ n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Gir l-Asleep_L-R-Harrison-Feldman.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:389@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T201500 DTSTAMP:20161012T210458Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-syrian-love-story/ SUMMARY:A Syrian Love Story DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Sean McAllister\nUK/Syria/Lebanon/France | Englis h/French/Arabic w/ English subtitles | Documentary | 2015 | 76 min\nFilm S ource: Cat &\; Docs\nSponsor:  Vermont Council on World Affairs\n\nSho wtime: Sunday\, October 23 | 6:30 p.m. | FH\n\nAwards:  Grand Jury Award – Sheffield International Documentary Festival\n\nThe screening will be preceded by a special reception and followed by a Q&\;A with former U. S. Ambassador to Syria\, Robert Ford.\n\nAmer Daoud\, a Palestinian\, met  Raghda Hassan\, a Syrian\, through a hole in the wall of their adjoinin g cells while both were political prisoners in Syria in the 1990s. After H assan was imprisoned for publishing a book about their romance\, Daoud s ought the help of British filmmaker Sean McAllister and the U.S. State Dep artment to highlight her plight. McAllister is the kind of documentarian w ho is prepared to take risks to alert audiences to important issues. He sp ent time behind bars to chronicle this struggle of a married couple torn b etween raising their four sons and exposing the iniquities of Syrian presi dent Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship. Perhaps more than any other film ab out refugees and political activists — thanks to MacAllister’s dogge d following of the family over five years — we not only gain insights in to the complexities of living away from home\, but also of the effect that freedom fighting can have on family life. A Syrian Love Story is a fasc inating\, compassionate\, provocative film that is both timely and essenti al viewing.  ~OY\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Syr ian-Love-Story.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:342@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161023T221500 DTSTAMP:20161022T171650Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-confessions/ SUMMARY:The Confessions DESCRIPTION:Directed by Roberto Ando\nItaly/France | Italian/French/English w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 2016 | 100 min\nFilm Source: Breaking Gl ass Pictures\nSponsor: 05401 PLUS\n\nShowtime: Sunday\, October 23 | 8:30 p.m. | BB\n\nThe peerless Toni Servillo has made a career of turning in one exquisitely realized performance after another\, impressing audiences in films like The Great Beauty\, Il Divo and Gomorrah. In The Confes sions\, Servillo reteams with his Viva la Libertà director Roberto A ndo to play a monk summoned to a G8 meeting in Germany to hear the confess ion of the director of the International Monetary Fund. After the IMF dire ctor is discovered dead the following morning\, a sly mystery begins to un fold\, rich with political undertones\, philosophical musings and Agatha C hristie echoes. The superb cast also includes Daniel Auteuil\, Connie Niel sen and a host of familiar character actors from around the globe.  ~SJ\ n\nAlso showing: Saturday\, October 22 | 3:45 p.m. | FH\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The -confessions-10-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:387@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161024T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161024T173000 DTSTAMP:20161012T210642Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sonita-2/ SUMMARY:Sonita DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghemi\nIran/Germany/Switzerl and | Farsi/Dari/English w/ English subtitles | Documentary | 90 min\nFilm Source:  Women Make Movies\n\nShowtimes: Monday\, October 24 | 4:00 p.m. | FH\n\nAwards:  Grand Jury Prize &\; Audience Award for World Cinem a Documentary – Sundance Film Festival\n\nSonita is a teenage girl\, a rapper\, an Afghan refugee living in Iran\, and\, in her mind\, a star. Th e young girls she meets find their voices through her music and are wowed by the power and confidence she exudes. Eventually even the film’s dir ector\, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami\, finds herself drawn in as part of her subject's story\, blurring the boundaries and making the audience questio n who is in control. Although the subject is timely\, serious and hear t wrenching — especially as Sonita's family threatens to sell her into marriage — the film always manages to be upbeat and inspirational\, due to the magnetism of its subject. This movie won't likely be the last we see of Sonita.  ~JS\n\nAlso Showing: Saturday\, October 29 | 1:30 p.m. | BB\nDirector Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghemi will participate in a Q&\;A via Skype after the screening on Saturday\, October 29.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Son ita_Signature.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:345@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161024T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161024T174500 DTSTAMP:20161012T210733Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/demon/ SUMMARY:Demon DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Marcin Wrona\nPoland/Israel | Polish/Yiddish/En glish w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 2015 | 94 min\nFilm Source:  The O rchard\nSponsor:  Barbara McGrew\n\nShowtime: Monday\, October 24 | 4:15 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards:  Best Picture – Austin Fantastic Fest\n\nWeddin gs traditionally hold deep significance in Polish culture. The wedding in  Demon is no exception: lavish preparations and seemingly endless imbibi ng of vodka fill the screen in gargantuan and comic spectacle. But when th e groom becomes possessed by an unquiet spirit\, things go terribly wrong. The spirit in this maximalist and disturbing film is a reincarnation of t he dybbuk\, a traditional Jewish fable of a soul who takes possession of the body of its love object. In Demon\, though\, it is a soul murdered in the Holocaust that is bogged down in the blood-soaked soil of Poland. In recent years Polish cinema has trended toward uncovering secrets from Worl d War II\, as those who saw the superb Ida may remember. Here too\, bone s are uncovered and reveal unexpected truths. The extraordinary power of  Demon lies in its fusion of physicality and spirituality. The festivities and what lies beneath them will keep you glued to the screen.  ~OY\n\nA lso showing: Saturday\, October 22 | 8:45 p.m. | FH\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dem on3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:361@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161024T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161024T201500 DTSTAMP:20161024T193248Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lo-and-behold-reveries-of-the-connected-world / SUMMARY:Lo and Behold\, Reveries of the Connected World DESCRIPTION:Directed by Werner Herzog\nUSA | Documentary | 2016 | 98 min | FH\nFilm Source:  Magnolia\nSponsors: Vermont Technical College / BTV Ig nite / Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies / Burlington Generator / C hamplain Mini Maker Faire / Alternator\n\nShowtime: Monday\, October 24 | 6:30 p.m. | FH\n\nThe screening is preceded by a reception at 5:30 pm an d followed by a panel discussion featuring Dr. Craig Damon of Vermont Tech and John Yasaitis\, with remarks by Mike Schirling of BTV Ignite.\n\nTh ough it doesn’t precisely coincide with the turn of the millennium\, the widespread adoption of the internet is the dividing technological line between the 20th and 21st centuries. And what better person to examine the repercussions of the sea change of the internet era than 74-year-old We rner Herzog? The New German Cinema godfather put the movement on the map i n the early 1970s with the 16th century saga Aguirre\, the Wrath of God\, and in his seasoned years has plumbed the outer reaches of the human expe rience with the rugged documentaries Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World. Herzog’s latest doc spans the origins of the first one s and zeroes of the nascent internet to a potentially apocalyptic future \, when a giant solar flare could destroy the intricate links of a digital ly connected world. In between\, Lo and Behold takes us on a tour of eve rything from the possibilities of fully autonomous cars and artificially i ntelligent robots to the destructive effects of cyberbullying and the pa in of people suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. It’s all h eld together by the mellifluous tones of Herzog’s thickly accented Engli sh narration\, which has become as instantly recognizable as his distincti ve style of documentary filmmaking.  ~LB\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LoA ndBehold.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:348@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161024T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161024T201500 DTSTAMP:20161012T210938Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fatima-2/ SUMMARY:Fatima DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Philippe Faucon\nFrance | French/Arabic w/ Engli sh subtitles | Fiction | 2015 | 79 min\nFilm Source:  Kino Lorber\nSpons or: Caroline Baird Crichfield Fund for Women in Need\, co-sponsor: Allia nce française of Vermont\n\nShowtimes: Monday\, October 24 | 6:45 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards:  Best Film\, Best Adapted Screenplay &\; Most Promising Actress – César Awards\n\n“A small miracle of a film.” - The Gu ardian\nThis timely\, beautiful tale of a mother and her two teenage daugh ters trying to find their identities\, while being pulled away from their culture and from each other\, is inspired by the life and poetry of North African writer Fatima Elayoubi. Screenwriter/director Philippe Faucon  lets the audience into their worlds — the world of French society\, th e Moroccan subculture\, university life and the tumultuous yet all too rel atable realm of the mother-daughter relationship. Fatima works two jobs to support her rebellious daughter in high school and her dutiful daughter i n medical school — until she is forced to look at her own life as all three women question if their dreams are their own\, or if they are just f ollowing what their friends\, family or culture expect of them. Faucon b rings the audience close to his powerful actors\, allowing this simple sto ry to transform into a universal\, emotional experience.  ~JS\n\nAlso sh owing: Friday\, October 28 | 4:00 p.m. | BB\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Fat ima-02-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:398@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T130000 DTSTAMP:20161012T211049Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-sundance-shorts-1-2/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Sundance Shorts 1 DESCRIPTION:\nSponsors:  Kountry Kart Deli and BCA\nSource: Sundance Film Festival\nLunch included in ticket price\n\nAffections | Written &\; d irected by Bridey Elliott | USA | Fiction | 2016 | 16 min\nThis comedy abo ut isolation and loneliness follows a young woman who is adrift and seekin g intimacy in the most unlikely places\nBacon &\; God’s Wrath | Writt en &\; directed by Sol Friedman | Canada | Documentary | 2016 | Short F ilm Jury Award | 9min\nA 90-year-old Jewish woman reflects on her life exp eriences as she prepares to try bacon for the first time\nEdmond - Written &\; directed by Nina Gantz | UK | Animation | 2016 | 9min | Short Film Jury Award\nEdmond's impulse to love and be close to others is strong—m aybe too strong. As he stands by a lake contemplating his options\, he ref lects on his defining moments in search of the origin of his desires\nHer Friend Adam | Written &\; directed by Ben Petrie | Canada | Fiction | 2 016 | 17 min | Short Film Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance ( Grace Glowicki)\nA boyfriend's jealous impulse spirals out of control in 1 6 minutes of romantic doom. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Bac on_and_Gods_Wrath_still2_bySolFriedman.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:384@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T173000 DTSTAMP:20161012T211157Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sand-storm-sufat-chol/ SUMMARY:Sand Storm (Sufat Chol) DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Elite Zexer\nIsrael/France | Arabic w/ English s ubtitles | Fiction | 2016 | 87 min\nFilm Source:  Kino Lorber\n\nShowtim es: Tuesday\, October 25 | 4:00 p.m. | FH\n\nAwards:  Grand Jury Prize f or World Cinema – Sundance Film Festival / Roger Ebert Prize for Best Fo reign Film for a First-Time Filmmaker – Traverse City Film Festival\n\nD ebut writer/director Elite Zexer’s tale of familial relationships acro ss three generations\, set in a Bedouin village in Southern Israel\, is at once a condemnation of its misogynistic culture and a nuanced portrait of its women. In this polygamous society\, we witness Jalila preparing the wedding celebrations for her husband’s new second wife. To add to her w oes\, Jalila discovers that her daughter Layla has a secret boyfriend in school. Drama after quiet drama follows. What makes this film stand out is Zexer’s ability to flesh out complex characters (including the fat her) and her understanding that the oppression of these women manifests it self not only through the action of the men\, but also by the way the wome n themselves have internalized it. Sand Storm is an intelligent and mesm erizing film about a culture that few outsiders get to see.  ~OY\n\nAlso Showing: Sunday\, October 23 | 4:00 p.m. | BB\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/San d-Storm-01-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:362@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T174500 DTSTAMP:20161012T211247Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/made-in-france-2/ SUMMARY:Made in France DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Nicolas Boukhrief\nFrance | French w/ English su btitles | Fiction | 2015 | 89 min\nFilm Source:  Distrib Films\nSponsor : John Douglas\, co-sponsor: Alliance française of Vermont\n\nShowtime: T uesday\, October 25 | 4:15 p.m. | BB\n\nMade in France tells the story of an undercover journalist who infiltrates a jihadist cell in a Paris subur b\, whose mission is to destabilize the city center of Paris. This grippin g account of five French citizens who have embraced the call to jihad remi nds us that not all Arabs are jihadists\, and not all jihadists are Arabs. At the same time\, the film seizes on the even more unsettling idea that anyone could be a terrorist — and not just foreigners. They could be you r neighbors or even your children. Made in France is one of those rare f ilms that turns a thriller genre into an upfront and personal encounter with five men who could not be more different from each other. This taut t hriller was conceived as total fiction and was scheduled to be released  in January 2015. Then the Charlie Hebdo shooting occurred. The reschedu led release date\, Nov. 18\, 2015\, turned out to be just days after the m ass Paris killings. Once again\, the film was pulled by the distributor an d not released in France until April of this year.  ~OY\n\nAlso showing: Thursday\, October 27 | 6:30 p.m. | BB\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Mad eInFrance.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:379@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T200000 DTSTAMP:20161012T211341Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/political-animals/ SUMMARY:Political Animals DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Jonah Markowitz &\; Tracy Wares\nUSA | Documen tary | 2016 | 86 min\nFilm Source:  Idiot Savant Pictures\nSponsor: Madel eine Kunin\n\nShowtimes: Tuesday\, October 25 | 6:30 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards:   Best Documentary – Los Angeles Film Festival &\; Provincetown Int ernational Film Festival\n\nCalifornia Senator Carole Migden will be in attendance.\n\nThis documentary portrait of the first four openly gay elec ted California state politicians reflects its subjects: vivacious\, focuse d and passionate. Carole Migden\, Sheila Kuehl\, Jackie Goldberg and Ch ristine Kehoe broke ground and glass ceilings with equal aplomb\, each of them shepherding landmark legislation into law with significant social and legal ramifications far beyond their home state. Political Animals reco unts the legislative battles — the strategic compromises and momentous victories — fought for by these four determined\, trailblazing lesbians over the course of their careers. And while celebrating these politicians ’ historic achievements\, the film also reminds us that the fight is far from over. At a time when many hard-won protections are under attack acro ss the country\, and the progress made in recent decades is threatened by a foul and virulent backlash\, this reminder is both welcome and invigorat ing. The struggle for civil rights carries on. Political Animals pays tr ibute to four incredible women who helped shape the movement.  ~SJ\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Pol itical-Animals.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:377@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T203000 DTSTAMP:20161011T181954Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/phantasm-remastered/ SUMMARY:Phantasm (Remastered) DESCRIPTION:Phantasm (Remastered)\nDirected by Don Coscarelli\nUSA | Ficti on | 1979 | 88 min\nFilm Source: Silver Sphere Corporation\nSponsor: Main Street Landing\n\nShowtime: Tuesday\, October 25 | 7:00 p.m. | FH\n\nExclu sive Vermont Theatrical Screening. Part of the VTIFF After Dark Spotlight \n                                                                 *Free screening*\nIn Don Coscarelli's hallmark of horror franchises\, townspeople have been dying under mysterious circu mstances. Thirteen-year-old Mike investigates\, discovering that the town ’s mortician\, “The Tall Man” (played by the late Angus Scrimm)\, i s murdering folks and then reanimating the dead. Along with his older brot her\, Jody\, and ice cream man Reggie\, they must confront The Tall Man\, his minions and the deadly silver sphere. This presentation is a high-def digital restoration of the 1979 film\, supervised by Coscarelli and J.J . Abrams’ (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Bad Robot company.  ~EF\n\n Presented in partnership with The Green Mountain Gore Society\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PHA NTASM-Mike_Confronts_Tall_Man.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:378@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T223000 DTSTAMP:20161012T211518Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/phantasm-ravager/ SUMMARY:Phantasm: Ravager DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by David Hartman\nUSA | Fiction | 2016 | 87 min\nFil m Source: Well Go USA\n\nShowtime: Tuesday\, October 25 | 9:00 p.m. | FH\n \nExclusive Vermont Theatrical Screening. Part of the VTIFF After Dark Sp otlight\n\nPresented in partnership with The Green Mountain Gore Society\n \nThis highly anticipated fifth and final film in the Phantasm series wa s eight years in the making\, featuring Angus Scrimm’s final on-screen performance. Mike and Reggie (original Phantasm cast members Reggie Ban nister and A. Michael Baldwin) face The Tall Man for one final showdown to save humanity.  ~EF\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PHA NTASM-RAVAGER.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:337@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T133000 DTSTAMP:20161012T211649Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/student-matinee-racing-extinction/ SUMMARY:Student Matinee: Racing Extinction DESCRIPTION:Directed by Louie Psihoyos\nUSA/UK/Japan/Mexico/Hong Kong/Chin a/Indonesia | Documentary | 2015 | 90 min\nFilm Source:  Film Collaborati ve\nSponsors:  Jane Kramer\, Seventh Generation\, Anne Slade Frey Charita ble Trust\n\nStudent Matinee Screening on Wednesday\, October 26 | 11:30 a .m. | FH\n\n\nDirector Louie Psihoyos will participate in a Q&\;A via Skype\n\nA gripping eco-thriller documentary that examines biodiversity l oss\, its effect on humanity\, and the solutions that inspire hope for a m ore sustainable future\, the Oscar-nominated Racing Extinction is ideal fo r student groups and classes interested in Environmental Studies\, Biodive rsity\, Sustainability\, Activism\, or Nonfiction Filmmaking.\n\nCreated b y the Oceanic Preservation Society and the Oscar-winning filmmakers of 200 9’s The Cove\, Racing Extinction employs a series of eye-opening inves tigative sequences - often using clandestine and guerilla-style approaches - to expose a range of industrial and commercial practices that are havin g devastating effects on the environment and ecosystems across the planet. Documenting both the deadly consequences of the international wildlife tr ade and the alarming connections between carbon emissions\, ocean acidific ation\, and species extinction\, the filmmakers collaborate with a collect ive of activists and artists who use cutting-edge technologies to bring th ese urgent matters to light.\n\nFollowing the screening\, students will ha ve the opportunity to engage with director and former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos during a Skype discussion.\n\n\n\nEducation to ols: Interactive lesson plans supplied by the film's distributors\nAligned to Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core State Standards \n\n For more information or to reserve tickets for student groups\, email Seth @vtiff.org\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Rac ing-Extinction.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF,VTIFF for Schools LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:399@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T130000 DTSTAMP:20161012T211745Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-sundance-shorts-2/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Sundance Shorts 2 DESCRIPTION:\nSponsors:  Kountry Kart Deli and BCA\nSource: Sundance Film Festival\nLunch included in ticket price\n\nJungle | Written &\; direc ted by Asantewaa Prempeh | USA | Fiction | 2016 | 13 min\nThe lines betwee n trust\, betrayal\, and forgiveness are intertwined for two Senegalese ve ndors as they try to make a living on the streets of New York City\; The G randfather Drum | Written &\; directed by Michelle Derosier | Canada | Fiction | 13 min\nAs the balance of the world turns upside down for the An ishinabek people\, the elder Naamowin builds a healing drum to save his gr andson and his people\nThe Procedure | Written &\; directed by Calvin L ee Reeder | USA | Fiction | 4 min | Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction\nA man is captured and forced to endure a strange experiment\nThunder Road | Written &\; directed by Jim Cummings | USA | 13 min | Short Film Grand Jury Prize\nOfficer Arnaud loved his mom\nPickle | Written &\; Directe d by Amy Nicholson | USA | Doc | 2016 | 15 min | Source: Oscilloscope\nAn ode to man’s capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometim es greatly protracted existence until their occasionally sudden and unfort unate demise ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/JUN GLE_Zumar__bySheldonChau.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:381@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T180000 DTSTAMP:20161012T211841Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-salesman-forushande-2/ SUMMARY:The Salesman (Forushande) DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Ashgar Farhadi\nIran/France | Farsi w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 2016 | 125 min\nFilm Source:  Cohen Media\n\nShowti me: Wednesday\, October 26 | 3:45 p.m. | FH\n\nAwards:  Iran’s officia l submission to the 2016 Academy Awards\n\nAshgar Farhadi’s unnerving pre-credit and opening scenes set the tone for this masterful narrative of a middle-class couple. Emad and Rana\, during the course of rehearsals for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman\, undergo traumatic events tha t cause cracks in their relationship — just like the cracks in the Tehra n apartment building they live in. Farhadi\, the lauded writer-director o f the Oscar-winning 2011 film A Separation\, keeps us on our toes in this drama that’s part revenge thriller and part psychoanalysis of trauma. A fter Rana is attacked in the shower one night\, Emad pours his anger o n the unknown attacker. But Rana refuses to go to the police. Does Emad ’s desire for revenge help Rana overcome the effects of this traumati c event\, or does his lack of understanding for what she has to endure mak e things worse? The tension mounts incrementally as he seeks clues to the identity of the attacker and we are left with questions about the role of mercy and vengeance.  ~OY\n\nAlso Showing: Saturday\, October 29 | 8:15 p.m. | BB\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The Salesman_Image1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:372@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T174500 DTSTAMP:20161012T211938Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-revolution-ma-revolution-2/ SUMMARY:My Revolution (Ma révolution) DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Ramzi Ben Sliman\nFrance | French/Arabic w/ En glish subtitles | Fiction | 2015 | 80 min\nFilm Source:  Visit Films\nFre nch films in the festival are co-sponsored by Alliance française of Vermo nt\n\nShowtime: Wednesday\, October 26 | 4:15 p.m. | BB\n\nThere’s nothi ng like a first crush — the first stirrings of attraction\, the exhilara tion and tension of being newly smitten. Couple that with attending one’ s first political rally — the rush of passion and fervor all around\, th at sense of collective and personal turbulence — and you’ve got the ma kings of a fraught and combustible coming-of-age tale. Fourteen-year-old  Marwann\, a charmingly rakish French-Tunisian Parisian\, is more concerned with goofing around than with the social upheavals taking place both near and far. But then\, while trying to impress the girl he likes\, he winds up at a demonstration where a journalist snaps a picture of him that appea rs in the following day’s newspapers. Before long\, Marwann has become an unwitting face of the Arab Spring and the center of attention at schoo l. He soon finds himself questioning how fully he should embrace this newf ound identity and what it reveals about his family roots and origins — a nd whether he can reconcile his mixed intentions. My Revolution is a sma rt\, endearing and timely story. It reflects the director’s belief that “where you belong is where you’re loved\, and the languages we speak m ake us who we are.”  ~SJ\n\nAlso showing: Saturday\, October 29 | 6:15 p.m. | BB\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/MyR evolution.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:374@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T194500 DTSTAMP:20161012T212029Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nakom-2/ SUMMARY:Nakom DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by T.W. Pittman &\; Kelly Daniela Norris\nGhana |  Kusaal w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 2016 | 90 min\nFilm Source:  C orinth Films\n\nShowtime: Wednesday\, October 26 | 6:15 p.m. | BB\n\nAward s:  Best Film – Durban International Film Festival\n\nA city versus vi llage tale of classical beauty\, Nakom is the story of a medical student who returns to his remote village in Ghana following the death of his fat her. Jacob Ayanaba\, in a striking debut\, plays a young man of talent an d promise who’s torn between the lure of the urban dream and the pressin g duties of assuming the patriarchal role in a rural family on the brink o f ruin. Beautifully shot in widescreen compositions that capture the fickl e weather of the Ghanaian countryside in both its fertile splendor and the barren cruelty of the dry season\, Nakom is both timeless and modern — and at once culturally specific and universal.  ~LB\n\nAlso showing: Thursday\, October 27 | 4:00 p.m. | BB\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/NAK OM-still-in-the-millet-field-b.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:339@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T203000 DTSTAMP:20161012T212128Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/best-and-most-beautiful-things/ SUMMARY:Best and Most Beautiful Things DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Garrett Zevgetis\nUSA | Documentary | 2016 | 90 min\nFilm Source: Carriage House Pictures\nSponsors: Main Street Landing / Eyes of the World\n\nShowtime: Wednesday\, October 26 | 7:00 p.m. | FH\n\ nAwards: Special Jury Prize – Independent Film Festival of Boston\n\nDi rector Garrett Zevgetis will be in attendance and Michelle Smith will pa rticipate in the Q&\;A via Skype\n\nMichelle Smith lives in rural Maine . She loves cats\, the internet\, cartoons — typical teenage interests . Except Michelle is anything but typical: she’s legally blind and auti stic\, and is trying to navigate the world\, discover herself and become a n adult. We follow Michelle as she studies at Perkins School for the Blin d in Boston\, explores her sexuality and finds love. Garrett Zevgetis’ poignant\, visually dynamic and touching documentary profiles a young woma n who doesn’t let fear or difference get in her way.  ~EF\n\nThere wil l be also be a special screening with captions and audio-description for t he visually and hearing impaired on Thursday\, October 27 | 11:00 a.m. | F H\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bes tMostBeautiful-01.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:365@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T201500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T220000 DTSTAMP:20161012T212232Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/microbe-gasoline/ SUMMARY:Microbe & Gasoline DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Michel Gondry\nFrance | French w/ English subtit les | Fiction | 2015 | 100 min\nFilm Source:  Screen Media\nSponsor: A Si ngle Pebble\, co-sponsor: Alliance française of Vermont\n\nShowtime: Wedn esday\, October 26 | 8:15 p.m. | BB\n\nThe latest film from Michel Gondry  (Mood Indigo\; The Science of Sleep\; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotles s Mind) transforms his cut-and-paste magic realism into reality. Creative and shy artist Microbe can’t make friends at school until he meets Gasol ine\, an outsider cut from the same cloth. They hatch a plan to build a ca r and travel across France on an epic road trip to escape the realities of teen life. Microbe &\; Gasoline represents a different direction for  Gondry\; it’s much more straightforward\, but still with all the charm \, earnestness and joy of his best work. Starring Audrey Tautou (Amelie\ ; The Da Vinci Code)\, Ange Dargent and Théophile Baquet.  ~EF\n\ nAlso showing: Saturday\, October 22 | 1:45 p.m. | FH\n\n \;\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Mic robeGasoline-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:340@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T123000 DTSTAMP:20161012T212319Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/best-and-most-beautiful-things-2/ SUMMARY:Best and Most Beautiful Things DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Garrett Zevgetis\nUSA | Documentary | 2016 | 90 min\nFilm Source: Carriage House Pictures\nSponsors: Main Street Landing / Eyes of the World\n\nShowtime: Thursday\, October 27 | 11:30 a.m. | FH\n\ nThis screening features captions and audio-description for the hearing an d visually impaired.\n\nAwards: Special Jury Prize – Independent Film F estival of Boston\n\nDirector Garrett Zevgetis will be in attendance and Michelle Smith will participate in the Q&\;A via Skype\n\nMichelle Smi th lives in rural Maine. She loves cats\, the internet\, cartoons — ty pical teenage interests. Except Michelle is anything but typical: she’s legally blind and autistic\, and is trying to navigate the world\, discov er herself and become an adult. We follow Michelle as she studies at Perk ins School for the Blind in Boston\, explores her sexuality and finds love . Garrett Zevgetis’ poignant\, visually dynamic and touching documentar y profiles a young woman who doesn’t let fear or difference get in her w ay.  ~EF\n\nAlso showing (no captions or audio-description) on Wednesda y\, October 26 | 7:00 p.m. | FH\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bes tMostBeautiful-01.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:400@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T130000 DTSTAMP:20161012T212411Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime_shorts_raging_elegiacs/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Raging Elegiacs From the AIDS War DESCRIPTION:\nSponsors:  Kountry Kart Deli and BCA\nSource: Filmmaker\nL unch included in ticket price\n\nEarly Video Works by John R. Killacky\nNo te: mature content\nUnforgiven Fire | Experimental | 1990 | 13min 30sec\nS tolen Shadows | Experimental | 1995 | 10min 25sec\nWalking With the Dead E xperimental | 1996 | 5min 33sec\nJohn Killacky\, executive director of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington\, will screen three of his AIDS-related short agitprop videos from the 1990s.  As losses moun ted in the early years of the pandemic\, Killacky and his friends utilized their own bodies to mourn and as a call against government inaction. Thes e elegiac works have been screened worldwide and are in several museum and  library collections. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Kil lacky-Shorts.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:369@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T171500 DTSTAMP:20161012T212503Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/morris-from-america/ SUMMARY:Morris From America DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Chad Hartigan\nGermany/USA | English/German w/ E nglish subtitles | Fiction | 2016 | 91 min\nFilm Source: A24\nSponsor: Bri dget Meyer\n\nShowtime: Thursday\, October 27 | 3:45 p.m. | FH\n\nAwards:   Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Sundance\n\nThirteen-year-old Morr is (Markees Christmas)\, a fish out of water navigating the rapids of tee n life\, lives in Heidelberg with his father (Craig Robinson of The Offic e and This Is the End). With ambitions of rap stardom and attractions fo r a popular schoolmate\, Morris seeks guidance from his German tutor (Carl a Juri of Wetlands) and respect from his dad while facing the casual cr uelty of high school and negotiating the cultural anxieties of life as a s tranger in a strange land. The perceptive script offers a fresh take on yo ung black experience\, while winning performances imbue this endearing tal e with a convivial spirit and a whole lot of heart.  ~SJ\n\nAlso Showing : Sunday\, October 23 | 2:00 p.m. | BB\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Mor ris-From-America.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:375@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T173000 DTSTAMP:20161012T212603Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nakom/ SUMMARY:Nakom DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by T.W. Pittman &\; Kelly Daniela Norris\nGhana |  Kusaal w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 2016 | 90 min\nFilm Source:  C orinth Films\n\nShowtime: Thursday\, October 27 | 4:00 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards :  Best Film – Durban International Film Festival\n\nA city versus vil lage tale of classical beauty\, Nakom is the story of a medical student who returns to his remote village in Ghana following the death of his fath er. Jacob Ayanaba\, in a striking debut\, plays a young man of talent and promise who’s torn between the lure of the urban dream and the pressing duties of assuming the patriarchal role in a rural family on the brink of ruin. Beautifully shot in widescreen compositions that capture the fickle weather of the Ghanaian countryside in both its fertile splendor and the barren cruelty of the dry season\, Nakom is both timeless and modern — and at once culturally specific and universal.  ~LB\n\nAlso showing: We dnesday\, October 26 | 6:15 p.m. | BB\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/NAK OM-still-in-the-millet-field-b.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:395@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T190000 DTSTAMP:20161006T222513Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vamp-presentation/ SUMMARY:VAMP Presentation DESCRIPTION:Showtime: Thursday\, Oct 27 | 6:00-7:00 p.m. | FH\n\nClips from a new restoration project of the Vermont Archive Movie Project - footage of the poet Ruth Stone\, and a compilation of clips from prominent Vermont filmmakers who appear in the VAMP database.\n\n \;\n\n*Free event* ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/VAM P-Chester-Grimes-Horse-logs-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VAMP,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:363@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T200000 DTSTAMP:20161012T212840Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/made-in-france/ SUMMARY:Made in France DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Nicolas Boukhrief\nFrance | French w/ English su btitles | Fiction | 2015 | 89 min\nFilm Source:  Distrib Films\nSponsor : John Douglas\, co-sponsor: Alliance française of Vermont\n\nShowtime:  Thursday\, October 27 | 6:30 p.m. | BB\n\nMade in France tells the story of an undercover journalist who infiltrates a jihadist cell in a Paris sub urb\, whose mission is to destabilize the city center of Paris. This gripp ing account of five French citizens who have embraced the call to jihad re minds us that not all Arabs are jihadists\, and not all jihadists are Arab s. At the same time\, the film seizes on the even more unsettling idea tha t anyone could be a terrorist — and not just foreigners. They could be y our neighbors or even your children. Made in France is one of those rare films that turns a thriller genre into an upfront and personal encounte r with five men who could not be more different from each other. This taut thriller was conceived as total fiction and was scheduled to be released  in January 2015. Then the Charlie Hebdo shooting occurred. The resche duled release date\, Nov. 18\, 2015\, turned out to be just days after the mass Paris killings. Once again\, the film was pulled by the distributor and not released in France until April of this year.  ~OY\n\nAlso showing : Tuesday\, October 25 | 4:15 p.m. | BB\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Mad eInFrance.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:391@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T210000 DTSTAMP:20161006T222402Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-triplets-of-belleville-belleville-rendezv ous/ SUMMARY:The Triplets of Belleville (Belleville Rendezvous) DESCRIPTION:The Triplets of Belleville (Belleville Rendezvous)\nDirected by Sylvain Chomet\nFrance/Belgium/Canada/UK/Latvia | French w/ English subt itles | Fiction/Animation | 2003 | 78 min\n\nShowtime: Thursday\, October 27 | 7:30 p.m. | Flynn Center \n*Tickets available through FlynnTix.org  PATRON Members of VTIFF eligible for 50% discount. email us for code.\n\ nAwards:  Oscar nominated for Best Animated Feature &\; Best Original Song / ‘Palm Dog’ – Cannes Film Festival / Best Music – César A wards / Best Picture - Genie Award &\; Lumière Award &\; New Yo rk Film Critics Circle Award &\; the Étoile d'Or\n\nPresented in ass ociation with the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts.\n\nComposer Beno ît Charest leads Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville in the live perfo rmance of his original score.\n\nKidnapped by mysterious henchmen\, a Tour de France cyclist named Champion is spirited across the ocean to the teem ing metropolis of Belleville. His near-sighted grandmother and faithful do g follow his trail and are taken in by a trio of eccentric jazz-era divas\ , while the motley sleuths follow the clues in hot pursuit. This beloved a nimated film will be accompanied by a live performance by composer Benoî t Charest’s Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville of his original scor e\, including his Academy Award-nominated song\, Belleville Rendez-vous. In the spirit of the film\, Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville transpo rts audiences to the exciting streets of 1920s Paris and Le Jazz Hot. ~Fly nn Center catalog\n\nVTIFF Patron Members are eligible for a 50% discount on tickets to this event. Please contact info@vtiff.org for the special discount code\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tri plets-of-Bellevill-Live.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Flynn MainStage\, 153 Main Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, Unit ed States GEO:44.475682;-73.21315570000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=153 Main Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Flynn MainStage: geo:44.475682,-73.21315570000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:338@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T204500 DTSTAMP:20161020T192454Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/agents-of-change-black-students-and-the-trans formation-of-the-american-university/ SUMMARY:Agents of Change DESCRIPTION:Directed by Abby Ginzberg &\; Frank Dawson\nUSA | Document ary | 2016 | 66 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nSponsors:  Champlain College / Peace &\; Justice Center of Vermont\n\nShowtime: Thursday\, October 27 | 7:30 p.m. | FH\n\nAwards:  Best Documentary – Pan African Film Fe stival\n\nDirector Abby Ginzberg will be in attendance.\n\nIn recent yea rs\, impassioned political demonstrations have appeared on campuses across the country\, from Mississippi to New Jersey\, California to Washington\, D.C. Many of them have been motivated by the racial discord and issues of discrimination that affect both colleges and society at large. Frank Daws on and Abby Ginzberg’s documentary about black student activism in the late 1960s offers excellent historical context for this continued civil u nrest. Covering the protests at San Francisco State in 1968\, as well as t he takeover of the student union at Cornell University in 1969\, Agents o f Change features a wealth of archival material and contemporary intervie ws with many of the major players. Ginzberg\, who appeared at VTIFF 2014 with her Peabody Award-winning documentary Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa\, returns to Vermont with this timely\, empowerin g look at a series of past incidents that continues to reverberate in toda y’s young activist circles.  ~SJ\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Age ntsofChange2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:370@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T220000 DTSTAMP:20161012T213113Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mother-ema-2/ SUMMARY:Mother (Ema) DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Kadri Kousaar\nEstonia | Estonian w/ English su btitles | Fiction | 2016 | 89 min\nFilm Source: Film Sales Co.\n\nShowtime : Thursday\, October 27 | 8:30 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards: Estonia’s official submission to the 2016 Academy Awards\n\nWhat is it with the films of Scan dinavia and neighboring countries\, such as Estonia\, and their penchant f or dark comedy? Sharing an offbeat sense of humor\, this Fargo-esque tal e of idiosyncratic characters will keep you guessing until the end. Meanwh ile\, you will enjoy meeting many of this small town’s characters — fi rst and foremost Elsa\, the eponymous mother in the film\, who has to give up her job to care for her comatose schoolteacher son\, who was shot at b y an unknown. To find relief from a tedious marriage and a house with neut ral tones of beige and grey (echoed in the cinematography)\, Elsa conducts a secretive romance. Many people enter and leave the house\, and for a sm all town where everybody knows all there is to know about everybody else\, the policeman investigating the case cannot fathom why no one seems to kn ow of her indiscretions. This wonderfully pitch-black comedy hides some da rk secrets.   ~OY\n\nAlso showing: Saturday\, October 29 | 11:30 a.m. | BB\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Mot her_3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:347@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T230000 DTSTAMP:20161012T213211Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/evolution-2/ SUMMARY:Evolution DESCRIPTION:\n\nEvolution\nDirected by Lucile Hadžihalilović\nFrance/Bel gium/Spain | French w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 2015 | 81 min\nFilm S ource:  IFC Midnight\n\nShowtime: Thursday\, October 27 | 9:30 p.m. | FH\ n\nAwards:  Best Cinematography &\; Special Jury Prize – San Sebast ian International Film Festival\nPart of VTIFF After Dark Spotlight\nDir ector Lucile Hadžihalilović (Innocence\, co-writer of Enter The Vo id) delivers a body horror film that slowly and methodically gets under yo ur skin. Ten-year-old Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives on a remote volcanic is land\, inhabited solely by women and young boys. In a hospital overlooking the ocean\, all the boys are subjected to a strange medical treatment. As Nicolas questions what is happening around him\, he discovers an inexplic able nightmare. Evolution is a stunning visual experience that brings to mind David Cronenberg and H.P. Lovecraft.  ~EF\nPresented in partners hip with The Green Mountain Gore Society\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Evo lution2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:402@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T130000 DTSTAMP:20161023T175749Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-cuban-shorts/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Best of the Muestra Joven DESCRIPTION:Sponsors:  Kountry Kart Deli and BCA\nSource:Americas Media I nitiative\nSpanish w/English subtitles\nPart of the Cuban cinema Spotlight \n\nLunch included in ticket price\n\n\nBest of the Muestra Joven (Young D irectors Film Festival). These four award-winning short films made by emer ging filmmakers reflect the current cinematic landscape in Cuba. The forme r director the Muestra Joven\, Marisol Rodriguez\, will attend.\n\nLa Car ga (The Load) | Directed by Victor Alexis Guerrero | Documentary | 2015 | 23min 19 sec\nThis road-stop movie captures the intimate relationship betw een the workers on a train that in theory should never stop but actually s pends the majority of its service time detained.\n\nYunaisy | Directed by Juan Pablo Darañas | Fiction | 2014 | 13 min\nA young Cuban filmmaker fac es censorship for the first time. He must choose between taking a great ca reer opportunity or maintaining the integrity of "Yunaisy".\n\nAlina\, 6 a ños (Alina\, 6 Years Old) | Directed by Milena Almira and Manuel Benito d e Valle| Fiction | 2008 | 5 min\nA young girl looking through a family pho tos album remembers moments in her infancy where nothing is what it appear s..\n\nHuesitos (Little Bones) | Directed by Gabriela Leal Carrazana | Ani mation | 2015 | 3min 26 secs\nA young solitary girl has a strange routine. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Cub an-Shorts.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:397@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T140000 DTSTAMP:20161011T205552Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ask-a-film-producer-panel/ SUMMARY:Ask A Film Producer Panel DESCRIPTION:Ask A Film Producer\nShowtime: Friday\, October 28 | 1:00 p.m. | Great Room\nSponsors: VT PBS\n\nFilm producers Justine Nagan (Exec. Prod ucer of PBS's POV program\, Life Itself\, The Trials of Muhammad Ali) and Lori Cheatle (festival films Kiki and Seven Songs for a Long Life) answer your questions on how to get a film made and produced. This is a perfect o pportunity for filmmakers and students to get quality time with two accomp lished film producers and for the general public to learn more about the b usiness of broadcast documentaries. Moderated by Champlain College Profess or of Film Studies\, Julia Swift. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/POV -Logo-e1475436707245.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing\, Great Room\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Bu rlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4774688;-73.2196841 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing\, Great Room:geo:44.4774688,-73.2196841 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:380@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T170000 DTSTAMP:20161012T213419Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/racing-extinction-2/ SUMMARY:Racing Extinction DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Louie Psihoyos\nUSA/UK/Japan/Mexico/Hong Kong/Ch ina/Indonesia | Documentary | 2015 | 90 min\nFilm Source:  Film Collabora tive\nSponsors:  Jane Kramer / Seventh Generation Foundation / Anne Slade Frey Charitable Trust\n\nShowtime: Friday\, October 28 | 3:00 p.m. | FH\n \nAwards:  Oscar nomination for Best Original Song\n\nDirector Louie Ps ihoyos will participate in a Q&\;A via Skype.\n\nRacing Extinction\, f rom the Oceanic Preservation Society and the Oscar-winning filmmakers of 2 009’s The Cove\, is a gripping eco-thriller documentary that examines b iodiversity loss\, its effect on humanity\, and the solutions that inspire hope for a more sustainable future. Through a series of eye-opening inves tigative sequences — often using clandestine and guerilla-style approach es — the filmmakers expose a range of industrial and commercial practice s that are having devastating effects on the environment and ecosystems ac ross the planet. Documenting both the deadly consequences of the internati onal wildlife trade and the alarming connections between carbon emissions\ , ocean acidification and species extinction\, the film employs a collecti ve of activists and artists who use cutting-edge technologies to bring the se urgent matters to light.  ~SJ\n\nStudent Matinee Screening on Wednesd ay\, October 26 | 11:30 a.m. | FH\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Rac ing-Extinction-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:349@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T173000 DTSTAMP:20161012T213516Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fatima/ SUMMARY:Fatima DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Philippe Faucon\nFrance | French/Arabic w/ Engli sh subtitles | Fiction | 2015 | 79 min\nFilm Source:  Kino Lorber\nSpons or: Caroline Baird Crichfield Fund for Women in Need\, co-sponsor: Allia nce française of Vermont\n\nShowtimes: Friday\, October 28 | 4:00 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards:  Best Film\, Best Adapted Screenplay &\; Most Promising Actress – César Awards\n\n“A small miracle of a film.” - The Gu ardian\nThis timely\, beautiful tale of a mother and her two teenage daugh ters trying to find their identities\, while being pulled away from their culture and from each other\, is inspired by the life and poetry of North African writer Fatima Elayoubi. Screenwriter/director Philippe Faucon  lets the audience into their worlds — the world of French society\, th e Moroccan subculture\, university life and the tumultuous yet all too rel atable realm of the mother-daughter relationship. Fatima works two jobs to support her rebellious daughter in high school and her dutiful daughter i n medical school — until she is forced to look at her own life as all three women question if their dreams are their own\, or if they are just f ollowing what their friends\, family or culture expect of them. Faucon b rings the audience close to his powerful actors\, allowing this simple sto ry to transform into a universal\, emotional experience.  ~JS\n\nAlso sh owing: Monday\, October 24 | 6:45 p.m. | BB\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Fat ima-02-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:354@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T203000 DTSTAMP:20161012T213705Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-handmaiden/ SUMMARY:The Handmaiden DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Park Chan-wook\nSouth Korea | Korean &\; Japan ese w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 145 min | 2016\nFilm Source: Magnolia \n\nShowtime: Friday\, October 28 | 6:00 p.m. | FH\nA Burlington Film Soci ety screening presented by Main Street Landing &\; VTIFF\nHideko\, a Ja panese heiress who lives on a secluded estate with her imperious uncle\, h ires Sookee\, a young Korean woman\, to serve as her handmaiden. But Soo kee\, a pickpocket recruited by a swindler for a manipulative scheme\, har bors secret designs to fleece Hideko of her fortune and imprison her in an asylum. These plans however are soon complicated by unexpected romantic a nd sexual entanglements. Ravishing cinematography and lushly detailed prod uction design mark this adaptation of Sarah Waters’ 2002 novel Fingersm ith by the director of Oldboy and Lady Vengeance. Transporting this ta le of double-crosses and erotic roundelays from Victorian England to 1930s Korea\, Park Chan-wook creates a gripping crime drama that is both a sen sual thriller and an emotional exploration of the story of two women —  one with a dark past and the other trapped in a desperate present.  ~S J\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Han dmaiden-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:358@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T194500 DTSTAMP:20161012T213801Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kiki/ SUMMARY:Kiki DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Sara Jordeno\nUSA/Sweden | Documentary | 2016 | 94 min\nFilm Source:  IFC Sundance Selects\n\nShowtime: Friday\, October 28 | 6:15 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards:  Best Documentary – Berlinale &\; Full Frame Documentary Film Festival\n\nProducer Lori Cheatle will be i n attendance.\n\nAn heir to Jennie Livingston's seminal 1990 documentary  Paris Is Burning\, Sara Jordeno’s Kiki looks at New York City’s sti ll-thriving House &\; Ballroom scene in the 21st century. Dynamic foota ge of rehearsals and competitions\, along with engaging interviews featuri ng a vibrant array of dancers\, DJs\, drag artists and designers\, togethe r form a lively portrait of a community that uses performance and fashion to confront adversity and celebrate creativity and individuality. Shedding light on a wide range of issues\, including addiction\, abuse\, police ha rassment\, HIV/AIDS\, coming out\, transitioning and more\, Kiki also st ands as a testament to the strength and resilience that community can prov ide — especially when there are fresh beats backing you up.  ~SJ\n\n Note: Lori Cheatle will also be participating in the Ask a Producer pan el discussion.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Kik i.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:353@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T204500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T221500 DTSTAMP:20161012T213854Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/girl-asleep/ SUMMARY:Girl Asleep DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Rosemary Myers\nAustralia | Fiction | 2016 | 87 m in\nFilm Source:  Oscilloscope\nSponsor: Bobbie Lanahan\n\nShowtimes: Fr iday\, October 28 | 8:45 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards:  Best Feature Film – Se attle International Film Festival &\; Adelaide Film Festival\n\nFollowi ng in the groundbreaking tradition of Australian young adult films\, Girl Asleep is a wild ride through a teenage girl's struggle to hold onto her childhood\, while everyone in her life seems bent on pushing her into adu lthood. First-time feature director Rosemary Myers uses sound\, color  and vivid imagery — blending traditional narrative and experimental ar t house styles — to plunge the viewer into this bubbly\, pop-culture w orld of teen confusion and insecurity. You'll be tapping your toes to th e music as you root for Greta to find her own path in this crazy world. ~ JS  \n\nAlso showing: Sunday\, October 23 | 6:15 p.m. | BB\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Gir l-Asleep_L-R-Harrison-Feldman.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:393@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T224500 DTSTAMP:20161012T213942Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/viva-2/ SUMMARY:Viva DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Paddy Breathnach\nCuba/Ireland | Spanish w/ Engl ish subtitles | Fiction | 2015 | 100 min\nFilm Source:  Magnolia\n\nShowt ime: Friday\, October 28 | 9:00pm | FH\n\nAwards: Ireland’s official su bmission to the 2015 Academy Awards\n\nThis finely wrought drama of a youn g\, aspiring drag performer in Havana contending with his newly released c onvict father and struggling both to make ends meet and make it onstage at a local club\, features fantastic performances\, sensuous\, striking cine matography and an all-encompassing sense of place. A classic story of buri ed resentments\, bruised identities and time lost\, Viva captures the ro iling tensions and aspirations of  transforming cultures in the microco sm of a father and son’s relationship. Aesthetically rich and emotionall y urgent\, Irish director Paddy Breathnach’s film explores the painsta king but illuminative process of discovering truth through artifice. In th e act of performance\, in the guise of a lie\, honesty can be found\, and genuine sentiment revealed. How that truth is received is the question tha t remains.  ~SJ\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Viv a-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:371@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T130000 DTSTAMP:20161012T214030Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mother-ema/ SUMMARY:Mother (Ema) DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Kadri Kousaar\nEstonia | Estonian w/ English su btitles | Fiction | 2016 | 89 min\nFilm Source: Film Sales Co.\n\nShowtime : Saturday\, October 29 | 11:30 a.m. | BB\n\nAwards: Estonia’s official submission to the 2016 Academy Awards\n\nWhat is it with the films of Sca ndinavia and neighboring countries\, such as Estonia\, and their penchant for dark comedy? Sharing an offbeat sense of humor\, this Fargo-esque ta le of idiosyncratic characters will keep you guessing until the end. Meanw hile\, you will enjoy meeting many of this small town’s characters — f irst and foremost Elsa\, the eponymous mother in the film\, who has to giv e up her job to care for her comatose schoolteacher son\, who was shot at by an unknown. To find relief from a tedious marriage and a house with neu tral tones of beige and grey (echoed in the cinematography)\, Elsa conduct s a secretive romance. Many people enter and leave the house\, and for a s mall town where everybody knows all there is to know about everybody else\ , the policeman investigating the case cannot fathom why no one seems to k now of her indiscretions. This wonderfully pitch-black comedy hides some d ark secrets.   ~OY\n\nAlso showing: Thursday\, October 27 | 8:30 p.m. | BB\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Mot her_3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:351@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T150000 DTSTAMP:20161014T144736Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/forgotten-farms/ SUMMARY:Forgotten Farms DESCRIPTION:Directed by Dave Simonds\nUSA | Documentary | 2016 | 63 min\nF ilm Source:  Filmmakers\n\nShowtime: Saturday\, October 29 | 1:00 p.m. | FH\n\nA panel discussion\, including director Dave Simonds\; producer Sar ah Gardner\; Heather Darby\, associate professor at the UVM College of Agr iculture &\; Life Sciences and local dairy farmers will follow the scre ening.\n\nA fascinating exploration of New England’s dairy farmers\, mad e by a husband-and-wife team from Williamstown\, Mass. The film follows s everal family farms and examines class divisions and cultural divides in f arm and food communities. In some circles\, farm-to-table restaurants\, fa rmer’s markets and community-supported agriculture networks are booming\ , and the new farmers are celebrated. But there is another farmer who is l eft out of the local food celebration. New England has lost more than 10\, 000 conventional dairy farms in the past 50 years\, according to the fil mmakers. Many of us have forgotten that 75 years ago these farmers were at the center of a thriving local food economy. But the film is no nostalgic hark back to better times\, nor does it extol the virtues of the boutique farms that get most of the press. “Dairy farms get very little attentio n\,” says producer Gardner\, “yet those farms produce a relatively sma ll proportion of the food we consume\, while the traditional dairy farms p roduce almost all the milk we consume in New England.”  ~OY\n\n*Preced ed by the 27-minute short Local Motive\, directed by Jaime Williams\, par t of a series about Vermont’s farm-to-table movement.\n\nScreening and p anel followed by reception sponsored by Skinny Pancake.\n\n \;\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2-f armers-red-tractor-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:388@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T153000 DTSTAMP:20161028T220412Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sonita/ SUMMARY:Sonita DESCRIPTION:Directed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghemi\nIran/Germany/Switzerlan d | Farsi/Dari/English w/ English subtitles | Documentary | 90 min\nFilm S ource:  Women Make Movies\n\nShowtime: Saturday\, October 29 | 1:30 p.m. | BB\n\n\nAwards:  Grand Jury Prize &\; Audience Award for World Cin ema Documentary – Sundance Film Festival\n\nSonita is a teenage girl\, a rapper\, an Afghan refugee living in Iran\, and\, in her mind\, a star. The young girls she meets find their voices through her music and are wowe d by the power and confidence she exudes. Eventually even the film’s d irector\, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami\, finds herself drawn in as part of h er subject's story\, blurring the boundaries and making the audience quest ion who is in control. Although the subject is timely\, serious and he art wrenching — especially as Sonita's family threatens to sell her in to marriage — the film always manages to be upbeat and inspirational\, d ue to the magnetism of its subject. This movie won't likely be the last we see of Sonita.  ~JS\n\nAlso Showing: Monday\, October 24 | 4:00 p.m. | FH\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Son ita_Signature.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:385@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T170000 DTSTAMP:20161012T214429Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/seven-songs-for-a-long-life-3/ SUMMARY:Seven Songs for a Long Life DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Amy Hardie\nUK | Documentary | 2016 | 83 min\nFi lm Source:  Cargo\n\nShowtime: Saturday\, October 29 | 3:30 p.m. | FH\n\n POV Exec. Producer Justine Nagan and film producer Lori Cheatle will b e in attendance.\n\nThis screening is a special preview of an upcoming bro adcast of the long-running POV program on Vermont PBS. Documenting six ho spice patients at Strathcarron in Scotland\, Amy Hardie’s film poses the question: How does one cope with the uncertainty of life after a term inal diagnosis? Seven Songs for a Long Life is a heartwarming and poigna nt look at end of life — a subject that is not discussed often enough.   ~EF\n\nNote: Justine Nagan and Lori Cheatle will also be participat ing in the Ask a Producer panel discussion.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Sev en-Songs-for-a-Long-Life-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:390@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T180000 DTSTAMP:20161012T214515Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tanna/ SUMMARY:Tanna DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Martin Butler &\; Bentley Dean\nAustralia/Vanu ato | Nauvhal w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 2016 | 104 min\nFilm Sou rce:  Lightyear Entertainment\n\nShowtime: Saturday\, October 29 | 3:45 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards: Best Direction in a Feature Film – Australian Dir ectors Guild Awards / Best Cinematography – Venice Film Festival / Austr alia’s official submission to the 89th Academy Awards\n\nVanuatu native Marco Johnson will be in attendance. Q&\;A moderated by Megan Epler W ood.\n\nAfter a young woman runs away with the man she loves to avoid an a rranged marriage\, villagers wrestle with preserving their traditional cul ture\, or adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual fre edom. Tanna is the first-ever feature shot entirely in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Based on dramatic events that took place on the volc anic island of Tanna in 1987\, Tanna is breathtakingly beautiful and c ompellingly told. The filmmakers spent seven months living with the Yakel \, a tribe whose customs and lifestyle have changed little for centuries. During this time the filmmakers were told of a great love story from the r ecent past. The result was a screenplay written in close collaboration wit h the Yakel and performed predominantly by its members\, who had never s een a film before. An eye-opening scene sees arranged marriage defended via the example of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II. This Romeo and Ju liet story offers not only a glimpse into a remote and unfamiliar place an d culture\, but also raises questions about the traditional and the modern . The story is about opposed tribes\, their attempts to make peace\, and t wo lovers who rebel after one is steered into an arranged marriage.  ~OY \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tan na2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:373@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T194500 DTSTAMP:20161012T214604Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-revolution-ma-revolution/ SUMMARY:My Revolution (Ma révolution) DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Ramzi Ben Sliman\nFrance | French/Arabic w/ En glish subtitles | Fiction | 2015 | 80 min\nFilm Source:  Visit Films\nFre nch films in the festival are co-sponsored by Alliance française of Vermo nt\n\nShowtime: Saturday\, October 29 | 6:15 p.m. | BB\n\nThere’s nothin g like a first crush — the first stirrings of attraction\, the exhilarat ion and tension of being newly smitten. Couple that with attending one’s first political rally — the rush of passion and fervor all around\, tha t sense of collective and personal turbulence — and you’ve got the mak ings of a fraught and combustible coming-of-age tale. Fourteen-year-old M arwann\, a charmingly rakish French-Tunisian Parisian\, is more concerned with goofing around than with the social upheavals taking place both near and far. But then\, while trying to impress the girl he likes\, he winds u p at a demonstration where a journalist snaps a picture of him that appear s in the following day’s newspapers. Before long\, Marwann has become an unwitting face of the Arab Spring and the center of attention at school . He soon finds himself questioning how fully he should embrace this newfo und identity and what it reveals about his family roots and origins — an d whether he can reconcile his mixed intentions. My Revolution is a smar t\, endearing and timely story. It reflects the director’s belief that “where you belong is where you’re loved\, and the languages we speak m ake us who we are.”  ~SJ\n\nAlso showing: Wednesday\, October 26 | 4: 15 p.m. | BB\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/MyR evolution.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:376@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T201500 DTSTAMP:20161012T214659Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/p-s-jerusalem/ SUMMARY:P.S. Jerusalem DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Danae Elon\nCanada/Israel | Hebrew/Arabic/Engli sh w/ English subtitles | Documentary | 2015 | 87 min\nFilm Source:  Fil moption International\nSponsor:  Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City P rogram\n\nShowtime: Saturday\, October 29 | 6:45 p.m. | FH\n\nAwards:  S pecial Jury Prize – Haifa International Film Festival\n\nDirector Danae  Elon will be in attendance.\n\nFilmmaker Danae Elon\, the daughter of writer Amos Elon\, grew up in Jerusalem before relocating to New York Ci ty. In this film\, she chronicles what happens when she and her husband\, Philip\, a French-Algerian Jew who never lived in Israel\, move their fami ly to Jerusalem. Shot over the course of three years\, the film captures h ow the city’s tensions become internalized within the family\, exposing divisions between past and present\, hope and reality. Elon turns the ca mera on her three young boys as they ask endless questions and confront th e reality around them. We learn to see the Palestinian-Israeli reality fro m their point of view and that of their friends. She sends them to the onl y school in the city that teaches Arab and Jewish children together\, a re spite from the conflict enveloping her surroundings. But can she keep her family together — and keep a cool head — in the political and cultural heat of Jerusalem?  ~OY\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/P.S .-Jerusalem.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:382@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T224500 DTSTAMP:20161028T220509Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-salesman-forushande/ SUMMARY:The Salesman (Forushande) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ashgar Farhadi\nIran/France | Farsi w/ English su btitles | Fiction | 2016 | 125 min\nFilm Source:  Cohen Media\n\nShowtime : Saturday\, October 29 | 8:30 p.m. | BB\n\nAwards:  Iran’s official s ubmission to the 2016 Academy Awards\n\nAshgar Farhadi’s unnerving pre -credit and opening scenes set the tone for this masterful narrative of a middle-class couple. Emad and Rana\, during the course of rehearsals fo r Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman\, undergo traumatic events that c ause cracks in their relationship — just like the cracks in the Tehran a partment building they live in. Farhadi\, the lauded writer-director of t he Oscar-winning 2011 film A Separation\, keeps us on our toes in this dr ama that’s part revenge thriller and part psychoanalysis of trauma. Afte r Rana is attacked in the shower one night\, Emad pours his anger on t he unknown attacker. But Rana refuses to go to the police. Does Emad’ s desire for revenge help Rana overcome the effects of this traumatic e vent\, or does his lack of understanding for what she has to endure make t hings worse? The tension mounts incrementally as he seeks clues to the ide ntity of the attacker and we are left with questions about the role of mer cy and vengeance.  ~OY\n\nAlso Showing: Wednesday\, October 26 | 3:45 p .m. | FH\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The Salesman_Image1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:392@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161029T223000 DTSTAMP:20161014T192359Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/under-the-shadow-2/ SUMMARY:Under the Shadow DESCRIPTION:Directed by Babak Anvari\nJordan/UK | Farsi w/ English subtit les | Fiction | 2016 | 86 min\nFilm Source: Vertical Entertainment\n\nShow time: Saturday\, October 29 | 9:00 p.m. | FH\nPart of the VTIFF After Dark Spotlight\nDirector Babak Anvari’s first feature film will surely dr aw comparisons to The Babadook. As in that contemporary classic\, there ’s a great deal lurking under the surface. It’s 1988 in Tehran. The Ir an-Iraq war continues on\, with daily bombings. The country’s bloody rev olution slowly tears a mother and daughter apart. As they struggle to stay together in the midst of these modern terrors\, a mysterious evil stalks through their apartment\, threatening their grip on reality. This claustro phobic combination of the evils of man and the supernatural create a gripp ing\, visceral horror experience.  ~EF\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Und er-the-Shadow.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:360@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T124500 DTSTAMP:20161012T214930Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/layla-fourie/ SUMMARY:Layla Fourie DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Pia Marais\nSouth Africa/Germany | Fiction | 20 13 | 108 min\nFilm Source:  Filmmaker\n\nShowtime: Sunday\, October 30 | 11:00 am | FH\n\nFor her third feature film\, Pia Marais - who has lived in Berlin for many years - returned to South Africa where she grew up to make this classy thriller. Layla Fourie (Rayna Campbell)\, a young sin gle-mother who works as a polygraph examiner\, is sent far away to test po tential employees for a casino. She has to take her young son Kane with he r because she has no one she can turn to for help. When an accident happen s along the way\, Layla doesn’t fully appreciate the effect it has on both her and her son and the consequences it will create. In the constant presence of mistrust\, lies and fear\, she soon becomes a suspect herself.  Layla Fourie develops into a political thriller which takes the audien ce into the paranoia\, fear and mistrust of a society that is still profou ndly affected by racial conflict.  ~OY\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Lay laFourie3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:396@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T121500 DTSTAMP:20161002T201725Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/scratchatopia-animation-workshop/ SUMMARY:Scratchatopia Animation Workshop DESCRIPTION:Scratchatopia Animation Workshop with Steve Woloshen\n\nShowtim e: Sunday\, October 30 | 11:00 a.m. | Atrium\n\nFestival favorite and int ernationally renowned animator Woloshen returns to VTIFF with a special an imation workshop. Young and old alike can explore the joys of camera-less filmmaking and discover new tricks and techniques along the way. Participa nts are encouraged to choose materials and tools\, and then scratch\, pain t and collage directly onto the surface of clear leader\, black leader or previously shot material! The goal of this exceptional workshop is to expl ore\, play and take risks with animation. All results will be digitized an d viewed publicly on the day! See Woloshen’s website: ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/scr atchatopia-Woloshen.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Atrium\, 60 Lake Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05 401\, United States GEO:44.4774688;-73.2196841 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, Burlington \, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landi ng Atrium:geo:44.4774688,-73.2196841 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:346@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T144500 DTSTAMP:20161012T215024Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/everybody-knows-elizabeth-murray/ SUMMARY:Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Kristi Zea\nUSA | Documentary | 2015 | 81 min\nF ilm Source: RubyRed Productions\nSponsor: Barbara Zucker\n\nShowtime: S unday\, October 30 | 1:15 p.m. | FH\n\nDirector Kristi Zea\, Producer Car oline Goodman-Thomases and Producer Jacki Ochs will be in attendance\n\ nAn intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist Elizabeth Murray\, Eve rybody Knows... explores the relationship between Murray’s family life and career and reconsiders her place in contemporary art history. Verité  footage\, home videos and excerpts from her journals\, voiced by Meryl  Streep\, detail Murray’s internal struggles and incredible ambition. Exc lusive interviews with art world luminaries provide the historical backdro p for the New York art scene. Murray moved to New York City in 1967. In 20 05\, she was the fifth woman to be celebrated with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Zea\, who was the production designer for film lumi naries such as Martin Scorsese\, Jonathan Demme and Barry Levinson\, bri ngs a unique cinematic eye to the visual art world.  ~OY\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Eli zabethMurray.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:356@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T153000 DTSTAMP:20161030T122536Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/havana-suite-suite-habana/ SUMMARY:Havana Suite (Suite Habana) DESCRIPTION:Directed by Fernando Pérez\nCuba/Spain | Spanish w/ English subtitles | Documentary | 2003 | 85 min\nFilm Source: Americas Media Initi ative\nSponsor: Anna Blackmer\n\nShowtime: Sunday\, October 30 | 1:45 p.m . | BB\nPart of the Cuban Cinema Spotlight\nProducer Dany Diaz and AMI D irector Alex Halkin will be in attendance. \n\nFernando Pérez\, who w rote and directed Suite Habana\, is considered by many to be Cuba’s gre atest living filmmaker. The film\, which explores the boundaries between d ocumentary and fiction\, follows 10 people\, from dawn until late at night \, as they go about their lives in Havana.  There is virtually no dialogu e\, and no voiceover narration — yet Suite Habana probes deeply into t he lives of ordinary working-class Cubans in ways that create a complex an d open-ended portrait of the city. With a beautiful score by Alejandro Ed esio\, the movie itself structured like a piece of music. Still accurate a nd relevant 13 years after its release\, this film portrays the Havana tha t you will not see on any tour.  ~AB\n\nAlina\, 6 años (Alina\, 6 Yea rs Old) will screen before Suite Habana\nDirected by Milena Almira and Man uel Benito de Valle| Fiction | 2008 | 5 min\nA young girl looking through a family photos album remembers moments in her infancy where nothing is wh at it appears.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hav ana-Suite-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:386@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T164500 DTSTAMP:20161012T215201Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sixty-six/ SUMMARY:Sixty Six DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Lewis Klahr\nUSA | Animation/Experimental | 2002 -2015 | 90 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nSponsor:  Judy Gerber\n\nShowtime : Sunday\, October 30 | 3:15 p.m. | FH\n\nDirector Lewis Klahr will part icipate in a Q&\;A via Skype.\n\nCombining ambitious artistry and forma l inventiveness with a pulp sensibility\, an ingenious approach and a bit of kitsch\, master collagist and animator Lewis Khlar has created a capt ivating stop-motion mosaic that employs a potent stew of media and techniq ues. Consisting of 12 chapters made over the course of 13 years\, and play ing like a loose picaresque across a shady\, fedora-and-high-heel strewn p ast\, Sixty Six is an avant-garde work that trucks in the language of ma ss culture. It’s a kind of reimagined Route 66 littered with Pop Art eph emera\, mythical allusions\, noirish postures and stray American idioms. Leonard Cohen and Euripedes sharing smokes with Roy Lichtenstein and Mi ckey Spillane. Debuting last December at MoMA\, the anthology film has pr imarily been presented in museums and galleries. This VTIFF screening is a rare chance to see this singular masterwork in a theatrical setting\; a b ound-to-be-fascinating post-film discussion with Khlar over Skype only s weetens the deal. A unique cinematic experience that blurs boundaries betw een art forms\, Sixty Six is why film festivals exist.  ~SJ\n\n \; \n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Six ty-Six.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:394@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T180000 DTSTAMP:20161012T215252Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wall-of-words-la-pared-de-las-palabras/ SUMMARY:The Wall of Words (La Pared de las Palabras) DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Fernando Pérez\nCuba | Spanish w/ English subti tles | Fiction | 2014 | 97 min\nFilm Source:  Americas Media Initiative\n Sponsor: Anonymous\n\nShowtime: Sunday\, October 30 | 4:00 p.m. | BB\n\nPr oducer Dany Diaz and AMI Director Alex Halkin will be in attendance.\n Part of the Cuban Cinema Spotlight\nWe are pleased to present two of Fern ando Pérez’s films as part of the Cuban Cinema Spotlight: Havana Suite  and The Wall of Words. In The Wall of Words\, Luis\, since childhood\, has suffered from dystonia and cannot communicate through body language o r words. Between the medical institution and family\, his inner life is an impenetrable wall. By crafting a fictional story of a family that falls a part when one of the siblings becomes disabled\, Pérez provides a parable of the difficult topics of human communication\, pain and the limits of s acrifice.  ~AH\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/La- Pared-de-las-palabras-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:343@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T201500 DTSTAMP:20161012T215348Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/contemporary-color-2/ SUMMARY:Contemporary Color DESCRIPTION:\nDirected by Bill Ross IV &\; Turner Ross\nUSA | Documentar y | 2016 | 107 min\nFilm Source:  Oscilloscope\nSponsor:  Lyric Theatre\ n\nShowtime: Sunday\, October 30 | 6:30 p.m. | FH\n\nAwards:  Best Docum entary Cinematography &\; Best Editing – Tribeca Film Festival\n* C losing Night Film *\nWhen David Byrne was asked by a high school color gua rd team for permission to use one of his songs for a routine\, the restles sly innovative musical icon became intrigued by the unusual combination of dance-and-drill choreography and design work that color guard — the “sport of the arts” — showcases. So the former Talking Heads fron tman conceived a spectacle that would marry 10 performances from the top teams in North America with original compositions by 10 adventurous and e xciting musical acts\, including St. Vincent\, Ad-Rock (of The Beastie Boy s)\, Ira Glass\, Nelly Furtado and tUnE-yArDs. The cumulative result\, captured in Contemporary Color\, is a wild fusion of music\, performance and cinema — an ebullient celebration of collaboration and imaginative audacity. Explaining his reasons for acquiring the distribution rights to the film\, Oscilloscope Laboratories’ Dan Berger calls it “an otherwo rldly blend of athleticism\, grace\, spirit and art captured in an unbelie vably electric and creative way. Watching Contemporary Color isn’t jus t watching a film. It is experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime performance t hat is so much more than the sum of its set list.” What better way\, the n\, to commemorate the closing night of this year’s festival?  ~SJ\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Con temporary-Color-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:403@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161117T210000 DTSTAMP:20161110T180911Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tanna-presented-by-main-street-landing-vtiff/ SUMMARY:Tanna - Presented by Main Street Landing & VTIFF DESCRIPTION:Directed by Martin Butler &\; Bentley Dean\nAustralia/Vanuat o | Nauvhal w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 2016 | 104 min\nFilm Sourc e:  Lightyear Entertainment\n\nAwards: Best Direction in a Feature Fil m – Australian Directors Guild Awards / Best Cinematography – Venice F ilm Festival / Australia’s official submission to the 89th Academy Award s\n\nAfter a young woman runs away with the man she loves to avoid an arra nged marriage\, villagers wrestle with preserving their traditional cultur e\, or adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedo m. Tanna is the first-ever feature shot entirely in the South Pacific na tion of Vanuatu. Based on dramatic events that took place on the volcani c island of Tanna in 1987\, Tanna is breathtakingly beautiful and comp ellingly told. The filmmakers spent seven months living with the Yakel\, a tribe whose customs and lifestyle have changed little for centuries. Dur ing this time the filmmakers were told of a great love story from the rece nt past. The result was a screenplay written in close collaboration with t he Yakel and performed predominantly by its members\, who had never seen a film before. An eye-opening scene sees arranged marriage defended via the example of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II. This Romeo and Julie t story offers not only a glimpse into a remote and unfamiliar place and c ulture\, but also raises questions about the traditional and the modern. T he story is about opposed tribes\, their attempts to make peace\, and two lovers who rebel after one is steered into an arranged marriage.  ~OY\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tan na2.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:404@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161215T210000 DTSTAMP:20161118T150525Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/2016-vermont-filmmakers-showcase-award-winner s/ SUMMARY:2016 Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase Award Winners DESCRIPTION:Presented by Main Street Landing &\; VTIFF\n\nThe 2016 Vermo nt Filmmakers' Showcase Award Winners:\n\nBecoming a Woman\nDirected by Ke vin Christopher\nWritten &\; produced by Marianne DiMascio &\; Angie Albeck\nFiction | 7 min\nWinner: Chris Caswell\, VTIFF Best Acting Award \, a VTIFF Patron Membership.\n\nSunday 1287\nDirected &\; written by Brandon del Pozo\nFiction | 11 min\nWinner: Ben &\; Jerry Award\, a $30 0 cash prize given to recognize and support a Vermont filmmaker who\, thro ugh the lens\, documented and raised awareness of an important social or e nvironmental issue with verve and ingenuity.\n\nBlack Canaries\nDirected & amp\; produced by Jesse Kreitzer\nFiction | 18 min 30 sec\nWinner: James G oldstone Award\, a $1\,000 cash award given to an Emerging Vermont Filmmak er and sponsored by Bill Stetson &\; VTIFF.\nWinner: Urban Rhino Visual Award\, a $250 cash prize given for Best Cinematography.\n\nThe Collinwo od Fire\nDirected by Daniel Houghton\nAnimation | 6 min\nWinner: Zero Grav ity Award\, a $500 cash prize for the Most Innovative film.\nWinner: Foota ge Farm USA Award\, a credit for stock footage worth $600 from the Foota ge Farm collection given for most creative use of archival footage.\n\nDad 's 50th Surprise Party\nDirected\, written &\; edited by Matt Lennon\nF iction | 9 min 31 sec\nWinner: Hawk Award\, a $350 cash prize for Best Scr eenplay\, sponsored by Hawk Ostby.\n\nPeace Has No Borders\nDirected by D eb Ellis &\; Denis Mueller\nDocumentary | 70 min\nWinner: VCAM Audienc e Favorite Award\, $200 by popular ballot.\n\n \;\n\nRegretfully\, we won't be including High Water Mark: The Rise &\; Fall of The Pants\, directed\, written\, edited &\; co-produced by Bill Simmon that won the Hotel Vermont Award\, a $250 cash prize\,  given to a film that creates the Best Sense of Place. However\, you can purchase a copy of the film he re. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Pea ce-Has-No-Borders.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,Vermont Films LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:405@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170126T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170126T210000 DTSTAMP:20170106T230904Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/i-am-not-your-negro/ SUMMARY:I Am Not Your Negro DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: I Am Not Your Negro\nSponsored by Main Street L anding and the Peace &\; Justice Center\n\nDirected by Raoul Peck\nUSA /France | Documentary | 2016 | 95 min\n\nIn 1979\, James Baldwin wrote a l etter to his literary agent describing his next project\, Remember This Ho use. The book was to be a revolutionary\, personal account of the lives an d successive assassinations of three of his close friends - Medgar Evers\, Malcolm X\, and Martin Luther King\, Jr.\n\nAt the time of Baldwin's deat h in 1987\, he left behind only thirty completed pages of this manuscript. \n\nNow\, in his incendiary new documentary\, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical\, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America\, using Baldwin's origina l words and a wealth of riveting archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights m ovement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions b lack representation in Hollywood and beyond. And\, ultimately\, by confron ting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these t hree leaders\, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the v ery definition of what America stands for.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/JB- 2.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:422@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170207T210000 DTSTAMP:20170125T165421Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/i-am-not-your-negro-2nd-screening/ SUMMARY:I Am Not Your Negro - 2nd Screening DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: I Am Not Your Negro\nSponsored by Champlain Col lege\n\nDirected by Raoul Peck\nUSA/France | Documentary | 2016 | 95 min\n \nIn 1979\, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project\, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary \, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends - Medgar Evers\, Malcolm X\, and Martin Luther King\, J r.\n\nAt the time of Baldwin's death in 1987\, he left behind only thirty completed pages of this manuscript.\n\nNow\, in his incendiary new documen tary\, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical\, up-to-the-minute examination of race i n America\, using Baldwin's original words and a wealth of riveting archiv al material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that conn ects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMa tter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and be yond. And\, ultimately\, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders\, Baldwin and Peck have pr oduced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands f or.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/JB- 2.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Champlain College\, Alumni Auditorium\, 375 Maple Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4739887;-73.20406350000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=375 Maple Street\, Burlingt on\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Champlain Colle ge\, Alumni Auditorium:geo:44.4739887,-73.20406350000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:423@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170208T210000 DTSTAMP:20170202T225214Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/i-am-not-your-negro-3rd-screening/ SUMMARY:I Am Not Your Negro - 3rd Screening DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: I Am Not Your Negro\nSponsored by Main Street L anding\n\nBy popular demand\, and with the great support of Main Street La nding\, we are able to bring you a 3rd screening of this must see film.  Equal means equal.\n\nDirected by Raoul Peck\nUSA/France | Documentary | 2 016 | 95 min\n\nIn 1979\, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary age nt describing his next project\, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary\, personal account of the lives and successive assassinatio ns of three of his close friends - Medgar Evers\, Malcolm X\, and Martin L uther King\, Jr.\n\nAt the time of Baldwin's death in 1987\, he left behin d only thirty completed pages of this manuscript.\n\nNow\, in his incendia ry new documentary\, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical\, up-to-the-minute examina tion of race in America\, using Baldwin's original words and a wealth of r iveting archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black his tory that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Ho llywood and beyond. And\, ultimately\, by confronting the deeper connectio ns between the lives and assassination of these three leaders\, Baldwin an d Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what Am erica stands for.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/JB- 2.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:424@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T200000 DTSTAMP:20170210T162858Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/i-am-not-your-negro-4th-screening/ SUMMARY:I Am Not Your Negro - 4th Screening DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: I Am Not Your Negro\n\nBy popular demand and in partnership with St. Michael's College we are able to release 150 tickets to the public for this additional screening.\nMcCarthy Arts Center\, near the main entrance to St. Michael's College in Colchester.\n\nDirected by Raoul Peck\nUSA/France | Documentary | 2016 | 95 min\n\nIn 1979\, James Ba ldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project\, R emember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary\, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends - Medgar Evers\, Malcolm X\, and Martin Luther King\, Jr.\n\nAt the time of Baldwin's death in 1987\, he left behind only thirty completed pages of t his manuscript.\n\nNow\, in his incendiary new documentary\, master filmma ker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical\, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America\, using Ba ldwin's original words and a wealth of riveting archival material. I Am No t Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film t hat questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And\, ultimate ly\, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassina tion of these three leaders\, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that c hallenges the very definition of what America stands for.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/JB- 2.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:St. Michael's College\, McCarthy Arts Center\, Colchester\, United States GEO:44.4937623;-73.16621459999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=McCarthy Arts Center\, Colc hester\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=St. Michael's College:ge o:44.4937623,-73.16621459999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:408@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170219T233000 DTSTAMP:20170216T175630Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/global-roots-film-festival-food-music/ SUMMARY:Global Roots Film Festival: Food & Music DESCRIPTION:This year's first Global Roots Film Festival will feature films about music and food! The three-day festival promises to be a great way t o experience our musical and culinary roots\, with visiting filmmakers and daily receptions as well as exceptional films! There will be a daily cash bar and snacks from 5 or 5:30 to 6 or 6:30\, depending on the screening s chedule\, to enhance your festival experience  - a gathering place to tal k about films and meet some of the filmmakers.\n\n\n\n\n\nDaily light food fare prepared by Frank Pace and sponsored by The Great Northern\, Burling ton's new restaurant on Pine Street. Cash bar by Zero Gravity.\n\n \n\n\n For the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. Show your pass at the door and walk straight in. Pass holde rs do not need to book tickets in advance. For more information about pass es\, go HERE.\n\nSCHEDULE (click on the film titles for more info and indi vidual screening tickets):\nFriday\, 2/17\n\n11:30am – Student Matinee: Sonita\nDirected by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghemi\nIran/Germany/Switzerland | Do cumentary | 2015 | 90 min\n\n5:30 - Opening Reception and cash bar\n\n6:30 pm – Ella Brennan: Commanding the Table\nDirected by Leslie Iwerks\nUSA | Documentary | 2016 | 96 min\n\n8:30pm – Mali Blues\nDirected by Lutz G regor\nGermany/Mali | Documentary | 2016 | 95 min\n\nSaturday\, 2/18\n\n11 :30am – Score: A Film Music Documentary\nDirected by Matt Schrader\nUSA | Documentary | 2016 | 93 min\n\n1:30pm – Black Wax\nDirected by Robert Mugge\nUSA | Documentary | 1982 | 79 min\nRobert Mugge in attendance\n\n3: 30pm – I Am the Blues\nDirected by Daniel Cross\nCanada/USA | Documentar y | 2015 | 106 min\nDaniel Cross in attendance.\n\n5:15 - Panel with Mugge and Cross\, moderated by William Ellis of St Michael's College\n\n6:00pm - Reception and cash bar\n\n7:00pm - Yallah! Underground\nDirected by Fari d Eslam\nCzech Republic/Germany/UK/Egypt/Canada/USA | 2016 | 85 min\n\nSun day\, 2/19\n\n11:30am - Seed: The Untold Story\nDirected by Jon Betz &\ ; Taggart Siegel\nUSA | Documentary | 2016 | 94 min\n\n1:00pm - Lake Champ lain chocolates and David's Teas\n\n1:30pm – The Chocolate Case\nDirecte d by Benthe Forrer\nNetherlands | Documentary | 2016 | 90 min\nFollowed by Q&\;A with Eric Lampman\, CEO of Lake Champlain Chocolates.\n\n4:00pm - The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev\nDirected by Tal Barda &\; Noam P inchas\nIsrael | Documentary | 2016 | 74 min\n\n5:30 - Reception and cash bar\n\n6:30pm – Babette's Feast\nDirected by Gabriel Axel\nDenmark | Fic tion | 1987 | 105 min\n\nEvent Partners: Burlington City Arts and Tally Ho Design.\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/I-A M-THE-BLUES-FOR-FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:406@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T133000 DTSTAMP:20170113T222742Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/student-matinee-sonita/ SUMMARY:Student Matinee: Sonita DESCRIPTION:Sonita\nDirected by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghemi\nIran/Germany/Sw itzerland | Farsi/Dari/English w/ English subtitles | Documentary | 2015 | 90 min\nFilm Source:  Women Make Movies\n\nGrand Jury Prize &\; Audie nce Award for World Cinema Documentary – Sundance Film Festival\n\nRecen tly nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary\n\nSoni ta is a teenage girl\, a rapper\, an Afghan refugee living in Iran\, and\ , in her mind\, a star. The young girls she meets find their voices throug h her music and are wowed by the power and confidence she exudes. Eventu ally even the film’s director\, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami\, finds herse lf drawn in as part of her subject's story\, blurring the boundaries and m aking the audience question who is in control. Although the subject is timely\, serious and heart wrenching — especially as Sonita's family threatens to sell her into marriage — the film always manages to be upbe at and inspirational\, due to the magnetism of its subject. This movie w on't likely be the last we see of Sonita.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Son ita_Signature.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:413@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T200000 DTSTAMP:20170206T204339Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ella-brennan-commanding-the-table/ SUMMARY:Ella Brennan: Commanding the Table DESCRIPTION:Ella Brennan: Commanding the Table\nDirected by Leslie Iwerks\n USA | Documentary | 2016 | 96 min\nPrint Source: Cargo Film &\; Releasi ng\n\nElla Brennan is a household name in the restaurant industry. Known today as the inspirational matriarch of the rambling Brennan family of New Orleans and the force of nature behind first Brennan's and then Commander 's Palace. Fired by her family at one point\, she soldiered on. She was t he creator of elaborate New Orleans breakfasts and jazz brunches and revol utionized Creole cuisine. A pioneer of the modern American food movement\, she pushed her chefs to the forefront helping to launch the celebrity che f phenomenon.\n\nWhat many don’t know is that when Ella Brennan was a te enager in 1940's New Orleans\, the city’s food and drink business was in its infant stage\, generating less than a million dollars a year. Today\, it has grown into a billion-dollar industry for the city\, many crediting the Brennan family\, guided by Ella for pushing Creole wining and dining into the American mainstream and creating a lasting impact on how American s eat and drink.\n\nInterviews and verite footage with current and former chefs from Commander's Palace\, restaurateurs\, peers\, family and friends will provide past and present glimpses into Ella's unique life and world. This is the intimate and triumphant story of a groundbreaking American wo man.\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasi ng a full festival pass. For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Com mandingTheTable.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:411@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T220000 DTSTAMP:20170122T222530Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mali-blues/ SUMMARY:Mali Blues DESCRIPTION:Mali Blues\nDirected by Lutz Gregor\nGermany/Mali | French w/ E nglish Subtitles | Documentary | 2016 | 95 min\nPrint source: Courtesy Ica rus Films\nVermont Premiere\n\nMali Blues illustrates Mali’s rich musica l culture. Alongside Fatoumata Diawara – the young shooting star of the global pop scene – we travel through breath-taking landscapes and discov er Mali’s agitated heart from Bamako in the Southwest to the “Festival au Désert“ in northern Timbuktu. Diawara symbolizes a young generatio n of African women: energetic\, strong-minded\, confident and politically engaged. She is dedicated to unify all artists spread throughout Mali who feel threatened by sharia and want to defend their right to music as a hum an right against religious militants.\n\nMali Blues also depicts the root s of Afro-American blues and jazz. Through the songs\, we get to know the artists’ hopes and dreams as well as their daily sorrows. Whoever tries to take the music from Mali rips out this country’s heart.\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/MAL I-BLUES-01_Image-courtesy-Icarus-Films_Photo-copyright-Konrad-Waldmann.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:421@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170218T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170218T130000 DTSTAMP:20170209T193538Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/score-a-film-music-documentary/ SUMMARY:Score: A Film Music Documentary DESCRIPTION:Score\nDirected by Matt Schrader\nUSA | Documentary | 2016 | 93 min\nPrint source: The Film Collaborative\nVermont Premiere\n\nWhat ma kes a score unforgettable? This documentary brings Hollywood's premier com posers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical chall enges and creative secrecy of the world's most widely known music genre: t he film score. Score follows the creative struggles of designing a modern soundtrack from scratch\, featuring some of cinema’s most recognized nam es in film music.\n\nSCORE explores the power and influence of film scores in the modern world while revealing the evolution of sound and how compos ers assemble music the complements a picture to achieve powerful reactions from worldwide audiences.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Sco re-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:409@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170218T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170218T150000 DTSTAMP:20170202T201920Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/black-wax/ SUMMARY:Black Wax DESCRIPTION:Black Wax\nDirected by Robert Mugge\nUSA | Documentary | 1982 | 79 min\nPrint source: filmmaker\nThis screening and Robert Mugge's attend ance is in partnership with St. Michael's College.\n\nDirector Robert Mugg e will be in attendance for the screening.\n He and director David Cross w ill participate in a panel at 5:15pm on Saturday\, moderated by Bill Ellis .\n\n"It is doubtful that any musician has been better served by a film do cumentary. Brilliant. When Gil Scott-Heron sings he seems to be glowing wi th passion and sincerity."\n- Ken Tucker\, Philadelphia Inquirer\n\n"Gil S cott-Heron's long-standing political commitment and protean influence on r ap sing-speech are finally given their due in this Outstanding documentary ."\n-  Michael Shore\, Music Video Consumer's Guide\n\nBlack Wax captures the late\, great Gil Scott-Heron in his prime\, featuring the writer\, mu sician\, spoken-word artist and self-described ‘bluesologist’ as he pe rforms in Washington\, D.C. with his Midnight Band in 1982. Scenes of Scot t-Heron delivering political musings and penetrating poetry on the streets of D.C. and around the national monuments are interspersed with live foot age\, creating an indelible portrait of the singular artist whose influenc e and relevance is still powerfully felt today.\n\nThis 35th Anniversary p resentation is both a celebration of the iconic artist and an excellent ex ample of director Robert Mugge’s impressive body of work. Mugge has spen t decades chronicling American music\, with documentaries about artists su ch as Robert Johnson\, Sun-Ra\, and Sonny Rollins as well as regional port raits of Zydeco music\, Memphis blues\, Juke Joint culture\, Hawaiian danc e traditions\, and more. In the process\, he has established himself as th e country’s foremost music documentarian\, capturing (in the words of Th e Boston Phoenix) “the beating heart of great American roots music at it s most soulful and authentic on film.”\n\n\nFor the best value and exper ience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more info rmation about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Bla ckWax.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:410@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170218T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170218T171500 DTSTAMP:20170122T222521Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/i-am-the-blues/ SUMMARY:I Am the Blues DESCRIPTION:I Am the Blues\nDirected by Daniel Cross\nCanada/USA | Document ary | 2015 | 106 min\nPrint source: Eyesteel Films\n\nDirector Daniel Cros s will be in attendance for the screening.\nHe and Robert Mugge will parti cipate in a panel discussion on Saturday at 5:00pm\, moderated by Bill Ell is.\n\nI Am the Blues takes the audience on a musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou\, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta and Moonshine soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country. The film visits blues musicians rooted in the genre's heyday\, many in their 80s\, still living in the American deep south and touring the Chitlin’ Circuit . Let Bobby Rush\, Barbara Lynn\, Henry Gray\, Carol Fran\, Little Freddie King\, Lazy Lester\, Bilbo Walker\, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes\, RL Boyce\, LC Ulmer\, Lil’ Buck Sinegal and their friends awaken the blues in all o f us.\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchas ing a full festival pass. For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IAm TheBlues2.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:414@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170218T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170218T203000 DTSTAMP:20170122T222510Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/yallah-underground/ SUMMARY:Yallah! Underground DESCRIPTION:Yallah! Underground\nDirected by Farid Eslam\nCzech Republic/Ge rmany/UK/Egypt/Canada/USA | English/Arabic w/ English subtitles | 2016 | 8 5 min\nPrint source: Stray Dogs\nYallah! Underground follows some of today ’s most influential and progressive artists in Arab underground culture  from 2009 to 2013 and documents their work\, dreams and fears in a time  of great change for Arab societies. \nIn a region full of tension\, you ng Arab artists in the Middle East have struggled for years to express the mselves freely and to promote more liberal attitudes within their societie s. During the Arab Spring\, like many others of this new generation\, loc al artists had high hopes for the future and took part in the protests. Ho wever\, after years of turmoil and instability\, young Arabs now have to c hallenge both old and new problems\, being torn between feelings of disill usion and a vague hope for a better future. \n \;\n\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pas s. For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Yal lahUnderground2.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:415@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170219T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170219T130000 DTSTAMP:20170122T222459Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/seed-the-untold-story/ SUMMARY:Seed: The Untold Story DESCRIPTION:Seed: The Untold Story\nDirected by Jon Betz &\; Taggart Sie gel\nUSA | English/Hindi/Spanish w/ English subtitles | Documentary | 2016 | 94 min\nPrint source: Cargo Film &\; Releasing\n\nFew things on Eart h are as miraculous and vital as seeds. Worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. In the last century\, 94% of our seed varieties have d isappeared. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protect ing our 12\,000 year-old food legacy. As biotech chemical companies contro l the majority of our seeds\, farmers\, scientists\, lawyers\, and indigen ous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the future of our food. In a harrowing and heartening story\, these heroes rekindle a lo st connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connecte d to seeds. Seed features Vandana Shiva\, Dr. Jane Goodall\, Andrew Kimbr ell\, Winona Laduke and Raj Patel.\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\ , we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more informatio n about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SEE D.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:412@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170219T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170219T150000 DTSTAMP:20170208T175500Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-chocolate-case/ SUMMARY:The Chocolate Case DESCRIPTION:The Chocolate Case\nDirected by Benthe Forrer\nNetherlands | Du tch/French/English/German w/ English Subtitles | Documentary | 2016 | 90 m in\nPrint source: Offbeat Cinema\nSponsor: Lake Champlain Chocolates | Co me to the screening early and enjoy a taste of these fabulous chocolates! The screening will be followed by a Q&\;A with Eric Lampman\, President of LCC who will talk about the chocolate industry.\n\nThe Chocolate Case follows the incredible journey of three Dutch journalists\, who tried to p ersuade large corporations to end the use of child labor in the chocolate industry\, but when rebuffed\, decided to take matters into their own hand s by creating the world’s first slave-free chocolate bar.\n\nTheir epic 10 year journey\, resulting in the creation of Tony’s Chocolonely\, now one of Holland’s leading brands\, is beautifully pieced together using a rchive footage\, combined with new material\, resulting in an up-tempo\, f unny\, sometimes moving\, but overall inspiring film.\n\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass . For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Cho colateCase.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:419@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170219T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170219T171500 DTSTAMP:20170122T222404Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wonderful-kingdom-of-papa-alaev/ SUMMARY:The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev DESCRIPTION:The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev\nDirected by Tal Barda & \; Noam Pinchas\nIsrael | Hebrew w/ English subtitles | Documentary | 2016 | 74 min\nPrint source: Go2Films\n\nA modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family\, controlled by the charismatic\, funny yet overbearing patriarch\, Papa Alaev\, who at the age of 80 begins to lose his grip on the 'family business\,' sending them on a rigid and unsure tra nsition from Monarchy to Democracy. As generations clash over new musical directions\, competing personal interests and Papa's advancing age\, the f amily show must go on\, but who will lead the band? Set to a blazing triba l soundtrack\, drama and drumbeats sing out from every entertaining exchan ge in this grand family affair.\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\, w e highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more information a bout passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Pap aAlaev.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:420@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170219T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170219T201500 DTSTAMP:20170122T224012Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/babettes-feast-2/ SUMMARY:Babette's Feast DESCRIPTION:Babette's Feast\nDirected by Gabriel Axel\nDenmark | Fiction  | 1987 | 105 min | Danish/Swedish/French w/English subtitles\n30th annive rsary of the film's release.\nThe screening will be preceded by a receptio n &\; cash bar at 5:30\n\nWith so many ways to approach the subject of food and its impact on the world\, we couldn’t help but end this festiv al with a celebration of the pleasures of taste and smell. Babette\, the w onderful Stéphane Audran\, cooks up the most tantalizing feast for the Pr otestant villagers on Denmark's remote Jutland coast. Taking place in mid -19th Century Europe\, the film is as much a paean to French haute cuisine as it is to the pleasures of the flesh\, pitting puritan morals against C atholic sensuality. Beautifully paced\, filmed and scripted\, gentle and h umorous\, this film will perhaps make one yearn for a time when\, with no qualms\, one could just enjoy great food expertly and lovingly cooked.\n \n\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a f ull festival pass. For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Bab bettes-Feast-04-small.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:418@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T203000 DTSTAMP:20170109T232310Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/miss-hokusai/ SUMMARY:Miss Hokusai DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: Miss Hokusai\nSponsored by Main Street Landing\ n\nDirected by Keiichi Hara\nJapan | Japanese w/ English subtitles | Anima ted | PG-13 | 2015 | 93 min.\n\nFrom award-winning director Keiichi Hara ( Colorful) and Japanese powerhouse Production I.G (creators of Ghost in the Shell) comes a remarkable story of the daughter behind one of history’s most famous artists.\n\nAs all of Edo flocks to see the work of the rever ed painter Hokusai\, his daughter O-Ei toils diligently inside his studio. Her masterful portraits\, dragons and erotic sketches – sold under the name of her father – are coveted by upper crust Lords and journeyman pri nt makers alike. Shy and reserved in public\, in the studio O-Ei is as bra sh and uninhibited as her father\, smoking a pipe while sketching drawings that would make contemporary Japanese ladies blush. But despite this fier cely independent spirit\, O-Ei struggles under the domineering influence o f her father and is ridiculed for lacking the life experience that she is attempting to portray in her art. Miss Hokusai‘s bustling Edo (present d ay Tokyo) is filled with yokai spirits\, dragons\, and conniving tradesmen \, while O-Ei’s relationships with her demanding father and blind younge r sister provide a powerful emotional underpinning to this sumptuously-ani mated coming-of-age tale.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/MH3 .jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:425@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170330T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170330T210000 DTSTAMP:20170305T180356Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ti-laurent/ SUMMARY:Ti Laurent DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: Ti Laurent\nSponsored by Main Street Landing &a mp\; The Division of Communication and Creative Media at Champlain Colleg e\n\nDirected by John Rasmussen\nHaiti | Creole w/ English subtitles | 201 5 | 84 min\n\nDirector John Rasmussen is Assistant Professor of Filmmaking in the Division of Communication &\; Creative Media at Champlain Colle ge. He will be in attendance at the screening to introduce the film and le ad a discussion afterward.\n\nBased on the novel\, Lazarillo de Tormes\, T i Laurent is the story of a wayward young man making his way across an ind ifferent landscape in search of food and shelter. He follows his hunger th rough debris and drifters into the arms of various masters. Each one of th em possesses different qualities of deceitful abusiveness\; some disguise it as tough love and others as kindness. Ti Laurent's rogue nature guides him safely through most of his dark comic adventures\, until he runs into the unfamiliar foe of mediocrity\, clothed in untrue purity. This new begu iling adversary leads him into a false sense of stability.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Ped ro-Open.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:427@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170407T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170409T210000 DTSTAMP:20170408T195250Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/global-roots-film-festival-quebec/ SUMMARY:Global Roots Film Festival: Québec DESCRIPTION:Three days of screenings\, guests and receptions celebrating t he cinema of our neighbors to the North.\n\nFor best value\, purchase your  Passes HERE. Individual tickets are also now available - check out the calendar of events or click on the titles below.\n\n \;\n\nFull Progra m &\; Schedule:\n\nFRIDAY\, APRIL 7 \n\n6:00pm - Opening Night Recepti on sponsored by Penny Cluse Cafe\n\n7:00pm - Pays (Boundaries) \nDirecte d by Chloé Robichaud | Fiction | 2016 | 100 min\nThree women find them selves at odds when corporate and community interests clash in this wry po litical comedy.\n\n\nSATURDAY\, APRIL 8 \n\n12:00pm - Ladies &\; Gent lemen\, Mr. Leonard Cohen (w/ The Street and Next Floor)\nPresented by VT PBS &\; RETN \nDirected by Donald Brittain &\; Don Owen | Documen tary | 1965 | English | 45 min\nDirected by Caroline Leaf | Animation | 19 76 | 10 min\nDirected by Denis Villeneuve | Fiction | 2008 | 11 min\nThree shorts\, including an Oscar-nominated animation\, an early work by Denis Villeneuve\, and a 1965 portrait of poet/songwriter Leonard Cohen.\n\n1:45 pm - Ninth Floor\nPresented by VT PBS &\; RETN \nDirected by Mina Shu m | Documentary | 2015 | 81 mins\nAn unflinching inquiry into the infamous and fiercely contested Sir George Williams Riot\, a watershed moment in C anadian race relations.\n\n4:00pm - Québec My Country Mon Pays \nDirect ed by John Walker | Documentary | 2016 | 89 min\nAcclaimed director John Walker explores the linguistic and cultural divides within Québec that ha ve spanned multiple generations and continue today.\n*** Walker will be in attendance for the screening.\n\n6:00pm - Reception sponsored by Honey Ro ad\n\n7:00pm - Corbo \nDirected by Mathieu Denis | Fiction | 2014 | 119 min\nBased on a true story\, Mathieu Denis’ absorbing\, assured drama t ells the story of Jean Corbo\, an idealistic teenager who joins the FLQ i n the 1960s.\n\n\nSUNDAY\, APRIL 9 \n\n11:45am - Waban-aki: People from Where the Sun Rises \nDirected by Alanis Obomsawin | Documentary | 2006 | 104 min\nAn informative\, multi-faceted look at the culture and history o f the Abenaki people of the Odanak area in Québec.\n\n2:00pm - Félix &\; Meira \nDirected by Maxime Giroux | Fiction | 2014 | 105 min\nWor lds collide as a hesitant romance blossoms between a young Hasidic housewi fe and mother and a French Canadian man lost in mourning.\n\n4:15pm - D ’Encre et de sang (Of Ink and Blood) \nDirected by Francis Fortin\, Al exis Fortier Gauthier &\; Maxim Rheault | Fiction | 2016 | 82 min.\nW hen a renowned author is killed outside a bookstore in Montréal\, three d ifferent lives are set spinning in a web of secrets.\n***All three directo rs will be in attendance for the screening.\n\n6:00pm - Reception sponsore d by Honey Road\n\n7:00pm - Paul à Québec\nDirected by François Bouvi er | Fiction | 2015 | 98 min\nSponsored by Alliance française of the Lak e Champlain region\nBased on the award winning comic strip by Michel Raba gliati\, Paul à Québec is a touching look at familial bonds and the pr ocess of farewells.\n\n\nSome of the films in this festival are in French\ , some in English\, many in both. When not in English\, dialogue is subtit led.\n\nThank you to the festival sponsors:\n\nTo the Québec Government Office in Boston for their general sponsorship as well as to RETN and  Vermont PBS for providing LADIES &\; GENTLEMEN\, MR. LEONARD COHEN an d NINTH FLOOR. RETN and Vermont PBS have partnered to present a program of films from the National Film Board of Canada. Those two films will be aired on the channels later in April\, along with OUTBREAK: ANATOMY OF TH E PLAGUE and ST HENRI\, THE 26TH OF AUGUST.  Thank you to Zero Gravity  for providing a daily cash-only bar and to Penny Cluse Cafe and Honey Road Restaurant for sponsoring the daily receptions. As always\, we are also grateful to Burlington City Arts and to Tally Ho Design for their in-kind contributions. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Que bec_My_Country_Mon_Pays_3.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:428@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170407T204500 DTSTAMP:20170406T145441Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pays-boundaries/ SUMMARY:Pays (Boundaries) DESCRIPTION:Pays (Boundaries)\nDirected by Chloé Robichaud | Fiction | 201 6 | 100 min\nFilm Source: Les Films Séville\n\nIn this wry political come dy\, the paths of three women cross in Besco\, a small isolated island fac ing an important economic crisis as the community struggles over the explo itation of the island’s natural resources. Félixe\, an idealistic Canad ian\, elected as a federal deputy at only 25 years old\; Danielle\, a stro ng and confident woman in her mid 40s\, President of Besco\; and Emily\, a talented American mediator in her 30s leading negotiations between both c ountries\, must all contend with professional and personal demands in dire ctor Chloé Robichaud’s impressive second feature.\n\n \;\n\n[captio n id="attachment_8137" align="aligncenter" width="544"] PAYSphotos: Sébas tien Raymond.seb©sebray.com[/caption]\n\nThe screening will be preceded b y the Opening Night reception sponsored by Penny Cluse Cafe and cash bar b y Zero Gravity.\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend p urchasing a full festival pass. For more information about passes\, go HE RE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bou ndaries_05-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:429@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T131500 DTSTAMP:20170317T170623Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ladies-gentlemen-mr-leonard-cohen-w-the-stree t-and-next-floor/ SUMMARY:Ladies & Gentlemen\, Mr. Leonard Cohen (w/ The Street and Next Floo r) DESCRIPTION:Ladies &\; Gentlemen\, Mr. Leonard Cohen (w/ The Street and Next Floor)\n\n\n\nLadies &\; Gentlemen\, Mr. Leonard Cohen\nPresented by VT PBS and RETN\nDirected by Donald Brittain &\; Don Owen | Document ary | 1965 | English | 45 min\nFilm Source: NFB\nThis informal black-and-w hite portrait of Leonard Cohen shows him at age 30 on a visit to his homet own of Montreal\, where the poet\, novelist and songwriter comes "to renew his neurotic affiliations." He reads his poetry to an enthusiastic crowd\ , strolls the streets of the city\, relaxes in this three-dollar-a-night h otel room and even takes a bath.\n\n\n\nThe Street\nDirected by Caroline L eaf | Animation | 1976 | 10 min\nOscar-nominated animated (paint on glass) interpretation of a short story by Montreal author Mordecai Richler. Set in 1930s\, the story follows life in a small apartment as the family polit ely\, and not so politely\, wait for their grandmother to die in the back. \nFilm Source: Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada \n\n\n\nNext Floor\nDirected by Denis Villeneuve | Fiction | 2008 | 11 min\nDuring an opulent and luxurious banquet\, complete with cavalier servers and valets\ , eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic g astronomic carnage. This award-winning early short by director Denis Ville neuve (Arrival\, Sicario\, Prisoners) presents an absurd and grotesque uni verse\, drolly satirizing the endless symphony of abundance.\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pas s. For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/LCo hen-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:430@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T151500 DTSTAMP:20170307T200414Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ninth-floor/ SUMMARY:Ninth Floor DESCRIPTION:Ninth Floor\nPresented by VT PBS and RETN\nDirected by Mina Shu m | Documentary | 2015 | 81 mins\nFilm Source: NFB\n\nIt started quietly w hen a group of Caribbean students\, strangers in a cold new land\, began t o suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive studen t uprising Canada had ever known. \n\nOver four decades later\, Ninth Floo r reopens the file on the infamous Sir George Williams Riot – a watershe d moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in the nation’s history. Making a compassionate and audacious foray int o non-fiction\, writer and director Mina Shum locates the protagonists in clandestine locations throughout Trinidad and Montreal\, the wintry city w here it all went down. In a cinematic gesture of reckoning and redemption\ , she listens as they set the record straight — and lay their burden dow n. Can we make peace with the past? What lessons have we learned? What rea lly happened up there on the 9th floor?\n\n\nFor the best value and experi ence\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more infor mation about passes\, go HERE.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Nin thFloor2-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:431@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T173000 DTSTAMP:20170313T215058Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/quebec-my-country-mon-pays/ SUMMARY:Québec My Country Mon Pays DESCRIPTION:Québec My Country Mon Pays\nDirected by John Walker | Document ary | 2016 | 89 min\n\nDirector John Walker will be in attendance.\n\nQué bec My Country Mon Pays charts the aftermath of Québec’s Quiet Revoluti on in the 1960s. This social justice movement unleashed dramatic cultural and political changes that led to the separatist movement\, the FLQ crisis and\, ultimately\, the exodus of more than a half million English-speakin g Quebecers. Montreal-born filmmaker John Walker reveals his own complica ted relationship with the province in a film brimming with love and longi ng. Walker’s Québec roots go back 250 years. \n\nIn Québec My Country Mon Pays\, Walker explores a very personal story through the lens of a cas t of characters including three generations of his family\, childhood frie nds and contemporaries – Denys Arcand\, Jacques Godbout and Louise Pelle tier – as well as Christina Clark\, a young person whose experience toda y mirrors Walker’s own. In a quest to make sense of a divisive and trans formative moment in Québec’s evolution\, they each wrestle with memorie s\, decisions and the continuing reverberations.\n\n \;\n\n\nFor the b est value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Joh n-Walker-at-Mount-Royal-lookout-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:432@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T210000 DTSTAMP:20170307T201551Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/corbo/ SUMMARY:Corbo DESCRIPTION:Corbo\nDirected by Mathieu Denis | Fiction | 2014 | 119 min\nFi lm Source: Festival Be For Film\n\nMontréal\, spring 1966.\n\nIn a provin ce undergoing profound change\, Jean Corbo\, an idealistic 16-year-old wit h a Québécois mother and a father of Italian descent\, is torn between t wo identities. Befriended by Julie and François\, two young left-wing act ivists\, he joins a clandestine group determined to use violence to trigge r a socialist revolution in the province. This group is the Front de libé ration du Québec (FLQ). Soon\, Corbo and his comrades are taking part in night-time activities\, covering the walls of factories on strike with gra ffiti proclaiming the existence of the terrorist movement to the world.\n\ nMathieu Denis’ absorbing\, assured drama is based on a true story.\n\n\ nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more information about passes\, go HERE.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Cor bo.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:433@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170409T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170409T133000 DTSTAMP:20170317T170358Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/waban-aki-people-from-where-the-sun-rises/ SUMMARY:Waban-aki: People from Where the Sun Rises DESCRIPTION:Waban-aki: People from Where the Sun Rises\nDirected by Alanis Obomsawin | Documentary | 2006 | 104 min\nFilm Source: Courtesy of the Nat ional Film Board of Canada\n\nYvonne M'Sadoques rocks forward in her chair . She's lived in the Abenaki community of Odanak for over a century - and has no shortage of stories to tell.\n\n"The priest would march into our ho me and order us to stop dancing. We were going to the devil\, he said." Sh e pauses\, a humorous glint in her eye. "But you know - I don't really bel ieve in the devil. Do you?"\n\nM'Sadoques is in conversation with Alanis O bomsawin\, another of Odanak's proud daughters - and one of Canada's leadi ng documentary filmmakers. Obomsawin's illustrious career comes full circl e with Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises. Having dedicated nearly four decades to chronicling the lives of Canada's First Nations\, she ret urns to the village where she was raised to craft a lyric account of her o wn people.\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend pu rchasing a full festival pass. For more information about passes\, go HER E. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Wab an-aki2.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:434@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170409T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170409T154500 DTSTAMP:20170313T220017Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/felix-meira/ SUMMARY:Félix & Meira DESCRIPTION:Félix &\; Meira\nDirected by Maxime Giroux | Fiction | 2014 | 105 min\nFilm Source: Oscilloscope\n\nHadas Yaron (of the international ly acclaimed film Fill the Void) returns to the big screen in Maxime Girou x’s Felix and Meira\, a story of an unconventional romance between two p eople living vastly different lives mere blocks away from one another. Mei ra (Yaron)\, a young Hasidic housewife and mother\, and Félix (Martin Dub reuil)\, a man lost in  mourning the recent death of his father\, meet co incidentally at a local bakery in Montreal’s Mile End district. What sta rts as an innocent friendship becomes more serious as the two wayward stra ngers find comfort one another’s company. As Felix opens Meira’s eyes to the world outside of her tight-knit Orthodox community\, her desire for change becomes harder for her to ignore\, ultimately forcing her to choos e: remain in the life that she has always known or give it all up to be wi th Félix. Giroux’s film is a poignant tale of self-discovery\, a fascin ating glimpse into the Hasidic community\, and a modern love story set aga inst backdrops both familiar and unknown. \n\n\nFor the best value and exp erience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more in formation about passes\, go HERE.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/FAM -scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:435@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170409T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170409T174500 DTSTAMP:20170313T220039Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dencre-et-de-sang-of-ink-and-blood/ SUMMARY:D’Encre et de Sang (Of Ink and Blood) DESCRIPTION:D’Encre et de Sang (Of Ink and Blood)\nDirected by Francis Fo rtin\, Alexis Fortier Gauthier &\; Maxim Rheault | Fiction | 2016 | 82 min.\nFilm Source: K-Films Amerique\n\nAll three directors will be in atte ndance.\n\nSébastien owns a bookshop and has literary ambitions of his ow n. He befriends Joseph\, an established novelist whose work he admires. Bu t when Joseph is killed on his doorstep\, Sébastien discovers a mysteriou s manuscript left behind. Sasha\, Sébastien’s only child\, witnesses Jo seph’s death\, and the effects run deep. She finds herself drawn to the author’s son Sidney\, and starts a relationship with him. As the two gro w closer\, the secrets of their fathers threaten their relationship and le ad each of them to seek the truth behind the lies.\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasing a full festival pass. For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DEn cre.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:436@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170409T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170409T203000 DTSTAMP:20170319T175506Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/paul-a-quebec/ SUMMARY:Paul à Québec DESCRIPTION:Paul à Québec\nDirected by François Bouvier | Fiction | 2015 | 98 min\nFilm Source: Les Films Séville\nSponsor: Alliance française o f the Lake Champlain region\n\nPaul is a cartoonist who lives with his gir lfriend and their little daughter in Montreal in the summer of 1999.  His in-laws\, the Beaulieus\, are a large\, joyful clan composed of siblings\ , grandchildren and a much loved patriarch named Roland who constantly rem inds Paul that he has yet to marry his daughter. When Roland’s health be gins failing\, the family bands together and Paul projects his own devotio n by doodling several portraits of his ailing father-in-law.\n\nBased on t he award winning comic strip by Michel Rabagliati\, Paul à Québec is a t ouching ode to the beauty of life and the power of familial bonds.\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n\nFor the best value and experience\, we highly recommend purchasin g a full festival pass. For more information about passes\, go HERE. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pau l-jour6-054-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:438@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170426T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170426T204500 DTSTAMP:20170406T145723Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neruda/ SUMMARY:Neruda DESCRIPTION:VTIFF &\; Burlington Book Festival Present: Neruda\n Sponso red by Champlain College\n\nDirected by Pablo Larraín\nChile/Spain | S panish w/ English Subtitles | 2016 | 107 min\n\nFollowed by an audience Q&\;A with Latin American Poetry professor and Neruda scholar Tina Esca ja\n\nIn Pablo Larraín's critically acclaimed new film\, beloved poet Pab lo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) is also the most famous communist in post-WWII Chi le. When political tides shift\, he's forced underground with a persistent  police inspector (Gael García Bernal) hot on his trail. Meanwhile\, in Europe\, the legend of the Nobel laureate hunted by government authoritie s grows and artists led by Pablo Picasso clamor for the poet’s freedom . Neruda\, however\, sees the struggle with his nemesis as an opportunity to reinvent himself. He cunningly plays with the inspector\, leaving clues designed to make their game of cat-and-mouse ever more perilous. In this enthusiastically reviewed triumph of movie metafiction\, Neruda recognizes his own heroic possibilities: a chance to become a symbol for liberty as well as a literary legend.\n\nThis exclusive Burlington showing of Nerud a is a benefit for the Vermont International Film Foundation and the 2017 Burlington Book Festival. The donation of $20 is recommended but not requ ired. Seats are limited and will be reserved for audience members who mak e their donation in advance.\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ner uda2.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Champlain College\, Alumni Auditorium\, 375 Maple Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4739887;-73.20406350000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=375 Maple Street\, Burlingt on\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Champlain Colle ge\, Alumni Auditorium:geo:44.4739887,-73.20406350000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:437@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170427T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170427T204500 DTSTAMP:20170314T175425Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/glory-slava/ SUMMARY:Glory (Slava) DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: Glory (Slava)\n Sponsored by Main Street Landin g\n\nDirected by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov\nBulgaria/Greece | B ulgarian w/ English Subtitles | 2016 | 101 min\n\nTsanko Petrov\, a railro ad linesman\, finds millions in cash on the train tracks. He decides to tu rn the entire amount over to the police\, for which the state rewards him with a new wristwatch that soon stops working. Meanwhile\, Julia Staikova\ , head of the PR department of the corrupt Ministry of Transport\, loses P etrov’s old watch\, a family relic. Tsanko’s humble reality collides w ith a bureaucratic and media-obsessed professional world\, as he desperate ly struggles to recover both his old watch and his dignity.\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Glo rySlava3.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:445@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170523T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170523T201500 DTSTAMP:20170506T194302Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/in-pursuit-of-silence/ SUMMARY:In Pursuit of Silence DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: In Pursuit of Silence\nIn partnership with All Souls Interfaith Gathering\n\n\nDirected by Patrick Shen\nUSA | 2016 | 81 min\nDoors will open at 6pm. Peak sunset will occur as you exit the screen ing.\n\nA meditative exploration of our relationship with silence\, sound and the impact of noise on our lives. Beginning with an ode to John Cage ’s ground-breaking composition 4'33"\, In Pursuit of Silence takes us on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe– from a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto\, to the streets of the loudest city on the planet\, Mu mbai during the wild festival season – and instantly inspires us to expe rience silence and celebrate the wonders of our world.\n\nDirector's State ment\n\nThe film was shot and edited in a way that mimics our experience o f the world when we are still\; you won’t see any crane moves\, sweeping drone shots\, or pans. The overall rhythm of the film was carefully craft ed with the human metabolism in mind.\nThe film also uses silence’s oppo site to invite viewers into a deeper understanding of silence. As Susan So ntag writes\, “not only does silence exist in a world full of speech and other sounds\, but any given silence takes its identity as a stretch of t ime being perforated by sound.” What silence also does is it teaches us to be more cognizant of the sounds we do make. As theologian Henri Nouwen writes\, “silence teaches us to speak.” When we’re not silent the ho pe is that silence has taught us to be more careful and thoughtful with th e sound we do make\, with the sound we lay on top of that silence. The fil m was created in very much the same way in that every word spoken and ever y note of music was carefully considered and delicately weaved into the fo undation of silence that underlies the entire piece. Ultimately\, I hope t hat the film challenges audiences to slow down and on some level make the world new again for them.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IPO S-SoundscapeTechDavydBetchkal.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:All Souls Interfaith Gathering\, 291 Bostwick Farm Road\, Shelburn e\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.3647457;-73.25513769999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=291 Bostwick Farm Road\, Sh elburne\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=All S ouls Interfaith Gathering:geo:44.3647457,-73.25513769999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:439@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T210000 DTSTAMP:20170427T210317Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-life-as-a-zucchini/ SUMMARY:My Life as a Zucchini DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: My Life as a Zucchini (Ma vie de courgette)\nSp onsored by Main Street Landing\n\nDirected by Claude Barras\nSwitzerland/F rance | French w/ English Subtitles | 2016 | 70 min\nRated PG-13\n\nCollab orating with scriptwriter Céline Sciamma\, (Girlhood and Tomboy)\, Barras creates a balance of dark and light and is unafraid to tackle themes wher e other films just scratch the surface. The film is never cloying and yet manages to find inspiration in this group of kids who have seen it all as they are removed from their harsh environments marred by abuse\, addiction and death. This is a film that will interest adults as much as children. Stop-motion animation and superb character design and color palette\, lift this simple story to heights rarely found in live action films coming of age. “I’m here because I think I killed my mom\,” the big-eyed\, blu e-haired boy who goes by the name Zucchini tells one of his new not-yet-qu ite-friends at the orphanage where is sent to and where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/3nRwYWVxjRU ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MyL ifeAsAZucchini_Still1.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:441@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170526T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170526T203000 DTSTAMP:20170425T223321Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/waking-the-sleeping-giant/ SUMMARY:Waking the Sleeping Giant DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bright Blue EcoMedia and Main Street Landing\nDire ctors Jon Erickson &\; Jacob Smith will be available for Q&\;A after wards.\nVermont premiere.\n\nA feature documentary at the crossroads of th e 2016 election and the fight for civil rights\, economic fairness &\; democracy for all.\n\nFrom the campaign trail with Senator Bernie Sanders to a local political race in the failing economy of rural West Virginia. F rom a mass sit-in on the U.S. Capitol steps to racially charged police com mission hearings in Los Angeles. Waking the Sleeping Giant makes sense of this moment in American politics\, exploring widespread discontent during the 2016 election cycle\, Donald Trump’s dramatic electoral victory\, an d the challenges ahead for those building a re-energized progressive movem ent.\n\nIf the 6:30 show fills\, a second 9:00 pm screening may be added f rom the wait list.\n\nMore details at http://WakingTheSleepingGiant.com. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Wak ing-the-Sleeping-Giant.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,Vermont Films LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:443@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170601T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170604T210000 DTSTAMP:20170427T173611Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/white-river-indie-festival/ SUMMARY:White River Indie Festival DESCRIPTION:White River Indie Festival is an educational non-profit dedicat ed to engaging the public in the political and social issues of our time a nd to supporting the visual arts through film.\n\nFilms are selected for t heir recognized artistic and social merit. By broadening the audience for such films\, hosting discussions\, and partnering with local public intere st groups\, WRIF seeks to fill this void and thereby stimulate greater cit izen participation in political and cultural affairs.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/WRI F-logo.png CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Barrette Center for the Arts\, 74 Gates Street\, White River Junct ion\, VT\, United States GEO:43.6480851;-72.32021079999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=74 Gates Street\, White Riv er Junction\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Barrette Cente r for the Arts:geo:43.6480851,-72.32021079999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:442@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20170609 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20170612 DTSTAMP:20170427T172818Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/scout-film-festival/ SUMMARY:Scout Film Festival DESCRIPTION:Scout is an annual international event that celebrates teen fil mmakers through short film. Every year\, Scout launches an open call to t een filmmakers worldwide. All films are written\, produced and directed by filmmakers 18 and under.Every year\, Scout launches an open call to teen filmmakers worldwide. All films are written\, produced and directed by fil mmakers 18 and under.  Scout produces a 3-day event in June of each year to honor the passion\, talent and accomplishments of these young storytell ers by showcasing their films. As part of the celebration—Scout organize s an opening reception\, an award ceremony\, and a networking brunch. Addi tionally\, to further support the attending filmmakers—Scout coordinates a series of educational programs with industry partners that include work shops and talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sco ut-logo-01.png CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Stowe\, PO Box 342\, Stowe\, Vermont\, 05672\, United States GEO:44.4654332;-72.68740230000003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=PO Box 342\, Stowe\, Vermon t\, 05672\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Stowe:geo:44.4654332, -72.68740230000003 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:447@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170629T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170629T203000 DTSTAMP:20170623T143745Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/food-evolution/ SUMMARY:Food Evolution DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: Food Evolution \n\nSponsored by Main Street La nding\n\nDirected by Scott Hamilton Kennedy\n\nUSA | Documentary | 2017 | 92 min.\n\nFood Evolution is set amidst a brutally polarized debate mark ed by fear\, distrust and confusion: the controversy surrounding GMOs and food.Traveling from Hawaiian papaya groves\, to banana farms in Uganda to the cornfields of Iowa\, Food Evolution wrestles with the emotions and th e evidence driving one of the most heated arguments of our time. Enlistin g experts and icons of the struggle such as Mark Lynas\, Alison Van Eenenn aam\, Jeffrey Smith\, Andrew Kimbrell\, Vandana Shiva\, Robert Fraley\, Ma rion Nestle and Bill Nye\, as well as farmers and scientists from around t he world\, this bold and necessary documentary separates the hype from the science to unravel the debate around food.\n\n\n\n \;\n  \n \;\ n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Foo d-Evolution-Poster-small.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:446@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170630T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170630T213000 DTSTAMP:20170508T184523Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiff-night-ballpark/ SUMMARY:VTIFF Night at the Ballpark DESCRIPTION:Click here for tickets.\nVermont Lake Monsters vs. Staten Islan d Yankees\nFriday\, June 30 first pitch at 7:05 pm\, gates at 6:00 pm\nCen tennial Field\, 287 Colchester Ave.\, Burlington\, VT\nTickets are $6 wit h half of the net proceeds going to VTIFF. Join us at the ballpark to supp ort VTIFF!\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/VTI FF-e1494262634732.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Centennial Field\, 287 Colchester Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.48346340000001;-73.18979179999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=287 Colchester Ave\, Burlin gton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Centennial Fi eld:geo:44.48346340000001,-73.18979179999997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:448@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170727T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170727T210000 DTSTAMP:20170711T191827Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/harold-and-lillian/ SUMMARY:Harold and Lillian DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: Harold and Lillian\nSponsored by Main Street La nding\nDirected by Daniel Raim\nUSA | Documentary | 2016 | 94 min.\nPost-s creening Q &\; A with the director\n\nA deeply moving and yet humorous account of the romantic and creative partnership of storyboard artist Har old Michelson and his wife\, film researcher Lillian Michelson—a talente d couple once considered “the heart of Hollywood.” Harold's compositi ons often served as templates for some of cinema's most iconic shots\, lik e the view through Anne Bancroft's leg towards Dustin Hoffman in The Grad uate or the parting of the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments\, not to men tion the haunting scene of the birds in Hitchcock's The Birds.  Through an engaging mix of love letters\, film clips and candid conversations with Harold and Lillian\, Danny DeVito\, Mel Brooks\, Francis Coppola and othe rs\, the film chronicles their remarkable relationship and two extraordin ary careers spanning six decades of movie-making history. So revered were they by the top directors in Hollywood that when Steven Spielberg produced the film Schreck\, he named the king and queen Harold and Lillian.\n\n"A passionate and beguiling movie-love documentary that shines a light on tw o of the unsung artisan heroes of Hollywood."\n-Variety\n\n\n\n   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/har oldandlilianahollywoodlovestory-2529.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:450@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170822T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170822T193000 DTSTAMP:20170726T160012Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/membership-party/ SUMMARY:Membership Party DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a\nMembership Party!\nAs a thanks for your c ommitment to VTIFF\,\nwe want to celebrate YOU!\nTuesday\, August 22nd\n5: 30 – 7:30pm\n~\nBurlington City Arts (BCA)\n135 Church St\nBurlington\, VT\nAppetizers ~ Music ~ Film Festival Previews ~ Cash Bar*\nNot a member? Join at the party!\nLapsed member? Renew at the party!\n*Sign up to becom e a monthly sustaining member or upgrade your membership level and\nwe’l l thank you with a complimentary drink ticket!\nKindly RSVP to fauna@vtiff .org\nNot sure if you’re a member? Give us a call 802.660.2600 CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:449@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170831T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170831T210000 DTSTAMP:20170706T214222Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/i-daniel-blake/ SUMMARY:I\, Daniel Blake DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: I\, Daniel Blake\nSponsored by Main Street Lan ding\nDirected by Ken Loach\nUK - France - Belgium | 2016 | 100 min.\n\nA warded the Palme d'or at Cannes Film Festival 2016\, I\, Daniel Blake is a quintessential Loach film. Although set in Northern England\, the focus o f the film is as poignant there as it is here. The film follows a middle-a ged\, blue-collar carpenter struggling to navigate the bureaucracy of the British benefits system after an injury leaves him unable to work. When t he state welfare system fails him\, the stubbornly self-reliant Daniel mus t stand up and fight for his dignity\, leading a one-man crusade for compa ssion that will transform the lives of a struggling single mother (Hayley Squires) and her two children. Returning to filmmaking after saying he was retiring in 2014\, the 80-year-old Loach rails against the system with hi s trademark style of stripped-down social realism.Graced with humor and he art\, I\, Daniel Blake is a moving\, much-needed reminder of the power of empathy in today's world.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/I-D aniel-Blake-Poster-SM.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:451@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170928T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170928T210000 DTSTAMP:20170830T222747Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tokyo-idols/ SUMMARY:Tokyo Idols DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: Tokyo Idols\nSponsored by Main Street Landing\n Directed by Kyoko Miyake\nUK - Canada | 2017 | 88 min | Japanese w/English subtitles\n\n\n"This isn't a fad\, it's a religion"\, says one of the men in the film.\n\n"An eye-opening delve into the uniquely Japanese phenomen on of ‘idols’\, the thousands of teenage Japanese girls who favor mang a-style attire and sell themselves as pop stars – both live and on-line – and the largely middle-aged men – or ‘otaku’ as they are known – who obsessively follow them around and pay to have their photos taken with them. Kyoko Miyake’s striking film is non-judgmental in its wry app roach\, and while some of the men’s obsession with the very young idols is disturbing\, the lines are never crossed and sex is never mentioned\, d espite being the subtext." ~ Edinburgh Film Festival\n\n\n \;\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/tok yoidols_press_12.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:455@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T220000 DTSTAMP:20171005T021310Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dinners/ SUMMARY:Five Easy Courses: A VTIFF Fundraiser DESCRIPTION:Ticketing for this event is now closed \n\nPlease join us on Th ursday\, October 5th at 7:00pm at Penny Cluse Cafe for a Special Benefit D inner to support the 2017 Vermont International Film Festival.\n\nLocal ch efs Charles Reeves and Maura O'Sullivan of Penny Cluse Cafe will delight g ourmets and film buffs alike with a delicious multi-course dinner featurin g five courses inspired by some of our favorite films. We'll also be annou ncing the 2017 Vermont international ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/VTI FF_5EasyPieces_Event_FB_event.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Penny Cluse Cafe\, 169 Cherry St. \, Burlington \, VT\, 05401\, Un ited States GEO:44.4791731;-73.21136030000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=169 Cherry St. \, Burlingto n \, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Penny Cluse Caf e:geo:44.4791731,-73.21136030000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:521@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T144500 DTSTAMP:20171013T224708Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/leahy-walton-film/ SUMMARY:Leahy’s first run for the Senate DESCRIPTION:Directed by Dorothy Tod\nUSA | 1974 | 16mm | 30 min\n* Senator and Mrs Leahy will attend. Introduced by Senator Philip Baruth (Senator L eahy: A Life in Scenes) and director Tod *\nNote: Vermont Films are FREE w ith a recommended donation of $5.00. They cannot be booked in advance and seats will be available on a first come-first served basis.\n\nMost Vermon ters know Senator Pat Leahy's love for the Caped Crusader - he's appeared in a handful of blockbuster Batman films\, including Christopher Nolan's D ark Knight trilogy. But few know that his hopeless run for the Senate in 1 974 was saved in its final days by the prime-time debut of a 30-minute cam paign film by Vermont filmmaker Dorothy Tod. This panel features a screeni ng of the movie that Tod still refers to as the Leahy Walton film\, and a talk with her about the making of the film and its impact on Vermont's pol itical culture.  And a bonus: Leahy confronting the late Heath Ledger as the Joker\, in what might be the most memorable performance for either man . ~PB ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/lea hy-e1505161980170.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:514@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T163000 DTSTAMP:20171013T224635Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/looking-back-at-me/ SUMMARY:Looking Back at Me DESCRIPTION:Directed by Alex Escaja\nDocumentary | 2017 | 26 Min\nAwards: 2 nd Place Winner Freedom &\; Unity Film Festival - High School Category\ , Personal Narratives\nVermont Folklife Center Ethnographic Award - Freedo m &\; Unity Film Festival\nAudience Choice Award - Phillips Academy Int erscholastic Film Festival\n* The filmmakers will be in attendance *\nNote : This Showcase also includes the film Hidden Blueprints\nVermont Films ar e FREE with a recommended donation of $5.00. They cannot be booked in adva nce and seats will be available on a first come-first served basis.\n\nSad e Bolger is an 18-year-old musician from Vermont who has recently come out as non-binary. Looking Back at Me highlights Sade in relation to their pa ssion for music\, their unapologetic authenticity\, and their life in Verm ont. As part of a genuine effort to influence the future\, both online and in person\, Sade represents and gives voice to the trans and non-binary p eople in the world who constantly combat stigma and erasure. Sade’s stor y embodies the intersectionalitiy between identities\, passions\, and the places we call home. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Loo king-Back-e1505158576151.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:515@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T163000 DTSTAMP:20171013T224732Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hidden-blueprints/ SUMMARY:Hidden Blueprints: The Story of Mikey DESCRIPTION:Hidden Blueprints: The Story of Mikey\n\nDirected by Jeremy Lee MacKenzie\nDocumentary | 2017 | 15 min\nWorld Premiere\n* The filmmakers will be in attendance *\nNote: This Showcase also includes the film Lookin g Back at Me\nVermont Films are FREE with a recommended donation of $5.00. They cannot be booked in advance and seats will be available on a first c ome-first served basis.\n\n\nA fighting praying mantis named Mikey\, a pri son uprising\, hidden drawings\, and classical mythology retold—all are elements in this story about the transformative power of art. Blending ele ments of documentary and narrative\, this film is a memoir\, a fable\, and a unique commentary on incarceration and freedom. ~AB\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Unk nown-1-e1505160855437.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:454@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T220000 DTSTAMP:20171004T130830Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-filmmakers-showcase-2017/ SUMMARY:Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase 2017 DESCRIPTION:The filmmakers' will attend the screenings. Q&\;As moderated by Michael Fisher.\n\nClick on the title links for dates and times.\n\n\n Burned: Are Trees the Next Coal?\nDirected by Alan Dater &\; Lisa Merto n\nBurned tells the little-known story of the accelerating destruction of our forests for fuel\, and probes the policy loopholes\, huge subsidies\, and blatant green-washing of the burgeoning biomass power industry. A dedi cated group of forest activists\, ecologists\, carbon scientists\, and con cerned citizens are fighting to establish the enormous value of our forest s\, protect their communities\, debunk this false solution to climate chan ge\, and alter energy policy both in the US and abroad. It’s not too lat e.\n\nThe Crest\nDirected by Mark Covino\n\nTwo cousins who live on opposi te coasts in the U.S.--both surfers and both unaware of the other’s exis tence--discover they are descendants of An Ri\, the last King of the Blask et Islands. A collection of rocky islands off the western-most point of Ir eland\, the Blaskets\, surrounded by treacherous ocean\, are home to a com munity of people whose culture was until recently untouched by outside inf luence. Exploring themes of family\, emigration\, and the value of traditi on and culture\, the film follows the cousins as they meet for the first t ime in Ireland on a quest to explore their shared heritage\, to learn what has been passed down to them from those who came before\, and to surf the waters of their ancestors.\n\nIt’s Criminal\nDirected by Signe Taylor\n \nIt's Criminal is a potent critique of the economic and social inequities that divide the United States. Shot in an intimate verite style\, the fil m explores the life-changing experiences of incarcerated women and Dartmou th College students working together to write and perform an original play about the lives of the imprisoned women. It delves into privilege\, pover ty and injustice and asks viewers to think about who is in prison and why. While exploring disparities\, the movie also shares poignant\, personal s tories about how empathy is a powerful force that can help bridge the divi de.\n\nHidden Blueprints: The Story of Mikey\nDirected by Jeremy Lee MacKe nzie\n\nA fighting praying mantis named Mikey\, a prison uprising\, hidden drawings\, and classical mythology retold—all are elements in this stor y about the transformative power of art. Blending elements of documentary and narrative\, this film is a memoir\, a fable\, and a unique commentary on incarceration and freedom.\n\nKairos Dirt and the Errant Vacuum\nDirect ed by Madsen Minax\n\nKairos Dirt &\; the Errant Vacuum follows a middl e school lunch lady and her multiple lovers\, her religious co-worker\, a gender-queer student\, and a phone sex operator/psychic medium. Through co llective dreams\, a trans-worldly ghost invades the characters' sleep to r eveal an alternate realm of wanton\, subconscious desire. Amid the post-in dustrial decay of the American South\, television monitors\, radio frequen cies\, orifices and dreams all become portals to access this mysterious ca rnal dimension.\n\nLooking Back at Me\nDirected by Alex Escaja\nSade Bolge r is an 18-year-old musician from Vermont who has recently come out as non -binary. Looking Back at Me highlights Sade in relation to their passion f or music\, their unapologetic authenticity\, and their life in Vermont. As part of a genuine effort to influence the future\, both online and in per son\, Sade represents and gives voice to the trans and non-binary people i n the world who constantly combat stigma and erasure. Sade’s story embod ies the intersectionalitiy between identities\, passions\, and the places we call home.\n\nWaking the Sleeping Giant: the Making of a Political Revo lution\nDirected by Jon Erickson &\; Jacob Smith\n\nWaking the Sleeping Giant tells the story of building a 21st century progressive movement in the United States by focusing on five remarkable individuals who wrestle w ith issues of persistent racial injustice\, growing economic inequality\, and the corrupting influence of money in politics. From the presidential c ampaign trail with Senator Bernie Sanders to a local political race in the failing economy of rural West Virginia\, from a mass sit-in on the U.S. C apitol steps to racially charged police commission hearings in Los Angeles \, this first feature film about the 2016 election addresses with the stat e of American politics\, Donald Trump’s dramatic electoral victory\, and the challenges ahead for those hoping to build a re-energized progressive movement. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/VFS _laurel-2017-web.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:522@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T180000 DTSTAMP:20171013T224758Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vamp-launch/ SUMMARY:VAMP Shorts and Online Launch DESCRIPTION:VAMP (Vermont Archive Movie Project)\n\nVTIFF and Vermont PBS p roudly present the launch of a joint effort - the VAMP online database - a searchable website of Vermont films past and present. The program include s Vermont films remastered and digitized by VTIFF and by VT PBS as well as a short film about the ephemeral nature of film by Jesse Kreitzer.\nVermo nt Films are FREE with a recommended donation of $5.00. They cannot be boo ked in advance and seats will be available on a first come-first served ba sis.\nFollowing this program\, there will be a reception\, with food by Sk inny Pancake\, a cake from VT PBS to celebrate their 50th birthday and cas h bar by Zero Gravity.\n\nThe program will include:\n\nDoris Eddy\nUSA | 1 986 | 16mm | 22 min\nDirected/Edited/Produced by Deb Ellis\n* Ellis will b e in attendance *\n\nRecently remastered and digitized by VTIFF as part of its VAMP (Vermont Archive Movie Project) Program..\nAn intimate portrait of a Vermont woman who lived on her farm in Middlebury with fifty horses. Eddy\, who was born on the farm in 1918\, inherited the farm from her fath er in 1956 and turned it into one of Vermont's first riding schools.\n\n&n bsp\;\n\nThe Restoration Project\nDirected/Edited/Produced by Jesse Kreitz er\nUSA | 2017 | 6 min\n* Kreitzer will be in attendance *\n\nA film about the restoration of Kreitzer's father’s 8mm movies.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\ nRuth Stone material\nExtract from digitized and re-mastered material by V AMP.\nIntroduced by Nora Jacobson\n\nVAMP Online Database\nVTIFF and VT PB S will present the new public interface of the searchable database.\n* The VAMP Database was partially funded with seed money from the Lucius and Ev a Eastman Fund *\n\nA River of Milk\nProduced by Vermont Educational Telev ision in cooperation with the UVM Extension Service.\nWriter-Director - Ga rry Simpson\; Cinematographer - Lou Phillips:\nBroadcast premiere: Decembe r 19\, 1972 | 27 min\nAwards: National Broadcast Media Award\, Silver Awar d from the International Film and TV Festival of New York 11/73\, Red Ribb on Award from the AAACE annual motion picture contest 5/73\n\nThe film doc uments the changes in Vermont dairy farming over the past 100 years and wa s shot all over the state.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Dor is_Eddy.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,VAMP,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:456@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T210000 DTSTAMP:20171010T181705Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/faces-places/ SUMMARY:Faces Places DESCRIPTION:Faces Places (Visages\, villages)\nDirected by Agnès Varda &am p\; JR\nFrance | 2017 | Hybrid Doc | 89 min | French w/English subtitles\n Film Source: Cohen Media Group\nAwards/premier festivals: Cannes\nSponsors : Todd Lockwood \n\n* Opening Night film *\n\n\n\nAgnès Varda has been ma king movies for more than 60 years. Faces Places is among the 89-year-old director’s very best. A hybrid documentary that’s more doc than narrat ive\, Faces Places follows Varda and visual artist JR as they travel the F rench countryside seeking subjects for JR’s large-format outdoor photogr aphic art installations. While the film’s off-the-cuff road-movie format humorously downplays its philosophical musings about the state of the wor king-class French population\, its hybrid aesthetic speaks to the power of cinema as a unifier of multiple art forms. The 34-year-old JR\, who’s n ever seen without his trademark dark sunglasses\, bears an uncanny resembl ance to a young Jean-Luc Godard\, providing an ironic link to Varda’s yo uthful work as one of the seminal figures of the French New Wave. If Faces Places proves to be Varda’s cinematic swan song\, she’ll go out with a masterful bang.  ~LB\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Fac es-Places.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:516@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T140000 DTSTAMP:20171013T224828Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/waking-the-sleeping-giant-2/ SUMMARY:Waking the Sleeping Giant DESCRIPTION:Waking the Sleeping Giant: the Making of a Political Revolution \n\nDirected by Jon Erickson &\; Jacob Smith\nProduced by Jacob Smith\, Jon D. Erickson and Kathryn Goldman\nDocumentary | 2017 | 92 min\n* The f ilmmakers will attend the screening *\nVermont Films are FREE with a recom mended donation of $5.00. They cannot be booked in advance and seats will be available on a first come-first served basis.\n\nWaking the Sleeping Gi ant tells the story of building a 21st century progressive movement in the United States by focusing on five remarkable individuals who wrestle with issues of persistent racial injustice\, growing economic inequality\, and the corrupting influence of money in politics. From the presidential camp aign trail with Senator Bernie Sanders to a local political race in the fa iling economy of rural West Virginia\, from a mass sit-in on the U.S. Capi tol steps to racially charged police commission hearings in Los Angeles\, this first feature film about the 2016 election addresses the state of Ame rican politics\, Donald Trump’s dramatic electoral victory\, and the cha llenges ahead for those hoping to build a re-energized progressive movemen t. ~AB\n\n\nMore information ....\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Wak ing-the-Sleeping-Giant2-e1505222560448.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:504@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T143000 DTSTAMP:20170928T123155Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-summer-is-gone-ba-yue/ SUMMARY:The Summer is Gone (Ba Yue) DESCRIPTION:The Summer is Gone (Ba Yue)\nDirected by Dalei Zhang\nChina | 1 06 min | Fiction | Mandarin w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Pad Internat ional\nSponsor: A Single Pebble\n\nAlso showing Thursday\, October 26 at 2 :00PM\n\n\n\nBeautifully shot in widescreen black and white\, The Summer I s Gone is set in Inner Mongolia in the early 1990s\, during the sweltering months before aimless 12-year-old Xialoei is due to enter the great unkno wn of middle school. On the surface a coming-of-age story\, this autobiogr aphical film from first-time director Dalei Zhang is positioned against th e backdrop of the Chinese economic reforms of the post-Tiananmen Square er a\, when the privatization of state-owned institutions led to mass layoffs . With shades of Edward Yang and early Jia Zhang-ke in its unhurried pace and subtle political commentary\, The Summer Is Gone marks the emergence o f a significant new voice in Chinese cinema.  ~LB\n\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sum mer-is-Gone-_0065.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:517@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T160000 DTSTAMP:20171023T213911Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/burned-are-trees-the-next-coal/ SUMMARY:Burned: Are Trees the New Coal? DESCRIPTION:Burned: Are Trees the New Coal?\n\nDirected by Alan Dater &\ ; Lisa Merton\nDocumentary | 2017 | 76 min\n*The filmmakers will be in att endance*\nVermont Films are FREE with a recommended donation of $5.00. The y cannot be booked in advance and seats will be available on a first come- first served basis.\n\nBurned tells the little-known story of the accelera ting destruction of our forests for fuel\, and probes the policy loopholes \, huge subsidies\, and blatant green-washing of the burgeoning biomass po wer industry. A dedicated group of forest activists\, ecologists\, carbon scientists\, and concerned citizens are fighting to establish the enormous value of our forests\, protect their communities\, debunk this false solu tion to climate change\, and alter energy policy both in the US and abroad . It’s not too late. ~AB\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Bur ned-Poster_11x16_1_print-704x1024.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:468@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T164500 DTSTAMP:20170928T123530Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-force/ SUMMARY:The Force DESCRIPTION:The Force\nDirected by Peter Nicks\nUSA | 2017 | Documentary | 93 min\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nAwards/premier festivals: Sundance - Dir ecting Award / U.S. Documentary\n\n\n\n"Sprawling\, immediate\, and comple x\, Peter Nicks's vérité documentary moves like a pulsing\, timely thril ler. In 2014\, after over a decade of federal monitoring for misconduct an d civil rights abuses\, the Oakland Police Department hires Chief Sean Whe nt ... in hopes of bridging an historically tense divide between its offic ers and the community they serve. The Force captures everything\; it hover s over Oakland's evening skies and rides inside speeding police vehicles\, granting viewers breathless firsthand access to some of law enforcement's most dangerous jobs. With fly-on-the-wall intimacy\, we see a department trapped in transition\, desperate to shed its corrupt image but also chall enged by an increasingly organized and urgent Black Lives Matter movement erupting right outside its doorstep."  ~Harry Vaughn\, Sundance Film Fest ival\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The -Force-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:518@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T180000 DTSTAMP:20171013T224926Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/its-criminal/ SUMMARY:It's Criminal DESCRIPTION:It’s Criminal\n\nDirected by Signe Taylor\nDocumentary | 2017 | 78 Min\n* The filmmakers will attend the screening *\nVermont Films are FREE with a recommended donation of $5.00. They cannot be booked in advan ce and seats will be available on a first come-first served basis.\n\nIt's Criminal is a potent critique of the economic and social inequities that divide the United States. Shot in an intimate vérité style\, the film ex plores the life-changing experiences of incarcerated women and Dartmouth C ollege students working together to write and perform an original play abo ut the lives of the imprisoned women. It delves into privilege\, poverty a nd injustice and asks viewers to think about who is in prison and why. Whi le exploring disparities\, the movie also shares poignant\, personal stori es about how empathy is a powerful force that can help bridge the divide. ~AB\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ITS -CRIMINAL-Dress-Rehearsal-Photo-by-Charlene-Music.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:506@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T183000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124615Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tales-of-an-immoral-couple-la-vida-inmoral-de -la-pareja-ideal/ SUMMARY:Tales of an Immoral Couple (La vida inmoral de la pareja ideal) DESCRIPTION:Tales of an Immoral Couple (La vida inmoral de la pareja ideal) \nDirected by Manolo Caro\nMexico | 2017 | Fiction | 95 min | Spanish w/En glish subtitles\nFilm Source: Hola Mexico Film Festival\nNew England premi ere\nSponsor: Eyes of the World and Anna Blackmer\n\n\n\nDirector Manolo C aro\, who also wrote the script for Tales of an Immoral Couple\, is one of Mexico’s biggest-grossing filmmakers. This is the first time that a fil m of his has been released theatrically in the U.S. VTIFF is not known for featuring rom-coms\, but Hollywood and Mexico have different sensibilitie s\, and cinephiles will be interested in comparing the two — and enjoyin g a humorous and sensual story along the way. Tales moves back and forth b etween ardent/romantic past and farcical present\, between youthful pop mu sic and adult opera set in arts-centric\, beautiful San Miguel de Allende. As the teenage lovers unexpectedly run into each other 25 years later\, t hey both pretend to be in happy marriages. An ensuing comedy of errors\, s upported by a superb ensemble cast\, keeps the film moving along at a brea thtaking pace. ~OY\n\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Tal es-of-an-Immoral-couple-01.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:519@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T203000 DTSTAMP:20171013T224945Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kairos-dirt-and-the-errant-vacuum/ SUMMARY:Kairos Dirt and the Errant Vacuum DESCRIPTION:Kairos Dirt and the Errant Vacuum\n\nDirected by Madsen Minax\n Experimental | 2017 | 90 Min\nAwards: Indie Memphis Film Festival - Best F eature\n* Q&\;A with filmmaker post screening *\nVermont Films are FRE E with a recommended donation of $5.00. They cannot be booked in advance a nd seats will be available on a first come-first served basis.\n\nKairos D irt &\; the Errant Vacuum follows a middle school lunch lady and her mu ltiple lovers\, her religious co-worker\, a gender-queer student\, and a p hone sex operator/psychic medium. Through collective dreams\, a trans-worl dly ghost invades the characters' sleep to reveal an alternate realm of wa nton\, subconscious desire. Amid the post-industrial decay of the American South\, television monitors\, radio frequencies\, orifices and dreams all become portals to access this mysterious carnal dimension. ~AB\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Kai ros-Dirt-e1505161458975.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:500@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T211500 DTSTAMP:20170928T124541Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/spettacolo/ SUMMARY:Spettacolo DESCRIPTION:Spettacolo\nDirected by Jeff Malmberg &\; Chris Shellen\nUSA | 2017 | Documentary | 91 min | Italian w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Grasshopper\nAwards / premier festivals: Hot Docs\; SXSW\nSponsors: 05401 /  05401PLUS\n*Post screening Q&\;A with directors Malmberg and Shell en - Sat screening*\n\nAlso showing Wednesday\, October 25 at 2:30PM\n\n\n \nVillagers in the tiny Tuscan town of Monticchiello come up with a remark able way to confront their issues: they turn their lives into a play. Ever y summer\, their piazza becomes a stage and residents of all ages play a p art — the role of themselves. Founded in the 1960s to honor the village' s stand against Nazis during World War II\, the theatrical company used to write works tackling sexism\, corruption and workers rights. Now the vill agers spend each year searching for new angles on the region's ongoing eco nomic decline and tackling the problem addressing the fact that most of it s members are on the verge of retirement or death. The town is a major tou rist attraction\, set in a natural landscape for Instagram\, and the film ’s structure\, divided into four seasons\, represents the varying fairy- tale landscapes. But this fly-on-the-wall documentary is primarily focused on process and the interweaving of the fictional characters with their re al-life counterparts. Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen\, whose superb docum entary Marwencol played at VTIFF in 2010\, have produced a bittersweet loo k at the passing of traditions and efforts to adjust and cope. ~OY\n\n \n \n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Mil dred-Pierce-20.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:520@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T204500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T221500 DTSTAMP:20171013T225004Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-crest/ SUMMARY:The Crest DESCRIPTION:The Crest\n\nDirected by Mark Covino\nDocumentary | 2017 | 82 m in\nVermont Premiere\n* The producers will be in attendance *\nVermont Fil ms are FREE with a recommended donation of $5.00. They cannot be booked in advance and seats will be available on a first come-first served basis.\n \nTwo cousins who live on opposite coasts in the U.S.--both surfers and bo th unaware of the other’s existence--discover they are descendants of An Ri\, the last King of the Blasket Islands. A collection of rocky islands off the western-most point of Ireland\, the Blaskets\, surrounded by treac herous ocean\, are home to a community of people whose culture was until r ecently untouched by outside influence. Exploring themes of family\, emigr ation\, and the value of tradition and culture\, the film follows the cous ins as they meet for the first time in Ireland on a quest to explore their shared heritage\, to learn what has been passed down to them from those w ho came before\, and to surf the waters of their ancestors. ~AB\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Cre st-e1505222222737.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:507@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T233000 DTSTAMP:20170928T123100Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/thelma/ SUMMARY:Thelma DESCRIPTION:Thelma\nDirected by Joachim Trier\nNorway | 2016 | Fiction | 11 6 min | Norwegian w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: The Orchard\n\n\n\nDir ector Joachim Trier’s (Oslo\; August 31st\; Louder Than Bombs) latest fi lm is ostensibly a science fiction tale\, but it also serves as a nuanced story of both coming of age and coming to terms with one’s true self. Th elma (Eili Harboe) has lived a sheltered life as the daughter to two devou t\, conservative Christian parents. As she begins her freshman year at uni versity\, she must try to fit in – not only is Thelma unequipped with so cial skills\, but she is also experiencing alarming health issues that see m to get more intense with stress. As a new love interest develops with he r classmate and only friend\, Thelma begins to recall troubling memories f rom her childhood which reveal violent and disturbing powers that are out of her control. Visually arresting and superbly acted\, Thelma is a film t hat begs to be seen on the big screen. ~EF\n\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The lma_a3_EiliHarboe_CopyrightMotlysAS.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:477@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T134500 DTSTAMP:20170928T123759Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jasper-jones/ SUMMARY:Jasper Jones DESCRIPTION:Jasper Jones\nDirected by Rachel Perkins\nAustralia | 2017 | Fi ction | 102 min\nFilm Source: Film Movement\nSponsor: Nokian Tyres\n\nAlso showing Wednesday\, October 24 at 7:00PM\n\n\n\nCentered on a 14-year-old boy caught up in a murder mystery involving a part-Aboriginal suspect\, t his outstanding adaptation of Craig Silvey's novel of the same name speaks to both adult and teenage audiences. Set in 1969 in the fictitious town o f Corrigan\, director Rachel Perkins does a wonderful job evoking the comm unity with its small-town secrets\, struggling local cricket team and long -established social hierarchy. These elements\, and the subtext of racial prejudices\, are woven seamlessly into the thriller-style narrative. Jaspe r Jones is supported by great acting — especially the wonderful Toni Col lette — and the stunning cinematography helps bring to life a sense of p lace. ~OY\n\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jas per-Jones-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:510@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T144500 DTSTAMP:20170928T123118Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wound-inxeba-2/ SUMMARY:The Wound (Inxeba) DESCRIPTION:The Wound (Inxeba)\nDirected by John Trengove\nSouth Africa/Ger many/Netherlands/France | 2017 | Fiction | 88 min | Xhoas/Afrikaans/Englis h w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nAwards and major festival s: Berlin\, Sundance\n\nAlso showing Sunday\, October 29 at 1:00PM\n\n\n\n Using a coming-of-age ritual as its setting (a Xhosa rite involving circum cision and an eight-day fast)\, The Wound examines ideas of masculinity an d queer identity\, simultaneously depicting two aspects of South African c ulture rarely seen on screen. After the circumcision in the wilderness\, d uring the time the wound takes to heal\, the boys are sequestered from soc iety until their manhood is thus proven. Inevitably\, personal and sexual insecurities come violently to the surface. The film has proven controvers ial in South Africa\, and its creators released a statement revealing that cast members had been threatened because of their roles in the project\, including threats to burn lead actor Nakhane Touré alive. Although ostens ibly about remote\, minority practices\, the film speaks universally about how once-traditional notions of masculinity can grow increasingly toxic i n the hands of those who cling to outmoded ways rather than accept that th ings have changed. ~OY\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The -Wound-5.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:487@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T160000 DTSTAMP:20170928T123425Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-nile-hilton-incident/ SUMMARY:The Nile Hilton Incident DESCRIPTION:The Nile Hilton Incident\nDirected by Tarik Saleh\nSweden/Egypt | 2017 | Fiction | 110 min\nFilm Source: Strand\nAwards/premier festivals : Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film\n\nAlso showing Monday\, October 23 at 4:00PM\n\n\n\nA policeman who follows his own set of rules (in classic film noir style) investigates the killing of a woman at the Nile Hilton Hotel in the days before the 2011 Egyptian Revolution i n this narrative thriller. Writer-director Tarik Saleh takes the audience on a fast-paced journey through the streets of Cairo\, giving us a front-r ow view of a society crumbling from within as corruption at all levels sen ds citizens into the street in the background\, barely noticed by the expe rt camera. Instead\, the lens is focused on the daily lives of Egyptians u nder the soon to be toppled regime\, offering an inside view into the stru ggles that sparked the Arab Spring. ~JS\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The -Nile-Hilton-Incident-3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:499@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T164500 DTSTAMP:20170928T123329Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-senses-los-sentidos/ SUMMARY:The Senses (Los Sentidos) DESCRIPTION:The Senses (Los Sentidos)\nDirected by Marcelo Burd\nArgentina | 2017 | Documentary | 72 min | Spanish w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nSponsor: Jane Kramer\n\n\n\nOlacapato\, the highest town in Arg entina\, is located in a mountainous area. It is a tiny community limited by its harsh environment. The Senses reveals not only the ties between loc al teachers\, children and their families\, but also the desires and hards hips of a community facing challenges in the near future. It is refreshing to see a film about the power of education that deals with ordinary peopl e and doesn’t resort to the familiar narrative of reformed juvenile deli nquents. More than any other film I saw at the Buenos Aires International Human Rights Film Festival\, this was the one that stayed with me long aft er the screening.  ~OY\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Los -Sentidos-12.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:485@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T181500 DTSTAMP:20171020T160739Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ma-rosa/ SUMMARY:Ma’ Rosa DESCRIPTION:Ma’ Rosa\nDirected by Brilliante Mendoza\nPhilippines | 2016 | Fiction | 110 min | Tagalog w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: First Run Features\nSponsored by Esperanza Restaurante\n\n\n\nMa’ Rosa premiered a t the 2016 Cannes Film Festival just nine days after the election of Phili ppine President Rodrigo Duterte\, whose nicknames include “The Punisher ” and “Duterte Harry.” The timing was prescient. The protagonists of Brillante Mendoza’s neorealist drama are the same type of low-level dea lers who became targets in Duterte’s brutal war on drugs\, while the fil m’s portrayal of police officers on the take provides a glimpse of the b roader governmental corruption and corresponding social discontent that co ntributed to Duterte’s victory at the polls. Shot with handheld cameras on the streets of Manila\, Ma’ Rosa is anchored by the performance of Ja clyn Jose (who won Best Actress at Cannes) as the stoic matriarch who will go to any length to keep her family afloat.  ~LB\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\ n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Ma- Rosa_ARV6604small-resized.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:469@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T183000 DTSTAMP:20170928T123500Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-good-postman-hyva-postimies/ SUMMARY:The Good Postman (Hyvä postimies) DESCRIPTION:The Good Postman (Hyvä postimies)\nDirected by Tonislav Hristo v\nBulgaria | 2016 | Documentary | 80 min | Bulgarian w/English subtitles\ nFilm Source: Film Rise\nCo-Sponsors: VT Council on World Affairs\, Nick a nd Bridget Downey-Meyer\n\nAlso showing Wednesday\, October 25 at 2:15PM\n \n\n\nA small village in Bulgaria sets the stage for a story that will fee l somehow familiar. Elderly postman Ivan decides to run for mayor of his t iny village (he’s one of only a few dozen\, mostly elderly residents). D ealing with issues of refugee resettlement\, Ivan sees a path to the futur e in welcoming refugees to restore vitality. His opponents want to close b orders and reintroduce communism\, returning to the “glory days”. Dire ctor Tonislav Hristov’s direct-cinema approach holds up a cultural mirro r — its central set piece is a village that could be Anytown\, USA. It ’s a place preoccupied by poverty\, economic stagnation and fear of the unknown\, whose people feel powerless and unheard by the government. The G ood Postman is a fascinating study in character and place\, often sweet an d humorous and always poignant. It offers viewers a chance to witness a cu lture in a far-off land that is not too dissimilar from their own backyard . ~EF\n\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Goo d-Postmen-01.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:463@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T210000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124809Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/city-of-joy/ SUMMARY:City of Joy DESCRIPTION:City of Joy\nDirected by Madeleine Gavin\nDemocratic Republic o f Congo | 2016 | Documentary | 74 min\nFilm Source: Film Sales Corp\nNew E ngland premiere\nSponsor: The Caroline Baird Crichfield Fund for Women in Need\n* Director Gavin and Christine Schuler-Deschryver in attendance - Su nday*\n\nAlso Showing Friday\, October 27 at 4:45PM \n\n\nThis documentar y manages to achieve the near impossible - exposing a painful\, brutal tru th while creating a feeling of hope and optimism in the audience. For 20 y ears\, Congolese women have experienced rape as a weapon of war as rotatin g factions attempt to control their country and its mineral rights. Where do these women turn for help when their own communities turn them away? Th ree devoted pioneers (2016 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Denis Mukwege\, w omen's rights activist Christine Schuler-Deschryver and radical feminist E ve Ensler\, author of The Vagina Monologues) come together to create a pla ce\, City of Joy \, that hopes to turn the women’s pain into power. Made leine Gavin\, a successful narrative film editor\, expands her role to inc lude both director and editor of this powerful portrait of a special schoo l that aims to transform the lives of its students and put graduates up in a position to lead their troubled country in a new direction. The audienc e is given access to the journey of City of Joy’s first class. Watch as they move past pain\, through self-discovery and into empowerment. You wil l be cheering for the women\, the founders and the power of the human spir it. ~JS\n\n \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1st -coj-class-photcred-paula-j-allen.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:502@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T211500 DTSTAMP:20170928T123250Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-square/ SUMMARY:The Square DESCRIPTION:The Square\nDirected by Ruben Ôstlund\nSweden/Germany/France/D enmark | 2017 | Fiction | 142 min | Swedish/Danish/English  w/English sub titles\nFilm Source: Magnolia Pictures\nAwards/premier festivals: Cannes - Palme d’or\nSponsor:  Middlebury College\n\nAlso showing Friday\, Octo ber 27 at 2:00PM\n\n\n\nRuben Ôstlund is not afraid to tackle Big Ideas i n his Palme d’Or winner. Among the themes of this satirical film: how we live together\, our responsibility toward one another\, and\, in the cont ext of the art world\, what is artistic merit. As in his previous film\, F orce Majeure\, Ôstlund uncannily dupes us into initially stereotyping the players (the character played by Elizabeth Moss is but one example) and t hen\, one stealthy script page turn after another\, undermining our assump tions. As you laugh at the performance-art scene in the museum\, so will y our laughter grow into unease\, and you may find yourself questioning not only the art patrons’ reactions but also your own. This is one scene you will not forget\, and this is one bold film.  ~OY\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/THE -SQUARE.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:527@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T130000 DTSTAMP:20171015T204511Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-sundance-shorts-part-1/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts - Sundance Shorts Part 1 DESCRIPTION:Note: No advance booking - payment at the door for all Lunchtim e Shorts programs - CASH OR CHECK ONLY. Gold Pass and VTIFF members: Show your pass at the door. Seating on a first come-first served basis. Please  arrive ahead of screening time to allow for picking up your lunch. \n\n The 2017 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 95-minute theatrical program of seven short films selected from this year’s Festival\, widely considered the premier showcase for short films and the launchpad for man y now-prominent independent filmmakers for more than 30 years. Including f iction\, documentary and animation from around the world\, the 2017 progra m offers new audiences a taste of what the Festival offers\, from laugh-ou t-loud comedy to contemplative reflections of the world we live in.\n\n\n5 Films About Technology\nWritten and directed by Peter Huang | 2016 | Cana da | 5 min.\nTake a satirical look at the dumber side of technology.\n\nAn d The Whole Sky Fit In The Dead Cow's Eye\nShort Film Jury Award: Internat ional Fiction\nWritten and directed by Francisca Alegría | 2016 | Chile/U SA | 19 minutes. Spanish w/English subtitles.\nEmeteria is visited by the ghost of her patrón\, Teodoro. She believes he has come to take her to th e afterlife—but he has more devastating news.\n\nCome Swim\nWritten and directed by Kristen Stewart | 2017 | U.SA | 17 min.\nThis is a diptych of one man's day\, half impressionist and half realist portraits. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cow s-e1505327861872.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:512@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T160000 DTSTAMP:20170928T122938Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wulu-2/ SUMMARY:Wulu DESCRIPTION:Wulu\nDirected by Daouda Coulibaly\nMali | 2017 | Fiction | 95 min | Bambara/French w/English subtitles\nAwards/premier festivals: New Di rector/New Films\nNew England premiere\n\nAlso showing Saturday\, October 28 at 4:45PM\n\nDaouda Coulibaly’s assured and suspenseful film\, with e xcellent characterization and a meticulous script\, belies the fact that t his is a first feature. Set in Bamako in 2007\, against a backdrop of risi ng fundamentalism\, the film has universal resonance. Ladji\, a 20-year-ol d man\, works hard as a prantiké (bus driver) to get his older sister\, A minata\, out of prostitution. When he doesn’t get the promotion he was e xpecting\, he decides to contact a drug dealer who owes him a favor. This “Scarface in Mali” film portrays a culture and a country that have bee n underrepresented in film. ~OY\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/wul u5.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:460@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T163000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124631Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-b-side-elsa-dorfmans-portrait-photography / SUMMARY:The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography DESCRIPTION:The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography\nDirected by Errol Morris\nUSA | 2017 | | Documentary 76 min\nFilm Source: Neon\nCo-Spo nsors: Barbara Zucker\, Judith Gerber\n\nAlso Showing Friday\, October 27 at 7:00PM \n\n\n\nThe Polaroid camera has never been held in high regard by photography aficionados. The boxy apparatus\, which spit out white-fram ed photos that developed within minutes\, was a camera for the masses\, be it instant keepsakes from family reunions or cops snapping crime-scene ph otos. The portrait photography of Elsa Dorfman was a notable exception. In the late 1970s\, Dorfman (who had already made a name for herself with ca ndid shots of Beat Generation icons such as Allen Ginsberg) began working with a large-format Polaroid camera (one of six in existence) that produce d 20-by-24-inch exposures. The resulting prints were both intimate and cap acious\, capturing subjects’ personalities in amplified detail. Director Errol Morris\, better known for investigative docs like The Thin Blue Lin e and The Fog of War\, here takes an intimate approach to his subject\, in terviewing Dorfman in a conversational style as she pores over decades’ worth of outtakes in her photo archives. Morris’ heartfelt portrait of t he portrait photographer — whose work bridged the gap between traditiona l photography and the instant gratification of the digital era — serves as a nostalgic remembrance of a bygone era and a gentle reminder of the im portance of film preservation.  ~LB\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The -B-Side-4.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:488@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T180000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124827Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-nile-hilton-incident-2/ SUMMARY:The Nile Hilton Incident DESCRIPTION:The Nile Hilton Incident\nDirected by Tarik Saleh\nSweden/Egypt | 2017 | Fiction | 110 min\nFilm Source: Strand\nAwards/premier festivals : Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film\n\nAlso showing Sunday\, October 22 at 2:00PM\n\n\n\nA policeman who follows his own set of rules (in classic film noir style) investigates the killing of a woman at the Nile Hilton Hotel in the days before the 2011 Egyptian Revolution i n this narrative thriller. Writer-director Tarik Saleh takes the audience on a fast-paced journey through the streets of Cairo\, giving us a front-r ow view of a society crumbling from within as corruption at all levels sen ds citizens into the street in the background\, barely noticed by the expe rt camera. Instead\, the lens is focused on the daily lives of Egyptians u nder the soon to be toppled regime\, offering an inside view into the stru ggles that sparked the Arab Spring. ~JS\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The -Nile-Hilton-Incident-3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:495@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T181500 DTSTAMP:20171022T163918Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rumble-the-indians-who-rocked-the-world/ SUMMARY:RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World DESCRIPTION:RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World\nDirected by Catherine Bainbridge | Co-directed by Alfonso Maiorana\nCanada | 2017 | Documenta ry | 102 min\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nAwards / premier festivals: Sundan ce -World Cinema Special Jury Award\; Hot Docs - Best Canadian Documentary &\; Audience Award\nSponsor: John Douglas\n\nAlso showing Saturday\, O ctober 28 at 12:45 PM\n\n\n\n“Be proud you’re an Indian\, but be caref ul who you tell.” Robbie Robertson\, guitarist and songwriter for the se minal rock outfit The Band\, recalls receiving this piece of cautionary ad vice as a young man. The rollicking and eye-opening Rumble attempts to dis mantle the second part of that warning by proudly proclaiming the heritage of the numerous Native American musicians who made significant contributi ons to the development and popularity of American music. The film was prod uced by Rezolution Pictures International\, an Aboriginal-owned film and t elevision company based in Montréal. Director Catherine Bainbridge’s fi lm (whose credits also include Reel Injun\, about the representation of Na tive Americans in Hollywood films and television)\, acts as a corrective t o years of music history\, exploring and reasserting the Native influence across genres and time periods\, through assimilated styles\, borrowed tec hniques and shared craftsmanship. It features a range of notable musicians \, from Mildred Bailey and Charley Patton to Robertson and Jimi Hendrix\, as well as less-heralded but still consequential figures such as session g uitarist Jesse Ed Davis and heavy metal drummer Randy Castillo. The film c overs the governmental efforts to suppress much of this music and history and the struggles of politically outspoken artists like Buffy Sainte-Marie and John Trudell. The title takes its name from the seismic 1958 number b y Link Wray — one of the first songs to pioneer distortion and power cho rds. The song had a profound effect on rock ’n’ roll\, but was also ba nned from U.S. airwaves for its dangerous\, delinquency-inducing swagger — despite being an instrumental track! RUMBLE is the must-see rock-doc of the year. ~SJ\n\n \n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/max resdefault.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:465@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T210000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124841Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/divine-order/ SUMMARY:Divine Order DESCRIPTION:Divine Order\nDirected by Petra Volpe\nSwitzerland | 2017 | Fic tion | 96 min | German w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Zeitgeist\nAwards /premier festivals: Tribeca - Best Actress and Audience Award.\nNew Englan d Premiere \nSponsor: Pat Robins &\; Lisa Schamberg\n\nAlso showing Tu esday\, October 24 at 2:15PM\n\n\n\nPolitical and religious leaders in Swi tzerland cited the divine order as the reason why women still did not have the right to vote as late as 1970. When unassuming and dutiful housewife Nora is forbidden by her husband to take a part-time job\, her frustration leads to her becoming the poster child of her town’s suffragette moveme nt. Her newfound celebrity brings humiliation\, threats and the potential end to her marriage. But\, refusing to back down\, she convinces the women in her village to go on strike — and\, in the process\, makes a few sta rtling discoveries about her own liberation. With meticulous attention to period details\, this warm\, thoroughly enjoyable tale about the fight for equality is both humorous and inspirational. ~OY\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/the divineorder-2538.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:509@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T211500 DTSTAMP:20170928T123023Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/whose-streets/ SUMMARY:Whose Streets? DESCRIPTION:Whose Streets?\nDirected by Sabaah Folayan\nUSA | 2017 | Docume ntary | 103 min\nFilm Source: Magnolia\nAwards and major festivals: Sundan ce\nSponsor: ACLUVT\, co-sponsor PJCVT\n*Followed by a Q&\;A with ACLUV T Executive Director James Lyall*\n\n\n\nWhose Streets? is an account of the Ferguson\, Mo.\, uprising as told by the people who lived it\, express ing the myriad issues that led to the outrage over Mike Brown's death and the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. The film provides riveting\, uncomfortable and at times terrifying viewing\, while the use of cell pho ne footage mixed with other formats lends an immediacy befitting the urgen cy of the issues. The depth of the relationships Sabaah Folayan and co-dir ector Damon Davis were able to establish with the people they met is immed iately apparent: from scenes of nursing student and activist Brittany Ferr ell (who became key to the protest moving forward) interacting with her da ughter\, to Copwatch videographer David Whitt trying to explain to his tod dler son why he has to leave their home to go out and protest. This powerf ul documentary provides a much-needed and rarely seen ground-level look at the story — one that privileges the point-of-view of predominantly work ing-class and poor African-Americans in a suburb of St. Louis. If you’re seeking a “on the one hand/on the other hand” type of account\, then this film is not for you.  ~OY\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Who se-Streets4.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:529@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T130000 DTSTAMP:20170928T125334Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-sundance-shorts-part-2/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts - Sundance Shorts Part 2 DESCRIPTION:Note: No advance booking - payment at the door for all Lunchtim e Shorts programs - CASH OR CHECK ONLY. Gold Pass holders: bring your pa ss. Seating on a first come-first served basis. Please arrive ahead of sc reening time to allow for picking up your lunch. \n\nThe 2017 Sundance Fi lm Festival Short Film Tour is a 95-minute theatrical program of seven sho rt films selected from this year’s Festival\, widely considered the prem ier showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent inde pendent filmmakers for more than 30 years. Including fiction\, documentary and animation from around the world\, the 2017 program offers new audienc es a taste of what the Festival offers\, from laugh-out-loud comedy to con templative reflections of the world we live in.\n\n\n\nLucia\, Before and After\nShort Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction\nWritten and directed by Anu Va lia | 2016 | USA | 14 min.\nAfter traveling 200 miles\, a young woman wait s out Texas's state-mandated 24-hour waiting period before her abortion ca n proceed.\n\nNight Shift\nWritten and directed by Marshall Tyler | 2017 | USA | 15 min.\nGet a glimpse into a day in the life of a bathroom attenda nt in a Los Angeles nightclub.\n\nPussy\nWritten and directed by Renata Ga siorowska | 2016 | Poland | 9 min\nAlone at home one evening\, a young gir l decides to have a solo pleasure session—but not everything goes accord ing to plan.\n\nTen Meter Tower\nDirected by Maximilien Van Aertryck and A xel Danielson | 2016 | Sweden | 16 min. Swedish w/English subtitles.\nPeop le who have never been up a 10-meter diving tower must choose whether to j ump or climb down in this entertaining study of people in a vulnerable pos ition. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/10m eter-tower-e1505328114366.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:480@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T160000 DTSTAMP:20170928T123901Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kills-on-wheels/ SUMMARY:Kills on Wheels DESCRIPTION:Kills on Wheels\nDirected by Atilla Till\nHungary | 2017 | Fict ion | 105 min | Hungarian/Serbian/Russian w/English subtitles\nFilm Source : Kino Lorber\nCo-presented with Flynn Center for the Performing Arts with support from the Ford Foundation\n\nAlso showing Thursday\, October 26 at 7:15PM\n\n\n\nA thriller ... a coming-of-age tale ... a film about disabi lity. Two twenty-something\, aspiring comic-book animators with disabiliti es from a Budapest rehab center enter a new realm when they become involve d with a wheelchair-bound hitman. Recruiting the pair as his accomplices\, the hitman initiates them into the fast-paced world of gangsters\, guns a nd Serbian crime lords. No spoilers here to say that this action-packed jo urney is the taut skin over a more tender tale involving the rich imaginat ion of the men\, in which the lines between reality and fantasy defy expec tation at every turn. ~OY\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/kil ls-on-wheels-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:466@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T163000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124856Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/divine-order-2/ SUMMARY:Divine Order DESCRIPTION:Divine Order\nDirected by Petra Volpe\nSwitzerland | 2017 | Fic tion | 96 min | German w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Zeitgeist\nAwards /premier festivals: Tribeca - Best Actress and Audience Award.\nNew Englan d Premiere \nSponsor: Pat Robins &\; Lisa Schamberg\n\nAlso showing Mo nday\, October 23 at 7:00PM\n\n\n\nPolitical and religious leaders in Swit zerland cited the divine order as the reason why women still did not have the right to vote as late as 1970. When unassuming and dutiful housewife N ora is forbidden by her husband to take a part-time job\, her frustration leads to her becoming the poster child of her town’s suffragette movemen t. Her newfound celebrity brings humiliation\, threats and the potential e nd to her marriage. But\, refusing to back down\, she convinces the women in her village to go on strike — and\, in the process\, makes a few star tling discoveries about her own liberation. With meticulous attention to p eriod details\, this warm\, thoroughly enjoyable tale about the fight for equality is both humorous and inspirational. ~OY\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/the divineorder-2538.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:458@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T191500 DTSTAMP:20170928T124910Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/after-the-storm/ SUMMARY:After the Storm DESCRIPTION:After the Storm \nDirected by Hirokazu Kore-eda\nJapan | 2016 | Fiction | 117 | Japanese w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Film Movemen t\nAwards/premier festivals: Cannes\n\nAlso showing Saturday\, October 28 at 2:30PM\n\n\n\nRyôta has a dark cloud over his head. His once-promising career as an author has evaporated into a case of writer’s block. His m arriage has fallen apart. To support his gambling problem\, his work as a private investigator has sunk to blackmailing the cheating spouses he’s supposed to be investigating. But as a typhoon looms in the forecast\, Ry ôta attempts to reconcile with his estranged ex-wife and son by examining the source of his problems: himself. Written and directed by Hirokazu Kor e-eda (Still Walking\; Like Father\, Like Son)\, After the Storm deftly bl ends light comedy with kitchen-sink drama. With sharp dialogue and underst ated performances from Kore-eda veterans Hiroshi Abe and Yôko Maki\, Afte r the Storm is a sensitive family portrait from a modern master of the for m.  ~LB\n\n \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Aft er-The-Storm-Still-2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:493@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T183000 DTSTAMP:20170928T123346Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-rehearsal/ SUMMARY:The Rehearsal DESCRIPTION:The Rehearsal\nDirected by Alison Mclean\nNew Zealand | 2016 | Fiction | 102 min\nFilm Source: Pascale Ramonda\nSponsors: Champlain Colle ge\n\nAlso showing Thursday\, October 26 at 4:15PM\n\n\n\nThis powerful fi lm follows a group of students in New Zealand’s top theater school as th ey navigate through relationships with friends\, teachers\, parents and lo vers. They face choices that force them to define their own views of an ar tist's responsibility to both tell the truth of the human condition and pr otect the humanity of those people in the artist's life. The film’s fun\ , quirky\, Kiwi sensibility hides a deep complexity — just as the young actors’ good looks and lack of experience cause adults in the film to ov erlook the deep emotional lives of the students. ~JS\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The -Rehearsal-02.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:533@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T210000 DTSTAMP:20170928T123728Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tuesdays-at-main-street-landing-presents-psyc ho/ SUMMARY:Movies at Main Street Landing Presents: Psycho DESCRIPTION:Psycho\nDirected by Alfred Hitchcock\nUSA | 1960 | Fiction |  109 min\nPresented by Main Street Landing and the Green Mountain Gore So ciety\n\nWhile Vertigo is my own personal favorite\, no Hitchcock film bet ter walked the line of art-house masterwork and mainstream popcorn fare th an Psycho. Immortal for its contribution to cinema\, Psycho is constantly hailed as one of the greatest achievements in the history of filmmaking. I n Psycho\, Hitchcock not only created a blazing masterpiece\, he spawned a new cinematic genre – the slasher. How many slasher films have had scen es where an attractive female character takes a shower? How many involve o ut-of-the-way places where the hospitable locals turn out to be dangerous? How often have you cringed as someone made the foolish decision to go int o the basement\, or thrown up your hands in frustration as the local polic e proved ineffective? These modern horror cliches all trace their roots ba ck to Psycho. It’s hard to imagine a movie that will ever change horror history the way the Master of Suspense did when he invited us into the roo ms of the Bates Motel to have tea in the raptor room with our host Norman Bates and then left us afraid to shower ever again. ~ MR\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/psy cho-3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:473@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T210000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124925Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/in-between-bar-bahar/ SUMMARY:In Between (Bar Bahar) DESCRIPTION:In Between (Bar Bahar)\nDirected by Maysaloun Hamoud\nIsrael/Fr ance | 2016 | Fiction | 96 min | Arabic/Hebrew w/English subtitles\nFilm s ource: Film Movement\nAwards/premier festivals: Cannes - Women in Motion Y oung Talents Award Award\; Haifa International Film Festival - Best Debut Feature\nSponsor: Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program\n\nAlso sh owing Friday\, October 27 at 4:30PM\n\n\n\nThis film could easily be descr ibed as an engaging romantic comedy in which a shy small-town girl comes t o the big city to live with two rebellious\, outgoing\, sophisticated room mates. But that would miss the point. These young women are Palestinians l iving in Tel Aviv\, Israel. Sometimes they easily glide between the seemin gly bohemian\, cosmopolitan world of the city and the religions and tradit ions of their families and past. Other times the racism they encounter on the street\, at work and in their relationships seems to seep into their v iews of themselves. But these women have each other to lean on\, and they strive to grow past the restrictions and expectations in all of their worl ds. The film resulted in the first Palestinian fatwa in almost 70 years. B ut death threats have not silenced the director and actresses. Instead\, t hey have found a community of artists from around the world coming forward to support them. Show your support and come experience this groundbreakin g film. ~JS\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/In- Between-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:530@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T130000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124159Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-world/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts - World DESCRIPTION:Note: No advance booking - payment at the door for all Lunchtim e Shorts programs - CASH OR CHECK ONLY. Gold Pass holders: bring your pa ss. Seating on a first come-first served basis. Please arrive ahead of sc reening time to allow for picking up your lunch. \n\nLineup:\n\n \;\n \nFell | Holly Voges &\; Lisa Joyce - Directors | USA | 5 min\nA cauti onary tale about man's possessive relationship with nature\, as told by tw o children over a campfire.\n\nYaman | Amer Al-barzawi - Director | Syria | 4min\nYaman is a young inventor. His greatest invention is an incredible machine which can turns tissues into incredible ones\, an invention that helps him survive.\n\nCease Game (Alto el juego) | Walter Tournier-Flaco - Director | Uruguay | 7 min\nIn the middle of a war\, a boy and a dog try to protect themselves. Not such an innocent game.\n\nLittle Potato | Wes H urley\, Nathan M. Miller - Directors | USA | 14 min\nAn autobiographical s hort about a boy growing up gay in the Soviet Union\, his mail-order-bride mom\, and their adventurous escape to America.\n\nInnerviews | Chen Winne r - Director | Israel | 4 min\nAnimated interview clips with famous poets and writers.\n\nBig Booom | Marat Narimanov - Director | Russia | 4 min\nS ource: Top-top films company\, filmmaker\nThe history of humanity and of our planet in four minutes. An eco-friendly statement developed in a singl e shot that has it all: humor\, action and tragedy.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IMG _2458-e1505337861248.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:470@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T161500 DTSTAMP:20170928T123515Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-good-postman-hyva-postimies-2/ SUMMARY:The Good Postman (Hyvä postimies) DESCRIPTION:The Good Postman (Hyvä postimies)\nDirected by Tonislav Hristo v\nBulgaria | 2016 | Documentary | 80 min | Bulgarian w/English subtitles\ nFilm Source: Film Rise\nCo-Sponsors: VT Council on World Affairs\, Nick a nd Bridget Downey-Meyer\n\nAlso showing Sunday\, October 22 at 4:30PM\n\n\ n\nA small village in Bulgaria sets the stage for a story that will feel s omehow familiar. Elderly postman Ivan decides to run for mayor of his tiny village (he’s one of only a few dozen\, mostly elderly residents). Deal ing with issues of refugee resettlement\, Ivan sees a path to the future i n welcoming refugees to restore vitality. His opponents want to close bord ers and reintroduce communism\, returning to the “glory days”. Directo r Tonislav Hristov’s direct-cinema approach holds up a cultural mirror — its central set piece is a village that could be Anytown\, USA. It’s a place preoccupied by poverty\, economic stagnation and fear of the unkn own\, whose people feel powerless and unheard by the government. The Good Postman is a fascinating study in character and place\, often sweet and hu morous and always poignant. It offers viewers a chance to witness a cultur e in a far-off land that is not too dissimilar from their own backyard. ~E F\n\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Goo d-Postmen-01.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:501@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T163000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124559Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/spettacolo-2/ SUMMARY:Spettacolo DESCRIPTION:Spettacolo\nDirected by Jeff Malmberg &\; Chris Shellen\nUSA | 2017 | Documentary | 91 min | Italian w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Grasshopper\nAwards / premier festivals: Hot Docs\; SXSW\nSponsors: 05401 /  05401PLUS\n*Post screening Q&\;A with directors Malmberg and Shell en - Sat screening*\n\nAlso showing Saturday\, October 21 at 7:15PM\n\n\n\ nVillagers in the tiny Tuscan town of Monticchiello come up with a remarka ble way to confront their issues: they turn their lives into a play. Every summer\, their piazza becomes a stage and residents of all ages play a pa rt — the role of themselves. Founded in the 1960s to honor the village's stand against Nazis during World War II\, the theatrical company used to write works tackling sexism\, corruption and workers rights. Now the villa gers spend each year searching for new angles on the region's ongoing econ omic decline and tackling the problem addressing the fact that most of its members are on the verge of retirement or death. The town is a major tour ist attraction\, set in a natural landscape for Instagram\, and the film ’s structure\, divided into four seasons\, represents the varying fairy- tale landscapes. But this fly-on-the-wall documentary is primarily focused on process and the interweaving of the fictional characters with their re al-life counterparts. Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen\, whose superb docum entary Marwencol played at VTIFF in 2010\, have produced a bittersweet loo k at the passing of traditions and efforts to adjust and cope. ~OY\n\n \n \n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Mil dred-Pierce-20.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:526@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T181500 DTSTAMP:20170928T124524Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sami-blood-3/ SUMMARY:Sami Blood DESCRIPTION:Sami Blood\nDirected by Amanda Kernell\nSweden/Denmark/Norway | 2017 | Fiction | 110 min | Swedish/Sami w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nSponsor: Barbara McGrew\n\nAlso showing Thursday\, October 2 6 at 7:00PM\n\n\n\nThis sensitive coming-of-age film brings audiences back in time to Northern Sweden in the 1930s and the colonial oppression of th e indigenous Sami people. Expertly helmed by first-time Swedish-Sami write r-director Amanda Kernell\, the film follows a young girl caught between h er family and her dreams for the future — all while raising questions ab out whose dreams she is chasing: her own\, or those she has ingested throu gh her Swedish education. The director and talented actress have created a very real depiction of female sexuality without the usual Madonna-whore s tereotypes. This is not a tortured story of an occupied people\, but rathe r a complex tale of a strong young woman searching for her future\, her dr eams\, her connections and her identity. ~JS\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/bil d4_hicropped-copy-kopi.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:489@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T183000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124327Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pop-aye/ SUMMARY:Pop Aye DESCRIPTION:Pop Aye\nDirected by Kirsten Tan\nThailand/Singapore | 2017 | F iction | 102 min | Thai w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nSpo nsor: Duncan Wisniewski Architecture\nAwards/premier festivals: Sundance\n \nAlso showing Friday\, October 27 at 7:15PM\n\n\n\nKirsten Tan’s debut film Pop Aye (the first film from Singapore to play at the Sundance Film F estival) co-stars the eponymous elephant Pop Aye\, who\, both by definitio n and — dare we say — charisma\, dominates and illuminates the frame. His co-star is Thana\, a sad-sack architect going through a midlife crisis . On a chance encounter\, Thana bumps into his long-lost elephant and take s him on a journey across Thailand in search of the farm where they both g rew up. For Thana\, Pop Aye is both a friend and a metaphor for loss. This road movie\, full of humor\, is a touching journey for both of them. On t he way they encounter some interesting characters\, including a lonely tra nsgender sex worker and a very wise drifter\, but Pop Aye’s unpredictabl e actions help drive the story as much as any of the human actors. This en grossing film progresses at an elephant’s serene pace without ever dippi ng into cutesiness or sentimentality. ~OY \n\n \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pop -aye_still2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:478@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T210000 DTSTAMP:20170928T123815Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jasper-jones-2/ SUMMARY:Jasper Jones DESCRIPTION:Jasper Jones\nDirected by Rachel Perkins\nAustralia | 2017 | Fi ction | 102 min\nFilm Source: Film Movement\nSponsor: Nokian Tyres\n\nAlso showing Sunday\, October 22 at 11:45AM\n\n\n\nCentered on a 14-year-old b oy caught up in a murder mystery involving a part-Aboriginal suspect\, thi s outstanding adaptation of Craig Silvey's novel of the same name should s peak to both adult and teenage audiences. Set in 1969\, in the fictitious town of Corrigan\, Perkins does a wonderful job evoking the community with its small-town secrets\, the struggling local cricket team and the long-e stablished social hierarchy. These\, and the subtext of racial prejudices\ , are woven seamlessly into the thriller style narrative. Jasper Jones is supported by great acting\, especially the wonderful Toni Collette and the stunning cinematography helps bring to life a sense of place.\n\n\n\n&nbs p\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jas per-Jones-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:482@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171025T211500 DTSTAMP:20170928T123934Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lantouri/ SUMMARY:Lantouri DESCRIPTION:Lantouri\nDirected by Reza Dormishian\nIran | 2017 | Fiction | 115 min | Farsi w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Iranian Independents\n\n \n\nReza Dormishian is one of the most prominent and controversial directo rs of the new\, disenfranchised generation of Iranian filmmakers (his prev ious film\, I’m Not Angry!\, is banned in Iran). Lantouri is the name of a gang of extortionists\, thieves and blackmailers in Tehran. Maryam\, a social activist/journalist who started the campaign “No to Violence\,” tries to convince the families of the crime victims to forgive the murder ers. But all this changes when she herself becomes the victim of an acid a ttack. Will she ask for lex talionis — the law\, applicable in Iran\, of “an eye for an eye”? While this dilemma drives the suspenseful narrat ive\, the film is as much about issues of corruption\, human-rights violat ions and the struggle for women’s rights. Lantouri mixes fictional inter views and media reports to provide contradictory views of a single event. The style creates a rich tapestry of non-linear sequences\, made all the m ore powerful by its superb sound design. ~OY\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Lan touri-3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:483@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T154500 DTSTAMP:20171026T220119Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lucky-2/ SUMMARY:Lucky DESCRIPTION:Lucky\nDirected by John Carroll Lynch\nUSA | 2017 | Fiction | 8 8 min\nFilm Source: Magnolia Pictures\nAwards/premier festivals: SXSW\nSpo nsor: Wake Robin\n\nAlso showing Sunday\, October 29 at 3:00PM\n\n\n\nAn i rreverent\, funny\, spiritual journey of a 90-year-old curmudgeon\, Lucky stars Harry Dean Stanton (Paris\, Texas) — who passed away last month at the age of 91 — in the performance of his lifetime. But more than a sha ggy-dog ramble\, the film is a thoughtful meditation on community and mort ality. The humor of the film permeates throughout\, but we challenge you t o forget the soliloquy by David Lynch (yes\, the David Lynch) at the local bar\, expressing his respect and longing for his missing pet tortoise\, P resident Roosevelt. Lynch’s character and his transformation acts as cou nterbalance to Lucky’s shrinking future. The first feature film directed by veteran actor John Carroll Lynch (Fargo\; Zodiac) is made all the more poignant by serving as the final statement of Stanton\, one of Hollywood ’s finest character actors.  ~OY\n\n \n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/5.j pg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:505@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T160000 DTSTAMP:20170928T123210Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-summer-is-gone-ba-yue-2/ SUMMARY:The Summer is Gone (Ba Yue) DESCRIPTION:The Summer is Gone (Ba Yue)\nDirected by Dalei Zhang\nChina | 1 06 min | Fiction | Mandarin w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Pad Internat ional\nSponsor: A Single Pebble\n\nAlso showing Saturday\, October 21 at 1 2:30PM\n\n\n\nBeautifully shot in widescreen black and white\, The Summer Is Gone is set in Inner Mongolia in the early 1990s\, during the swelterin g months before aimless 12-year-old Xialoei is due to enter the great unkn own of middle school. On the surface a coming-of-age story\, this autobiog raphical film from first-time director Dalei Zhang is positioned against t he backdrop of the Chinese economic reforms of the post-Tiananmen Square e ra\, when the privatization of state-owned institutions led to mass layoff s. With shades of Edward Yang and early Jia Zhang-ke in its unhurried pace and subtle political commentary\, The Summer Is Gone marks the emergence of a significant new voice in Chinese cinema.  ~LB\n\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sum mer-is-Gone-_0065.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:471@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T174500 DTSTAMP:20170928T125002Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/graduation/ SUMMARY:Graduation DESCRIPTION:Graduation\nDirected by Cristian Mingiu\nRomania/France/Belgium | 2016 | Fiction | 128 min | Romanian w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: I FC/Sundance Selects\nAwards/premier festivals: Cannes - Best Director\n\nA lso showing Saturday\, October 28 at 7:00PM\n\n\n\nGraduation presents a c lassic moral dilemma: Does the end justify the means when your child’s f uture is at stake? When his 18-year-old daughter is sexually assaulted and injures her writing arm before a crucial exam that will determine her sch olarship eligibility at a prestigious British university\, Romeo (the exce llent Adrian Titieni) must decide whether to use his influence as a respec ted doctor to tip the scales of educational justice in her favor. In a sty le reminiscent of Michael Haneke’s Caché\, Cristian Mungiu (director of the 2007 Palme d’Or winner 4 Months\, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) imbues the fi lm with a sense of menace lurking beneath the ostensible normalcy of a Rom anian society still scarred by the authoritarian communist rule of the Nic olae Ceauşescu era. Expertly blending drama and suspense\, Graduation pro bes the sacrifices an oppressed generation continues to make for the uncer tain future of Romania’s youth.  ~LB\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FF_ 01427108.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:494@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T181500 DTSTAMP:20170928T123402Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-rehearsal-2/ SUMMARY:The Rehearsal DESCRIPTION:The Rehearsal\nDirected by Alison Mclean\nNew Zealand | 2016 | Fiction | 102 min\nFilm Source: Pascale Ramonda\nSponsors: Champlain Colle ge\n\nAlso showing Tuesday\, October 24 at 4:30PM\n\n\n\nThis powerful fil m follows a group of students in New Zealand’s top theater school as the y navigate through relationships with friends\, teachers\, parents and lov ers. They face choices that force them to define their own views of an art ist's responsibility to both tell the truth of the human condition and pro tect the humanity of those people in the artist's life. The film’s fun\, quirky\, Kiwi sensibility hides a deep complexity — just as the young a ctors’ good looks and lack of experience cause adults in the film to ove rlook the deep emotional lives of the students. ~JS\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The -Rehearsal-02.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:498@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T210000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124508Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sami-blood-2/ SUMMARY:Sami Blood DESCRIPTION:Sami Blood\nDirected by Amanda Kernell\nSweden/Denmark/Norway | 2017 | Fiction | 110 min | Swedish/Sami w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nSponsor: Barbara McGrew\n\nAlso showing Wednesday\, October 25 at 4:15PM\n\n\n\nThis sensitive coming-of-age film brings audiences bac k in time to Northern Sweden in the 1930s and the colonial oppression of t he indigenous Sami people. Expertly helmed by first-time Swedish-Sami writ er-director Amanda Kernell\, the film follows a young girl caught between her family and her dreams for the future — all while raising questions a bout whose dreams she is chasing: her own\, or those she has ingested thro ugh her Swedish education. The director and talented actress have created a very real depiction of female sexuality without the usual Madonna-whore stereotypes. This is not a tortured story of an occupied people\, but rath er a complex tale of a strong young woman searching for her future\, her d reams\, her connections and her identity. ~JS\n\n \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/bil d4_hicropped-copy-kopi.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:481@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T211500 DTSTAMP:20170928T123918Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kills-on-wheels-2/ SUMMARY:Kills on Wheels DESCRIPTION:Kills on Wheels\nDirected by Atilla Till\nHungary | 2017 | Fict ion | 105 min | Hungarian/Serbian/Russian w/English subtitles\nFilm Source : Kino Lorber\nCo-presented with Flynn Center for the Performing Arts with support from the Ford Foundation\n\nAlso showing Tuesday\, October 24 at 2:00PM\n\n\n\nA thriller ... a coming-of-age tale ... a film about disabil ity. Two twenty-something\, aspiring comic-book animators with disabilitie s from a Budapest rehab center enter a new realm when they become involved with a wheelchair-bound hitman. Recruiting the pair as his accomplices\, the hitman initiates them into the fast-paced world of gangsters\, guns an d Serbian crime lords. No spoilers here to say that this action-packed jou rney is the taut skin over a more tender tale involving the rich imaginati on of the men\, in which the lines between reality and fantasy defy expect ation at every turn. ~OY\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/kil ls-on-wheels-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:467@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T233000 DTSTAMP:20171001T190021Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-endless/ SUMMARY:The Endless DESCRIPTION:The Endless\nDirected by Justin Benson &\; Aaron Moorhead\nU SA | 2017 | Fiction | 122 min\nFilm Source: Well Go USA\n\n\n\nHorror/Sci- Fi filmmaking team Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (2014’s Spring) prod uce\, write\, direct\, shoot and edit this mind-bending new American indie effort. Brothers Justin (Benson) and Aaron (Moorhead) receive a mysteriou s videotape\, seemingly sent from a former “death cult” that they esca ped from years before. With their lives and past in question\, the two bro thers trek through the desert\, returning to seek understanding about thei r lives\, as well as solve a mystery fit for a Lovecraft novel. What they find is beyond belief and comprehension\, as they are propelled into an im possible nightmare filled with metaphysical horrors. Benson and Moorhead h ave crafted a completely compelling\, edge-of-your-seat\, genre-bending th riller. At the same time\, they’ve made a story that is human and totall y relatable. Fans of films like John Carpenter’s In The Mouth of Madness \, Nacho Vigalondo’s Timecrimes or Shane Carruth’s Primer should take note. ~EF\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/End less_PressStill_2-e1506880787203.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:525@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T130000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124107Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-nfts-animation/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts - NFTS Animation DESCRIPTION:Note: No advance booking - payment at the door for all Lunchtim e Shorts programs - CASH OR CHECK ONLY. Gold Pass holders: bring your pa ss. Seating on a first come-first served basis. Please arrive ahead of sc reening time to allow for picking up your lunch. \n\nLineup:\n\nHome Grow n | Quentin Haberham - Director/Co-Story/Animator | 9 min\n\nFrancis raise s his son in isolation but when the boy outgrows his father's protective c onfines\, Francis learns that what is right for himself may not be what is best for his son.\n\nPipe Dreams | Christa Jarrold - Director/Writer | 9 min\nHelen's got a hot date\; it's all part of her plan to be a "better" w oman. But as the cracks start to show\, is it Helen who's going to be too much for him\, or her plumbing?\n\nPoles Apart | Paloma Baeza - Director/W riter/Animator | 12 min\nAn unlikely meeting between Nanuk\, a tough femal e polar bear\, and Aklak\, an enthusiastic male grizzly bear\, brought tog ether by their changing habitats\n\nTête-à-Tête | Natasha Tonkin - Dire ctor/Writer/Designer | 8 min\nA young woman visits her family. Over the we ekend tensions fray\, whilst technology provides an easy respite.\n\nTrue North - George Bowler - Director | 8 min\nOn the long journey home\, a fis herman comes upon the wreckage of a ship and rescues a small boy that he f inds asleep in a barrel. As a mysterious storm descends he senses the arri val of a sinister presence. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pip edreams-e1505326866123.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:503@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T160000 DTSTAMP:20170928T123312Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-square-2/ SUMMARY:The Square DESCRIPTION:The Square\nDirected by Ruben Ôstlund\nSweden/Germany/France/D enmark | 2017 | Fiction | 142 min | Swedish/Danish/English  w/English sub titles\nFilm Source: Magnolia Pictures\nAwards/premier festivals: Cannes - Palme d’or\nSponsor:  Middlebury College\n\nAlso showing Sunday\, Octo ber 22 at 7:15PM\n\n\n\nRuben Ôstlund is not afraid to tackle Big Ideas i n his Palme d’Or winner. Among the themes of this satirical film: how we live together\, our responsibility toward one another\, and\, in the cont ext of the art world\, what is artistic merit. As in his previous film\, F orce Majeure\, Ôstlund uncannily dupes us into initially stereotyping the players (the character played by Elizabeth Moss is but one example) and t hen\, one stealthy script page turn after another\, undermining our assump tions. As you laugh at the performance-art scene in the museum\, so will y our laughter grow into unease\, and you may find yourself questioning not only the art patrons’ reactions but also your own. This is one scene you will not forget\, and this is one bold film.  ~OY\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/THE -SQUARE.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:475@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T163000 DTSTAMP:20170928T125018Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/in-syria-aka-insyriated-2/ SUMMARY:In Syria (aka Insyriated) DESCRIPTION:In Syria (aka Insyriated)\nDirected by Philippe Van Leeuw\nBelg ium | 2017| Fiction | 85 min | Arabic w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Fi lm Movement\nSponsor: Eleanor Lanahan\n\nAlso showing Sunday\, October 29 at 4:30PM\n\n\n\nWhat is it like to live in the midst of war-torn Syria? T his narrative film takes us inside a Damascus apartment as a mother tries to shelter her children\, elderly father and neighbors from the horror occ urring on the street just a few stories down from her apartment. Most of t he film takes place inside the apartment\, but the director uses her exper ience as a cinematographer to give life and movement to the space. The act ing is so exceptionally open and vulnerable that\, as the characters are f orced to make choices and define their own rules and morality in a world s eemingly devoid of both\, the audience\, too\, cannot help explore how it would react in a similar situation. The film also makes us think about how we do act\, or not\, in reaction to the atrocities we see on nightly news from across the globe and around the corner. ~JS\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/In- Syria-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:474@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T183000 DTSTAMP:20170928T125036Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/in-between-bar-bahar-2/ SUMMARY:In Between (Bar Bahar) DESCRIPTION:In Between (Bar Bahar)\nDirected by Maysaloun Hamoud\nIsrael/Fr ance | 2016 | Fiction | 96 min | Arabic/Hebrew w/English subtitles\nFilm s ource: Film Movement\nAwards/premier festivals: Cannes - Women in Motion Y oung Talents Award Award\; Haifa International Film Festival - Best Debut Feature\nSponsor: Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program\n\nAlso sh owing Tuesday\, October 24 at 7:00PM\n\n\n\nThis film could easily be desc ribed as an engaging romantic comedy in which a shy small-town girl comes to the big city to live with two rebellious\, outgoing\, sophisticated roo mmates. But that would miss the point. These young women are Palestinians living in Tel Aviv\, Israel. Sometimes they easily glide between the seemi ngly bohemian\, cosmopolitan world of the city and the religions and tradi tions of their families and past. Other times the racism they encounter on the street\, at work and in their relationships seems to seep into their views of themselves. But these women have each other to lean on\, and they strive to grow past the restrictions and expectations in all of their wor lds. The film resulted in the first Palestinian fatwa in almost 70 years. But death threats have not silenced the director and actresses. Instead\, they have found a community of artists from around the world coming forwar d to support them. Show your support and come experience this groundbreaki ng film. ~JS\n\n \n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/In- Between-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:464@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T184500 DTSTAMP:20170928T124942Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/city-of-joy-2/ SUMMARY:City of Joy DESCRIPTION:City of Joy\nDirected by Madeleine Gavin\nDemocratic Republic o f Congo | 2016 | Documentary | 74 min\nFilm Source: Film Sales Corp\nNew E ngland premiere\nSponsor: The Caroline Baird Crichfield Fund for Women in Need\n* Director Gavin and Christine Schuler-Deschryver in attendance - Su nday*\n\nAlso Showing Friday\, October 22 at 7:00PM \n\n\n\nThis document ary manages to achieve the near impossible - exposing a painful\, brutal t ruth while creating a feeling of hope and optimism in the audience. For 20 years\, Congolese women have experienced rape as a weapon of war as rotat ing factions attempt to control their country and its mineral rights. Wher e do these women turn for help when their own communities turn them away? Three devoted pioneers (2016 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Denis Mukwege\, women's rights activist Christine Schuler-Deschryver and radical feminist Eve Ensler\, author of The Vagina Monologues) come together to create a p lace\, City of Joy \, that hopes to turn the women’s pain into power. Ma deleine Gavin\, a successful narrative film editor\, expands her role to i nclude both director and editor of this powerful portrait of a special sch ool that aims to transform the lives of its students and put graduates up in a position to lead their troubled country in a new direction. The audie nce is given access to the journey of City of Joy’s first class. Watch a s they move past pain\, through self-discovery and into empowerment. You w ill be cheering for the women\, the founders and the power of the human sp irit. ~JS\n\n \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1st -coj-class-photcred-paula-j-allen.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:461@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T210000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124648Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-b-side-elsa-dorfmans-portrait-photography -2/ SUMMARY:The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography DESCRIPTION:The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography\nDirected by Errol Morris\nUSA | 2017 | | Documentary 76 min\nFilm Source: Neon\nCo-Spo nsors: Barbara Zucker\, Judith Gerber\n\nAlso Showing Friday\, October 23 at 2:30PM \n\n\n\nThe Polaroid camera has never been held in high regard by photography aficionados. The boxy apparatus\, which spit out white-fram ed photos that developed within minutes\, was a camera for the masses\, be it instant keepsakes from family reunions or cops snapping crime-scene ph otos. The portrait photography of Elsa Dorfman was a notable exception. In the late 1970s\, Dorfman (who had already made a name for herself with ca ndid shots of Beat Generation icons such as Allen Ginsberg) began working with a large-format Polaroid camera (one of six in existence) that produce d 20-by-24-inch exposures. The resulting prints were both intimate and cap acious\, capturing subjects’ personalities in amplified detail. Director Errol Morris\, better known for investigative docs like The Thin Blue Lin e and The Fog of War\, here takes an intimate approach to his subject\, in terviewing Dorfman in a conversational style as she pores over decades’ worth of outtakes in her photo archives. Morris’ heartfelt portrait of t he portrait photographer — whose work bridged the gap between traditiona l photography and the instant gratification of the digital era — serves as a nostalgic remembrance of a bygone era and a gentle reminder of the im portance of film preservation.  ~LB\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The -B-Side-4.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:490@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T211500 DTSTAMP:20170928T124351Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pop-aye-2/ SUMMARY:Pop Aye DESCRIPTION:Pop Aye\nDirected by Kirsten Tan\nThailand/Singapore | 2017 | F iction | 102 min | Thai w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nSpo nsor: Duncan Wisniewski Architecture\nAwards/premier festivals: Sundance\n \nAlso showing Wednesday\, October 25 at 4:15PM\n\n\n\nKirsten Tan’s deb ut film Pop Aye (the first film from Singapore to play at the Sundance Fil m Festival) co-stars the eponymous elephant Pop Aye\, who\, both by defini tion and — dare we say — charisma\, dominates and illuminates the fram e. His co-star is Thana\, a sad-sack architect going through a midlife cri sis. On a chance encounter\, Thana bumps into his long-lost elephant and t akes him on a journey across Thailand in search of the farm where they bot h grew up. For Thana\, Pop Aye is both a friend and a metaphor for loss. T his road movie\, full of humor\, is a touching journey for both of them. O n the way they encounter some interesting characters\, including a lonely transgender sex worker and a very wise drifter\, but Pop Aye’s unpredict able actions help drive the story as much as any of the human actors. This engrossing film progresses at an elephant’s serene pace without ever di pping into cutesiness or sentimentality. ~OY \n\n \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pop -aye_still2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:523@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T230000 DTSTAMP:20171011T221008Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/party-words/ SUMMARY:Party Words DESCRIPTION:Party Words\n\nShowtimes: Friday\, October 27 | 9:30pm| BB\n\nP roduced and written by Champlain College professors Al Larsen &\; John Rasmussen\n\nParty Words is a mock game show\, modeled on Hollywood Square s\, featuring multiple vignettes (channel flip style) drawing from televis ion history. The production explores the compression of language\, time\, and politics. It will be presented as a mixture of film/theater/art instal lation.  VTIFF will be “Party Words” premiere. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Par ty-Words-Image.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:479@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T130000 DTSTAMP:20170928T123843Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kid-flix-best-of-ny-international-childrens-f ilm-festival/ SUMMARY:Kid Flix: Best of NY International Children’s Film Festival DESCRIPTION:Kid Flix: Best of NY International Children’s Film Festival\n Program of short films for ages 8 plus | 74 min\nFilm Source: NYCFF\n\n\n\ nOverview: A teenage monster confronts a bully in Welcome to My Life  (US A)\, a Japanese-Australian boy finds adventure in his lunchbox in Riceball s  (Australia)\, and a competitive swimmer must prove that big talent can come in small packages in Little Mouse  (Hungary). Kid Flix features liv e action and animated shorts for ages 8 and up from the 2017 New York Inte rnational Children’s Film Festival.\nNote: for detailed descriptions of each film\, visit the VTIFF website.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ROG ER_1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:486@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T140000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124232Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/manifesto/ SUMMARY:Manifesto DESCRIPTION:Manifesto\nDirected by Julian Rosefeldt\nAustralia/Germany | 20 15 | Fiction/Experimental | 95 min\nFilm Source: Film Rise\nSponsor: Andre a Rogers \n\n\n\nManifesto originated as an art installation\, consisting of filmed readings of artistic and political manifestos\, from Marx and E ngels’ 1848 Communist Manifesto\, to the Dada movement’s announcement of the death of art\, through Lars von Trier’s Dogme 95 rules for filmma king. It is rare that adaptations from one medium to another are successfu l\, but Julian Rosefeldt’s film is a definite exception. The “texts” are performed by the chameleon-like Cate Blanchett\, with a tour-de-force embodiment of each. The fact that Blanchett is a movie star as well as an actor adds to the complex and ambitious focus of the film\, as she plays every role and each manifesto is set in a different place and time. The aw ard-winning sound design by Fabian Schmidt and Markus Stemler is stunning. Manifesto is a cerebral film that is both witty and provocative\, challen ging our preconceptions of what art is\, or should be. Another film in the festival\, The Square\, attacks similar issues in a very different way\, and watching both could lead to an even richer experience. ~OY\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Man ifesto©JulianRosefeldt_2015_12b.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:496@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T144500 DTSTAMP:20171020T164409Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rumble-the-indians-who-rocked-the-world-2/ SUMMARY:RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World DESCRIPTION:RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World\nDirected by Catherine Bainbridge | Co-directed by Alfonso Maiorana\nCanada | 2017 | Documenta ry | 102 min\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nAwards / premier festivals: Sundan ce -World Cinema Special Jury Award\; Hot Docs - Best Canadian Documentary &\; Audience Award\nSponsor: John Douglas\n\nAlso showing Monday\, Oct ober 23 at 4:15PM\n\n\n\n“Be proud you’re an Indian\, but be careful w ho you tell.” Robbie Robertson\, guitarist and songwriter for the semina l rock outfit The Band\, recalls receiving this piece of cautionary advice as a young man. The rollicking and eye-opening Rumble attempts to dismant le the second part of that warning by proudly proclaiming the heritage of the numerous Native American musicians who made significant contributions to the development and popularity of American music. The film was produced by Rezolution Pictures International\, an Aboriginal-owned film and telev ision company based in Montréal. Director Catherine Bainbridge’s film ( whose credits also include Reel Injun\, about the representation of Native Americans in Hollywood films and television)\, acts as a corrective to ye ars of music history\, exploring and reasserting the Native influence acro ss genres and time periods\, through assimilated styles\, borrowed techniq ues and shared craftsmanship. It features a range of notable musicians\, f rom Mildred Bailey and Charley Patton to Robertson and Jimi Hendrix\, as w ell as less-heralded but still consequential figures such as session guita rist Jesse Ed Davis and heavy metal drummer Randy Castillo. The film cover s the governmental efforts to suppress much of this music and history and the struggles of politically outspoken artists like Buffy Sainte-Marie and John Trudell. The title takes its name from the seismic 1958 number by Li nk Wray — one of the first songs to pioneer distortion and power chords. The song had a profound effect on rock ’n’ roll\, but was also banned from U.S. airwaves for its dangerous\, delinquency-inducing swagger — d espite being an instrumental track! Rumble is the must-see rock-doc of the year. ~SJ\n\n \n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/max resdefault.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:462@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T173000 DTSTAMP:20170928T125143Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/after-the-storm-2/ SUMMARY:After the Storm DESCRIPTION:After the Storm \nDirected by Hirokazu Kore-eda\nJapan | 2016 | Fiction | 117 | Japanese w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Film Movemen t\nAwards/premier festivals: Cannes\n\nAlso showing Tuesday\, October 24 a t 4:15PM\n\n\n\nRyôta has a dark cloud over his head. His once-promising career as an author has evaporated into a case of writer’s block. His ma rriage has fallen apart. To support his gambling problem\, his work as a p rivate investigator has sunk to blackmailing the cheating spouses he’s s upposed to be investigating. But as a typhoon looms in the forecast\, Ryô ta attempts to reconcile with his estranged ex-wife and son by examining t he source of his problems: himself. Written and directed by Hirokazu Kore- eda (Still Walking\; Like Father\, Like Son)\, After the Storm deftly blen ds light comedy with kitchen-sink drama. With sharp dialogue and understat ed performances from Kore-eda veterans Hiroshi Abe and Yôko Maki\, After the Storm is a sensitive family portrait from a modern master of the form.  ~LB\n\n \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Aft er-The-Storm-Still-2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:508@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T171500 DTSTAMP:20170929T222826Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/welcome-to-the-mens-group/ SUMMARY:Welcome to the Men’s Group DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Men’s Group\nDirected by Joseph Culp\nUSA | 20 17 | Fiction | 130 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nSponsor: The Men’s Room\ n*Director Culp will be in attendance*\n\n\n\nThis comedy-drama takes us i nside the intimate dynamic of an all-male support group as they gather for their monthly ritual breakfast. As one of the men appears headed for a br eakdown\, and long-standing conflicts threaten the trust between the men\, the meeting descends into chaos. Using humor to highlight the men’s dis comfort at revealing their weaknesses\, the film delves frankly into theme s of male identity\, competition\, sexuality and grief. Director Joseph Cu lp also stars in the film alongside veteran actors Timothy Bottoms\, Phil Abrams and others. ~OY\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/MG_ Fight.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:513@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T184500 DTSTAMP:20170928T123004Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wulu/ SUMMARY:Wulu DESCRIPTION:Wulu\nDirected by Daouda Coulibaly\nMali | 2017 | Fiction | 95 min | Bambara/French w/English subtitles\nAwards/premier festivals: New Di rector/New Films\nNew England premiere\n\nAlso showing Monday\, October 23 at 2:00PM\n\nDaouda Coulibaly’s assured and suspenseful film\, with exc ellent characterization and a meticulous script\, belies the fact that thi s is a first feature. Set in Bamako in 2007\, against a backdrop of rising fundamentalism\, the film has universal resonance. Ladji\, a 20-year-old man\, works hard as a prantiké (bus driver) to get his older sister\, Ami nata\, out of prostitution. When he doesn’t get the promotion he was exp ecting\, he decides to contact a drug dealer who owes him a favor. This “Scarface in Mali” film portrays a culture and a country that have bee n underrepresented in film. ~OY\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/wul u5.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:472@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T210000 DTSTAMP:20170928T125159Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/graduation-2/ SUMMARY:Graduation DESCRIPTION:Graduation\nDirected by Cristian Mingiu\nRomania/France/Belgium | 2016 | Fiction | 128 min | Romanian w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: I FC/Sundance Selects\nAwards/premier festivals: Cannes - Best Director\n\nA lso showing Thursday\, October 26 at 3:45PM\n\n\n\nGraduation presents a c lassic moral dilemma: Does the end justify the means when your child’s f uture is at stake? When his 18-year-old daughter is sexually assaulted and injures her writing arm before a crucial exam that will determine her sch olarship eligibility at a prestigious British university\, Romeo (the exce llent Adrian Titieni) must decide whether to use his influence as a respec ted doctor to tip the scales of educational justice in her favor. In a sty le reminiscent of Michael Haneke’s Caché\, Cristian Mungiu (director of the 2007 Palme d’Or winner 4 Months\, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) imbues the fi lm with a sense of menace lurking beneath the ostensible normalcy of a Rom anian society still scarred by the authoritarian communist rule of the Nic olae Ceauşescu era. Expertly blending drama and suspense\, Graduation pro bes the sacrifices an oppressed generation continues to make for the uncer tain future of Romania’s youth.  ~LB\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FF_ 01427108.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:492@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T211500 DTSTAMP:20170928T124422Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/quest/ SUMMARY:Quest DESCRIPTION:Quest\nDirected by Jonathan Olshefski\nUSA | 2017 Documentary | 104 min \nFilm Source: Filmmakers Collaborative\nAwards/premier festivals : Sundance\, Grand Jury prizes at Full Frame\, Riverrun\, Dallas and Ashl and \nSponsors: Ducky and Frank Donath\n* Followed by Q&\;A with Direc tor Olshefski*\n\n\n\nJonathan Olshefski’s first feature film is many th ings. It’s a snapshot of the African-American experience during the Obam a administration. It’s a celebration of the perseverance of art in the f ace of poverty. It’s a chance encounter with the effects of gun violence on innocent bystanders. But most of all\, it’s a moving portrait of a f amily that bows but doesn’t break. Christopher “Quest” Rainey is a h ip-hop producer in North Philadelphia who supports his small home-based en terprise with a paper route. His wife\, Christine’a\, helps makes ends m eet by working at a domestic violence shelter. Time passes subtly in Olshe fski’s documentary. He spent a decade making the film\, sometimes sleepi ng on the Rainey family’s couch. During that time his camera witnessed s etbacks and little victories\, the gradual coming of age of the couple’s gay daughter\, and the countless small moments that give life meaning.   ~LB\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/151 93659_1739258683061381_756773983465392195_n.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:459@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T233000 DTSTAMP:20170928T125108Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/animals-tiere/ SUMMARY:Animals (Tiere) DESCRIPTION:Animals (Tiere)\nDirected by Greg Zgilinski\nAustria/Switzerlan d/Poland | 2017 | Fiction | 95 min | German w/English subtitles\nFilm Sour ce: Be For Films\n\n\n\nTime warps and reality bends after a married Vienn ese couple on their way to an alpine vacation in a Swiss chalet collide wi th a sheep on the road in this concussed\, broken-mirror psychological thr iller. Playfully sinister and cleverly constructed\, this entertainingly e nigmatic headtrip was loosely inspired by Dutch artist MC Escher’s “Re lativity.” Polish-born\, Switzerland-based director Greg Zgliński took over the script from the French-born\, German-raised Austrian writer and d irector Jörg Kalt after Kalt committed suicide while developing the work. The film’s transcontinental\, polyglot pedigree reflects its indetermin ate identity and resistance to classification – just as the story’s ch imerical architecture and talking-cat’s-cradle structure reflect the shi fting\, illusory nature of the characters’ relationships. Evoking David Lynch and Roman Polanski — or maybe an impishly malevolent Charlie Kaufm an — Animals offers an alluringly delirious trompe l’oeil for the adve nturous filmgoer. It’s a constantly twisting cinematic labyrinth that vi ewers will enjoy getting lost in. ~SJ\n\n \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ANI MALS-4-c-tellfilm-Wojtek-Sulezycki-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:524@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T123000 DTSTAMP:20170921T195552Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/animation-workshop/ SUMMARY:Animation Workshop DESCRIPTION:Scratchatopia animation workshop\n\nWorld renowned animator and festival favorite Steve Woloshen\, returns to VTIFF to run an animation w orkshop for the whole family. Learn the secrets of painting directly on fi lm\, make your own short and see it directly on the screen!\n\nFascinating interview with Steve HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Ani mation-Workshop.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Atrium\, 60 Lake Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05 401\, United States GEO:44.4774721;-73.2196927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, Burlington \, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landi ng Atrium:geo:44.4774721,-73.2196927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:534@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T123000 DTSTAMP:20171026T143553Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/burned-are-trees-the-new-coal-encore-screenin g/ SUMMARY:Burned: Are Trees the New Coal? Encore Screening DESCRIPTION:Burned: Are Trees the New Coal?\n\nDirected by Alan Dater &\ ; Lisa Merton\nDocumentary | 2017 | 76 min\nWinner of this year's VCAM Aud ience Favorite Award\n\nVermont Films are FREE with a recommended donation of $5.00. They cannot be booked in advance and seats will be available on a first come-first served basis.\n\nBurned tells the little-known story o f the accelerating destruction of our forests for fuel\, and probes the po licy loopholes\, huge subsidies\, and blatant green-washing of the burgeon ing biomass power industry. A dedicated group of forest activists\, ecolog ists\, carbon scientists\, and concerned citizens are fighting to establis h the enormous value of our forests\, protect their communities\, debunk t his false solution to climate change\, and alter energy policy both in the US and abroad. It’s not too late. ~AB\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Bur ned-Poster_11x16_1_print-704x1024.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:511@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T150000 DTSTAMP:20170928T123137Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wound-inxeba/ SUMMARY:The Wound (Inxeba) DESCRIPTION:The Wound (Inxeba)\nDirected by John Trengove\nSouth Africa/Ger many/Netherlands/France | 2017 | Fiction | 88 min | Xhoas/Afrikaans/Englis h w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nAwards and major festival s: Berlin\, Sundance\n\nAlso showing Sunday\, October 22 at 12:45PM\n\n\n\ nUsing a coming-of-age ritual as its setting (a Xhosa rite involving circu mcision and an 8 day fast)\, the film examines ideas of masculinity and qu eer identity - simultaneously depicting two aspects of South African cultu re rarely seen on screen. After the circumcision in the wilderness\, durin g the time the wound takes to heal the boys are sequestered from society u ntil their manhood is thus proven. Inevitably\, personal and sexual insecu rities come violently to the surface. The film has proven controversial in South Africa\, and its creators released a statement revealing that cast members were  threatened because of their roles on the project\, includin g threats to burn lead actor Nakhane Touré alive. Although ostensibly abo ut remote\, minority practices\, the film speaks universally about how onc e-traditional notions of masculinity can grow increasingly toxic in the ha nds of those who cling to outmoded ways rather than accept that things hav e changed.\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The -Wound-5.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:531@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T151500 DTSTAMP:20170928T123951Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/le-samourai/ SUMMARY:Le Samouraï DESCRIPTION:*50th anniversary screening*\nDirected by Jean-Pierre Melville\ nFrance | 1967 | Fiction | 105 min\nSource: Criterion\n\n\n\nAn excuse is never needed to screen a Jean-Pierre Melville film\, but this year is a pa rticularly apt occasion. 2017 marks not only the 50th anniversary of Melvi lle’s masterpiece\, but also the 100th anniversary of the birth of the d irector known as the godfather of the French New Wave. Le Samouraï stars the dashingly cool Alain Delon as a modern-day contract killer who lives b y the ancient Japanese samurai code. When a hit goes wrong\, he’s target ed by both the police and the shadowy group that hired him. Melville’s d irection mirrors the icy restraint of his antihero: not a shot or camera m ovement feels out of place. The cat-and-mouse game reaches its apex during an extended sequence in the Paris Metro which is on the short list of the greatest chase scenes ever filmed. Often imitated but never duplicated\, Le SamouraÏ is essential viewing.  ~LB\n\nJean-Pierre Melville and Alain Delon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/sam ourai-1967-01-g-e1505424770859.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:484@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T170000 DTSTAMP:20170928T124048Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lucky/ SUMMARY:Lucky DESCRIPTION:Lucky\nDirected by John Carroll Lynch\nUSA | 2017 | Fiction | 8 8 min\nFilm Source: Magnolia Pictures\nAwards/premier festivals: SXSW\nSpo nsor: Wake Robin\n\nAlso showing Thursday\, October 26 at 1:45PM\n\n\n\nAn irreverent\, funny\, spiritual journey of a 90-year old curmudgeon starri ng 90-year old Harry Dean Stanton (Paris\, Texas) giving the performance o f his lifetime. But more than a shaggy dog ramble\, the film is a thoughtf ul meditation on community and mortality. The humor of the film permeates throughout\, but we challenge you to forget the soliloquy by David Lynch ( yes\, the David Lynch) at the local bar\, expressing his respect and longi ng for his missing pet tortoise\, President Roosevelt. Lynch’s character and his transformation acts as counter balance to Lucky’s shrinking fut ure  This is the first feature by veteran actor John Carroll Lynch.\n\n\n \n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/5.j pg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:491@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T181500 DTSTAMP:20170928T124406Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/power-struggle/ SUMMARY:Power Struggle DESCRIPTION:Power Struggle\nDirected by Robbie Leppzer\nUSA/Japan | 2017 | Documentary | 104 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\n\n\n* Director Leppzer will be in attendance. Screening followed by a panel with nuclear whistleblowe rs Arnie and Maggie Gundersen (appearing in the film) and others\, moderat ed by author and journalist David Goodman *\n\nPower Struggle chronicles t he grassroots political battle in Vermont to close the Vermont Yankee nucl ear power plant. Seven years in the making\, this film documents a huge en vironmental issue that has affected Vermont\, arguing that it will have lo ng-lasting repercussions for the state for decades to come\, as the high-l evel nuclear waste will remain indefinitely on the banks of the Connecticu t River. Power Struggle is also a quintessential story about grassroots ac tivism and participatory democracy in Vermont. ~OY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\ n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/POW ER-STRUGGLE-Brattleboro_to-Monpelier-March_Jan-2010-Credit-PowerStruggleMo vie.com_.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:476@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T190000 DTSTAMP:20170928T125213Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/in-syria-aka-insyriated/ SUMMARY:In Syria (aka Insyriated) DESCRIPTION:In Syria (aka Insyriated)\nDirected by Philippe Van Leeuw\nBelg ium | 2017| Fiction | 85 min | Arabic w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Fi lm Movement\nSponsor: Eleanor Lanahan\n\nAlso showing Friday\, October 27 at 2:30PM\n\n\n\nWhat is it like to live in the midst of war-torn Syria? T his narrative film takes us inside a Damascus apartment as a mother tries to shelter her children\, elderly father and neighbors from the horror occ urring on the street just a few stories down from her apartment. Most of t he film takes place inside the apartment\, but the director uses her exper ience as a cinematographer to give life and movement to the space. The act ing is so exceptionally open and vulnerable that\, as the characters are f orced to make choices and define their own rules and morality in a world s eemingly devoid of both\, the audience\, too\, cannot help explore how it would react in a similar situation. The film also makes us think about how we do act\, or not\, in reaction to the atrocities we see on nightly news from across the globe and around the corner. ~JS\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/In- Syria-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:457@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T210000 DTSTAMP:20170928T125124Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/footnotes-sur-quel-pied-danser/ SUMMARY:Footnotes (Sur quel pied danser) DESCRIPTION:Footnotes (Sur quel pied danser)\nDirected by Paul Calori &\ ; Kostia Testut\nFrance | 2016 | Fiction | 83 min | French w/English subti tles\nFilm Source: Visit Films\nSponsors: Lyric Theatre\n\n* Closing Night Film *\n\n\n\nThe musical is in the midst of an unexpected renaissance. T hough La La Land got the Oscar buzz (and\, for a few minutes\, the Oscar) Footnotes is no less an heir to the films of Jacques Demy\, whose The Umbr ellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort broke ground by integr ating musical numbers into everyday situations. Footnotes concerns the stu mbling adventures of a twenty-something who shuffles between dead-end jobs before landing at a shoe factory that makes designer styles out of step w ith current fashion trends. She soon finds herself entangled in a feminist labor strike and a romance with a competing trucker that jeopardize her m uch-needed rent money. With a delightful performance by Pauline Etienne as the girl-next-door heroine\, Footnotes is a blue-collar musical that hide s its proletarian politics behind frothy entertainment and cleverly execut ed songs and dances.  ~LB\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FOO T-Main.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:535@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T210000 DTSTAMP:20171104T210318Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/felicite/ SUMMARY:Félicité DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: Félicité\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing \n\nDirected by Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis\nShot on location in Kins hasa\, Congo | 2017 | 122 min | French dialect w/English subtitles\nGrand Jury Prize Winner at The Berlin International Film Festival 2017 and Off icial Selection -New York and Toronto Film Festivals.\nThis year’s offic ial entry for Senegal for Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Award s.\n\nFélicité (singer/actor Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu) is a proud\, free -willed woman working as a singer in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life is thrown into turmoil when her 14-year-old son falls victim to an accident. To sav e him\, she sets out on a breakneck race through the streets of electric K inshasa – a world of music (Kasai Allstars)\, poverty and corruption.\nF élicité alternates seamlessly between the intense personal lives of ind ividuals\, an outsider's view of street life in Kinsasha\, dreamlike sc enes and musical pieces that change as Félicité herself changes. This i s one beautiful film.\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/jou r2fete-felicite-photo-4.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:537@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171214T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171214T210000 DTSTAMP:20171117T201637Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/breath/ SUMMARY:Breath DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: Breath (Nafas)\nHost sponsor - Main Street Lan ding\n\nWritten &\; Directed by Narges Abyar\nIran ⎮ 2016 ⎮ Fictio n ⎮ 112 min ⎮ Farsi w/ English subtitles\nIran's official submission t o the 2017 Academy Awards - Best Foreign Language Film\n\nIranian cinema a t its best.\nA little girl named Bahar lives a life spun from folklore a nd stories\, always with her head in a book. But growing up in Yazd (a anc ient province in central Iran) in the 1970s and ’80s\, she is at the cen tre of a country in turmoil: the Shah is overthrown\, Ayatollah Khomeini r ises to power\, and the first shots are fired in a bitter and protracted w ar with Iraq. Over the span of several years\, Bahar finds daydreaming in her own fantasy world is the only way she can make sense of the pain and s uffering warring humans inflict on one another. Aided by lyrical photogra phy set against the spectacular landscapes and harsh background\, a first person narration imbued with humor and an amazing performance by Sareh No ur Mousavi (Bahar)\, we enter a child's complex world experience of famil y\, school\, friendship\, literacy and social ambition. Semi-autobiographi cal\, this coming of age film film was adapted by filmmaker Narges Abyar ( Objects in the Mirror Are Closer than They Appear\, 2013) from her own nov el.\n\n \;\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Bre ath-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:542@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180112T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180118T000000 DTSTAMP:20180111T172014Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mountaintop-film-festival/ SUMMARY:MountainTop Film Festival DESCRIPTION:15 years of “Films For Thought”\n\n\n\n\n\nIn honor of Mart in Luther King Jr.\, the 15h annual MountainTop Film Festival once again o ffers a diverse program of documentary and dramatic films and special eve nts\, addressing social and environmental issues from around the world. Wi th growing concerns regarding human and civil rights and in a continued e ffort to make the Vermont community an epicenter of awareness and social engagement\, the MountainTop Film Festival strives to make people’s voic es and stories heard through film and discussion to further efforts of ed ucation and involvement.\n\nThis year’s program will feature a total of 11 films as well as special events in the week of January 12-18\, 2018 at the Big Picture Theater\, in Waitsfield\, VT.\n\nSome of the films include Ai Wei Wei’s new film on the global refugee crisis HUMAN FLOW\, Jeff O rlowski’s film CHASING CORAL\, CROWN HEIGHTS - a real life drama about w rongful incarceration\, and the dramatic film of three Muslim women strugg ling to find their identity in BAR BAHAR - IN BETWEEN.\n\nAlong with the f ilms\, the festival program has offers a chance to meet and talk to filmm akers\, activist\, and scholars that are involved in furthering civil righ ts and environmental causes around the world.\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Mou ntainTop-Film-Festival-1.png CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Big Picture Theater\, Carroll Road\, Waitsfield\, VT\, 05673\, Uni ted States GEO:44.1884733;-72.83562369999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Carroll Road\, Waitsfield\, VT\, 05673\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Big Picture Theater :geo:44.1884733,-72.83562369999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:538@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180125T210000 DTSTAMP:20171209T234147Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-other-side-of-hope/ SUMMARY:The Other Side of Hope DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: The Other Side of Hope\nHost sponsor - Main St reet Landing\n\nWritten &\; Directed by Aki Kaurismäki\nFinland ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 98 min ⎮ Finnish/Arabic w/ English subtitles\nAwar ds/major festivals | Berlin Silver Bear Award for Best Director / Tellurid e/New York\n\nWhen Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre served as the opening-nigh t film of VTIFF 2011\, little did we know that it would take the Finnish m aster six years to release his next feature. It was worth the wait. The Ot her Side of Hope — the second film in a planned trilogy relating to refu gees in port cities — concerns a Syrian refugee trying to navigate Finla nd’s fickle asylum laws and the bewildering nuances of a foreign culture . Kaurismäki’s trademark deadpan humor is on full display here\, but it ’s tempered by barely contained outrage about the treatment of immigrant s in Finland and beyond. With a minimalist style that combines quasi-docum entary techniques and ironic comedy\, The Other Side of Hope is a modern-d ay fable that’s both topical and timeless.\n\nDirector’s Statement:  “With this film\, I try my best to shatter the European way of only seei ng refugees either as pitiful victims or as arrogant economic immigrants i nvading our societies to steal our jobs\, our wives\, our homes\, and our cars.”\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/001 -scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Burlington Film Society,Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:539@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T213000 DTSTAMP:20180201T233233Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/best-of-mnff-2017/ SUMMARY:On Tour: The Best of the 2017 Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival - Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story DESCRIPTION:VTIFF is delighted to be partnering with the Middlebury New Fi lmmakers Festival to host a special evening of On Tour: The Best of MNFF 2017 - co-curated by MNFF Artistic Director Jay Craven and MNFF Producer Lloyd Komesar\, in consultation with VTIFF Executive Director Orly Yadin. The evening will include two films and a reception in between screenings. Tickets can be purchased singly for each film but we urge you to book for  each and join us for the reception in between screenings to meet and gre et the filmmakers and Jay Craven\, Artistic Director of MNFF.\nWe are very grateful to Main Street Landing for being the Host Sponsor for the evenin g. \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n5:00pm | Film House\nBombshell: The Hedy Lam arr Story\nDirected by Alexandra Dean| USA | Documentary | 90 mins\n\n6:30 pm | Lake Lobby\nReception and meet and greet the curators and filmmaker s\n\n\n7:30pm | Film House\nThe Peacemaker\nDirected by James Demo | USA | Documentary | 90 mins |\nFor more info about The Peacemaker and to purch ase tickets click HERE\n\n[caption id="attachment_9105" align="alignleft" width="789"] Hedy Lamarr\, 1938[/caption]\n\nWhat do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s — and the brainy inventor whos e concepts led to cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr\, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage who was wi dely heralded as “the most beautiful woman in the world” — and was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman. But Lamarr also had a secret identity—as a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system t o throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.\n\nThis riveting film weave s interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speakin g on the record about her incredible life.  We get an up-close look at he r beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre whose scandalous nude scene in the 1933 film\, Ecstasy\, caused such an enormous international uproar t hat even the Pope was moved to denounce it. After capturing Lamarr's glit tering Hollywood life and her ground-breaking but completely uncredited in ventions\, director Dean follows the actress/inventor’s retreat\, during her later years\, when she became a recluse\, impoverished and almost for gotten.\n\nBombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story brings to light the story of a n extraordinary\, unusual and accomplished woman\, spurned as too beautifu l to be smart\, but still a role model to this day.\n"Very enjoyable—one of the best movies of 2017.  Ms. Dean relates Lamarr’s ventures\, thos e onscreen and off\, with savvy and narrative snap\, fluidly marshaling a mix of original interviews and archival material that includes film clips\ , home movies and other footage.”  — Manhola Dargis\, New York Times .\n“Yet what what makes "Bombshell" intriguing is not just Lamarr's gif t for invention\, it's also what a fiery individualist she was\, someone w ho had no regrets about her eventful life ("You learn from everything")\, not even its racy\, tabloid elements.”  — Kenneth Turan\, Los Angel es Times\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Bom bshell-Hedy-Lamarr-photo.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:540@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T213000 DTSTAMP:20180201T233413Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/on-tour-the-best-of-the-2017-middlebury-new-f ilmmakers-festival-the-peacemaker/ SUMMARY:On Tour: The Best of the 2017 Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival - The Peacemaker DESCRIPTION:VTIFF is delighted to be partnering with the Middlebury New Fi lmmakers Festival to host a special evening of On Tour: The Best of MNFF 2017 - co-curated by MNFF Artistic Director Jay Craven and MNFF Producer Lloyd Komesar\, in consultation with VTIFF Executive Director Orly Yadin. The evening will include two films and a reception in between screenings. Tickets can be purchased singly for each film but we urge you to book for  each and join us for the reception in between screenings to meet and gre et the filmmakers and Jay Craven\, Artistic Director of MNFF.\nWe are very grateful to Main Street Landing for being the Host Sponsor for the evenin g.\n\n \;\n\n\n5:00pm | Film House\nBombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story\n \nFor more info about the film and to purchase tickets - click HERE\n\n6: 30pm | Lake Lobby\nReception and meet and greet the curators and filmmak ers\n\n7:30pm | Film House\nThe Peacemaker\nDirected by James Demo | USA | Documentary | 90 mins |\n\nDirected by James Demo ⎮ USA ⎮ Documentar y ⎮ 90 Minutes.\nWinner:  Best Documentary Feature\n\nThe Peacemaker fo llows international mediator Padraig O'Malley\, who works tirelessly to ma ke peace for others but struggles to find it for himself. The film takes u s from Padraig's isolated life in Cambridge\, Massachusetts to some of the most dangerous crisis zones on Earth – from Northern Ireland and Kosovo to Nigeria and Iraq over five years – as he works a peacemaking model b ased on his own recovery from alcohol addiction.  We meet Padraig in the third act of his life in a race against time to find some kind of salvatio n for both the world and himself.\n\n“A deeply moving portrait of its tr uly admirable\, complex subject.”\n—-Hollywood Reporter\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Pea cemaker.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:543@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T210000 DTSTAMP:20180218T231359Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/february-screening/ SUMMARY:Faces Places Encore Screening DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: Two films by Agnès Varda\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n\nFaces Places (Visages\, villages)\nDirected by Agnès Va rda &\; JR\nFrance ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Hybrid Doc ⎮ 89 min ⎮ French w/Engl ish subtitles\nNominated for the 2018 Academy Awards in the Best Documenta ry category\n\nUncle Yanco\nDirected by Agnès Varda\nUSA | Documentary ⎮ 19 mins ⎮ 1967 | French w/English subtitles\n\nBack by popular dema nd! The opening-night film of VTIFF 2017 — and the odds-on favorite to w in Best Documentary Feature at next month’s Oscars — FACES PLACES foll ows 89-year-old filmmaker Agnès Varda and 34-year-old visual artist JR as they travel the French countryside seeking subjects for JR’s large-form at outdoor photographic art installations. While the film’s off-the-cuff road-movie format humorously downplays its philosophical musings about th e state of the working-class French population\, its hybrid aesthetic spea ks to the power of cinema as a unifier of multiple art forms.\n\nAs an add ed bonus\, we’re pleased to pair the encore screening of Faces Places wi th Varda’s seldom-seen UNCLE YANCO (1967)\, a 19-minute documentary abou t her Greek relative living in a bohemian art enclave in Sausalito\, Calif . Not only does the short film evoke fascinating comparisons to the interv iews in Faces Places\, but it also provides a thumbnail sketch of Varda’ s earlier work as a member of the so-called Left Bank group of the French New Wave.\n\nIn Faces Places\, the spirit of the most influential New Wave auteur\, Jean-Luc Godard\, is omnipresent\, from a visual homage to his 1 964 film Band of Outsiders to the ultra-cool presence of JR\, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the young Godard. But Varda’s first film\, La Po inte Courte (1955)\, was a precursor to the New Wave movement\, and her ea rly work was clearly an influence on Godard\, who wrote in a 1959 Cahiers du Cinéma article that Varda’s short films “shine like tiny jewels. ” At the same time\, Uncle Yanco clearly shows Godard’s subsequent inf luence on Varda\, from its free-form editing and narration to its vibrant use of color\, à la Pierrot le Fou.\n\nIt’s only fitting\, then\, that a poignant moment in Faces Places centers on a planned meeting between Var da and Godard — two artists whose lives and careers intersected in compl ex and symbiotic ways.  ~ LB\n\n[caption id="attachment_9156" align="alig nleft" width="300"] Agnes Varda in the 1960s[/caption]\n\n[caption id="att achment_9155" align="alignleft" width="300"] Uncle Yanco[/caption]\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Fac es__Places.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:546@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180311T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180311T180000 DTSTAMP:20180306T215535Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ex-libris-by-frederick-wiseman/ SUMMARY:Ex Libris by Frederick Wiseman DESCRIPTION:Directed by Frederick Wiseman\nHost Sponsor:  Main Street Land ing\nDon't forget that the clocks will have moved forward at midnight Satu rday!\n2017 | USA | Documentary | 197 mins\n\nVTIFF and Burlington Book Fe stival are delighted to bring you the Vermont theatrical premiere of Ex L ibris: The New York Public Library as part of our 2018 Page and Screen  Series.\nThis event is by donation (suggested donation $20) and is shared by VTIFF and Burlington Book Festival. You can donate at the door (cash pr eferred) or  in advance below. If you donate in advance\, your name will be added to the door list:\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nIn his latest\, the Oscar-w inning director brings his incisive vision behind the scenes of one of the world’s greatest institutions of learning\, capturing the vast programm atic scope of NYC’s library system across its 92 branches. The film cele brates a venerable place of cultural exchange and intellectual creativity . Ex Libris is the 42nd film from one of the world's greatest living doc umentary pioneers. Over the past half century\, Wiseman has created a dist inguished body of work primarily devoted to examining American institution s\, society and democracy as well as existence itself. To date\, the film has been honored with the Critics' Choice Award\, special recognition from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle and International Cinephile Society alo ng with multiple prizes from the Venice Film Festival.\n~ Rick Kisonak\n\n \n\nIn an interview with "Indiewire" in January\, Wiseman made the followi ng observation about the film: "Trump made it a political film because it represents\, in my mind\, everything he doesn't believe in or doesn't unde rstand. The movie itself is not ideological\, but in the current political atmosphere\, it becomes that".\n\n*****  This screening is by donation t o raise money for VTIFF and Burlington Book Festival. Suggested donation $20 ***** \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n   \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Ex- Libris.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:564@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20180316 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20180325 DTSTAMP:20180312T212005Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/green-mountain-film-festival/ SUMMARY:Green Mountain Film Festival DESCRIPTION:Tickets available at\n38 State Street\nMontpelier\, Vermont CATEGORIES:Other Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:545@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180329T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180329T210000 DTSTAMP:20180314T223439Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-death-of-stalin/ SUMMARY:The Death of Stalin DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: The Death of Stalin\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n\nDirected by Armando Iannucci\nUK ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 1 07 min ⎮ English |\nMajor festivals: TIFF/ Sundance\n\nThe internal poli tical landscape of 1950’s Soviet Russia takes on darkly comic form in a new film by Emmy award-winning and Oscar-nominated writer/director Armando Iannucci. In the days following Stalin’s collapse\, his core team of mi nisters tussle for control\; some want positive change in the Soviet Union \, others have more sinister motives. Their one common trait? They’re al l just desperately trying to remain alive. Starring Steve Buscemi\, Michae l Palin\, Simon Russell Beale and more.\n\n\n“The Death of Stalin may be set over 60 years ago”\, says Armando Iannucci (In The Loop\, Veep)\, “but it offers some sobering lessons about today’s political landscape : I had the first conversations about the film two or three years ago when no one knew about Brexit or Trump\,” he says. “At the time I was cons ciously looking to do something about dictatorship\, about authoritarianis m\, about how a country can be terrorised by a personality even though tha t character might not be charismatic\, exploring concepts such as groupthi nk. There was no attempt to echo what ended up happening outside the film with Trump’s election and Brexit\, but there are weird echoes in the fil m.\n“They talk about false narratives and how one minute someone could b e an enemy of the people and the next minute be rehabilitated and how you can have different sets of narrative depending on what words you use\,” continues Iannucci. “We are in an era of false narratives and post truth and if there is anything to take away from the film which applies now\, i t's to look at what happens when the government controls the flow of infor mation\, tells you what’s true and what's not. You have to have independ ent outlets for news gathering because if one person says ‘I'm only goin g to speak to you if you agree with me’\, you end up where nothing feels real and you might as well believe them or you'll be locked up. I wasn't expecting this film to be a comment on contemporary politics\, but if sadl y it turns out to be\, I'll let people draw their own conclusions from wha t they see on the screen.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/TDO S_D23_4890web.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:563@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T200000 DTSTAMP:20180314T183417Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/preview/ SUMMARY:Preview Party: Global Roots Film Festival: Disability DESCRIPTION:Special event\nJoin us at Shelburne Vineyard for a preview of t he film at Global Roots Film Festival: Disability\, withJohn Killacky\, Ex ecutive Director of Flynn Center and Orly Yadin\, Executive Director of VT IFF. Tickets include a free glass of wine and appetizers. Bring your frien ds! All proceeds to benefit VTIFF.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/VTI FF_GlobalRoots_2018_poster-e1520620545517.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Other Events LOCATION:Shelburne Vineyard\, 6308 Shelburne Rd \, Shelburne\, VT\, 05482\, United States GEO:44.3664226;-73.23385339999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=6308 Shelburne Rd \, Shelbu rne\, VT\, 05482\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Shelburne Vine yard:geo:44.3664226,-73.23385339999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:566@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T210000 DTSTAMP:20180407T213056Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/glossary-of-broken-dreams-screening-with-film maker-johannes-grunzfurthner/ SUMMARY:Glossary of Broken Dreams Screening with Filmmaker Johannes Grenzfu rthner DESCRIPTION:Directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner\nWritten by Johannes Grenzfu rthner and his intellectual sparring partner Ishan Raval\nSound design by Daniel Hasibar.\n98 min \nFollowed by Q&\;A with the director\n\nPuppet s! Pixels! Anime! Live action! Stock footage!\n\nLumpennerd Johannes Grenz furthner gives an ideotaining cinematic revue about important political co ncepts. Everyone is talking about freedom! Privacy! Identity! Resistance! The Market! The Left! But\, yikes\, Johannes can't tolerate ignorant and t opically abusive comments on the "Internet" anymore! Supported by writer I shan Raval\, in this film\, Johannes explains\, re-evaluates\, and sometim es sacrifices political golden calves of discourse.\nNot to be used with f alse consciousness or silicone-based lubricant.\n\nFeaturing: Amber Benson \, Max Grodénchik\, Jeff Ricketts\, Jason Scott\, Stefanie Sargnagel\, Ge rald Votava\, Robert Stachel\, Stuart Freeman\, Katharina Stemberger\, Con ny Lee\, Jolyne Schlien Schürmann\, Hannes Duscher\, Roland Gratzer\, Ale xander E. Fennon\, Michael J. Epstein\, Michael Smulik\, Kudra Owens\, Mar tin Auer\, David Dempsey\, Anna Behne... and many others.\n\nWith artworks and animations by Bonni Rambatan\, Matt J. Frith\, James Brothwell\, Clem ens Kindermann\, Stevyn Prothero\, Steve Reeder... and many more.\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Glo ssary-PrePoster-web.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Perry Hall Perry 240 Presentation Room\, Champlain College\, 251 S outh Willard Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4730518;-73.20576549999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=251 South Willard Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Pe rry Hall Perry 240 Presentation Room\, Champlain College:geo:44.4730518,-7 3.20576549999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:452@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180415T210000 DTSTAMP:20180405T194721Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/global-roots-film-festival-disability/ SUMMARY:Global Roots Film Festival: Disability DESCRIPTION:Festival Passes on sale now. Purchase your festival Pass for b est value and convenience. Pass holders gain free entry to all screenings . Discounted tickets for VTIFF Patron members. Buy your Passes HERE\nA P DF of the Full Program and Schedule can be downloaded HERE\nCo-presented w ith Flynn Center for the Performing Arts with support from the Ford Founda tion.\nHost sponsor: Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center\nWith addi tional support from VocRehab | National Life Group Foundation | Champlain Community Services | UVM Hillel | Caffry Law Office | Disability Rights Ve rmont | Vermont Center for Independent Living | The Armory Bar &\; Gril l\, Burlington | Anne Barbano and Michael George | Patricia Fontaine\nAss ociated organizations: VSA Vermont | The Howard Center\nMedia Sponsors: Ve rmont PBS | WCAX\n\n***Daily receptions before the evening screening hoste d by A Single Pebble and Zero Gravity Brewery***\n\nWe aim for the festiva l to be as inclusive as we can. All feature length films will have closed or open captions except those with subtitles. The venue is wheelchair acce ssible. If you are in need of a hearing assistance device\, please let us know 10 days in advance which screenings  you plan to attend and we’ll do our best to accommodate you - Film House has only a few available. The festival will be a scent-free environment and we discourage perfumes or sc ented lotions.\n\nFestival Passes on sale now. Purchase your festival Pass for best value and convenience. Pass holders gain free entry to all scre enings. Discounted tickets for VTIFF Patron members. \nBuy your Passes HE RE\n\n*** Not sure of your membership status? Call Fauna on 802-660-2600 * **\nGeneral Admission: $40\nVTIFF Patron members @ 20% discount: $32.\nStu dent w/ID: $20\nVTIFF All Access members: FREE - bring your membership car d to the festival.\n\n\n\nYou can also purchase individual tickets - click on each image or title for more info.\n\n\n My Hero Brother – 04/13/2 018 – 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (showing with short: A is For Autism)\n Keep the Change – 04/13/2018 – 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm\n Latest News From th e Cosmos – 04/14/2018 – 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm\n Crazywise – 04/14/ 2018 – 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm (followed by panel discussion)\n Dina – 0 4/14/2018 – 4:45 pm – 6:30 pm\n Kills on Wheels – 04/14/2018 – 7 :15 pm – 9:00 pm\n Life Animated – 04/15/2018 – 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm\n How Sweet the Sound: The Blind Boys of Alabama – 04/15/2018 – 2 :00 pm – 4:00 pm\n Defiant Lives – 04/15/2018 – 4:30 pm – 6:30 p m\n Living and Other Fictions – 04/15/2018 – 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm (sh owing with short: The Making of Viktoria Modesta)\n\n\n[one_half]   [/ one_half] [one_half_last]      [/one_half_last]\n\n=\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/US- street-protest_preview_preview.jpeg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:547@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T183000 DTSTAMP:20180312T215339Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-hero-brother/ SUMMARY:My Hero Brother DESCRIPTION:My Hero Brother\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n\nDirected by Yonatan Nir\nIsrael ⎮ 2016 ⎮ Documentary ⎮ 78 mins ⎮ Hebrew w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Producers\nBest Documentary Award and Aud ience Favorite Award at Santa Barbara Film festival\nCo-sponsor: UVM Hille l\n\nAn inspirational film that follows a group of young people with Down Syndrome who embark on a demanding trip through the Himalayas\, accompanie d by their brothers and sisters. Unresolved conflicts and the complexities of growing up with a Down Syndrome child in the family come to surface\, while a heart-warming and special closeness develops among the siblings as they deal with formidable physical and emotional challenges. The difficul t trials and poignant relationships set against the magnificent backdrop o f the Indian Himalayas\, open new horizons and greatly deepen our understa nding of special needs people and their families.\n\n\n\nInterview with th e director:\n\n"I grew up on a kibbutz with a girl my age who had Down Syn drome. At the kibbutz\, kids lived all together and so she was like my sis ter from a very young age. Down Syndrome was never something weird for me. \n\nAs an adult\, I went traveling around the world and started writing an d taking pictures for Israeli newspapers and also for National Geographic. I started to be attracted to storytelling\; it’s a great way to make an impact and to learn about the world. I wrote many articles as a photojour nalist and went on to study documentary filmmaking. My first film\, Dolphi n Boy\, received a lot of attention and was picked up by Disney. I’m alw ays interested in stories about someone struggling. After Dolphin Boy\, I got a call about this trek through the Himalayas with people who have Down Syndrome. I knew people with Down Syndrome and how they can open your hea rt and touch your soul. The story of brotherhood and sisterhood in familie s with kids who have special needs…is untouched. It’s not as spoken ab out as the story between parents and their kids with special needs. But th e longest relationship in nature is between brothers and sisters."\n\nThis screening will also include the short A is For Autism by Tim Webb | UK | 1992 | Animation | 11 mins\nA multi-award -winning documentary based on a collaboration between autistic contributors and the director.\n\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Fi lm Festival: Disability ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/my- hero-brother1.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:548@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T210000 DTSTAMP:20180330T155300Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/keep-the-change/ SUMMARY:Keep the Change DESCRIPTION:Keep the Change\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n\nDirecte d by Rachel Israel\nUSA ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 94 mins ⎮ Open Captions \nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nAwards: Best U.S. Narrative Feature &\; Bes t New Narrative Director – Tribeca Film Festival\, FIPRESCI Prize Karlov y Vary Film Festival.\n\nIn this original and refreshing romantic comedy\, David\, an upper-class charmer\, leads a very comfortable life\, until he is mandated to attend a support group for adults with disabilities. There \, he is forced to come to terms with his own high-functioning autism\, de spite his resentment towards being singled out as different\, or anything other than what he interprets as ‘normal.’\nDirector/writer Israel wro te fictional situations for her leads\, Polansky and Elisofon (both people with high functioning autism)\, whom she named David and Sarah. But she a lso talked to them about their own lives and built many of those moments i nto the script\, then allowed them to improvise during rehearsal and shoot ing.\n\n"I like 'Rain Man\;' I always have been very moved by it\," Israel said in an interview with the LA Times\, "but it's taken from the brother 's perspective. I wanted to make a human portrait that was from the [neuro -atypical] person's perspective\, fully flawed and unsanitized."\n\n\n\nTh is event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Disability ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/KEE P-THE-CHANGE_COURTESY-OF-KEEP-THE-CHANGE_2.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:549@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T140000 DTSTAMP:20180403T164359Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/latest-news-from-the-cosmos/ SUMMARY:Latest News From the Cosmos DESCRIPTION:Latest News From the Cosmos\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing \n\nDirected by Julie Bertuccelli\nFrance ⎮ 2017⎮ Documentary ⎮ 85 m ins ⎮ French w/ English subtitles\nFilm source: Icarus Films\nAudience A ward\, 2016 Montreal Documentary Film Festival\n\nCan a person incapable o f speaking or writing somehow produce beautiful literature? In Latest New s From the Cosmos\, director Julie Bertuccelli (Story of Babel) answers th at question in the affirmative\, documenting the remarkable story of Helen e Nicolas\, aka Babouillec\, a severely autistic 30-year-old French woman who manages to convey her deepest inner thoughts through a unique form of poetic wordplay. The film is both inspirational and informative.\n\n\n\nTh is event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Disability ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/LAT EST-NEWS-FROM-THE-COSMOS-02_Image-courtesy-Icarus-Films_preview.jpeg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:550@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T163000 DTSTAMP:20180407T211511Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/crazywise/ SUMMARY:Crazywise DESCRIPTION:Crazywise\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n\nDirected by Ph il Borges and Kevin Tomlinson\nUSA ⎮ 2017⎮ Documentary ⎮ 82 mins ⎮ Open captions\nFilm Source: Producers\n\nFollowed by a panel discussion w ith  Dr. Sandra Steingard\, Chief Medical Officer of The Howard Center\, Dr. Alberto Fergusson\, Founder of the Institute of Accompanied Self Rehab ilitation\, Chris Hansen\, Director of Intentional Peer Support and Lesli e Nelson of the Howard Center.\n\nCrazy or wise? The traditional wisdom of indigenous cultures often contradicts modern views about a mental health crisis. Is it a ‘calling’ to grow or just a ‘broken brain’? Crazyw ise explores what can be learned from people around the world who have tur ned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience.   Centered on demystifying the Western interpretation and treatment of me ntal health\, how traditional cultures look at extreme mental emotional st ates and demonstrate the possibility that an individual experiencing a psy chological break can recover without lifelong medication and stigmatizatio n.\n\n\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Disability. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CRA ZYWISE.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:551@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T183000 DTSTAMP:20180330T155422Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dina/ SUMMARY:Dina DESCRIPTION:Dina\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n\nDirected by: Antoni o Santini\, Dan Sickles\nUK ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Documentary ⎮ 103 mins ⎮ Open Captions\nFilm Source: Producers\n\nAwards: Grand Jury Prize Sundance Fil m festival\n\nAn extraordinary and powerful portrait of the evolving relat ionship between an eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door greeter (wh o refers to himself as an "Aspy") in this unconventional love story. The f ilm gives us access to extraordinary intimate moments and the two main sub jects seem oblivious of the camera. And yet\, the shooting style is far-re moved from typical vérité style documentary films: the cinematography is stylized\, artfully desaturated\, with static shots that unfold deliberat ely and are seemingly disengaged. At the same time\, the rapport between t he filmmakers and their principal characters appears so comfortable that t here is never a suspicion of exploitation\, more a sense of total equality between filmmakers and subjects.\n\n\n\nThis event is part of Global Root s Film Festival: Disability. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Din a-Still-5_preview.jpeg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:552@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T210000 DTSTAMP:20180302T232111Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kills-on-wheels-3/ SUMMARY:Kills on Wheels DESCRIPTION:Kills on Wheels\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n\nDirected by Attila Till\nHungary ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 105 min ⎮ Hungarian/Se rbian/Russian w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\n\nKills on Wh eels was the sleeper of the 2017 Vermont International Film Festival and w e just had to show it again. This is a tale of two aspiring comic book twe ntysomethings with disabilities from a Budapest rehab center who enter a n ew realm when they become involved with a hitman in a wheelchair. Recruiti ng the pair as his accomplices\, he initiates them into the fast-paced wor ld of gangsters\, guns\, and Serbian crime lords. The action-packed journe y leads to a more tender tale in which the lines between reality and fanta sy defy expectation at every turn. Here’s what Orly Yadin\, on the VTIFF Programming Committee\, wrote after first previewing the film: “I was r iveted from the start and throughout. Witty combination of thriller and co ming of age. No-one is spared in this film and it was refreshing to see a film that included people with disability who were neither inspirational n or objects of pity. It contains one scene\, almost a throw-away\, that say s more about society’s attitudes towards physical disability than any ea rnest documentary I’ve ever seen - one tense moment and bingo! you get i t.”\n\n\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Disability ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/kil ls-on-wheels-2-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:553@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180415T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180415T133000 DTSTAMP:20180330T155513Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/life-animated/ SUMMARY:Life Animated DESCRIPTION:Life Animated\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n\nDirected b y Roger Ross Williams\nUSA ⎮ 2016 ⎮ Documentary ⎮ 89 mins ⎮ Open c aptions\nFilm Source: Ro*co Films\n\nOscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Wi lliams chronicles the remarkable story of Owen Suskind\, a young man with autism who has memorized shelves full of Disney movies and processes emoti ons and relationships via the characters and storylines in the films. Owen didn’t speak until his parents watched Disney’s The Little Mermaid wi th him. At that moment\, when he tried to talk\, they began to understand that Owen was reciting lines from the movie.\n\nFrom an interview with Ros s Williams: “I really wanted Owen to tell the story himself. All too oft en in films about people with disabilities\, the narrative gets taken away from them. It becomes about someone else trying to help them or counsel t hem. And Owen wouldn’t work as a traditional interview because he wouldn ’t make eye contact and it’s really hard to keep him focused.” They tried interviewing him first in a studio but Owen was stilted\, looking to his parents for prompts\, and the studio made him anxious.\n\nRoss Willia ms then hit upon using the Interrotron\, made famous by Errol Morris in T he Thin Blue Line\, wherein the interviewer talks into one camera and his face appears on a teleprompter screen in front of a second camera placed i n front of the interviewee. They set up in Owen’s bedroom at home\, with Williams in the next room. “When Owen first saw me on the screen he was mesmerised\; he’s spent his whole life looking at screens\, and he went completely still. He stared at me. He could completely focus and connect because I was on that screen.”\n\n\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Disability ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/lif e-animated-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:554@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180415T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180415T160000 DTSTAMP:20180329T144847Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/how-sweet-the-sound/ SUMMARY:How Sweet the Sound: The Blind Boys of Alabama DESCRIPTION:How Sweet the Sound: The Blind Boys of Alabama\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n\nDirected by Leslie McCleave\nUSA ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Docum entary ⎮ 89 min ⎮ Open Captions &\; Audio Description*\nFilm Source : Filmmaker\n\n***Followed by a Q&\;A with director Leslie McCleave***\ n\nStart your Sunday with some gospel!\nFilmed over the course of ten year s\, How Sweet the Sound is the first film to tell the story of this legend ary gospel quartet. The Blind Boys of Alabama met as children in the 1930' s at a state-run segregated vocational school and would become one of the last great gospel quartets\, traversing the famed "gospel highway" and bey ond. As the surviving band members recount their unlikely success story\, we see a rare\, frank view of life on and off the road with these renowned performers\, now in their 70s and 80s. Combining vérité footage shot ov er ten years with current and archival performances\, the film examines th e past\, present and future of this group\, winners of six Grammys and\, i n 2009\, a Lifetime Achievement Award.\n* If you require audio description please let us know 1 week in advance of the screening as there is a limit ed number of devices at Film House.\n\n\n\nThis event is part of Global Ro ots Film Festival: Disability. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/how -sweet-the-sound-car_preview.jpeg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:555@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180415T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180415T183000 DTSTAMP:20180330T155841Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/defiant-lives/ SUMMARY:Defiant Lives DESCRIPTION:Defiant Lives\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n\nDirected b y Sarah Barton\nAustralia/UK ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Documentary ⎮ 90 mins ⎮ Open Captions | Audio description available upon request - please notify us 1 0 days in advance.\nFilm source: Filmmaker\nSponsors: Anne Barbano &\; Michael George\n\n*** Followed by Q&\;A with filmmaker Sarah Barton***\ n\nDocumenting the rise and fight of the disability rights movement in Aus tralia\, the UK and USA\, this eye-opening film looks at how activists aro und the world helped to free their people from incarceration in institutio ns and came to a new understanding of disability by reframing it as a prob lem of society rather than a problem existing within individuals. Here is what Eric Ford\, on the VTIFF Programming Committee\, wrote after previewi ng the film: “The film gets better and better as you watch it. I ended u p being totally engaged and learning a history about disabled activism tha t I knew nothing about. Highlights a truly marginalized group and gives th em a voice.”\n\n\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Di sability. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Whi te-Flower-march-copy_preview.png CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:556@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180415T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180415T210000 DTSTAMP:20180302T232050Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/living-and-other-fictions/ SUMMARY:Living and Other Fictions DESCRIPTION:Living and Other Fictions\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n \nDirected by Jo Sol\nSpain ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 81 min ⎮ Spanish w/ English Subtitles\nFilm Source: Producers\nAwards: Audience Choice at t he Buenos Aires International Human Rights Film Festival.\n\nThis taboo-br eaking film follows Antonio\, a tetraplegic writer who engages a prostitut e for clients with disabilities in his apartment and fights for the right of people with disability to access their own body and to enjoy their sexu ality. This is a challenging work that dares its audience to venture into unfamiliar\, maybe even radical territory\, but it is the humanity at its core that makes it unforgettable. Here’s what Paula Willoquet-Maricondi \, on the VTIFF Programming Committee\, wrote after previewing the film: “Very interesting film. It is complex\, philosophical and visceral\; pro vocative on many levels. Not a film that our audience will easily forget. ”.\n\nThe screening includes the short film The Making of Viktoria Mod esta\nUK | 2014 | Documentary | 13 mins\nChannel 4 Television introduces V iktoria Modesta\, the world's first amputee pop artist.\n\n\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Disability ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Liv ing-abd-Other-Fictions-4_preview.jpeg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:567@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180419T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180419T200000 DTSTAMP:20180410T215602Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/welcome-to-vermont-four-stories-of-resettled- identity/ SUMMARY:Welcome to Vermont: Four Stories of Resettled Identity DESCRIPTION:Directed by Mira Niagolova\n65 minutes\nMira will attend the f ilm and facilitate discussion following the screening.\n\nWelcome to Verm ont was awarded VTIFF's Ben &\; Jerry Award in 2014.\n\n\n\na 65-minute documentary\, offers a nuanced view of lives of forcibly displaced people once they have achieved their ultimate desire to resettle in the US and " live the American dream." In four vignettes\, it takes us inside the daily lives of four families from Bosnia\, Somalia\, Iraq\, and Rwanda who have recently resettled in Vermont\, one of the smallest and most homogeneous states in the country. The documentary raises questions about identity\, a ssimilation\, and diversity and explores how the adaptation process differ s from one ethnic group to another\, from one individual to the next.\n\nW elcome to Vermont is an intimate portrait of communities grappling to re-f rame their identities as they strive to build their lives in America.\n\nB y sharing the stories featured in the film\, Welcome to Vermont aims to en gage the general public\, educators\, and students in a humanistic dialogu e about diversity and tolerance. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/wel come-to-vt-mira-productions-e1523393660274.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:565@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T210000 DTSTAMP:20180419T211443Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/song-of-sway-lake/ SUMMARY:The Song of Sway Lake DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: The Song of Sway Lake\nHost sponsor - Main Str eet Landing\n\nDirected by Ari Gold\nUSA | 2017 | Fiction | 94 min | English |\nCast: Rory Culkin\, Robert Sheehan\, Mary Beth Peil\, Isabe lle McNally\, Elizabeth Peña\, Jack Falahee\, Brian Dennehy\nShot on loc ation at Blue Mountain Lake\n\n*** Ari Gold will attend the screening a nd be there for a post-screening Q&\;A ***\nIt’s summer on Sway Lake \, the most glamorous lake in the Adirondacks - former playground of the j azz-age New York aristocracy. Music collector Ollie Sway recruits his only friend\, a rowdy Russian drifter\, to help him steal a 78 record from his own family’s estate. Ollie believes that this mysterious piece of music - recorded at his grandparents’ wedding by Cole Porter’s lover - was hidden for him by his father before his suicide. He believes possessing th e record will change his life.\n.\n\n\nDirector's Statement:\n"Spending su mmers in the Adirondacks as a kid\, I became fascinated by this giant swat h of wilderness that seemed to exist outside of time. In the lakes was the history of the great American royalty\, now in decline and often in confl ict with year-round residents. My grandparents\, while not members of this royalty\, aspired to it. But the present was always catching up to them\, as it was to all whose nostalgia gave even the sunny days a tinge of mela ncholy. The real sway was always out of reach".\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/THE _SONG_OF_SWAY_LAKE_©GrackFilmsSM-e1521059354708.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:568@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180531T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180531T210000 DTSTAMP:20180510T191258Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/foxtrot/ SUMMARY:Foxtrot DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: Foxtrot\nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n\ nDirected by Samuel Maoz\nIsrael ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 113 min ⎮  Hebrew ⎮Venice Film Festival 2017 (Grand Jury Prize Award – Silver Lio n)\nMichael and Dafna are devastated when army officials show up at their home to announce the death of their son Jonathan. While his sedated wife r ests\, Michael spirals into a whirlwind of anger only to experience one of life's unfathomable twists\, which rival the surreal military experiences of his son..\n\n\nReviews: Roger Ebert: "[...] a searing and phenomenal e xamination of what writer Paul Auster called “The Music of Chance.” It is a formally gorgeous piece of work\, the kind of film that exudes con fidence in structure and tone\, and it contains some of the most striking\ , memorable imagery of the year. Don’t miss this one".\nNew York Times: "[...] a movie that builds into a devastating indictment of a nation\, sho ck by shock\, brutal moment by brutal moment". ~ Manolha Darjis\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1-e 1524062281184.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:570@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180627T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180627T203000 DTSTAMP:20180702T125703Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunset-on-the-lake/ SUMMARY:Sunset On The Lake DESCRIPTION:Annual event to benefit the Vermont International Film Festival and to honor a VTIFF Community Champion.\nThe 2018 honoree is Robin Lloy d. Robin is probably well-known to many in the community\, local filmmaker s\, peace activists or have an interest in Haiti\, among other topics. Rob in has for several decades not only made films that have opened our eyes t o other cultures\, to US involvement in Latin America\, to Women's rights but has also been a staunch supporter of other filmmakers who aspire to ch ange the world and make it a better place or of organizations who have sim ilar ambitions. We are honored that Robin has accepted to receive the 2018 VTIFF Community Award. You may contribute HERE ONLINE if you weren't able to come or didn't get a chance at the event itself.\n\n     ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/362 99147_2188929447790551_628784534984327168_o-e1530385070480.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Meehan home\, 72 Bartlett Bay Road\, S. Burlington\, vt\, 05403\, United States GEO:44.429354;-73.21898859999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=72 Bartlett Bay Road\, S. B urlington\, vt\, 05403\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Meehan h ome:geo:44.429354,-73.21898859999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:569@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180628T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180628T210000 DTSTAMP:20180607T171523Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/this-is-our-land/ SUMMARY:This Is Our Land (Chez nous) DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: This Is Our Land (Chez nous)\nHost sponsor - Ma in Street Landing\n\nDirected by Lucas Belvaux\nFrance/Belgium | 2017 | Fiction | 114 min | French w/English subtitles\nA working-class single mo ther in the North of France naively agrees to run for mayor\, representing the Patriotic Bloc. A drama that seeks to analyze the dangerous appeal of reactionary populism\, This Is Our Land has attracted ire from the Fren ch far-right FN (Front National)\, which regards it as a slur on the party and its leader Marine Le Pen. Despite its provocative politics\, the fil m is at heart a character study that's near-Hitchcockian in its portrayal of an innocent\, average woman (an attractive blond\, no less) who gets ca ught up in a risky situation beyond her control and comprehension. The fi lm’s key premise is that perfectly decent\, compassionate people can all too easily – almost without realizing – fall under the spell of racis t paranoia. With Catherine Jacob as the blonde-bobbed leader who never met an angry crowd she couldn’t make angrier.\n"A strong film about nationa lism\, politics\, immigration and the changes faced by low income small to wns in France and elsewhere. I went along for the ride and was rewarded with an ending that I did not expect." ~ Julia Swift\, VTIFF Programming Committee.\n\n\n \;\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Thi sisOurLand_US_poster_675x1000.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:571@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180726T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180726T210000 DTSTAMP:20180709T164707Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/let-the-sunshine-in-un-beau-soleil-interieur/ SUMMARY:Let The Sunshine In (Un beau soleil interieur) DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents: Let the Sunshine In (Un beau soleil intérieur) \nHost sponsor - Main Street Landing\n\nDirected by Claire Denis\nFrance | 2018 | Fiction | 94 min | French w/English subtitles\nTo read an interv iew with Claire Denis about the making of the film click HERE\nJuliette Bi noche delivers a luminous performance in the deliciously witty\, sensuousl y romantic new film from acclaimed director Claire Denis (White Material). Isabelle (Binoche) is a divorced Parisian painter searching for another s hot at love\, but refusing to settle for the parade of all-too-flawed men who drift in and out of her life. There's a caddish banker (Xavier Beauvoi s) who\, like many of her lovers\, happens to be married\; a handsome acto r (Nicolas Duvauchelle) who's working through his own hang-ups\; and a sen sitive fellow artist (Alex Descas) who's skittish about commitment. What r eads like a standard romantic comedy premise is transformed\, in the hands of master filmmaker Denis\, into something altogether deeper\, more poign ant\, and perceptive about the profound mysteries of love.\nClaire Denis i s arguably one of the most important filmmakers of the last 20 years. If y ou haven't seen any of her previous films such as Beau Travail\, 3 Bottles of Rum and many others\, we urge you to try to catch up. It is her unique cinematic language\, together with the superb cinematography of her long- time cinematographer Agnès Godard\, that make her stand out among giants. \n\n\n \;\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/VTI FF_webslider_LettheSunshineIn-e1531064552958.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:572@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180803T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180803T210000 DTSTAMP:20180723T175948Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiff-lake-monsters-game/ SUMMARY:Lake Monsters Game DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Vermont Lake Monsters Game on Friday\, August 3rd at 7pm! Doors open at 6pm.\n\nTickets are just $7 with a portion of the p roceeds going directly back to the Vermont International Film Festival!\n\ nClick HERE to buy tickets. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Lak eMonstersv3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Vermont Lake Monsters Baseball\, 98 University Rd\, Burlington\, V T\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4815245;-73.188447 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=98 University Rd\, Burlingt on\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Vermont Lake Mo nsters Baseball:geo:44.4815245,-73.188447 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:561@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180830T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180830T203000 DTSTAMP:20180729T225429Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/satan-adam/ SUMMARY:Satan & Adam DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents Satan &\; Adam\nHost Venue: Main Street Landi ng\nDirected by Scott Balcerek\nUSA | Documentary | 80 mins\n\nOne day in 1986\, Adam Gussow\, a white\, Ivy League-educated harmonica player\, foun d himself nursing a broken heart and walking down the street in Harlem. Th ere\, he came upon a one-man blues band: Sterling Magee. Better known as S atan\, Magee was a local legend with heavy blues guitar riffs and makeshif t percussion instruments. When Adam sat in on a session with Satan that da y\, a most unlikely blues pairing formed. Their partnership would transcen d the racial tensions of a segregated city and the anxiety of a neighborho od that was hyper-aware of the perils of gentrification. The duo rose to i nternational acclaim from their Harlem street corner. But as quickly as th ey were discovered\, their meteoric rise was cut short when Mr. Satan myst eriously disappeared. The result is a fascinating story 23 years in the ma king.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sat an-adam-e1532901047182.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:576@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180912T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180912T193000 DTSTAMP:20180829T162320Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/membership-party-2018/ SUMMARY:Membership Party DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a\nMembership Party!\nAs a thanks for your c ommitment to VTIFF\,\nwe want to celebrate YOU!\nWednesday\, September 12\ n5:30 – 7:30pm\n~\nBurlington City Arts (BCA)\n135 Church St\nBurlington \, VT\nAppetizers by Dedalus ~ Film Festival Previews ~ Cash Bar*\nNot a m ember? Join at the party!\nLapsed member? Renew at the party!\n*Sign up to become a monthly sustaining member or upgrade your membership level and\n we’ll thank you with a complimentary drink ticket!\nKindly RSVP to fauna @vtiff.org\nNot sure if you’re a member? Give us a call 802.660.2600 CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:573@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180922T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180922T183000 DTSTAMP:20180806T170654Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wetware-benefit-screenings-430/ SUMMARY:Wetware Benefit Screenings 4:30 DESCRIPTION:VTIFF &\; Kingdom County Present: Wetware\nHost Venue: Main Street Landing\nDirected by Jay Craven\nUSA | Fiction | 100 mins\nNote: Th ere is also a second screening at 7:30 if you prefer - Clicking on BUY TIC KETS button will take you to either.\nWe look forward to greeting you at e ither of the screenings where you will meet Jay Craven and Wetware's princ ipal actors and stars during the reception and in the post-screening Q& \;As.\n\nWetware is set in a near future where people down on their luck a pply for genetic modifications to take on tough or tedious jobs like stree t sweeping\, slaughterhouses\, toxic cleanup and deep-sea mining – jobs that nobody wants to do.  With business booming\, programmers at Galapago s Wetware up the stakes by producing high-end prototypes\, Jack and Kay\, for more sensitive jobs like space travel\, counter-terrorism\, and deep c over espionage.\nMany of the filming locations were in Burlington. You wil l have fun identifying Leunig's\, ECHO\, Burlington City Arts and more.The se screenings are a fundraiser. All proceeds will support Vermont student participation in Jay's next production - a John Dewey-inspired film with i ntensive filming during the 2019 winter-spring semester\, working through Sarah Lawrence College.  Students will again work with professionals to p roduce a feature film based on Jack London’s autobiographical novel\, “Martin Eden.”  More information about the program is available at ww w.sarahlawrence.edu/cinema/ or by contacting Craven at jcraven@sarahlawren ce.edu.\n\n\n<\;>\;\nAdditional information:\n\n\nGalapagos genetic pr ogrammer Hal Briggs is sharp and creative but impetuous. He’s a socially awkward romantic in a transactional world. He keeps a virtual human clock at home and improvises as he goes on what qualities to include or delete in his gene splicing for Jack and\, especially\, Kay\, to whom he develops a dangerous attachment. Then word gets out that Jack and Kay have escape d\, before Briggs has completed his work. Where have they gone and what do they know? Briggs scrambles to track his fugitive prototypes and\, as he reexamines Jack and Kay's codes\, he makes a provocative discovery that wi ll change everything.\n\nIn addition to Morgan Wolk and the Vermont actors \, “Wetware’s” cast includes Jerry O’Connell (“Stand By Me\,” “Jerry McGuire”)\, Cameron Scoggins (“The Deuce\,” “Nashville” )\,  Nicole Shalhoub (“The Good Wife")\, Bret Lada ("Law and Order”) \, “Madame Secretary”)\, Aurélia Thiérrée  (“Aurelia’s Oratori o)\,” “Bells and Spells”)\, Garret Lee Hicks (“The Americans”)\, and Emmy- winner Gordon Clapp. Music was composed by Craven’s 25-year c ollaborators Judy Hyman and Jeff Claus\, of the Ithaca-based Horse Flies.\ n\n\nWetware was produced through arts non-profit\, Kingdom County Product ions\, and its Movies from Marlboro program where 24 professionals mentore d and collaborated with 32 students from a dozen colleges during a film in tensive semester. The picture will tour to venues across New England and b eyond.\n\nCraven will produce his next John Dewey-inspired film intensive during the 2019 winter-spring semester\, working through Sarah Lawrence Co llege. Students will again work with professionals to produce a feature fi lm based on Jack London’s autobiographical novel\, “Martin Eden.” Al l proceeds from the September 22nd screenings will support Vermont student participation in the upcoming film intensive semester. More information a bout the program is available at www.sarahlawrence.edu/cinema/ or by conta cting Craven at jcraven@sarahlawrence.edu.\n\n"Wetware marks a departure f or me\,” said Craven\, whose earlier films are set in periods from 1872 to 1970. “But the world of this story is quite vivid\, I believe the the mes are timely\, and the characters are rich and dimensional. Some of the film’s ideas grew from a 2003 documentary I made with my son\, Sascha – After the Fog about U.S. combat veterans. My young college student col laborators also contributed hugely\, as we worked together to imagine and create this “near future.”\n\nDirector Jay Craven has made ten narrati ve films\, including five pictures based on stories by Howard Frank Mosher . His films have played festivals and special screenings including Sundanc e\, SXSW\, American Film Institute\, Lincoln Center\, The Smithsonian\, th e Cinematheque Francaise\, Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela\, and the Cons titutional Court of Johannesburg.\n\nWetware funders and sponsors include The Amy Tarrant Foundation\, The Vermont Community Foundation\, The Norman Lear Family Foundation\, the India Blake Foundation\, Dealer.com\, The Es sex\, Main Street Landing\, Leunig’s Bistro and Café\, Marlboro College \, Jean Boardman and The Whetstone Inn\, Brattleboro Savings and Loan\, Bu rlington City Arts\, Dennis and Judith O’Brien\, The State of Massachuse tts\, The Bay and Paul Foundation\, Ron Miller\, Nat and Martha Winthrop\, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Vermont\, the John M. Bissell Foundation\, Cabo t Creamery\, Vermont Public Radio\, and more than 450 individual donors.\n \n“Special thanks go to these supporters\,” said Craven\, “and to Or ly Yadin and her Vermont International Film Festival and Main Street Landi ng for hosting this special screening to benefit aspiring student filmmake rs.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Kay -and-Jack-outside-gaming-parlor-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Other Events,Vermont Films LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:574@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180922T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180922T213000 DTSTAMP:20180806T170618Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wetware-benefit-screenings-730/ SUMMARY:Wetware Benefit Screenings 7:30 DESCRIPTION:VTIFF &\; Kingdom County Present: Wetware\nHost Venue: Main Street Landing\nDirected by Jay Craven\nUSA | Fiction | 100 mins\nNote: Th ere is also an earlier screening at 4:30 if you prefer - Clicking on BUY T ICKETS button will take you to either.\nWe look forward to greeting you at either of the screenings where you will meet Jay Craven and Wetware's pri ncipal actors and stars during the reception and in the post-screening Q&a mp\;As.\n\nWetware is set in a near future where people down on their luck apply for genetic modifications to take on tough or tedious jobs like str eet sweeping\, slaughterhouses\, toxic cleanup and deep-sea mining – job s that nobody wants to do.  With business booming\, programmers at Galapa gos Wetware up the stakes by producing high-end prototypes\, Jack and Kay\ , for more sensitive jobs like space travel\, counter-terrorism\, and deep cover espionage.\nMany of the filming locations were in Burlington. You w ill have fun identifying Leunig's\, ECHO\, Burlington City Arts and more.\ nThese screenings are a fundraiser. All proceeds will support Vermont stud ent participation in Jay's next production - a John Dewey-inspired film wi th intensive filming during the 2019 winter-spring semester\, working thro ugh Sarah Lawrence College.  Students will again work with professionals to produce a feature film based on Jack London’s autobiographical novel\ , “Martin Eden.”  More information about the program is available at www.sarahlawrence.edu/cinema/ or by contacting Craven at jcraven@sarahlawr ence.edu.\n\n\n<\;>\;\nAdditional information:\n\n\nGalapagos genetic programmer Hal Briggs is sharp and creative but impetuous. He’s a social ly awkward romantic in a transactional world. He keeps a virtual human clo ck at home and improvises as he goes on what qualities to include or delet e in his gene splicing for Jack and\, especially\, Kay\, to whom he develo ps a dangerous attachment. Then word gets out that Jack and Kay have esca ped\, before Briggs has completed his work. Where have they gone and what do they know? Briggs scrambles to track his fugitive prototypes and\, as h e reexamines Jack and Kay's codes\, he makes a provocative discovery that will change everything.\n\nIn addition to Morgan Wolk and the Vermont acto rs\, “Wetware’s” cast includes Jerry O’Connell (“Stand By Me\, ” “Jerry McGuire”)\, Cameron Scoggins (“The Deuce\,” “Nashvill e”)\,  Nicole Shalhoub (“The Good Wife")\, Bret Lada ("Law and Order ”)\, “Madame Secretary”)\, Aurélia Thiérrée  (“Aurelia’s Ora torio)\,” “Bells and Spells”)\, Garret Lee Hicks (“The Americans ”)\, and Emmy- winner Gordon Clapp. Music was composed by Craven’s 25- year collaborators Judy Hyman and Jeff Claus\, of the Ithaca-based Horse F lies.\n\n\nWetware was produced through arts non-profit\, Kingdom County P roductions\, and its Movies from Marlboro program where 24 professionals m entored and collaborated with 32 students from a dozen colleges during a f ilm intensive semester. The picture will tour to venues across New England and beyond.\n\nCraven will produce his next John Dewey-inspired film inte nsive during the 2019 winter-spring semester\, working through Sarah Lawre nce College. Students will again work with professionals to produce a feat ure film based on Jack London’s autobiographical novel\, “Martin Eden. ” All proceeds from the September 22nd screenings will support Vermont s tudent participation in the upcoming film intensive semester. More informa tion about the program is available at www.sarahlawrence.edu/cinema/ or by contacting Craven at jcraven@sarahlawrence.edu.\n\n"Wetware marks a depar ture for me\,” said Craven\, whose earlier films are set in periods from 1872 to 1970. “But the world of this story is quite vivid\, I believe t he themes are timely\, and the characters are rich and dimensional. Some o f the film’s ideas grew from a 2003 documentary I made with my son\, Sas cha – After the Fog about U.S. combat veterans. My young college student collaborators also contributed hugely\, as we worked together to imagine and create this “near future.”\n\nDirector Jay Craven has made ten nar rative films\, including five pictures based on stories by Howard Frank Mo sher. His films have played festivals and special screenings including Sun dance\, SXSW\, American Film Institute\, Lincoln Center\, The Smithsonian\ , the Cinematheque Francaise\, Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela\, and the Constitutional Court of Johannesburg.\n\nWetware funders and sponsors incl ude The Amy Tarrant Foundation\, The Vermont Community Foundation\, The No rman Lear Family Foundation\, the India Blake Foundation\, Dealer.com\, Th e Essex\, Main Street Landing\, Leunig’s Bistro and Café\, Marlboro Col lege\, Jean Boardman and The Whetstone Inn\, Brattleboro Savings and Loan\ , Burlington City Arts\, Dennis and Judith O’Brien\, The State of Massac husetts\, The Bay and Paul Foundation\, Ron Miller\, Nat and Martha Winthr op\, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Vermont\, the John M. Bissell Foundation\, Cabot Creamery\, Vermont Public Radio\, and more than 450 individual donor s.\n\n“Special thanks go to these supporters\,” said Craven\, “and t o Orly Yadin and her Vermont International Film Festival and Main Street L anding for hosting this special screening to benefit aspiring student film makers.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Kay -and-Jack-outside-gaming-parlor-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Other Events,Vermont Films LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:575@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T204500 DTSTAMP:20180828T182633Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-date-no-signature/ SUMMARY:No Date\, No Signature DESCRIPTION:VTIFF Presents No Date No Signature\nHost Venue: Main Street La nding\nDirected by Vahid Jalilvand\nIran | Fiction | 104 mins | Farsi w/En glish subtitles\n\nA forensic pathologist has a car accident and injures t he 8-year old son of the motorcycle driver. He offers to take the child to a clinic nearby but the father refuses his help and money. A few days lat er\, in the hospital where he works\, the pathologist finds out that the l ittle boy was brought in for an autopsy after a suspicious death. Is the p athologist responsible for the death\, or did the boy die of food poisonin g according to his colleague’s diagnosis?\n\nNo Date\, No Signature reca lls the style of Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi (The Separation) in this gripping high Shakespearean psychological drama of morality and clas s dynamics in Iranian society.\nDirector’s statement: “I read a quote from Rolf Dobelli that ‘Those who were bold and brave were killed before they could transfer their gene to the next generations. The rest\, that i s the cowardly and considerate\, survived. We are their progenies.’”\n  The trailer for this film can only be watched on the distributor's websi te - click on Watch on Vimeo below\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG _1365-e1535143848239.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:642@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T160000 DTSTAMP:20181003T205316Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-1/ SUMMARY:Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul (NEQ - 1) DESCRIPTION:Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul\nDirected by Huey\nMa ine | 2017 | Documentary | 114 min\nFilmmaker in attendance\n\n\nThoreau s aid that he “was born in the nick of time” in Concord\, Massachusetts\ , and went on to famously write about building a cabin and living at Walde n Pond. This film tells the story of his life and his time at Walden Pond as well as the impact his writings have had on environmental issues\, civi l rights\, and individual thinking in our time. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hen ry-David-Thoreau.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:681@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T160000 DTSTAMP:20181005T211613Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/raghead-neq-2/ SUMMARY:Raghead (NEQ - 2) DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in attendance\n\nEstrellita (Little Star)\nDirected by Daniel Houghton\nVermont | 2018 | Animation\, Fiction | 8 min\nA girl g rowing up on a Vermont dairy farm discovers a tragic reality about her fam ily.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\nRaghead\nDirected by Nora Jacob son\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 14 min\nA blind date\, a veiled woman\, a firefighter. Will sparks fly?  Nick\, a firefighter\, is surprised when S arah\, his blind date shows up wearing an Islamic veil. An ugly incident e arly in the day has affected Sarah’s outlook\, making her interaction wi th Nick fraught with uncertainty and tension.\n\nThe Best Day Ever: Forest Days in Vermont Kindergartens\nDirected by Chris Hardee\nNew Hampshire | 2017 | Documentary | 16 min\nThe Best Day Ever takes you outside into the forest classrooms of two Vermont schools where students are rediscovering joy and wonder through the experience of playing in nature. The film\, fea turing kindergarten classrooms at Marion Cross in Norwich and Hartland Ele mentary\, presents an intimate view of the hands-on learning happening out doors\; the thoughts of teachers\, administrators\, and parents about the value of this approach\; and the changing trajectory of public school kind ergarten. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Rag head-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T160000 DTSTAMP:20181005T212042Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-best-day-ever-neq-2/ SUMMARY:The Best Day Ever (NEQ - 2) DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in attendance\n\nEstrellita (Little Star)\nDirected by Daniel Houghton\nVermont | 2018 | Animation\, Fiction | 8 min\nA girl g rowing up on a Vermont dairy farm discovers a tragic reality about her fam ily.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nShowing with\nRaghead\ nDirected by Nora Jacobson\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 14 min\n\n\nA blind date\, a veiled woman\, a firefighter. Will sparks fly?  Nick\, a firefi ghter\, is surprised when Sarah\, his blind date shows up wearing an Islam ic veil. An ugly incident early in the day has affected Sarah’s outlook\ , making her interaction with Nick fraught with uncertainty and tension.\n \n \;\n\n \;\n\nThe Best Day Ever: Forest Days in Vermont Kinderga rtens\nDirected by Chris Hardee\nNew Hampshire | 2017 | Documentary | 16 m in\nThe Best Day Ever takes you outside into the forest classrooms of two Vermont schools where students are rediscovering joy and wonder through th e experience of playing in nature. The film\, featuring kindergarten class rooms at Marion Cross in Norwich and Hartland Elementary\, presents an int imate view of the hands-on learning happening outdoors\; the thoughts of t eachers\, administrators\, and parents about the value of this approach\; and the changing trajectory of public school kindergarten. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bes tdayever_lowres-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:649@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T160000 DTSTAMP:20181003T205437Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-2/ SUMMARY:Estrellita (NEQ - 2) DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in attendance\n\nEstrellita (Little Star)\nDirected by Daniel Houghton\nVermont | 2018 | Animation\, Fiction | 8 min\nA girl g rowing up on a Vermont dairy farm discovers a tragic reality about her fam ily.\n\nShowing with\nRaghead\nDirected by Nora Jacobson\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 14 min\n\n\nA blind date\, a veiled woman\, a firefighter. Will sparks fly?  Nick\, a firefighter\, is surprised when Sarah\, his blind date shows up wearing an Islamic veil. An ugly incident early in the day h as affected Sarah’s outlook\, making her interaction with Nick fraught w ith uncertainty and tension.\n\n \;\n\nThe Best Day Ever: Forest Days in Vermont Kindergartens\nDirected by Chris Hardee\nNew Hampshire | 2017 | Documentary | 16 min\nThe Best Day Ever takes you outside into the forest classrooms of two Vermont schools where students are rediscovering joy an d wonder through the experience of playing in nature. The film\, featuring kindergarten classrooms at Marion Cross in Norwich and Hartland Elementar y\, presents an intimate view of the hands-on learning happening outdoors\ ; the thoughts of teachers\, administrators\, and parents about the value of this approach\; and the changing trajectory of public school kindergart en. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Est rellita.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:650@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T180000 DTSTAMP:20181003T205817Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-3/ SUMMARY:Life After Life (NEQ - 3) DESCRIPTION:Life After Life\nDirected by Tamara Perkins\nVermont | 2017 | D ocumentary | 72 min\nFilmmaker in attendance via Skype\n\n\n\nAfter decade s behind bars\, three men set out to prove success can lie on the other si de of tragedy. As their stories unfold over weeks\, months\, and years\, t he precarious nature of freedom after incarceration in America is revealed .\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lif e-After-Life-02-e1537543931687.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:683@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T180000 DTSTAMP:20181005T221136Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/it-will-be-the-past-neq-4/ SUMMARY:It Will Be the Past (NEQ - 4) DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in attendance\n\nLil' Hybrids\nDirected by Mike Wirk kala\nNew Hampshire | 2018 | Animation\, Fiction | 5 min\n\nWhen three ali en hybrids abduct a cow\, and one hybrid gets disgruntled\, mayhem ensues. \n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\nIt Will Be the Past\nDirected by Ali Salem*\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 17 min\n\nInspired by the poem “Heaven” by Patrick Phillips\, this film plays with time\, memory\, fantasy\, and loss to tel l the story of a brother and sister who try to help each other escape the wrath of their grieving father.\n\nA Certain Kind of Man\nDirected by Mike Overton*\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 23 min\n\nArizona\, 1994. Following a fateful encounter\, a seasoned con man\, grown reckless with confidence\ , begins to feel the pressure of his criminal past catching up with him. A s his paranoia grows and his psyche begins to unravel\, Robert Dundley mus t choose between the secret life he’s built and the restitution of his n eglected family.\n\n*Student filmmaker ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/It- Will-Be-The-Past_VTIFF-Still_Ali-Salem-e1537544454487.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:684@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T180000 DTSTAMP:20181005T221400Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-certain-kind-of-man-neq-4/ SUMMARY:A Certain Kind of Man (NEQ - 4) DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in attendance\n\nLil' Hybrids\nDirected by Mike Wirk kala\nNew Hampshire | 2018 | Animation\, Fiction | 5 min\n\nWhen three ali en hybrids abduct a cow\, and one hybrid gets disgruntled\, mayhem ensues. \n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\nIt Will Be the Past\nDirected by Ali Salem*\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 17 min\n\nInspired by the poem “Heaven” by Patrick Phillips\, this film plays with time\, memory\, fantasy\, and loss to tel l the story of a brother and sister who try to help each other escape the wrath of their grieving father.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n&n bsp\;\n\nA Certain Kind of Man\nDirected by Mike Overton*\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 23 min\n\nArizona\, 1994. Following a fateful encounter\, a se asoned con man\, grown reckless with confidence\, begins to feel the press ure of his criminal past catching up with him. As his paranoia grows and h is psyche begins to unravel\, Robert Dundley must choose between the secre t life he’s built and the restitution of his neglected family.\n\n*Stude nt filmmaker ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/A-C ertain-Kind-of-Man-crop.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:643@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T180000 DTSTAMP:20181005T221159Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-4/ SUMMARY:Lil' Hybrids (NEQ - 4) DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in attendance\n\nLil' Hybrids\nDirected by Mike Wirk kala\nNew Hampshire | 2018 | Animation\, Fiction | 5 min\n\nWhen three ali en hybrids abduct a cow\, and one hybrid gets disgruntled\, mayhem ensues. \n\nIt Will Be the Past\nDirected by Ali Salem*\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 17 min\n\nInspired by the poem “Heaven” by Patrick Phillips\, this f ilm plays with time\, memory\, fantasy\, and loss to tell the story of a b rother and sister who try to help each other escape the wrath of their gri eving father.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nA Certain Kind of Man\nDirected by Mike Overton*\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 23 min \n\nArizona\, 1994. Following a fateful encounter\, a seasoned con man\, g rown reckless with confidence\, begins to feel the pressure of his crimina l past catching up with him. As his paranoia grows and his psyche begins t o unravel\, Robert Dundley must choose between the secret life he’s buil t and the restitution of his neglected family.\n\n*Student filmmaker ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lil -Hybrids_Film-Still.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:669@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T190000 DTSTAMP:20181004T141527Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-opening-reception/ SUMMARY:NEQ Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Kicking off NEQ and the festival\, is a special reception for a ll regional filmmakers - from Vermont\, New Hampshire\, Maine\, Northern N ew York State and Québec. This is the place to get to know your local fil mmakers\, mingle and find out more about what's going on filmwise in the N orth East. Representatives from The Media Factory\, sponsors of the NEQ Au dience Favorite Award\, will be there to invite you to a breakfast and tou r of this amazing production space.\nHors d'oeuvres and cash bar.\n\nRecep tion sponsors: Middlebury College and Québec Government in Boston.\n\n\n\ n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OFF ICIALSELECTION-VermontInternationalFilmFestival-NEQ-2018-1.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:644@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T210000 DTSTAMP:20181003T204316Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-5/ SUMMARY:Lowell Thomas: Voice of America (NEQ - 5) DESCRIPTION:Lowell Thomas: Voice of America\nDirected by Rick Moulton\nVT | 2018 | Documentary | 85 min\nFilmmaker in attendance\n\n\nLowell Thomas h elped determine how America saw the world in a century when America domina ted the world. Creative\, entrepreneurial and technologically savvy\, Thom as helped create 20th century American journalism: mostly male\, nonpartis an\, sober\, portentous\, cosmopolitan — and mildly xenophobic. A swashb uckling adventurer\, Thomas took American audiences with him on the radio and in newsreels\, and in the process helped established personality-drive n journalism. The man who helped invent this way of reporting and telling the news was the Indiana Jones of journalism: crashing planes\, falling fr om horses\, staring down rifles — but always coming back with the story. Journalism worldwide continues to follow his model: aggressive\, entrepre neurial\, unabashed and technologically advanced. Thomas’ stories\, both beloved and belittled for their grandiosity\, shaped 20th century America ’s knowledge of the world and influenced foreign policy. Voice of Ameri ca tells the story of its genesis. With narration from Robert Siegel\, lo ngtime host of NPR’s “All Things Considered.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Low ell-Thomas.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:651@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T204500 DTSTAMP:20181005T184212Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-6/ SUMMARY:Lemonade (NEQ - 6) DESCRIPTION:Lemonade\nDirected by Ioana Uricaru\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 88 min | Romanian/English w/English subtitles\nVermont Premiere\nSponsor : Middlebury College\nFollowed by Q&\;A with Filmmaker and lead actress \n\n\n\n\n\nWhile working in the U.S. on a temporary visa as a caretaker\, Mara (Malina Manovici\, who debuted in Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation\, s hown at VTIFF 2017)\, a 30-year-old single mother from Romania\, marries D aniel\, an American. After the arrival of her son Dragos\, everything seem s to have fallen perfectly into place. But when the process of getting a g reen card veers unexpectedly off course\, Mara is faced with abuses of pow er on every level and is forced to answer a dark question about herself: h ow far will she go to get what she wants. Writer-director Ioana Uricaru is a professor of film at Middlebury College. This is her first feature. To quote her\, the film is “sparked by a true story and grew into a screenp lay based on my own experience of discovering the American way of life and the differences between the American and Romanian world views.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LEM ONADE_01.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:645@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T211500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T224500 DTSTAMP:20181003T204441Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-7/ SUMMARY:Touched (NEQ - 7) DESCRIPTION:Touched\nDirected by Karl Hearne\nQuébec | 2017 | Fiction | 78 min\nFilmmaker in attendance\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n&nbs p\;\n\nA ghostly genre-hopping mystery about a young woman who disappears from her building and her solitary landlord who becomes obsessed with trac king her down. The landlord's search for his disappeared tenant starts him on a strange adventure. Guided by a little girl--the vanished tenant as a child--odd things begin to happen\, and the landlord struggles to figure out what's real. The child's kindness may be his only source of light and hope\, but she is also leading him down a rabbit hole... and he may not be able to find his missing tenant or the surface again. Part ghost story\, part psychological drama about an unlikely father figure and a nine-year-o ld girl\, this film creates a portrait of human isolation\, exploring both socio-pathology and the fragile power of human kindness. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tou ched-tea-cups-e1537544821701.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:652@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T143000 DTSTAMP:20181003T204520Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-8/ SUMMARY:Rooted: Cultivating Community in the Vermont Grange (NEQ - 8) DESCRIPTION:Rooted: Cultivating Community in the Vermont Grange\nDirected b y Ned Castle &\; Charlotte Barrett\nVermont | 2018 | Documentary | 57 m in\nFilmmaker in attendance\n\n\nVermont’s agricultural heritage gets a starring role in this film\, which goes inside the Grange\, the national f armers’ organization\, to explore how it has worked to strengthen and pr eserve rural communities since 1867. Created in partnership with the Middl e Branch Grange in East Bethel and Riverside Grange in West Topsham\, Root ed uses an ethnographic approach to explore the social\, economic\, and po litical impacts of the National Grange on Vermont’s rural communities ov er the past 150 years. In one-on-one interviews and at social gatherings\, Grange members reminisce about growing up in the Grange “family” and share their hopes and concerns for the future of an organization challenge d to adapt to a sharply different concept of community in the 21st century .  A co-production of Historic New England and the Vermont Folklife Cente r. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Roo ted-e1537544998215.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:646@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T141500 DTSTAMP:20181003T204605Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-9/ SUMMARY:Lake Effect (NEQ - 9) DESCRIPTION:Lake Effect\nDirected by Jacqueline Heltz\nVermont | 2018 | Doc umentary | 32 min\nFilmmaker in attendance\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nThe alarming rise of cyanobact eria\, commonly known as blue-green algae\, in the seemingly pristine lake s of Vermont and New Hampshire\, has increasingly dominated our local news .  In this film\, father-daughter filmmakers Jackie and Jim Heltz set out to investigate the possible link between exposure to neurotoxins found in cyanobacteria and the onset of sporadic cases of the terminal disease\, A LS. Through interviews and interactions with neurologists\, researchers\, politicians\, advocates\, environmentalists\, health officials\, farmers\, and patients and their families\, they explore the challenges surrounding this nascent and very serious public health concern. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lak eEffect1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:647@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T160000 DTSTAMP:20181005T223033Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-10/ SUMMARY:Bump in the Night (NEQ - 10) DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in attendance\n\nBump in the Night\nDirected by Aja Selbach-Broad* &\; Kaelan Selbach-Broad*\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 9 min\n\nWhen moving out of his childhood home\, Charlie misremembers a chil dhood trauma\, and this time\, there is something under his bed.\n\nSmoke Grenade\nDirected by Joe LaRocca\nMaine | 2018 | Fiction | 10 min\n\nRober t is peer pressured into setting off a smoke grenade in his high school ba throom as a prank. After running home early\, he stumbles across a family secret that will change his life forever.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n&nb sp\;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nDavid and the Kingdom\ nDirected by Woodrow Travers &\; Brian Paccione\nVermont | 2018 | Docum entary | 23 min\n\nAfter rehabilitating two abandoned baby moose\, David L awrence vows to never harm another living thing. When tragedy strikes\, Da vid is forced to confront a violent past that transforms a story of redemp tion into a meditation on human contradiction.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n*Student filmmaker ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bum p-in-the-night.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:685@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T160000 DTSTAMP:20181005T221507Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/smoke-grenade-neq-10/ SUMMARY:Smoke Grenade (NEQ - 10) DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in attendance\n\nBump in the Night\nDirected by Aja Selbach-Broad* &\; Kaelan Selbach-Broad*\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 9 min\n\nWhen moving out of his childhood home\, Charlie misremembers a chil dhood trauma\, and this time\, there is something under his bed.\n\n\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nSmoke Gren ade\nDirected by Joe LaRocca\nMaine | 2018 | Fiction | 10 min\n\nRobert is peer pressured into setting off a smoke grenade in his high school bathro om as a prank. After running home early\, he stumbles across a family secr et that will change his life forever.\n\nDavid and the Kingdom\nDirected b y Woodrow Travers &\; Brian Paccione\nVermont | 2018 | Documentary | 23 min\n\nAfter rehabilitating two abandoned baby moose\, David Lawrence vow s to never harm another living thing. When tragedy strikes\, David is forc ed to confront a violent past that transforms a story of redemption into a meditation on human contradiction.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n*S tudent filmmaker ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Smo ke-Grenade-prod-e1537545507741.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:686@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T160000 DTSTAMP:20181005T223004Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/david-and-the-kingdom-neq-10/ SUMMARY:David and the Kingdom (NEQ - 10) DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in attendance\n\nBump in the Night\nDirected by Aja Selbach-Broad* &\; Kaelan Selbach-Broad*\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 9 min\n\nWhen moving out of his childhood home\, Charlie misremembers a chil dhood trauma\, and this time\, there is something under his bed.\n\n\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nSmoke Gren ade\nDirected by Joe LaRocca\nMaine | 2018 | Fiction | 10 min\n\nRobert is peer pressured into setting off a smoke grenade in his high school bathro om as a prank. After running home early\, he stumbles across a family secr et that will change his life forever.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nDavid and the Kingdom\nDir ected by Woodrow Travers &\; Brian Paccione\nVermont | 2018 | Documenta ry | 23 min\n\nAfter rehabilitating two abandoned baby moose\, David Lawre nce vows to never harm another living thing. When tragedy strikes\, David is forced to confront a violent past that transforms a story of redemption into a meditation on human contradiction.\n\n \;\n\n*Student filmmake r ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dav id-the-Kingdom.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:654@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T163000 DTSTAMP:20181003T204724Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-11/ SUMMARY:Kali Yuga Chants (NEQ - 11) DESCRIPTION:Kali Yuga Chants\nDirected by Nilima Abrams\nVermont | 2018 | D ocumentary | 91 min\nFilmmaker in attendance\n\n\nKali Yuga Chants follows “Uncle” and “Aunty\,” a mixed-race couple living in India\, and t he 35 children they’re raising in a makeshift foster family. The film ch ronicles the kids’ transformation from begging in the streets and pickin g through garbage to learning meditation and math\, karate and cooking. In dividual kids are followed over ten years as they gain confidence\, overco me anger and sadness\, and navigate teenage hormones. The kids become expe rt chanters of Hinduism's ancient Vedic mantras\, which\, ironically\, hel p them to break free from the caste and gender stigma of their births but still brings backlash from the established elite. As the whole group strug gles to build a permanent home\, external and internal complications threa ten to tear apart the family\, raising questions that are central to the h uman condition.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Kal i-Yuga-01-e1537547697137.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:648@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T181500 DTSTAMP:20181003T204754Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-12/ SUMMARY:Modified (NEQ - 12) DESCRIPTION:Modified\nDirected by Aube Giroux\nQuébec | 2018 | Documentary | 87 min | French/English w/English subtitles\nFilmmaker\, Lt. Gov. Zuck erman and Enid Wonnacott\, Executive Director of NOFA-VT in attendance\n\ nModified is an award-winning first-person documentary that questions why genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are not labeled on food products in Canada and the United States\, despite being labeled in 64 countries aroun d the world. Interweaving the personal and the political\, the film is anc hored in the filmmaker’s relationship with her mother\, a passionate gar dener and food activist. Their intimate mother-daughter investigative jour ney\, fueled by a shared love of food\, ultimately reveals the extent to w hich industrial interests control our food policies\, making a strong case for a more transparent and sustainable food system. The film has received 6 festival awards since its release in Fall 2017. The film includes scene s in Vermont. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Pri mary-Still-Off-Center-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:687@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T180000 DTSTAMP:20181017T131120Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lily-neq-13/ SUMMARY:Lily (NEQ - 13) DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in attendance\n\nMoon Dog\nDirected by Mathieu Guimo nd*\nQuébec | 2017 | Animation\, Fiction | 3 min\n\n Something is happeni ng in the woods\, as night fades away.\n\n \;\n\nLily\nDirected by Dan ilo Herrera Fonesca\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 10 min\n\n\nCooper reconsi ders his life plans after his wife Lily convinces him to go on a tour of t he local assisted living facility.\n\n \;\n\nThe Hike\nDirected by Ben Silberfarb\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 25 min\n\nEager to escape their bu sy lives\, a couple sets off on a backpacking trip. They journey on a remo te trail\, set-up camp\, and head to the top of the mountain. On the way b ack\, they become aware of a menacing presence and discover their camp has been occupied by a malevolent stranger.  The Hike is based on an actual event but should be viewed as an allegory as well as a commentary on our c urrent social and political climate.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n*Student fil mmaker\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Lil y_ProductionStill_03-e1539114053248.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:653@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T180000 DTSTAMP:20181005T220943Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neq-13/ SUMMARY:Moon Dog (NEQ - 13) DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in attendance\n\nMoon Dog\nDirected by Mathieu Guimo nd*\nQuébec | 2017 | Animation\, Fiction | 3 min\n\nSomething is happenin g in the woods\, as night fades away.\n\nPlaying with:\n\nLily\nDirected b y Danilo Herrera Fonesca\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 10 min\n\n\nCooper re considers his life plans after his wife Lily convinces him to go on a tour of the local assisted living facility.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n \nThe Hike\nDirected by Ben Silberfarb\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 25 min\ n\nEager to escape their busy lives\, a couple sets off on a backpacking t rip. They journey on a remote trail\, set-up camp\, and head to the top of the mountain. On the way back\, they become aware of a menacing presence and discover their camp has been occupied by a malevolent stranger.  The Hike is based on an actual event but should be viewed as an allegory as we ll as a commentary on our current social and political climate.\n\n*Studen t filmmaker\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1.p ng CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:688@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T180000 DTSTAMP:20181005T221014Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-hike-neq-13/ SUMMARY:The Hike (NEQ - 13) DESCRIPTION:Filmmakers in attendance\n\nMoon Dog\nDirected by Mathieu Guimo nd*\nQuébec | 2017 | Animation\, Fiction | 3 min\n\nSomething is happenin g in the woods\, as night fades away.\n\n\n\nLily\nDirected by Danilo Herr era Fonesca\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 10 min\n\n\nCooper reconsiders his life plans after his wife Lily convinces him to go on a tour of the local assisted living facility.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n The Hike\nDirected by Ben Silberfarb\nVermont | 2018 | Fiction | 25 min\n\ nEager to escape their busy lives\, a couple sets off on a backpacking tri p. They journey on a remote trail\, set-up camp\, and head to the top of t he mountain. On the way back\, they become aware of a menacing presence an d discover their camp has been occupied by a malevolent stranger.  The Hi ke is based on an actual event but should be viewed as an allegory as well as a commentary on our current social and political climate.\n\n*Student filmmaker\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/The -Hike_screengrab3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:578@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T210000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133556Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/woman-at-war/ SUMMARY:Woman At War (Kona fer í stríð) DESCRIPTION:Woman At War (Kona fer í stríð)\nDirected by Benedikt Erling sson\nIceland/France/Ukraine | 2018 | Fiction | 100 min | Icelandic w/Engl ish subtitles\nFilm Source: Magnolia\nSponsor: Todd Lockwood \n\n* Opening Night film * New England Premiere *\n\n\n\n\nHalla (Halldóra Geirharðsd óttir)\, a choir director leading a seemingly quiet existence in an upsca le Reykjavik neighborhood\, is secretly the “Mountain Woman\,” an ecol ogical crusader determined to sabotage the aluminum smelting industry in I celand. But when a long-forgotten adoption application is accepted\, Halla is torn between her greater environmental mission and her maternal instin cts for a child from war-torn Ukraine. Writer-director Benedikt Erlingsson (whose feature debut Of Horses and Men was an audience favorite at VTIFF 2014) combines ironic humor and clever plot twists with bravura action seq uences in which Halla\, armed with just a bow and arrow\, knocks out the l ocal power grid. With unpretentious insight\, the film also draws a crucia l link between climate change and the global migrant crisis. Woman at War is a movie of the moment that seems destined to stand the test of time.  ~LB\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wom an-at-war-01-1-e1538082293635.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:668@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T223000 DTSTAMP:20181002T184019Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/opening-night-party-2/ SUMMARY:Opening Night Party DESCRIPTION:Opening Night Party of VTIFF 2018 follows the opening night fil m. Spill out of the screening into the festive Lake Lobby\, get your fill of delights from Penny Cluse Cafe and Mirabelle's Cafe\, imbibe Zero Gravi ty beers and move to the sounds of the Hokum Bros.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/16_ Hokum-Brothers.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:593@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T141500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133557Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/madelines-madeline/ SUMMARY:Madeline's Madeline DESCRIPTION:Madeline's Madeline\nDirected by Josephine Decker\nUSA | 2018 | Fiction | 93 min\nFilm Source: Oscilloscope\nSponsor: Judy Gerber\n\nAlso showing Monday\, October 22 at 7:00PM\n\n\n\n“You are not the cat — y ou are inside the cat.” So begins Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s M adeline\, an ecstatically disorienting experience that defines its terms r ight from the start and then obliterates any trace of traditional film lan guage\, achieving a cinematic aphasia that allows Decker to redraw the bou ndaries between the stories we tell and the people we tell them about. The result is an experimental movie with the emotional tug of a mainstream hi t\, a fragmented coming-of-age drama that explores the vast space between Hollis Frampton and Greta Gerwig in order to find something truly new and ineffably of its time.\n\n"This is one of the boldest and most invigoratin g American films of the 21st century.” ~David Erlich\, Indiewire ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/31- 20_Ash.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:577@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T153000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133557Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sammy-davis-jr/ SUMMARY:Sammy Davis\, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me DESCRIPTION:Sammy Davis\, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me\nDirected by Sam Pollard\n USA | 2017 | Documentary | 100 min\nFilm Source: Menemsha\nSponsor: Jane M ichaud\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \n\n\n\nSammy Davis\, Jr. is probably best know n today as a member of the Rat Pack — the hard-drinking\, wisecracking\, womanizing entertainers\, led by Frank Sinatra\, who ruled Vegas in the ’60s. Yet I’ve Gotta Be Me reveals a far more complex figure than his onstage persona: a dogged individualist who helped bridge racial divides w hile facing discrimination from all sides. Samuel Pollard’s briskly ente rtaining documentary surveys Davis’ entire career\, from his childhood d ays on the vaudeville circuit to his Broadway triumphs as a pioneering bla ck star and his highly publicized conversion to Judaism following a near-f atal 1954 car accident. As the film examines\, Davis endured racist threat s for his relationships with white actresses Kim Novak and May Britt\, yet he was also scorned by blacks for his perceived white lifestyle and his f riendship with President Nixon during the Vietnam era. But throughout the controversies\, he remained an indefatigable performer and brilliant impre ssionist who could sing\, dance and act with equal aplomb. Sammy Davis\, J r. could do it all — and he always did it his way.  ~LB\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SDJ _BLACKHAT_SUIT_CREDIT.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:595@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T154500 DTSTAMP:20181005T183953Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/i-am-not-a-witch/ SUMMARY:I Am Not a Witch DESCRIPTION:I Am Not a Witch\nDirected by Rungano Nyoni\nZambia/UK/Wales an d more | 2018 | Fiction | 91 min | Nyanja w/English subtitles\nFilm Source : Film Movement\nSponsor: The Caroline Baird Crichfield Fund For Women in Need\; Co-sponsor: Middlebury College\n\n\nAlso showing Thursday\, October 25 at 7:15PM\n\n\n\nThis marvelous magic-realist feminist film is both an allegory and a satire. Shot in Zambia but set in a non-descript African c ountry\, I Am Not a Witch focuses on Shula\, an 8-year-old girl who is acc used of witchcraft\, after which she is taken into state custody and exile d to a witch camp. Full of intentionally absurd scenes\, this lush\, light \, poetic film provides an unflinching look at the clash between modern an d traditional ways of living. It ends with a prime example of visual story telling at its best. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/A03 2_Burn-In.A032_17749-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:579@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T180000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133557Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bisbee-17/ SUMMARY:Bisbee '17 DESCRIPTION:Bisbee '17\nDirected by Robert Greene\nUSA | 2018 | Hybrid Doc | 112 min\nFilm Source: 4th Row Films\nAwards / premier festivals: Sundanc e\nSponsor: Lisa Schamberg\n\n\n\nThe title of Bisbee ’17 is twofold. In 1917\, in the copper-mining town of Bisbee\, Arizona\, more than 1\,000 s triking miners — mostly migrant workers from Mexico and Eastern Europe — were illegally and violently deported to the New Mexico desert by a po sse led by Cochise County Sheriff Harry C. Wheeler. In 2017\, director Rob ert Greene staged a recreation of the Bisbee Deportation\, with local resi dents playing the parts of the deporters and deportees. Seamlessly blendin g interviews with stylized reenactments\, Bisbee ’17 brings history into the present tense and serves as a potent commentary on the present-day im migration policies of the Trump administration.  ~LB\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FER NANDO-LOOK-UP.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:597@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T181500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133557Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beauty-and-the-dogs-aala-kaf-ifrit/ SUMMARY:Beauty and the Dogs (Aala Kaf Ifrit) DESCRIPTION:Beauty and the Dogs (Aala Kaf Ifrit)\nDirected by Kaouther Ben Hania\nTunisia | 2017 | Fiction | 100 min | Arabic w/English subtitles\nFi lm Source: Oscilloscope\nAwards / premier festivals: Cannes - Un Certain R egard\nSponsor: Peace &\; Justice Center\n\nAlso showing Tuesday\, Octo ber 23 at 2:00PM\n\n\n\nKaouther Ben Hania (The Challat of Tunis\, VTIFF 2 015) returns with this powerful and intelligently structured film\, loosel y based on a real event. A fun-filled evening descends into a Kafkaesque n ightmare for a 21-year-old woman (the absolutely amazing Mariam Al Ferjani ). The drama — her rape by two policemen and her subsequent attempts to see justice done — brilliantly unfolds in such a way that we\, too\, beg in to doubt the woman’s testimony. Beauty and the Dogs provides a femini st spin on the continued battle for basic legal rights following the 2011 ousting of Tunisia’s Ben Ali regime. It’s a powerful look at the frust rations and futility of what happens in a patriarchal society when the per petrators are also the law enforcers ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bea uty-and-the-Dogs_1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:672@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T190000 DTSTAMP:20181003T195937Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-10-20/ SUMMARY:Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us at today's daily reception.\n\nHors d'oeuvres and Zero Gravity cash bar.\n\nReception sponsors:\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VTI FF_600_newsletter.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:580@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T203000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133557Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/naila-and-the-uprising/ SUMMARY:Naila and the Uprising DESCRIPTION:Naila and the Uprising\nDirected by Julia Bacha\nUSA/Palestine | 2018 | Animation\, Documentary | 76 min | Arabic w/English subtitles\nFi lm Source: Just Vision\nSponsor: Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Pro gram | Co-sponsor: Peace &\; Justice Center\n\n*Screening will be follo wed by Q&\;A with producer Rebekah Wingert-Jabi\n\n\n\n\nWhen a nationw ide uprising breaks out in 1987\, a woman in Gaza must choose between love \, family and freedom. Undaunted\, she embraces all three\, joining a clan destine network of women in an inspiring story that weaves through the mos t vibrant\, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history – the First I ntifada. Naila is not your run-of-the-mill film about Palestinian resistan ce. It exposes the dual oppression of Palestinian women: the Israeli occup ation from without\, as well as the patriarchal society from within. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Nai la-women-on-hill-website.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:600@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T210000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133557Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-guilty/ SUMMARY:The Guilty DESCRIPTION:The Guilty\nDirected by Gustav Möller\nDenmark | Fiction | 201 8 | 85 min | Danish w/English Subtitles\nFilm Source: Magnolia\nAwards / premier festivals: Sundance - Audience Award\; Rotterdam - Audience Award\ n\nAlso showing Tuesday\, October 23 at 2:30PM\n\n\n\nA masterly exercise in close-up suspense\, set entirely in a police call center\, The Guilty c oncerns a disgraced police dispatcher who sees a chance for redemption whe n he suspects that a distraught caller has been kidnapped. First-time dire ctor Gustav Möller uses sophisticated sound editing and relentless shallo w-focus camerawork to force viewers to use their imagination to visualize the action taking place outside the police station. Anchored by a commandi ng performance from Jakob Cedergren\, The Guilty is a rare combination of art-house aesthetic and edge-of-your-seat entertainment that demands to be seen on the big screen.  ~LB ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/the -guilty.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:581@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T211500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T230000 DTSTAMP:20181005T184104Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/border-grans/ SUMMARY:Border (Gräns) DESCRIPTION:Border (Gräns)\nDirected by Ali Abbasi\nSweden | 2018 | Fictio n | 109 min | Swedish w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Neon\nAwards / pre mier festivals: Sweden's submission to the Academy Awards\; Cannes - Un Ce rtain Regard\nSponsor: Middlebury College\n\n\n\n\nBorder follows a border guard (the astounding Eva Melander) who has the unerring ability to smell human emotions and catch smugglers. Mysteriously humorous opening scenes come to a halt when one man’s smell eludes her and she is forced to conf ront disturbing insights about herself and humankind. Border gloriously de fies the convention of placing stereotypically attractive actors in lead r oles. This is a film that conveys multitudes about humanity\, immigration\ , beauty\, sexuality\, parenthood\, community and much more. Some countrie s have fairy tales\; Swedes have their trolls in the woods\, and Border br ings them alive with a contemporary twist. This film will stay with you lo ng after the last frame. Not recommended for family viewing. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bor der.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:689@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T130000 DTSTAMP:20181015T223435Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-king/ SUMMARY:The King DESCRIPTION:The King\nDirected by Eugene Jarecki\nUSA | 2018 | Documentary | 100 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nAwards / premier festivals: Cannes\, Su ndance\n\n***Followed by Q&\;A with filmmaker Eugene Jarecki***\n\n\n\n Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley\, two-time Sundance Grand Jur y winner Eugene Jarecki’s new film takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York\, Las Veg as\, and beyond\, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metap hor for the country he left behind. In this groundbreaking film\, Jarecki paints a visionary portrait of the state of the American Dream and a penet rating look at how the hell we got here. A diverse cast of Americans\, bot h famous and non\, join the journey\, including Alec Baldwin\, Rosanne Cas h\, Chuck D\, Emmylou Harris\, Ethan Hawke\, Van Jones\, Mike Myers\, and Dan Rather\, among many others.\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/The -King01.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:582@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T131500 DTSTAMP:20181004T193850Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/supa-modo/ SUMMARY:Supa Modo DESCRIPTION:Supa Modo\nDirected by Likarion Wainaina\nGermany/Kenya | 2018 | Fiction | 74 min | English/Kikuyu/Swahili w/English subtitles\nFilm Sour ce: Juno\nAwards / premier festivals: Berlin - Youth Jury Award\nSponsor: Patricia Fontaine\n* Recommended as family viewing for ages 11+\n\n\n\n\nA superhero film like no other\, Supa Modo follows a 9-year-old Kenyan girl  named Jo (Stycie Waweru) who takes flight from the harsh realities of a terminal illness diagnosis by believing she has super powers like her her oes. Far from being a morbid film\, director Likarion Wainaina succeeds in creating a funny and joyful experience without undermining the seriousnes s of Jo’s condition. This is a film about both the role of fantasy and t he power of a community to support their own by rallying around her and cr eating situations that lead Jo to believe that she does\, indeed\, possess superpowers. Waweru\, in the role of Jo\, is marvelous and helps challeng e and redefine the representation of African women in film.  ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sup a-Modo.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:583@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T150000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133558Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/survivors/ SUMMARY:Survivors DESCRIPTION:Survivors\nDirected by Arthur Pratt\nCo-directed by Banker Whi te\, Anna Fitch\, &\; Barmmy Boy\nSierra Leone | Documentary | 2018 | 8 2 min\nFilm Source: WeOwnTV\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with filmmakers\n\n\n \nThrough the eyes of Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt\, Survivors pr esents a portrait of his country during the Ebola outbreak\, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the sociopolitical turmoil that lay in its wake. Survivors chronicles the remarkable stories of Sierra Leoneans durin g what is now widely regarded as the most acute public health crisis of th e modern era. Pratt\, who is also a pastor\, serves as the guide of the fi lm – narrating and in vision. Drawing from deeply personal stories of th ree Sierra Leoneans at the epicenter of the epidemic\, the film boldly sha res the individual bravery\, bureaucratic missteps and deep humanity of th e people caught in an unfolding crisis. Pratt’s unique access\, narrativ e voice and observational documentary coverage of the outbreak becomes a p rism for understanding both the social and the political significance of t he health catastrophe. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sur vivors01.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:602@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T160000 DTSTAMP:20181009T205245Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/custody-jusqu-a-la-garde/ SUMMARY:Custody (Jusqu'à la garde) DESCRIPTION:Custody (Jusqu'à la garde)\nDirected by Xavier Legrand\nFrance | 2018 | Fiction | 93 min | French w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nAwards / premier festivals: Venice - Silver Lion\nSponsor: Allian ce française of the Lake Champlain Region \n\nAlso showing Tuesday\, Octo ber 23 at 4:30PM\n\n\n\nThis is a directorial debut of longtime actor Xavi er Legrand (who appeared in Louis Malle’s Au Revoir les Enfants as a chi ld)\, but you’d never know it\; Custody takes an everyday case of domest ic violence and elevates it to a riveting domestic drama. The film begins with an air of documentary reality before evolving into a claustrophobic t hriller\, slowly building tension until all doubt is put to rest in its gr and finale. Have no worries — no direct violence is shown on screen. “ As Alfred Hitchcock said\,” Legrand quotes an interview\, “there is no terror in the bank\, only in the anticipation of it.” Variety cited Leg rand as one of the 10 directors to watch in 2018. Come to the film and you ’ll see why. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cus tody-1-HIGH-RES-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:584@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T180000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133558Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/city-without-jews/ SUMMARY:The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden) DESCRIPTION:The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden)\nDirected by H. K. Breslauer\nAustria | 1924 | Fiction | 74 min | Silent w/English intertitl es\nFilm Source: Austrian Film Archive\nSponsor: UVM Hillel\n\n\n*Screenin g will be followed by Q&\;A with Raye Farr\, former Director of the Fil m Archive and Special Exhibits at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum*\n\nThi s 1924 Austrian film was believed to be lost until a print was found in a Paris flea market in 2015 and was subsequently restored by the Austrian Fi lm Archive. One of the few surviving Expressionist films from Austria\, Th e City Without Jews is based on a dystopian novel by a Jewish writer\, Hug o Bettauer\, who created an allegorical vision of the near future\, satiri zing the prevalent anti-Semitism of the time. Austria’s chancellor sees his people as being ruled by Jews and therefore passes a law forcing all J ews to emigrate. Vienna in the film is called Utopia\, and initially the c ity’s Aryan population celebrates the departure of their Jewish neighbor s. Very quickly\, though\, Utopia’s cultural life falls into neglect and the ailing economy does not revive. A love affair\, a psychiatric institu tion presented in the most wonderful Expressionist style\, and a deus ex m achina denouement move the story along. The film opened in Vienna on July 25\, 1924\, in Berlin in 1926\, and in New York in 1928. In 1933\, a versi on of the film was shown for the last time in Amsterdam\, as a protest aga inst Hitler’s Germany.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Fil mstill-aus-DIE-STADT-OHNE-JUDEN-1924-Filmarchiv-Austria_015-e1537733929390 .png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:604@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T180000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133556Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-cleaners/ SUMMARY:The Cleaners DESCRIPTION:The Cleaners\nDirected by Moritz Riesewieck &\; Hans Block\n Germany/Brazil | 2018 | Documentary | 88 min | Filipino/English w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Gebrueder Beetz\n\nAlso showing Monday\, October 2 2 at 2:15PM\n\n\n\n“If you commit one mistake\, it could trigger war.” One might assume that quote is attributable to a government official or a high-ranking corporate executive\, but it’s actually spoken by a social -media “content moderator” — a job outsourced by Silicon Valley tech giants Facebook\, Google and Twitter to hourly workers in the Philippines . On one level\, The Cleaners profiles the quietly heroic gatekeepers of t he Internet — the unrecognized content scrubbers who view up to 25\,000 questionable and often horrific images per day and determine if they viola te social-media guidelines. But in the wake of Facebook’s struggle to co ntain hate speech in Myanmar and the company’s role in the Cambridge Ana lytica data-mining scandal\, German filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riese wieck’s documentary is also about the dangers of allowing anonymous peop le to regulate free speech\, and the potential for social-media outlets to compromise democracy.  ~LB ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/03_ THE-CLEANERS-©-gebrueder-beetz-filmproduktion.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:673@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T190000 DTSTAMP:20181003T195944Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-10-21/ SUMMARY:Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us at today's daily reception.\n\nCatering by Esperanza Re staurante\, and Zero Gravity cash bar.\n\nReception sponsors:\n\n        ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VTI FF_600_newsletter.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:585@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T204500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133558Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/3-faces/ SUMMARY:3 Faces DESCRIPTION:3 Faces\nDirected by Jafar Panahi\nIran | 2018 | Fiction | 100 min | Farsi w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nAwards / premie r festivals: TIFF\, Cannes - Best Screenplay\nSponsor: 05401\n\nAlso showi ng Friday\, October 26 at 2:15PM\n\n\n\nEight years after receiving a two- decade filmmaking ban by the Iranian government\, Jafar Panahi\, a VTIFF f avorite (This Is Not a Film\; Taxi)\, returns with a new film that premier ed at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Once again\, we find him acting in another story seemingly pulled from his real experiences. The film open s with a video shot on a cell phone showing a desperate plea for help from a teenage girl\, whose family forbids her to pursue her dream of entering the entertainment world. That video ends with the girl’s apparent suici de on camera. We learn that the video was sent to Panahi\, begging him to forward it to celebrity actress Behnaz Jafari. And so the main film begins with Panahi and Jafari on a road trip to determine the fate of the girl. Is the suicide a fake? Is it real? They become involved with the girl’s small rural community\, contemplating the alienation and yearning at the r oot of provincial life and the status of women in a male-dominated society . This alone would have been fascinating enough. Throw into the mix Panahi ’s meta-narrative — did he construct the whole opening in order to ent ice the movie star to join him on a journey of discovery? Is he really dir ecting this film despite the ban (as his mother suspects in a sudden phone call to him)? “No\,” he replies\, “I’m just driving along with so me friends.”  ~ OY\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/3-F ACES-–-Still-2.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:606@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T204500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133639Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-rest-i-make-up/ SUMMARY:The Rest I Make Up DESCRIPTION:The Rest I Make Up\nDirected by Michelle Memran\nUSA | 2018 | D ocumentary | 75 min\nFilm Source: Women Make Movies\nSponsor: Barbara Zuck er\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with the director\n\nAlso showing Sunday\, Oct ober 28 at 2:00PM\n\n\n\nThis documentary about María Irene Fornés\, the groundbreaking playwright\, director and teacher\, is both a biography an d a personal film of a young filmmaker learning from Fornés how to be an artist. First-time director Michelle Memran befriends and follows Fornés\ , looking for a mentor. Filmed over multiple years\, we see the relationsh ip transform from mentor/mentee to true friendship. Through this friendshi p we become privy to her artistic life in New York City\, her family in Cu ba and her loves — including Susan Sontag\, whom she calls “the love o f my life.” When Fornés begins to show signs of Alzheimer’s\, the rel ationship shifts again\, but not as expected. It is a sensitive representa tion of dementia — seen not as the loss of intellect\, but as the loss o f memory and inhibition\, while the creative spark and lust for life remai n. The film is a celebration of Fornés\, friendship and the undying artis tic spirit. ~ JS\n\n \;\n\nRead the review by Richard Brody of the New Yorker HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RES MAK_hires4.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:664@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T130000 DTSTAMP:20181005T223240Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-10-22/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts 10/22 DESCRIPTION: North American Indie Fiction\n\n\nI’M OK \nDirected by Eli zabeth Hobbs\nAnimation | 6 min | Film courtesy of National Film Board of Canada\nInspired by the life and art of Oskar Kokoschka (1886 – 1980)\, Handmade ink and paint drawings.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nL ILY ‘N’ ROSE \nDirected by Sheryl Glubok\nFiction | 12 min\nImagine y our first best friend. The one you knew so long that you couldn't even rem ember meeting. That's Lily and Rose. Then Holly arrives and captures Rose' s attention with boys\, bands\, and fashion. Now Lily is presented with a choice: grow up\, or be left behind.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\nAMAL \nDi rected by Dilek Ince\nFiction | 15 min\nAn American doctor in war torn Syr ia attempts to bring back an injured girl\, but is stopped by U.S. immigra tion. \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nWHITE RIVER TALES\n Directed by Stephen Ohi\nFiction | 28 min\nA struggling young father must face his dark past and decide his future after his mother is involved in a fatal car accident. Inspired by the director’s childhood experiences.   \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lil y-n-rose.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:663@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T154500 DTSTAMP:20181016T200751Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-cleaners-2/ SUMMARY:The Cleaners DESCRIPTION:The Cleaners\nDirected by Moritz Riesewieck &\; Hans Block\n Germany/Brazil | 2018 | Documentary | 88 min | Filipino/English w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Gebrueder Beetz\n\nAlso showing Sunday\, October 2 1 at 4:30PM\n\n\n\n“If you commit one mistake\, it could trigger war.” One might assume that quote is attributable to a government official or a high-ranking corporate executive\, but it’s actually spoken by a social -media “content moderator” — a job outsourced by Silicon Valley tech giants Facebook\, Google and Twitter to hourly workers in the Philippines . On one level\, The Cleaners profiles the quietly heroic gatekeepers of t he Internet — the unrecognized content scrubbers who view up to 25\,000 questionable and often horrific images per day and determine if they viola te social-media guidelines. But in the wake of Facebook’s struggle to co ntain hate speech in Myanmar and the company’s role in the Cambridge Ana lytica data-mining scandal\, German filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riese wieck’s documentary is also about the dangers of allowing anonymous peop le to regulate free speech\, and the potential for social-media outlets to compromise democracy.  ~LB ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/03_ THE-CLEANERS-©-gebrueder-beetz-filmproduktion.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:610@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T154500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133639Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/america/ SUMMARY:América DESCRIPTION:América\nDirected by Erick Stoll &\; Chase Whiteside\nUSA | 2018 | Documentary | 76 min | Spanish w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: D ogwoof\nSponsor: Andrea Rogers\n\nAlso showing Saturday\, October 27 at 2: 15PM\n\n\n\nFilmed in Colima\, Mexico\, this warm and charming documentary evokes both laughter and tears in its story of three mismatched brothers whose lives revolve around caring for their 93-year-old grandmother\, Amé rica. Realistic about the fragility and decline of América and the diffic ulties of meeting her needs\, the film portrays her resilience and dignity \, as well as the differences between the brothers. Beguiling imagery refl ects the brothers’ adolescent yearnings and the adult realities that con front them. The brothers are a handsome trio of street entertainers with b oyish charm. They cavort on unicycles\, practice circus tricks and walk on stilts. Especially winning is the portrait of the youngest brother\, Dieg o\, who sings songs and showers América with kisses\, bolstering her cour age. Shot by the American filmmakers Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside over a three-year period\, América presents an intimate family portrait and a close-up on old age seldom depicted on film. ~ AM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mai n-diego-america-web.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:586@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T180000 DTSTAMP:20181009T204642Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/montparnasse-bienvenue-jeune-femme/ SUMMARY:Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Jeune femme) DESCRIPTION:Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Jeune femme)\nDirected by Léonor Serr aille\nFrance | 2018 | Fiction | 97 min | French w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Be For Films\nAwards / premier festivals: Cannes - Un Certain Reg ard prize\nCo-Sponsors: A Single Pebble and Alliance française of the Lak e Champlain Region \n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\nAlso showing Wednesday\, Oc tober 24 at 7:00PM\n\n\nThis is one of the best-edited films we have on sh ow this year. A tragicomic and picaresque journey of self-discovery\, Mont parnasse Bienvenüe leaves you breathless\, embodying a powerful juxtaposi tion between a woman who is down and out and empowered at the same time. P aula (Laetitia Dosch) follows her boyfriend to Paris only to find the door closed. Far from being nostalgic\, she loses herself in Parisian life. Th is nuanced feminist film\, with a creative soundtrack and economic transit ions between scenes\, will surprise you at every twist of the way. ~ OY\n\ n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jeu ne-Femme-HD-03-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:587@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T180000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133639Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/support-the-girls/ SUMMARY:Support the Girls DESCRIPTION:Support the Girls\nDirected by Andrew Bujalski\nUSA | 2018 | Fi ction | 90 min\nFilm Source: Magnolia\nSponsor: Bridget Downey Meyer\n\nAl so showing Wednesday\, October 24 at 7:15PM\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\nSupport the Girls is a feminist comedy set in the unlikeliest of locales: a Hooter s-like Texan bar whose marketing mantra is “boobs\, brews and big screen s.” Regina Hall\, in a marvelous performance\, plays the general manager of Double Whammies\, a “sports bar with curves.” During the course of a trying workday fraught with comic mishaps\, she struggles to balance jo b responsibilities with her motherly devotion to her waitresses. Writer-di rector Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha\; Computer Chess) tackles the gender p olitics of macho sports-bar culture with unassuming perception and a keen comedic eye for the behind-the-scenes details of the restaurant industry. In the midst of the #MeToo movement\, Support the Girls is a timely look a t the ways working-class women create support systems to survive until the next shift.  ~LB\n\nListen to a podcast about the film HERE\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4-s caled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:674@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T190000 DTSTAMP:20181003T200005Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-10-22/ SUMMARY:Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us at today's daily reception.\n\nCatering by Honey Road\, and Zero Gravity cash bar.\n\nReception sponsors:\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VTI FF_600_newsletter.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:594@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T203000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133639Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/madelines-madeline-2/ SUMMARY:Madeline's Madeline DESCRIPTION:Madeline's Madeline\nDirected by Josephine Decker\nUSA | 2018 | Fiction | 93 min\nFilm Source: Oscilloscope\nSponsor: Judy Gerber\n\nAlso showing Saturday\, October 20 at 12:15PM\n\n\n\n“You are not the cat — you are inside the cat.” So begins Josephine Decker’s Madeline ’s Madeline\, an ecstatically disorienting experience that defines its t erms right from the start and then obliterates any trace of traditional fi lm language\, achieving a cinematic aphasia that allows Decker to redraw t he boundaries between the stories we tell and the people we tell them abou t. The result is an experimental movie with the emotional tug of a mainstr eam hit\, a fragmented coming-of-age drama that explores the vast space be tween Hollis Frampton and Greta Gerwig in order to find something truly ne w and ineffably of its time.\n\n"This is one of the boldest and most invig orating American films of the 21st century.” ~David Erlich\, Indiewire ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/31- 20_Ash.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:617@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T210000 DTSTAMP:20181009T204953Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fake-tattoos-les-faux-tatouages-2/ SUMMARY:Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages) DESCRIPTION:Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages)\nDirected by Pascal Plante\nC anada/Québec | 2017 | Fiction | 85 min | French w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Les Films de Séville\nAwards / premier festivals: Best Canadian Film Festival du Nouveau Cinema\, Berlinale Generation\nSponsor: Alliance française of the Lake Champlain Region  \n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with Director Plante*\n\nAlso showing Wednesday\, October 24 at 4:30PM\n\n\n\nF ake Tattoos is a beautifully made coming-of-age film imbued with rare warm th that skillfully avoids the clichés of most young romance films. Pascal Plante’s debut feature spins an understated and slyly shifting tale of summertime love. What begins as a two-hander about a pair of young thrash- metal fans — who talk and flirt their way into bed and coupledom — eve ntually transforms into a more singular investigation of adolescent guilt and renewal. The script is warm and tender and the narrative is full of su rprises. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Pri scilliaPiccoli8-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:665@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T130000 DTSTAMP:20181005T223304Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-10-23/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts 10/23 DESCRIPTION: Best Animation from National Film &\; TV School\n\n\n\n&nb sp\;\n\n \;\n\nTRIPTYCH \nDirected by Katia Lom – 8 min\nA reflecti on on the nature of time and memory as a daughter empties her late father ’s home of his belongings. \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; \n\nFISHBOY \nDirected by Anita Bruvere – 9 min\nFish Boy lives in dark ness\, his guilt about the past slowly consuming him. His girlfriend Laura is a light of hope. But despite his efforts\, his past chases him\, putti ng them both in danger. \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nUP HILL \nD irected by Amalie Vilmar – 9 min\nGeorge and his son Chris have been goi ng camping together every year since Chris was 4 years old. But this time\ , George notices Chris’s mind is elsewhere. \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n& nbsp\;\n\nFACING IT \nDirected by Sam Gainsborough – 8 min\nAs Sean anx iously awaits a meeting in the local pub\, he is forced to explore his own unhappy memories and relationships in an evening that will leave him chan ged forever. \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nHEDGEHOG\nDirected by E dward Bulmer – 11 min\nHedgehog takes a comedic look at how our insecu rities\, worries\, and self-doubt can stop us achieving what we really wan t in life. \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Fis hBoy_002-e1538074808212.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:598@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T160000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133639Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beauty-and-the-dogs-aala-kaf-ifrit-2/ SUMMARY:Beauty and the Dogs (Aala Kaf Ifrit) DESCRIPTION:Beauty and the Dogs (Aala Kaf Ifrit)\nDirected by Kaouther Ben Hania\nTunisia | 2017 | Fiction | 100 min | Arabic w/English subtitles\nFi lm Source: Oscilloscope\nAwards / premier festivals: Cannes - Un Certain Regard\nSponsor: Peace &\; Justice Center\n\nAlso showing Saturday\, Oc tober 20 at 4:15PM\n\n\n\nKaouther Ben Hania (The Challat of Tunis\, VTIFF 2015) returns with this powerful and intelligently structured film\, loos ely based on a real event. A fun-filled evening descends into a Kafkaesque nightmare for a 21-year-old woman (the absolutely amazing Mariam Al Ferja ni). The drama — her rape by two policemen and her subsequent attempts t o see justice done — brilliantly unfolds in such a way that we\, too\, b egin to doubt the woman’s testimony. Beauty and the Dogs provides a femi nist spin on the continued battle for basic legal rights following the 201 1 ousting of Tunisia’s Ben Ali regime. It’s a powerful look at the fru strations and futility of what happens in a patriarchal society when the p erpetrators are also the law enforcers ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bea uty-and-the-Dogs_1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:601@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T161500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133639Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-guilty-2/ SUMMARY:The Guilty DESCRIPTION:The Guilty\nDirected by Gustav Möller\nDenmark | Fiction | 201 8 | 85 min | Danish w/English Subtitles\nFilm Source: Magnolia\nAwards / premier festivals: Sundance - Audience Award\; Rotterdam - Audience Award\ n\nAlso showing Saturday\, October 20 at 7:15PM\n\n\n\nA masterly exercise in close-up suspense\, set entirely in a police call center\, The Guilty concerns a disgraced police dispatcher who sees a chance for redemption wh en he suspects that a distraught caller has been kidnapped. First-time dir ector Gustav Möller uses sophisticated sound editing and relentless shall ow-focus camerawork to force viewers to use their imagination to visualize the action taking place outside the police station. Anchored by a command ing performance from Jakob Cedergren\, The Guilty is a rare combination of art-house aesthetic and edge-of-your-seat entertainment that demands to b e seen on the big screen.  ~LB\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/the -guilty.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:612@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T180000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133639Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/searching-for-ingmar-bergman/ SUMMARY:Searching for Ingmar Bergman DESCRIPTION:Searching for Ingmar Bergman\nDirected by Margarethe von Trotta \nGermany | 2018 | Documentary | 109 min\nFilm Source: Oscilloscope\n\n\n\ n\nAcclaimed filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta celebrates what would have be en Ingmar Bergman’s 100th birthday this year with a documentary that pro vides insight into the Swedish master’s work and delves into his complex relationships with family and collaborators. The film avoids a traditiona l decade-by-decade style and instead is structured around the relationship s in Bergman’s life. At its heart\, the film explores the impetus for ma king art and the effect the artist’s self-centeredness had on people in his life. Von Trotta brings Bergman's leading actresses\, family and fello w directors along for the journey. ~JS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Pho to_6-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:603@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T183000 DTSTAMP:20181009T205306Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/custody-jusqu-a-la-garde-2/ SUMMARY:Custody (Jusqu'à la garde) DESCRIPTION:Custody (Jusqu'à la garde)\nDirected by Xavier Legrand\nFrance | 2018 | Fiction | 93 min | French w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nAwards / premier festivals: Venice - Silver Lion\nSponsor: Allian ce française of the Lake Champlain Region \n\nAlso showing Sunday\, Octob er 21 at 2:00PM\n\n\n\nThis is a directorial debut of longtime actor Xavie r Legrand (who appeared in Louis Malle’s Au Revoir les Enfants as a chil d)\, but you’d never know it\; Custody takes an everyday case of domesti c violence and elevates it to a riveting domestic drama. The film begins w ith an air of documentary reality before evolving into a claustrophobic th riller\, slowly building tension until all doubt is put to rest in its gra nd finale. Have no worries — no direct violence is shown on screen. “A s Alfred Hitchcock said\,” Legrand quotes an interview\, “there is no terror in the bank\, only in the anticipation of it.” Variety cited Legr and as one of the 10 directors to watch in 2018. Come to the film and you ’ll see why. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cus tody-1-HIGH-RES-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:675@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T190000 DTSTAMP:20181003T195916Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-10-23/ SUMMARY:Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us at today's daily reception.\n\nDesserts and Zero Gravit y cash bar.\n\nThank you to Kate Hayes at Wake Robin.\n\nReception sponsor s:\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VTI FF_600_newsletter.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:656@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T190000 DTSTAMP:20180921T203617Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ms-45/ SUMMARY:Ms. 45 DESCRIPTION:Directed by Abel Ferrara\nUSA | 1981 | Fiction |\nShowtime: Tue sday\, Oct 23 | 7:00 pm | 80 mins | FH\n\nMs. 45 is American independent f ilm icon Abel Ferrara’s 1981 revenge thriller classic. The movie follows a mute seamstress (played by the late  musician\, model\, actress\, auth or\, producer\, political activist and screenwriter Zoë Tamerlis Lund) wh o\, after falling victim to multiple unspeakable assaults\, ignites her on e-woman homicidal rampage against New York City’s entire male population . Ms. 45 in it's new HD restoration deserves to move out of cult obscurity to claim its title as perhaps the most shocking\, complex and empowering revenge film of the 1980s. ~ MR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ms- 45-movie-poster-1981-1020192029.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:613@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T204500 DTSTAMP:20181009T205127Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/makala/ SUMMARY:Makala DESCRIPTION:Makala\nDirected by Emmanuel Gras\nFrance | 2017 | Documentary | 96 min | Swahili/French w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nA wards / premier festivals: Critic's Week Grand Prize at Cannes\nSponsor: A lliance française of the Lake Champlain Region\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\ n\n\n\nWho knew the process of making charcoal could be so fascinating? Ma kala documents the daily life of a Congolese charcoal maker who cuts down 20-foot trees by hand\, bakes the wood in a makeshift mud oven\, and then treks more than 30 miles to deliver the product to market. As a portrait o f a father who will go to any length to provide for his family\, Emmanuel Gras’ visually and aurally sophisticated doc recalls Vittorio De Sica’ s neorealist masterpiece Bicycle Thieves\, while the protagonist’s trip pushing a rickety bike on the side of a windswept dirt highway has the vis ceral sweep of an adventure epic. An intimate look at an everyman worker\, Makala is a stirring cinematic experience.  ~LB ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MAK ALA-high-res-still.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:657@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T223000 DTSTAMP:20180921T204125Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/slumber-party-massacre/ SUMMARY:Slumber Party Massacre DESCRIPTION:Directed by Amy Holden Jones\nUSA | 1982 | Fiction | 82 mins\nS howtime: 9 PM | FH\n\nOriginally the writer\, well-known feminist novelist Rita Mae Brown wanted the film to critique the rampant sexualization of w omen in early ‘80s slasher films. Although Roger Corman shelved Brown’ s screenplay\, New World editor-turned director Holden Jones rescued and r e-conceived it.  The plot is classic. A girl's parents go out of town\, s o she throws a slumber party with friends. But\, as so often happens in mo vies\, there’s a crazed killer on the loose (weapon: giant drill\; disti nctive costume: Canadian tuxedo) and he crashes the party too. The result is a whip-smart scare-fest that works both as a well-done and exciting sla sher movie\, but also as a feminist statement piece. ~ MR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/slu mber-party-mass.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:658@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T130000 DTSTAMP:20181009T161837Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-10-24/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts 10/24 DESCRIPTION:All Filmmakers in attendance\n\nArt and Politics\n\nRESPONSE: A PORTRAIT OF FOUR ENVIRONMENTAL ARTISTS IN VERMONT\nDirected by Peter vand erWilden\nDocumentary | 19 min\n\n\n\nA look into the lives of four Vermon t artists who seek to engage with the environmental awareness of their vie wers. In-depth interviews with Nancy Millikin\, Cami Davis\, Anne Cumming\ , and Brian Collier explore both approach and experience.\n\n \;\n\nBR EAD AND PUPPET: THEATER OF THE POSSIBILITARIANS\nA sample work-in-progress for a feature-length documentary to be released in 2019.\nDirected by Rob bie Leppzer\nDocumentary | Approx. 20 min\n\nA sample work-in-progress for the first feature-length documentary made in 30 years about the internati onally renown Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont. Founded by directors Pe ter and Elka Schumann\, the troupe is known for their huge paper-maché pu ppets who perform pieces with themes about contemporary social issues and savvy use of political satire. The film will show the "behind-the-scenes" process of how the Bread and Puppet Theater works and how the performances get developed. The documentary will portray the extraordinary experience of this amazing troupe of mostly young people from diverse areas around th e world who come together for a summer in Glover\, Vermont to create polit ical art and theater in the unique tradition of what Bread and Puppet is. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bre ad-and-puppet.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:592@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T150000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133639Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tehran-taboo-2/ SUMMARY:Tehran Taboo DESCRIPTION:Tehran Taboo\nDirected by Ali Soozandeh\nGermany/Austria | 2017 | Animation\, Fiction | 96 min | Farsi w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nSponsor: Bobbie Lanahan\n\nAlso showing Saturday\, October 27 at 7:00PM\n\n\n\nIn this gorgeously animated drama\, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal how sex\, drugs and corruption coexist side by side with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran\, avoiding prohibitions has beco me an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emanci pation. Nevertheless\, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the s ocial order. A young woman needs an operation to “restore” her virgini ty. A judge in the Islamic Revolutionary Court exhorts favors from a prost itute in exchange for a favorable ruling. The wife of an imprisoned drug a ddict is denied the divorce she needs in order to live independently. A na turalistic live-action style would have rendered this film simplistic and possibly crude\, but the wise choice of rotoscope animation elevates the m eaning and power of the film to another\, more universal level. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TEH ERAN-TABOO-HIGH-RES-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:614@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T161500 DTSTAMP:20181024T200331Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-other-side-of-everything-druga-strana-sve ga/ SUMMARY:The Other Side of Everything (Druga strana svega) DESCRIPTION:The Other Side of Everything (Druga strana svega)\nDirected by Mira Turajilic\nSerbia | 2018 | Documentary | 100 min | Serbian w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Icarus\nAwards / premier festivals: Grand Prize a t IDFA\nSponsor: Jane Pincus\n\n*Followed by Skype Q&\;A with the direc tor\n\n\nAlso showing Thursday\, October 25 at 7:00PM\n\n\n\nA Belgrade ap artment divided in two with a locked door that has remained unopened for 6 0 years is the MacGuffin device that propels and underpins this multi-laye red documentary. This is a film where the historical\, political and perso nal all mesh seamlessly. It tells the story of a family\, and at the same time serves as a symbol of a country in political turmoil. The property in question was split on the orders of the then-communist government when th e filmmaker’s mother\, Srbijanka Turajlic\, who was born there\, was jus t 2 years old. Her daughter\, Mila Turajlic\, the film’s director\, lets her mother\, a prominent political activist who played a leading role in the revolution\, take center place in the film\, as she did in her activis t life. The Other Side of Everything is a complex and tender generational film that feels very current today.  ~OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/THE -OTHER-SIDE-OF-EVERYTHING-06_A-film-by-Mila-Turajlic_Courtesy-Icarus-Films .png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:618@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T171500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133639Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rodents-of-unusual-size/ SUMMARY:Rodents of Unusual Size DESCRIPTION:Rodents of Unusual Size\nDirected by Chris Metzler\, Jeff Sprin ger\, &\; Quinn Costello\nUSA | 2017 | Documentary | 71 min\nFilm Sourc e: Tilapia Films\nAwards / premier festivals: Wild &\; Scenic Fest - B est in Fest\n\nThe film is preceded by the short Yochi\, by Ilana Lapid\n\ nThis documentary examines the effect nutria — an invasive species of sw amp rats — are having on southern Louisiana. As the rodents eat the brus h that protects the coastline from hurricanes and erosion\, they are haste ning flooding and loss of land from rising sea waters. The film transports the audience back in time through animated sequences\, then jumps forward \, exploring the people fighting this invasive species. The filmmakers suc ceed in pointing to larger issues of climate change\, generational changes \, traditions and class\, without forgoing a light and humorous tone. The film is not just about the South\, but rather about how to deal with invas ive species all over the world. ~ JS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ROU S1_Thomas-Gonzales-defending-Delacroix-Island-Louisiana-from-the-invasion- of-nutria-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:619@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T173000 DTSTAMP:20181017T225810Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/yochi/ SUMMARY:Yochi DESCRIPTION:Yochi\nDirected by Ilana Lapid\nUSA/Belize | 2018 | Fiction | 2 4 min\nIn partnership with Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Cap ital\n\n\n \;\n\nPlaying with Rodents of Unusual Size\n\nA young boy\, Yochi (Kerry Johan Landero)\, guards a nest of endangered yellow-headed p arrots in Belize. When Yochi learns that his older brother (Evan Martinez) has turned to poaching\, it sets the two brothers on a collision course. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4.- Itza-and-Yochi-at-River.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:616@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T180000 DTSTAMP:20181009T205044Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fake-tattoos-les-faux-tatouages/ SUMMARY:Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages) DESCRIPTION:Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages)\nDirected by Pascal Plante\nC anada/Québec | 2017 | Fiction | 85 min | French w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Les Films de Séville\nAwards / premier festivals: Best Canadian Film Festival du Nouveau Cinema\, Berlinale Generation\nSponsor: Alliance française of the Lake Champlain Region \n\nAlso showing Monday\, October 22 at 7:15 PM\n\n\n\nFake Tattoos is a beautifully made coming-of-age fil m imbued with rare warmth that skillfully avoids the clichés of most youn g romance films. Pascal Plante’s debut feature spins an understated and slyly shifting tale of summertime love. What begins as a two-hander about a pair of young thrash-metal fans — who talk and flirt their way into be d and coupledom — eventually transforms into a more singular investigati on of adolescent guilt and renewal. The script is warm and tender and the narrative is full of surprises. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Pri scilliaPiccoli8-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:671@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T183000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133807Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/standing-up/ SUMMARY:Standing Up DESCRIPTION:Directed by Jonathan Miller\nUSA | 2018 | Documentary | 78 min\ n\nA Partnership with Vermont Comedy Club\n\nThree unlikely aspiring comed ians risk everything to find their voices on the cutthroat New York stand- up scene. David Finklestein is an ultra-Orthodox Jew from a secluded Brook lyn sect. Although he risks expulsion from his community with every perfor mance\, comedy is David’s only way of coping with his crippling anxiety. Sara Parks moved to New York to become a comic star\, but is barely scrap ing by with menial jobs. On the verge of being homeless\, Sara is under in credible pressure to break into comedy before it breaks her. Raafat Toss i s a successful personal injury lawyer whose Egyptian immigrant parents dis couraged him from pursuing stand-up. Now\, bored with his career\, he's fi nally ready to go after his passion. As their love of comedy is tested aga in and again\, each must ultimately decide just how far they're willing to go - and how much they're willing to sacrifice - for a laugh. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/STa nding-Up.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Vermont comedy club\, 101 Main Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47553200000001;-73.21534029999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=101 Main Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Vermont comedy c lub:geo:44.47553200000001,-73.21534029999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:676@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T190000 DTSTAMP:20181003T200111Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-10-24/ SUMMARY:Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us at today's daily reception.\n\nCatering by Let's Preten d\, and Zero Gravity cash bar.\n\nReception sponsors: PCC\n\n         ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VTI FF_600_newsletter.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:639@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T203000 DTSTAMP:20181017T230458Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hope-on-the-hudson/ SUMMARY:Hope on the Hudson Trilogy DESCRIPTION:Hope on the Hudson Trilogy\nDirected by Jon Bowermaster\nUSA | 2017 | Documentary | 65 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nSponsor: ECHO\, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain\nIn partnership with Environmental Film Festiva l in the Nation's Capital\n\n\n\n*Screening will be preceded by a receptio n for ticket holders at 5:30PM at ECHO\, and followed by Q&\;A with th e Director\n\nCity on the Water\, Restoring the Clearwater &\; Seeds of Hope\n\n City on the Water\n\nWith 520 miles of waterfront\, New York C ity is truly a water city. Everywhere you go\, there are tunnels and bridg es\, to such a degree that some have dubbed the waterways that encircle th e city “the sixth borough.”\n\n Restoring the Clearwater\n\nFor near ly a year\, the historic sloop “Clearwater” was docked\, enduring what wooden boats have endured forever: restoration. Jon Bowermaster’s Ocean s 8 film crew documented the restoration and return of the ship to the Hud son.\n\n Seeds of Hope\n\nA combined effort of the Hudson Valley Farm Hu b\, Hudson Valley Seed Library and the Akwesasne Tribe of northern New Yor k to preserve several varieties of Native American seeds\, their rich agri cultural heritage and its stories.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/sl_ hope_hudson-river-at-risk-photo.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:ECHO Center Lakeside Hall\, 1 College St\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4764229;-73.22100449999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1 College St\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ECHO Center La keside Hall:geo:44.4764229,-73.22100449999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:589@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T204500 DTSTAMP:20181009T204853Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/montparnasse-bienvenue-jeune-femme-2/ SUMMARY:Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Jeune femme) DESCRIPTION:Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Jeune femme)\nDirected by Léonor Serr aille\nFrance | 2018 | Fiction | 97 min | French w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Be For Films\nAwards / premier festivals: Cannes - Un Certain Reg ard\nCo-Sponsors: A Single Pebble and Alliance française of the Lake Cham plain Region\n* Followed by discussion with Champlain College film viewing class\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \n\nAlso showing Monday\, October 22 at 4:15P M\n\n\n\nThis is one of the best-edited films we have on show this year. A tragicomic and picaresque journey of self-discovery\, Montparnasse Bienve nüe leaves you breathless\, embodying a powerful juxtaposition between a woman who is down and out and empowered at the same time. Paula (Laetitia Dosch) follows her boyfriend to Paris only to find the door closed. Far fr om being nostalgic\, she loses herself in Parisian life. This nuanced femi nist film\, with a creative soundtrack and economic transitions between sc enes\, will surprise you at every twist of the way. ~ OY\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jeu ne-Femme-HD-03-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:590@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T204500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133711Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/support-the-girls-2/ SUMMARY:Support the Girls DESCRIPTION:Support the Girls\nDirected by Andrew Bujalski\nUSA | 2018 | Fi ction | 90 min\nFilm Source: Magnolia\nSponsor: Bridget Downey Meyer\n\nAl so showing Monday\, October 22 at 4:30PM\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\nSupport the Girls is a feminist comedy set in the unlikeliest of locales: a Hooters-l ike Texan bar whose marketing mantra is “boobs\, brews and big screens. ” Regina Hall\, in a marvelous performance\, plays the general manager o f Double Whammies\, a “sports bar with curves.” During the course of a trying workday fraught with comic mishaps\, she struggles to balance job responsibilities with her motherly devotion to her waitresses. Writer-dire ctor Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha\; Computer Chess) tackles the gender pol itics of macho sports-bar culture with unassuming perception and a keen co medic eye for the behind-the-scenes details of the restaurant industry. In the midst of the #MeToo movement\, Support the Girls is a timely look at the ways working-class women create support systems to survive until the n ext shift.  ~LB\n\nListen to a podcast about the film HERE\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/4-s caled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:666@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T130000 DTSTAMP:20181005T223354Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-10-25/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts 10/25 DESCRIPTION:Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour\n\nMAUDE \nDirected by Anna Margaret Hollyman\nFiction | USA | 10 min\nTeeny thought it was just another routine babysitting job – until she’s shocked to meet the clie nt. As the day goes on\, Teeny decides to become the woman she had no idea she always wanted to be. \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\ nHAIR WOLF \nDirected by Mariama Diallo\nFiction | USA | 12 min\nIn a blac k hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn\, the local residents fend off a stra nge new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black cu lture. \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nTHE BURDEN \nDirected by Nik i Lindroth von Bahr\nFiction | Sweden | 14 min\nA dark musical enacted in a modern shopping center\, situated next to a large freeway.  \n\n \ ;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nJEOM \nDirected by Kangmin Kim\nFic tion | South Korea | 4 min\nA father and son both have the same big birthm ark on their butt. Believing that the birthmarks are connected\, the son s crubs his father’s to remove it – to no avail. \n\n \;\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\nFAUVE \nDirected by Jérémy Comte\nFiction | Canada | 16 min | Sundance Short Film Special Jury Award\, TIFF Best Canadian Short – Honorable Mention\nSet in a surface mine\, two boys sink into a seemin gly innocent power game\, with Mother Nature as the sole observer.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/201 8-ShortsTour_Poster_ForDigital1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:620@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T151500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133712Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/marlina-the-murderer-in-four-acts/ SUMMARY:Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts DESCRIPTION:Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts\nDirected by Mouly Surya\nInd onesia | 2018 | Fiction | 93 min | Indonesian w/English subtitles\nFilm So urce: Kimstim\nAwards / premier festivals: Indonesia's official submissio n to the 2019 Academy Awards\nSponsor: A Single Pebble\n\nAlso showing Fri day\, October 26 at 7:15PM\n\n\n\nRavishing landscapes\, a powerful soundt rack and beautiful cinematography create a formidable backdrop for this ma tter-of-fact feminist Western. Embarking on a journey of redemption and em powerment\, a young widow seeks down-to-earth revenge on the men who have raped her. But the film doesn’t linger on the rape scene\, nor does it s ensationalize it. Instead\, it focuses on three women\, all different\, al l determined fighters\, who just do what a woman has to do.  ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MAR LINA-THE-MURDERER-IN-FOUR-ACTS-05_Image-courtesy-Icarus-Films-and-KimStim- e1538083041894.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:623@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T153000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133712Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/1945/ SUMMARY:1945 DESCRIPTION:1945\nDirected by Ferenc Török\nHungary | 2017 | Fiction | 91 min | Hungarian w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Menemsha\nSponsor: Barb ara McGrew\n\nAlso showing Saturday\, October 27 at 7:00PM\n\n\n\nIn the i mmediate aftermath of World War II\, a village in Hungary grapples with it s collective conscience when two Orthodox Jewish men arrive on the morning train. Set on the wedding day of the town clerk’s son\, Ferenc Török ’s gripping drama deals with a seldom-told aspect of European history: h ow the properties of deported Hungarian Jews were seized by gentiles durin g the Holocaust through shady deed transfers. Shot in crisp widescreen bla ck and white\, 1945 recalls John Sturges’ innovative 1955 “modern West ern” Bad Day at Black Rock in its use of suspenseful genre traditions to tell a postwar story of the shared guilt and complicity of an entire comm unity. ~LB\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC _7719.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:622@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T174500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133712Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/crime-and-punishment/ SUMMARY:Crime + Punishment DESCRIPTION:Crime + Punishment\nDirected by Steven Maing\nUSA | 2018 | Docu mentary | 112 min\nFilm Source: The Film Collaborative\nAwards / premier f estivals: Sundance - Special Jury Prize for Social Impact\nSponsor: ACLU o f Vermont\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with James Duff Lyall\, Executive Direc tor of the ACLU of Vermont*\n\n\n\nWinner of the Special Jury Prize for So cial Impact at the Sundance Film Festival\, Stephen Maing’s tough\, rive ting documentary chronicles the struggles of a group of whistleblower cops in New York City as they fight back against the now illegal arrest quotas they are still pressured to enact. Although the film realistically assess es the intractable problems of achieving a color-blind justice\, we also g et an insider’s view of the complexity of corruption in the criminal-jus tice system and experience the inspiring courage of those inside the syste m who fight back with some success. Shot between 2014 and 2017\, the film ’s events proceed against the backdrop of higher-profile national events such as the killing of Eric Garner and the release of the Justice Departm ent’s Ferguson Report\, which detailed the way police in that Missouri c ity became armed tax collectors preying mostly on nonwhite citizens.  ~ A M ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cri meandpunishment_npd_graduation_confetti.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:625@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T183000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133712Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-third-murder/ SUMMARY:The Third Murder DESCRIPTION:The Third Murder\nDirected by Hirokazu Kore-Eda\nJapan | 2017 | Fiction | 125 min | Japanese w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Film Movem ent\n\nAlso showing Sunday\, October 28 at 4:00PM\n\n\n\nA courtroom drama of rare philosophical inquiry\, The Third Murder stars Masaharu Fukuyama (Like Father\, Like Son) as an elite attorney tasked with defending a murd er suspect who was spared the death penalty for a killing 30 years prior. Recent Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda uses a Rashomon-like narrativ e structure — in which the defendant bizarrely keeps changing his story — to question the possibility of objective truth in a legal matter of li fe and death.  ~LB ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/sub _1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:677@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T190000 DTSTAMP:20181003T200312Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-10-25/ SUMMARY:Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us at today's daily reception.\n\nCatering by Skinny Panca ke\, and Zero Gravity cash bar.\n\nReception sponsors:\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VTI FF_600_newsletter.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:615@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T204500 DTSTAMP:20181024T200421Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-other-side-of-everything-druga-strana-sve ga-2/ SUMMARY:The Other Side of Everything (Druga strana svega) DESCRIPTION:The Other Side of Everything (Druga strana svega)\nDirected by Mira Turajilic\nSerbia | 2018 | Documentary | 100 min | Serbian w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Icarus\nAwards / premier festivals: Grand Prize a t IDFA\nSponsor: Jane Pincus\n\nAlso showing Wednesday\, October 24 at 2:1 5PM\n\n\n\nA Belgrade apartment divided in two with a locked door that has remained unopened for 60 years is the MacGuffin device that propels and u nderpins this multi-layered documentary. This is a film where the historic al\, political and personal all mesh seamlessly. It tells the story of a f amily\, and at the same time serves as a symbol of a country in political turmoil. The property in question was split on the orders of the then-comm unist government when the filmmaker’s mother\, Srbijanka Turajlic\, who was born there\, was just 2 years old. Her daughter\, Mila Turajlic\, the film’s director\, lets her mother\, a prominent political activist who p layed a leading role in the revolution\, take center place in the film\, a s she did in her activist life. The Other Side of Everything is a complex and tender generational film that feels very current today.  ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/THE -OTHER-SIDE-OF-EVERYTHING-06_A-film-by-Mila-Turajlic_Courtesy-Icarus-Films .png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:640@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T210000 DTSTAMP:20181017T231523Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/anotes-ark/ SUMMARY:Anote's Ark DESCRIPTION:Anote's Ark\nDirected by Matthieu Rytz\nCanada/Quebec | 2018 | Documentary | 77 min\nFilm Source: Eyesteel Films\nAwards / premier festiv als: Sundance\nSponsor: Seventh Generation\nIn partnership with the Enviro nmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital\n\n\n \;\n\n*Producer/ Editor Mila Aung-Thwin will be in attendance*\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nThe Pacific Islands nation of Kiribati (p opulation 100\,000) is one of the most remote places on the planet\, seemi ngly far-removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it is one of the f irst countries that must confront the main existential dilemma of our time : imminent annihilation from rising sea levels. While Kiribati President A note Tong races to find a way to protect his nation’s people and maintai n their dignity\, many citizens are already seeking safe harbor overseas. Set against the backdrop of international climate and human rights negotia tions\, Anote’s struggle to save his nation is intertwined with the extr aordinary fate of Sermary\, a young mother of six\, who fights to migrate her family to New Zealand. At stake is the survival of Sermary’s family\ , the Kiribati people\, and 4\,000 years of Kiribati culture.\n\nFor a spe cial VR teaser experience click HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ano tes_Ark_still4-e1538082704895.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival LOCATION:ECHO Center Lakeside Hall\, 1 College St\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4764229;-73.22100449999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1 College St\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ECHO Center La keside Hall:geo:44.4764229,-73.22100449999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:596@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T204500 DTSTAMP:20181005T184018Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/i-am-not-a-witch-2/ SUMMARY:I Am Not a Witch DESCRIPTION:I Am Not a Witch\nDirected by Rungano Nyoni\nZambia/UK/Wales an d more | 2018 | Fiction | 91 min | Nyanja w/English subtitles\nFilm Source : Film Movement\nSponsor: The Caroline Baird Crichfield Fund for Women in Need\; Co-sponsor: Middlebury College\n\n\nAlso showing Saturday\, October 20 at 2:15PM\n\n\n\nThis marvelous magic-realist feminist film is both an allegory and a satire. Shot in Zambia but set in a non-descript African c ountry\, I Am Not a Witch focuses on Shula\, an 8-year-old girl who is acc used of witchcraft\, after which she is taken into state custody and exile d to a witch camp. Full of intentionally absurd scenes\, this lush\, light \, poetic film provides an unflinching look at the clash between modern an d traditional ways of living. It ends with a prime example of visual story telling at its best. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/A03 2_Burn-In.A032_17749-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:667@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T130000 DTSTAMP:20181005T223419Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-10-26/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts 10/26 DESCRIPTION:Nature and Communication\n\n\nTHE ROCK\nDirected by Hamid Jafar i - 25 min |\nNew Orleans FF (best Short Doc)\; Visons Du Reel (Best Short Doc)\nSwathed from head to toe in black\, a woman is breaking stones out of a rock wall using a crowbar and her bare hands. The stony\, reddish moo nlike landscape of southern Iran and the traditional way of life lend an a lmost biblical atmosphere to this serene\, aesthetically filmed visual poe m.\n\n \n\n \;\n\nTHE GREAT NORTHERN TURTLE \nDirected by Zachary Ke ifer – 18 min\nThe Wood Turtle is both a secretive and highly intelligen t animal that makes its home in the wilds of the Northeast whose existence is under threat. In addition to exploring the turtle's life in the wild\, the film also details efforts to protect this beautiful creature.  \n\n  \n\n \;\n\nTHE STORY OF VERMONT’S QUIET DIGITAL REVOLUTION \nDire cted by Peter Strauss – 23 min\nIn the most rural reaches of Vermont\, a local online service\, Front Porch Forum\, has begun to change the way pe ople interact with each other at an exponential rate.\n\n \;\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/The -Rock-01-e1538077473984.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:627@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T153000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133747Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bird-of-prey/ SUMMARY:Bird of Prey DESCRIPTION:Bird of Prey\nDirected by Eric Liner\nUSA | 2017 | Documentary | 95 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nSponsors: Sandy and Muffie Milens\n\nAls o showing Sunday\, October 28 at 12:15PM\n\n\n\nThe Philippine Eagle is a bird of extremes. It’s the world’s largest and rarest eagle\, found on ly in the Philippines. Fewer than 700 remain today\, and the future of the se iconic birds — and of an untold number of other species — is tied t o the fate of the Philippines’ last fragments of old-growth forest. In 1 977\, world-renowned cinematographer Neil Rettig captured the first filmed images of the Philippine Eagle in the wild\, transforming the bird into a national symbol. But with a rapidly expanding population facing serious p olitical\, economic and environmental battles\, the eagle’s plight has f allen out of public consciousness. Bird of Prey follows Rettig’s return to the Philippines as he embarks on a grueling expedition alongside the ne xt generation of Filipinos determined to save the eagle from extinction. I n order to secure the survival of the species\, the team follows a family of nesting eagles from hatch to fledge in hopes of re-establishing the spe cies as a living symbol of the Philippines’ future. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/014 42713NeilBlind2048.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:588@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T161500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133712Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/3-faces-2/ SUMMARY:3 Faces DESCRIPTION:3 Faces\nDirected by Jafar Panahi\nIran | 2018 | Fiction | 100 min | Farsi w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nAwards / premie r festivals: TIFF\, Cannes - Best Screenplay\nSponsor: 05401\n\nAlso showi ng Sunday\, October 21 at 7:00PM\n\n\n\nEight years after receiving a two- decade filmmaking ban by the Iranian government\, Jafar Panahi\, a VTIFF f avorite (This Is Not a Film\; Taxi)\, returns with a new film that premier ed at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Once again\, we find him acting in another story seemingly pulled from his real experiences. The film open s with a video shot on a cell phone showing a desperate plea for help from a teenage girl\, whose family forbids her to pursue her dream of entering the entertainment world. That video ends with the girl’s apparent suici de on camera. We learn that the video was sent to Panahi\, begging him to forward it to celebrity actress Behnaz Jafari. And so the main film begins with Panahi and Jafari on a road trip to determine the fate of the girl. Is the suicide a fake? Is it real? They become involved with the girl’s small rural community\, contemplating the alienation and yearning at the r oot of provincial life and the status of women in a male-dominated society . This alone would have been fascinating enough. Throw into the mix Panahi ’s meta-narrative — did he construct the whole opening in order to ent ice the movie star to join him on a journey of discovery? Is he really dir ecting this film despite the ban (as his mother suspects in a sudden phone call to him)? “No\,” he replies\, “I’m just driving along with so me friends.”  ~ OY\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/3-F ACES-–-Still-2.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:629@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T181500 DTSTAMP:20181017T231346Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-new-fire/ SUMMARY:The New Fire DESCRIPTION:The New Fire\nDirected by David Schumacher\nUSA | 2017 | Docume ntary | 85 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nIn partnership with the Environmen tal Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital\n\n\n \;\n\n*Followed by Q &\;A with Director Schumacher\n\n\n\nNuclear power has been vilified in popular culture and much of the environmental community. Yet some believe that the next-generation reactors currently in development may be key to avoiding global catastrophe due to burning of fossil fuels. Young entrepre neurs heading this energy revolution realize they’re up against more tha n the climate clock — they need to convince all of us that the “new nu clear” is safe and achievable. The New Fire is bound to stir controversy among both anti- and pro-nuclear power advocates. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/The NewFire_IMAGE_TerraPower.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:632@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T180000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133712Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/home-and-away/ SUMMARY:Home + Away DESCRIPTION:Home + Away\nDirected by Matthew Ogens\nUSA | 2018 | Documentar y | 83 min | Spanish/English w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Cinetic Med ia\nAwards / premier festivals: Tribeca\nSponsors: Frank and Ducky Donath\ n\nAlso showing Saturday\, October 27 at 4:15PM\n\n\n\nThe complexities of U.S.-Mexico border relations are distilled into the daily routines of hig h school students in director Matthew Ogens’ richly humanistic documenta ry. Home + Away profiles three Mexican-American student athletes at Bowie High School in El Paso\, Texas\, who cross the border from Ciudad Juárez each day to attend classes. Erik\, a star soccer player\, is struggling to keep his grades up\; Shyanne\, a talented wrestler\, is considering joini ng the Army after graduation to support her family\; and Francisco\, a pit cher with an electric fastball\, regrets that his father isn’t allowed t o cross the border to watch his games. With straightforward observation\, Home + Away examines the balancing act of coexisting between cities that a re separated by a physical border\, but are linked socially and economical ly.  ~LB ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hom e-and-Away-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:678@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T190000 DTSTAMP:20181003T200906Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-10-26/ SUMMARY:Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us at today's daily reception.\n\nCatering by Penny Cluse\ , and Zero Gravity cash bar.\n\nReception sponsors:\n\n   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VTI FF_600_newsletter.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:630@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T204500 DTSTAMP:20181019T040228Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/love-and-bananas/ SUMMARY:Love & Bananas DESCRIPTION:Love &\; Bananas\nDirected by Ashley Bell\nUSA | 2018 | Docu mentary | 77 min\nFilm Source: Abramorama\nSponsor: Jane Kramer\nIn partne rship with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital\n\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with Director Bell\nAccording to the direct or\, the film is suitable for\, and of interest to\, ages 11+\n\nAlso show ing Saturday\, October 27 at 11:45AM\n\n\n\nAshley Bell and a team of elep hant rescuers led by Asian elephant conservationist Lek Chailert embark on a daring 48-hour mission across Thailand to rescue a 70-year-old captive Asian elephant and lead it to freedom. African elephants are slaughtered f or their ivory\, but the plight of the Asian elephant has been overlooked\ , even though they are the elephant we are most familiar with in zoos\, ci rcuses and elephant rides. Love &\; Bananas exposes the cruel secret th at every Asian elephant has had to endure to become a service animal: a pr ocess called “Pajan\,” aka the “crush box.” Love &\; Bananas ai ms to ignite a new way of thinking about this species and shows what can b e done to prevent their extinction.\n\n"You don't need a bull hook to cont rol an elephant. You can guide an elephant with love ... and bananas."  ~ Lek Chailert\, Thai conservationist and founder of Save Elephant Foundati on.\nInterview with the director HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mud -Pit-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:621@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T210000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133712Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/marlina-the-murderer-in-four-acts-2/ SUMMARY:Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts DESCRIPTION:Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts\nDirected by Mouly Surya\nInd onesia | 2018 | Fiction | 93 min | Indonesian w/English subtitles\nFilm So urce: Kimstim\nAwards / premier festivals: Indonesia's official submissio n to the 2019 Academy Awards\nSponsor: A Single Pebble\n\nAlso showing Thu rsday\, October 25 at 1:45PM\n\n\n\nRavishing landscapes\, a powerful soun dtrack and beautiful cinematography create a formidable backdrop for this matter-of-fact feminist Western. Embarking on a journey of redemption and empowerment\, a young widow seeks down-to-earth revenge on the men who hav e raped her. But the film doesn’t linger on the rape scene\, nor does it sensationalize it. Instead\, it focuses on three women\, all different\, all determined fighters\, who just do what a woman has to do.  ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MAR LINA-THE-MURDERER-IN-FOUR-ACTS-05_Image-courtesy-Icarus-Films-and-KimStim- e1538083041894.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:631@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T131500 DTSTAMP:20181019T040338Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/love-and-bananas-2/ SUMMARY:Love & Bananas DESCRIPTION:Love &\; Bananas\nDirected by Ashley Bell\nUSA | 2018 | Docu mentary | 77 min\nFilm Source: Abramorama\nSponsor: Jane Kramer\nIn partne rship with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital\n\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with Director Bell\nAccording to the direct or\, the film is suitable for\, and of interest to\, ages 11+\n\n\nAlso sh owing Friday\, October 26 at 7:00PM\n\n\n\nAshley Bell and a team of eleph ant rescuers led by Asian elephant conservationist Lek Chailert embark on a daring 48-hour mission across Thailand to rescue a 70-year-old captive A sian elephant and lead it to freedom. African elephants are slaughtered fo r their ivory\, but the plight of the Asian elephant has been overlooked\, even though they are the elephant we are most familiar with in zoos\, cir cuses and elephant rides. Love &\; Bananas exposes the cruel secret tha t every Asian elephant has had to endure to become a service animal: a pro cess called “Pajan\,” aka the “crush box.” Love &\; Bananas aim s to ignite a new way of thinking about this species and shows what can be done to prevent their extinction.\n\n"You don't need a bull hook to contr ol an elephant. You can guide an elephant with love ... and bananas."  ~ Lek Chailert\, Thai conservationist and founder of Save Elephant Foundatio n. Interview with the director HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mud -Pit-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:661@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T133000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133713Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-biggest-little-farm/ SUMMARY:The Biggest Little Farm DESCRIPTION:The Biggest Little Farm\nDirected by John Chester\nUSA | 2018 | Documentary | 91 min\nFilm Source: Neon\nAwards / premier festivals: Tell uride\, TIFF\n* Spotlight on the Environment*\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\ n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nThe successes and failures of a couple determi ned to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lo vingly chronicled by filmmaking farmer John Chester\, in this inspiring do cumentary. Teeming with stunningly beautiful images of flora and fauna — and a pregnant hog that will melt your heart — The Biggest Little Farm is a testament to idealism. It's also a family adventure\, full of suspens e and emotion that will leave a lump in your throat. When the barking of  their beloved dog Todd leads to an eviction notice from their tiny LA apar tment\, John and Molly Chester make a choice that takes them out of the c ity and onto 200 acres in the foothills of Ventura County\, naively endea voring to build one of the most diverse farms of its kind in complete co existence with nature. The land they’ve chosen\, however\, is utterly de pleted of nutrients and suffering from a brutal drought. The film chroni cles eight years of daunting work and outsized idealism as they attempt to create the utopia they seek. When the farm’s ecosystem finally begins t o reawaken\, so does the Chesters’ hope – but as their plan to create perfect harmony takes a series of wild turns\, they realize that to sur vive they will have to reach a far greater understanding of the intricacie s and wisdom of nature\, and of life itself. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Big gest-Little-Farm-02-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:636@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T161500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133746Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/zama/ SUMMARY:Zama DESCRIPTION:Zama\nDirected by Lucrecia Martel\nArgentina | 2017 | Fiction | 115 min | Spanish w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Strand Releasing\nAwa rds / premier festivals: Venice\, Toronto\, New York\n\n\n\n\nVisually and dramatically powerful\, with an epic grandeur evocative of Werner Herzog and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness\, acclaimed Argentine director Lucre tia Martel creates a surreal\, dreamlike portrait of 18th century Spanish colonialism in the New World with dense\, precise detail and masterful sou nd\, set and color design. The main character\, Don Diego de Zama\, is tr agicomic and Kafkaesque\, a beleaguered agent of Western colonialism who w as born a Creole in the New World and now\, because of bureaucracy and pr ejudice\, cannot escape to the more "civilized" Spanish territory he covet s. Though details between native slaves and invaders reflect the violence implicit in 18th century colonial racism\, Zama is very much of our time. The film has impressive producing credits\, including Pedro Almodóvar\, Gael García Bernal and Danny Glover\, showing the faith they have in one of cinema's finest directors.~ AM\n\n[caption id="attachment_9939" align=" alignleft" width="300"] Daniel Giménez Cacho in Zama (2017)[/caption]\n\n [caption id="attachment_9943" align="alignleft" width="300"] Daniel Gimén ez Cacho in Zama (2017)[/caption] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ZAM A_2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:611@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T144500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133746Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/america-2/ SUMMARY:América DESCRIPTION:América\nDirected by Erick Stoll &\; Chase Whiteside\nUSA | 2018 | Documentary | 76 min | Spanish w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: D ogwoof\nSponsor: Andrea Rogers\n\nAlso showing Monday\, October 22 at 4:45 PM\n\n\n\nFilmed in Colima\, Mexico\, this warm and charming documentary e vokes both laughter and tears in its story of three mismatched brothers wh ose lives revolve around caring for their 93-year-old grandmother\, Améri ca. Realistic about the fragility and decline of América and the difficul ties of meeting her needs\, the film portrays her resilience and dignity\, as well as the differences between the brothers. Beguiling imagery reflec ts the brothers’ adolescent yearnings and the adult realities that confr ont them. The brothers are a handsome trio of street entertainers with boy ish charm. They cavort on unicycles\, practice circus tricks and walk on s tilts. Especially winning is the portrait of the youngest brother\, Diego\ , who sings songs and showers América with kisses\, bolstering her courag e. Shot by the American filmmakers Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside over a three-year period\, América presents an intimate family portrait and a cl ose-up on old age seldom depicted on film. ~AM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mai n-diego-america-web.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:634@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T173000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133746Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-atomic-cafe/ SUMMARY:The Atomic Cafe DESCRIPTION:The Atomic Cafe\nDirected by Pierce Rafferty\, Kevin Rafferty\, &\; Jayne Loader\nUSA | 1982 | Documentary | 88 min\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nSponsor: John Douglas\n\n*Screening will be followed by Q&\;A with director Pierce Rafferty\n\n\n\nHilarious and horrifying\, often at t he same time\, this blackly comic documentary about the dawn of the Atomic Age is as timely as ever. Originally released in 1982\, during a period w hen the Reagan administration was aggressively ramping up the U.S. nuclear arsenal\, The Atomic Cafe is a collage of government propaganda films\, n ewsreels\, advertisements and civil defense “social guidance” films fr om the 1940s and ’50s. From a campy ad extolling the benefits of fallout shelters to an Army propaganda film meant to convince soldiers to approac h a nuclear blast site with just a helmet and rifle for protection\, The A tomic Cafe suggests that the satirical humor of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. St rangelove wasn’t that far removed from reality. With nuclear overtures f rom North Korea and covert Russian operations to thwart American democracy prominent in 2018 headlines\, the lessons of the 1950s have never felt mo re relevant.  ~LB ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ato micCafe_1_Boyscouts.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:633@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T180000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133746Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/home-and-away-2/ SUMMARY:Home + Away DESCRIPTION:Home + Away\nDirected by Matthew Ogens\nUSA | 2018 | Documentar y | 83 min | Spanish/English w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Cinetic Med ia\nAwards / premier festivals: Tribeca\nSponsors: Frank and Ducky Donath\ n\nAlso showing Friday\, October 26 at 4:30PM\n\n\n\nThe complexities of U .S.-Mexico border relations are distilled into the daily routines of high school students in director Matthew Ogens’ richly humanistic documentary . Home + Away profiles three Mexican-American student athletes at Bowie Hi gh School in El Paso\, Texas\, who cross the border from Ciudad Juárez ea ch day to attend classes. Erik\, a star soccer player\, is struggling to k eep his grades up\; Shyanne\, a talented wrestler\, is considering joining the Army after graduation to support her family\; and Francisco\, a pitch er with an electric fastball\, regrets that his father isn’t allowed to cross the border to watch his games. With straightforward observation\, Ho me + Away examines the balancing act of coexisting between cities that are separated by a physical border\, but are linked socially and economically .  ~LB ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hom e-and-Away-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:679@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T190000 DTSTAMP:20181003T200944Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-10-27/ SUMMARY:Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us at today's daily reception.\n\nCatering by American Fla tbread\, and Zero Gravity cash bar.\n\nReception sponsors:\n\n    ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VTI FF_600_newsletter.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:624@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T210000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133746Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/1945-2/ SUMMARY:1945 DESCRIPTION:1945\nDirected by Ferenc Török\nHungary | 2017 | Fiction | 91 min | Hungarian w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Menemsha\nSponsor: Barb ara McGrew\n\nAlso showing Thursday\, October 25 at 2:00PM\n\n\n\nIn the i mmediate aftermath of World War II\, a village in Hungary grapples with it s collective conscience when two Orthodox Jewish men arrive on the morning train. Set on the wedding day of the town clerk’s son\, Ferenc Török ’s gripping drama deals with a seldom-told aspect of European history: h ow the properties of deported Hungarian Jews were seized by gentiles durin g the Holocaust through shady deed transfers. Shot in crisp widescreen bla ck and white\, 1945 recalls John Sturges’ innovative 1955 “modern West ern” Bad Day at Black Rock in its use of suspenseful genre traditions to tell a postwar story of the shared guilt and complicity of an entire comm unity. ~LB\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC _7719.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:591@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T204500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133746Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tehran-taboo/ SUMMARY:Tehran Taboo DESCRIPTION:Tehran Taboo\nDirected by Ali Soozandeh\nGermany/Austria | 2017 | Animation\, Fiction | 96 min | Farsi w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nSponsors: Bobbie Lanahan\n\nAlso showing Wednesday\, October 24 at 1:30PM\n\n\n\nIn this gorgeously animated drama\, the lives of sever al strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories revea l how sex\, drugs and corruption coexist side by side with strict religiou s law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran\, avoiding prohibitions has be come an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal eman cipation. Nevertheless\, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the social order. A young woman needs an operation to “restore” her virgi nity. A judge in the Islamic Revolutionary Court exhorts favors from a pro stitute in exchange for a favorable ruling. The wife of an imprisoned drug addict is denied the divorce she needs in order to live independently. A naturalistic live-action style would have rendered this film simplistic an d possibly crude\, but the wise choice of rotoscope animation elevates the meaning and power of the film to another\, more universal level. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TEH ERAN-TABOO-HIGH-RES-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:635@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T211500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T224500 DTSTAMP:20181009T205210Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-night-eats-the-world/ SUMMARY:The Night Eats the World DESCRIPTION:The Night Eats the World ( La nuit a dévoré le monde)\nDirect ed by Dominique Rocher\nFrance | 2018 | Fiction |  94 min | French w/Engl ish subtitles\nFilm Source: Blue Fox Entertainment\nSponsor: Alliance fran çaise of the Lake Champlain Region \n\n \;\n\n\n\nThis French zomboca lypse\, does an excellent job of generating tension\, suspense\, pathos\, terror and--you betcha--horror. An unexpected human bond around halftime a nd a typically restrained continental filmmaking style underline and deepe n its hijinx. Denis Levant as a pet zombie named Alfred? Yes please.  "Ni ght Eats the World embarks on a complex meditation that makes it the most innovative zombie movie since Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead." Variety. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/the -night-eats-the-world-03.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:641@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T123000 DTSTAMP:20181003T135605Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/scratchatopia-animation-workshop-2018/ SUMMARY:Scratchatopia Animation Workshop DESCRIPTION:Scratchatopia Animation Workshop with Steve Woloshen\n\nFestiva l favorite and internationally renowned animator Woloshen returns to VTIFF with a special animation workshop for the whole family! Learn the secrets of painting directly on film\, make your own short and see it directly on the screen! The goal of this exceptional workshop is to explore\, play an d take risks with animation. All results will be digitized and viewed publ icly on the day!\n\nSee Woloshen’s website.\n\nFascinating interview wit h Steve HERE.\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/scr atchatopia-Woloshen.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Atrium\, 60 Lake Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05 401\, United States GEO:44.4774688;-73.2196841 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, Burlington \, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landi ng Atrium:geo:44.4774688,-73.2196841 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:820@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T123000 DTSTAMP:20190914T221209Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/scratchatopia-animation-workshop-3/ SUMMARY:Scratchatopia Animation Workshop DESCRIPTION:Scratchatopia Animation Workshop with Steve Woloshen\n\nFestiva l favorite and internationally renowned animator Woloshen returns to VTIFF with a special animation workshop for the whole family! Learn the secrets of painting directly on film\, make your own short and see it directly on the screen! The goal of this exceptional workshop is to explore\, play an d take risks with animation. All results will be digitized and viewed publ icly on the day!\n*\n\nSee Woloshen’s website.\n\nFascinating interview with Steve HERE.\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/scr atchatopia-Woloshen.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Kid Friendly,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Atrium\, 60 Lake Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05 401\, United States GEO:44.4774688;-73.2196841 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, Burlington \, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landi ng Atrium:geo:44.4774688,-73.2196841 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:659@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T133000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133746Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-desert-bride/ SUMMARY:The Desert Bride DESCRIPTION:The Desert Bride (La Novia del Desierto)\nDirected by Cecuikua Atán &\; Valeria Pivato\nChile | 2017 | Fiction | 78 min | Spanish w/E nglish subtitles\nFilm Source: Strand Releasing\n\n\n\nA tender and subtly funny road movie about a middle-aged woman and man. The main actress\, Pa ulina Garcia (who won a Silver Bear in 2013 for Sebastián Lelio’s 2013 film Gloria)\, is outstanding. The Desert Bride could be labeled a sophist icated shaggy dog story — a portrait of a developing relationship. Its g entle pace amounts to something real and resonant\, and it cultivates a mo od of dawdling realism. It works like recent Richard Linklater movies: a " slow cinema" that doesn't drag the impatient spectator along\, but floats deliberately across its terrain with confidence and plenty of heart. If yo u let yourself go with the flow\, you won’t be disappointed. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Des ert-Bride-e1537583278124.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:628@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T134500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133747Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bird-of-prey-2/ SUMMARY:Bird of Prey DESCRIPTION:Bird of Prey\nDirected by Eric Liner\nUSA | 2017 | Documentary | 95 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nSponsors: Sandy and Muffie Milens\n\n*Fo llowed by Skype Q&\;A with Director Liner*\n\nAlso showing Friday\, Oct ober 26 at 2:00PM\n\n\n\nThe Philippine Eagle is a bird of extremes. It’ s the world’s largest and rarest eagle\, found only in the Philippines. Fewer than 700 remain today\, and the future of these iconic birds — and of an untold number of other species — is tied to the fate of the Phili ppines’ last fragments of old-growth forest. In 1977\, world-renowned ci nematographer Neil Rettig captured the first filmed images of the Philippi ne Eagle in the wild\, transforming the bird into a national symbol. But w ith a rapidly expanding population facing serious political\, economic and environmental battles\, the eagle’s plight has fallen out of public con sciousness. Bird of Prey follows Rettig’s return to the Philippines as h e embarks on a grueling expedition alongside the next generation of Filipi nos determined to save the eagle from extinction. In order to secure the s urvival of the species\, the team follows a family of nesting eagles from hatch to fledge in hopes of re-establishing the species as a living symbol of the Philippines’ future. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/014 42713NeilBlind2048.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:607@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T153000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133746Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-rest-i-make-up-2/ SUMMARY:The Rest I Make Up DESCRIPTION:The Rest I Make Up\nDirected by Michelle Memran\nUSA | 2018 | D ocumentary | 75 min\nFilm Source: Women Make Movies\nSponsor: Barbara Zuck er\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with the director\n\nAlso showing Sunday\, Oct ober 21 at 7:15PM\n\n\n\nThis documentary about María Irene Fornés\, the groundbreaking playwright\, director and teacher\, is both a biography an d a personal film of a young filmmaker learning from Fornés how to be an artist. First-time director Michelle Memran befriends and follows Fornés\ , looking for a mentor. Filmed over multiple years\, we see the relationsh ip transform from mentor/mentee to true friendship. Through this friendshi p we become privy to her artistic life in New York City\, her family in Cu ba and her loves — including Susan Sontag\, whom she calls “the love o f my life.” When Fornés begins to show signs of Alzheimer’s\, the rel ationship shifts again\, but not as expected. It is a sensitive representa tion of dementia — seen not as the loss of intellect\, but as the loss o f memory and inhibition\, while the creative spark and lust for life remai n. The film is a celebration of Fornés\, friendship and the undying artis tic spirit. ~ JS\n\n \;\n\nRead the review by Richard Brody of the New Yorker HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/RES MAK_hires4.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:637@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T161500 DTSTAMP:20181003T163437Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/white-right-meeting-the-enemy/ SUMMARY:White Right: Meeting the Enemy DESCRIPTION:White Right: Meeting the Enemy\nDirected by Deeyah Khan\nUK/USA | 2017 | Documentary | 60 min\nFilm Source: Women Make Movies\nAwards / W inner: 2018 International Current Affairs Emmy Awards\nSponsor: Patricia F ontaine | Co-sponsor: Peace &\; Justice Center\n\n*Followed by Skype Q& amp\;A with Director Khan\n\n\n\n"I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal. And what I want to ask you is: Am I your enemy?" asks director Deeyah Khan at the beginning of the fi lm as she sits down to interview Jared Taylor\, a well-known American whit e supremacist. Throughout this one-hour documentary\, she meets face-to-fa ce with Neo-Nazis and white nationalists\, including Richard Spencer\, and attends the now infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville\, Virgi nia\, as she seeks to understand the personal and political motivations be hind the resurgence of far-right extremism in the U.S. Some of these men g row fond of Kahn and gradually admit that their views about Muslims do not apply to her. The effect of their superficial transformation reinforces t he underlying message that we tend to hate those we don’t know and don ’t want to know. Khan has a tradition of exploring the reasons behind ex treme actions and hatred: In 2015\, she made Jihad: The Story of Others\, examining why young Muslims become jihadists. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Whi te-Right-Meeting-The-Enemy-Deeyah-Khan-Copy.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:626@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T181500 DTSTAMP:20181003T133746Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-third-murder-2/ SUMMARY:The Third Murder DESCRIPTION:The Third Murder\nDirected by Hirokazu Kore-Eda\nJapan | 2017 | Fiction | 125 min | Japanese w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Film Movem ent\n\nAlso showing Thursday\, October 25 at 4:00PM\n\n\n\nA courtroom dra ma of rare philosophical inquiry\, The Third Murder stars Masaharu Fukuyam a (Like Father\, Like Son) as an elite attorney tasked with defending a mu rder suspect who was spared the death penalty for a killing 30 years prior . Recent Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda uses a Rashomon-like narrat ive structure — in which the defendant bizarrely keeps changing his stor y — to question the possibility of objective truth in a legal matter of life and death.  ~LB ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/sub _1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:609@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T180000 DTSTAMP:20181003T133747Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dead-women-walking/ SUMMARY:Dead Women Walking DESCRIPTION:Dead Women Walking\nDirected by Hagar Ben-Asher\nUSA | 2018 | F iction | 100 min\nFilm Source: Les Films de Séville\nSponsor: Lorna-Kay P eal | Co-sponsor: Peace &\; Justice Center\n\n\n\nThis is not a documen tary and perhaps\, therefore\, it’s all the more powerful in its depicti on of individual women on death row facing their final moments. The film n ever judges\, nor does it disclose whether they are innocent or guilty. It s focus is entirely on the actual experience. As the film progresses\, the next woman portrayed is closer to execution than the previous one\, thus creating a rhythm and tension that draws us into this experience. A though t-provoking and riveting film. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DWW -Ep7_MayaEshet_blackpills_photo-credit-Jack-Caswell-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:680@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T190000 DTSTAMP:20181003T200951Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reception-10-28/ SUMMARY:Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us at today's daily reception\, preceding the Closing Nigh t film.\n\nHors d'oeuvres and Zero Gravity cash bar.\n\nReception sponsors :\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VTI FF_600_newsletter.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:638@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T201500 DTSTAMP:20181003T221654Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dreaming-of-a-jewish-christmas/ SUMMARY:Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas DESCRIPTION:Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas\nDirected by Larry Weinstein\nCa nada | 2017 | Documentary | 52 min\nFilm Source: 7th Art\nSponsor: Lyric T heatre Company\nFollowed by Closing Night Party with dumplings from A Sing le Pebble\n\n\n* Closing Night film *\n\n\n\n“A musical documentary abou t the amazing story of a group of Jewish songwriters who wrote the soundtr ack to Christmas” — this is the film’s official synopsis and really\ , it says it all. Or does it? No good film works on one level alone. The e xperience of immigrants whose desire to integrate into the culture of thei r new home is universal. The irony here is that the songs these Jewish lyr icists wrote really did become the most canonic American Christmas songs. Needless to say\, much of this film is set in a Chinese restaurant … wit h some entertaining numbers and dances\, including the Chinese restaurant staff. Now that’s a melting pot for you. Enjoy\, and sing along. ~ OY\n\ n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/sea hi-tavern-xmas-2-e1538601283202.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:670@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T204500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T221500 DTSTAMP:20181005T191827Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/closing-night-party-2/ SUMMARY:Closing Night Party DESCRIPTION:Everyone deserves a final party after spending 11 days watching films! Come to the Closing Night film and then eat and drink and let your hair down. Our volunteers and staff will be there - please thank them for their tireless work and enjoy yourselves. Dumplings from A Single Pebble (what else...) and cash bar from Zero Gravity.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/fin al-cut-ladies-and-gentlemen.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:690@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181129T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181129T203000 DTSTAMP:20181109T224206Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/what-is-democracy/ SUMMARY:What is Democracy? DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nVenue Host: Main Street Landing\nDirected b y Astra Taylor\, produced by the National Film Board of Canada\nCanada | 2 018 | Documentary | 107\n\nDirector Taylor’s idiosyncratic\, philosophic al journey spans millennia and continents: from ancient Athens’ groundbr eaking experiment in self-government to capitalism’s roots in medieval I taly\; from modern-day Greece grappling with financial collapse and a moun ting refugee crisis to the United States reckoning with its racist past an d the growing gap between rich and poor.\n\nFeaturing a diverse cast—inc luding celebrated theorists\, trauma surgeons\, activists\, factory worker s\, asylum seekers\, and former prime ministers—this urgent film connect s the past and the present\, the emotional and the intellectual\, the pers onal and the political\, in order to provoke and inspire. If we want to li ve in democracy\, we must first ask what the word even means.\n\nAbout the director:\n\nAstra Taylor is a filmmaker\, writer\, and political organiz er. She is the director of the\nphilosophical documentaries What Is Democr acy?\, Examined Life (TIFF 2008)\,\nand Zizek! (TIFF 2005)\; the author of the American Book Award winner The People’s\nPlatform: Taking Back Powe r and Culture in the Digital Age\; and a co-founder of the\nDebt Collectiv e. She has written for The New York Times\, The London Review of\nBooks\, The Guardian\, The Walrus\, The Baffler\, n+1\, and many other outlets. Sh e is a\nShuttleworth Foundation Fellow and a former touring member of the band Neutral Milk\nHotel. Her new book\, Democracy May Not Exist\, but We ’ll Miss It When It’s Gone\, will\nbe out from Metropolitan Books in e arly 2019. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/wha t-is-democracy-03.jpeg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:692@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181213T203000 DTSTAMP:20181203T180204Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/liyana/ SUMMARY:Liyana DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nVenue Host: Main Street Landing\nDirected b y Aaron Kopp and Amanda Kopp\nZimbabwe/USA | 2018 | Documentary / Animatio n | 77 mins\n\nWinner of the Grand Prize at NY International Children's Fi lm Festival.\nSuitable for ages 10+\n\nLiyana is a genre-defying film that tells the story of five children in the Kingdom of Eswatini who turn past trauma into an original fable about a girl named Liyana who embarks on a perilous quest to save her young twin brothers. The film weaves her animat ed journey together with poetic documentary scenes to create an inspiring tale of perseverance and hope.\n\n<\;/ifram e>\;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LIY ANA-IntabaCreative-04.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:693@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190131T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190131T204500 DTSTAMP:20181207T200621Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-heiresses/ SUMMARY:The Heiresses (Las herederas) DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nVenue Host: Main Street Landing\nWritten &a mp\; Directed by Marcelo Martinessi\nParaguay | 2018 | Fiction | 98 mins | Spanish w/English subtitles\nAwards/Major Festivals: Winner\, Internation al Critics Prize at Berlinale 2018\, Grand Prize Jeonju International Film Festival and many more\nParaguay's official submission to the 2019 Academ y Awards\n\nMiddle-aged couple Chela (Ava Brun) and Chiquita (Margarita Ir ún) have enjoyed being part of Paraguay’s wealthy elite\, but straitene d times mean big changes are on the way. Mounting debts lead to a spell in prison for Chiquita\, treasured possessions are being sold off\, and Chel a resorts to running a taxi service for well-to-do women. Humiliation woul d appear to be all that their future holds\, but venturing from her rustin g gilded cage leads Chela to enjoy new freedoms\, including sensual bisexu al Angy (Ava Ivanova)\, and a future ripe with possibility.\n\n\n\nWorking from his own exquisitely observed script\, and interpreted by phenomenal actors with barely any screen experience\, Martinessi creates a beguiling\ , female-centric story that has an almost Almodóvar-esque understanding o f women. It’s directed with a documentarian’s sense of realism\, cleve rly anchored to Chela as the film’s viewpoint. It’s an assured feature debut and it isn’t too much of a stretch to see Chela’s late flowerin g as analogous to Paraguay’s bright future on the screen. ~ David Hughes \, Time Out ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The -Heiresses_Poster-2903940522-1518790034404.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:694@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190208T183000 DTSTAMP:20190121T201922Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/all-the-wild-horses/ SUMMARY:Best of MNFF: All The Wild Horses DESCRIPTION:\n\nPresented by VTIFF\nVenue Host: Main Street Landing\nWritte n &\; Directed by Ivo Marloh\nUSA | 2017 | Documentary | 89 mins\nDirec tor Marloh in attendance for Q&\;A with Jay Craven and for a meet-and-g reet at the Lake Lobby reception after the screening. Reception 6:30 - 7:3 0\, pizzas from Pizzeria Verita\, cash bar from Shelburne Vineyard and Woo dchuck Cider\n\nNote: The reception is followed by the 2nd Best of MNFF sc reening: Dateline-Saigon.\n\nAll The Wild Horses follows international rid ers from around the world as they compete in the Mongol Derby in Mongolia\ , the longest and toughest horse race on the planet. Director Marloh rode the race twice to embed himself in the individual stories of the riders in one of the last true wildernesses on earth.\n\n\nIn this race across 700 miles of Mongolian steppe the riders are on their own\, navigating from ho rse station to horse station where they change horses every 30 miles. They have to deal with dehydration\, hypothermia\, exhaustion\, extreme weathe r\, swollen rivers\, attacking dogs and roaming wolves.\nThe riders stay t he nights out in the wild or with nomad families. To choose a wrong horse at a horse station could get them bucked off\, losing their mount in the p rocess\, or suffer more serious injuries.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/wil d-horses-01.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:695@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190208T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190208T210000 DTSTAMP:20190121T202102Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dateline-saigon/ SUMMARY:Best of MNFF: Dateline-Saigon DESCRIPTION:\n\nPresented by VTIFF\nVenue Host: Main Street Landing\nWritte n &\; Directed by Thomas Herman\nUSA | 2018 | Documentary | 96 mins\nDi rector Herman in attendance for Q&\;A with Jay Craven and for a meet-an d-greet at the Lake Lobby reception before the screening. Reception 6:30 - 7:30\, pizzas from Pizzeria Verita\, cash bar from Shelburne Vineyard and Woodchuck Cider\n\nNote: Come at 5pm for the first film of the evening: A ll The Wild Horses\, have a pizza and a drink at the reception while talki ng to the filmmakers and stay for Dateline-Saigon. Make an evening of it.\ n\nHerman spent twelve years researching\, filming\, and interviewing over 50 writers\, photojournalists\, radio and television correspondents\, gov ernment officials\, historians\, and others for this project. “The film is about a group of journalists who risked their lives to bring back a sto ry no one wanted revealed.” Telling the truth about what was happening i n Vietnam\, Herman says\, illustrated a shift away from traditional media support of any US war effort. “It was a revolution in attitude and a rev olution in how news was distributed and how news was consumed.” David Ha lberstam\, Neil Sheehan\, Malcolm Browne\, Peter Arnett\, and Horst Faas — were among the first to report that the story on the ground in Vietnam was vastly different than that being reported by the government in Washin gton. They were among the first skeptics. They were all young\, unknown\, and relatively inexperienced when they arrived in Vietnam in 1961 and 1962 \, but were all to become legends\n\n\n\n\nThe film illuminates the diffic ulties of reporting war by focusing on America’s most important and cont roversial case study: Vietnam\, the war that established many of the groun d rules for coverage of wars that followed and ignited an antagonism betwe en the media and the military that unfortunately endures. The parallels to the challenges journalists face in reporting today’s conflicts — and the consequences of not getting the story out — will become disturbingly obvious to the viewer.\n\n\nDateline-Saigon is geared to generations born after the Vietnam War as well as to the generation that lived through it but never knew the personal sacrifices made to report the truth — a stru ggle today’s reporters continue to face. The “Saigon Boys” have much to teach us about reporting the truth in the face of government resistanc e.\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Dat elineSaigon-hi-res-photo1.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:698@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190228T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190228T210000 DTSTAMP:20190131T194634Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/capernaum/ SUMMARY:Capernaum DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nVenue Host: Main Street Landing\nWritten &a mp\; Directed by Nadine Labaki\nLebanon | 2018 | Fiction | 123 mins | Arab ic and Amharic w/English subtitles\nAwards/Major Festivals: Grand Jury Pri ze - Cannes Film Festival\, Nominated for Best Foreign Language film - 201 9 Academy Awards\n\nSet in a fictitious Middle Eastern village (much like Where Do We Go Now?)\, Capernaum takes Labaki’s unique cinematic microsc ope to the region’s countless neglected children “excluded from societ y” — the youths who fall through the cracks in the system and are left to fend for themselves. At its heart is a 12-year old (Zain Al Rafeea) wh o decides enough is enough and sues his parents the "crime" of giving him life.\n\nCapernaum was made with a cast of non-professionals playing chara cters whose lives closely parallel their own. Following her script\, Labak i placed her performers in scenes and asked them to react spontaneously wi th their own words and gestures. When the non-actors's instincts diverged from the written script\, Labaki adapted the screenplay to follow them.\n\ n\n\n"A fairy tale and an opera\, a potboiler and a news bulletin\, a howl of protest and an anthem of resistance… The sources of (the film’s) r emarkable energy are Ms. Labaki’s curiosity and the charisma of her youn g star\, Zain al Rafeea… You might see a trace of Huck Finn in Zain… L ike a Dickens Hero… His charm and magnetism amount to a kind of moral au thority.”\n– A.O. Scott\, The New York Times\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/8-s caled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:696@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190303T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190303T180000 DTSTAMP:20190109T171829Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-animal/ SUMMARY:VAMP Special Screening: The Animal DESCRIPTION:\n\nPresented by VTIFF and Shelburne Museum\nWritten &\; Dir ected by Walter Ungerer\nUSA | 1976 | Fiction | 75 mins\nThis special scre ening will be introduced by Steve Bissette (author of "Green Mountain Cine ma"\, cartoonist and professor at the The Cartoon Studies Center) and foll owed by a Q&\;A with filmmaker Ungerer\, moderated by Bissette. The scr eening will be accompanied by a reception (light food fare and cash bar) - an opportunity to meet and greet the filmmaker and to learn more about VA MP (Vermont Archive Movie Project)\n\nA woman waits for a man at a deserte d railroad station somewhere in northern New England. It is the middle of winter. Snow is falling. The two drive to a remote farmhouse. Later two st range children appear at the window\, and an old woman summons them away. Isolation\, then alienation overcome the couple. The woman has a dream whi ch comes true. She disappears. Nothing is explained. Only footprints remai n in the snow that covers the supernatural landscape.\n\nThis is the film that established Ungerer as a leading experimental fiction filmmaker. Shot in Vermont. Digitally remastered by VAMP in 2018.\nVAMP is a program of V TIFF. Its mission is to locate\, catalog\, remaster and make available to the public Vermont film's heritage. VAMP has an online searchable database of Vermont films. Click HERE to browse the database.\n\n \;\n\n \ ;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/the -animal-from-walter.jpeg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Other Events,VAMP,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Shelburne Musem - Pizzagalli Center\, 6000 Shelburne Road\, Shelbu rne\, VT\, 05482\, United States GEO:44.3708733;-73.2316975 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=6000 Shelburne Road\, Shelb urne\, VT\, 05482\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Shelburne Mus em - Pizzagalli Center:geo:44.3708733,-73.2316975 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:712@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190328T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190328T210000 DTSTAMP:20190301T195029Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/becoming-astrid-unga-astrid/ SUMMARY:Becoming Astrid (Unga Astrid) DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nVenue Host: Main Street Landing\nWritten &a mp\; Co-Written &\; Directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen\nSweden/De nmark | 2018 | Fiction | 123 mins | Swedish &\; Danish w/English subtit les\nFilm Source: Music Box Films\n*** NY Times Critics Pick***\n\nTeenage r Astrid Lindgren\, future author of "Pippi Longstocking"\, leads a carefr ee life in\nrural Sweden. Eager to break free from her conservative upbrin ging\, she accepts an\ninternship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor.\nAfter Astrid becomes pregnant\, she leaves home to give birth to a son\, whom she\nreluctantly leaves with a f oster mother. When the foster mother falls ill\, Astrid uses her\nimaginat ion and flair for storytelling to reconnect with her child.\nFluid use of loosely handheld camerawork and a superb cast -- Maria Fahl Vikander (moth er of Oscar-winner Alicia) and young lead Alba August (daughter of directo r Bille) -- make this film "a gorgeous piece of heritage filmmaking" as wr itten by Alissa Simon of "Variety".\n\n“This film about an exemplary wom an\, made by women\, is as much a pleasure as it is a lesson.” — Glenn Kenney\, RogerEbert.com\n\n \;\n\n\n\nAbout the director: Pernille Fi scher Christensen\, one of Denmark’s most successful directors\, receive d the\nCinéfondations 3rd Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her short film India (1999)\,\nwhich she made during her training at the National F ilm School of Denmark. In 2003\,\nshe received the Best Short Film Award a t the Danish Film Academy for Habibti My Love. Her debut feature film\, A Soap (2006)\, had its world premiere at Berlinale and\nwas awarded the Sil ver Bear (the Jury Grand Prize) and Best Debut Film Award. A\nSOAP also re ceived Best Script at San Sebastian and won the Danish Film Critics Award\ n(Bodil) for Best Film in 2007. Fischer Christensen is also known for Some one You Love (2014) and A Family (2010)\, both honored at Berlinale.\n\n&n bsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Bec omingAstrid1-e1550861277130.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:697@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190331T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190331T180000 DTSTAMP:20190329T214150Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mt-philo/ SUMMARY:VAMP Special Screening: Mt Philo Commune & Peace Train to Beijing DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF and Shelburne Museum\nSpecial double bill\n\ n1. Mt Philo Commune\n\nDirected by Robert Machover &\; Michael Singer | Documentary | 23 mins |1973\nA documentary film portrait of the Mt. Phil o\, VT commune in the early 1970s.\nThis film was remastered and digitized by VAMP (Vermont Archive Movie Project) in 2018\nFollowed by Q&\;A wit h Bridget Meyer and other commune members.\n\n2. Peace Train to Beijing\n\ nDirected by Robin Lloyd | Documentary | 30 mins | 1995\nThe WILPF (Women ’s International League for Peace and Freedom) journey through Asia on t heir way to the Beijing conference. A fun and fascinating women's “road trip” through towns and villages as they learn to live with each other o n the train for several weeks. For many this was a feminist awakening and certainly the trip of a lifetime.\nFollowed by Q&\;A with Robin Lloyd\n \nThe screenings will include a reception (light food fare and cash bar) w ith an opportunity to meet and greet the people involved with the films.\n \nVAMP is a program of VTIFF. Its mission is to locate\, catalog\, remaste r and make available to the public Vermont film's heritage. VAMP has an on line searchable database of Vermont films. Click HERE to browse the databa se.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ful lSizeRender-33.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Other Events,VAMP,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Shelburne Musem - Pizzagalli Center\, 6000 Shelburne Road\, Shelbu rne\, VT\, 05482\, United States GEO:44.3708733;-73.2316975 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=6000 Shelburne Road\, Shelb urne\, VT\, 05482\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Shelburne Mus em - Pizzagalli Center:geo:44.3708733,-73.2316975 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:711@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190404T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190404T213000 DTSTAMP:20190330T181657Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ghost-fleet/ SUMMARY:The Ghost Fleet DESCRIPTION:Ghost Fleet\nDirected by Shannon Service\, Jeffrey Waldron\nUSA | 2018 | Documentary | 88 mins\nProducer Jon Bowermaster* in attendance\n Note: This event is free but donations are welcome. Seats are limited and pre-booking is highly recommended.\n\nThe Film: Acclaimed at Telluride and the Toronto International Film Festival\, this suspenseful high-seas adve nture follows a team of activists who rescue modern-day slaves in Thailand ’s illegal fishing industry. Thai activist Patima Tungpuchayakul was nom inated for the Nobel Prize for her work rescuing thousands of victims. We follow her as she tracks down escaped slaves who live like Robinson Crusoe on remote islands\, helping to bring these long-vanished ghosts back to l ife and to their families.\n\n\n\n*** This special screening is a partners hip between VTIFF and ECHO\, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain. It is screen ed on the eve of the following day's event: The Alchemy of Art and Science - Creating a Culture of Clean Water \n\n* About Jon Bowermaster: A writer \, filmmaker and adventurer\, Jon is a six-time grantee of the National Ge ographic Expeditions Council. One of the Society’s ‘Ocean Heroes\,’ his first assignment for National Geographic magazine in 1989 was to docum ent a dog-sled expedition that crossed Antarctica taking 221 days. He is t he founder of Oceans 8 Films and One Ocean Media Foundation.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2_G host-Fleet_fishermen-copy.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:691@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20190405 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20190408 DTSTAMP:20190406T155948Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/grff-why-sing-why-dance-musicals/ SUMMARY:Global Roots Film Festival: Why Sing\, Why Dance? DESCRIPTION:3 days of classic and lesser known musical films\, all introduc ed and MC'd by world-renowned composer and musical film historian Neil Bra nd.  The 2019 Global Roots Film Festival will focus on the development of musical films and the role they played in the history of cinema as a whol e.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nGRFF 2019 is a partnership with the Lyric Thea tre Company that will produce a special live event for the festival. Neil Brand will also lead a special interactive program for the whole family ab out the role of sound in silent comedies.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nFestiva l Passes are available HERE. It is highly recommended to purchase a Pass a lthough individual tickets are also available. If you purchase a Pass you need not book individual screenings - just bring your pass to the door. Se ating is on a first-come first-served basis.\nPasses - $40\nVTIFF Patron M embers - $32\nStudents - $20\nVTIFF All Access Members - FREE.\n\n\nIndivi dual tickets: $10\nSeniors - $8\nStudents - $5\n\n[one_half]SCHEDULE\n* Th ere will be daily snack receptions and cash bar before the first evening p erformance.\n\n \n\n\nFri\, 4/5\n6:00 PM\nKeynote Presentation by Neil B rand\n\n\nFri\, 4/5\n8:00 PM\nLe Million\n\n\nSat\, 4/6\n11:30 AM\nLove Me Tonight\n\n\nSat\, 4/6\n2:30 PM\nLyric Live event\n\n\nSat\, 4/6\n4:30 PM \nCircus\n\n\nSat\, 4/6\n6:45 PM\nTop Hat\n\n\nSat\, 4/6\n9:00 PM\nThe Gir l Can't Help It\n\n\nSun\, 4/7\n11:00 AM\nSilent Comedies for Kids\n\n\n4/ 7/2019\n12:30 PM\nPyaasa\n\n\nSun\, 4/7\n3:30 PM\nWest Side Story\n\n\nSun \, 4/7\n7:00 PM\nPrincess Raccoon\n\n\n\n[/one_half]\n[one_half_last]\n\nT hank you to all sponsors of Global Roots Film Festival 2019\n[/one_half_la st] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/VTI FF_GlobalRoots2019_EventFB.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:710@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190405T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190405T191500 DTSTAMP:20190328T195519Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/why-sing-why-dance-keynote-presentation/ SUMMARY:Why Sing\, Why Dance? Keynote Presentation DESCRIPTION:Why Sing\, Why Dance? Keynote Presentation\nPresented by Neil B rand\nHost Venue: Main Street Landing\n\nThis event is part of Global Root s Film Festival: Why Sing\, Why Dance?\n\nNeil Brand\, world renowned musi cal film historian\, composer and silent film pianist\, introduces\, with film clips\, Global Roots Film Festival: Why Sing\, Why Dance? with a pres entation of musicals and how they changed the course of film history.\n\nF ollowed by a reception\, meet and greet\, snacks by Skinny Pancake and cas h bar.\n\nNote: This event is free but donations are welcome. Seats are li mited and pre-booking is highly recommended.\n\nFestival Passes are availa ble HERE. It is highly recommended to purchase a Pass although individual tickets are also available. If you purchase a Pass you need not book indiv idual screenings - just bring your pass to the door. Seating is on a first -come first-served basis.\nPasses :\nGeneral Admission - $40\nSenior and V TIFF Patron Members - $32\nStudents - $20\nVTIFF All Access Members - FREE .\n\n[caption id="attachment_10588" align="aligncenter" width="374"] Neil Brand[/caption] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/VTI FF_GlobalRoots2019_EventFB.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:705@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190405T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190405T214500 DTSTAMP:20190328T195601Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/le-million-musicals/ SUMMARY:Le Million DESCRIPTION:Le Million\nDirected by René Clair\nFrance ⎮ 1931 ⎮ Fictio n ⎮ 85 mins ⎮ French w/English subtitles\nHost Venue: Main Street Lan ding\n***Opening Night film***\nSponsored by Alliance Française of the La ke Champlain Region \n\n \;\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Why Sing\, Why Dance?\n\nThis early sound film had a profound i mpact not only on the Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin\, but on the Ameri can musical as a whole. "At the onset of the sound era\, French cinema was in the doldrums\, economically and artistically\, until Clair’s ebullie nt early talkies proved a great success worldwide and put French sound fil m on the map. All of them take place in an enchanting Paris\, marvelously designed by the great art director Lazare Meerson\, and lit by Georges Pé rinal with exquisite soft-toned atmospheric cinematography. [...] At first Clair was skeptical of the value of sound and detested the loquacious mov ies of the early talkie era\, with their slavish devotion to dialogue. Soo n\, however\, he altered his views: realizing the creatively non-realistic use to which the soundtrack could be put\, he employed sound contrapuntal ly rather than synchronously\, divorcing the literal relationship of sound and image\, and never permitting the words and pictures to duplicate each other." ~ Elliot Stein. This approach to the use of sound and music in fi lm is nowhere more evident than in Le Million's iconic opening sequence.\n \nFestival Passes are available HERE. It is highly recommended to purchase a Pass although individual tickets are also available. If you purchase a Pass you need not book individual screenings - just bring your pass to the door. Seating is on a first-come first-served basis.\nPasses :\nGeneral A dmission - $40\nVTIFF Patron Members - $32\nStudents - $20\nVTIFF All Acce ss Members - FREE.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/mil lion2.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:700@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190406T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190406T131500 DTSTAMP:20190328T195627Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/love-me-tonight-musicals/ SUMMARY:Love Me Tonight DESCRIPTION:Love Me Tonight\nDirected by Rouben Mamoulian | Music &\; Ly rics by Rodgers and Hart\nUSA ⎮ 1932⎮ Fiction ⎮ 104 min\nHost Venue: Main Street Landing\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Why Sing\, Why Dance?\n\nFestival Passes are available HERE. It is highly recommended to purchase a Pass although individual tickets are also availa ble. If you purchase a Pass you need not book individual screenings - just bring your pass to the door. Seating is on a first-come first-served basi s.\nPasses :\nGeneral Admission - $40\nVTIFF Patron Members - $32\nStudent s - $20\nVTIFF All Access Members - FREE.\n\nConsidered a landmark musical \, Love Me Tonight opens by creating Paris as sound sculpture...in a style that was revolutionary for its time\, combining both singing and film ed iting\, as the song "Isn't It Romantic" is passed from one singer (or grou p of singers) to another\, all of whom are at different locales. The film stars Maurice Chevalier as a tailor who poses as a nobleman and Jeanett e MacDonald as a princess with whom he falls in love.\n\nIt was made pre- Code and is therefore more risqué than most films made after mid-1934. (P re-Code refers to the brief\, more relaxed era\, in Hollywood between the widespread adoption of sound in pictures in 1929 and the enforcement of th e Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines in mid-1934.)\n\n\n \n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n"Love Me Tonight opens ear ly one morning in Paris. A few workers step out into the street and begin pounding away at the concrete. This is the foundational beat. Eventually s hopkeepers emerge to sweep away dust from the sidewalk\, supplying a count erpoint to the construction worker’s pulse. Housewives open their window s to shake out rugs\, adding to the rising symphony of musique concrete. B y the time Chevalier looks out his window to exclaim “this city is too n oisy for me\,” Mamoulian’s daring orchestration of “The Song of Pare e” has taken the world of sound films light years beyond what was largel y considered acceptable in the “talk into the plant” era of early talk ies. (It has also predicted the funky fresh street rhythms of Stomp by rou ghly 65 years.) And it is only the first sublime moment in a film that tip toes lighter-than-air for its entire running time" ~ Eric Henderson\, Slan t Magazine ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lov e-Me-Tonight-4.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:709@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190406T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190406T160000 DTSTAMP:20190406T155721Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lyric-theatre-company-live-musicals/ SUMMARY:Lyric Theatre Company Live Event DESCRIPTION:Lyric Theatre Company Live\nLed by Neil Brand &\; Jose Rinco n (Executive Director of the Lyric)\nAshley O’Brien\, music director\nHo st Venue: Main Street Landing\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film F estival: Why Sing\, Why Dance?\n\nNeil Brand and Jose Rincon discuss major milestones and trends in the development of the American movie musical fr om the 1930s to today through a series of live performances and film clips . Selections from The Wizard of Oz\, Singin’ in the Rain\, Moulin Rouge\ , A Star is Born and more!\nThis is a 90-minute session with the final 10- 15 minutes saved for audience Q&\;A.\n\nLyric Cast\nKim Anderson\nGabri elle Boera\nHannah Farrell\nEamon Lynch\nAmelia Mason\nThabitha Moruthane\ nHannah Normandeau\nAshley O’Brien\nJose Rincon\nEthan Tischler\n\nThis event will be a unique opportunity to focus on specific iconic songs and t heir role within the films.\n\nFestival Passes are available HERE. It is h ighly recommended to purchase a Pass although individual tickets are also available. If you purchase a Pass you need not book individual screenings - just bring your pass to the door. Seating is on a first-come first-serve d basis.\nPasses :\nGeneral Admission - $40\nVTIFF Patron Members - $32\nS tudents - $20\nVTIFF All Access Members - FREE.\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lyr ic-event.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:702@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190406T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190406T181500 DTSTAMP:20190328T195705Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/circus-musicals/ SUMMARY:Circus (Tsirk) DESCRIPTION:Circus (Tsirk)\nDirected by: Grigori Aleksandrov\nUSSR ⎮ 1936 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 88 mins ⎮ Russian w/English subtitles\nHost Venue: Main Street Landing\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Why S ing\, Why Dance?\n\nFestival Passes are available HERE. It is highly recom mended to purchase a Pass although individual tickets are also available. If you purchase a Pass you need not book individual screenings - just brin g your pass to the door. Seating is on a first-come first-served basis.\nP asses :\nGeneral Admission - $40\nVTIFF Patron Members - $32\nStudents - $ 20\nVTIFF All Access Members - FREE.\n\nIn May 1930\, the Russian director Sergei Eisenstein and his lifelong collaborator Grigori Aleksandrov (they co-directed and wrote Ten Days That Shook The World\, and General Strike) \, arrived in the US at the invitation of Paramount Pictures. They were in terested in the new phenomenon of Sound Pictures which were sweeping the c ountry - but their first experiences were not good ones. For at this time sound cinema was a sickly child that could just about talk but could barel y move. To save bored audiences from endless talk required imaginative dir ectors who knew how music could drive plot\, character and momentum. Aleks androv was much taken by what he saw on-screen: the studio’s musicals by Ernst Lubitsch and Russian emigré Rouben Mamoulian (Love Me Tonight) and \, soon after\, the ones at Warners choreographed by Busby Berkeley. Lyubo v Orlova\, Aleksandrov's wife\, stars in this\, as well as most of Aleksan drov's other films.\n\nOn his trip to the U.S. something\, though\, must h ave disturbed Aleksandrov: white American hatred of American blacks. Circu s opens in the American south. Marion Dixon (Orlova)\, a white celebrity w ho has just given birth to a black child\, races with her bundled infant\, catching a train in the nick of time\, townsfolk at her heels. It is not stated\, but perhaps implied\, that the father was lynched. In the final s cenes in Russia\, when a racist man tries to attack the child\, the seated crowd\, protectively\, keeps handing the child upward and over\, with one audience member after another singing to the child in Russian\, in langua ges of the various Soviet republics. Like all Soviet children the responsi bility of the nation\, amidst such radiant celebration he embodies the nat ion’s future and hope.\n\n   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Cir cus-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:703@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190406T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190406T204500 DTSTAMP:20190328T195721Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/top-hat-musicals/ SUMMARY:Top Hat DESCRIPTION:Top Hat\nDirected by Mark Sandrich | Music &\; Lyrics by Irv ing Berlin | Choreography by Astaire and Hermes Pan\nUSA ⎮ 1935 ⎮ Fict ion ⎮ 99 min\nHost Venue: Main Street Landing\n\nThis event is part of G lobal Roots Film Festival: Why Sing\, Why Dance?\n\nFestival Passes are av ailable HERE. It is highly recommended to purchase a Pass although individ ual tickets are also available. If you purchase a Pass you need not book i ndividual screenings - just bring your pass to the door. Seating is on a f irst-come first-served basis.\nPasses :\nGeneral Admission - $40\nVTIFF Pa tron Members - $32\nStudents - $20\nVTIFF All Access Members - FREE.\n\nTo p Hat is the 4th and most iconic of the movies Fred Astaire made opposite Ginger Rogers\, and was the first film to be written specifically as a veh icle for Fred and Ginger. The Irving Berlin score includes "Cheek to Cheek \," "Isn't it a Lovely Day?\," and the jaunty title song. It centers on a typical mistaken-identity plot\, with wealthy Dale Tremont (Rogers)\, on h oliday in London and Venice\, assuming that American entertainer Jerry Tra vers (Astaire) is the husband of her friend Madge (Helen Broderick) -- who 's actually the wife of Jerry's business manager Horace Hardwick (Edward E verett Horton)... and so it goes on.\n\nThe choreography of the dance numb ers is flawless: Astaire believed that movie dance numbers should be shot in unbroken takes that ran as long as possible\, and this lends a fluidity to the movement that belies the difficulty for the dancers. What Astaire and Rogers perform is an achievement in endurance as well as artistry.\n\n   \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\ n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n"Because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of o ur bodies\, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing\, there is a need for another world somewhere\, a wo rld where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live." ~ Roger Ebert\, Chicago Su n-Times ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Top -Hat-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:708@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190406T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190406T224500 DTSTAMP:20190328T195739Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-girl-cant-help-it-musicals/ SUMMARY:The Girl Can't Help It DESCRIPTION:The Girl Can't Help It\nDirected by Frank Tashlin | Music & \; Lyrics by Bobby Troup\nUSA ⎮ 1956 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 99 min\nHost Venue: Main Street Landing\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Why Sing\, Why Dance?\n\nFestival Passes are available HERE. It is highly recommended to purchase a Pass although individual tickets are also availa ble. If you purchase a Pass you need not book individual screenings - just bring your pass to the door. Seating is on a first-come first-served basi s.\nPasses :\nGeneral Admission - $40\nVTIFF Patron Members - $32\nStudent s - $20\nVTIFF All Access Members - FREE.\n\nStarring Jayne Mansfield in t he titular role. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for the Ame rican sex symbol Jayne Mansfield\, with a satirical subplot involving teen agers and rock 'n' roll music. The unintended result has been called the " most potent" celebration of rock music ever captured on film. The original music score\, including a title song performed by Little Richard\, was by Bobby Troup. The Girl Can't Help It is an inspired\, wildly over-the-top comedy with Jayne Mansfield cast as the girlfriend of a retired gangster ( Edmond O’Brien) who hires a press agent (Tom Ewell) to make her a star. Using Mansfield as a kind of a three-dimensional cartoon\, The Girl Can’ t Help It combined broad comedy with legendary rock and roll performances by Little Richard\, Fats Domino\, Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps\, and the Platters.\n\nAccording to Wikipedia\, the movie's influence on rock music is significant. The film reached Liverpool\, England\, in the early summe r of 1957. The cameo performances of early rock 'n' roll stars such as Lit tle Richard\, Eddie Cochran\, and Gene Vincent and His Bluecaps fascinated a 16-year-old John Lennon by showing him\, for the first time\, his "wors hipped" American rock 'n' roll stars as living humans and thus further ins piring him to pursue his own rock and roll dream.\n\n \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Gir l-Cant-Help-It-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:704@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T121500 DTSTAMP:20190328T195758Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/silent-comedies-for-kids/ SUMMARY:Silent Comedies for Kids DESCRIPTION:Silent Comedies for Kids\nLed by Neil Brand\nHost Venue: Main S treet Landing\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Why Sin g\, Why Dance?\n\nFestival Passes are available HERE. It is highly recomme nded to purchase a Pass although individual tickets are also available. If you purchase a Pass you need not book individual screenings - just bring your pass to the door. Seating is on a first-come first-served basis.\nPas ses :\nGeneral Admission - $40\nVTIFF Patron Members - $32\nStudents - $20 \nVTIFF All Access Members - FREE.\n\nEnjoy an hour of furious comedy for all the family\, from the earliest trick films to the greatest of Hollywoo d clowns\, including the greatest of all – Laurel and Hardy. The kids ge t to choose the music\, the adults get to sit back and enjoy the ride. Don ’t miss this uniquely entertaining show in which film\, music and inform ed\, entertaining commentary come together to create pure magic. Dogs driv e cars\, houses explode and trains appear out of nowhere amidst breathtaki ng stunts\, all presented and accompanied by Neil Brand\, the fastest pian o fingers in the business. Pure magic! ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/the _general_buster_keaton_34.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:699@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T150000 DTSTAMP:20190328T195908Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pyaasa-musicals/ SUMMARY:Pyaasa DESCRIPTION:Pyaasa\nDirected by Guru Dutt ⎮ Music by S. D. Burman\nIndia ⎮ 1957 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 146 mins ⎮ Hindi and Urdu w/English subtitles\n Host Venue: Main Street Landing\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Why Sing\, Why Dance?\n\nFestival Passes are available HERE. It is highly recommended to purchase a Pass although individual tickets are also available. If you purchase a Pass you need not book individual screen ings - just bring your pass to the door. Seating is on a first-come first- served basis.\nPasses :\nGeneral Admission - $40\nVTIFF Patron Members - $ 32\nStudents - $20\nVTIFF All Access Members - FREE.\n\nIn newly-independe nt India (1947)\, Hindi cinema\, with its rich use of music and dance\, wo uld become the entertainment of choice for millions in and beyond the subc ontinent. The movie musical would propel a massive phenomenon\, the studio system that would go on and outsell Hollywood ….. Bollywood\, where son g and dance would connect with a population of hundreds of millions\, only 20% literate and still recovering from post partition civil war.\n\nSet i n Calcutta\, West Bengal\, the film tells the story of Vijay\, a strugglin g poet trying to make his works known in post-independence India\, and Gul abo\, a prostitute with a heart of gold\, who helps him to try and get his poems published.\n\n \n\n"Possibly one of the most remarkable transposit ions of poetry on screen. Dutt plays the poet himself and when he says the verses\, he actually sings (using the beautiful voice of Mohammad Rafi). It's just out of this world. More than once I've had tears in my eyes list ening to the audio tape I bought in Delhi in the late eighties." ~ Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)\, Personal Shopper (2016).\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Pya asa-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:706@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T174500 DTSTAMP:20190328T195847Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/west-side-story-musicals/ SUMMARY:West Side Story DESCRIPTION:West Side Story\nDirected by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins | M usic by Leonard Bernstein | Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim\nUSA ⎮ 1961 ⎮ F iction ⎮ 153 mins\nWinner of 10 Academy awards including Best Picture\nH ost Venue: Main Street Landing\n\nThis event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Why Sing\, Why Dance?\n\nFestival Passes are available HERE. It is highly recommended to purchase a Pass although individual tickets are a lso available. If you purchase a Pass you need not book individual screeni ngs - just bring your pass to the door. Seating is on a first-come first-s erved basis.\nPasses :\nGeneral Admission - $40\nVTIFF Patron Members - $3 2\nStudents - $20\nVTIFF All Access Members - FREE.\n\nThe tale of a turf war between rival teenage gangs in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen and the two lovers who cross battle lines\, loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.\n\n"The opening finger-snapping sequence is one of the best uses of dance in movie history. It came about because Robbins\, readi ng the screenplay\, asked\, "What are they dancing about?"The writer Laure nts agreed: "You couldn't have a story about murder\, violence\, prejudice \, attempted rape\, and do it in a traditional musical style." So he outli ned the prologue\, without dialogue\, allowing Robbins to establish the st reet gangs\, show their pecking order\, celebrate their swagger in the str eet\, demonstrate their physical grace\, and establish their hostility -- all in a ballet scored by Bernstein with music\, finger-snapping and anger ." ~ Roger Ebert\, 2004\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/wes tside-story-01-3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:707@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T210000 DTSTAMP:20190404T141058Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/princess-raccoon-musicals/ SUMMARY:Princess Raccoon DESCRIPTION:Princess Raccoon (Operetta tanuki goten)\nDirected by Seijun Su zuki | Music by Michiru Oshima\nJapan ⎮ 2005 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 111 mins  ⎮ Japanese w/English subtitles\nHost Venue: Main Street Landing\n\n*** C losing Night film Sponsored by:\nDisco Phantom will DJ at the 6pm receptio n preceding the screening.\n\n \;\n\nThis event is part of Global Root s Film Festival: Why Sing\, Why Dance?\n\nFestival Passes are available HE RE. It is highly recommended to purchase a Pass although individual ticket s are also available. If you purchase a Pass you need not book individual screenings - just bring your pass to the door. Seating is on a first-come first-served basis.\nPasses :\nGeneral Admission - $40\nVTIFF Patron Membe rs - $32\nStudents - $20\nVTIFF All Access Members - FREE\n\nDirector Seij un Suzuki made his name in the 1960s with a number of stylized\, inventive low-budget gangster flicks. In later years\, however\, his work became in finitely more surreal\, theatrical\, and symbolic\, a style that’s on gl orious display throughout this musical.\n\n" 'Man cannot fall in love with a raccoon\,' we are told at the outset of the film. 'Or vice versa. It is ridiculous and impossible. But since this is the 13th night\, let me set a love trap\, for a fruitless love affair.' Paying homage to the Japanese 'Tanukigoten ' musicals of the Forties and Fifties while merrily plunderin g the campest elements of Western rock\, Eastern rap and Busby Berkeley ch oreography\, Suzuki throws cultural caution to the wind. One minute\, the performers are grunting and gesticulating in the masked and face-painted t raditions of noh and kabuki\; the next\, they are dancing to hot latino be ats\, stamping their feet\, waving their butts and swooning in the kind of camera-swirl embraces beloved of Baz Luhrmann. Imagine a Japanese opera t roupe having a night off at a neon-lit karaoke club where the drinks are s piked with mescaline and you'll have some idea of the sublime strangeness of it all. ~ Mark Kermode\, The Guardian.\n\n  \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\ n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\n"The outrageously entertaining "Princess Raccoon\," from th e Japanese master Seijun Suzuki\, afforded me two of my happiest movie hou rs of the year. This trippy genre hybrid about an adventurous royal raccoo n (a delightful Ziyi Zhang) cleared half the theater at Cannes\, but its c raziness is pure joy" ~ Manhola Dargis\, New York Times ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/06- Princess-Raccoon.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:713@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190425T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190425T210000 DTSTAMP:20190329T223325Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/styx/ SUMMARY:Styx DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nVenue Host: Main Street Landing\nDirected b y Wolfgang Fischer\nGermany/Austria | 2019 | Fiction | 94 mins | English & amp\; German w/English subtitles\nFilm Source: Film Movement\n\nA self-ass ured doctor (Susanne Wolff) goes on a solo yachting trip in the Atlantic a nd discovers the limits of her resourcefulness upon encountering a refugee -packed vessel that’s rapidly taking on water. Director Fischer’s stea dy hand powers this tumultuous\, sociopolitical thriller on the open water \, exploring the topic through a lens that examines both personal and ethi cal facets while also implicating corporations and nations of privilege fo r their inaction in the face of a crisis that grows larger every day. Carr ying practically the entire film Wolff is never less than remarkable in a riveting role as a woman pushed to her physical\, psychological\, and mora l limits.\n"A taut film that goes beyond  the typical woman-against-natur e films because the heroine is presented with both an unexpected relations hip and an ethical dilemma." BMG\, VTIFF programming committee\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sty x_gallery-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:715@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T163000 DTSTAMP:20190414T204626Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/babylon/ SUMMARY:Babylon DESCRIPTION:\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nPresented by VTIFF\nDirected by Franc o Rosso\nUK | 1980 w/2019 restoration | Fiction | English &\; Jamaican patois w/English subtitles | 95 mins\n\nAn incendiary portrait of racial t ension and police brutality set in Brixton\, London\, the late Franco Ross o’s\nBabylon has never been released in the United States—until now. R ated X in the U.K.\, it world-premiered at\nCannes’ Semaine de la critiq ue in 1980 and went to Toronto (then known as the Festival of Festivals) f or its\nNorth American premiere\, but was passed on by the New York Film F estival. The Time Out headline from the\nfilm’s cover story upon its Bri tish release in November 1980 read\, “The movie the New York Film Festiv al found\ntoo hot to handle.” Punk doyenne Vivien Goldman\, who wrote th e piece\, cited the reasons: “being too\ncontroversial\, and likely to i ncite racial tension.”\n\nBabylon follows a young reggae DJ (Brinsley Fo rde\, M.B.E.\, frontman of the British group 1 Aswad) of the Ital\nLion so und system2 in Thatcher-era South London as he pursues his musical ambitio ns while also battling fiercely\nagainst the racism and xenophobia of empl oyers\, neighbors\, police\, and the National Front. Written by Martin\nSt ellman ( Quadrophenia ) and shot by two-time Oscar-winner Chris Menges ( T he Killing Fields )\, with beautiful\,\nsmoky cinematography that’s been compared to Taxi Driver\, Babylon is fearless and unsentimental\, yet tem pered\nby the hazy bliss of the dance hall and set to a blistering reggae\ , dub\, and lovers rock soundtrack featuring Aswad\,\nJohnny Clarke\, Yabb y You\, Cassandra\, I-Roy\, and Michael Prophet. The film\, anchored by le gendary dub\ninnovator and reggae and punk producer Dennis Bovell’s prop ulsive score\, is also partly based on Bovell’s false\nimprisonment for running a sound system\, Sufferer’s Hi Fi\, in the mid-70s.\n\nFeaturing :\n[one_half]Blue [a.k.a. Dave] Brinsley Forde\, M.B.E.\nRonnie Karl Howma n\nBeefy Trevor Laird\nDreadhead Archie Pool\nScientist [a.k.a. Spark] Bri an Bovell\nErrol David N. Haynes\nLover Victor Romero Evans\nElaine Beverl y Michaels\nMum Cynthia Powell\nWesley [Mum’s live-in boyfriend] T. Bone Wilson\nAlan Mel Smith\nRastaman Cosmo Laidlaw\nFat Larry Stefan Kalipha\ n[/one_half] [one_half_last]\nCarlton Mark Monero\nSandra Beverley Dublin\ nSandra’s Father Granville Garner\nThe Fence Anthony Trent\nWilliam Dono van Platt\nWoman at lock-up Maggie Steed\nMan on balcony Bill Moody\nSir W atts David “Negotiator” Cunningham\nCompere King Sounds\nWolf [of Shak a Sound] Malcolm Frederick\nSpooky [of Shaka Sound] Patrick Worrall\nJah S haka as Himself [/one_half_last]\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/bab ylonredscarfwindow.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:714@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190512T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190512T180000 DTSTAMP:20190510T182725Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunday-best-roll-red-roll/ SUMMARY:Sunday Best: Roll Red Roll DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF &\; Vermont PBS\nHost Sponsor: Main Stree t Landing\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nDirected by Nancy Schwartzman\nUSA | 2019 | Documentary | 80 mins\n\nThis event is a collaboration with POV\, PBS' award-winning nonfiction series\n\nPOV air date: 6/17 at 10 PM\n\nIn troduction by Eric Ford\, Director of Programs at VPBS\, followed by post- screening discussion with Sarah Mell. Sarah has been active in the field o f sexuality education for more than a decade\, with much of that work focu sed on college and University campuses. Trained by the award-winning educa tion team at Planned Parenthood of Northern New England\, she is the Educa tion &\; Outreach Coordinator at the Women's Center at the University o f Vermont\, Sarah provides training and workshop opportunities for student s\, staff\, and faculty on positive sexuality\, prevention of sexual and i ntimate partner violence\, and the experience of power and privilege in re lationship to ourselves and others. She is happiest performing on stage\, or when talking with college-aged men about all things related to sexualit y.\n\n*** Sunday Best Films are free with a suggested donation of $5 but i t is highly recommended to book in advance - seating is limited *** Book H ERE\n\nAt a pre-season party in small-town Steubenville\, Ohio\, a now-inf amous sexual assault of a teenage girl by members of the beloved high scho ol football team took place. Roll Red Roll is a true-crime thriller that g oes behind the headlines to uncover the deep seated and social media-fuele d “boys-will be-boys” culture at the root of high school sexual assaul t in America. Official Selection\, 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/RRR _NEW_3-Photo-Credit-David-Holm.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:718@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190512T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190512T200000 DTSTAMP:20190511T183445Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/babylon-2/ SUMMARY:Babylon - replacement screening DESCRIPTION:\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nThis screening replaces the Sunday 5/ 5 event in Winooski which due to unforeseen circumstances did not take pla ce. Free with suggested donation of $5 at the door.\n\nPresented by VTIFF and Waking Windows\nDirected by Franco Rosso\nUK | 1980 w/2019 restoration | Fiction | English &\; Jamaican patois w/English subtitles | 95 mins\ nNever before released in the US!\n\nAlthough made in 1980 in Britain\, it is extraordinary how it resonates in 2019 USA.  An incendiary portrait o f racial tension and police brutality set in South London\, the late Franc o Rosso’s Babylon has never been released in the United States—until n ow. Rated X in the U.K.\, it world-premiered at Cannes’ Semaine de la cr itique in 1980 and went to Toronto (then known as the Festival of Festival s) for its North American premiere\, but was passed on by the New York Fil m Festival. The Time Out headline from the film’s cover story upon its B ritish release in November 1980 read\, “The movie the New York Film Fest ival found too hot to handle.” Punk doyenne Vivien Goldman\, who wrote t he piece\, cited the reasons: “being too\ncontroversial\, and likely to incite racial tension.”\n\nBabylon follows a young reggae DJ (Brinsley F orde\, M.B.E.\, frontman of the British group 1 Aswad) of the Ital\nLion s ound system2 in Thatcher-era South London as he pursues his musical ambiti ons while also battling fiercely\nagainst the racism and xenophobia of emp loyers\, neighbors\, police\, and the National Front. Written by Martin\nS tellman ( Quadrophenia ) and shot by two-time Oscar-winner Chris Menges ( The Killing Fields )\, with beautiful\,\nsmoky cinematography that’s bee n compared to Taxi Driver\, Babylon is fearless and unsentimental\, yet te mpered\nby the hazy bliss of the dance hall and set to a blistering reggae \, dub\, and lovers rock soundtrack featuring Aswad\,\nJohnny Clarke\, Yab by You\, Cassandra\, I-Roy\, and Michael Prophet. The film\, anchored by l egendary dub\ninnovator and reggae and punk producer Dennis Bovell’s pro pulsive score\, is also partly based on Bovell’s false\nimprisonment for running a sound system\, Sufferer’s Hi Fi\, in the mid-70s.\n\nFeaturin g:\n[one_half]Blue [a.k.a. Dave] Brinsley Forde\, M.B.E.\nRonnie Karl Howm an\nBeefy Trevor Laird\nDreadhead Archie Pool\nScientist [a.k.a. Spark] Br ian Bovell\nErrol David N. Haynes\nLover Victor Romero Evans\nElaine Bever ly Michaels\nMum Cynthia Powell\nWesley [Mum’s live-in boyfriend] T. Bon e Wilson\nAlan Mel Smith\nRastaman Cosmo Laidlaw\nFat Larry Stefan Kalipha \n[/one_half] [one_half_last]\nCarlton Mark Monero\nSandra Beverley Dublin \nSandra’s Father Granville Garner\nThe Fence Anthony Trent\nWilliam Don ovan Platt\nWoman at lock-up Maggie Steed\nMan on balcony Bill Moody\nSir Watts David “Negotiator” Cunningham\nCompere King Sounds\nWolf [of Sha ka Sound] Malcolm Frederick\nSpooky [of Shaka Sound] Patrick Worrall\nJah Shaka as Himself [/one_half_last]\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/bab ylonredscarfwindow.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:721@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190522T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190522T193000 DTSTAMP:20190517T213607Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wisconsin-rising/ SUMMARY:Wisconsin Rising DESCRIPTION:Directed by Sam Mayfield\nHost venue: Main Street Landing\n"Sam Mayfield’s Wisconsin Rising is up-close and personal…and political. T his slice of life\, a moment in movement history\, captures the struggles of the American Middle Class confronting the corrupting power of money ove r democracy. Don’t miss it." - Amy Goodman\, Host &\; Executive Prod ucer\, Democracy Now!\nFree event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Wis consin-Rising.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:719@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190530T210000 DTSTAMP:20190515T163326Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dogman/ SUMMARY:Dogman DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nHost Sponsor: Main Street Landing\nDirected by Matteo Garonne\nItaly/France | 2019 | Fiction | 102 mins | Italian w/E nglish subtitles | Cannes Film Festival 2019\nFilm Source: Magnolia Pictur es\n\nSynopsis: In a seaside village on the outskirts of an Italian city\, where the only law seems to be survival of the fittest\, Marcello is a sl ight\, mild-mannered man who divides his days between working at his modes t dog grooming salon\, caring for his daughter Alida\, and being coerced i nto the petty criminal schemes of the local bully Simoncino\, an ex-boxer who terrorizes the neighborhood. When Simoncino’s abuse finally brings M arcello to a breaking point\, he decides to stand up for his own dignity t hrough an act of vengeance\, with unintended consequences.\n\nDirector's n ote: "Dogman\,[...] is not simply a film about vengeance\, even if vengean ce (or better yet\, redemption) plays an important role\, just as it’s a lso not solely a variation on the (eternal) theme of the struggle between weak and strong. Instead\, it’s a film that\, despite having an “extre me” story\, puts forward something that concerns all of us: the conseque nces of the daily choices we make in order to survive\, of the yesses that we say which bring us to no longer being able to say no\, to the differen ce between who we are and who we believe we are."\n\nIn the press:"...one of the best Italian films of recent times\, a modern day neo-realist fable that bears comparison with the great work of Fellini\, Rossellini\, De Si ca et al." ~ The Independent\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Dog man_1x1_3.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:716@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190609T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190609T180000 DTSTAMP:20190603T175005Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunday-best-the-gospel-of-eureka/ SUMMARY:Sunday Best: The Gospel of Eureka DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF &\; Vermont PBS\nHost Sponsor: Main Stree t Landing\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nDirected by Michael Palmieri and Do nal Mosher\nUSA | 2019 | Documentary | 75 mins\n\nThis event is a collabor ation with POV\, PBS' award-winning nonfiction series\n\nPOV air date: 6/2 4 at 10 PM\n\nIntroduction by Eric Ford\, Director of Programs at VPBS\, f ollowed by post-screening discussion with Reverend Ken White\, Pastor at t he College Street Congregational Church in Burlington*).\n\n*** Sunday Be st Films are free with a suggested donation of $5 but it is highly recomme nded to book in advance - seating is limited ***\n\nLove\, faith and civil rights collide in a southern town as evangelical Christians and drag quee ns step into the spotlight to dismantle stereotypes. Taking a personal\, a nd often comical look at negotiating differences between religion and beli ef through performance\, political action\, and partnership\, gospel drag shows and passion plays set the stage for one hell of a show. Narrated by Mx Justin Vivian Bond.\n"Leaving ‘The Gospel of Eureka’ the audience g rinned like they hadn’t felt this optimistic\nabout America in years.” ~ Variety\n\n\n*) Rev. Ken White is the pastor of College Street Congr egational Church\, moving to Vermont from Austin\, Texas in 2014. He is a second career pastor\, having spent a decade in software development prior to hearing the call to ministry. Given his belief that Christians are cal led to actively pursue non-violent social justice\, it is not surprising t hat his heroes are Jesus\, Gandhi\, and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/GOS PEL_STILL_MAIN_03-e1556805137999.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:720@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190616T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190616T173000 DTSTAMP:20190523T143124Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vamp-special-encore-screening-mt-philo-commun e/ SUMMARY:Mt Philo Commune: VAMP Special Encore Screening DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF and Mt. Philo Inn\n\nWatch the film in the s ame house that the film takes place and in which the commune lived!\n\nThe event will include appetizers\, wine (from Village Wine and Coffee) and b eer (from Zero Gravity Brewery)\, with an opportunity to meet and greet th e people involved with the films and to have a tour of the Inn. The screen ing is FREE\, with a suggested donation of $20 or more to help towards VAM P's costs of restoring Vermont films.\n\n***Followed by Q&\;A with Brid get Meyer and other commune members***\n\nBOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE\n\nDirect ed by Robert Machover &\; Michael Singer | Documentary | 23 mins |1973\ nA documentary film portrait of the Mt. Philo\, VT commune in the early 19 70s.\n\nThe Mt. Philo Inn Commune was established in 1970 and lasted until 1975. During that time this group of activists were instrumental in formi ng People's Free Clinic\, now known as Community Health Center in Burlingt on\, serving a largely immigrant population\, the Burlington Co-op\, now t he thriving City Market\, Vermont Legal Aid\, and The Schoolhouse\, an alt ernative school.\n\nThis film was remastered and digitized by VAMP (Vermon t Archive Movie Project) in 2018. VAMP is a program of VTIFF. Its mission is to locate\, catalog\, remaster and make available to the public Vermont film's heritage. VAMP has an online searchable database of Vermont films. Click HERE to browse the database.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n \n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nAbout the Inn today: Situate d at Mt. Philo State Park\, with stunning panoramic views of Lake Champlai n and the Adirondack Mountains\, the Mt. Philo Inn offers guests privacy\, space and tranquility. The Inn features four spacious suites available by the night\, week and month\, three 3-bedroom and one 2-bedroom\, located in separate wings of the building. Each suite is an entire floor of the in n\, with a complete kitchen\, 2 bathrooms\, living rooms\, porch and priva te entrance. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sta tic1.squarespace.com_.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Other Events,VAMP,Vermont Films,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:722@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190626T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190626T203000 DTSTAMP:20190522T214712Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunset/ SUMMARY:Sunset On The Lake DESCRIPTION:Annual event to benefit the Vermont International Film Festival and to honor a VTIFF Community Champion.\nThe 2019 honoree is Bess O'Brie n.\n\nBess O’Brien is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and theater producer with a knack for getting people to talk about uncomfortable subj ects. She has been alternately called “Vermont’s truth teller”\, “ exemplary”\, and someone who shines a light on Vermont’s shadowy corne rs.\n\nBess is perhaps Vermont’s most tireless filmmaker who not only ho nes in on some of the most burning issues the community faces but is not c ontent with merely making a film about it. Once completed she devotes her time to lobby on all levels\, from community centers to state level\, to s pread the word and create change. She takes her films everywhere in order to create conversations about their subjects. As Bess has said\, what she likes about making the films she makes is that she can “be an artist and an activist at the same time.”\n\nBess is a true community champion and VTIFF is honored to add to the many awards she has already received. She is an great example of the power of cinema to raise questions and challeng e ignorance.\n\nPlease join us at 6:30 on June 26 to enjoy hors d'oeuvres\ , wine and beer and a beautiful sunset over the lake\, and meet Bess O'Bri en. Donations to this event go towards benefiting VTIFF and our programs.\ n\nWe are honored that Bess has accepted to receive the 2019 VTIFF Communi ty Award. You may contribute HERE ONLINE in advance if you aren't able to come or didn't get a chance at the event itself.\n\nPrevious honorees have been Mariah Riggs and Robin Lloyd. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SUN SET_Web-Header.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Meehan home\, 72 Bartlett Bay Road\, S. Burlington\, vt\, 05403\, United States GEO:44.429354;-73.21898859999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=72 Bartlett Bay Road\, S. B urlington\, vt\, 05403\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Meehan h ome:geo:44.429354,-73.21898859999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:723@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190627T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190627T203000 DTSTAMP:20190530T144825Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hail-satan/ SUMMARY:Hail Satan? DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nHost Sponsor: Main Street Landing\nDirected by Penny Lane\nUSA | 2019 | Documentary| 94 mins | Sundance\, Rotterdam\, CPH:Docs Film Festivals 2019\nFilm Source: Magnolia Pictures\n\nChronicli ng the extraordinary rise of one of the most colorful and controversial re ligious movements in American history\, Hail Satan? is an inspiring and en tertaining new feature documentary from acclaimed director Penny Lane (Nut s!\, Our Nixon). When media-savvy members of the Satanic Temple organize a series of public actions designed to advocate for religious freedom and c hallenge corrupt authority\, they prove that with little more than a cleve r idea\, a mischievous sense of humor\, and a few rebellious friends\, you can speak truth to power in some truly profound ways. As charming and fun ny as it is thought-provoking\, Hail Satan? offers a timely look at a grou p of often misunderstood outsiders whose unwavering commitment to social a nd political justice has empowered thousands of people around the world.\n \n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Hai l-Satan6.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:724@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190714T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190714T180000 DTSTAMP:20190626T193327Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunday-best-distant-barking-of-dogs/ SUMMARY:Sunday Best: The Distant Barking of Dogs DESCRIPTION:Directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont\nDocumentary | Denmark/Ukraine | Ukrainian w/English subtitles | International version | 55 mins\nPresen ted by VTIFF &\; Vermont PBS\nHost Sponsor: Main Street Landing\n\nIntr oduced by Eric Ford\, Director of Programming at VTPBS and followed by Q&a mp\;A with Adrian Ivakhiv. Adrian is Professor of Environmental Thought an d Culture at the University of Vermont\, where he holds the Steven Rubenst ein Professorship for Environment and Natural Resources. His research and teaching are focused at the intersections of ecology\, culture\, media\, r eligion\, philosophy\, and the arts. He has been researching cultural and environmental politics in Ukraine since 1989 and is currently working on a book on the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident and the philosophy of time.\n \n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n*** Sunday Best screenings are FREE with a sug gested donation of $5\, but it is highly recommended to book in advance.\n POV broadcast date: 8/5/2019\nThese screenings differ from their broadcast counterparts - they are uncensored\, there are no commercial pop-ups to d istract and they are always followed by a discussion with a speaker.\n\nBe autifully observed and edited across a three-year timespan\, Lereng Wilmon t’s film subtly depicts the low-level normalization of the panic that se ts in when living under constant gunfire. An unexpected but eminently wort hy selection for this year’s Oscar documentary shortlist\, The Distant B arking of Dogs has been quietly racking up kudos on the festival circuit s ince scooping the First Appearance Award at IDFA in 2017. Set in Eastern U kraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-o ld Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year\, witnessing the gradual erosion o f his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother\, Alexandra\, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go\, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the villa ge. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day\, and the wa r offers no end in sight. In this now half-deserted village where Oleg and Alexandra are the only true constants in each other's lives\, the film sh ows just how fragile\, but crucial\, close relationships are for survival. Through Oleg's perspective\, the film examines what it means to grow up i n a war zone. It portrays how a child's universal struggle to discover wha t the world is about grows interlaced with all the dangers and challenges the war presents.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/10. DBOD_Oleg_Yarik_pillowfight-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:725@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190725T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190725T203000 DTSTAMP:20190625T152541Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/birds-of-passage-pajaros-de-verano/ SUMMARY:Birds of Passage (Pàjaros de verano) DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nHost Sponsor: Main Street Landing\nDirected by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra\nColombia | 2018 | Fiction | 125 mins | Cannes\, TIFF\, Sundance\nFilm Source: Passion Pictures\n\nFrom the Osc ar-nominated team of Embrace of the Serpent (shown at VTIFF in 2016) and d escribed by critics as the Colombian "Godfather"\, but a more apt descript ion would be "Godmother". Birds of Passage is a slow-burn\, gripping crime saga of a multi-generational family whose involvement in the drug trade g radually erodes it traditions. We observe the origins of the Colombian dru g trade\, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s.\n\n \;\n\n\n\n"Its subject is the “Bonanza Marimbera\, ” the era when people in the Guajira region of northern Colombia – bot h Wayúu and others – became involved in drug smuggling\, which in subse quent decades would be the source of much domestic trouble and internation al infamy for Colombia\, and also\, more lately\, fodder for big-budget en tertainments made mostly by non-Colombians. In interviews\, Gallego and Gu erra have rightly questioned the “exploitative” nature of shows like “Narcos” that offer glorifying portraits of mass murderers like Pablo Escobar." ~ Roger Ebert\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/13b irdsofpassage3-dress-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600-v2.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:734@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190811T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190811T180000 DTSTAMP:20190725T191204Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunday-best-farmsteaders/ SUMMARY:Sunday Best: Farmsteaders DESCRIPTION:Directed by Shaena Mallett\nPresented by VTIFF &\; Vermont P BS\nHost Sponsor: Main Street Landing\n\nIntroduced by Eric Ford\, Directo r of Programming at VTPBS and followed by Q&\;A with Nicole Dehne\, the Certification Director for Vermont Organic Farmers LLC (VOF).\n\n\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n \;\n\n*** Sunday Best screenings are FREE with a suggested don ation of $5\, but it is highly recommended to book in advance.\nPOV broadc ast date: 9/2/2019.\nThese screenings differ from their broadcast counterp arts - they are uncensored\, there are no commercial pop-ups to distract a nd they are always followed by a discussion with a speaker.\n\nClear-eyed and intimate\, Farmsteaders follows Nick Nolan and his young family on a j ourney to resurrect his late grandfather’s dairy farm as agriculture mov es toward large-scale farming. A study of place and persistence\, Farmstea ders points an honest and tender lens at everyday life in rural America\, offering an unexpected voice for a forsaken people: those who grow the foo d that sustains us.\n\nWatch trailer HERE\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Far msteaders_Film_Still_2-e1563649849729.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:736@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190829T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190829T203000 DTSTAMP:20190725T183342Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/time-for-ilhan/ SUMMARY:Time for Ilhan DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nHost Sponsor: Main Street Landing\nDirected by Norah Shapiro\nUSA | 2018 | Documentary | 89 mins | Hot Docs\, Tribeca and many more\nFilm Source: The Film Sales Co.\n\nOn November 8\, 2016\, a young\, hijab-wearing mother-of-three named Ilhan Omar made history\, be coming the first Somali Muslim woman to be elected to state office in Amer ica.  She was hailed by the New York Times as\, “one of the bright ligh ts in the post-election darkness\,” and the documentary film “TIME FOR ILHAN” intimately chronicles her hard-fought campaign for State Represe ntative in Minnesota’s Senate District 60B\, home to the nation’s larg est Somali community. A fresh take on the old story of the American Dream\ , TIME FOR ILHAN offers an inspiring\, stereotype-busting portrait of a ri sing political star as she begins a bold and powerful political career.\ n\n\n\nDirector's statement:\n\nAs a former public defender\, I have alway s been passionate about issues of social justice and inequities in our soc iety. And as a filmmaker\, I have always been intrigued by questions of cu ltural identity\, tradition and belonging\, and drawn to stories about str ong women who defy expectations and societal constraints. So\, when I was introduced to Ilhan Omar in December or 2015\, within 5 minutes of meeting her\, it was clear to me that she was remarkable\, and that her bold atte mpt\, in her own words\, as “an extreme other” to take on the establis hment and challenge entrenched systems of power fell soundly in the center of all these circles of fascination for me. I also recognized that in fol lowing Ilhan’s attempt to unseat her 43 year incumbent opponent and defe at her male challenger\, I would be able to delve into themes about what r epresentative democracy could really look like\, while also exploring dyna mics of race\, gender\, and Islamaphobia\, all issues that I connect to pe rsonally as a white\, Jewish\, American woman. And\, I was thrilled by the access that Ilhan and her team were willing to give me\, and I knew that the opportunity to become embedded in her campaign would make for filmmaki ng gold – endless hours of rich cinema verité material in a high stakes setting\, unfolding over a politically charged year parallel to the 2016 national Presidential race.\n\nWhat I couldn’t have known at the outset\ , however\, was how profoundly this story was going to fit into a much lar ger political and cultural moment\, and movement – movements – that co ntinue to rapidly unfold and evolve before our eyes. The surging hunger fo r true representation in all spheres of our lives\, and the wave of women and young people stepping forward to claim their voices and demand a seat at the table is thrilling for me. It is my hope that TIME FOR ILHAN will e ncourage future candidates like Ilhan Omar to run\, and encourage everyday citizens to get involved\, whether as campaign volunteers\, or simply by showing up to exercise their right to vote. TIME FOR ILHAN is a definitely an entertaining campaign drama and personal portrait of one of America’ s biggest rising political stars. But it’s more than that. My vision is that it will serve as a “how-to” for grass roots/local level citizens/ women of color/young people and anyone who has felt that the political sys tem is impenetrable ...\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ilh anpodium_nostamp-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:730@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190908T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190908T180000 DTSTAMP:20190823T141729Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunday-best-intelligent-lives/ SUMMARY:Sunday Best: Intelligent Lives DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF &\; Vermont PBS\nHost Sponsor: Main Stree t Landing\nDirector by Dan Habib | Produced by Academy Award Winning Actor Chris Cooper\n70 mins | Documentary\nFollowed by Q&\;A moderated by Er ic Ford\, Director of Programming at VT PBS\, with Habib\, Cooper and Mari anne Leone\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nStars three pioneering young Ameri can adults with intellectual disabilities – Micah\, Naieer\, and Naomie – who challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high school \, college\, and the workforce. Academy Award-winning actor and narrator C hris Cooper contextualizes the lives of these central characters through t he emotional personal story of his son Jesse\, as the film unpacks the sha meful and ongoing track record of intelligence testing in the U.S. Intelli gent Lives challenges what it means to be intelligent\, and points to a fu ture in which people of all abilities can fully participate in higher educ ation\, meaningful employment\, and intimate relationships\n\n*** Sunday B est screenings are FREE with a suggested donation of $5.  We urge you to book in advance.\n\n\nDan Habib\, Producer/Director/Cinematographer Dan Ha bib is the creator of the award-winning documentary films Including Samuel \, Who Cares About Kelsey?\, Mr. Connolly Has ALS (an IDA nominee for Best Short)\, Intelligent Lives\, and many other films on disability issues. H abib's films have been featured in dozens of film festivals\, broadcast in ternationally\, nominated for Emmy awards and translated into 17 languages for worldwide distribution. Habib is a filmmaker at the University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability and gave a widely viewed TEDx talk\ , “Disabling Segregation.” He received the Champion of Human and Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association\, and the Justice fo r All Grassroots Award from the American Association of People with Disabi lities. In 2014\, Habib was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Pre sident’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Habib and his wife\, Betsy\, live in Concord\, NH\, with their sons Isaiah\, 21\, an d Samuel\, 18. Samuel has cerebral palsy and was the subject of Habib’s first film Including Samuel.\n\nChris Cooper\, Narrator/Executive Producer Chris Cooper won the 2003 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his rol e in Adaptation. He has been an actor on stage\, screen\, and television f or three decades\, with notable roles in Lone Star\, American Beauty\, Sea biscuit\, The Bourne Identity\, October Sky\, August Osage County\, Loneso me Dove\, and dozens of other films. In 1987\, Cooper and his wife Mariann e Leone had their son Jesse\, who had cerebral palsy and epilepsy. They be came advocates for inclusive education\, and Jesse became a high school ho nor student. In 2005\, Jesse died suddenly from a seizure at age 17. Coope r worked tirelessly donating his time working on the film.\n\nMarianne Leo ne\, Executive Producer Marianne Leone is an actress who appeared in The S opranos\, a screenwriter\, an essayist published in The Boston Globe\, and author of the 2010 book\, Jesse: A Mother’s Story. She lives in Massach usetts with her husband\, actor Chris Cooper\, and two rescue dogs. The Je sse Cooper Foundation funds inclusion and adapted sports for children with special needs\, and supports disabled orphans in Romania.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/int elligent_lives.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:741@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190911T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190911T193000 DTSTAMP:20190829T171404Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/preview-party-2019/ SUMMARY:Sneak Peek Preview Party for VTIFF 2019 DESCRIPTION:Members and friends special preview party\nShowing trailers of films from the festival line-up. Hors d'oevres and cash bar. The event is free but it is essential to RSVP as seating is limited. Please RSVP to HER E by Sept. 6 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Art s-Riot-e1430502553510.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Arts Riot\, 400 Pine Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, VT\, Unite d States GEO:44.468123;-73.21478809999996 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=400 Pine Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Arts Riot:g eo:44.468123,-73.21478809999996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:728@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T203000 DTSTAMP:20190918T205900Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/anthropocene/ SUMMARY:Anthropocene: The Human Epoch DESCRIPTION:The Anthropocene screening is part of a nationwide release to c oincide with the U.N. Climate Summit in New York. It will screen simultane ously throughout the USA and therefore we shall exceptionally be holding o ur Monthly Screening on Wednesday rather than the regular Thursday.\n\nPre sented by VTIFF\nHost Sponsor: Main Street Landing\nDirected by Jennifer B aichwal\, Nicholas de Pencier\, Edward Burtynsky\nNarrated by Alicia Vikan der\nCanada | Documentary | 87 mins | US release 2019\nFestivals: TIFF\, S undance\, Berlin\nFollowed by Q&\;A with Adrian Ivakhiv.  Adrian is th e Steven Rubenstein Professor of Environment and Natural Resources and a P rofessor of Environmental Thought and Culture at the University of Vermont . His books include Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times (2018) and Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema\, Affect\, Nature ( 2013). His forthcoming book Image Regimes: Toward an Ontology of the Image -World includes an analysis of Edward Burtynsky's\, Jennifer Baichwal's\, and Nicholas de Pencier's Anthropocene Project.\n\nA cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive re-engineering of the planet. Anthropocene follows the research of an international body of scientists\, the Anthropocene Wo rking Group which\, after nearly 10 years of research\, argues that as a result of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth\, the Holocene Epoch gave way in the mid-twentieth century to what they call the Anthr opocene Epoch.\n\n\nFrom concrete seawalls in China that now cover 60% of the mainland coast\, to the biggest terrestrial machines ever built in Ger many\, to psychedelic potash mines in Russia's Ural Mountains\, to metal f estivals in the closed city of Norilsk\, to the devastated Great Barrier R eef in Australia and massive marble quarries in Carrara\, the filmmakers h ave traversed the globe using state of the art camera techniques to docume nt the evidence and experience of human planetary domination. At the inter section of art and science\, Anthropocene makes the case that we are wit nessing a critical moment in geological history -- and brings a provocativ e and unforgettable experience of our species's breadth and impact.\n\n\n\ n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/05_ Burtynsky_Dandora_d71e70b2-d194-e811-944a-0ad9f5e1f797-e1561391317135.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:737@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T194500 DTSTAMP:20190909T201819Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/worlds-of-ursula-k-le-guin/ SUMMARY:Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin DESCRIPTION:Burlington Book Festival and Vermont International Film Festiva l are proud to present this special screening.\nWORLDS OF URSULA K. LE GUI N\nDirected by Arwen Curry\nDocumentary | 68 mins\nAll proceeds will go to wards supporting BBF and VTIFF.\nHosted by Champlain College\nDoors open a t 5:45\n\nBest-known for groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy works such as A Wizard of Earthsea\, The Left Hand of Darkness\, and The Disposs essed\, Ursula K. Le Guin defiantly held her ground on the margin of “re spectable” literature until the sheer excellence of her work\, at long l ast\, forced the mainstream to embrace fantastic literature. Her fascinati ng story has never before been captured on film. Produced with Le Guin’s participation over the course of a decade\, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin i s a journey through the writer’s career and her worlds\, both real and f antastic — an intimate journey of self-discovery as she comes into her o wn as a major feminist author\, opening new doors for the imagination and inspiring generations of women and other marginalized writers along the wa y. The film features stunning animation and reflections by literary lumina ries including Margaret Atwood\, Neil Gaiman\, David Mitchell\, Michael Ch abon\, and more.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/urs ula-leguin-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Champlain College\, Alumni Auditorium\, 375 Maple Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4739887;-73.20406350000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=375 Maple Street\, Burlingt on\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Champlain Colle ge\, Alumni Auditorium:geo:44.4739887,-73.20406350000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:740@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191002T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191002T200000 DTSTAMP:20190905T171813Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dinner/ SUMMARY:Benefit Dinner at A Single Pebble DESCRIPTION:A special 7-course benefit dinner\, including vegetarian option s\,  prepared by the chefs of A Single Pebble to honor VTIFF 2019.\nTicke ts in include food\, wine and beer and all gratuities so please come to su pport and celebrate with us.\nThis is the VTIFF annual fundraiser that tak es place on the first day of the publication of the film festival.\nWe fee l a particular affinity with A Single Pebble's motto: Gather\, Discover\, Connect! Take a moment to watch HERE what Chiuho Sampson\, the restaurant' s owner has to say.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sin glePebblefeatured.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:A Single Pebble\, 133 Bank Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, VT\, United States GEO:44.4779509;-73.21457279999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=133 Bank Street\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, VT\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=A Single Pe bble:geo:44.4779509,-73.21457279999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:785@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191006T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191006T180000 DTSTAMP:20190928T141739Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunday-best-for-sama/ SUMMARY:Sunday Best: For Sama DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF &\; Vermont PBS\nHost Sponsor: Main Stree t Landing\nDirected by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts\n*Winner – Best D ocumentary – SXSW 2019**\n*Winner – Audience Award – SXSW 2019**\n*W inner – Special Jury Prize Documentary – Hot Docs 2019**\n*Winner - L' Oeil D'Or – Festival de Cannes 2019**\n*Winner – Audience Award – Sh effield Doc/Fest 2019**\n94 mins | Documentary\nFollowed by Q&\;A moder ated by Eric Ford\, Director of Programming at Vermont PBS\, with former U S Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford\n**Please be advised that the film conta ins graphic imagery\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nFor Sama is both an int imate and epic journey into the female experience of war.\nA love letter f rom a young mother to her daughter\, the film tells the story of Waad al-K ateab’s\nlife through five years of the uprising in Aleppo\, Syria as sh e falls in love\, gets married and gives\nbirth to Sama\, all while catacl ysmic conflict rises around her.\nHer camera captures incredible stories o f loss\, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an\nimpossible choice – whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life\, wh en leaving\nmeans abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has al ready sacrificed so much.\nThe film is the first feature documentary by Em my award-winning filmmakers Waad al-Kateab\nand Edward Watts.\n\n*** Sunda y Best screenings are FREE with a suggested donation of $5.  We urge you to book in advance.\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/For -Sama.jpeg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:733@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20191016 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20191028 DTSTAMP:20200913T191011Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-international-film-festival-3/ SUMMARY:Vermont International Film Festival DESCRIPTION:Festival A-Z\n\n\nBuy your Gold Pass today and see all films ( except Opening Night film) free of charge.\n\n\n\nSelect # of Passes\n\n\n \nDual Pass $200.00 USD\nSingle Pass $125.00 USD\nStudent Pass $60.00 USD\ n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEven better\, become a VTIFF member and get a free festival pass. Click HERE for more info about memberships.\n\nThe Vermont Internat ional Film Festival is the oldest and largest film festival in Vermont. Th is year's festival promises to be better than ever.  We are currently wor king on the program\, the visiting filmmakers and receptions. Showcasing i ndependent films from around the world and the USA and including the Made Here Showcase\, the Festival is the flagship program of VTIFF.\n\nSign up for our e-newsletter below to get further updates.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/201 5-Film-Fest-composite.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center\, 60 Lake Street\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4775107;-73.21965790000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, Burlington \, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landi ng Performing Arts Center:geo:44.4775107,-73.21965790000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:745@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191016T203000 DTSTAMP:20190916T192800Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/gratitude-mhs-1-1/ SUMMARY:Gratitude (Made Here Showcase 1) DESCRIPTION:GRATITUDE\nby Walter Ungerer | ME | 6 mins \nNature is an amaz ing elixir. It brings tranquility to the soul which rejoices in contentmen t. \n\nShowing with:\nMAJOR ARCANA\nby Josh Melrod | VT | 81 mins \nAn i tinerant carpenter’s struggle to end a legacy of alcoholism and poverty as he attempts to build a log cabin by hand\, in the back woods of Vermont .  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Gra titude-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:746@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191016T203000 DTSTAMP:20190916T194159Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/major-arcana-mhs-1-2/ SUMMARY:Major Arcana (Made Here Showcase 1) DESCRIPTION:MAJOR ARCANA\nby Josh Melrod | VT | 81 mins \nAn itinerant car penter’s struggle to end a legacy of alcoholism and poverty as he attemp ts to build a log cabin by hand\, in the back woods of Vermont. \nShowing with: \nGRATITUDE\nby Walter Ungerer | ME | 6 mins \nNature is an amazin g elixir. It brings tranquility to the soul which rejoices in contentment.  \n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/MAJ OR-ARCANA.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:732@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T180000 DTSTAMP:20191003T214111Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/made-here-showcase/ SUMMARY:Made Here Showcase DESCRIPTION:The first 2-3 days of VTIFF have traditionally been devoted to promoting regional films. This is the only competitive part of the Vermont International Film Festival with a range of awards.  It is a partnership with Vermont PBS\, in collaboration with WRIF. The Showcase is juried and presents select films from filmmakers from Vermont\, New Hampshire\, Main e\, Massachusetts\, Northern New York state and Québec.\n\nMade Here will premiere at VTIFF\, October 16-18 and travel to WRIF\, November 1-3.\n\nM HS 1 | Wed\, Oct 16 | 7:00 PM\nGRATITUDE by Walter Ungerer | ME | 6 min\nM AJOR ARCANA by Josh Melrod | VT | 81 min\n\n\nMHS 2 | Thurs\, Oct 17 | 11: 00 AM\nTHE SILENCE BETWEEN by Danielle Hazelton | VT | 10 min\nNOYANA - SI NGING AT THE END OF LIFE by Keith Oppenheim | VT | 28 min\n\n\nMHS 3 | Thu rs\, Oct 17 | 12:30 PM\nTHE APARTMENT by Justine Gauthier | QC | 12 min\nS ACRED HAIR (CHEVEUX SACRES) by Mario Morin | QC | 13 min\nTHE COLLECTOR by Maria T Alvarado | VT | 41 min \n\nMHS 4 | Thurs\, Oct 17 | 2:30 PM\nBIR CH by Paisley Walsh | VT | 15 min\nMIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS (MINUIT A L’OAS IS) by Jason Béliveau | QC | 18 min\nDOOM VIBRATIONS by Garret Harkawik | VT | 25 min \n\nMHS 5 | Thurs\, Oct 17 | 4:30 PM\nA CAVE YOU FEAR TO ENT ER by Peter Ackerman | VT | 6 min\nA GAME DINNER by Peter Ackerman | VT | 11 min\nHERD (MEUTE) by Florence Lafond | QC | 11 min\nLITTLE BEERY’S MA RCH by John Griesemer | NH | 25 min \n\nMHS 6 | Thurs\, Oct 17 | 7:00 PM\ nNOTHING TO MY NAME by Qian Li | VT | 14 min\nTHE SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EA TING by Elisabeth Tova Bailey | ME | 15 min\nSNOWBIRDS by Joannie Lafreni ère | QC | 48 min \n\nMHS 7 | Fri\, Oct 18 | 11:00 AM\nPRECIOUS GURU – JOURNEY INTO THE WILD HEART OF THE SECOND BUDDHA by Marc Wennberg | VT | 70 min \n\nMHS 8 | Fri\, Oct 18 | 12:45 PM\nLEWISTON by David Shayne | NY | 18 min\nRECOVERY COUNTY by Cody Ball | MA | 19 min\nNORTH COUNTRY by Ni ck Martini | NH | 20 min\n\nMHS 9 | Fri\, Oct 18 | 2:30 PM\nBROTHERS by Re ginald Groff | VT | 75 min \n\nMHS 10 | Fri\, Oct 18 | 4:15 PM\nDOLLS DON ’T DIE (LES POUPEES NE MEURENT PAS) by Julie Prieur | QC | 10 min\nFIRST LIGHT by Adam Mazo\, Ben Pender-Cudlip| MA | 13 min\nDEAR GEORGINA by Ada m Mazo\, Ben Pender-Cudlip| MA | 15 mins\nCAROL STREET by Demetrius Borge | VT | 15 min\nTHE EPITAPH OF MARWA STEIN by Rachel Friedman | VT | 7 mi  \n\nMHS | Sat\, Oct 26 | 11:00 AM\nSpecial Work-In-Progress (out of compet ition) screening \nDAN HIGGINS: MAKING PICTURES by Eleanor Lanahan | VT | 80 min  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mad eHere_logo_WhiteOnBlack-e1570135204536.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:747@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T121500 DTSTAMP:20190914T201224Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/silence-between-mhs-2-1/ SUMMARY:The Silence Between (Made Here Showcase 2) DESCRIPTION:THE SILENCE BETWEEN \nby Danielle Hazelton | VT | 10 min\n\nPat \, a young trombonist\, lives his life auditioning for touring ensembles. With a scattered mind and isolated lifestyle\, he struggles to live with h is long-term girlfriend who keeps him from his work.  \nShowing with:\nN OYANA – SINGING AT THE END OF LIFE \nby Keith Oppenheim | VT | 28 mins  \n\nThe story of the Noyana Singers\, a Burlington chorus that sings to te rminally-ill patients in hospice and home settings.  \n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/THE -SILENCE-BETWEEN.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:748@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T121500 DTSTAMP:20190914T181238Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/noyana-mhs-2-2/ SUMMARY:Noyana - Singing at the End of Life (Made Here Showcase 2) DESCRIPTION:NOYANA – SINGING AT THE END OF LIFE\nby Keith Oppenheim | VT | 28 mins \n\nThe story of the Noyana Singers\, a Burlington chorus that sings to terminally-ill patients in hospice and home settings.  \nShowin g with:\nTHE SILENCE BETWEEN \nby Danielle Hazelton | VT | 10 min\n\nPat\, a young trombonist\, lives his life auditioning for touring ensembles. Wi th a scattered mind and isolated lifestyle\, he struggles to live with his long-term girlfriend who keeps him from his work.  \n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/NOY ANA.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:750@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T134500 DTSTAMP:20190916T192436Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/apartment-showcase-3-1/ SUMMARY:The Apartment (Made Here Showcase 3) DESCRIPTION:THE APARTMENT (L'APARTEMENT)\nby Justine Gauthier | QC | 12 min \n\n\nFor the first time since her divorce\, a mother welcomes her two ki ds into her modest new flat. Her son's liveliness and her daughter's quest ions make for a weekend that wavers between tension and tenderness.  \nS howing with:\nSACRED HAIR (CHEVEUX SACRES) \nby Mario Morin | QC | 13 min\ n\n\nA fortuitous life-changing encounter between a young ill boy and a Mu slim woman in a Montreal Park \n\n\n\n\nTHE COLLECTOR \nby Maria T Alvara do | VT | 41 min\n\nA film about beauty\, commitment and the cycle of life through the eyes of Donald Dreifuss\, a horticulturist and artist who liv es in New Hampshire \n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/THE -APARTMENT.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:751@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T134500 DTSTAMP:20190916T192126Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sacred-hair-mhs-3-2/ SUMMARY:Sacred Hair (Cheveux Sacres) (Made Here Showcase 3) DESCRIPTION:SACRED HAIR (CHEVEUX SACRES) \nby Mario Morin | QC | 13 min\n\n A fortuitous life-changing encounter between a young ill boy and a Muslim woman in a Montreal Park \nShowing with:\nTHE APARTMENT (L'APARTEMENT)\nb y Justine Gauthier | QC | 12 min \n\n\nFor the first time since her divorc e\, a mother welcomes her two kids into her modest new flat. Her son's liv eliness and her daughter's questions make for a weekend that wavers betwee n tension and tenderness.  \n\n\nTHE COLLECTOR \nby Maria T Alvarado | V T | 41 min \n\n\nA film about beauty\, commitment and the cycle of life th rough the eyes of Donald Dreifuss\, a horticulturist and artist who lives in New Hampshire \n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Sac red-hair.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:752@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T134500 DTSTAMP:20190916T192221Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/collector-mhs-3-3/ SUMMARY:The Collector (Made Here Showcase 3) DESCRIPTION:THE COLLECTOR \nby Maria T Alvarado | VT | 41 min \n\n\nA film about beauty\, commitment and the cycle of life through the eyes of Donald Dreifuss\, a horticulturist and artist who lives in New Hampshire \nShow ing with:\nSACRED HAIR (CHEVEUX SACRES) \nby Mario Morin | QC | 13 min\n\n A fortuitous life-changing encounter between a young ill boy and a Muslim woman in a Montreal Park \n\n\n\nTHE APARTMENT (L'APARTEMENT)\nby Justine Gauthier | QC | 12 min \n\n\nFor the first time since her divorce\, a mot her welcomes her two kids into her modest new flat. Her son's liveliness a nd her daughter's questions make for a weekend that wavers between tension and tenderness.  \n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/THE -COLLECTOR.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:753@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T161500 DTSTAMP:20190919T234755Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/birch-mhs-4-1/ SUMMARY:Birch (Made Here Showcase 4) DESCRIPTION:BIRCH \nby Paisley Walsh | VT | 15 min \n\nJed lives in the ho use that he and his wife never finished restoring. Now a single parent wit h two children\, he struggles to get through life. All obstacles are heigh tened when their dog “Bear” goes missing.\nShowing with:  \n\nMIDNIGH T AT THE OASIS (MINUIT A L’OASIS) \nby Jason Béliveau | QC | 18 min \n \nAudrey and Simon don’t love each other. Well\, yes\, maybe. Audrey sho ws up at Simon’s an evening during the weekend. She is a student\, he is her teacher. Is this story written in advance? \n\n\n\nDOOM VIBRATIONS \ nby Garret Harkawik | VT | 25 min \n\nSteve Kohlhase began hearing an ine xplicable\, low-frequency rumble in his home in 2009. We follow his ten-ye ar journey to figure it out.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BIR CH.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:754@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T161500 DTSTAMP:20190919T234845Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/midnight-at-oasis-4-2/ SUMMARY:Midnight at the Oasis (Made Here Showcase 4) DESCRIPTION:MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS (MINUIT A L’OASIS) \nby Jason Béliveau | QC | 18 min \n\nAudrey and Simon don’t love each other. Well\, yes\, maybe. Audrey shows up at Simon’s an evening during the weekend. She is a student\, he is her teacher. Is this story written in advance? \nShowi ng with:  \nBIRCH \nby Paisley Walsh | VT | 15 min \n\nJed lives in the house that he and his wife never finished restoring. Now a single parent w ith two children\, he struggles to get through life. All obstacles are hei ghtened when their dog “Bear” goes missing.\n \n\n\n\nDOOM VIBRATIONS \nby Garret Harkawik | VT | 25 min \n\nSteve Kohlhase began hearing an i nexplicable\, low-frequency rumble in his home in 2009. We follow his ten- year journey to figure it out.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/MID NIGHT-AT-OASIS.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:755@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T161500 DTSTAMP:20190919T234927Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/doom-vibrations-mhs-4-3/ SUMMARY:Doom Vibrations(Made Here Showcase 4) DESCRIPTION:DOOM VIBRATIONS \nby Garret Harkawik | VT | 25 min \n\nSteve K ohlhase began hearing an inexplicable\, low-frequency rumble in his home i n 2009. We follow his ten-year journey to figure it out.  \nShowing with :  \nMIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS (MINUIT A L’OASIS) \nby Jason Béliveau | QC | 18 min \n\nAudrey and Simon don’t love each other. Well\, yes\, mayb e. Audrey shows up at Simon’s an evening during the weekend. She is a st udent\, he is her teacher. Is this story written in advance? \n \n\n\n\n BIRCH \nby Paisley Walsh | VT | 15 min \n\nJed lives in the house that he and his wife never finished restoring. Now a single parent with two child ren\, he struggles to get through life. All obstacles are heightened when their dog “Bear” goes missing.\n \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DOO M-VIBRATIONS.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:756@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T180000 DTSTAMP:20191011T152814Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cave-you-fear-to-enter-mhs-5-1/ SUMMARY:A Cave You Fear to Enter (Made Here Showcase 5) DESCRIPTION:A CAVE YOU FEAR TO ENTER\nby Peter Ackerman | VT | 6 min \n\nT he cave you fear to enter\, holds the treasure you seek ~ Joseph Campbell\ nShowing with:\nA GAME DINNER \nby Peter Ackerman | VT | 11 min \n\nWhat ’s on your plate\, and how did it get there? When it comes to eating mea t\, are some ways more ethical than others?\n\n \n\n\n\nHERD (MEUTE) \nby Florence Lafond | QC | 11 min \n\nThat morning\, as she gets ready for h er dance audition\, Alex is outraged when her mother forces her once again to babysit her disabled sister. \n\n\n\nLITTLE BEERI’S MARCH \nby John Griesemer | NH | 25 min \n\nWar. A nomad family profiting from it. Until the war comes for them. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/A-C ave-You-Fear-To-Enter-VTIFF-Ackerman-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:757@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T180000 DTSTAMP:20191011T152842Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/game-dinner-mhs-5-2/ SUMMARY:A Game Dinner (Made Here Showcase 5) DESCRIPTION:A GAME DINNER\nby Peter Ackerman | VT | 11 min \n\nWhat’s on your plate\, and how did it get there? When it comes to eating meat\, are some ways more ethical than others?\n\n \nShowing with:\nA CAVE YOU FEAR TO ENTER\nby Peter Ackerman | VT | 6 min \n\nThe cave you fear to enter\ , holds the treasure you seek ~ Joseph Campbell\n\n\n\nHERD (MEUTE) \nby F lorence Lafond | QC | 11 min \n\nThat morning\, as she gets ready for her dance audition\, Alex is outraged when her mother forces her once again t o babysit her disabled sister. \n\n\nLITTLE BEERI’S MARCH \nby John Gri esemer | NH | 25 min \n\nWar. A nomad family profiting from it. Until the war comes for them. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/A-G ame-Dinner-VTIFF-Ackerman-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:758@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T180000 DTSTAMP:20191011T152918Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/herd-mhs-5-3/ SUMMARY:Herd (Meute) (Made Here Showcase 5) DESCRIPTION:HERD (MEUTE) \nby Florence Lafond | QC | 11 min \n\nThat morni ng\, as she gets ready for her dance audition\, Alex is outraged when her mother forces her once again to babysit her disabled sister. \nShowing wi th:\nA GAME DINNER\nby Peter Ackerman | VT | 11 min \n\nWhat’s on your plate\, and how did it get there? When it comes to eating meat\, are some ways more ethical than others?\n\n\nA CAVE YOU FEAR TO ENTER\nby Peter Ack erman | VT | 6 min \n\nThe cave you fear to enter\, holds the treasure yo u seek ~ Joseph Campbell\n\n\n\nLITTLE BEERI’S MARCH \nby John Griesemer | NH | 25 min \n\nWar. A nomad family profiting from it. Until the war c omes for them. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/HER D.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:759@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T180000 DTSTAMP:20191011T152745Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/little-beerys-march-mhs-5-4/ SUMMARY:Little Beeri's March (Made Here Showcase 5) DESCRIPTION:LITTLE BEERI’S MARCH \nby John Griesemer | NH | 25 min \n\nW ar. A nomad family profiting from it. Until the war comes for them. \nSho wing with:\n\nHERD (MEUTE) \nby Florence Lafond | QC | 11 min \n\nThat mo rning\, as she gets ready for her dance audition\, Alex is outraged when h er mother forces her once again to babysit her disabled sister. \n\n\n\nA GAME DINNER\nby Peter Ackerman | VT | 11 min \n\nWhat’s on your plate\ , and how did it get there? When it comes to eating meat\, are some ways m ore ethical than others?\n\n\n\nA CAVE YOU FEAR TO ENTER\nby Peter Ackerma n | VT | 6 min \n\nThe cave you fear to enter\, holds the treasure you se ek ~ Joseph Campbell\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/LIT TLE-BEERYS-MARCH.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:761@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T214500 DTSTAMP:20190917T161011Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sound-of-wild-snail-6-2/ SUMMARY:The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Made Here Showcase 6) DESCRIPTION:THE SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING \nby Elisabeth Tova Bailey | M E | 15 min\n\n\nWhen a woman is bedridden by a mysterious pathogen\, a for est snail unexpectedly takes up residence on her nightstand. An intimate a nd surprising live action true story. Adapted from the award-winning nonfi ction memoir of the same title. \nShowing with:\nNOTHING TO MY NAME\nby Q ian Li | VT | 14 min\n\n\nDiscovering the past of my grandfather \n\n\n\n SNOWBIRDS \nby Joannie Lafrenière | QC | 48 min \n\nA growing trend of a n entire generation of Canadians is the migration to the tropics during th e winter season\, in particular Florida. With tenderness and humor\, this sociological documentary goes to the heart of their daily lives by paintin g a human portrait of this typically Canadian social phenomenon.\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SOU ND-OF-SNAIL.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:762@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T214500 DTSTAMP:20190917T161038Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/snowbirds-mhs-6-2/ SUMMARY:Snowbirds (Made Here Showcase 6) DESCRIPTION:SNOWBIRDS\nby Joannie Lafrenière | QC | 48 min \n\nA growing trend of an entire generation of Canadians is the migration to the tropics during the winter season\, in particular Florida. With tenderness and hum or\, this sociological documentary goes to the heart of their daily lives by painting a human portrait of this typically Canadian social phenomenon. \nShowing with:\nTHE SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING \nby Elisabeth Tova Bail ey | ME | 15 min\n\n\nWhen a woman is bedridden by a mysterious pathogen\, a forest snail unexpectedly takes up residence on her nightstand. An inti mate and surprising live action true story. Adapted from the award-winning nonfiction memoir of the same title. \n\n\n\n\nNOTHING TO MY NAME\nby Qi an Li | VT | 14 min\n\n\nDiscovering the past of my grandfather \n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/sno wbirds.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:760@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T204500 DTSTAMP:20190917T160936Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nothing-to-my-name-mhs-6-1/ SUMMARY:Nothing to My Name (Made Here Showcase 6) DESCRIPTION:NOTHING TO MY NAME\nby Qian Li | VT | 14 min\n\n\nDiscovering t he past of my grandfather \n\n \;\nTHE SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING \ nby Elisabeth Tova Bailey | ME | 15 min\n\n\nWhen a woman is bedridden by a mysterious pathogen\, a forest snail unexpectedly takes up residence on her nightstand. An intimate and surprising live action true story. Adapted from the award-winning nonfiction memoir of the same title. \n\n\n\nSNOW BIRDS \nby Joannie Lafrenière | QC | 48 min \n\nA growing trend of an en tire generation of Canadians is the migration to the tropics during the wi nter season\, in particular Florida. With tenderness and humor\, this soci ological documentary goes to the heart of their daily lives by painting a human portrait of this typically Canadian social phenomenon.\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Not hing-to-My-Name1.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:763@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T121500 DTSTAMP:20190914T202837Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/precious-guru-mhs-7/ SUMMARY:Precious Guru - Journey Into the Wild Heart of the Second Buddha (M ade Here Showcase 7) DESCRIPTION:PRECIOUS GURU – JOURNEY INTO THE WILD HEART OF THE SECOND BUD DHA \nby Marc Wennberg | VT | 70 min \n\nThe film follows the arc of Guru Rinpoche’s sacred biography and journey\, from his immaculate birth on a lotus in northwest Pakistan\; to his taming and subduing of Tibet's demo ns in the 8th Century in order to establish Buddhism on the Tibetan platea u\; to the central role of his Tibetan consort and main disciple\, Princes s Yeshe Tsogyal\; and finally\, his departure for the Land of the Rakshas\ , where he continues to subdue and tame the demons. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/PRE CIOUS-GURU.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:764@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T141500 DTSTAMP:20190919T234606Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lewiston-mhs-8-1/ SUMMARY:Lewiston (Made Here Showcase 8) DESCRIPTION:LEWISTON \nby David Shayne &\; Jacob Roberts | NY | 18 min\n \n\nIn Lewiston\, Maine\, a violent summer threatens the fragile peace bet ween unlikely neighbors. \nShowing with:\nRECOVERY COUNTY \nby Cody Ball | MA | 19 min \n\nIn the outskirts of rural Massachusetts\, one small comm unity provides a glimpse of hope in the ongoing American Opioid Epidemic. This film follows one doctor in her efforts to make treatment more widely available\, and provides a deeply personal window into the lives of people recovering from addition \n\n\n\nNORTH COUNTRY \nby Nick Martini | NH | 20 min \n\nIn the rugged White Mountains of northern-New Hampshire\, Laho ut's has remained open 365 days a year since 1920. A family of Lebanese im migrants has prevailed for a century\, beating the Great Depression\, Worl d War II\, Dot Com Crash and Great Recession. This film tells a timeless s hort story of the American dream and the family that put a community on sk is. After 100 years\, Lahout's is still a family business moving onto its fourth generation. Through past and present\, we learn the true source of the store's success.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/LEW ISTON_Still_1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:765@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T141500 DTSTAMP:20191007T222203Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/recovery-country-mhs-8-2/ SUMMARY:Recovery County (Made Here Showcase 8) DESCRIPTION:RECOVERY COUNTY \nby Cody Ball | MA | 19 min \n\nIn the outski rts of rural Massachusetts\, one small community provides a glimpse of hop e in the ongoing American Opioid Epidemic. This film follows one doctor in her efforts to make treatment more widely available\, and provides a deep ly personal window into the lives of people recovering from addiction.\nSh owing with:\nLEWISTON \nby David Shayne &\; Jacob Roberts | NY | 18 min \n\n\nIn Lewiston\, Maine\, a violent summer threatens the fragile peace b etween unlikely neighbors.\n\n\n\n\nNORTH COUNTRY \nby Nick Martini | NH | 20 min \n\nIn the rugged White Mountains of northern-New Hampshire\, Lah out's has remained open 365 days a year since 1920. A family of Lebanese i mmigrants has prevailed for a century\, beating the Great Depression\, Wor ld War II\, Dot Com Crash and Great Recession. This film tells a timeless short story of the American dream and the family that put a community on s kis. After 100 years\, Lahout's is still a family business moving onto its fourth generation. Through past and present\, we learn the true source of the store's success.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/REC OVERY-COUNTY.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:766@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T141500 DTSTAMP:20190919T234525Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/north-country-mhs-8-3/ SUMMARY:North Country (Made Here Showcase 8) DESCRIPTION:\nNORTH COUNTRY\n\nby Nick Martini | NH | 20 min \n\nIn the ru gged White Mountains of northern-New Hampshire\, Lahout's has remained ope n 365 days a year since 1920. A family of Lebanese immigrants has prevaile d for a century\, beating the Great Depression\, World War II\, Dot Com Cr ash and Great Recession. This film tells a timeless short story of the Ame rican dream and the family that put a community on skis. After 100 years\, Lahout's is still a family business moving onto its fourth generation. Th rough past and present\, we learn the true source of the store's success.   \nShowing with:\nRECOVERY COUNTY\nby Cody Ball | MA | 19 min \n\nIn t he outskirts of rural Massachusetts\, one small community provides a glimp se of hope in the ongoing American Opioid Epidemic. This film follows one doctor in her efforts to make treatment more widely available\, and provid es a deeply personal window into the lives of people recovering from addic tion.\n\n\nLEWISTON \nby David Shayne &\; Jacob Roberts| NY | 18 min\n\ n\nIn Lewiston\, Maine\, a violent summer threatens the fragile peace betw een unlikely neighbors.\n\n\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/NOR TH-COUNTRY.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:767@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T160000 DTSTAMP:20190916T215405Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/brothers-made-here-showcase-9/ SUMMARY:Brothers (Made Here Showcase 9) DESCRIPTION:BROTHERS\nby Reginald Groff | VT | 75 min \n\nThe story of a f amily who have faced incredible adversity but continue to push forward\; I t centers around Mike\, an artist and filmmaker with Muscular Dystrophy an d the fate of his younger brother\, JT\, the athletic\, charismatic and on ce potential pro-skateboarder.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Bro thers-Do.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:768@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T174500 DTSTAMP:20190914T202320Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dolls-dont-die-mhs-10-1/ SUMMARY:Dolls Don't Die (Made Here Showcase 10) DESCRIPTION:DOLLS DON’T DIE (LES POUPEES NE MEURENT PAS) \nby Julie Prieu r | QC | 10 min \n\n5-year old Mia hasn't seen her big sister in a long t ime. Her mom said she'll be back home when she'll eat again. So between dr eams and memories\, Mia starts to cook\, to bring her back.  \nShowing w ith:\nFIRST LIGHT \nby Adam Mazo\, Ben Pender-Cudlip| MA | 13 min \n\nDoc uments the US Government’s practices of taking Native American children away from their tribes and tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in truth-telling and healing for Wabanaki people and child welfare workers in Maine. \n\nDEAR GEORGINA \nby Adam Mazo\, Ben Pender-Cudlip| MA | 15 mins \n\nA Passamaquoddy elder tries to sharpen the blurry outlines of he r identity \n\n\nCAROL STREET \nby Demetrius Borge | VT | 15 min \n\n“ Being of mixed races\, I have always enjoyed many of the privileges of bei ng Black\, but faced none of its consequences. I became inspired to better understand the Black experience at Middlebury College not by internalizin g the experience\, but by opening myself up to those already in this space ” ~ D Borge. \n\n\nTHE EPITAPH OF MARWA STEIN \nby Rachel Friedman | VT | 7 mi \n\nA woman's life\, as told after her death.\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DOL LS-DONT-DIE.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:770@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T180000 DTSTAMP:20190914T202133Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/first-light-mhs-10-2/ SUMMARY:First Light (Made Here Showcase 10) DESCRIPTION:FIRST LIGHT \nby Adam Mazo\, Ben Pender-Cudlip| MA | 13 min \n \nDocuments the US Government’s practices of taking Native American chil dren away from their tribes and tells the story of an unprecedented experi ment in truth-telling and healing for Wabanaki people and child welfare wo rkers in Maine. \n\nShowing with:\n\nDEAR GEORGINA \nby Adam Mazo\, Ben P ender-Cudlip| MA | 15 mins \n\nA Passamaquoddy elder tries to sharpen the blurry outlines of her identity \n\n\n\nDOLLS DON’T DIE (LES POUPEES N E MEURENT PAS) \nby Julie Prieur | QC | 10 min \n\n5-year old Mia hasn't seen her big sister in a long time. Her mom said she'll be back home when she'll eat again. So between dreams and memories\, Mia starts to cook\, to bring her back.  \n\n \;\n\nCAROL STREET \nby Demetrius Borge | VT | 15 min \n\n“Being of mixed races\, I have always enjoyed many of the privileges of being Black\, but faced none of its consequences. I became i nspired to better understand the Black experience at Middlebury College no t by internalizing the experience\, but by opening myself up to those alre ady in this space” ~ D Borge. \n\n\nTHE EPITAPH OF MARWA STEIN \nby Rac hel Friedman | VT | 7 mi \n\nA woman's life\, as told after her death.\n   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Fir st-Light.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:771@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T180000 DTSTAMP:20190914T202155Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dear-georgina-mhs-10-3/ SUMMARY:Dear Georgina (Made Here Showcase 10) DESCRIPTION:DEAR GEORGINA \nby Adam Mazo\, Ben Pender-Cudlip| MA | 15 mins  \n\nA Passamaquoddy elder tries to sharpen the blurry outlines of her id entity\n\nShowing with:\nFIRST LIGHT \nby Adam Mazo\, Ben Pender-Cudlip| M A | 13 min \n\nDocuments the US Government’s practices of taking Native American children away from their tribes and tells the story of an unprec edented experiment in truth-telling and healing for Wabanaki people and ch ild welfare workers in Maine. \n\n\nDOLLS DON’T DIE (LES POUPEES NE MEU RENT PAS) \nby Julie Prieur | QC | 10 min \n\n5-year old Mia hasn't seen her big sister in a long time. Her mom said she'll be back home when she'l l eat again. So between dreams and memories\, Mia starts to cook\, to brin g her back.  \n\n \;\n\n \;\nCAROL STREET \nby Demetrius Borge | VT | 15 min \n\n“Being of mixed races\, I have always enjoyed many of the privileges of being Black\, but faced none of its consequences. I beca me inspired to better understand the Black experience at Middlebury Colleg e not by internalizing the experience\, but by opening myself up to those already in this space” ~ D Borge. \nTHE EPITAPH OF MARWA STEIN \nby Rac hel Friedman | VT | 7 mi \n\nA woman's life\, as told after her death.\n   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dea r-Georgina.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:772@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T180000 DTSTAMP:20191008T162641Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/carol-street-mhs-10-4/ SUMMARY:Carol Street (Made Here Showcase 10) DESCRIPTION:CAROL STREET\nby Demetrius Borge | VT | 15 min \n\n“Being of mixed races\, I have always enjoyed many of the privileges of being Black \, but faced none of its consequences. I became inspired to better underst and the Black experience at Middlebury College not by internalizing the ex perience\, but by opening myself up to those already in this space” ~ D Borge. \n\nShowing with:\nDEAR GEORGINA \nby Adam Mazo\, Ben Pender-Cudli p| MA | 15 mins \n\nA Passamaquoddy elder tries to sharpen the blurry out lines of her identity\n\n\nFIRST LIGHT \nby Adam Mazo\, Ben Pender-Cudlip| MA | 13 min \n\nDocuments the US Government’s practices of taking Nati ve American children away from their tribes and tells the story of an unpr ecedented experiment in truth-telling and healing for Wabanaki people and child welfare workers in Maine. \n\n\nDOLLS DON’T DIE (LES POUPEES NE M EURENT PAS) \nby Julie Prieur | QC | 10 min \n\n5-year old Mia hasn't see n her big sister in a long time. Her mom said she'll be back home when she 'll eat again. So between dreams and memories\, Mia starts to cook\, to br ing her back.  \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\nTHE EPITAPH OF MARWA S TEIN \nby Rachel Friedman | VT | 7 mi \n\nA woman's life\, as told after her death.\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Car roll_St_1.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:773@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T180000 DTSTAMP:20191003T213616Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/epitaph-of-marwa-stein-mhs-10-5/ SUMMARY:The Epitaph of Marwa Stein (Made Here Showcase 10) DESCRIPTION:THE EPITAPH OF MARWA STEIN \nby Rachel Friedman | VT | 7 mi \n \nA woman's life\, as told after her death.\n \nShowing with:\nCAROL STRE ET\nby Demetrius Borge | VT | 15 min \n\n“Being of mixed races\, I have always enjoyed many of the privileges of being Black\, but faced none of its consequences. I became inspired to better understand the Black experie nce at Middlebury College not by internalizing the experience\, but by ope ning myself up to those already in this space” ~ D Borge. \n\n\nDEAR GE ORGINA \nby Adam Mazo\, Ben Pender-Cudlip| MA | 15 mins \n\nA Passamaquod dy elder tries to sharpen the blurry outlines of her identity\n\n\nFIRST L IGHT \nby Adam Mazo\, Ben Pender-Cudlip| MA | 13 min \n\nDocuments the US Government’s practices of taking Native American children away from the ir tribes and tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in truth-tell ing and healing for Wabanaki people and child welfare workers in Maine. \ n\nDOLLS DON’T DIE (LES POUPEES NE MEURENT PAS) \nby Julie Prieur | QC | 10 min \n\n5-year old Mia hasn't seen her big sister in a long time. Her mom said she'll be back home when she'll eat again. So between dreams and memories\, Mia starts to cook\, to bring her back.  \n\n \;\n\n \n \n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The -Epitaph...-1.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:836@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T210000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130912Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/non-fiction/ SUMMARY:Non-Fiction DESCRIPTION:Non-Fiction (Doubles vies)\n\n\n***Opening Night Film***\nDirec ted by Olivier Assayas\nFrance | 2018 | Fiction | 108 min\nFrench w/ Engli sh subtitles\nFilm Source: Sundance Selects/ IFC\nSponsors: 05401  \n\n  The latest film from French auteur Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper\; C louds of Sils Maria) is a delightfully witty sex comedy set in the Parisia n publishing world. Léonard (Vincent Macaigne) is a novelist with a troub lesome habit of writing barely disguised fiction that’s uncomfortably cl ose to the real lives of his friends and lovers. When his longtime editor\ , Alain (Guillaume Canet)\, refuses to publish his latest book\, it sends Léonard into a self-destructive melancholy that threatens to expose his r elationship with Alain’s wife (the always superb Juliette Binoche)\, wit h whom he’s been having a long-term affair. But beneath the film’s bre ezy exterior\, Assayas probes salient questions about perceptions of authe nticity in fiction and real life in the digital age. Shot on Super 16mm fi lm\, Non-Fiction provides potent commentary about life in the post-digital world and how we consume information and relate to one another in the era of social media and e-devices. ~LB   \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Non -Fiction_Still_4-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:805@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T124500 DTSTAMP:20191003T130748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-raft/ SUMMARY:The Raft DESCRIPTION:The Raft\n\n\nDirected by Marcus Lindeen\nDenmark | 2019 | Docu mentary | 97 min\nFilm Source: Metrograph\nAwards/premier festivals: CPH:D OX - Main Prize\; Chicago International Film Festival - Silver Hugo\nSpo nsors: Bridget and Nick Meyer\nFollowed by Skype Q&\;A with Director Ma rcus Lindeen \n\nIn the summer of 1973\, a young international crew of si x women and five men embarked on a most unusual sea voyage — a close-qua rters trip across the Atlantic from Spain to Mexico on a free-floating raf t christened the Acali. The journey was initiated by Mexican anthropolog ist Santiago Genovés\, who proposed to use the group as guinea pigs in his investigation of the origins of violent conflict and the dynamics of s exual attraction. Contentious from the get-go\, and incorrectly labeled by the media as “The Sex Raft\,” the Acali mission stayed afloat for 101 days. Now\, more than 40 years later\, the surviving crew members reu nite to reenact and recollect their experiences. With extensive 16mm archi val footage from the voyage brilliantly edited by Alexandra Strauss (I Am Not Your Negro)\, the film is a document of the thin line between science and cultism in the early ’70s\, as well as an unforgettable portrait of oblivious\, toxic masculinity. ~OY \n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The -RAft-3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:743@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T190000 DTSTAMP:20191019T163934Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lost-city-of-mer-1/ SUMMARY:Lost City of Mer - VR interactive environmental game DESCRIPTION:LOST CITY OF MER | SPECIAL EVENT\n*FREE* | Family friendly\nDir ector/Producer Liz Canner\nSponsors: Kids VT\n\nSign up for a dive by rese rving a time slot online between 11am and 6:40pm HERE. Bring the kids – they’ll love it.\nIf you can't make it Saturday\, dives also continue on Sunday.\n\nCanner will be on hand Sat-Sun\, October 19-20 from 11am-2pm a nd 6pm-7pm and will be happy to answer any questions. Liz will also be run ning a workshop on Friday\, Oct 18 at the Media Factory.\n\n\nAn immersive \, interactive experience in virtual reality. Innovative swimming navigati on\, gameplay\, and elements of sci-fi and mystery inspire users to reduce carbon footprint in the real world in order to restore a lost civilizatio n in the virtual world. An innovative approach to climate education\, spur ring action by showing the beauty of our myths\, and the stakes of our neg lect. Come for the dive!\n \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The -Lost-City-Of-Mer.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Kid Friendly,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:819@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T151500 DTSTAMP:20191003T130748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/when-lambs-become-lions/ SUMMARY:When Lambs Become Lions DESCRIPTION:When Lambs Become Lions\n\n\nDirected by Jon Kasbe\nUSA/Kenya | 2019 | Documentary | 76 min\nFilm Source: Oscilloscope Pictures\nAwards/p remier festivals: Wild &\; Scenic - Best of Festival \nFollowed by Q& amp\;A with Director Jon Kasbe\n\nIn a Kenyan town bordering wildlife cons ervation land\, two men try to hold onto their increasingly fragile status quo. A small-time ivory dealer fights to stay on top while forces mobiliz e to destroy his trade. When he turns to his younger cousin\, a conflicted wildlife ranger who hasn’t been paid in months\, they both see a possib le lifeline. The plummeting elephant population in Africa has captured the attention of the world. And as the government cracks down\, the poachers face their own existential crisis. For them\, conservationists are not onl y winning their campaign to value elephant life over its ivory\, but over human life as well. Director Jon Kasbe followed the film’s subjects over a three-year period\, gaining an extraordinary level of access and tr ust as he became part of their everyday lives. The result is a tense\, rar e and visually arresting look through the perspectives and motives of the people at the epicenter of the conservation divide. ~OY \n\n \;\n\n&n bsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/WHE N-LAMBS-BECOME-LIONS-image-2.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:738@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T180000 DTSTAMP:20191002T191924Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-river-and-the-wall/ SUMMARY:The River and the Wall DESCRIPTION:The River and the Wall\nDirected by Ben Masters\nUSA | 2019 | D ocumentary | 100 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nSponsor: The Nature Conserva ncy VT Chapter\n\n\n* Followed by panel with conservationist and participa nt Jay Kleberg and from The Nature Conservancy: Heather Furman\, Vermont State Director and Phil Huffman\, Director of Policy.\nThe panel session will be followed by a reception in the Lake Lobby at 6pm\n\n\n\n\nThis adv enturous film follows five friends on an immersive journey through the wilds of the Texas borderlands as they travel from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses\, mountain bikes and canoes. Conservation filmmaker Ben Masters recruits National Geographic explorer Filipe DeAndrade\, ornit hologist Heather Mackey\, river guide Austin Alvarado and conservationist Jay Kleberg to join him on a 2 1/2-month journey down 1\,200 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. They set out to document the region and explore the potential impacts of a border wall on the natural environment\, but as the wilderness gives way to the more populated and heavily trafficked lower R io Grande Valley\, they come face to face with the human side of the immig ration debate and enter uncharted emotional waters. ~OY   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/TRA TW_2-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:803@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T211500 DTSTAMP:20191003T132255Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/parasite/ SUMMARY:Parasite DESCRIPTION:Parasite\n\n\nDirected by Bong Joon-ho\nSouth Korea | 2019 | Fi ction | 132 min\nKorean w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Neon\nSponsors: Champlain College\n\n\n*Parasite is one of three films selected by the Fi lm and Media Culture Department at Middlebury College in partnership with VTIFF to screen in the Hirschfield International Film Series.\n\nWinner of the prestigious Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival\, Para site is a black comedy thriller about a lower-class family of four who con their way into working at a rich couple’s mansion. As the grifters grow increasingly bold in their gambit\, a wildly unexpected twist of fate thr eatens to derail the entire enterprise. Directed and cowritten by Bong Joo n-ho (The Host\; Snowpiercer)\, the film is simultaneously a superbly ente rtaining suspense yarn and a biting social commentary on wealth disparity and class discrimination in contemporary South Korea. Dazzlingly directed and effortlessly blending elements of the caper comedy and home invasion g enres\, Parasite is a masterpiece by a modern master. ~LB \n\n \;\n\n \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Par asite_Still-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:744@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T190000 DTSTAMP:20191019T164145Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lost-city-of-mer-2/ SUMMARY:Lost City of Mer - VR interactive environmental game DESCRIPTION:LOST CITY OF MER | SPECIAL EVENT\n*FREE* | Family friendly\nDir ector/Producer Liz Canner\nSponsors: Kids VT\n\n\nSign up for a dive by re serving a time slot online between 11am and 6:40pm HERE. Bring the kids – they’ll love it.\nIf you can't make it Sunday\, you can also book fo r Saturday HERE\n\nCanner will be on hand Sat-Sun\, October 19-20 from 11a m-2pm and 6pm-7pm and will be happy to answer any questions. Liz will also be running a workshop on Friday\, Oct 18 at the Media Factory.\n\n\nAn im mersive\, interactive experience in virtual reality. Innovative swimming n avigation\, gameplay\, and elements of sci-fi and mystery inspire users to reduce carbon footprint in the real world in order to restore a lost civi lization in the virtual world. An innovative approach to climate education \, spurring action by showing the beauty of our myths\, and the stakes of our neglect. Come for the dive!\n \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The -Lost-City-Of-Mer.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Kid Friendly,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:778@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T130000 DTSTAMP:20191014T161507Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-big-bad-fox-and-other-tales/ SUMMARY:The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales DESCRIPTION:The Big Bad Fox and other Tales\n\nDirected by Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert\nFrance/Belgium | 2019 | Animation | 80 min\nEnglish ve rsion\nFilm Source: GKids\nSponsors: Kids VT \n\n*Free screening* Booking is enabled by clicking on the Buy Tickets button below\n\n\nThe countrysid e isn't always as calm and peaceful as it's made out to be\, and the anima ls on this farm are particularly agitated: a fox who mothers a family of c hicks\, a rabbit who plays the stork\, and a duck who wants to be Santa Cl aus. From the creators of the Oscar-nominated Ernest &\; Celestine\, Th e Big Bad Fox uses its classic animation style to tell a series of utterly beguiling stories the whole family can enjoy. ~OY \n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Big -Bad-Fox.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Kid Friendly,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:831@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T153000 DTSTAMP:20191006T154240Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-milk-sytem/ SUMMARY:The Milk Sytem DESCRIPTION:The Milk System\n\n\nDirected by Andreas Pichler\nGermany/Italy | 2018 | Documentary | 91 min\nFilm Source: Magnetfilm\nFollowed by Q& \;A with Roger Allbee\, former Secretary of Agriculture for Vermont and Gi l Livingston\, former President of the Vermont Land Trust\n\n\nThere's one thing milk traditionally stands for — health. It's seen as natural\, nu trient-rich and comes from happy cows in green meadows. Today\, however\, milk is big business and a highly sought-after commodity that is subject t o aggressive trading. In Europe alone\, 2 billion tons of milk and milk po wder are produced annually and sold worldwide. How did cows become supplie rs for the high-tech milk industry? What alternatives are there? Who are t he people behind it? How does milk consumption affect our health? This fil m goes behind the scenes and allows the players to have their say. This fa scinating journey through the world of milk takes us across Europe\, Ameri ca\, Asia and Africa to meet farmers\, dairy owners\, politicians\, lobbyi sts\, NGOs and scientists in order to investigate the far-reaching consequ ences of the Big Agra industry. ~OY  \n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Mil k-System-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:799@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T180000 DTSTAMP:20191009T173302Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nothing-fancy-diana-kennedy/ SUMMARY:Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy DESCRIPTION:Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy\nDirected by Elizabeth Carrol\nUSA | 2019 | Documentary | 74 min\nFilm Source: Filmmakers\nSponsor: A spirit ed group industry professionals and food enthusiasts | Anonymous\n* Follow ed by Q&\;A with the filmmaker and Prof. Luis Vivanco\, cultural anthro pologist and co-director of UVM's Humanities Center (Sun\, Oct 20 only)\n\ nAlso showing Sun\, Oct 27 at 12:00 pm | BB\n\nMaster chef\, teacher and e nvironmental activist Diana Kennedy is living proof that size has nothing to do with strength. Now in her 90s and barely five feet tall\, she's a fi erce jolt of energy that has become one of the most celebrated culinary le gends of Mexican cuisine. Aware of her own mortality\, she works tirelessl y to solidify her legacy with the hope of turning her home into a foundati on for culinary education in Mexico. Blending archival footage from her ma ny television appearances and access to the ecologically sustainable home where she cooks\, recycles rainwater\, uses solar power and grows her own crops\, Nothing Fancy is an inspiring homage to a culinary and environment al trailblazer. But whatever you do\, don't blend your avocado! ~ OY\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/NF_ Stills_1.176.2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:804@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T210000 DTSTAMP:20191008T170006Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/ SUMMARY:Portrait of a Lady on Fire DESCRIPTION:Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)\ n\n\nDirected by Céline Sciamma\nFrance | 2019 | Fiction | 121 min\nFrenc h w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Neon\nAwards/premier festivals: Canne s Festival 2019 - Best script award.\nSponsors: Barbara Zucker | Barbara P erry | Judy Gerber \n\n* Portrait is one of three films selected by the F ilm and Media Culture Department at Middlebury College in partnership with VTIFF to screen in the Hirschfield International Film Series.\n\nIn 18th century France\, a young painter\, Marianne\, is commissioned to do the we dding portrait of Héloïse without her knowing. Therefore\, Marianne must observe her model by day to paint her portrait at night. Day by day\, at a slow\, caressing pace\, the two women become closer as they share  Héloïse's last moments of freedom before the impending wedding. Whil e the artist in the film is not based on any specific historical charact er\, it is inspired by centuries of female artists who were overwritten and/or erased by their male contemporaries. The ravishing cinematography a nd lighting and the mesmerizing acting of the two women create an intense and sensual mood. The films of director Céline Sciamma (Tomboy\;  Girlhood) share a common theme of the fluidity of gender and sexual identi ty among young women. Here she has created a profoundly erotic film abou t the process of self-discovery and becoming. ~OY  \n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Por trait_Still-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:822@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T130000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130912Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-monday/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Monday DESCRIPTION:Sundance 2019 Shorts Film Tour - Selection\nTicket price includ es a light lunch\n\n\nFAST HORSE \n\nDirected by Alexandra Lazarowich\nCa nada | 13’30” mins\nThe Blackfoot bareback horse-racing tradition retu rns in the astonishingly dangerous Indian Relay. \n\nMUTEUM  \n\nDirect ed by Äggie Pak Yee Lee\nEstonia/Hong Kong | 4 mins\nIn an art museum\, w e learn — from outer to inner\, from deep to its deepest\, seriously and sincerely. \n\nBROTHERHOOD  \n\nDirected by Meryam Joobeur  \nCanada /Tunisia/Qatar/Sweden | 25 mins\nWhen a hardened Tunisian shepherd’s son returns home after a long journey with a new wife\, tension rises between father and son. \n\nSOMETIMES\, I THINK ABOUT DYING \n\nDirected by Ste fanie Abel Horowitz\nUSA | 12 mins\nFran is thinking about dying\, but a m an in the office might want to date her.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Sun dance-Shorts.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:775@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T151500 DTSTAMP:20191003T130748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/aga-2/ SUMMARY:Àga DESCRIPTION:Àga\n\n\nDirected by Milko Lazarov\nBulgaria | 2019 | Fiction | 96 min\nBulgarian w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Big World Pictures\ nSponsors: Muffie Milens \n\nAlso showing\nFri\, Oct 25 | 4:15 PM | FH  \n\nIn a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North\, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Alone in the wilderness \, they look like the last people on Earth. Their traditional way of life starts changing – slowly\, but inevitably. Hunting becomes more and more difficult\, the animals around them die from inexplicable causes\, and th e ice has been melting earlier every year. Their daughter Ága left the ic y tundra long ago after a family feud. When Sedna's health deteriorates\, Nanook embarks on a long journey to find Ága. Exquisite cinematography do es more than justice to the majestic landscapes and the interiors\, which are lit like 17th century Dutch paintings. This explicit riff on Robert Fl aherty’s Nanook of the North will draw you into its world\, and the brea thtaking last shot will stay in your memory for days to come. It’s a fil m that has to be seen on the big screen. ~OY \n\n\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/AGA -scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:788@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T153000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/diamantino/ SUMMARY:Diamantino DESCRIPTION:Diamantino\n\nDirected by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt\n Portugal/France/Brazil | 2019 | Fiction | 92 min\nPortuguese w/ English su btitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nAwards/premier festivals: Cannes Critic s' Week - Grand Prize\nSponsors: Bobbie Lanahan | Paula Willoquet-Marico ndi \n\nAlso showing:\nWed\, Oct 23| 6:45PM | BB \n\nThere isn’t ano ther film quite like it at the festival\, or perhaps anywhere. Part lo opily queer sci-fi thriller\, part faux-naive political rallying cry\,  all glued together with candy-floss clouds of romantic reverie.  Diamantino borrows all the traditional nasty-scientist tropes and rom -com clichés but applies a transgressional palette. It touches on the current refugee crises in Europe as well as the rise of extreme nationali sm without for a minute abandoning its tongue-in-cheek tone. No words will prepare you for it\, but we’re willing to bet that you’ll never look at fluffy puppies in the same way again. ~OY \n\nWatch trailer HERE\n\n&n bsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dia mantino_00092745.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:792@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T180000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/genesis/ SUMMARY:Genesis DESCRIPTION:Genesis (Genèse)\n\n\nDirected by Phillipe Lesage\nCanada/Qué bec | 2018 | Fiction | 129 min\nFrench w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Film Movement\nSponsors: Lorna-Kay Peal \n\nAlso showing:\nSat\, Oct 26 | 6:45PM | BB \n\nPhilippe Lesage’s Genesis is a rarity: a coming-of-age film that explores the angst of adolescence from both male and female\, a nd gay and straight\, perspectives. Charlotte (Noée Abita) is a college-a ge Montréaler navigating the perplexing landscape of newfound freedom and open relationships. Her 16-year-old half-brother\, Guillaume (Théodore P ellerin)\, is a student at an all-boys boarding school coming to terms wit h his sexual identity in a severely repressive environment. Lesage makes s ome courageous narrative choices. Charlotte’s and Guillaume’s stories briefly overlap on just two occasions. A Faulkner-esque coda boldly ventur es into uncharted cinematic waters more akin to experimental literature. R efreshingly free of clichés and with fluid camerawork and strong performa nces from its young leads\, Genesis asks if the idyllic feelings of first love can be recaptured during the messy confusion of young adulthood. ~LB  \n\n \;\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gen esis_gallery-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:815@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T180000 DTSTAMP:20210901T193304Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/toni-morrison-the-pieces-i-am/ SUMMARY:Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am DESCRIPTION:Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am\n\n\nDirected by Timothy Greenfi eld-Sanders\nUSA | 2019 | Documentary | 120 min\nFilm Source: Magnolia\nSp onsors: Patricia Fontaine \n\nAlso showing:\nFri\, Oct 25 | 1:30PM | BB  \n\nMade and released before she died in August at the age of 88\, Ton i Morrison: The Pieces I Am is an artful\, uplifting documentary about t he life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel Prize winner who created Beloved and Song of Solomon. The film is indispensable and deliver s what we crave most: hearing from this wise\, eloquent and often funny in terpreter of our society. Morrison talks directly to us about urgent matte rs of race\, the black experience and the white gaze\, as well as her life as an editor and writer and her childhood memories of growing up in a seg regated society. Interviews with Oprah Winfrey\, Angela Davis\, Fran Leb owitz\, Sonia Sanchez and others speak to Morrison’s importance\, while a tapestry of classic black art and photography threads through the film. But nothing is more compelling than Morrison's own beauty\, in voice and i mage\, from her younger years to her authoritative maturity. ~AM  \n\n& nbsp\;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1-s caled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:806@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T204500 DTSTAMP:20191003T132425Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-reports-on-sarah-and-saleem/ SUMMARY:The Reports on Sarah and Saleem DESCRIPTION:The Reports on Sarah and Saleem\n\n\nDirected by Muayad Alayan\ nPalestine | 2018 | Fiction | 127 min\nArabic\, Hebrew\, English w/ Englis h subtitles\nFilm Source: Dada Films\nAwards/premier festivals: Internatio nal Film Festival Rotterdam - Special Jury Award for exceptional art istic achievement\; Hubert Bals Fund Audience Prize\; Seattle Internationa l Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize\; and many others  \nSponsors: Bu rlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program \n\nAlso showing:\nSun\, Oct 27 | 3:45PM | BB \n\nIn many countries\, an affair between a married woma n and a married man would be just that: an affair. When the woman is Jewis h Israeli and the man is Muslim Palestinian\, it cannot be that simple. Wh en Sarah and Saleem are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time\, the affair naturally takes on a political dimension\, leaving them to deal wi th more than just broken marriages. Director Muayad Alayan picks up on the nuanced engagement with Palestinian-Israeli tensions of his first f eature\, Love\, Theft\, and Other Entanglements\, and gradually unrave ls them through the vehicle of a psychosocial drama-thriller with many sur prises along the way. The non-linear structure emphasizes the complexity o f the narrative as it impacts both their families in personal and politica l ways. A richly detailed Jerusalem and neighboring Bethlehem serve as bot h background and center players. ~OY  \n\n\n\nQuote from the film's pre ss kit - Muayad Alayan statement: "I have always been touched and moved by cinema with characters that find themselves in situations bigger than the mselves -- situations that challenges the average person\, who is often an anti-hero\, to survive and find comfort and safety amidst life’s absurd ity [...] I was a teenager during the years of the second Palestinian upri sing\, the Intifada. Jerusalem was haunted with fear and tension. As dark as these days were\, everyone had to go on living\, breathing\, securing a n income and searching for happiness. At the time I had to take jobs in th e western part of the city\, like most Palestinians from East Jerusalem. I n most cases\, this would be the first encounter for a Palestinian with th e Israeli community\, beyond the usual daily encounters with Israeli soldi ers. This experience allowed me to witness the everyday interactions of Pa lestinians with the Israeli community. To witness was also to experience f irst hand how\, amidst the intense political atmosphere\, some rare moment s of ease could let you forget the social and political barriers set betwe en you and the other. I also witnessed how the politics and social divisio ns found their way into human interactions when least expected and suddenl y\, the barriers were back in place in a heartbeat."\n\n \;\n\n \; \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Rep orts-on-Sarah-and-Saleem.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:830@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T203000 DTSTAMP:20191013T195218Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lilbuck-real-swan/ SUMMARY:Lil'Buck: Real Swan DESCRIPTION:Lil' Buck: Real Swan\n\n\nDirected by Louis Wallecan\nFrance/US A | 2019 | Documentary | 85 min\nFilm Source: Versatile Films\nSponsors: P atricia Fontaine | Andrea Rogers \n\nAlso showing:\nWed\, Oct 23 | 2:15PM | FH\n\n\nIn this exuberant documentary featured at the Tribeca Film Fest ival\, director Louis Wallecan takes an in-depth look at an extraordin ary dance artist in the making — the totally wonderful Charles "Lil' Buc k" Riley\, who learned the smooth dance moves of Memphis jookin on the tough neighborhood streets\, parking lots and slippery floors of the Crys tal Palace Roller Skating Rink. We see Lil' Buck's neighborhood up close\, with its deprivations but also his competitive instinct\, dedication to p erfection and interest in expanding jookin's vocabulary. After he wins a scholarship to study ballet\, Lil' Buck further mixes jookin with o ther artistic forms\, ultimately merging aesthetics and cultures with a ce lebrated performance of Camille Saint-Saëns' haunting "The Swan” wi th famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma accompanying him. It is this "portrait of th e artist as a young man" that makes this film a joy to discover. ~AM  \ n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/LIL -BUCK-REAL-SWAN-12.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:823@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T130000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130912Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-tuesday/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Tuesday DESCRIPTION:2019 Animation from the UK National Film &\; TV School - and more\n*Ticket price includes a light lunch*\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \;\n\n&nb sp\;\n\nLISTEN TO ME SING  \n\nDirected by Isabel Garrett\nUK | Puppet | 11’12” mins\n\n\nA miserable hotel performer learns to express hersel f when she falls in love with a walrus. \n\n \;\n\nALMOST THERE  \n \nDirected by Nelloy Michenaud\nUK | Stop Motion | 8’44” mins\n\n\nOn an everyday train quite unlike any other\, a group of absurdly troubled ch aracters’ encounter each other on a bizarre journey\, as their problems escalate from the relatively benign to the downright absurd. \n\n \;\ n\nA BIRD WITH NO LEGS  \n\nDirected by Nicolas Cinelli\nUK | Stop Motio n | 9’03” mins \n\nJames cannot process the loss of his wife and is l ost in an isolated\, oppressive\, and dissonant world. His son\, Theo\, pl ays the songs he needs hear to overcome his emotional and musical block\, and put their world back in harmony. \n\n \;\n\nHEAT WAVE  \n\nDire cted by Nelloy Michenaud\nUK | Mixed Media | 7’13” mins \n\nOn an eve ryday train quite unlike any other\, a group of absurdly troubled characte rs’ encounter each other on a bizarre journey\, as their problems escala te from the relatively benign to the downright absurd. \n\n \;\n\nIT ’S A CRACKING CELEBRATION\, GROMIT  \n\nDirected by John Lee\, Vicky H ewlett\, Bex singleton\nUK | Live action | 8’15” mins \n\nMade to cel ebrate 30 years since NFTS alumnus\, Nick Park\, created Wallace &\; Gr omit via his Oscar nominated graduation film\, A Grand Day Out. \n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Are -We-There-Yet.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:794@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T153000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/give-me-liberty/ SUMMARY:Give Me Liberty DESCRIPTION:Give Me Liberty\n\n\nDirected by Kirill Mikhanovsky\nUSA | 2019 | Fiction | 119 min\nFilm Source: Music Box Films\nSponsors: Anne Barbano and Michael George | Tom and Molly Roland \n\nAlso Showing: \nSun\, Oct 27 | 4:00PM | FH\n\n\nVic\, a transport driver for people with disabilitie s\, is having a rough day. The boss is already busting his chops for runni ng behind schedule when a group of fellow Russian Americans find themselve s without a ride to a funeral. Meanwhile\, Vic (the charismatic Chris Galu st\, in his first role) is desperately trying to get his regular riders to their various appointments when a race riot breaks out on his Milwaukee r oute. Give Me Liberty is the second feature for Russia-born director Kiril l Mikhanovsky\, who himself worked as a medical transport driver in Milwau kee before becoming a filmmaker. Mikhanovsky’s experiences lend the film a lived-in authenticity\, as does the casting of actors who have disabili ties\, including Lauren “Lolo” Spencer as an African American woman wi th ALS who develops a tentative relationship with Vic. Give Me Liberty is an absurdly funny film\, in a style reminiscent of the Safdie brothers’ Good Time and Martin Scorsese’s After Hours\, which also examines racial tensions in one of America’s most segregated cities. ~LB \n\n \;\n \n\n\nRead a fascinating interview with the director HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Giv e-Me-Liberty-5.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:813@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T154500 DTSTAMP:20191003T130748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-tobacconist/ SUMMARY:The Tobacconist DESCRIPTION:The Tobacconist (Der Trafikant)\n\n\nDirected by Nikolaus Leytn er\nGermany | 2018 | Fiction | 117 min\nGerman w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Menemsha\nSponsors: Barbara McGrew \n\nAlso showing:\nThur\, Oct 24 | 4:00PM | BB \n\nVienna\, 1937-38. Set just before\, and during\, t he Nazi occupation of Austria\, The Tobacconist is the story of one young man’s coming of age and his unlikely friendship with Sigmund Freud (Brun o Ganz\, in his penultimate role). The film excels in portraying the creep ing anti-Semitism and swift embrace of Nazi ideology from the points of vi ew of 17-year-old Franz\, the music-hall dancer he pines for\, and of Freu d himself. As war approaches and the city descends into turmoil\, the pers onal dramas of these protagonists are swept up into the larger events that are shaking the foundations of Europe. Shot in beautifully muted tones th at provide a real sense of place\, The Tobacconist resonates way beyon d period and location. Based on the international bestseller by Robert  Seethaler. ~OY  \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/19_ BetaCinema_The_Tobacconist_copyright__GLORY_FILM_EPO_FILM_Petro_Domenigg_F ILMSTILLS_AT-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:834@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T173000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mr-toilet-the-worlds-2-man/ SUMMARY:Mr. Toilet: The World's #2 Man DESCRIPTION:Mr. Toilet: The World's #2 Man\n\nDirected by Lily Zepeda\nUSA | 2019 | Documentary | 87 min\nFilm Source: The Film Collaborative\nAwards /premier festivals: HotDocs 2019 -Student Choice Award\nSponsors: Jane a nd Michael Michaud | Vermont Council on World Affairs\nFollowed by Q&\; A with Patricia Preston\, Executive Director of Vermont Council on World A ffairs (Tues\, Oct 22 only) \n\nAlso showing:\nThur\, Oct 24 | 1:45PM |  FH \n\nTo a stranger\, he's a guy obsessed with toilets. But to those who know him\, he's "Mr. Toilet\," a crusader in global sanitation. Born i n the Singapore slums\, Jack Sim knows firsthand the agonies of not ha ving a proper loo. Now\, he's dedicating his life to a crisis no one dares talk about: Shit. Using humor as his main weapon\, he plunges into his bi ggest challenge yet when he is asked to secure 6 million toilets for the " Clean India" initiative as the shocking conditions are exposed. Mr. Toil et is a strong\, entertaining\, character-based documentary about an impas sioned\, rebellious advocate who sometimes forgets the difference betwee n raising awareness and producing results. ~OY \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/mr- toilet_still_01.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:809@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T180000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rojo/ SUMMARY:Rojo DESCRIPTION:Rojo\n\n\nDirected by Benjamin Naishtat\nArgentina | 2018 | Fic tion | 109 min\nSpanish w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Distrib Films U SA\nAwards/premier festivals: San Sebastian Film Festival - Best Dir ector\, Best Cinematography\, Best Actor\nSponsors: Vermont Wine Merchants  \n\nAlso showing: \n\nThurs\, Oct 24 | 6:45PM | BB \n\nWhat was the Argentinian mindset immediately preceding Jorge Rafael Videla’s right-wi ng military coup? Director Benjamin Naishtat’s (History of Fear\; The Mo vement) darkly funny\, highly stylish film immerses itself in Argentina’ s collective conscious in 1975\, resulting in an X-ray image of seeping mo ral decline under the guise of a murder mystery. The underlying tension is palpable throughout and affects all walks of life. Tense relations with t he U.S. are also brought in through an incident with American cowboys\, hi nting indirectly at American involvement in the coup. But the film is prim arily concerned with the disintegration of morals and society during times of uncertainty and lawlessness through the perspective of a complicit m iddle-class community\, including a respectable judge and his family. It conveys the very gradual erosion of respect for human beings as each chan ge brings about a “new normal.” ~OY  \n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ROJ O_still_Dario_Gradinetti_and_Alfredo_Castro_2-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:796@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T200000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-human-element/ SUMMARY:The Human Element DESCRIPTION:The Human Element\n\n\nDirected by Matthew Testa\nUSA | 2018 | Documentary | 76 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nSponsors: Frank and Ducky Do nath \n\nDuring his four-decade career as a photographer and explorer\,  James Balog (Chasing Ice) has focused his lens on the complex relatio nship between humans and nature. Human activity has now surpassed all othe r forces shaping our world\, and Balog’s work challenges us thro ugh breathtaking cinematography to contemplate our place in — and respon sibility to — the natural world. The Human Element visits Tangier Is land\, a fishing community facing the imminent reality of sea level rise t hreatening their future. We meet Yadira Sanchez and her three children in Denver\, Colorado\, all of whom attend a special school for childr en struggling with respiratory issues. Balog embeds with a Cal Fire st rike team on the frontlines of the most expensive wildfire in California h istory\, and he ventures deep into Kentucky coal country\, meeting unemplo yed miners finding hope from a new source. Balog argues that the f ifth element — the human element — can bring the whole system back int o balance. ~OY \n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The -Human-Element3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:ECHO Center Lakeside Hall\, 1 College St\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4764229;-73.22100449999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1 College St\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ECHO Center La keside Hall:geo:44.4764229,-73.22100449999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:782@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T203000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-chambermaid/ SUMMARY:The Chambermaid (La Camarista) DESCRIPTION:The Chambermaid\nDirected by Lila Avilés\nMexico | 2018 | Fict ion | 102 min\nSpanish w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nMex ico's official submission to the Academy Awards 2020\nSponsors: A Single P ebble \n\nAlso showing:\nSat\, Oct 26 | 1:30PM | BB \n\nThe first feat ure film from theater director and actress Lila Avilés\, The Chambermaid concerns a hotel housekeeper named Eve (played by the marvelously understa ted Gabriela Cartol) who dreams of a better life while grinding through he r daily routine. Inspired by Sophie Calle’s 1984 photo collection L’Ho tel\, Avilés shot the film in just 17 days\, using her own savings to fun d the production. With a keen eye for detail and precise shot compositions that recall the minimalist cinema of Belgian master Chantal Akerman\, Avi lés frames the blue-collar tasks of the titular maid against the opulence of a luxury hotel in Mexico City and its wealthy patrons. And though the camera never leaves the hotel\, considerable tension is generated through our fear that Eve will be caught deviating from the rigid demands of her j ob. Like Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma\, The Chambermaid is a humanistic film a bout class differences and the dehumanization of manual labor that celebra tes the dignity of doing a job well. ~LB \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Cha mbermaid_2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:824@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T130000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130912Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-wednesday/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Wednesday DESCRIPTION:Films from Iran and Turkey\nTicket price includes a light lunch \n\n\nUNDER THE BLADE \n\nDirected by Javid Farahani \nIran | Fiction | 15 mins \n\nFilming the making of a film about censorship and rape and t he custom of alimony (mehr). A woman who leans towards modernity and femin ism but uses the custom of “mehr” to attain her goals \n\nTHE CAFÉ\n Directed by Javad Hakami\nIran | Fiction | 6’28” mins \n\nCan one liv e and behave against society’s norms despite fearing them? A film about conformity.  \n\nPRISON\nDirected by Ramazan Çardak\nTurkey | Fiction | 22 mins \n\nA young man learns to survive in prison \n\nBETTER THAN NEI L ARMSTRONG\nDirected by Alireza Ghasemi\nIran | Fiction | 20 mins \n\nFo ur kids start their journey to the moon with the mission of finding a myst erious place called The Redland but the gates of Redland are being guarded by a mischievous snake.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Bet ter-than-Neil-Armstrong.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:817@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T153000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-venerable-w/ SUMMARY:The Venerable W. DESCRIPTION:The Venerable W.\n\n\nDirected by Barbet Schroeder\nFrance | 20 18 | Documentary | 100 min\nBurmese w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Cin ema Europe\nSponsor: Kevin Meehan\n\n\nAlso showing:\nSat\, Oct 26 | 3:45P M | BB\n\nThe Swiss-French director Barbet Schroeder completes his “Tril ogy of Evil” (General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portait\; Terror’s Advoc ate) with The Venerable W.\, about a Buddhist monk in Myanmar who uses strong anti-Muslim and anti-Rohingya rhetoric in his speeches and writi ngs. Schroeder’s singular style\, as he expressed in an interview with t he BBC\, is “not to judge those people\, but to make them talk and find out more about them and eventually ... give them enough rope to hang thems elves." And so\, in this film\, he relies partly on our ignorance of the conflicts in Myanmar and plays up the noble aspects of Buddhist cultu re\, while gradually letting the monk\, Ashin Wirathu\, self-indict.  In a sense\, this is the most terrifying of Schroeder’s portraits\, b ecause unlike Amin\, for example\, we also see Wirthu’s followers th rough footage culled from phone videos and other immediate media sources. Wirathu represents an awful idea\, one that cannot be banished\, and one h e propagates with chilling skill. “What was terrifying for me\,” s aid Schroeder\, “was my realization that you can meet evil people every day and fail to notice them. It’s not as if there is a big flashing ligh t next to their heads.” The final words of the Buddhist Burmese song at the end of the film — "We'll wall our country with our bones if we have to" — are quite chilling. ~OY \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ven erable-W-poster-CROP.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:829@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T154500 DTSTAMP:20191013T195133Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lilbuck-real-swan-2/ SUMMARY:Lil'Buck: Real Swan DESCRIPTION:Lil' Buck: Real Swan\n\n\nDirected by Louis Wallecan\nFrance/US A | 2019 | Documentary | 85 min\nFilm Source: Versatile Films\nSponsors: P atricia Fontaine | Andrea Rogers \n\nAlso showing:\nMon\, Oct 21 | 7:00PM | FH\n\n\nIn this exuberant documentary featured at the Tribeca Film Fest ival\, director Louis Wallecan takes an in-depth look at an extraordin ary dance artist in the making — the totally wonderful Charles "Lil' Buc k" Riley\, who learned the smooth dance moves of Memphis jookin on the tough neighborhood streets\, parking lots and slippery floors of the Crys tal Palace Roller Skating Rink. We see Lil' Buck's neighborhood up close\, with its deprivations but also his competitive instinct\, dedication to p erfection and interest in expanding jookin's vocabulary. After he wins a scholarship to study ballet\, Lil' Buck further mixes jookin with o ther artistic forms\, ultimately merging aesthetics and cultures with a ce lebrated performance of Camille Saint-Saëns' haunting "The Swan” wi th famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma accompanying him. It is this "portrait of th e artist as a young man" that makes this film a joy to discover. ~AM  \ n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/LIL -BUCK-REAL-SWAN-12.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:811@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T180000 DTSTAMP:20191008T170907Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/suburban-birds/ SUMMARY:Suburban Birds DESCRIPTION:Suburban Birds\n\n\nDirected by Qiu Sheng\nChina | 2018 | Ficti on | 113 min\nMandarin w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Cinema Guild\nSp onsors: Arnie Malina | Duncan Wisniewski Architecture \n\nAlso showing:\n Fri Oct 25 | 6:45PM | BB\n\nChosen for the New Directors/New Films showcas e at Lincoln Center in New York City\, and a hit at the prestigious Locarn o Film Festival\, this lauded debut by Chinese director Qui Sheng teases t he audience with two intertwining plotlines that have inexplicable tempora l twists and turns as the plot lines echo and overlap. An engineer tries t o figure out why craters have opened up on the edge of the city\; a pretee n spends long afternoons with his playmates in a lyrical portrait of youth and memory. But one by one his friends disappear. Poetic and enigmatic\ , suspenseful and often beautiful to watch\, Suburban Birds is as much abo ut love and dreams as corruption and bureaucracy. Discover a totally surpr ising film from a talented new director. ~AM \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Sub urban-Birds-updated.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:777@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T180000 DTSTAMP:20191013T212904Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/be-natural-the-untold-story-of-alice-guy-blac he/ SUMMARY:Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy Blaché DESCRIPTION:Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy Blaché\nDirected by Pamela B. Green\nUSA | 2019 | Documentary | 102 min\nFilm Source: Zeitgeis t Films\nAwards/premier festivals: Cannes\, Telluride\, New York\, Deauvil le\nSponsors: VTIFF Board of Directors in honor of Orly Yadin\, Executive  Director of VTIFF \n\nOne of the most influential and innovative direct ors of the silent era\, Alice Guy-Blaché was the first female filmmaker. In 1896\, at age 23\, she was inspired to make her own film called La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy)\, one of the first narrative films ever mad e. Over the span of her career\, she wrote\, produced or directed hundreds of films\, including 150 with synchronized sound during the silent era. H er work includes comedies\, westerns and dramas\, as well as films with gr oundbreaking subject matter such as child abuse\, immigration\, birth cont rol and female empowerment. She also etched a place in history by making t he earliest known surviving narrative film with an all-black cast. After a decade of making films at Gaumont in Paris\, she had a second decade-long career in the U.S.\, where she built and ran her own studio\, Solax\, in Fort Lee\, New Jersey. Green organizes her film like a detective story\, t racking down every U.S.-based connection she can find via Ancestry.com and the phone directory. Green’s approach distinguishes this film from earl ier documentaries made about Guy-Blaché\, unearthing materials hidden in family albums and storage cartons. ~OY \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ali ce-Guy-Blache-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:789@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T203000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/diamantino-2/ SUMMARY:Diamantino DESCRIPTION:Diamantino\n\nDirected by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt\n Portugal/France/Brazil | 2019 | Fiction | 92 min\nPortuguese w/ English su btitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nAwards/premier festivals: Cannes Critic s' Week - Grand Prize\nSponsors: Bobbie Lanahan | Paula Willoquet-Marico ndi \n\nAlso showing:\nMon\, Oct 21| 1:45PM | BB  \n\nThere isn’t a nother film quite like it at the festival\, or perhaps anywhere. Part  loopily queer sci-fi thriller\, part faux-naive political rallying cry\,  all glued together with candy-floss clouds of romantic reverie.  Diamantino borrows all the traditional nasty-scientist tropes and rom -com clichés but applies a transgressional palette. It touches on the current refugee crises in Europe as well as the rise of extreme nationali sm without for a minute abandoning its tongue-in-cheek tone. No words will prepare you for it\, but we’re willing to bet that you’ll never look at fluffy puppies in the same way again. ~OY \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dia mantino_00092745.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:779@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T210000 DTSTAMP:20191010T203819Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/butterflies-2/ SUMMARY:Butterflies DESCRIPTION:Butterflies\n\nDirected by Tolga Karaçelik\nTurkey | 2019 | Fi ction | 117 min\nTurkish w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Films Boutique \nSponsors: Theresa Hyland and Rick Stoner | Kim and Mitch Fleischer \n\n Also showing\nFri\, Oct 25 | 1:45PM | FH\n\n\nThis joyous film combines humor and heart with such ease that sometimes the audience has barely caug ht their breath from laughing before tears begin to flow. Following thre e estranged adult siblings (an astronaut\, an actor and a teacher) on the road to visit their estranged father\, we witness these urban characters f orced to interact with the very different culture of their youth. As the y move further away from their westernized lifestyles to the collectivist\ , traditional village in Turkey where they were born\, the tone and artist ic references shift\, giving the film many layers of depth and power. Ho wever\, Butterflies can just as easily be enjoyed as a simple family comed y-drama in which the characters face their long-avoided childhood traumas together — and in doing so discover their true identities. ~JS \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/But terflies.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:825@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T130000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130912Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lunchtime-shorts-thursday/ SUMMARY:Lunchtime Shorts: Thursday DESCRIPTION:Documentaries\nTicket price includes a light lunch\n\n\n \; \n\nJUNCTION\nDirected by Brendan Young\nUSA | Documentary | 25 mins \n\n On the Navajo Nation\, basketball is as much a part of life as the surroun ding natural beauty and ancient traditions. This is especially true for Na hatabaa Nacona\, whose talent could prove to be her only path to college. The film follows her through her senior year at the junction between life on and off the reservation. \n\n \;\n\nDISH PIGS \n\nDirected by Joh n Deitcher\nCanada | Documentary | 22’46” mins mins \n\nFrom five-sta r restaurants to dirty dives\, the most compelling stories come from the d ish pit. Meet three Montrealers who choose to wash dishes for a living. \ n\n \;\n\nNIGHT AT THE GARDEN \n\nDirected by Marshall Curry\nUSA | A rchival Compilation | 7 mins \n\nArchival footage of an American Nazi ral ly that attracted 20\,000 people at Madison Square Garden in 1939\, shortl y before the beginning of World War 2. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Nig ht-At-the-Garden.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:841@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T150000 DTSTAMP:20191021T192411Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-raft-2/ SUMMARY:The Raft DESCRIPTION:The Raft - Repeat screening by popular demand!\n\n\nDirected by Marcus Lindeen\nDenmark | 2019 | Documentary | 97 min\nFilm Source: Metro graph\nAwards/premier festivals: CPH:DOX - Main Prize\; Chicago Internat ional Film Festival - Silver Hugo\nSponsors: Bridget and Nick Meyer\nFollo wed by Skype Q&\;A with Director Marcus Lindeen \n\nIn the summer of 1 973\, a young international crew of six women and five men embarked on a m ost unusual sea voyage — a close-quarters trip across the Atlantic from Spain to Mexico on a free-floating raft christened the Acali. The journe y was initiated by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés\, who propos ed to use the group as guinea pigs in his investigation of the origins of violent conflict and the dynamics of sexual attraction. Contentious from t he get-go\, and incorrectly labeled by the media as “The Sex Raft\,” t he Acali mission stayed afloat for 101 days. Now\, more than 40 years later\, the surviving crew members reunite to reenact and recollect their experiences. With extensive 16mm archival footage from the voyage brillian tly edited by Alexandra Strauss (I Am Not Your Negro)\, the film is a docu ment of the thin line between science and cultism in the early ’70s\, as well as an unforgettable portrait of oblivious\, toxic masculinity. ~OY  \n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The -RAft-3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:835@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T151500 DTSTAMP:20191003T130835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mr-toilet-the-worlds-2-man-2/ SUMMARY:Mr. Toilet: The World's #2 Man DESCRIPTION:Mr. Toilet: The World's #2 Man\n\nDirected by Lily Zepeda\nUSA | 2019 | Documentary | 87 min\nFilm Source: The Film Collaborative\nAwards /premier festivals: HotDocs 2019 -Student Choice Award\nSponsors: Jane a nd Michael Michaud | Vermont Council on World Affairs\nFollowed by Q&\; A with Patricia Preston\, Executive Director of Vermont Council on World A ffairs (Tues\, Oct 22 only) \n\nAlso showing:\nTues\, Oct 22 | 4:00PM |  FH \n\nTo a stranger\, he's a guy obsessed with toilets. But to those who know him\, he's "Mr. Toilet\," a crusader in global sanitation. Born i n the Singapore slums\, Jack Sim knows firsthand the agonies of not ha ving a proper loo. Now\, he's dedicating his life to a crisis no one dares talk about: Shit. Using humor as his main weapon\, he plunges into his bi ggest challenge yet when he is asked to secure 6 million toilets for the " Clean India" initiative as the shocking conditions are exposed. Mr. Toil et is a strong\, entertaining\, character-based documentary about an impas sioned\, rebellious advocate who sometimes forgets the difference betwee n raising awareness and producing results. ~OY \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/mr- toilet_still_01.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:797@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T180000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/i-am-cuba/ SUMMARY:I Am Cuba DESCRIPTION:I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba)\n\n\nDirected by Mikhail Kalatozov\nSoviet Union/Cuba | 1964 | Fiction | 135 min\nEnglish\, Spanish w/ Russian voice over and English subtitles\nFilm Source: Milestone Films\nSponsors: John Douglas \n\nCoproduced by the state film organizations of Fidel Castro’ s socialist regime and the Soviet government\, I Am Cuba is a series of fo ur vignettes about the Cuban revolution that melds the urgent thrust of th e propaganda films perfected by Sergei Eisenstein with the anything-goes a esthetics of the French New Wave. While each of the four segments serves a s a fascinating time capsule of a tipping point in Cuban history\, the fil m’s greatest asset is its mind-boggling camerawork. In one scene\, a fis heye wide shot literally turns aquatic as the camera plunges from a hotel balcony into a swimming pool. In the film’s most virtuoso sequence\, a s hot begins by tracking a funeral at street level. The camera then rises to the rooftops\, tracks into a cigar factory\, and finally soars high above the funeral procession — all in one unbroken shot\, more than a decade before the Steadicam was invented. Presented in a sparkling 4K restoration by Milestone Films\, I Am Cuba has never looked better. Yes\, it’s prop aganda. But propaganda has never been so technically spectacular. ~LB \n\ n \;\n\n\n\nI am Cuba\nOnce Christopher Columbus landed here.\nHe wrot e in his diary:\n”This is the most beautiful land ever seen by human eye s.“\nThank you Señor Columbus.\nWhen you saw me for the first time\,\nI was singing and laughing.\nI waved the fronds of my palms to greet your s ails.\nI thought your ships brought happiness.\nI am Cuba.\nShips took my sugar and left me tears...\nStrange thing — sugar\, Señor Columbus.\nIt contains so many tears\, but it is sweet...\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Iam Cuba600dpi004-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:814@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T180000 DTSTAMP:20191003T152645Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-tobacconist-2/ SUMMARY:The Tobacconist DESCRIPTION:The Tobacconist (Der Trafikant)\n\n\nDirected by Nikolaus Leytn er\nGermany | 2018 | Fiction | 117 min\nGerman w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Menemsha\nSponsors: Barbara McGrew \n\nAlso showing:\nTues\, Oct 22 | 1:45PM | BB \n\nVienna\, 1937-38. Set just before\, and during\, t he Nazi occupation of Austria\, The Tobacconist is the story of one young man’s coming of age and his unlikely friendship with Sigmund Freud (Brun o Ganz\, in his penultimate role). The film excels in portraying the creep ing anti-Semitism and swift embrace of Nazi ideology from the points of vi ew of 17-year-old Franz\, the music-hall dancer he pines for\, and of Freu d himself. As war approaches and the city descends into turmoil\, the pers onal dramas of these protagonists are swept up into the larger events that are shaking the foundations of Europe. Shot in beautifully muted tones th at provide a real sense of place\, The Tobacconist resonates way beyon d period and location. Based on the international bestseller by Robert  Seethaler. ~OY  \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The -Tobacconist-e1570112788970.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:810@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T203000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rojo-2/ SUMMARY:Rojo DESCRIPTION:Rojo\n\n\nDirected by Benjamin Naishtat\nArgentina | 2018 | Fic tion | 109 min\nSpanish w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Distrib Films U SA\nAwards/premier festivals: San Sebastian Film Festival - Best Dir ector\, Best Cinematography\, Best Actor\nSponsors: Vermont Wine Merchants  \n\nAlso showing: \n\nTues\, Oct 22 | 4:15PM | BB \n\nWhat was the A rgentinian mindset immediately preceding Jorge Rafael Videla’s right-win g military coup? Director Benjamin Naishtat’s (History of Fear\; The Mov ement) darkly funny\, highly stylish film immerses itself in Argentina’s collective conscious in 1975\, resulting in an X-ray image of seeping mor al decline under the guise of a murder mystery. The underlying tension is palpable throughout and affects all walks of life. Tense relations with th e U.S. are also brought in through an incident with American cowboys\, hin ting indirectly at American involvement in the coup. But the film is prima rily concerned with the disintegration of morals and society during times of uncertainty and lawlessness through the perspective of a complicit mi ddle-class community\, including a respectable judge and his family. It conveys the very gradual erosion of respect for human beings as each chang e brings about a “new normal.” ~OY  \n\n \;\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ROJ O_still_Dario_Gradinetti_and_Alfredo_Castro_2-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:786@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T210000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/clemency/ SUMMARY:Clemency DESCRIPTION:Clemency\n\nDirected by Chinonye Chukwu\nWith: Alfre Woodar d\, Aldis Hodge\, Wendell Pierce\nUSA | 2019 | Fiction | 113 min\n Film Source: Neon\nAwards/premier festivals: Sundance - U.S. Grand Jur y Prize for Drama\nSponsors: Jake Perkinson and Cate MacLachlan\n* Followe d by a reception sponsored by Champlain College. Clemency is one of three films selected by the Film and Media Culture Department at Middlebury Coll ege in partnership with VTIFF to screen in the Hirschfield International F ilm Series.\n\n\nWriter-director Chinonye Chukwu uses calibrated art istry across the board to tell a sensitive story about a prison warden’s very challenging position of power. In a stunning opening scene\, we see a lethal injection go wrong while the camera focuses on the immobile fac e of the warden (Alfre Woodard). The scene sets the tone for the dual concerns of this drama — the impact of the death penalty on the accused\ , as well as its impact on the civil servants whose job it is to ensur e the state execution is carried out according to the rule of law. While t he script and direction deserve much of the credit for the film’s succes s\, this would not be the same movie without the towering screen presence of Alfre Woodard. ~OY  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Cle mency_Still.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:816@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T153000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/toni-morrison-the-pieces-i-am-2/ SUMMARY:Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am DESCRIPTION:Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am\n\n\nDirected by Timothy Greenfi eld-Sanders\nUSA | 2019 | Documentary | 120 min\nFilm Source: Magnolia\nSp onsors: Patricia Fontaine \n\nAlso showing:\nMon\, Oct 21 | 4:00PM | BB  \n\nMade and released before she died in August at the age of 88\, Ton i Morrison: The Pieces I Am is an artful\, uplifting documentary about t he life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel Prize winner who created Beloved and Song of Solomon. The film is indispensable and deliver s what we crave most: hearing from this wise\, eloquent and often funny in terpreter of our society. Morrison talks directly to us about urgent matte rs of race\, the black experience and the white gaze\, as well as her life as an editor and writer and her childhood memories of growing up in a seg regated society. Interviews with Oprah Winfrey\, Angela Davis\, Fran Leb owitz\, Sonia Sanchez and others speak to Morrison’s importance\, while a tapestry of classic black art and photography threads through the film. But nothing is more compelling than Morrison's own beauty\, in voice and i mage\, from her younger years to her authoritative maturity. ~AM  \n\n& nbsp\;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1-s caled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:780@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T154500 DTSTAMP:20191010T204512Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/butterflies/ SUMMARY:Butterflies DESCRIPTION:Butterflies\n\nDirected by Tolga Karaçelik\nTurkey | 2019 | Fi ction | 117 min\nTurkish w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Films Boutique \nSponsors: Theresa Hyland and Rick Stoner | Kim and Mitch Fleischer \n\n Also showing\nWed Oct 23 | 7:00PM | FH\n\n\nThis joyous film combines hu mor and heart with such ease that sometimes the audience has barely caught their breath from laughing before tears begin to flow. Following three estranged adult siblings (an astronaut\, an actor and a teacher) on the ro ad to visit their estranged father\, we witness these urban characters for ced to interact with the very different culture of their youth. As they move further away from their westernized lifestyles to the collectivist\, traditional village in Turkey where they were born\, the tone and artistic references shift\, giving the film many layers of depth and power. Howe ver\, Butterflies can just as easily be enjoyed as a simple family comedy- drama in which the characters face their long-avoided childhood traumas to gether — and in doing so discover their true identities. ~JS \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/But terflies.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:827@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T174500 DTSTAMP:20191003T130835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-infiltrators/ SUMMARY:The Infiltrators DESCRIPTION:The Infiltrators\n\n\nDirected by Alex Rivera &\; Cristina I barra\nUSA | 2019 | Fiction | 91 min\nFilm Source: Oscilloscope\nSponsors: Nat and Martha Winthrop | Co-sponsors: Peace &\; Justice Center of Ver mont\nFollowed by Q&\;A\n\n The Infiltrators tells the incredible stor y of Marco and Viri\, two young undocumented immigrants who embarked on a high-risk mission: penetrate a for-profit detention center\, expose cases of abuse and set people free. Mixing footage of its real subjects with the actors portraying them\, husband and wife co-directors Ibarra and Rivera create a hybrid work that is equal parts journalistic exposé and taut dra ma. Rather than blending protest footage with somber tales of families spl it apart\, The Infiltrators explains the precise function of ICE\, deliver ing a fascinating contrast to national headlines. ~OY \n\n \;\n\n&nbs p\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/INF ILTRATORS-KEY-LUNCH-LINE-LARGE.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:776@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T180000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130747Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/aga/ SUMMARY:Àga DESCRIPTION:Àga\n\n\nDirected by Milko Lazarov\nBulgaria | 2019 | Fiction | 96 min\nBulgarian w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Big World Pictures\ nSponsors: Muffie Milens \n\nAlso showing\nMon\, Oct 21 | 1:30 PM | FH  \n\nIn a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North\, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Alone in the wilderness \, they look like the last people on Earth. Their traditional way of life starts changing – slowly\, but inevitably. Hunting becomes more and more difficult\, the animals around them die from inexplicable causes\, and th e ice has been melting earlier every year. Their daughter Ága left the ic y tundra long ago after a family feud. When Sedna's health deteriorates\, Nanook embarks on a long journey to find Ága. Exquisite cinematography do es more than justice to the majestic landscapes and the interiors\, which are lit like 17th century Dutch paintings. This explicit riff on Robert Fl aherty’s Nanook of the North will draw you into its world\, and the brea thtaking last shot will stay in your memory for days to come. It’s a fil m that has to be seen on the big screen. ~OY \n\n\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/AGA -scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:812@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T204500 DTSTAMP:20191008T170934Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/suburban-birds-2/ SUMMARY:Suburban Birds DESCRIPTION:Suburban Birds\n\n\nDirected by Qiu Sheng\nChina | 2018 | Ficti on | 113 min\nMandarin w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Cinema Guild\nSp onsors: Arnie Malina | Duncan Wisniewski Architecture \n\nAlso showing:\n Wed Oct 23 | 4:00PM | BB\n\nChosen for the New Directors/New Films showcas e at Lincoln Center in New York City\, and a hit at the prestigious Locarn o Film Festival\, this lauded debut by Chinese director Qui Sheng teases t he audience with two intertwining plotlines that have inexplicable tempora l twists and turns as the plot lines echo and overlap. An engineer tries t o figure out why craters have opened up on the edge of the city\; a pretee n spends long afternoons with his playmates in a lyrical portrait of youth and memory. But one by one his friends disappear. Poetic and enigmatic\ , suspenseful and often beautiful to watch\, Suburban Birds is as much abo ut love and dreams as corruption and bureaucracy. Discover a totally surpr ising film from a talented new director. ~AM \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Sub urban-Birds-updated.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:801@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T204500 DTSTAMP:20191010T204642Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/our-bodies-our-doctors/ SUMMARY:Our Bodies\, Our Doctors DESCRIPTION:Our Bodies\, Our Doctors\n\n\nDirected by Jan Haaken\nUSA | 201 9 | Documentary | 77 min\nFilm Source: Filmmaker\nSponsors: The Caroline F und for Women in Need | Sue Burton and Jan Schultz\n\n\nFollowed by a pane l discussion with the director Jan Haaken\, Dr. Sarah Prager participant i n the film\, Melinda Moulton\, on the Board of PPNNE\, Sandy Baird\, attor ney and co-founder of the Vermont Women’s Health Center in Burlington\,  and Dr. Lauren K. MacAffee\, gynecologist and obstetrician at UVM Medical Center. \n\nThis powerful film shines a light on new\, unexplored aspect s of the timely issue of abortion rights in America. The film introduces t he audience to a new generation of female doctors who are putting themselv es in danger in order to offer women reproductive choice. In one enthral ling scene\, the filmmakers follow the doctors to a medical school\, where they answer questions from students about the dangers of performing abort ions in America. The filmmakers were able to capture the true vulnerabilit y of these young medical students and the fear inherent in their choice of whether or not to perform abortions. The film also brings to light the ne w reality of non-religious hospitals combining with religious institutions \, and the real consequences of those mergers. There have been many recent films about the changing access to abortions in the American South\, but this film shows that the threat is real for all of America\, no matter wha t the laws say. ~JS \n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Our -bodies.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:839@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T230000 DTSTAMP:20191008T221536Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/chained-for-life/ SUMMARY:Chained For Life DESCRIPTION:Chained For Life\n\nWritten and Directed by Aaron Schimberg\nUS A | 2019 | Fiction | 91 min\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\n\nA beautiful actre ss struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a Europe an auteur's English-language debut. Through pitch-black satire\, Chained f or Life examines the treatment of disability on screen and on set. The fil m undermines conventional ideas about what constitutes beauty and sincerit y onscreen. It even hints at a loose parallel between plastic surgery\, wh ich can be seen as helping people look the way they feel inside\, and film making\; both are mechanisms for creating illusions\, but also have the po tential for revealing hidden truths. Schimberg’s film is odd\, darkly fu nny and — when it means to be — a little frightening.\n\n\n\nRecent re views:\nExtraordinary. A cinematic revolution.~ Richard Brody\, The New Yo rker\n\n\n\n\nHumane and transgressive\, an American indie of unusually bi g ideas and aesthetic ambition.~ Nellie Killian\, Film Comment\n\n\n\n\nMe smerizing. A remarkable mind trip of a movie sure to leave audiences reeli ng.~ Kate Erbland\, Indiewire\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Cha inedforLife_2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:837@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T130000 DTSTAMP:20190928T191429Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/scratchatopia-workshop-with-steve-woloshen-2/ SUMMARY:Scratchatopia Workshop: with Steve Woloshen DESCRIPTION:Internationally renowned animator Woloshen returns to VTIFF wit h a special animation workshop. Young and old alike will explore the multi ple techniques of camera-less filmmaking and discover new ones along the w ay. Participants are encouraged to choose materials and tools that work ef fectively\, then scratch\, paint and collage directly on to the surface of clear leader\, black leader or previously shot material. The goal of this exceptional workshop is to explore\, play and take risks with animation. All films will be digitized and viewed publicly on the day. See Woloshen's website: https://scratchatopia.wordpress.com/\n\nSponsored by KidsVT ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Scr atchatopia.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Kid Friendly,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:749@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T124500 DTSTAMP:20190922T145616Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dan-higgins-mhs-work-in-progress/ SUMMARY:Dan Higgins: Making Pictures (Made Here Showcase-Work in Progress) DESCRIPTION:DAN HIGGINS: MAKING PICTURES \nby Eleanor Lanahan | VT | 72 min s\n***Work-in-progress\, out of competition***\n\n\nDan Higgins is an arti st who uses photography to introduce us to the abundant cultures and stori es he has found in his community. With a rare\, multi-decade commitment\, Higgins engages with\, and documents\, the impact of urban renewal on Wino oski and invites us\, through personal vignettes and group portraiture\, i nto the many worlds that abound in our neighborhood.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dan -Higgins.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:787@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T144500 DTSTAMP:20191003T130835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-days-to-come/ SUMMARY:The Days to Come DESCRIPTION:The Days to Come (Els Dies Que Vindran)\n\n\nDirected by Carlos Marqués-Marcet\nSpain | 2019 | Fiction | 97 min\nCatalan w/ English subt itles\nFilm Source: Film Factory \n\nFollowed by Q&\;A (via Skype) wit h Director Marqués-Marcet \n\nThe Days to Come is the third in Carlos Marques-Mercet’s dissection of intense relationships hampered by ext ernal circumstances. 10.000 Km\, shown at VTIFF in 2015\, depicted a r elationship conducted through the internet. Hope focused on couples who didn’t always communicate in their mother tongue. The Days to Come  presents the life of a couple under one roof and under the microscope — from conception to the birth of their child. Over nine months they wi ll have to learn what it will mean to be the three of them\, despite not h aving had the time to learn how to be just the two of them. Although a fic tion film\, the film takes advantage of the actor’s actual pregnancy and is shot in cinema vérité style\, as it explores how difficult it can be to share the process of this profoundly transformative experien ce. As one of our programmers wrote: “Intimate boy-knocks-up-girl story embossed with real pregnancy (no pillows here!) finds the spine and wa lks all over it.”  ~OY  \n\n\n\nThe Days To Come - Trailer from Fil m Factory Entertainment S.L on Vimeo. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The DaysToCome_B-700x1000.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:783@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T151500 DTSTAMP:20191003T130835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-chambermaid-la-camarista/ SUMMARY:The Chambermaid (La Camarista) DESCRIPTION:The Chambermaid\nDirected by Lila Avilés\nMexico | 2018 | Fict ion | 102 min\nSpanish w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Kino Lorber\nSpo nsors: A Single Pebble \n\nAlso showing:\nTues\, Oct 22 | 6:45PM | BB  \n\nThe first feature film from theater director and actress Lila Avilés\ , The Chambermaid concerns a hotel housekeeper named Eve (played by the ma rvelously understated Gabriela Cartol) who dreams of a better life while g rinding through her daily routine. Inspired by Sophie Calle’s 1984 photo collection L’Hotel\, Avilés shot the film in just 17 days\, using her own savings to fund the production. With a keen eye for detail and precise shot compositions that recall the minimalist cinema of Belgian master Cha ntal Akerman\, Avilés frames the blue-collar tasks of the titular maid ag ainst the opulence of a luxury hotel in Mexico City and its wealthy patron s. And though the camera never leaves the hotel\, considerable tension is generated through our fear that Eve will be caught deviating from the rigi d demands of her job. Like Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma\, The Chambermaid is a humanistic film about class differences and the dehumanization of manual labor that celebrates the dignity of doing a job well. ~LB \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Cha mbermaid_2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:828@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T173000 DTSTAMP:20191010T204806Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/it-must-schwing-the-blue-note-story/ SUMMARY:It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story DESCRIPTION:It Must Schwing: The Bluenote Story\n\n\nDirected by Eric Fried ler\nGermany | 2018 | Documentary | 115 min\nEnglish\, German w/ English s ubtitles\nFilm Source: Studio Hamburg\nSponsors: Lisa Schamberg and Pat Ro bins\nFollowed by Q&\;A with Reuben Jackson \n\nBlue Note Records has produced some of the most famous albums in jazz history: Thelonious Monk ’s Genius of Modern Music\, John Coltrane’s Blue Train and Herbie Hanc ock’s Maiden Voyage\, to name just a few. But less well known is the sto ry of the record label’s founding\, in 1939\, by German Jewish refugees Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff\, who immigrated to the United States to esc ape Nazi persecution. The empathy between the Jewish jazz aficionados and African American musicians facing a different form of racism forms the cor e of It Must Schwing – The Blue Note Story\, a documentary that combines expressionistic animated sequences with interviews with veteran Blue Note artists\, including Wayne Shorter\, Sonny Rollins\, Ron Carter and Sheila Jordan. With a soundtrack featuring more than 30 classic Blue Note cuts a nd insightful segments on Rudy Van Gelder’s engineering wizardry and Wol ff’s striking album-cover photography\, It Must Schwing is a jazz lover ’s dream that also serves as an excellent introduction to the art form ’s most distinguished record label.  ~LB\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n& nbsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/It- Must-Schwing-3.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:818@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T173000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-venerable-w-2/ SUMMARY:The Venerable W. DESCRIPTION:The Venerable W.\n\n\nDirected by Barbet Schroeder\nFrance | 20 18 | Documentary | 100 min\nBurmese w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Cin ema Europe\nSponsor: Kevin Meehan\n\n\nAlso showing:\nWed\, Oct 23 | 1:45P M | BB\n\nThe Swiss-French director Barbet Schroeder completes his “Tril ogy of Evil” (General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portait\; Terror’s Advoc ate) with The Venerable W.\, about a Buddhist monk in Myanmar who uses strong anti-Muslim and anti-Rohingya rhetoric in his speeches and writi ngs. Schroeder’s singular style\, as he expressed in an interview with t he BBC\, is “not to judge those people\, but to make them talk and find out more about them and eventually ... give them enough rope to hang thems elves." And so\, in this film\, he relies partly on our ignorance of the conflicts in Myanmar and plays up the noble aspects of Buddhist cultu re\, while gradually letting the monk\, Ashin Wirathu\, self-indict.  In a sense\, this is the most terrifying of Schroeder’s portraits\, b ecause unlike Amin\, for example\, we also see Wirthu’s followers th rough footage culled from phone videos and other immediate media sources. Wirathu represents an awful idea\, one that cannot be banished\, and one h e propagates with chilling skill. “What was terrifying for me\,” s aid Schroeder\, “was my realization that you can meet evil people every day and fail to notice them. It’s not as if there is a big flashing ligh t next to their heads.” The final words of the Buddhist Burmese song at the end of the film — "We'll wall our country with our bones if we have to" — are quite chilling. ~OY \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ven erable-W-poster-CROP.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:793@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T210000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/genesis-2/ SUMMARY:Genesis DESCRIPTION:Genesis (Genèse)\n\n\nDirected by Phillipe Lesage\nCanada/Qué bec | 2018 | Fiction | 129 min\nFrench w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Film Movement\nSponsors: Lorna-Kay Peal \n\nAlso showing:\nMon\, Oct 21 | 3:45PM | FH\n\n\nPhilippe Lesage’s Genesis is a rarity: a coming-of-age film that explores the angst of adolescence from both male and female\, a nd gay and straight\, perspectives. Charlotte (Noée Abita) is a college-a ge Montréaler navigating the perplexing landscape of newfound freedom and open relationships. Her 16-year-old half-brother\, Guillaume (Théodore P ellerin)\, is a student at an all-boys boarding school coming to terms wit h his sexual identity in a severely repressive environment. Lesage makes s ome courageous narrative choices. Charlotte’s and Guillaume’s stories briefly overlap on just two occasions. A Faulkner-esque coda boldly ventur es into uncharted cinematic waters more akin to experimental literature. R efreshingly free of clichés and with fluid camerawork and strong performa nces from its young leads\, Genesis asks if the idyllic feelings of first love can be recaptured during the messy confusion of young adulthood. ~LB  \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gen esis_gallery-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:791@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T210000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130912Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/family-tour/ SUMMARY:A Family Tour DESCRIPTION:A Family Tour\n\nDirected by Ying Liang\nTaiwan/Hong Kong/Singa pore/Malaysia | 2018 | Fiction | 107 min\nMandarin\, Cantonese\, Min Nan w / English subtitles\nFilm Source: Golden Scene Company Limited\nSponsors: A Single Pebble  \n\nThe plot of A Family Tour is deceptively simple. A Chinese filmmaker living in Hong Kong travels to a festival in Taipei to p resent a film that has been banned in mainland China. She uses the trip as an opportunity to see her mother\, but to avoid attention they can only m eet surreptitiously under the guise of a guided sightseeing tour. It’s a story that closely mirrors writer-director Ying Liang’s own situation. In 2012\, after his film When Night Falls was deemed subversive by the Chi nese government\, he was forced to flee his home for Hong Kong. On one lev el\, the film deftly examines questions of national identity and the polit ical complexities that separate mainland China\, Hong Kong and Taiwan. At the same time\, it serves as a poignant family drama about the cost of aba ndoning one’s homeland and familial roots in the pursuit of truth throug h art. A Family Tour was completed prior to the massive demonstrations tha t began in March\, following a proposed bill that would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be extradited to mainland China. With violent clashes be tween pro-democracy protestors and police in Hong Kong making headlines ac ross the globe\, the quiet urgency of Ying’s film has only grown more re levant. ~LB \n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/A-f amily-tour-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:833@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T211500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T230000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130912Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/monos/ SUMMARY:Monos DESCRIPTION:Monos\n\nDirected by Alejandro Landes\nColombia/Argentina | 201 9 | Fiction | 102 min\nSpanish w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Neon\nAw ards/premier festivals: Sundance Film Festival - World Cinema Dramatic Jur y Award   \n\nMonos takes place entirely in remote mountains and j ungles\, where eight teenage commandos with guns and code names like Smurf \, Bigfoot and Rambo watch over a milk cow and a female hostage they call  Doctora (Julianne Nicholson) for a collective named The Organization. The film is an unwavering visual and psychological dare that illustrate s the surreal nature of war\, seen mostly from the unique perspective of a dolescence. As director Alejandro Landes says: “The idea was to cr eate an atemporal world\, out of place\, out of time\, far away from everything. ... Though the specifics of the Colombian civil war are t he source of inspiration\, the idea was always for the experience of the f ilm to cross borders and exist as a world in and of its own.” ~OY   \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/MON OS_Still.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:800@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T121500 DTSTAMP:20191009T173331Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nothing-fancy-diana-kennedy-2/ SUMMARY:Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy DESCRIPTION:Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy\nDirected by Elizabeth Carrol\nUSA | 2019 | Documentary | 74 min\nFilm Source: Filmmakers\nSponsor: A spirit ed group industry professionals and food enthusiasts | Anonymous\n\nAlso s howing Sun\, Oct 20 at 4:00 pm | FH (with Q&\;A)\n\nMaster chef\, teach er and environmental activist Diana Kennedy is living proof that size has nothing to do with strength. Now in her 90s and barely five feet tall\, sh e's a fierce jolt of energy that has become one of the most celebrated cul inary legends of Mexican cuisine. Aware of her own mortality\, she works t irelessly to solidify her legacy with the hope of turning her home into a foundation for culinary education in Mexico. Blending archival footage fro m her many television appearances and access to the ecologically sustainab le home where she cooks\, recycles rainwater\, uses solar power and grows her own crops\, Nothing Fancy is an inspiring homage to a culinary and env ironmental trailblazer. But whatever you do\, don't blend your avocado! ~ OY\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Not hig-Fancy.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:790@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T131500 DTSTAMP:20191025T133718Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/family-shorts/ SUMMARY:Family Shorts DESCRIPTION:Family Shorts\n\nVarious directors and countries of origin | 76 min\nFilm Source: North West Film Forum\nSponsors: Kids VT\n\n*Free Scree ning* You may book your Free tickets by clicking on the Reserve Tickets bu tton above\n \n\nA special selection from the Children’s Film Festival in Seattle of contemporary short films of different styles and a range of topics that VTIFF has specially curated for the festival. The films are ei ther in English or are non-verbal and can be enjoyed by the whole family.  Suitable for ages 5 to 100.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dia mantino_00187350.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Kid Friendly,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:774@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T151500 DTSTAMP:20191003T130912Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/advocate/ SUMMARY:Advocate DESCRIPTION:Advocate\n\nDirected by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bella ïche\nIsrael/Canada/Switzerland | 2019 | Documentary | 108 min\nHebrew\, Arabic\, English w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Film Movement\nAward s/premier festivals: DocAviv Film Festival - Best Israeli Film\; Hong Ko ng Int'l Film Festival - Jury Prize\; and many more\nSponsors: Peace &\ ; Justice Center of Vermont\nFollowed by Q&\;A with Lea Tsemel (via Skype) and Burlington lawyer Evan Barquist\n\nLea Tsemel defends Pale stinians: from feminists to fundamentalists\, from non-violent demonstrato rs to armed militants. As a bitterly divisive Jewish Israeli lawyer wh o has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years\, Tsemel pus hes the praxis of a human-rights defender to its limits. Advocate is an  up close and personal portrait of this tireless advocate and a ri veting film. Through the depiction of specific cases and Tsemel’s  inner conflicts\, the film succeeds in highlighting universal que stions\, such as: What do human-rights lawyers really try to achieve  – representation of the best interests of their clients\, or fightin g for the “bigger cause"? Or\, how do you engage with a justice system that represents the state's interests?  ~OY \n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Adv ocate_Filmstill_4-Copy.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:838@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T151500 DTSTAMP:20191016T124815Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/alan-magee-art-is-not-a-solace/ SUMMARY:Alan Magee: art is not a solace DESCRIPTION:Alan Magee: art is not a solace\nDirected by David Wright and D avid Berez\nUSA | 2019 | Documentary | 58 min\nFilm Source: Filmmakers\n\n \nFollowed by Q&\;A with director David Wright\n\nAlan Magee: art is no t a solace takes the viewer on a breathtaking visual journey—an explorat ion of the artist’s recurring subjects\, locales\, and the historical so urces which have sustained his passion for five decades. Through his paint ings\, sculpture\, monotypes\, music\, and short films\, Magee invites vie wers to travel with him through the unsettling recesses of human experienc e and back into the affirming light of day.\n\nAdam Hochschild\, author of King Leopold’s Ghost\, Bury The Chains\, and To End All Wars\, has said this about the documentary:\n\n“This is a remarkable film about a remar kable artist. It’s a long time since I’ve seen anything that so skillf ully gets inside the life of a highly creative person at work. And Alan Ma gee: art is not a solace does this on so many levels\, attentive to Magee ’s background\, his technique\, the influences on him\, and—something so often ignored when we talk about artists—the great lies and injustice s of the times in which we live.”\n\nDavid is an award-winning director and cinematographer (Emmy &\; BAFTA) and has worked in over 60 countrie s. He shoots stories relating to both environmental and human justice issu es. Plus works on television series such as David Attenborough’s Life an d Frozen Planet. \n\n \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ALL AN-MAGEE.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:807@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T180000 DTSTAMP:20191003T132915Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-reports-on-sarah-and-saleem-2/ SUMMARY:The Reports on Sarah and Saleem DESCRIPTION:The Reports on Sarah and Saleem\n\n\nDirected by Muayad Alayan\ nPalestine | 2018 | Fiction | 127 min\nArabic\, Hebrew\, English w/ Englis h subtitles\nFilm Source: Dada Films\nAwards/premier festivals: Internatio nal Film Festival Rotterdam - Special Jury Award\; Seattle Internati onal Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize\; and many others  \nSponsors: Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program \n\nAlso showing:\nMon\, O ct 21 | 7:00PM | BB \n\nIn many countries\, an affair between a married w oman and a married man would be just that: an affair. When the woman is Je wish Israeli and the man is Muslim Palestinian\, it cannot be that simple. When Sarah and Saleem are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time\, the affair naturally takes on a political dimension\, leaving them to deal with more than just broken marriages. Director Muayad Alayan picks up on the nuanced engagement with Palestinian-Israeli tensions of his firs t feature\, Love\, Theft\, and Other Entanglements\, and gradually unr avels them through the vehicle of a psychosocial drama-thriller with many surprises along the way. The non-linear structure emphasizes the complexit y of the narrative as it impacts both their families in personal and polit ical ways. A richly detailed Jerusalem and neighboring Bethlehem serve as both background and center players. ~OY  \n\n \;\n\n\n\nQuote from the film's press kit - Muayad Alayan statement: "I have always been touche d and moved by cinema with characters that find themselves in situations b igger than themselves -- situations that challenges the average person\, w ho is often an anti-hero\, to survive and find comfort and safety amidst l ife’s absurdity [...] I was a teenager during the years of the second Pa lestinian uprising\, the Intifada. Jerusalem was haunted with fear and ten sion. As dark as these days were\, everyone had to go on living\, breathin g\, securing an income and searching for happiness. At the time I had to t ake jobs in the western part of the city\, like most Palestinians from Eas t Jerusalem. In most cases\, this would be the first encounter for a Pales tinian with the Israeli community\, beyond the usual daily encounters with Israeli soldiers. This experience allowed me to witness the everyday inte ractions of Palestinians with the Israeli community. To witness was also t o experience first hand how\, amidst the intense political atmosphere\, so me rare moments of ease could let you forget the social and political barr iers set between you and the other. I also witnessed how the politics and social divisions found their way into human interactions when least expect ed and suddenly\, the barriers were back in place in a heartbeat."\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Rep orts-on-Sarah-and-Saleem.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:795@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T180000 DTSTAMP:20191003T130912Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/give-me-liberty-2/ SUMMARY:Give Me Liberty DESCRIPTION:Give Me Liberty\n\n\nDirected by Kirill Mikhanovsky\nUSA | 2019 | Fiction | 119 min\nFilm Source: Music Box Films\nSponsors: Anne Barbano and Michael George | Tom and Molly Roland \n\nAlso Showing: \nTues\, Oct 22 | 1:30PM | FH\n\n\nVic\, a transport driver for people with disabiliti es\, is having a rough day. The boss is already busting his chops for runn ing behind schedule when a group of fellow Russian Americans find themselv es without a ride to a funeral. Meanwhile\, Vic (the charismatic Chris Gal ust\, in his first role) is desperately trying to get his regular riders t o their various appointments when a race riot breaks out on his Milwaukee route. Give Me Liberty is the second feature for Russia-born director Kiri ll Mikhanovsky\, who himself worked as a medical transport driver in Milwa ukee before becoming a filmmaker. Mikhanovsky’s experiences lend the fil m a lived-in authenticity\, as does the casting of actors who have disabil ities\, including Lauren “Lolo” Spencer as an African American woman w ith ALS who develops a tentative relationship with Vic. Give Me Liberty is an absurdly funny film\, in a style reminiscent of the Safdie brothers’ Good Time and Martin Scorsese’s After Hours\, which also examines racia l tensions in one of America’s most segregated cities. ~LB \n\n \;\ n\n\n\nRead a fascinating interview with the director HERE\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Giv e-Me-Liberty-5.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:781@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T203000 DTSTAMP:20191008T160614Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligary/ SUMMARY:The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari DESCRIPTION:The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari\n*Closing Night Film*\n\n\nDirected by Robert Wiene\nGermany | 1920 | Fiction | 75 min\nEnglish intertitles\n Film Source: Kino Lorber\nSponsors: Lyric Theatre Company\nLive piano and percussion accompaniment with Randal Pierce and Colin Henkel\nScreening fo llowed by Closing Night Party in the Lake Lobby sponsored by Mirabelle's c afe and American Flatbread\n\n\nIn 1920\, one brilliant film catapulted th e movement known as German Expressionism into film history. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari reflects the mistrust of authority developed in the im mediate post-World War I era and depicts a power that is brutal and insa ne\, manipulating those under its observation to their own whim. Directo r Robert Wiene and a visionary team of designers crafted a nightmare r ealm in which light\, shadow and substance are abstracted. It’s a world in which a demented doctor and a carnival sleepwalker perpetrate a series of ghastly murders in a small community. Distortions and mangled perspec tives are constant\; bold brush strokes paint shadows equally with sharp e dges and round curves\, as lines and structures twist and strike to form nightmarish shapes. While Expressionism was by no means the only cinemati c style flourishing in Germany at that time (think of the romantic comedie s of Ernst Lubitsch’s silent films)\, it was certainly the most sensatio nal. We will be screening a 4K restoration scanned from the (mostly) pre served camera negative at the German Federal Film Archive. This is the fil m's 100th anniversary - shot in 2019\, released- 1920~OY \n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Cab inet-of-Dr.-Caligari-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:840@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191103T180000 DTSTAMP:20191020T214843Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunday-best-decade-of-fire/ SUMMARY:Sunday Best: Decade of Fire DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF &\; Vermont PBS\nHost Sponsor: Main Stree t Landing\nDirected by Vivian Vázquez Irizarry\, Gretchen Hildebran\, and Julia Steele Allen\n54 mins | Documentary | English and Spanish w/English subtitles\nFollowed by Q&\;A with director Gretchen Hildebrand*\, mode rated by Eric Ford\, Director of Programming at Vermont PBS\n\n\n\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\nIn the 1970s\, fires raged through the South Bronx. Aband oned by landlords and city\nofficials\, nearly a half million residents we re displaced from their beloved neighborhood. With the help of fellow\nsur vivors\, filmmaker and Bronx native Vivian Vázquez Irizarry tells the sto ry of the residents who banded\ntogether amidst the rubble and built a bet ter future for their community.\n\n*** Sunday Best screenings are FREE wit h a suggested donation of $5.  We urge you to book in advance.\n\n \; \n\n\n\n*Gretchen Hildebran is a documentary filmmaker whose work lives at the intersection of politics\, policy and human experience. A graduate of Stanford’s documentary program\, her credits include: Worth Saving (200 4)\, about drugs users in San Francisco taking action to save each other ’s lives\, which was presented in HBO’s Frame by Frame showcase\, and Out in the Heartland (2005) about 3 sets of gay parents facing down church es and family in the wake of anti-gay legislation in Kentucky. Gretchen fi lmed Ramona Diaz’s The Learning (2011) and has edited independent docume ntaries and for the History Channel\, PBS and the United Nations Developme nt Programme. She has also made several short documentaries used to educat e local communities across the country about life-saving public health int erventions such as needle exchange and overdose prevention. Gretchen grew up in Vermont and Decade of Fire is her first feature film.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/dec ade-of-fire-sig-image-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:844@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T210000 DTSTAMP:20191121T165148Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/special-work-in-progress-screening/ SUMMARY:Special Work-in-Progress Screening DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nHost Sponsor: Main Street Landing\n\nThis i s a special screening of a work in progress documentary feature by two Ver mont natives and past award winners at the Vermont Filmmakers Showcase.\n\ nThe filmmakers would like to solicit your comments and input as well as r eport on the remaining financial support required to complete the film. VT IFF is happy to support them and this event. We encourage as many people a s possible to attend.\nThe screening is a private event. You may reserve t ickets using the button above as access and seats will be limited. There i s a suggested donation of $5-$10 at the door just to help cover our hostin g costs.\nQuestions? Subscribe to our weekly e-newsletter or call the VTIF F office - 802.660.2600\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SPE CIAL-Cover-Image-e1572632806450.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:846@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191208T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191208T180000 DTSTAMP:20191122T221214Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunday-best-the-first-rainbow-coalition/ SUMMARY:Sunday Best: The First Rainbow Coalition DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF &\; Vermont PBS\nHost Sponsor: Main Stree t Landing\nDirected by Ray Santisteban\n54 mins | Documentary\nFollowed by Q&\;A with Denis Mueller*\, moderated by Eric Ford\, Director of Progr amming at Vermont PBS\nBroadcast date: Jan 27\, 2020\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n& nbsp\;\n\nIn 1969\, the Chicago Black Panther Party began to form multi-et hnic coalition with the Young Lords Organization and the Young Patriots. B anding together in one of the most segregated cities in post-war America\, the Rainbow Coalition changed the face of 1960s Chicago politics and crea ted an organizing model for future activists and politicians.\n\n*** Sunda y Best screenings are FREE with a suggested donation of $5.  We urge you to book in advance.\n\nClick HERE for trailer link\n\n* Denis Mueller has been a documentary filmmaker for 35 years. His films include The FBI’s W ar on Black America\, Howard Zinn: You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Trai n\, John Edgar Hoover and the American Inquisitions\, Nelson Algren: The E nd is Nothing\, the Road is All and his last film made with long time coll eague Deb Ellis\, Peace Has No Borders. His newest film Russell Banks: Eve n as I Continue tells the story of this acclaimed writer whose exploration of toxic masculinity and race and class has made him one of the great Ame rican writers of the 20th Century. Denis received his Ph.D. in American St udies in 2007 from Bowling Green State University. He is a teacher\, a men tor and has had a lifelong interest in the abuse of power.  Denis is from Chicago where he was born and raised and now lives in Burlington. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/FIR STRAINBOW_Publicity_01-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:845@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191212T203000 DTSTAMP:20191106T210441Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/saint-frances/ SUMMARY:Saint Frances DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nHost Sponsor: Main Street Landing\nDirected by Alex Thompson | Written by and starring Kelly O'Sullivan\nUSA | 2019 | Fiction | 101 mins | SXSW 2019 - Winner Narrative Feature Audience Award / Special Jury Recognition for Breakout Voice\nFilm Source: Oscilloscope L aboratories\n\nThere is no official trailer for the film yet.\n\nFlailing thirty-four-old Bridget (O'Sullivan) finally catches a break when she meet s a nice guy and lands a much-need job nannying six-year-old Frances. But an unwanted pregnancy introduces an unexpected complication. She also has to navigate a growing tension between Frances's moms. There are big laughs in the film as well as quiet moments. Saint Frances is funny\, moving\, h uman. Tonally delicate and loving towards every single one of its characte rs\, it's the kind of indie that gives indie movies a good name.\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Sai nt-Frances.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:847@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200112T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200112T180000 DTSTAMP:20200618T150455Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunday-best-always-in-season/ SUMMARY:Sunday Best: Always in Season DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF &\; Vermont PBS\nHost Sponsor: Main Stree t Landing\nDirected by Jacqueline Olive\n86 mins | Documentary\nFollowed b y Q&\;A moderated by Eric Ford\, Director of Programming at Vermont PBS \nBroadcast date: Feb 24\, 2020\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nIn Always i n Season\, descendants of the victims and perpetrators of lynching are wor king together to heal a violent history. Blending observational footage wi th first-person testimonies and expert input\, Always in Season examines t he lingering impact of lynching and the link between this historic form of racial terrorism and the racial violence that exists today.\n\n*** Sunday Best screenings are FREE with a suggested donation of $5.  We urge you t o book in advance.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/alw ays-in-season-sig-image-e1574778090132.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:849@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200130T210000 DTSTAMP:20200116T173529Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/synonyms/ SUMMARY:Synonyms DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nHost Sponsor: Main Street Landing\nDirected and written by Nadav Lapid\nFrance/Israel/Germany | 2019 | Fiction | 123 mins | French w/English subtitles | Berlinal 2019 - Winner Golden Bear\nFi lm Source: Kino Lorber\n\n"Astonishing\, maddening\, brilliant\, hilarious \, obstinate\, and altogether unmissable" ~Indiewire\n\nThe latest from Na dav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher) features a dynamic lead performance f rom newcomer Tom Mercier\, whose feral intensity practically bursts out of the frame. Mercier plays Yoav\, a disaffected young Israeli who flees Tel Aviv for Paris to start a new life. Desperate to erase his origins\, Yoav sees becoming French as his only hope for salvation. Step one is to repla ce his language. From now on\, he will not utter a single word of Hebrew a nd his dictionary becomes his constant companion. His work at the Israeli embassy is a burden\, but studying for his naturalization test also has it s pitfalls. And the young French couple he befriends has some rather stran ge ideas about how to help him. Based on Lapid's and Mercier's own experie nces\, Synonyms explores the challenges of putting down roots in a new pla ce. Yoav's attempts to find himself awaken past demons and open up an exis tential abyss in this tragicomic puzzle that wisely knows how to keep its secrets.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/SYN _2746-e1575304924767.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:851@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T183000 DTSTAMP:20200207T192255Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/best-of-mnff-dont-be-nice/ SUMMARY:Best of MNFF: Don't Be Nice CANCELLED DESCRIPTION:\n\nPresented by VTIFF\nVenue Host: Main Street Landing\nA part nership between VTIFF and Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival\nDirected by Max Powers\nUSA | 2017 | Documentary | 95 mins\nProducer Nikhil Melnechuk in attendance for Q&\;A with Jay Craven and for a meet-and-greet at the Lake Lobby reception after the screening. Snacks and refreshments after t he Q&\;A in the Lake Lobby - 6:45 - 7:30\n\nFollowed by the 2nd Best of MNFF screening: Ernie and Joe: Crisis Cops\n\nThe upstart Bowery Slam Poe try Team\, made up of five young African-American\, Afro-Hispanic and quee r poets\, prepares for the national championships. Mentored by a demanding coach who pushes them past their personal boundaries to write from a pain fully honest place\, the poets break down\, break through\, and compose th eir best work ever. Will their soul-searching pieces about police violence and the whitewashing of Black culture be able to compete against choreogr aphed crowd-pleasers for the title?\n\nDirector's Statement\n\nLauren Whit ehead coaches the Bowery Slam Team with the credo “Don’t Be Nice.” S he explains that to “be nice” is to stay on the surface of things\, is to perpetuate the status quo\, and is\, for black people\, to be what whi te culture demands. Her team of poets brave their inner demons and buck so cietal expectations to write truthful poems\, and to ultimately celebrate black joy.\nMy goal has been to illuminate these poets’ words with as li ttle obstruction as possible\, bringing the revolutionary work they’ve d one in expanding Slam Poetry to a wider movie-going audience. Where many s uccumb to the polarizing simplifications of click-bait headlines\, these p oets do difficult personal work to come to an understanding of their relat ionship to race and power\, and courageously share it.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Don t-Be-Nice.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Monthly Screenings,Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:852@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T210000 DTSTAMP:20200207T192322Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/best-of-mnff-ernie-and-jo/ SUMMARY:Best of MNFF: Ernie and Joe: Crisis Cops. CANCELLED! DESCRIPTION:\n\nPresented by VTIFF\nVenue Host: Main Street Landing\nA part nership between VTIFF and Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival\nDirected by Jenifer McShane\nUSA | 2017 | Documentary | 96 mins\nScreening followed by a Q&\;A with Producer Nikhil Melnechuk\, Attorney General T J Donovan and Jay Craven. Come at 6:45 for a meet-and-greet at the Lake Lobby. Snack s and refreshments after the Q&\;A in the Lake Lobby.\n\nThis screening follows the first of Best of MNFF screening: Don't Be Nice at 5:00 PM\n\n \nErnie and Joe is an intimate portrait of two Texas police officers who a re helping change the way police respond to mental health calls.  The fil m takes audiences on a personal journey\, weaving together their experienc es during their daily encounters with people in crisis.  These two office rs are not your everyday cops. They are part of the San Antonio Police Dep artment’s 10-person Mental Health Unit.\n\n********\n\nWinner of the 201 3 Director’s Award at the Social Justice Film Festival\, selected by the U.S. Department’s American Film Showcase to tour internationally\, it w as broadcast on PBS stations nationwide as part of the America ReFramed do cumentary series.  Jenifer’s first film\, A LEAP OF FAITH (Sundance F ilm Festival\, 1996)\, which follows a group of parents in Belfast\, North ern Ireland as they open an integrated school for Catholic and Protestant children was broadcast on PBS\, and screened broadly on European televisio n.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Ern ie-and-Joe-e1575401659114.png CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Monthly Screenings,Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:853@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200209T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200209T173000 DTSTAMP:20200206T222229Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunday-best-cooked/ SUMMARY:Sunday Best: Cooked: Survival By Zip Code DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF &\; Vermont PBS\nHost Sponsor: Main Stree t Landing\nDirected by Judith Helfand\n54 mins | Documentary\nFollowed by Q&\;A with Ben Rose\, Recovery and Mitigation Section Chief - Vermont E mergency Management Division\, moderated by Eric Ford\, Director of Progra mming at Vermont PBS\nBroadcast date: Feb 10\, 2020\n\n\n*** Free\, with s uggested donation of $5-$10 ***\n\nIn her signature serious-yet-quirky con nect-the- dots style\, Peabody Award winning filmmaker Judith Helfand take s audiences from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat disaster deep into one of ou r nation’s biggest growth industries - disaster preparedness. Along the way she forges inextricable links between extreme weather\, extreme wealth disparity and extreme racism\, daring to ask: What if a zip code was just a routing number\, and not a life-or-death sentence.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n\n\nAsking open-ended questions that push people to deeply consid er what it might mean to redefine the term “disaster” and reframe the concept of “resilience\,” Helfand forges inextricable connections betw een the cataclysmic natural disasters we’re willing to see and prepare f or and the slow-motion disasters we’re not – that is until an extreme weather event hits and they are made exponentially more deadly and visible . Using a combination of chutzpah\, humor and candor\,\nHelfand delves dee p into one of our nation’s biggest growth industries: disaster preparedn ess. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/COO KED_KeyImage.png CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:857@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T203000 DTSTAMP:20200128T230730Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/yemanja-wisdom-from-the-african-heart-of-braz il/ SUMMARY:Yemanjá: Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Champlain College\nScreening and Q&\;A with Direct or Donna Carole Roberts and Champlain College professor Stephen Wehmeyer\n \n\nProducer/Director: Donna Carole Roberts\nNarrated by Pulitzer Prize-wi nning author Alice Walker\nAssociate Director/Editor: Donna Read (Canada)\ nPhotographer: Gerald Lee Hoffman\nWinner of Five Best Documentary Awards\ n\nNote: 5:30-6:30 pm - Goddesses of Nature: Photography Exhibit with Ph otographer Gerald Lee Hoffman\n\nYemenjà explores the Afro-Brazilian cult ure\, worldview\, and spiritual practice of Candomblé through the voices of four dynamic elder women leaders. A powerful legacy of enslaved African s forced to Brazil during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade\, Candomblé embo dies universal wisdom and values. The title Yemanjá honors the Yoruba/Bra zilian Goddess of the oceans and sea\, considered sacred in Candomblé. De votees revere elders\, ancestors\, the natural world\, and spiritual force s or guides known as Orixás. Addressing history\, social and environmenta l justice\, and the power of faith and community\, the film tells a compel ling story for our times.\n\nRead more HERE\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Yem anjá.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Champlain College\, Alumni Auditorium\, 375 Maple Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4739887;-73.20406350000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=375 Maple Street\, Burlingt on\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Champlain Colle ge\, Alumni Auditorium:geo:44.4739887,-73.20406350000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:850@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T210000 DTSTAMP:20200223T223604Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/varda-by-agnes/ SUMMARY:Varda by Agnès + Elegies DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF\nHost Sponsor: Main Street Landing\nVarda by Agnès\nDirected and written by Agnès Varda\nFrance | 2019 | Documentary | 120 mins\nFilm Source: Janus\n\nNote: The film will be preceded by the short film Elegies\, by Eiko Otake\, John R.Killacky\, and Brian Stevenson \, 2019. See more information below.\n\nVarda by Agnès\nThe final film fr om the late\, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful\, pro found\, and personal summation of the director’s own brilliant career. A t once impish and wise\, she acts as our spirit guide on a free-associativ e tour through her six-decade artistic journey\, shedding new light on her films\, photography\, and recent installation works while offering her on e-of-a-kind reflections on everything from filmmaking to feminism to aging . Suffused with the people\, places\, and things she loved—Jacques Demy\ , cats\, colors\, beaches\, heart-shaped potatoes—this wonderfully idios yncratic work of imaginative autobiography is a warmly human\, touchingly bittersweet parting gift from one of cinema’s most luminous talents.\n\n \n\nVARDA BY AGNES - TRAILER from Janus Films on Vimeo.\n\n \;\n\nEleg ies | USA | 9 mins 23 seconds\nEiko Otake\, John R.Killacky\, and Brian St evenson - a collaboration\nArtist/Legislator John R. Killacky collaborates with choreographer Eiko Otake  to create intimate elegies to their dead mothers\, austerely shot by cinematographer Brian Stevenson.\n\n\n\nArtist statement\n\nIn 2017\, choreographer Eiko Otake inaugurated The Duet Proj ect\, an open-ended series of cross-disciplinary\, cross-cultural\, and cr oss generational experiments with a radical diversity of fellow artists bo th living and dead. In July 2018\, while attending a tree planting ceremon y for a mutual friend at Jacob's Pillow\, Eiko invited John Killacky to co llaborate. John proposed to create a video work in which both of them spea k to their dead mothers. John then asked Brian Stevenson to join as cinema tographer. The work was developed by long distance communication and produ ced with the support of Vermont PBS in November 2019. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/var da-by-agnes-av-plage-et-oiseaux-c-cine-tamaris-2018-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:854@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200301T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200301T173000 DTSTAMP:20200209T173823Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/serious-animation-orly-yadin/ SUMMARY:Serious Animation: The Films of Orly Yadin DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF and Shelburne Museum\n\nA selection of short animation films produced by VTIFF's Executive Director Orly Yadin while l iving in London. Most of these films are animated documentaries - an appro ach to the telling of true stories and facts pioneered by various women an imators in the 1980s. Orly will introduce the films and be there for the p ost-screening Q&\;A.\n\nBlind Justice\nA selection from a 30-minute ser ies of 4 short films about women and the law\, based on real court cases i n the UK\, 1988 - Produced by Orly Yadin\nSomeone Must Be Trusted\nDirecte d and animated by Christine Roche and Gillian Lacey\n7 mins 26 secs\nAn op era in 3 tragic acts\, portraying different aspects of discrimination agai nst women – at home\, at work and in the courts\, through use of music a nd humor\nSome Protection\nDirected and animated by Marjut Rimminen\n10 mi ns\nBased on the true story of Josie O’Dwyer\, who was jailed for “her own protection” after being raped as a teenager. Using Josie’s own vo ice as personal commentary.\n***********\n\nThe Stain\nDirected and animat ed by Marjut Rimminen and Christine Roche\, produced by Orly Yadin\nInspir ed by a brief newspaper story about suicidal octogenarian twins. Uses a va riety of animation styles to spin a claustrophobic web of incest and intri gue. 1991\, 11 mins\n\n***********\n\nSilence\nWritten and Directed by Orl y Yadin and Sylvie Bringas\n(Short-listed for the Academy Awards)\nAnimate d documentary about a little girl holocaust survivor and her learned and s elf-imposed silences. 1998\, 11 mins\n\n**********\n\nTreasure - Animated 26 part series \nCo-produced by Orly Yadin\nSatire about a teenage girl as perceived through her mother’s eyes\nEpisode 3: The Little Black Dress\ n2001\, 10 mins\n\nThe screening will be followed by a reception (light fo od fare and cash bar). This event is in preparation for the museum exhibit Shortlist: Animation Today and is the first of two programs showcasing wo men and animation. The second program focuses on animation directors from Vermont and Québec on March 22. \n\n\nSpace is limited and early booking is recommended\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/The -Stain01.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Shelburne Musem - Pizzagalli Center\, 6000 Shelburne Road\, Shelbu rne\, VT\, 05482\, United States GEO:44.3708733;-73.2316975 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=6000 Shelburne Road\, Shelb urne\, VT\, 05482\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Shelburne Mus em - Pizzagalli Center:geo:44.3708733,-73.2316975 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:858@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200308T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200308T173000 DTSTAMP:20200304T165955Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunday-best-bedlam/ SUMMARY:Sunday Best: Bedlam DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF &\; Vermont PBS\nHost Sponsor: Main Stree t Landing\nDirected by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg\n86 mins | Documentary\nFoll owed by Q&\;A with Tammy Boudah\, Team Lead\, Howard Center Street Outr each\; moderated by Eric Ford\, Director of Programming at Vermont PBS\nBr oadcast date: April 13\, 2020\n\n\n*** Free\, with suggested donation of $ 5-$10 ***\n\nFilmmaker and practicing psychiatrist\, Ken Rosenberg visits ERs\, jails\, and homeless camps to examine our national mental health cri sis. Rosenberg follows the poignant stories of people grappling with schiz ophrenia\, bipolar disorder\, and other chronic psychiatric conditions\, w hose silence and shame often worsen the suffering.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bed lam-sig-image-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:856@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200322T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200322T173000 DTSTAMP:20200312T174846Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/women-animators/ SUMMARY:Cancelled: Women Animators: Vermont and Québec DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart Shelburne Museum and VTIFF have taken the decision to cancel this event.\n\nPresented by VTIFF and Sh elburne Museum\n\nA selection of short animation films produced by women a nimators in Vermont and in Québec\, through the National Film Board of Ca nada. Orly Yadin\, Executive Director of VTIFF and Eleanor Lanahan\, direc tor of The Naked Hitchhiker\, will introduce the films and be there for th e post-screening Q&\;A.\n\nFrom the National Film Board of Canada:\n\nM acPherson\nBy Martine Chartrand\nRecounts the friendship between Félix Le clerc and Frank Randolph Macpherson\, a Jamaican chemical engineer who ins pired to the famous poet a song on the log drives.\n2012\, 10 mins\n\nThe Street\nDirected and animated by Caroline Leaf\nAn adaptation of a short s tory by Mordecai Richler about his memories of growing up in Montreal's Je wish community. The film has won many awards\, including an Oscar nominati on in 1977\n1976\, 11 mins 45 secs\n\nI’m OK\nDirected and Animated by E lizabeth Hobbs\nExpressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka’s tempestuous love affair with Alma Mahler ends dramatically and he volunteers to fight in th e First World War.\n2018\, 6 mins\n\nFrom Vermont:\n\nThe Naked Hitchhiker \nDirected and animated by Eleanor Lanahan\n\nA whimsical animation film l ayered with intelligence and wit\, The Naked Hitchhiker delves into the ri ch emotional mindscape of a woman coming to grips with the destructive pat terns of her life. Reeling from a crushing marital breakup\, this woman is emotionally raw and literally naked when she is picked up by an empatheti c truck driver. As they drive through a blizzard\, she shares her problems with the understanding man behind the wheel\, opening up her darkest secr ets and psychology as a woman. Winner of the Goldstone Award at the Vermon t International Film Festival.\n2006\, 29 mins\n\nThe screening will be fo llowed by a reception (light food fare and cash bar). This event is in pre paration for the museum exhibit Shortlist: Animation Today. This is the se cond of two programs showcasing women in animation. The first focuses on f ilms produced by Orly Yadin on March 1.\n\nSpace is limited and early book ing is recommended ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Nak ed-Hitchhiker-e1578772671221.jpeg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Shelburne Musem - Pizzagalli Center\, 6000 Shelburne Road\, Shelbu rne\, VT\, 05482\, United States GEO:44.3708733;-73.2316975 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=6000 Shelburne Road\, Shelb urne\, VT\, 05482\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Shelburne Mus em - Pizzagalli Center:geo:44.3708733,-73.2316975 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:870@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T211500 DTSTAMP:20200319T195845Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beanpole/ SUMMARY:Cancelled -public screening of Beanpole DESCRIPTION:We are waiting to hear if we can present it to you online. Stay tuned\n\nPresented by VTIFF\nHost Sponsor: Main Street Landing\nDirected by Kantemir Balagov\nRussia | 2020 | Fiction | 137 mins | Russian w/ Engli sh subtitles\n\nAn exquisite\, beautiful\, and brave film about set in pos t-WWII Leningrad. Two women\, Iya and Masha\, intensely bonded after fight ing side by side as anti-aircraft gunners\, attempt to readjust to a haunt ed world. Iya works as a nurse in a shell-shocked hospital\, presiding ove r traumatized soldiers. The war may be over but the hollow eyes of those c rowding the hospital tell a different story. The story gradually unveils i tself as a film about female friendship but also about the fate of women d uring and after wartime - a topic too often treated as a cinematic-histori cal footnote compared to the trauma of men in war. Balagov and his co-writ er have noted that they drew inspiration from Svetlana Alexievich’s “T he Unwomanly Face of War\,” a book of monologues from women who lived th rough World War II. The 28-year-old director won Un Certain Regard’s Bes t Director prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival\n\n\n\nRead the Dir ector's statement HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bea npole_wide-cdde5f8318ab150c875978c6c75b673fb577e80c-s800-c85.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:890@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200331 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200401 DTSTAMP:20200401T183507Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/virtual-cinema-dona-flor-and-her-two-husbands -3/ SUMMARY:Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands DESCRIPTION:Directed by Bruno Barreto\nBrazil | Fiction | 1976 | New restor ation | Portuguese w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Film Movement\nBased on the novel by Jorge Amado\, this Brazilian comedy follows the strange e vents that befall Doña Flor (Sonia Braga) after she is left a widow by th e death of her wild\, irresponsible husband. When initially released\, Don a Flor became the most successful film in Brazilian history. International ly\, Dona Flor received nominations for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award.\ n \;\nFollow THIS LINK to book the film - valid for a 7-day rental per iod. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. If you'd like to add a donatio n you can do so HERE - it would be much appreciated.\n\n\nFor instructions how to view - CLICK HERE\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sor ry-we-missed-you.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:891@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200402 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200410 DTSTAMP:20200407T163954Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/virtual-cinema-corpus-cristi-2/ SUMMARY:Corpus Cristi - April 2-9 DESCRIPTION:Directed by Jan Komosa\nFiction | 2019 | Poland | Polish w/ Eng lish subtitles\nAfter years in juvenile prison\, 20-year-old Daniel is rel eased and sent to a small village to work as a manual laborer. Upon his ar rival\, a quick lie has him mistaken for a priest. Though untrained\, his passion and charisma inspire the community. At the same time\, his unconve ntional sermons and un-priestly behavior raise suspicions.\nThank you to F ilm Movement for partnering with us.\n\nFollow THIS LINK to book the film - valid for a 3-day rental period. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. If you'd like to add a donation you can do so HERE - it would be much appr eciated.\n\n\nFor instructions how to view - click HERE\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Cor pusChristi_OscarNom_social-keyart_1080x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:860@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T154500 DTSTAMP:20200901T151942Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-front-page/ SUMMARY:Postponed: The Front Page DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when i t will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont Internat ional Film Festival (Oct 23 - Nov 1). \nDirected by Lewis Milestone\nUSA | 1931 | 98 mins\nSource: Academy Film Archive. Restored in 2016 by the Aca demy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation. Elements for this restoration provide d by The Howard Hughes Corporation\, the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas College of Fine Arts\, Department of Film and its Howard Hughes Collection at the Academy Film Archive.\n\n\nPost screening discussion with Jim Welc h and Greg Guma\, moderated by Mitch Wertlieb\n\n\nBen Hecht and Charles M acArthur’s 1928 play is one of the most durable comedies in the American repertory and Lewis Milestone’s 1931 brash and brisk screen adaptation deserves a place of pride alongside it. Set in Prohibition-era Chicago\, t his is a cynical valentine to the ink-stained wretches of the world. The 1 931 film version was the first and the one most contemporaneous to its dep icted events. It is a pre-Code marvel with a machine-gun stride\, capturin g a sense of nihilism that the country was getting dragged into as the Dep ression kicked off. Its success started a cycle of cynical newspaper films . In 2010 the film was selected for the United States National Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally\, historically\, or aesthe tically significant and In 2016 the film was finally restored by the Acad emy Film Archive to the original American release version for the first ti me in decades. The version you will see is this restoration. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the -front-page.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots,Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:742@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T220000 DTSTAMP:20200901T151951Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/grff-the-reporter/ SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone this festival until the Fall when it will be recreated as a hi gh profile showcase within the Vermont International Film Festival (Oct 23 - Nov 1). \n\nEach screening will be followed by a Q&\;A with filmmake rs and journalists. Discussion moderators are Mitch Wertlieb and Fran Stod dard. The festival\, as typical of all VTIFF festivals\, will include dail y early evening receptions to encourage informal conversations and exchang e of ideas. Special thanks to Kate Schubart for her encouragement\, advice and support.\nFull line up of guest speakers HERE.\nFESTIVAL SCHEDULE\nFr iday April 3\n2:00 PM - THE FRONT PAGE\n4:30 PM - GOOD NIGHT\, AND GOOD LU CK.\n6:30 PM - Reception provided by Skinny Pancake in Lake Lobby\n7:30 PM - THIS IS NOT A MOVIE\nSaturday April 4\n11:30 AM - Coffee and Bagels pro vided by Willows Bagels in Lake Lobby\n12:00 PM  - THE WORLD IS WATCHING\ n2:00 PM - ACE IN THE HOLE\n4:30 PM - THE BLACK PRESS: SOLDIERS WITHOUT SW ORDS\n6:30 PM - Reception provided by Skinny Pancake in Lake Lobby\n7:15 P M - THE CORPORATE COUP D'ETAT\nSunday April 5\n11:30 AM - Coffee and Bagel s provided by Willows Bagels in Lake Lobby\n12:00 PM - NETWORK\n2:30 PM  - THE SUN NEVER SETS\n4:30 PM - WBCN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION\n6:30 PM - Reception provided by Skinny Pancake in Lake Lobby\n7:15 PM - PARK ROW\n A very warm thanks to all our sponsors!!\n\nUVM: Reporting and Documentary Storytelling Minor\,\nFilm and Television Studies and the Humanities Cent er\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nFilm  sponsors:\nKate Sc hubart\, Todd Lockwood\, Burlington-Puerto Cabezas Sister City Progam\, Pe ter &\; Clavelle &\; Betsy Ferries\, Holly Cluse\, Frank &\; Duck y Donath\, Greg Epler Wood\, Greg Guma\, Tom McGrath\, Muffie Milens\, And rea Rogers\, Denise Shekerjian &\; Michael Metz\, Nat Winthrop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/GR_ WebsiteSlider.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:871@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T180000 DTSTAMP:20200901T151942Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/good-night-and-good-luck-2/ SUMMARY:Postponed: Good Night\, And Good Luck. DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when i t will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont Internat ional Film Festival (Oct 23 - Nov 1). \nDirected by George Clooney\nUSA | 2005 | 93 mins\nSponsored by Todd Lockwood\n\nFollowed by Q&\;A with Ga rrett Graff\, moderated by Mitch Wertlieb\nFollowed by a reception in the Lake Lobby 6:30 - 7:30\n\nBurnishing the legend of Edward R. Murrow\, the CBS newsman who in the 1940's and 50's established a standard of journalis tic integrity his profession has scrambled to live up to ever since\, Good Night\, and Good Luck. is a passionate\, thoughtful essay on power\, trut h-telling and responsibility. Though it is a meticulously detailed reconst ruction of an era\, the film is concerned with more than nostalgia. It unf olds\, cinema-verité style\, in the fast\, sometimes frantic present tens e\, following Murrow and his colleagues and flashes back from a famous\, c autionary speech that Murrow gave at an industry convention in 1958 to one of the most notable episodes in his career - his war of words and images with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/goo d_luck_good_night21.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots,Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:867@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T211500 DTSTAMP:20200901T151942Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/this-is-not-a-movie/ SUMMARY:Postponed: This is Not a Movie DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when i t will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont Internat ional Film Festival (Oct 23 - Nov 1). \nDirected by Yung Chang\nCanada | 2 019 | 106 mins\nCo-sponsored by Muffie Milens\; Andrea Rogers\n\n\nFollowe d by Q&\;A with Jake Bernstein\, Yung Chang (via remote)\nScreening pre ceded by a reception in the Lake Lobby 6:30 - 7:30\n\n\nOne of the world ’s preeminent journalists\, Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East from his Beirut base for close to forty years\, covering both Gulf W ars\, the Sabra and Shatila massacre\, the ongoing conflict in Syria and m uch more.  “I think we should be objective and unbiased — on the sid e of those who suffer\,” he has famously declared. “If we were reporti ng the slave trade in the 18th century\, would we give equal time to the s lave ship captain?”\n\nYung Chang (Up the Yangtse\, China Heavyweight\, The Fruit Hunters) captures Fisk in action\, crafting an invigorating film essay that challenges received wisdom on the Middle East while reinforcin g the crucial need for investigative journalism in our frenzied digital ag e. “I want the audience to engage with Fisk\, to question him\, to criti cize him\,” says Chang. “Fisk has a higher mission in the pursuit of t ruth than being likeable.”\n\n\n\nTHIS IS NOT A MOVIE - Press clip from NFB/marketing on Vimeo. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Thi s-is-not-a-Movie01-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots,Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:863@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200404T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200404T130000 DTSTAMP:20201008T210255Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-world-is-watching-postponed/ SUMMARY:Postponed: The World is Watching DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when i t will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont Internat ional Film Festival (Oct 23 - Nov 1). \nDirected by Peter Raymont\nCanada | 1988 | 59 mins\nCo-sponsored by Peter and Betsy Clavelle\; Burlington-Pu erto Cabezas Sister City Program\n\n\nFollowed by Q&\;A with Peter Raym ont\, Jake Bernstein\, Anne Galloway\, moderated by Mitch Wertlieb\n\nThe World is Watching is a political film about the moral issues surrounding n ews gathering and newsmaking in the electronic age. Who decides what const itutes the news? How do they decide? And what about the men and women who report from the field. Are foreign correspondents allowed to tell all that they see? Or is their first loyalty to their employers? Do they merely se rve as mouth-pieces for an invisible editorial line? The film examines the se complex issues by focusing on several international journalists in Nica ragua as they cover the negotiations surrounding the Arias Peace Plan in N ovember 1987. With unprecedented access to the inner workings of ABC News\ , what follows is a unique portrait of a news crew in the field\, as it in teracts with the editorial process in the newsroom in New York City. CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots,Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:859@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200404T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200404T160000 DTSTAMP:20200901T151942Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ace-in-the-hole/ SUMMARY:Postponed: Ace in the Hole (aka The Big Carnival) DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when i t will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont Internat ional Film Festival (Oct 23 - Nov 1). \nDirected and written by Billy Wild er\nUSA | 1951 | Fiction | 112 mins\n\nPost screening discussion with Jim Welch\, moderated by Mitch Wertlieb\n\n\nA frustrated former big-city jour nalist (Kirk Douglas)\, now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper\, e xploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career. Ace in the Hole is an uncompromising\, dark and harsh noirish commentary about the unscrupulous and self-serving actions of compromised tabloid-media jo urnalists. Following on the heels of the merciless Sunset Boulevard\, Wild er once again serves up a sharp\, biting satire. \n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ace -in-the-Hole.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:864@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200404T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200404T180000 DTSTAMP:20201008T180154Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-black-press-postponed/ SUMMARY:Postponed: The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when i t will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont Internat ional Film Festival (Oct 23 - Nov 1). \nDirected by Stanley Nelson\nUSA | 1999 | 86 mins\nSponsored by Frank and Ducky Donath\n\n\nFollowed by Q& \;A with Christina Asquith\, Maleeha Syed\nQ&\;A followed by a receptio n in the Lake Lobby 6:30 - 7:15\n\n\nThrough a treasure trove of archival footage and firsthand interviews\, The Black Press explores how black jour nalists created an alternative media to tell their own stories—including invaluable coverage of black soldiers’ contributions to World War II. S ince the early 1800’s Black newspapers have existed in almost every majo r city in the U.S. From facilitating the migration of Southern Blacks to n orthern cities\; to recording the social and political events affecting th e lives of African Americans\; to providing a showcase honoring Black sold iers in World War II\, the Black press documented life for millions of peo ple that were otherwise ignored.\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/BLA CKPRESSSOLIDERSWITHOUTSWORDS.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:868@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200404T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200404T204500 DTSTAMP:20201008T175848Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-corporate-coup-detat-postponed/ SUMMARY:Postponed: The Corporate Coup D'État DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when i t will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont Internat ional Film Festival (Oct 23 - Nov 1). \nDirected by Fred Peabody\nCanada | 2019 | 90 mins\nSponsored by Greg Epler Wood\n\n\nFollowed by Q&\;A wi th Fred Peabody\, Peter Raymont\, James Bandler\, moderated by Mitch Wertl ieb\nThe screening is preceded by a reception in the Lake Lobby 6:30 - 7:1 5\n\n\nJournalist Naomi Klein recently described Trump’s administration as a “corporate coup d’etat.” Chris Hedges and John Saul argue in th e film that the real coup took place long before. This film tells the stor y of how the coup happened and aims to show its disastrous effects on soci ety’s most vulnerable citizens. The corporate coup d’état has been de vastating for people in “sacrifice zones” like the U.S. Rust Belt and Camden\, New Jersey\, where the film captures heart-breaking stories of ci tizens suffering from the effects of corporatist\, globalist\, and neo-lib eral ideologies and policies. This investigative documentary blends the in sights of philosophers\, authors and journalists with the experiences of c itizens of the Rust Belt in the U.S. Midwest\, where the steel industry on ce flourished\, but where closures and outsourcing have left urban areas d esolate and hopeless. Featuring: Chris Hedges\, John Ralston Saul\, Cornel West\, Sarah Jaffe\, Lee Fang\, Maude Barlow\, Phillip Martin.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Cor porate-Coup-dEtat-01-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots,Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:862@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T141500 DTSTAMP:20201008T180312Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/network-postponed/ SUMMARY:Postponed: Network DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when i t will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont Internat ional Film Festival (Oct 23 - Nov 1). \nDirected by Sidney Lumet\nUSA | 19 76 | 121 mins\nSponsored by Holly Cluse\n\n\nFollowed by Q&\;A with Gre g Guma\, Bill Lichtenstein\, moderated by Fran Stoddard\n\n\nHoward Beale\ , a veteran newscaster\, is informed by his ratings-driven network executi ves that he is about to be dumped because he "skews old" - in turn\, he us es his next broadcast to announce that he is going to commit suicide on hi s final program. Screenwriter Paddy Chayevski received the Academy Award f or Best Screenplay.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/809 77_Network_18-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:866@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T153000 DTSTAMP:20200901T151951Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-sun-never-sets/ SUMMARY:Postponed: The Sun Never Sets DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when i t will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont Internat ional Film Festival (Oct 23 - Nov 1). \nDirected by Ben Daitz\nUSA | 2012 | 55 mins\nSponsored by Nat Winthrop\n\n\nFollowed by Q&\;A with Bob Tr app and Ben Daitz (remotely)\, Sue Halpern\, Paula Routly\, moderated by F ran Stoddard\n\n\nAbout the Rio Grande Sun\, published in Espanola\, NM\, considered one of the best weekly newspapers in the country. Bob Trapp\, t he founder\, publisher and editor\, is the quintessential newspaper man\, the last of a vanishing breed. Narrated by Bob Edwards. \n\n\n\nThe Sun Ne ver Sets Trailer from Ben Daitz on Vimeo. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SUN -NEVER-SETS-02.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:869@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T180000 DTSTAMP:20201008T180414Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wbcn-postponed/ SUMMARY:Postponed: WBCN and the American Revolution DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when i t will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont Internat ional Film Festival (Oct 23 - Nov 1). \nDirected by Bill Lichtenstein\nUSA | 2020 | 89 mins\nSponsored by Greg Guma\; Tom McGrath\n\n\nFollowed by Q &\;A with Bill Lichtenstein\, Greg Guma\, moderated by Fran Stoddard.\n Followed by reception in the Lake Lobby 6:30 - 7:15\n\n\nThe untold story of the radical underground radio station WBCN-FM\, set against the dazzlin g and profound social\, political\, and cultural changes that took place i n Boston and nationally during the late-1960s and early-70s.  Told throug h the actual sights\, sounds\, and stories of a compelling cast of charact ers who connected through the radio station\, exploding music and counterc ultural scenes\, militant anti-war activism\, civil rights struggles\, and the emerging women’s and LGBTQ-liberation movements.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/WBC N.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:861@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T203000 DTSTAMP:20201008T175156Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/park-row-postponed/ SUMMARY:Postponed: Park Row DESCRIPTION:With great regret and a heavy heart we have taken the decision to postpone Global Roots Film Festival: The Reporter until the Fall when i t will be recreated as a high profile showcase within the Vermont Internat ional Film Festival (Oct 23 - Nov 1). \nDirected by Sam Fuller\nUSA | 1952 | 83 mins\n\nThe screening is preceded by a reception in the Lake Lobby 6 :30 - 7:15\n\n\nSet in the cutthroat world of tabloid journalism in New Yo rk during the late 19th Century. takes its name from the street that was h ome to most of New York’s newspapers in the late 19th century. “Writte n produced\, directed by a newspaper man about newspaper men. matches his tabloid style to the story of a newspaper war”.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Par k-Row.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:920@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200410 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200424 DTSTAMP:20200421T175818Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beanpole-april-10-15/ SUMMARY:Beanpole - April 10 - 15 DESCRIPTION:Directed by Kantemir Balagov\nRussia | 2020 | Fiction | 137 min s | Russian w/ English subtitles\n\nAn exquisite\, beautiful\, and brave f ilm about set in post-WWII Leningrad. Two women\, Iya and Masha\, intensel y bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners\, attempt to readjust to a haunted world. Iya works as a nurse in a shell-shocked hosp ital\, presiding over traumatized soldiers. The war may be over but the ho llow eyes of those crowding the hospital tell a different story. The story gradually unveils itself as a film about female friendship but also about the fate of women during and after wartime - a topic too often treated as a cinematic-historical footnote compared to the trauma of men in war. Bal agov and his co-writer have noted that they drew inspiration from Svetlana Alexievich’s “The Unwomanly Face of War\,” a book of monologues fro m women who lived through World War II. The 28-year-old director won Un Ce rtain Regard’s Best Director prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival .\n\n\n\nRead the Director's statement HERE\nValid for a 6-day rental peri od. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. If you'd like to add a donation you can do so HERE - it would be much appreciated.\n\nRESERVE TICKETS HER E \n\nHow to view on your TV - PDF LINK HERE\n\nIf you encounter any issue s email contact@kinonow.com  and they will be happy to assist.\n\n\nWe ar e grateful to Kino Lorber for creating this opportunity.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bea npole_wide-cdde5f8318ab150c875978c6c75b673fb577e80c-s800-c85.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:906@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200411 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200412 DTSTAMP:20200407T164236Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/phoenix-oregon/ SUMMARY:Phoenix\, Oregon - April 11 only DESCRIPTION:Directed by Gary Lundgren\nFiction | 2019 | USA | 108 mins\n\nT he movie stars James Le Gros and Jesse Borrego as two lifelong friends see king a change from their dead-end jobs and pool their savings to reopen a bowling alley that serves (in their mind) the world’s best pizzas.\n"To put it simply - and\, yes\, gratefully - Phoenix\, Oregon is the sort of m ovie a lot of us need right now." ~ Variety\nThank you to the Film Festiva l Alliance and Joma Films for making this possible.\nAdded Bonus: Virtual Q&\;A with the directors\, April 11\, 5PM PT / 8PM ET\, so make sure yo u watch the film first.\nWhen you book your ticket you will get confirmati on and a link to join the Q&\;A via Zoom\n\nFollow THIS LINK to book th e film.  If you have any problems booking a ticket or viewing the film\, email support@phoenixoregonmovie.com and they will help you.\n50% of booki ngs revenue goes to VTIFF. If you are a VTIFF member you will have receive d an email with a special discount promo code.\nWe urge you to share this link\, and any of our other Virtual Cinema films with all your friends. Ev ery little bit of box office is of help at this time.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Pho enix-Oregon-FB.png CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:899@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200413 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200420 DTSTAMP:20200418T151951Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-woman-who-loves-giraffes/ SUMMARY:The Woman Who Loves Giraffes - April 13-19 DESCRIPTION:Directed by Alison Reid\n\n2019 | Canada | 82 mins |\n\nIn 1956 \, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees a nd seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas\, 23 -year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild. When she returned home a year later\, the insurmountable barriers she faced as a female scientist proved hard to overcome. In The Woman Who Loves Giraffes\, Anne (now 86) retrace s her steps\, offering an intimate window into her life as a young woman\, juxtaposed with a first-hand look at the devastating reality that giraffe s are facing today.\n\n“This warm documentary uses one woman’s singula r passion to fuel a tale of zoological discovery\, blatant sexism and envi ronmental alarm... Her unmitigated joy is the movie’s secret sauce... Wh en we see this remarkable woman\, once overlooked and uncelebrated\, retur n to the scene of her pioneering research\, it’s clear she’s finally b ack where she belongs.”—Jeannette Catsoulis\, THE NEW YORK TIMES\n\n\n \nThank you to Zeigeist Films for partnering with us.\n\nFollow THIS LINK to book the film - valid until April 17.  \n\n\nRESERVE TICKETS HERE \n\n How to view on your TV - PDF LINK HERE\n\nIf you encounter any issues emai l contact@kinonow.com  and they will be happy to assist.\n\n50% of bookin gs revenue goes to VTIFF. If you'd like to add a donation you can do so HE RE - it would be much appreciated.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/the womanwholovesgiraffes-2726-e1585857041478.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:923@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200515 DTSTAMP:20200512T184739Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beyond-the-visible-hilma-af-klint-april-17-23 / SUMMARY:Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint - April 17 DESCRIPTION:Directed by Halina Dryschka\n\nGermany | 2019 | 93 mins | Engli sh\, Swedish and German w/ English subtitles\n\nHilma af Klint was an abst ract artist before the term existed\, a visionary\, trailblazing figure wh o\, inspired by spiritualism\, modern science\, and the riches of the natu ral world around her\, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge\, colorf ul\, sensual\, strange works without precedent in painting. The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum\, af Klint was for years an all-but-forgotten figure in art historical discourse\, before her long-delayed rediscovery. Director Halina Dryschka’s dazzling\, course correcting documentary describes not only the life and craft of af Klint\, but also the process of her mischaracterization and erasure by both a pat riarchal narrative of artistic progress and capitalistic determination of artistic value\n\nThank you to Zeitgeist Films for partnering with us.\n\n \nHow to view on your TV - PDF LINK HERE\n\nIf you encounter any issues em ail contact@kinonow.com  and they will be happy to assist.\n\n50% of book ings revenue goes to VTIFF.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider co ntributing to the Community Heroes Fund - and become a VTIFF Community Cha mpion.\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Hil ma-af-Klint-01.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:904@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200501 DTSTAMP:20200407T164146Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/earth-erde/ SUMMARY:Earth (Erde) - April 17-30 DESCRIPTION:Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter\nA special offering for Earth D ay\nDocumentary | 2019 | Austria | 75 mins | German\, English\, Spanish\, Hungarian\, Italian w/ English subtitles\n\nEarth was filmed at seven loca tions that humans have transformed on a grand scale: Entire mountains bein g moved in California\, a tunnel being sliced through rock at the Brenner Pass\, an open-cast mine in Hungary\, a marble quarry in Italy\, a copper mine in Spain\, the salt mine used to store radioactive waste in Wolfenb üttel and a tar sands landscape in Canada. “There is always a bigger ma chine\, a bigger engine and when all fails there is dynamite. We always w in\,” boasts a quarry worker. Or do we?\nThank you to Kim Stim for par tnering with us.\n\n“As mesmerizing to watch as it is appalling to think about.” ~Manohla Dargis\, New York Times\n\nFollow THIS LINK to book t he film - valid for 14 days. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF.\nIf yo u'd like to add a donation you can do so HERE - it would be much appreciat ed.\n\n\nFor instructions how to view - click HERE\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Ear th.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:921@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200424 DTSTAMP:20200416T184339Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/and-then-we-danced-april-17-23/ SUMMARY:And Then We Danced - April 17-23 DESCRIPTION:Directed by Levan Akin\nRomania | 2020 | Georgian w/English sub titles | 113 mins\nSource: Music Box Films\n\n\n\n\nA male dancer and his partner have been training for years for a spot in the National Georgian E nsemble. The arrival of another dancer throws him off balance\, sparking b oth an intense rivalry and romantic desire that may cause him to risk his future.\n"There is no sexuality in Georgian dance\,” an instructor says. "Then things get complicated."\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/01_ ATWD.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:924@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200421 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200422 DTSTAMP:20200413T194859Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fantastic-fungi-encore-screening-for-earth-da y-april-21/ SUMMARY:Fantastic Fungi - encore screening for Earth Day - April 21 DESCRIPTION:A consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive jou rney through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet\, an u nderground network that can heal and save our planet.\n"Schwartzberg's fil m quickly proves to be one of the year's most mind-blowing\, soul-cleansin g and yes\, immensely entertaining triumphs." ~ Matt Fagerhol\, RogerEbert .com\n\nBonus: The Fantastic Fungi team host three live conversations with director Louie Schwartzberg\, mycologist Paul Stamets and many special gu ests\, responding to some of our planet's most pressing environmental and global challenges. Panel discussions will run throughout Fungi Day and be available to watch for free on YouTube\, Facebook and Twitter. Discover th e magic that unites us by watching the film today. $4.99 to watch the film \, panel discussions are free.\n\n\nDirected by Louie Schwartzberg\nWritte n by Mark Monroe\; Narrated by Brie Larson\nUSA | 81 mins\n\n\n\nFantastic Fungi - Vermont International Film Series from MOVING ART by Louie Schwar tzberg on Vimeo.\n\n1pm PT / 4 pm ET: Shift in Consciousness\n\nWe have to shift our consciousness to gain the perspective we need to bring about ch ange. We have not changed our behavior in response to the science and the facts. We need to speak to the heart\, to understand how we are all connec ted\, because we will protect what we love.\n\nFeaturing:\n\n Jeremy Narb y\, Anthropologist and Author\n Jason Silva\, Futurist and Storyteller\n Paul Stamets\, Mycologist\n Louie Schwartzberg\, Filmmaker\n Francoise Bourzat\, Therapist and Author\n Moderated by Stephen Apkon\, Filmmaker\n \n3pm PT / 6pm ET: Nature’s Intelligence \n\nNature knows far more than us. What can we learn from her?. All the answers we need  lie literally b eneath our feet. We need to lose our arrogant human-centric view and learn to live in harmony with the earth. Join us on a deep dive through time an d scale to discover the secrets\, mysteries and answers that nature can pr ovide.\n\nFeaturing:\n\n Paul Stamets\, Mycologist\n Suzanne Simard\, Pr ofessor of Forest Ecology\n Jay Harman\, Biomimicry Inventor\n Tiokasin Ghosthorse\, Activist on Peace\, Indigenous and Mother Earth Perspective\n Louie Schwartzberg\, Filmmaker\n Moderated by Stephen Apkon\, Filmmaker \n\n5pm PT / 8pm ET: Female Psychedelic Leaders\n\nJoin some of the many w omen leaders in the psychedelic movement to discuss the current challenges and possibilities we face to birth the use of psychedelics during this cr itical time.\n\nFeaturing:\n\n Pam Kryskow\, MD Researcher\, Educator\, P hysician\n Mary Cosimano\, MSW – Johns Hopkins University\n Amy Emerso n\, MD Clinical research – MAPS\n Francoise Bourzat\, Therapist and Aut hor\n Moderated by Marcina Hale\, Therapist and Filmmaker1pm PT / 4 pm ET : Shift in ConsciousnessWe have to shift our consciousness to gain the per spective we need to bring about change. We have not changed our behavior i n response to the science and the facts. We need to speak to the heart\, t o understand how we are all connected\, because we will protect what we lo ve.\n\nFeaturing:\n\n Jeremy Narby\, Anthropologist and Author\n Jason S ilva\, Futurist and Storyteller\n Paul Stamets\, Mycologist\n Louie Schw artzberg\, Filmmaker\n Francoise Bourzat\, Therapist and Author\n Modera ted by Stephen Apkon\, Filmmaker\n\n \;\n\n3pm PT / 6pm ET: Nature’s Intelligence \n\nNature knows far more than us. What can we learn from he r?. All the answers we need  lie literally beneath our feet. We need to l ose our arrogant human-centric view and learn to live in harmony with the earth. Join us on a deep dive through time and scale to discover the secre ts\, mysteries and answers that nature can provide.\n\nFeaturing:\n\n Pau l Stamets\, Mycologist\n Suzanne Simard\, Professor of Forest Ecology\n Jay Harman\, Biomimicry Inventor\n Tiokasin Ghosthorse\, Activist on Peac e\, Indigenous and Mother Earth Perspective\n Louie Schwartzberg\, Filmma ker\n Moderated by Stephen Apkon\, Filmmaker\n\n \;\n\n5pm PT / 8pm E T: Female Psychedelic Leaders\n\nJoin some of the many women leaders in th e psychedelic movement to discuss the current challenges and possibilities we face to birth the use of psychedelics during this critical time.\n\nFe aturing:\n\n Pam Kryskow\, MD Researcher\, Educator\, Physician\n Mary C osimano\, MSW – Johns Hopkins University\n Amy Emerson\, MD Clinical re search – MAPS\n Francoise Bourzat\, Therapist and Author\n Moderated b y Marcina Hale\, Therapist and Filmmaker\n\n\n\nYou can also see prerecord ed panels HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/FF_ Social-VirtualTheater_fb.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:925@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200424 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200508 DTSTAMP:20200506T195958Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/once-were-brothers-robbie-robertson-and-the-b and/ SUMMARY:Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band DESCRIPTION:Directed by Daniel Roher\n\nCanada | 2019 | 102 mins\nA confess ional\, cautionary\, and occasionally humorous tale of Robertson’s young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history o f popular music\, The Band. The film is a moving story of Robertson’s pe rsonal journey\, overcoming adversity and finding camaraderie alongside th e four other men who would become his brothers in music\, together making their mark on music history. Once Were Brothers blends archival footage\, photography\, iconic songs and interviews with Robertson’s friends and c ollaborators includ­ing Martin Scorsese\, Bruce Springsteen\, Eric Clapto n\, Van Morrison\, and more.\n\n\nThank you to Magnolia Pictures for partn ering with us.\n\n\nYou have 72 hours to view the film from the time you p urchase your ticket. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF.\n\n\n\n\nFor p roduction background information follow THIS LINK to download a PDF\n\n\n& nbsp\;\n\nPlease consider contributing to the Community Heroes Fund - and become a VTIFF Community Champion.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1.j pg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:928@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200424 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200508 DTSTAMP:20200506T200204Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/thousand-pieces-of-gold-april-24-30/ SUMMARY:Thousand Pieces of Gold - April 24 DESCRIPTION:Directed by Nancy Kelly\n\nUSA | 1990 | New 4K restoration by I ndie Collect\n\n\nSet in a mining town in the 1880s\,  Thousand Pieces o f Gold was developed by the Sundance Institute and premiered at the San F rancisco International Film Festival in 1990.  It won immediate acclaim f or its portrayal of the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao)\, a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloon keeper in Idaho's gold country. Eventual ly Charlie\, a man of different ilk\, played by Chris Cooper\, wins her in a poker game and slowly gains her trust.\n\n\nTickets will go live April 23. You have 72 hours to view the film from the time you purchase your tic ket. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. \nIf you'd like to add a donat ion you can do so HERE. For each $8 donation you make after purchasing a t icket\, we pledge to give a complimentary film ticket to an essential work er once we resume physical screenings.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the director:\nA n ative of North Adams\, Massachusetts\, Nancy Kelly is self-taught. As a pu blic health educator\, she was hired to produce five short dramas about ho w to drink responsibly. Having fallen in love with filmmaking\, she quit h er job and moved to the high desert on the California/Nevada border. Thoug h she had never ridden a horse or made a documentary\, she learned to do b oth\, making her living as a ranch hand while she shot A Cowhand’s Song and Cowgirls. Both films won awards. Kelly discovered Ruthanne Lum McCunn ’s novel Thousand Pieces of Gold while touring with Cowgirls\, and immed iately saw it as a narrative feature. She and Kenji Yamamoto\, her husband and filmmaking partner\, spent six years financing the film with support from American Playhouse Theatrical Films\, CPB\, Film Four International a nd private investors. She participated in the Sundance Institute Screenwri ting Lab with Thousand Pieces of Gold. Although Kelly’s career as a movi e director stalled -- the victim of sexism that stymies the career of so m any women -- she continued to direct documentary films\, including Rebels with a Cause\, Downside UP\, Smitten\, and Trust: Second Acts in Young Liv es. She is currently developing When We Were Cowgirls\, a feminist adventu re story loosely based on her own experiences as a ranch hand.\n\nFascinat ing interview with the director HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/tho usand-dennis-rosalind-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:930@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200501 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200515 DTSTAMP:20200506T200155Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/other-music-may-1-14/ SUMMARY:Other Music DESCRIPTION:Directed by Puloma Basu and Rob Hatch-Miller\n\nUSA | 2020\nSou rce: Factory25\nCo-sponsors: Foam Brewers\, Autumn Records\, Speaking Volu mes\, Waking Windows\nOther Music was an influential and uncompromising New York City record store that was vital to the city’s early 2000s indi e music scene. But when the store is forced to close its doors due to re nt increases\, the homogenization of urban culture\, and the shift from CD s to downloadable and streaming music\, a cultural landmark is lost. Thro ugh vibrant storytelling\, the documentary captures the record store’s v ital role in the musical and cultural life of the city\, and highlights th e artists whose careers it helped launch including Vampire Weekend\, Anima l Collective\, Interpol\, Yeah Yeah Yeahs\, William Basinski\, Neutral Mil k Hotel\, Sharon Van Etten\, Yo La Tengo and TV On The Radio.\n\nWatch int erviews by VTIFF Board Member Ryan Chartier with record store owners:\nhtt ps://vimeo.com/412506273  - Autumn Records\, Winooski\nand\nhttps://vimeo .com/412558271 - Speaking Volumes\, Burlington\n\n\n\n\nOnce you buy a tic ket you have 72 hours to watch.\n\n50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF.\ n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider contributing to the Community Hero es Fund - and become a VTIFF Community Champion.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Oth er-Music-02-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:926@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200501 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200508 DTSTAMP:20200428T152045Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/el-susto/ SUMMARY:El Susto DESCRIPTION:Directed by Karen Akins\n\nUSA | 2020 | English and Spanish w/ English subtitles\nVirtual Premiere\nWhen Mexico’s love affair with suga ry drinks turns deadly\, a battle between public health and corporate wea lth erupts\, pitting activists against the powerful beverage industry and their friends in high places. Mexico’s Number One Killer is not cartels. It’s Type 2 Diabetes. El Susto (The Shock) tells the story of how cou rageous public health activists in Mexico stirred a giant\, the powerful b everage industry\, aka “Big Soda”\, when they took action to curb suga ry drink consumption\, with sobering and inspiring lessons for the rest of the world.\nTickets available from April 28. NOTE to VTIFF Members: if yo u are a member you'll receive a separate via email a link to get a discoun ted ticket.\nThank you to Film Movement for partnering with us.\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/El- Susto-Web-Banners_H.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:927@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200501 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200515 DTSTAMP:20200507T232833Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/what-she-said/ SUMMARY:What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael DESCRIPTION:Directed by Rob Garver\nUSA | 2020 | 95 mins\nSource: Juno Film s\n\n\n\n\n\nTagged by Roger Ebert as the most influential film critic of the late twentieth century\, the film tells the story of Pauline’s turbu lent life and work\, through never-seen archival footage\, her published w riting and personal letters\, and interviews with both friends and foes of her pen. Pauline is voiced by Sarah Jessica Parker\, and participants inc lude Quentin Tarantino\, Camille Paglia\, David O. Russell\, Molly Haskell \, Francis Ford Coppola\, and daughter Gina James.\n\nPauline Kael (1919-2 001) was likely the most powerful\, and personal\, movie critic of the 20t h century. Writing for The New Yorker and publishing a dozen best-selling books\, she ruthlessly pursued what made a movie or an actor’s perform ance work\, or not\, and why. Her passion made her both admired and despis ed amongst her readers and her subjects. Pauline’s own story is one of s truggle and obsession: the fight to establish her voice and have it heard\ , and to raise a daughter on her own in a time when the obstacles were hig h. The latter golden age of movies of the 1960s and 1970s are the focus of this film that pursues the question of what made Pauline Kael’s work so individual\, so controversial — and so damned good.\nAfter you've watch ed the film - we encourage you to view the interview conducted via Zoom by VTIFF programmer Luke Baynes. Thank you\, Rob Garver for taking the time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider contributing to the Com munity Heroes Fund - and become a VTIFF Community Champion.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/PK_ collage-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:931@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200508 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200523 DTSTAMP:20200506T200434Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/spaceship-earth-may-8/ SUMMARY:Spaceship Earth DESCRIPTION:Directed by Matt wolf\n\nUSA | 2020 | 115 mins\nOfficial select ion Sundance Film Festival 2020\nSource: Neon\nTICKET LINK WILL BE LIVE FR IDAY\, MAY 8!\n\nSpaceship Earth is the true\, stranger-than-fiction\, adv enture of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. T he experiment was a worldwide phenomenon\, chronicling daily existence ​ in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticis m that it was nothing more than a cult. ​The bizarre story is both a cau tionary tale ​and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially re-imagine a new world.\n\n\n\n\nOnce you buy a ticket you hav e 72 hours to watch.\n\nHow to watch instructions HERE. If you have any pr oblems viewing contact virtualcinema@neonrated.com\n\n50% of bookings reve nue goes to VTIFF.\n\nWatch the trailer by clicking on Watch on Vimeo belo w.\n\n\n\nAbout the Director:  Director/Producer Wolf is a filmmaker in N ew York. His critically acclaimed and award-winning films have played wide ly in festivals and have been distributed internationally in theaters and on television. Matt’s feature documentaries include Wild Combination abo ut the cult cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell\, and Teenage about early youth culture and  the birth of teenagers. His recent film Recorder : The Marion Stokes Project is about the activist Marion Stokes\, who secr etly recorded television 24hours a day for 30 years.\nDirector's Statement about Spaceship Earth can be read HERE\n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider contributing to the Community Heroes Fund - and become a VTIFF Community C hampion.\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Spa ceship_Twitter_Cover_1263x421-e1588194371472.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:932@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200508 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200523 DTSTAMP:20200505T211633Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/judy-and-punch/ SUMMARY:Judy and Punch DESCRIPTION:Written and Directed by Mirrah Foulkes\nAustralia | 2020 | 106 mins\nSource: Sam Goldwyn\n\n\nIn the anarchic town of Seaside\, nowhere n ear the sea\, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their mari onette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering\, but P unch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to an inevitable trag edy that Judy must avenge. In a visceral and dynamic live-action reinterpr etation of the famous 16th century puppet show\, writer director Mirrah Fo ulkes turns the traditional story of Punch and Judy on its head and brings to life a fierce\, darkly comic and epic female-driven revenge story\, st arring Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herriman.\n\n\n\n\nOnce you buy a ticket y ou have 72 hours to watch. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF.\nDo cons ider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE\n\n\n\nDirector's Statement:\n\ nI was drawn to using this strange\, misogynistic puppet show to explore o ur contemporary obsession with violence. In doing so\, I wanted to re-appr opriate and revivify its meanings and resonances with our current climate. \n\nMy hope is that this epic female driven vengeance story incubates a wh olly original and unique world\, speaking volumes through its feminine inv ersion of the traditional hero’s journey. JUDY AND PUNCH is bat-shit-cra zy and fun!\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Jud y-Punch_21-e1588194400748.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:929@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200508 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200523 DTSTAMP:20200506T200139Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vitalina-varela-may-8/ SUMMARY:Vitalina Varela DESCRIPTION:Directed by Pedro Costa\nPortugal | 2019 | 124 mins | Portugues e w/ English subtitles\n\nVitalina Varela\, a 55-year-old woman from Cape Verde\, arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband's funeral. She's be en waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years.\nA film of deeply concentrated beauty\, Vitalina Varela stars nonprofessional actor Vitalina Varela in an extraordinary performance based on her own life. Vitalina pl ays a Cape Verdean woman who has traveled to Lisbon to reunite with her hu sband\, after two decades of separation\, only to arrive mere days after h is funeral. Alone in a strange forbidding land\, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Varela belongs in the lineage of the epic wester n narratives of John Ford\, in which a lonely figure returns to a hollowed -out homestead and is confronted by living reminders of their previous fai led attempts at forming a life of stability and peace. Winner of the Golde n Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival\, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival\, Vitalina Va rela is a film of shadow and whisper\, a profoundly moving and visually ra vishing masterpiece.  * NY Times Critics Pick: Essential cinema.*\n\n"The Portuguese director conjures dark\, dreamlike visions of post-colonial ne glect and yearning that hover somewhere between fantasy and neorealism\, h orror and melodrama\, spirituality and desperation. Vitalina Varela\, Cos ta’s fifth journey into the shantytown Fontainhas outside of Lisbon\, on ce again showcases Costa’s masterful ability to mine cinematic poetry fr om a unique environment and the mournful figures who wander through its mu rky depths." ~ Indiewire\n\nYou have 72 hours to view the film from the ti me you purchase your ticket. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. \n\n\n \n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider contributing to the Community Heroes Fu nd - and become a VTIFF Community Champion. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/vit alina-varela-2019-001-vitalina-leaning-against-black-lightened_0.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:936@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200508 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200523 DTSTAMP:20201030T151936Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-booksellers-may-2020/ SUMMARY:The Booksellers DESCRIPTION:Directed by D. W. Young\nUSA | 2019 | 99 mins |\n\nA lively tou r of New York’s book world\, populated by an assortment of obsessives\, intellects\, eccentrics and dreamers\, past and present: from the Park Ave nue Armory’s annual Antiquarian Book Fair\, where original editions can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars\; to the Strand and Argosy bookstor es\, still standing against all odds\; to the beautifully crammed apartmen ts of collectors and buyers. The film\, executive produced by Parker Posey \, features a range of commentators\, including Fran Lebowitz\, Susan Orle an\, Gay Talese\, and a community of dedicated book dealers and collectors who strongly believe in the wonder of the object and what it holds within .\n\n"It feels really good to be roaming those aisles of bookshelves again \, even if it’s just through a screen." Los Angeles Times\n\nYou have 72 hours to view the film from the time you purchase your ticket. 50% of boo kings revenue goes to VTIFF.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider donat ing a ticket or more to the Community Heroes Fund - and become a VTIFF Com munity Champion. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Boo kselleers-02-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:872@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200510T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200510T173000 DTSTAMP:20200320T141638Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunday-best-eating-up-easter/ SUMMARY:Cancelled - Sunday Best: Eating Up Easter DESCRIPTION:Presented by VTIFF &\; Vermont PBS\nHost Sponsor: Main Stree t Landing\nDirected by Sergio Rapu and Elena Rapu\n60 mins | Documentary\n Followed by Q&\;A Megan Epler Wood\, founder of eplerwoodinternational .com and consultant on sustainable tourism\, preserving invaluable social and environmental capital for the well being of local people worldwide\; moderated by Eric Ford\, Director of Programming at Vermont PBS\nBroadcast date: May 25\, 2020\n\n\n*** Free\, with suggested donation of $5-$10 *** \n\nMore than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues\, Rapa Nui\, also known as Easter Island\, is a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native Rapanui grapple with a booming tourism trade that rakes in money\, but bri ngs about a changing climate that threatens the fragile ecology on the isl and. Rapanui filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu gives voice to his fellow isla nders\, who struggle to balance their strong cultural heritage with modern -day challenges.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/EAT INGUPEAST_3f_PubStills_04-Cropped-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:933@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200515 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200530 DTSTAMP:20200526T191440Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-hottest-august/ SUMMARY:The Hottest August DESCRIPTION:Directed by Brett Story\nCanada | 2019 | 94 mins |\nSource: Gra sshopper Films\n\nTICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE MAY 12\n\nA complex portrait o f a city and its inhabitants\, The Hottest August gives us a window into t he collective consciousness of the present. The film’s point of departur e is one city over one month: New York City\, including its outer boroughs \, during August 2017. It’s a month heavy with the tension of a new Pres ident\, growing anxiety over everything from rising rents to marching whit e nationalists\, and unrelenting news of either wildfires or hurricanes on every coast. The film pivots on the question of futurity: what does the f uture look like from where we are standing? And what if we are not all sta nding in the same place? The Hottest August offers a mirror onto a society on the verge of catastrophe\, registering the anxieties\, distractions\, and survival strategies that preoccupy ordinary lives.\n\n“Critic’s Pi ck! Fascinating. A cinematic gift... an intellectual challenge and an emot ional adventure.” ~ Glenn Kenny\, The New York Times\n\n“One of the Te n Best Films of the Year. A documentary about climate change like you’ve never seen before.” ~ Alissa Wilkinson\, Vox\n\nYou have 72 hours to vi ew the film from the time you purchase your ticket. 50% of bookings revenu e goes to VTIFF. \nIf you'd like to add a donation you can do so HERE. For each $8 donation you make after purchasing a ticket\, we pledge to give a complimentary film ticket to an essential worker once we resume physical screenings.\n\n\n\n\nFilmmaker's statement:\n\nClimate change films tend t o be overwhelming - overwhelming in their scale of information\nas well as scale of calamity. They also seem to hit one beat only\, too often reduci ng the\nenvironment to oceanic physics and wild landscapes. T he Hottest A ugust offers a unique\nrejoinder to the climate change fatigue currently d ominating the social and media\nlandscape\, because instead of asking whet her or not climate change exists\, it asks how are\nwe living with the bur den of it? We point the camera not at the ice caps\, but at ourselves. Thi s\nfilm offers a sideways glance at climate change and environmental futur ity\, offering\nmoments of humor\, surreality and poignancy in its archive of the present.\n\nAbout the Filmmaker\n\nBrett Story is an award-winning nonfiction filmmaker based in Toronto whose films\nhave screened at festi vals internationally\, including the Viennale\, True/False\,\nOberhausen\, It’s All True\, and Dok Leipzig. Her 2016 feature documentary\, The\nPr ison in Twelve Landscapes was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Hot Do cs\nCanadian International Documentary Festival and was a nominee for Best Feature\nDocumentary at the Canadian Screen Awards. The film was broadcas t on PBS’s\nIndependent Lens in 2017. Brett holds a PhD in geography fro m the University of\nToronto and is currently an assistant professor in th e School of Image Arts at\nRyerson University. She is the author of the bo ok\, Prison Land: Mapping Carceral\nPower across Neoliberal America \, and her writing and criticism have been published\nwidely. Brett was a 2016 S undance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow and a 2018\nGuggenheim Fellow i n film and video. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/hot test_4-e1588193893615.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:934@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200515 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200530 DTSTAMP:20200516T195340Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jose/ SUMMARY:Jose DESCRIPTION:Directed by Li Cheng\, Produced by George Roberson\n\nGuatemala | 2019 | 85 mins | Spanish w/English subtitles\nWinner Queer Lion from th e 75th Annual Venice Film Festival and many others\nSource: Outsider Pictu res\nJosé is a story about one working class young man's struggle to fin d himself. Made in the neorealist filmmaking tradition\, the film is a nu anced and vivid look at being gay in Central America. As quoted from the director's interview: "José is about family\, work\, struggle\, love and loss - and finally it’s about one man’s search for “self” and the search for Guatemala’s future."\n\nOnce you buy a ticket you have 72 hou rs to watch. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. \n\n\n\n\nDo consider also buying more tickets for our Heroes Fund HERE\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch VTIFF's interview with the director and producer below\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Lo- Res-Final-Jose-Poster.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:937@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200515 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200530 DTSTAMP:20200512T210612Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/alice/ SUMMARY:Alice DESCRIPTION:Written and Directed by Josephine Mackerras\n\nAustralia/France | 2020 | 103 mins | French w/English subtitles\nWinner Grand Jury Prize N arrative Feature at SXSW\nSource: Monument Releasing\nAfter discovering th at her husband’s addiction to escorts has left their family penniless\, Alice finds herself drawn into the world of high-end prostitution as a mea ns of caring for herself and her child.\n\n"Alice isn’t just one of the best films of the festival\, it’s an early front runner for one of the b est films of the year." SXSW review\n\n\n\n\nOnce you buy a ticket you hav e 72 hours to watch. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. The viewing pl atform is Vimeo\nDo consider also buying more tickets for our Heroes Fund HERE\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the filmmaker:\n\n\nMulti-award-winning filmmaker Jo sephine grew up in Australia and China. Her first passion was acting\, joi ning a theater company at the age of 9. At 16\, she left the southern hemi sphere and lived in Jerusalem\, Amsterdam\, and NYC\, where she studied fi lmmaking at NYU. Her shorts A Sign\, Modlitba\, L’enfant perdu\, and Div a have been selected to over 90 high profile festivals including Slamdance \, Brussels\, Palm Springs\, Rhode Island\, and Raindance. Alice is her fi rst feature-length film.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ALI CE-Main-e1588193877538.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:939@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200522 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200606 DTSTAMP:20200529T183019Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-painter-and-the-thief/ SUMMARY:The Painter and the Thief DESCRIPTION:Directed by Benjamin Ree\n\nUSA | 2020 | 102 mins |\nFilm Sourc e: Neon\n\n\n\n \;\n* With our unique link\, your virtual ticket to th e film is just $3.99\, and proceeds from each - the film will be available for 14 days. \n* You may also select to watch the film on Opening Night ( May 22) and attend an exclusive Q&\;A with director Benjamin Ree\, Barb ora (Painter) and Karl Bertil (Thief)\, moderated by Alissa Wilkinson\, Fi lm Critic &\; Culture Reporter at VOX. Tickets for this double event ar e $12 per household. Click HERE for information about how to book for Open ing Night.\n\n\n\n \;\nDesperate for answers about the theft of her tw o paintings\, Kysilkova\, a Czech artist seeks out and befriends the caree r criminal who stole them. After inviting her thief to sit for a\nportrait \, the two form an improbable relationship and an inextricable bond that w ill forever link these lonely souls.\n"The filmmaker followed the case eve n before it went to court\, and was there in Kysilkova’s tiny studio to witness one of her first private sessions with the thief Karl-Bertil Nordl and. It’s a raw and loaded encounter in a frequently riveting movie that ’s full of them\, but Ree shoots The Painter and the Thief with the prob ing composure of a scripted European drama." ~ Indiewire\n\nWatch the trai ler below by clicking on "Watch on Vimeo"\n\n\n\n\nHow to watch the film:\ n1. Click our special link to visit NEON’s virtual cinema platform\, whe re your one-time\npurchase of $3.99 will give you access to your virtual t icket to view the film.\n2. To ensure that you are able to pause and revis it the film within your rental period\, you will\nbe required to create a free account.\n3. After you have created an account and entered your payme nt information\, your rental\nperiod will start immediately and last for 7 2 hours. You can view the film via the link in the\nreceipt sent to your e mail\, or simply click “Watch Film” when the confirmation page appears \ndirectly after purchase.\n4. You will be able to easily watch the film a t any time within this period on any of the\nfollowing platforms:\na. SMAR T TV (using the browser on your Apple TV\, Android TV\, Fire TV\, Roku or\ nChromecast)\nb. MOBILE DEVICE (iPhone\, iPad\, Android)\nc. COMPUTER (by clicking on the link in your email receipt)\n5. Need help? Contact virtual cinema@neonrated.com\n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider contributing to the Community Heroes Fund - and become a VTIFF Community Champion.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The -Painter-Thief.png CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:940@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200522 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200606 DTSTAMP:20200531T171312Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-towering-task-may-22/ SUMMARY:A Towering Task\n DESCRIPTION:Directed by Alana DeJoseph\n\nUSA | 2019 | 107 mins | Documenta ry\nNarrated by Annette Bening\nFilm Source: Grasshopper Film\nThe remarka ble story of the Peace Corps and what it means to be a global citizen. In 1961\, President John F. Kennedy gave young Americans the opportunity to s erve their country in a new way by forming the Peace Corps. Since then\, m ore than 200\,000 of them have traveled to more than 60 countries to carry out the organization’s mission of international cooperation. Americans —young and old alike—still want to serve their country\; current volun teers work at the forefront of some of the most pressing issues facing the global community. Yet the agency has struggled to remain relevant amid so ciopolitical change. More than once it had to fight for its very existence \, and now—between COVID\, a rise in nationalist sentiment and deep cuts to governmental-agency budgets—the Peace Corps is again confronting a c risis of identity: What role should it play around the world?\n\n"The film is enlightening for being in large part the portrait of a period when Ame rica was outward looking and uncynical and generous...it shows the roots o f such idealism\,\nwhich is why it is so enlightening and uplifting."  ~P aul Theroux\, Travel Writer &\; Novelist\n\n\n\nTo watch the special Q& amp\;A with  Nancy Bercaw and Karen Jean (KJ) Hunt click  HERE.  \nNan cy Stearns Bercaw was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya\, 1986-1987. Her ex perience features in both of her memoirs\, "Dryland" and "Brain in a Jar." \nKaren Jean (KJ) Hunt has served in the United States Peace Corps three t imes\, first in Kenya (1986)\, then Armenia (2017)\, and Ethiopia (2019).  Last March\, Hunt was evacuated from Ethiopia. She currently lives in Hawaii and is applying for a position with Peace Corps Response.\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider contribut ing to the Community Heroes Fund - and become a VTIFF Community Champion.\ n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cop y-of-Ghana-1-arriving-in-Accra.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:941@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200522 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200606 DTSTAMP:20200529T183223Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wolf-house/ SUMMARY:The Wolf House DESCRIPTION:Directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña\nChile | 2018 | 72 mins\nSource: Kim Stim\n\n\nProduced painstakingly over the course o f several years\, and filmed piecemeal within art galleries across several countries\, in full view of the gallery-going public\, The Wolf House mas querades as an animated fairy tale produced by the leader of the sect in o rder to indoctrinate its followers. It uses stop-motion animation to unfur l a never-ending series of transformations that play out as a single seque nce shot.\n\n"The Wolf House\, an astounding new animated film from Chile\ , has a cheeky meta-film opening that purports to be from “La Colonia” — a slight variant of the very real-life Colonia Dignidad\, a German-fo unded isolated colony in Chile renowned for its honey and disdained for it s exploitation of the labor of Chilean natives. The first clever conceit o f this movie is that it\, too\, is a product of that colony\, one with a l esson. What follows is the story of Maria\, an escapee from there\, who fi nds a house in the forest where she holes up with two pigs who become her adopted children. Together they live in terror of a wolf at the door. "~ N ew York Times\, May 14\n\n\n\n\nOnce you buy a ticket you have 72 hours to watch. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF.\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/127 9982_thewolfhouse_199817.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:935@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200522 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200606 DTSTAMP:20200529T183146Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fourteen/ SUMMARY:Fourteen DESCRIPTION:Directed by Dan Sallitt\n\nUSA | 2019 | 94 mins\nFilm Source: G rasshopper Film\nA fine-grained portrait of friendship\, and a spiky femal e one at that. A thoughtful\, incisive film that articulates the feeling o f an intense companionship fading imperceptibly in a series of scenes over the course of a decade.\n\nFourteen is the elliptical fifth feature by re vered critic and occasional filmmaker Dan Sallitt.  Lo-fi and even lower budget\, as per the writer/director/editor’s usual custom. Sallitt is kn own to revere the deceptively absent visual aesthetics of filmmakers such as Eric Rohmer and Hong Sang-soo and in Fourteen he uses the style effecti vely to flatten time as the viewer gradually perceives the cracks that dev elop between the two characters. The deceptive understatement of camera wo rk and editing it also reflected in the dialog: at once casually nonchalan t and screwball sharp.\n\n\n\n\nYou have 72 hours to view the film from th e time you purchase your ticket. 50% of ticket revenue goes to VTIFF.\n\n& nbsp\;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider contributing to the Com munity Heroes Fund - and become a VTIFF Community Champion.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/fou rteen_1_talliemedelnormakuhling_christophermessina_1-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:938@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200523 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200601 DTSTAMP:20200525T181017Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/life-in-synchro/ SUMMARY:Life In Synchro DESCRIPTION:\n\nDirected\, edited and produced by Angela Pinaglia\nUSA | 20 20 | Documentary\nPresented by the Film Festival Alliance for Film Festiva l Day #2\nAwards: Best of Fest\, the Audience Award\, at the DC Independen t Film Festival.\n\nIn the world of synchronized ice skating\, Pinaglia’ s Life in Synchro follows a skating season alongside the stars of today\, the newcomers\, the passionate amateurs and the founders of the sport as t hey push their teams and themselves to be too good to ignore. But will it be enough to get their sport off the fringes and into the Olympic spotligh t? From a young Team USA skater with big dreams\, a 65-year-old amateur sk ater embracing this next chapter of life with her team\, to a woman who wa s on the first synchro team back in 1956\, who is now trying to get the fo under of synchro\, the credit he deserves for creating the sport that gave her so much\, Life in Synchro interweaves each woman’s vastly different journeys\, from all around the U.S.\, as they and these determined teams are out to prove the staying power of synchro.\n\n“Synchronized skating is the closest thing I have ever seen to a women’s utopia\, and it’s n ot in an alternative reality or in the far off future. It exists in the he re and now. It's the most feminist sport you’ve never heard of.”\n\n** * NOTE: Q&\;A with the director and some of the skaters! Virtual Group Watch May 23: Start the Film: 6:00pm EDT/6:00pm CST/4:00pm PDT (or watch i t anytime over the weekend!). Join the Q&\;A: 7:00pm EDT/7:00pm CST/5:0 0pm PDT. \nAs part of the special Film Festival Day presentation\, partici pants will include the film’s subjects Emily Fitzgerald (a former compet itive skater on the Dearborn Crystallettes)\, Heidi Coffin (a 68-year-old adult skater on the Maine DownEasters)\, and Peggy MacDonald (who was a sk ater on the first ever synchro team in 1956 and went on to coach the first ever national champions of the sport in 1984). The Q&\;A will be moder ated by Women Sports Film Festival’s Co-Founder Susan Sullivan\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider contributing to the Community Heroes Fu nd - and become a VTIFF Community Champion.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Lif e_in_Synchro_Still_2_300dpi1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:948@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200605 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200920 DTSTAMP:20200921T172333Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tommaso/ SUMMARY:Tommaso DESCRIPTION:Abel Ferrara's first dramatic feature since 2014's Pasolini ret eams the filmmaker and his frequent lead Willem Dafoe\, who plays the titl e character\, an older American expat living in Rome with his young wife a nd their daughter. Disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent\, une xpected blows to his self-esteem\, Tommaso wades through this late chapter of his life with an increasingly impaired grasp on reality as he prepares for his next film. Tommaso is a delicately surrealistic work of autofi ction\, in the genre of confessional autobiographical films about filmmake rs. This one is shot in Ferrara’s own apartment in Rome\, and costars hi s wife\, Cristina Chiriac\, as Tommaso’s wife Nikki\, and the couple’s real-life three-year-old daughter\, Anna Ferrara \, as three-year-old Dee dee.\n\n"A gripping look at the process of escaping to a better life\, onl y to find that the old one follows along at every turn... Manages to feel rough and risky while somehow sensitive at the same time\, like the best of them." ~ Eric Kohn\, Indiewire\n\n\nWhen you purchase your ticket you c an also tune in to Q&\;As with director Abel Ferrara and star Willem Da foe!\nSunday\, June 7 at 2:00pm – Q&\;A with Willem Dafoe hosted by t he Coolidge Corner Theater\nSunday\, June 7 at 3:00pm – Q&\;A with Ab el Ferrara moderated by Sean Baker hosted by Film at Lincoln Center\n\n\n\ n\n\nOnce you buy a ticket you have 72 hours to watch. 50% of bookings rev enue goes to VTIFF.\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Tom maso-3.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:946@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200605 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200620 DTSTAMP:20200604T025840Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/yourself-and-yours/ SUMMARY:Hong Sang-soo: Yourself and Yours DESCRIPTION:Directed by Hong Sang-soo\nSouth Korea | 2016 | 86 mins | Korea n w/English subtitles\nSource: Cinemaguild\n\n\nFirst in our retrospective series of South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo. Read intro to Hong Sang-s oo below trailer.\n\nTicket link coming soon.\n\n\n"For those who haven’ t yet been introduced to this singularly idiosyncratic Korean  auteur\, Y ourself and Yours is as good a place to start as any.”  ~David Ehrlich\ , IndieWire\n\nOne of Hong Sang-soo’s most delightful comic mysteries. W hen painter Youngsoo (Kim Joohyuk) learns that his girlfriend\, Minjung (L ee Yooyoung)\, was recently seen having drinks with another man\, he can ’t help but question her about it. It doesn’t go well and they part on bad terms. The next day\, Youngsoo tries to find her\, but can’t. As he wanders and frets\, Minjung has a series of encounters with other men. Bu t to them it seems she’s not herself. Featuring a supporting cast of Hon g regulars including Kwon Haehyo\, Yu Junsang and Kim Euisung\, Yourself a nd Yours is a puzzle full of mistaken identity\, excessive drinking and lo ts of he-said\, she-said. As the rumors pile up\, Hong asks: In a relation ship\, how important is it to know everything?\n\n\n\n\nOnce you buy a tic ket you have 72 hours to watch. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF.\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\nHong S ang-soo is among the most prolific of modern filmmakers. In the past decad e he’s written and directed 15 features — including three in 2017 alon e. He’s also among the 21st century’s most distinctive cinematic styli sts. His ironic narratives find subtle comedy in the absurdity of social c onstructs and understated drama in the messy complexity of romantic relati onships.\n\nHong has been called “the Korean Woody Allen\,” but Eric R ohmer or Jean Eustache might be more apt comparisons. Like those French au teurs\, Hong focuses on the minutiae of everyday life and is fond of lengt hy\, cerebral dialogue scenes. A quintessential Hong scene is filmed in a single shot\, with irregularly timed pans and digital zooms that underline shifts in a dinner conversation. As copious amounts of soju are consumed\ , mundane talk turns serious then awkward\, finally giving way to an unexp ected emotional epiphany.\n\nHong’s oeuvre is remarkably consistent\, wi th similar themes explored across multiple films featuring a recurring sto ck company of actors. Even within individual films he’s fond of narrativ e doubling\, with the same events playing out in different permutations. ~ Luke Baynes\, VTIFF programming committee\n\nYOURSELF AND YOURS (2016): O pening June 5\n\nHILL OF FREEDOM (2014): Opening June 12\n\nWOMAN ON THE B EACH (2006): Opening June 19\n\n \;\n\n[Insert general info about the Virtual Cinema series\, how to purchase\, etc.]\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/You rself-and-Yours-e1590680387224.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:952@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200606 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200817 DTSTAMP:20200922T142346Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shirley/ SUMMARY:Shirley DESCRIPTION:\nTicket link coming very soon.\nElisabeth Moss and Michael Stu hlbarg play horror author Shirley Jackson and her professor husband in Jos ephine Decker's biographical portrait. The place is Bennington\, VT\; the time is the early 1960s\; and the subject\, as so often happens\, is infid elity. The spiders at the center of it all are a real-life couple\, author s/educators/lushes Stanley Edgar Hyman and Shirley Jackson\, the subjects of a 2014 novel by Susan Scarf Merrell now adapted by Sarah Gubbins\, the creator of Amazon's canceled series I Love Dick. \n\n\n\n\nElisabeth Mos s and director Josephine Decker will be joining us for a Q&\;A at a dat e to be specified.\n\n\nClick HERE for information about how to watch the film and the Q&\;A\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider contributing t o the Community Heroes Fund - and become a VTIFF Community Champion.\n\n\n \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Shi rley.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:949@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200606T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200606T221500 DTSTAMP:20200531T181558Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shirley-opening-night/ SUMMARY:Shirley - Opening Night film and Q&A with Elisabeth Moss and Joseph ine Decker DESCRIPTION:Directed by Josephine Decker\n\nUSA | 2020 | 107 mins |\nFilm S ource: Neon\n\n\n\nElisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg play horror author Shirley Jackson and her professor husband in Josephine Decker's biographi cal portrait. The place is Bennington\, VT\; the time is the early 1960s\; and the subject\, as so often happens\, is infidelity. The spiders at the center of it all are a real-life couple\, authors/educators/lushes Stanle y Edgar Hyman and Shirley Jackson\, the subjects of a 2014 novel by Susan Scarf Merrell now adapted by Sarah Gubbins\, the creator of Amazon's cance led series I Love Dick. \n\n\n\n\nElisabeth Moss and director Josephine Decker will be joining us for a Q&\;A following a special online screen ing of their new film Shirley on Saturday\, June 6th at 4p PT/ 7p ET! Bu y a ticket at HERE to watch the Sundance award-winning film plus Q&\; A and choose VTIFF as your theater for it to receive 50% of the proceeds.\ n\n\nClick HERE for information about how to watch the film and the Q&\ ;A\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider contributing to the Community Heroes Fund - and become a VTIFF Community Champion.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Shi rley.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:947@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200612 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200627 DTSTAMP:20200601T191456Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hong-sangsoo-hill-of-freedom-opening-june-12/ SUMMARY:Hong Sangsoo: Hill of Freedom DESCRIPTION:Directed by Hong Sangsoo\nSouth Korea | 2014 | 67 mins | Englis h (mostly) and Korean w/English subtitles\nSource: Grasshopper Films\n\n\n Second in our retrospective series of South Korean filmmaker Hong. Read in tro to series below trailer.\n\nTicket link coming soon.\n\nShot in the na rrow alleys\, petite cafes and beautiful hanok inns of Seoul’s historic  Jong-ro district\, a favorite Hong location\, the film is a puzzle for u s to make sense of. Kwon (Seo Young-hwa) returns to Seoul from a restorati ve stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori (R yo Kase)\, who has come back from Japan to propose to her. As she walks do wn a flight of stairs\, Kwon drops and scatters the letters\, all of which are undated. When she reads them\, she has to make sense of the chronolog y… and so must we. And on another layer: a central thread of the film is communication and conversations: Nearly every single scene is framed arou nd a conversation in English\, spoken by non-native speakers who therefore use it in a way that is fundamentally different from how they use their n ative tongues.\n\n"Hong achieves a complexity akin to the grand historical meditations of Alain Resnais\; steering clear of explicit politics\, he c onjures revealing attitudes through reverberant—and often comical—deta ils." ~Richard Brody\n\nOnce you buy a ticket you have 72 hours to watch. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF.\n\n\n\n\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE\n\n\n\n\nHong Sang-soo is among the most prolific of modern filmmakers. In the past decade he’s written and directed 15 fe atures — including three in 2017 alone. He’s also among the 21st centu ry’s most distinctive cinematic stylists. His ironic narratives find sub tle comedy in the absurdity of social constructs and understated drama in the messy complexity of romantic relationships.\n\nHong has been called “the Korean Woody Allen\,” but Eric Rohmer or Jean Eustache might be m ore apt comparisons. Like those French auteurs\, Hong focuses on the minut iae of everyday life and is fond of lengthy\, cerebral dialogue scenes. A quintessential Hong scene is filmed in a single shot\, with irregularly ti med pans and digital zooms that underline shifts in a dinner conversation. As copious amounts of soju are consumed\, mundane talk turns serious then awkward\, finally giving way to an unexpected emotional epiphany.\n\nHong ’s oeuvre is remarkably consistent\, with similar themes explored across multiple films featuring a recurring stock company of actors. Even within individual films he’s fond of narrative doubling\, with the same events playing out in different permutations. ~ Luke Baynes\, VTIFF programming committee\n\n\nYOURSELF AND YOURS (2016): Opening June 5\n\nHILL OF FREEDO M (2014): Opening June 12\n\nWOMAN ON THE BEACH (2006): Opening June 19\n\ n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sti ll-hilloffreedom2.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:943@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200612 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200627 DTSTAMP:20200529T183332Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/they-know-not/ SUMMARY:For They Know Not What They Do DESCRIPTION:Directed by Daniel Karslake\n\nUSA | 2019 | 91 mins\nPremiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Audience Awards at Atlanta\, Seattle\, Ft. Laude rdale\, Rochester\, Phoenix &\; Warsaw Film Festivals.\nFilm Source: Fi rst Run Features\nThis screening is scheduled to coincide with Pride Month \nTicket link coming soon\n\nFrom the director of the acclaimed For the Bi ble Tells Me So comes a new documentary that explores the intersection of religion\, sexual orientation and gender identity in current-day America.\ n\nThe arrival of marriage equality was seen by many as the pinnacle achie vement of the march toward full equality for LGBTQ people. But for many on the Right\, it was the last straw\, and their public backlash has been sw ift\, severe and successful. In collaboration with religious conservatives \, politicians are invoking both the Bible and the U.S. Constitution in th eir campaigns for the 'religious freedom' to legally discriminate. By tell ing the stories of four families struggling with these issues\, the film o ffers healing and understanding to those caught in the cross hairs of scri pture\, sexuality\, and identity.\n\nYou have 72 hours to view the film fr om the time you purchase your ticket. 50% of ticket revenue goes to VTIFF. \n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider c ontributing to the Community Heroes Fund - and become a VTIFF Community Ch ampion.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/For TheyKnow_1920x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:950@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200619 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200703 DTSTAMP:20200601T192812Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hong-sang-soo-woman-on-the-beach/ SUMMARY:Hong Sang-soo: Woman on the Beach DESCRIPTION:Directed by Hong Sang-soo\nSouth Korea | 2006 | 127 mins | Kore an w/English subtitles\nSource: Grasshopper Films\nA new 4K restoration co mpleted by the Korean Film Archive from the original 35mm negative.\n\n\nT hird in our retrospective series of South Korean filmmaker Hong. Read intr o to series below trailer.\n\nTicket link coming soon.\n\nFilmmaker Joong- rae\, suffering from writer’s block\, takes a trip to the coast with his production designer Chang-wook\, who brings along the vivacious Moon-sook . Soon after their arrival\, Moon-sook falls for Joong-rae’s advances\; however\, the fickle hero can’t commit and he awkwardly parts with her. What had been a sardonic Jules and Jim turns into a burlesque Vertigo when Joong-rae returns to the coastal resort and attempts to recreate the orig inal romance with a woman who resembles Moon-sook\, until his jilted lover shows up…\n\n \;\n\n A bittersweet accounting of the geography of desire... Wry and tender and delicately melancholic... shows a newly confi dent filmmaker again working near the top of his form.” ~ Manohla Dargis \, The New York Times\n “An immaculately constructed movie. A rueful ta le of karmic irony\, self-deceived desire\, squandered second chances\, an d unforeseen abandonment.” ~J. Hoberman\, Village Voice\n\n \;\n\nOn ce you buy a ticket you have 72 hours to watch. 50% of bookings revenue go es to VTIFF.\n\n\n\n\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE\n\ nTRAILER COMING SOON\n\n\nHong Sang-soo is among the most prolific of mode rn filmmakers. In the past decade he’s written and directed 15 features — including three in 2017 alone. He’s also among the 21st century’s most distinctive cinematic stylists. His ironic narratives find subtle com edy in the absurdity of social constructs and understated drama in the mes sy complexity of romantic relationships.\n\nHong has been called “the Ko rean Woody Allen\,” but Eric Rohmer or Jean Eustache might be more apt c omparisons. Like those French auteurs\, Hong focuses on the minutiae of ev eryday life and is fond of lengthy\, cerebral dialogue scenes. A quintesse ntial Hong scene is filmed in a single shot\, with irregularly timed pans and digital zooms that underline shifts in a dinner conversation. As copio us amounts of soju are consumed\, mundane talk turns serious then awkward\ , finally giving way to an unexpected emotional epiphany.\n\nHong’s oeuv re is remarkably consistent\, with similar themes explored across multiple films featuring a recurring stock company of actors. Even within individu al films he’s fond of narrative doubling\, with the same events playing out in different permutations. ~ Luke Baynes\, VTIFF programming committee \n\n\nYOURSELF AND YOURS (2016): Opening June 5\n\nHILL OF FREEDOM (2014): Opening June 12\n\nWOMAN ON THE BEACH (2006): Opening June 19\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Wom anOnTheBeach_7.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:944@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200619 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200703 DTSTAMP:20200529T165718Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/aviva/ SUMMARY:Aviva DESCRIPTION:Directed by Boaz Yaqin\nUSA | 2019 | 72 mins\nSource: Outsider Pictures\n\nAviva is an impressionistic take on a movie romance\, set in a New  York world of gender-fluid and frequently fully unclothed bodies\, choreographed by former member of the Israeli dance company Batsheva Danc e Company. Featuring a pair of principal characters played by four differe nt actors daringly expressing both masculine and feminine sides\, “Aviva ” captures a restless and changing today where who we are as women and m en\, and how we navigate the world\, is up for grabs.\n\n\n\nFree live str eam Q&\;As will take place on Saturday\, June 13 and Saturday\, June 20 at 7pm EST\, with director Boaz Yakin\, and cast members Bobbi Jene Smith &\; Or Schraiber.Also\, Sunday\, June 14 at 4pm EST\, with Yakin\, and cast members Zina Zinchenko &\; Tyler Phillips. Moderated by Emmy Awar d-winning filmmaker and film programmer Robert Rosenberg.  Click Here for Free Registration to These Zoom Events\n\n\n\n\nOnce you buy a ticket you have 72 hours to watch. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF.\nDo consid er also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Avi va-02.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:951@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200626 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200711 DTSTAMP:20200603T150602Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ella-fitzgerald/ SUMMARY:Ella Fitzgerald 'Just One of Those Things' DESCRIPTION:Directed by Leslie Woodhead\nUK | 2020 | 72 mins\nSource: MTuck manMedia\n\n\nTicket links coming soon\n\nElla Fitzgerald 'Just One of Tho se Things' follows Ella's extraordinary journey over six decades as her su blime voice transforms the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of h er times into joy. The film uses "never-before-seen images" and unheard in terviews to bring Ella Fitzgerald to life and to tell the story of her mus ic. - A black woman who makes her career in the face of horrifying racism. \n\n"A study of a much loved but little understood musical icon that was t ouching but also very funny. It was also great to see talking heads who ac tually knew what they were talking about. I particularly loved Will Fried wald's analysis of her 1960 Berlin version of How High The Moon” ~ John Lewis -music critic for The Guardian\n\n\n\n\nOnce you buy a ticket you ha ve 72 hours to watch. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF.\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE\n\n\n\n\nThe archive concert footage steals the show with plenty of priceless reminders of her irresistible ch arms\, from the infectious glee of her vocal tightrope acts in the name of scat singing to the poise and nuance with which she interprets the Great American Songbook.” ~ Jamie Atkins – Record Collector\n\n“There are great contributions\, from Jamie Cullum\, who gives a vivid description of Ella's bebop language\, and from Will Friedwald\, who not only does a tot ally wonderfully forensic exegesis of the 1960 Berlin Mack the Knife\, but also puts the case for the lasting significance of the "definitive" Songb ook-era Ella” ~ Sebastian Scotney - Editor\, LondonJazz News\n\nIf you'd like to enjoy some of the music from the film - click HERE for a Spotify playlist.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Get tyImages-489622551-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:945@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200626 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200710 DTSTAMP:20200528T150052Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-last-tree/ SUMMARY:The Last Tree DESCRIPTION:Directed by Shola Amoo\n2019 | UK\, | English | 98 mins\nWinner - British Independent Film Awards 2019\nFilm Source: ArtMattan\n\nThe sem i-autobiographical story Femi\, a British boy of Nigerian descent who\, af ter a happy childhood in rural Lincolnshire with his white fostermother\, moves to inner London to live with his Nigerian mum. Struggling with the u nfamiliar culture and values of his new environment\, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take\, and what it means to be a young black man in London. Going back home to Nigeria with his mum t o find his Nigerian roots will help adolescent Femi find grounding and hop e for a better future.\n\nOnce you buy a ticket you have 72 hours to watch . 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF.\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/TLT -Profile-e1590674358813.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:889@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200701 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200731 DTSTAMP:20200720T185107Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/virtual-cinema-dona-flor-and-her-two-husbands -2/ SUMMARY:Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands DESCRIPTION:Directed by Bruno Barreto\nBrazil | Fiction | 1976 | New restor ation | Portuguese w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Film Movement\nBased on the novel by Jorge Amado\, this Brazilian comedy follows the strange e vents that befall Doña Flor (Sonia Braga) after she is left a widow by th e death of her wild\, irresponsible husband. When initially released\, Don a Flor became the most successful film in Brazilian history. International ly\, Dona Flor received nominations for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award.\ n \;\nFollow THIS LINK to book the film - valid for a 7-day rental per iod. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. If you'd like to add a donatio n you can do so HERE - it would be much appreciated.\n\n\nFor instructions how to view - CLICK HERE\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sor ry-we-missed-you.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:873@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200701T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200731T000000 DTSTAMP:20200720T192906Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/virtual-cinema-corpus-cristi/ SUMMARY:Corpus Cristi DESCRIPTION:After years in juvenile prison\, 20-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a small village to work as a manual laborer. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Cor pusChristi_OscarNom_social-keyart_1080x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:877@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200701 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200801 DTSTAMP:20200720T185048Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/virtual-cinema-dona-flor/ SUMMARY:Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands DESCRIPTION:Directed by Bruno Barreto\nBrazil | Fiction | 1976 | New restor ation | Portuguese w/ English subtitles\nFilm Source: Film Movement\nBased on the novel by Jorge Amado\, this Brazilian comedy follows the strange e vents that befall Doña Flor (Sonia Braga) after she is left a widow by th e death of her wild\, irresponsible husband. When initially released\, Don a Flor became the most successful film in Brazilian history. International ly\, Dona Flor received nominations for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award.\ n \;\nFollow THIS LINK to book the film - valid for a 7-day rental per iod. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. If you'd like to add a donatio n you can do so HERE - it would be much appreciated.\n\n\nFor instructions how to view - CLICK HERE\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sor ry-we-missed-you.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:875@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200703 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200731 DTSTAMP:20200720T185159Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sorry-we-missed-you/ SUMMARY:Sorry We Missed You DESCRIPTION:Directed by Ken Loach\nFiction | 2019 | UK | 100 mins\n\nThe Br itish working class is once again the empathetic subject of Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You\, a wrenching\, intimate family drama that exposes the dark side of the so-called “gig economy”.\n"Ken Loach raises his game yet further with this gut-wrenching tale of a delivery worker driven to t he brink...It’s fierce\, open and angry\, unironised and unadorned... Th is brilliant film will focus minds.” ~ Peter Bradshaw\, The Guardian\n\n Follow THIS LINK to book the film - valid for a 7-day rental period. 50% o f bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. If you'd like to add a donation you can do so HERE - it would be much appreciated.\n\n\nFor instructions how to vi ew - CLICK HERE\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sor ry-we-missed-you.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:883@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200705 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200911 DTSTAMP:20200921T174848Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bacarau/ SUMMARY:Bacurau DESCRIPTION:Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles\nBrazi l\, France | 2019 | 131 mins | English and Portuguese with English subtitl es\n\nA few years from now... Bacurau\, a small village in the Brazilian s ertão\, mourns the loss of its matriarch\, Carmelita\, who lived to be 94 . Days later\, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes\, and soon\, in a genre-bending twist\, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants one by one. A fierce confrontation takes place when the townspeople turn the tables on t he villainous outsiders\, banding together by any means necessary to prote ct and maintain their remote community. The mercenaries just may have met their match in the fed-up\, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau.\nValid for a 6-day rental period. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. If you' d like to add a donation you can do so HERE - it would be much appreciated .\n\nThe RESERVE TICKETS link also has instructions on how to view. If you encounter any issues email contact@kinonow.com  and they will be happy t o assist.\n\n\nWe are grateful to Kino Lorber for creating this opportunit y. Bacurau opened in New York on March 6\, less than a week before theater s started shutting down. It was scheduled to expand to more than 60 cities in the coming weeks. Reviews had already hit. The theaters had been runni ng trailers for weeks.  Bacurau is a film about a community banding toget her in the face of a mysterious and malevolent threat. We can’t think of a better film to premiere on Kino Marquee.\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Buc arau-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:970@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200710T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200710T230000 DTSTAMP:20200901T151924Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/john-lewis-good-trouble-movie-nightdirector-q a/ SUMMARY:John Lewis: Good Trouble - Movie Night+Director Q&A DESCRIPTION:Directed by Dawn  Porter\nUSA | 2020 | 96 mins |\nSource: Magn olia Pictures\n\nUsing interviews and rare archival footage\, John Lewis: Good Trouble chronicles Lewis' 60-plus years of social activism and legisl ative action on civil rights\, voting rights\, gun control\, health-care r eform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis\, now 79 ye ars old\, Porter explores his childhood experiences\, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addit ion to her interviews with Lewis and his family\, Porter's primarily ciné ma verité film also includes interviews with political leaders\, Congress ional colleagues\, and other people who figure prominently in his life. \n \nJoin us for a special online screening of the new documentary JOHN LEWI S: GOOD TROUBLE plus live stream Q&\;A with Director Dawn Porter this F riday\, July 10th at 8pm EST! 10% of proceeds will be donated to the NAA CP Legal Defense Fund. Buy a ticket at JoinMovieNight.com and choose VT IFF to receive a portion of the proceeds\n\n\nAlso: immediately following the feature\, there will be a pre-recorded discussion between Congressman Lewis and Oprah Winfrey\, filmed last month and being made available excl usively for virtual cinema and in-theater engagements of the film. This is a wide-ranging\, informal\, 16-minute conversation that’s a perfect fol low-up to the documentary\, and could not be more relevant.\n\n\nHow To Wa tch the film and Q&\;A - instructions HERE\n\n\n\n"A project such as “John Lewis: Good Trouble” easily can fall into the trap of simply adm iring a subject who was already widely agreed to be admirable. Porter avoi ds that: Shuttling back and forth through time\, the director weaves a pic ture of civil rights\, voter rights\, as an ongoing fight\, not something won and secured by the blood\, sweat and tears of the past. Porter effecti vely gets it across that admiring John Lewis is pointless if no one follow s his call." ~ Alabama Life and Culture\n"A movie that could scarcely be a ny timelier." ~ The Wrap\n\n\n CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:967@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200716T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200723T185900 DTSTAMP:20200922T142737Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/they-aint-ready-for-me-yet/ SUMMARY:They Ain't Ready for Me Yet DESCRIPTION:FREE for VTIFF members\n$10 general admission\, $9 for seniors (65+)\, $5 youth. If you are a member\, after you've clicked on 'reserve t ickets" below\, log in to your membership and then\, from the various tick et options make sure you select the "streaming" option - streaming patron or streaming all access etc.\n\n\nThey Ain’t Ready For Me is the story o f Tamar Manasseh\, the African American rabbinical student who is leading the fight against senseless killings on the south side of Chicago. The fil m explores the challenges and motivations of this fearless community leade r as she works to prevent more people from being killed by gun violence. T amar's complex identity and magnetic personality combine to make her a for ce to be reckoned with\, and she hasn't even hit her stride yet.\n\nThe fi lm will only be available for one week. Once you reserve your ticket\, you will get an email confirmation. Click Watch Now from this email. If you d on't watch immediately\, you may be asked to "reactivate" when you return. \n\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/The y-ainu2019t-Ready-for-Me_01-1600x900-c-default-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:968@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200717 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200814 DTSTAMP:20200922T142013Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/flannery/ SUMMARY:Flannery DESCRIPTION:Winner of the first-ever Library of Congress / Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film\, Flannery is the lyrical\, intimate exploration of the li fe and work of author Flannery O’Connor\, whose distinctive Southern Got hic style influenced a generation of artists and activists. With her famil y home at Andalusia (the Georgia farm where she grew up and later wrote he r best known work) as a backdrop\, a picture of the woman behind her sharp ly aware\, starkly redemptive style comes into focus. Including conversati ons with those who knew her and those inspired by her (Mary Karr\, Tommy L ee Jones\, Lucinda Williams\, Hilton Als and more)\, Flannery employs neve r-before-seen archival footage\, newly discovered personal letters and her own published words (read by Mary Steenburgen) alongside original animati ons and music to examine the life and legacy of an American literary icon. \n\nContent Advisory: This film contains offensive language\, including an ethnic slur that—in an effort to retain the integrity of the literary w orks examined therein—has not been muted or otherwise distorted in the p resentation of the documentary. Racist language was wrong during Flannery O'Connor's lifetime and is wrong today. This film\, the filmmakers and tho se presenting the film do not condone\, support or promote the use of raci st language in any way.\n\n "An extraordinary documentary. Allows us to f ollow the creative process of one of our country's greatest writers" ~ Ken Burns\, filmmaker\n\n\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE\ n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Fla nnery_JoeMcTyre-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:969@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200717 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200814 DTSTAMP:20200922T142220Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lucky-grandma/ SUMMARY:Lucky Grandma DESCRIPTION:Set in New York City\, an ornery\, chain-smoking Chinese Grandm a goes all in at the casino\, landing herself on the wrong side of luck... and in the middle of a Chinatown gang war.\n\nThe movie\, starring Tsai C hin (Joy Luck Club\, Casino Royal\, Memoirs of a Geisha)\, is the feature directorial debut of Sasie Sealy. Lucky Grandma held its world premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival as the second recipient of the AT&\;T P resents: Untold Stories $1 million grant initiative and went on to an int ernational premiere at the BFI London Film Festival. Set in New York’s Chinatown\, Chin portrays an ornery\, newly-widowed 80-year-old eager to l ive life as an independent woman\, despite her family’s concerns. When a local fortune teller (Wai Ching Ho) predicts a most auspicious day in her future\, she decides to head to the casino\, only to land herself on the wrong side of luck by suddenly attracting the attention of local gangsters . She then employs the services of a bodyguard from a rival gang\, played by Corey Ha. Lucky Grandma features a stand-out performance by Tsai Chin a nd also a new song by Akwafina.\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease consider cont ributing to the Community Heroes Fund - and become a VTIFF Community Champ ion.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Luc ky-Grandma.Courtesy-of-Good-Deed-Entertainment-1-e1594134811459-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:966@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200724 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200821 DTSTAMP:20200922T141728Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/helmut-newton-the-bad-and-the-beautiful/ SUMMARY:Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful DESCRIPTION:Join the virtual Q&\;A with the film's director and Isabella Rossellini - Saturday\, August 1 at 4:00pm ET. Free and open open to all. Join HERE\nOne of the great masters of photography\, Helmut Newton made a name for himself exploring the female form\, and his cult status continue s long after his tragic death in a Los Angeles car crash in 2004. Newton w orked around the globe\, from Singapore to Australia to Paris to Los Angel es\, but Weimar Germany was the visual hallmark of his work. Newton's uniq ue and striking way of depicting women has always posed the question: did he empower his subjects or treat them as sexual objects? Through candid in terviews with Grace Jones\, Charlotte Rampling\, Isabella Rossellini\, Ann a Wintour\, Claudia Schiffer\, Marianne Faithfull\, Hanna Schygulla\, Nadj a Auermann\, and Newton's wife June (a.k.a. photographer Alice Springs)\, this documentary captures his legacy and seeks to answer questions about t he themes at the core of his life's work – creating provocative and subv ersive images of women. The film also features Newton’s own home movies\ , archival footage (including a pointed exchange with Susan Sontag) and\, of course\, scores of iconic Newton photographs.\n\n\nOnce you buy a ticke t you have 72 hours to watch. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. Instr uctions for viewing on various devices HERE\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE - each $8 donation guarantees a free ticket to an ess ential worker when we resume physical screenings\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/HEL MUT-NEWTON_001_Self-portrait-Monte-Carlo-1993-cFoto-Helmut-Newton-Helmut-N ewton-Estate-Courtesy-Helmut-Newton-Foundation-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:964@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200731 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200815 DTSTAMP:20200922T142248Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-fight/ SUMMARY:The Fight DESCRIPTION:Directed by Elyse Steinberg\, Josh Kriegman and Eli Despres\nUS A | 2020 | 96 mins\nSource: Magnolia Pictures\n\nIf you need assistance ab out how to view\, please go to THIS support link. Purchasing tickets to ou r virtual screenings is a simple and rewarding way for you to support VTIF F at this time.\n\n\n*** Note that immediately following your viewing\, yo u may watch a pre-recorded discussion between Kerry Washington and the fou r ACLU lawyers featured in the film (Brigitte Amiri\, Lee Gelernt\, Dale H o\, and Chase Strangio). This conversation is exclusive to virtual cinemas . Additionally\,  you will have free access to a live Q&\;A on Sun. 8/ 2 with the filmmakers and lawyers\, moderated by Ann Hornaday of the Washi ngton Post. This will be also be archived and available beyond 8/2.\n\nAt this defining moment in American history\, THE FIGHT follows a scrappy tea m of heroic ACLU lawyers in an electrifying battle over abortion rights\, immigrant rights\, LGBTQ rights and voting rights.\n\nThe ACLU had never g ranted access to its offices until it granted it to the filmmaking team of The Fight\, makers of 2016’s award-winning Weiner. Rousing\, inspiring and slyly humorous\, their latest documentary follows four seismically imp ortant cases and a handful of magnetic attorneys. These lawyers may not kn ow how to charge a cell phone or operate a stand-up desk but have persuade d Supreme Court Justices\, beating back serious encroachments upon our fre edoms.\n\nPlunging viewers into the middle of a massive nighttime protest on the steps of a Brooklyn courthouse\, THE FIGHT opens in January 2017 so on after the inauguration of Donald Trump. Immigration rights were under s iege.\n\n“I was there that night when the decision came down\,” says c o-director Elyse Steinberg. “I was on the steps of the Brooklyn Courthou se. And I knew that this was going to be one of those great moments of his tory. These lawyers were going to be at the center of one of the most sign ificant fights for civil liberties of our time. And we had to be there.” \n\nSteinberg’s experience was the spark that set her team\, including c o-directors Eli B. Despres and Josh Kriegman\, on a journey that would res ult in this film.\n\n\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE\n \n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/The -Fight-5-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:962@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200806 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200813 DTSTAMP:20200923T145507Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-rabbi-goes-west/ SUMMARY:The Rabbi Goes West DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by:\n\nAfter you've booked your ticket you will get a n email confirmation with a "Watch Now" button. Use that button for when y ou're ready to watch. The link will expire August 13 at 11:59pm\n\n*** VTI FF All Access and Patron Members - how to watch for free: Click on Reserve Tickets button below\; In the new window that opens\,  select "add ticke t". You will then be asked if you're a member. Log in\, and make sure to s elect the Streaming\, $0.00 value ticket" option.\n\nWatch the Q&\;A wi th the filmmakers\n\nThere’s an evangelical strand of Hasidic Judaism - Chabad-Lubavitch - spreading across the world. The Rabbi Goes West focuses on one Chabad rabbi\, 34-year-old Chaim Bruk\, who moved from Brooklyn to unlikely Bozeman\, Montana\, to bring his brand of Judaism to the America n West. Part of his Chabad mission is to place a mezuzah\, an encased pray er offering\, on the doorpost of every Montana Jew. That’s less than 2\, 000 families spread across a state fourteen times larger than Israel.\n\nA s he travels across this “big sky” landscape\, Chaim confronts a terri fying neo-Nazi threat. He also faces objections to his proselytizing from some skeptical Jews and the state’s rabbis\, both Reform and Conservativ e. While they acknowledge that he is beloved by his congregants\, they fea r his larger goal to put up Chabad centers everywhere in Montana. Will Cha im succeed in his Chabad expansion? And is there a cost?\n\nA PDF statemen t from the filmmakers about the making of the film can be read HERE\n\nAbo ut the filmmakers\n\nCo-Director/Writer - Gerald Peary\nPeary is the direc tor-writer of two acclaimed feature documentaries\, For the Love of Movies : The Story of American Film Criticism (2009) and Archie's Betty (2015). H e was a film studies professor at Suffolk University\, a veteran film crit ic for The Boston Phoenix\, and acted in the 2013 feature film\, Computer Chess which premiered at Sundance FF. Currently\, he writes reviews for th e website\, The Arts Fuse\, and is the programmer of the Boston University Cinematheque.\n\nCo-Director/Producer - Amy Geller\nAmy Geller is a long- time producer whose credits include: the PBS/BBC broadcast docudrama\nMurd er at Harvard (2003)\, Stay Until Tomorrow (2005) and the four-hour PBS mi ni-series\, The War That Made America (2006)\, and the documentary feature \, For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009). Fr om 2012-2014\, Geller served as the Artistic Director of the Boston Jewish Film Festival\, where she received a young Jewish leadership award. Her f eature-length directorial debut The Guys Next Door (2016) co-directed by A llie Humenuk\, has won jury prizes and audience awards at film festivals a cross the country. She currently teaches\nproduction classes at Boston Uni versity.\n\n***Do consider also donating to our Heroes Fund- each $8 donat ion guarantees a free ticket to an essential worker when we resume physica l screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Rab bi_Goes_West_with_children-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:965@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200807 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200907 DTSTAMP:20200922T140158Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wild/ SUMMARY:The Wild DESCRIPTION:Free for VTIFF Members\, $10 general admission\, $9 seniors (65 +)\, $5 youth. 50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. After you've booked your ticket you will get an email confirmation with a "Watch Now" button. use that button for when you're ready to watch. The link will expire Augus t 14 at 11:59pm\n\n\nBristol Bay\, Alaska\, provides more than half of the world’s sockeye salmon. By the end of Mark Titus' debut feature documen tary The Breach\, the future looked bright for the salmon habitat in Alas ka's pristine Bristol Bay. The film depicted how local opposition had seem ingly thwarted the proposed Pebble Mine project\, which would have placed North America's largest open-pit copper mine in the bay's headwaters. Fast -forward three years and the picture looks very different\, with a mining- friendly administration in the White House and a new emphasis on rolling b ack environmental regulations. Titus felt compelled to follow up with The Wild\, which focuses on the rapid erosion of hard-won safeguards that has revived efforts to build the Pebble Mine in the most pristine salmon habi tat on the continent. Rather than focus solely on the fish themselves\, Ti tus emphasizes the impact on the community\, which relies on healthy socke ye-salmon runs to make a living in Bristol Bay. They include the operator of the area's Bear Trail Lodge\, a net-setter on the Nushagak River\, the captain of a commercial fishing vessel\, leaders of the Indigenous First N ations\, and a family-owned fish-processing business. As The Wild demons trates\, the story of salmon is as much about a human way of life and the Northwest's cultural heritage as about protecting a vital food source. Ins ide of all this is Titus' own intensely personal story of recovery\, which intersects squarely with the film's central question: How do you save wh at you love? In order to answer it\, Titus reaches out to a larger communi ty\, including Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard\, Seattle chef Tom Douglas \, Yupik artist Apayu'q Moore\, and actor Mark Harmon.\n\nRead the New Yor k Times about new developments HERE\n\nDirector Biography\nA fishing guide as well as a filmmaker\, Seattle-based Mark Titus studied acting and dire cting at the University of Oregon and Vancouver Film School. In 2004\, his script\, Tsonoquo (The Wild Woman)\, won the Washington State Screenplay Competition\, and the shorts he's produced have screened at over 25 film festivals worldwide. He is the founder of Seattle's August Island Pictures \, and has written and directed brand films for Amazon\, Microsoft\, The N ature Conservancy\, T-Mobile\, and other clients.\n\nDo consider also dona ting to our Heroes Fund HERE - each $8 donation guarantees a free ticket t o an essential worker when we resume physical screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Und erwater_Bristol_Bay_Lake_by_Jason_Ching-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:963@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200812 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200901 DTSTAMP:20200922T141450Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-dog-stupid/ SUMMARY:My Dog Stupid DESCRIPTION:Based on the short story of the same name from John Fante 's no vella West of Rome \, published posthumously in 1986.\n\nAn acerbic comedy about mid-life\, starring iconic real-life couple Charlotte Gainsbourg an d Yvan Attal.\nHenri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration. Feel ing increasingly misunderstood by his family\, he dreams of running away t o start over again. Yet when he discovers a bad-mannered dog in his garden \, he decides to adopt him\, starting an unexpected friendship that inevit ably upsets Henri’s family and neighbors.\n\n*** Link is good for 72 hou rs starting at payment. You will be able to watch the film for 3 days on a ny computer\, laptop\, ipad\, chromebook or other mobile devices. The only way to watch this film on a television is to mirror or cast from one of t he above devices to your television.\n\nDo consider also donating to our H eroes Fund HERE - each $8 donation guarantees a free ticket to an essentia l worker when we resume physical screenings\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/My- Dog-Stupid-poster-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:957@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200814 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200907 DTSTAMP:20200922T135750Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunless-shadows/ SUMMARY:Sunless Shadows DESCRIPTION:WINNER - Best Director\, IDFA 2019\nOfficial Selection\, MoMA D oc Fortnight 2020 - "An outstanding offering" ~ Richard Brody\, New Yorker \nOfficial Selection\, True/False Film Festival 2020\nOfficial Selection\, CPH:DOX 2020\n\nCritics Pick New York Times - HERE\nMehrdad Oskouei’s f ollow-up to the critically acclaimed Starless Dreams (2016)\, Sunless Shad ows takes another look at the lives of teenage girls in an Iranian juvenil e detention center. But this time the focus is narrowed: each of the film ’s principal subjects is serving time for the murder of a male family me mber. One by one\, Oskouei invites them to go into a room alone\, push the red button on the camera and address their\naccomplices or their victims. \nWith this new confessional approach combined with the ever-deepening rel ationships he has with his subjects\, Oskouei presents a picture of the di senfranchised in an aggressively male-dominated society and of the prison that is their shelter from it.\n\n\n50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. \n\n\nRead about the director\, and his statement about this film HERE\n\n \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sun less.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:956@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200819 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200907 DTSTAMP:20200922T135953Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/represent/ SUMMARY:Represent DESCRIPTION:After purchasing your ticket\, you'll have 7 days to start watc hing. Once you begin\, you'll have 72 hours to finish watching. If you wis h to cast your film to your TV and require assistance go to Eventive's FAQ and live chat support: https://watch.eventive.org/help\n\nJoin for a l ive panel discussion of Hillary Bachelder's new acclaimed documentary REPR ESENT on Thursday\, August 20 at 9pm ET.\nJoined by Hillary will be subjec t and candidate from Illinois Julie Cho along with her campaign manager (a lso featured in the film)\, Bobby Burns. The discussion will be moderated by Stevie Valles\, Executive Director of Chicago Votes!\n\nAn RSVP guarant ees a private Zoom link\, which will be emailed to attendees on Thursday.\ n\nEqual parts personal and political\, Represent follows three women on b oth sides of the aisle who share the singular goal of improving their comm unity through public service. Myya attempts to spark a youth movement and unseat the incumbent mayor of Detroit\; Bryn\, a farmer and working mother in Granville\, OH\, runs for township trustee\; and Julie walks a tightro pe between her identities as a Korean immigrant and Republican candidate f or State Representative in a liberal Chicago suburb.\n\n"Heading into the homestretch of this year’s election\, “Represent” feels like a balm. A reminder that\, win or lose\, there’s something to be gained by reign iting people’s interest in civil engagement\, especially at the local an d state level. You don’t have to agree with everyone’s politics in the documentary\, but it’s nonetheless fascinating to hear each story and f eel reinvigorated and moved by their determination. “Represent” presen ts a clear-eyed view of American politics on an individual level\, a portr ait of what drives a number of political hopefuls from historically underr epresented groups to step up on behalf of their communities." ~ RogerEbert .com\n\n50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF. Instructions for viewing on various devices HERE\n\n\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HE RE - each $8 donation guarantees a free ticket to an essential worker when we resume physical screenings\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Rep resent.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:961@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200819T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200902T180000 DTSTAMP:20200922T141120Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/coup-53/ SUMMARY:Coup 53 DESCRIPTION:*** For an additional $3.00 you may watch the recorded  Q&\ ;A  with RALPH FIENNES\, WALTER MURCH\, and TAGHI AMIRANI in conversation with JON SNOW of Channel 4 News. This will be offered to you when you pur chase a ticket to view the film.\nYou can watch the film anytime until Sep t 2.\n\nThe story of the 1953 Anglo-American coup in Iran that overthrew t he democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh and reinstalled the Sha h. Narrated by Ralph Fiennes.\n\nWhile making a documentary about the Angl o-American coup in Iran in 1953\, Iranian director Taghi Amirani and edito r Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now\, The Conversation\, The English Patient) d iscover extraordinary archival material hidden for decades. The 16mm foota ge and documents not only allow the filmmakers to tell the story of the ov erthrow of the Iranian government in unprecedented detail\, but also lead to explosive revelations about dark secrets buried for 67 years. What begi ns as a history documentary about 4 days in August 1953 turns into a live investigation\, taking the filmmakers into a cinematic forensic exploratio n. The film reveals the full spectrum of the 1953 Iranian coup d’état\, orchestrated by the U.S. and U.K. Under the code name Operation Ajax\, th e two nations collaborated to overthrow the democratically elected Prime M inister Mohammad Mosaddegh (who alarmed them by nationalizing Iran’s oil industry) and to reinstall the Shah. Fascinating key to understanding tod ay’s clash between Iran and U.S.\, along with the present-day situation in the Middle East.\n\nOnce you begin watching\, you'll have 24 hours to f inish. Need help?\n\nPurchasing tickets to our virtual screenings is a sim ple and rewarding way for you to support VTIFF at this time. Share with yo ur friends throughout the USA.\n\n\n\nDo consider also donating to our Her oes Fund HERE\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Cou p-53-Postercrop-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:958@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200819T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200902T210000 DTSTAMP:20200922T140546Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/broken-mirrors/ SUMMARY:Broken Mirrors DESCRIPTION:\n\nSeventeen-year-old Ariela is overshadowed by her strict mil itary father who inflicts severe punishments as a form of discipline. Whe n she commits a grave error that he isn't willing to punish her for\, she seeks a punishment of her own. Ariela embarks on a dark quest where she wi ll discover a secret to her father's past that will lead them to confront one another. In an interview Matalon said that Ariela is based on a friend from his youth who had a cruel father. “She was used to getting harsh p unishments and when she didn’t get them\, she would look for them hersel f\,” he said. His father\, a veteran of the 1973 (Yom Kippur) and 1967 ( Six-Day) wars who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder\, inspired other elements of the story.\nStarring Shira Haas (Unorthodox)\n\nWINNER J ury Prize Best Actress — Festival du Cinéma Israélien de Montréal\nWI NNER Best Feature Film — Intl Film Fest for Children &\; Young Audien ce Schlingel\nNOMINATED Jury Award Narrative Feature — Berkshire Int'l  Film Festival (BIFF)\nNOMINATED Grand Prix — Zlin Film Festival\nNOMINAT ED Award of the Israeli Film Academy — Israeli Film Academy\nNOMINATED B est Actress — Israeli Film Academy\nNOMINATED Golden Zenith First Ficti on Films — Montréal World Film Festival\nNOMINATED Alice in the City P rize Young Adult — Rome Film Fest\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Shi ra-Haas-Broken-Mirrors-1341x858-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:960@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200826 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200910 DTSTAMP:20200921T175252Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jazz-on-a-summers-day/ SUMMARY:Jazz on a Summer's Day DESCRIPTION:Directed by Bert Stern\nUSA | 1959/2020 | 85 mins |\nFilm Sourc e: Kino Lorber\n\n*** Note: there will also be a physical (outdoors) scree ning of the film on Wednesday\, Sept 2\, on the lawn of Lake Champlain Cho colates on Pine Street in Burlington. A great way to spend a summer's even ing. See details HERE\n\n\nFilmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and di rected by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern\, Jazz on a Summer's Day  features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong\, Thelonius Monk\, Gerry Mulligan\, Anita O'Day \, Chuck Berry\, Dinah Washington\, and closes with a beautiful rendition or The Lord's Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday m orning.\n\nThe 1959 classic is considered one of the most extraordinary an d possibly the first concert film ever made. Its sparkling new 4K restorat ion by IndieCollect\, recently premiered at the 57th New York Film Festiva l. The film was named to the National Film Registry in 1999\, and its rest oration was funded by the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress in time to celebrate the film's 60th Anniversary.\n\n\n"Gorgeo us. It's probably the best feature-length jazz concert movie ever made."\n ~ Jonathan Rosenbaum\, Chicago Reader\n\n\n\n"Outstanding. It's Americana and a document of its time. Some unprecedented effects are achieved by c ameraman Bert Stern."\n~ Variety\n\n\nWorth reading the press kit which in clude original posters and reviews HERE\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jaz z-on-a-summers-day.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:953@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200902 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200924 DTSTAMP:20200923T145810Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eternal-beauty/ SUMMARY:Eternal Beauty DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon\n\nWhen Jane (Sally Hawkins) is dumped at the altar she has a breakdown and spirals into a chaotic world\, where love (both real and imagined) and family relationships collide with both t ouching and humorous consequences. A fluent\, rhapsodic\, dizzyingly inven tive film\, both structurally and formally. Slipping between two time fram es – the present often glides into the world of Jane and her sisters in their late-teenager years – the action is further lent a shifting\, kale idoscopic quality for being seen through Jane’s eyes. As her mental heal th fluctuates and the voices in her head come and go\, her very surroundin gs seem to ebb and flow: the palette lightens and darkens\, décor transit ions from shabby and oppressive to neat and sunny\, and\, as previously me ntioned\, costumes alter.\n\n“Most movies that I’ve seen that tackle m ental health or mental health issues\, the protagonists are always the vic tim\, or they’re deranged and possessed and it’s a horror film\,” sa ys Roberts. “I wanted to flip it. I’d rarely seen it where you’re li ke\, ‘Oh\, wait\, wait – /she’s/ the normal one\; everyone else is t he one that’s not normal.’ I wanted to take this psychological element of it\, and go\, ‘this maybe isn’t a weakness. Maybe it’s a superpo wer.’”\n\nPRODUCTION STORY\n\nJane\, the character at the bruised and beautiful heart of Eternal Beauty\, presented herself to writer director C raig Roberts while he was editing his 2015 directorial debut JUST JIM. The middle sibling of three sisters\, she is a paranoid schizophrenic who liv es in the shadow of a domineering mother\, and who regularly receives odd\ , ominous phone calls (at least when she stops taking her medication) from a mystery man – perhaps her first love who left her at the altar. “Th e character came fully formed\,” says Roberts. “I just kind of knew th ose people\, to be honest. I wrote some of it while I was in the edit of J UST JIM\, but then I went away to do an acting job where I was stuck in a hotel in Atlanta for a long time\, and basically wrote it in a month."\n\n Do consider also donating to our Heroes Fund- each $8 donation guarantees a free ticket to an essential worker when we resume physical screenings\n\ n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Ete rnalBeauty_press-6-1-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:2020 VT International Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:954@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200902 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200930 DTSTAMP:20200929T170956Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/route-1-usa/ SUMMARY:Route 1/USA DESCRIPTION:Directed by Robert Kramer\nUSA | 2020 | 255 mins |\nSource: Ica rus Films\n\nTicket link coming soon: After this content becomes available September 9 at 1:01 am EST\, you'll have 7 days to start watching. \n\nA “fascinating portrait of late-1980s attitudes toward religion\, race and history [... ]. Named for the old interstate that runs along the East Co ast\, “Route One” is an oblique\, lightly fictionalized account of a j ourney from the Canadian border in Maine to the Florida Keys taken in 1988 by the unseen filmmaker in the company of another returning expatriate kn own as Doc (Paul McIsaac\, a 1960s activist like Kramer as well as a prese nce in previous Kramer films)\, who had been in Africa.\n\n\n\n50% of book ings revenue goes to VTIFF. Instructions for viewing on various devices HE RE\n\n\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE - each $8 donati on guarantees a free ticket to an essential worker when we resume physical screenings\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/rou te-1-USA-1-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:2020 VT International Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:959@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200902T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200902T210000 DTSTAMP:20200922T141150Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jazz-on-a-summers-day-physical/ SUMMARY:Jazz on a Summer's Day - Screen on the Green DESCRIPTION:Directed by Bert Stern\nUSA | 1959/2020 | 85 mins |\nFilm Sourc e: Kino Lorber\n\nIn partnership with:\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \ ;\n\nFree and open to the public. Bring your chair or blanket\, grab delic ious food from A Single Pebble food truck followed by Lake Champlain Choco lates special ice cream\, and settle down to enjoy the film with its great music.\n*** Location: Birch Cliff Street lawn at Lake Champlain Chocolate s\, Pine Street\, Burlington. Parking available on the street or in the lo t behind/next to the Lake Champlain Chocolate building.\n\n***Note that sp ace will be limited to comply with health regulations. Please reserve in a dvance\, online\, with the total number in your group selected. Walk ups a s space allows. Masks required when not in your socially distanced spot. N o dogs allowed.\n\n***Food trucks and check in starting at 6pm\, film star ts at approximately 7:15pm (sunset). Check in required at the VTIFF table. \n\nRain Date Thursday\, September 3rd. Weather related announcements will be posted if needed via social media and on the website earlier in the da y on 9/2.\n\n*** Note: if you can't make it to the event\, you can catch i t on our Virtual Cinema HERE\n\n\nFilmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern\, Jazz on a Summe r's Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong\, Thelonius Monk\, Gerry Mulligan\, Anit a O'Day\, Chuck Berry\, Dinah Washington\, and closes with a beautiful ren dition or The Lord's Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in S unday morning.\n\nThe 1959 classic is considered one of the most extraordi nary and possibly the first concert film ever made. Its sparkling new 4K r estoration by IndieCollect\, recently premiered at the 57th New York Film Festival. The film was named to the National Film Registry in 1999\, and i ts restoration was funded by the National Film Preservation Board of the L ibrary of Congress in time to celebrate the film's 60th Anniversary.\n\n\n "Gorgeous. It's probably the best feature-length jazz concert movie ever m ade."\n~ Jonathan Rosenbaum\, Chicago Reader\n\n\n\n"Outstanding. It's Am ericana and a document of its time. Some unprecedented effects are achiev ed by cameraman Bert Stern."\n~ Variety\n\n\nWorth reading the press kit w hich include original posters and reviews HERE\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jaz z-on-a-summers-day.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Lake Champlain Chocolates\, Birchcliff St\, Burlington\, VT\, 0540 1\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Birchcliff St\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Lake Champlain Cho colates:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:955@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200909 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200928 DTSTAMP:20200921T174816Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-hole-ends-september-27/ SUMMARY:The Hole DESCRIPTION:The Hole - aka The Last Dance\n\nAwards: Fipresci Prize "for it s daring combination of realism and apocalyptic vision\, desperation and j oy\, austerity and glamour."\nGold Hugo Award for Best Feature at the 1998 Chicago International Film Festival\n\nSet just before the turn of the ne w millennium\, a strange disease hits Taiwan that causes people to crawl o n the floor and search for dark places. It also rains constantly. Despite evacuation orders\, tenants of a rundown apartment building stay put. This vaguely futuristic story follows two residents of a quickly crumbling bui lding who refuse to leave their homes in spite of a virus that has forced the evacuation of the area. As rain pours down relentlessly\, a single man is stuck with an unfinished plumbing job and a hole in his floor. This re sults in a very odd relationship with the woman who lives below him. Combi ning deadpan humor with an austere view of loneliness and a couple of unex pected musical numbers\, Tsai Ming-Liang crafted one of the most original films of the 1990s."\n\n"One of the ten best films of 1999...Tsai's most d istilled\, droll\, deftly realized allegory." –J. Hoberman\,Village Voic e\n\n"The most memorable fusion of song\, dance and weathersince Singin’ in the Rain.” –Dennis Lim\, Village Voice\n\n*** Link is good for 72 hours starting at payment. You will be able to watch the film for 3 days o n any computer\, laptop\, ipad\, chromebook or other mobile devices. The o nly way to watch this film on a television is to mirror or cast from one o f the above devices to your television.\n\nDo consider also donating to ou r Heroes Fund HERE - each $8 donation guarantees a free ticket to an essen tial worker when we resume physical screenings\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the -hole-thehole2-jpg-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:972@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200909 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200930 DTSTAMP:20200929T171422Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/route-1-usa-ends-september-16/ SUMMARY:Route One/USA - ends September 29 DESCRIPTION:Directed by Robert Kramer\nUSA | 2020 | 255 mins- shown in two parts |\nSource: Icarus Films\n\nWe recommend watching the film and then w atching the Q&\;A with Paul McIsaac (Doc) and John Douglas  - watch it HERE\n\n\nNamed for the old interstate that runs along the East Coast\, R oute One is an oblique\, lightly fictionalized account of a journey from t he Canadian border in Maine to the Florida Keys taken in 1988 by the unsee n filmmaker in the company of another returning expatriate known as Doc (P aul McIsaac\, a 1960s activist like Kramer as well as a presence in previo us Kramer films)\, who had been in Africa.\n"Restored and digitized by Ica rus Films\, this 1989 journey down Route One exposes still timely concerns : racism’s legacy\, stressed health professionals\, struggling immigrant s\, decaying cities\, a religious right and a press under attack. [...] De spite the presence of the fictional Doc\, most of the people he meets are exactly who they say they are. (There are a few recognizable public figure s\, like Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson.) Critic Hoberman compared it to Robert Frank’s classic 1950s photography series\, The Americans\, for it s ability to non-judgmentally allow its subjects to reveal themselves\, as well as the nation they live in\, for better or worse [...]  \n"Kramer\, who died in 1999\, himself was a 1960s radical who had left his country t o be able to keep making films abroad. He envisioned Route One/USA as a ch ronicle of his homeland return after a decade in France. He and a small cr ew would take a long road trip from Maine to Key West along U.S. Route 1\, which had been the primary route along the East Coast before modern expre ssways." ~ Steven Rosen. Read the full article in City Beat\n\n\n50% of bo okings revenue goes to VTIFF. Instructions for viewing on various devices HERE\n\n\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE - each $8 dona tion guarantees a free ticket to an essential worker when we resume physic al screenings\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/rou te-1-USA-1-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:973@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200916 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201001 DTSTAMP:20201006T153732Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/moroni-for-president/ SUMMARY:Moroni For President - ends September 30 DESCRIPTION:\n\nMoroni Benally is running for the presidency of the Navajo Nation\, the largest Native American nation in the US. Young\, gay\, Mormo n\, and highly educated\, he sets out to confront the political establishm ent in a homecoming that challenges what he imagined home\, and himself\, to be. Simultaneously a behind-the-scenes look into a political campaign w ithin a Native American community and an exploration of identities within said community\, Moroni for President is an eye-opening and humorous portr ait of a political race that runs surprisingly parallel to the current pol itical landscape of the US at large.\n\n\n\n\n50% of bookings revenue goes to VTIFF.\n\n\n\nThe Navajo Nation is the largest Native American reserva tion in the United States. Every four years\, the Navajo tribe elects its president\, whom many consider the most powerful Native American in the co untry.\n\nIn the midst of a frenzied election to determine the next Presid ent of the tribe\, Moroni for President takes the audience to every corner of this vast area in the iconic American Southwest. The film centers on M oroni Benally\, an underdog candidate with radical ideas\, whose homespun campaign originated out of frustration about the lack of progress in the r eservation where he grew up. The witty academic embarks on a grueling\, lo nely campaign\, discovering soon enough that theory does not necessarily p repare you for the daily dirt of politics.\n\nAs the election unfolds\, th e film delves into Moroni's layered identity as a Mormon and gay Navajo ma n and\, along the way\, expands to include other LGBTQ+ characters working on some of the other campaigns. This includes Zachariah George\, who is a n eccentric assistant to the incumbent president and has a love for beauty pageants\, traditional singing\, and the Navajo language\; and Alray Nels on\, an LGBTQ+ rights advocate and campaign manager of one of the frontrun ners.\n\nAbout the Filmmakers\n\nJasper Rischen is a documentary filmmaker and photographer originally from The Netherlands\, now based in Los Angel es. He recently shot a new documentary project in the Republic of Congo an d is directing a 10-part docuseries following a world tour of stars from R uPaul’s Drag Race. Jasper graduated with high honors from Columbia Unive rsity’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2015\, winning a Pulitzer grant awarded to top students\, as well as the Henry N. Taylor Award for best f oreign student and a DuPont/Judy F. Crichton Award for best thesis film.\n \nSaila Huusko is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. For three years she was the in-house filmmaker for the conflict resolution NGO founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Martti Ahtisaari. While there\, she worked arou nd the world\, including in South Sudan and Afghanistan. Saila graduated w ith honors from the Columbia Journalism School and earned her BA from Midd lebury College. She was a Rotary Peace Fellow at the University of Queensl and in Australia. She recently directed Reading North for Al Jazeera’s W itness documentary strand.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Mor oniForPresident_Hero_TT_960x652-1.png CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:974@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200916 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201008 DTSTAMP:20201006T154609Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sybil/ SUMMARY:Sibyl DESCRIPTION:A sly\, sultry character study from filmmaker Justine Triet\, S ibyl follows a psychotherapist (Virginie Efira) who decides to quit her pr actice and return to writing instead. As Sibyl starts dropping patients\, she begins to struggle with excess time and a lack of inspiration–until she gets a call from Margot (Adèle Exarchopoulos)\, a young actress wrapp ed up in a dramatic affair with her costar\, Igor (Gaspard Ulliel)\, who h appens to be married to the film’s director (Sandra Hüller). Becoming further enmeshed in Margot’s life\, Sibyl starts to blur past and presen t\, fiction with reality\, and the personal with the professional as she b egins to use Margot’s life as source material for her novel.\n\n"It’s certainly the most purely enjoyable French fancy to play in Cannes’ top tier since François Ozon’s “Double Lover” two years ago." ~ Guy Lod ge\, Variety\n\nPurchasing tickets to our virtual screenings is a simple a nd rewarding way for you to support VTIFF at this time. Share with your fr iends throughout the USA. \n\nIf you wish to cast the film onto your TV (r ecommended)\, go to HERE for instructions\n\n\n\nDo consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE\n\n\nAbout the director\n\nJustine Triet is a gra duate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Her firs t films question the place of the individual within the group. Sur place ( 2007) was shot during the student demonstrations and Solférino (2008) dur ing the presidential elections. In 2009\, she directed Des ombres dans la maison in a township of Saõ Paulo. Her first fiction short\, Vilaine fill e\, mauvais garcon (Two Ships) won a number of prizes at French and intern ational festivals (European Film Award\, Berlinale 2012\; Grand Prix\, Ang ers First Look\; Grand Prix\, Belfort\; preselection for best short\, 2013 Césars). Her debut feature La bataille de Solférino (Age of Panic) was selected for ACID in Cannes 2013 and nominated for a 2014 César in the Be st First Film category. Victoria\, her second feature\, opened the Critics ’ Week in Cannes in 2016. Starring Virginie Efira\, the film was nominat ed for five Césars\, including Best Film and Best Actress.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SIB YL_1-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:975@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200918 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201010 DTSTAMP:20201008T163529Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/epicentro/ SUMMARY:Epicentro DESCRIPTION:Grand Jury Prize Winner Documentary World Cinema - Sundance Fil m Festival 2020\nEpicentro is an immersive and metaphorical portrait of po st-colonial\, "utopian" Cuba\, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Am ericas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time an d place\, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propaganda. In h is latest film\, Hubert Sauper (Darwin's Nightmare) explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana -- who he calls "young prophets" -- to interrogate time\, imper ialism and cinema itself.\nThe film is a metaphorical portrait of post-col onial Cuba\, whose relationship to the United States changed starting in 1 898 with the explosion of the USS Main in Havana. That event ended Spanish colonial dominance and ushered in everything American\, including its cin ema and the propaganda that it facilitated.\n\n“Metaphorical” well des cribes a few minutes at the start of the film when you wonder exactly what it is you’re looking at. Exercise patience and you’ll get to the bril liance of the film – the way Cubans (often young ones) see their country ’s relationship with the United States and what they see as intervention ism and/or propaganda.\nEpicentro allows you deep into Cuban homes and int o the thoughts of Cubans young and old. It also lets you draw your own con clusions as to the behavior of American tourists in the island.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Epi centro_2020_1-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:976@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200923 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201023 DTSTAMP:20201019T144753Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/oliver-sacks/ SUMMARY:Oliver Sacks: His Own Life DESCRIPTION:A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015\, Oli ver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in N ew York City. For eighty hours\, surrounded by family\, friends\, and note books from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain\, he talked about his life and work\, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural worl d\, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply perso nal reflections\, as well as nearly two dozen interviews with close friend s\, family members\, colleagues and patients\, and archival material from every point in his life\, this film is the story of a beloved doctor and w riter who redefined our understanding of the brain and mind.\n\nDirector's Statement and interview\n"From the start\, this project has been one of t he most moving and revelatory I've ever had the privilege of being involve d with. We were called in to film Oliver Sacks only two weeks after he rec eived the fatal diagnosis that would end his life seven months later\, on August 30th 2015. From the moment my colleagues and I walked into his apar tment on Horatio Street in New York in February 2015 - to begin what becam e eighty hours of filming with a remarkable 81-year-old man facing the end of life with courage and wonder and honesty - it was clear that virtually every issue of importance about what it means to live a life and to be a human being\, was concentrated in his unusual life story: survival\, beaut y\, art\, science\, storytelling\, love\, individuality\, difference\, dig nity\, autonomy\, agency\, wonder\, language\, meaning\, consciousness\, c ommunity\, friendship\, yearning\, loss\, connection with something larger ." Read More\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Oli verSacks_HisOwnLife_BillHayes_photo2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:977@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200925 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201017 DTSTAMP:20201013T160200Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/god-of-the-piano/ SUMMARY:God of the Piano DESCRIPTION:Anat (Naama Preis\, winner of the Jerusalem Film Festival award for Best Actress) has never been able to reach her father’s exacting mu sical standards\, and now her family's hope of producing a musical prodigy rests on her unborn son. When the baby is born deaf\, she cannot accept i t and resorts to extreme measures to ensure that her child will be the com poser that her father always wanted. But when the boy grows up indifferent to his destiny as a great pianist\, Anat will have to stand up to her fat her - and her own actions. A family drama and psychological horror story.\ n\nNY Times Critics' Pick\n"Tal’s style has a simultaneous simplicity an d density that has an affinity with the works of Lucrecia Martel and Micha el Haneke. Rarely does a debut feature showcase a talent so fully formed. This is a remarkably potent film." ~ Glenn Kenny\, NY Times ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/God OfThePiano_still-3.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:978@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200925 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201003 DTSTAMP:20201006T154322Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rbg-ends-oct-2/ SUMMARY:RBG - Ends Oct 2 DESCRIPTION:A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the ACLU Women’s Rights Project\, which was co-founded by Justice Ginsburg in 1972. Ticket price will also include include an interview with Betsy West and Julie Co hen\, the film’s directors. \n\nAt the age of 85\, U.S. Supreme Court J ustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while beco ming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of he r rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown\, even to so me of her biggest fans – until now. RBG explores Ginsburg's life and car eer.\n\nIf you wish to cast the film to your TV or require assistance go t o VHX's FAQ and support\n\nDIRECTORS' STATEMENT (2018)\n\n\nIt was three y ears ago\, January 2015\, that we first had the idea of making a feature d ocumentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We had both\, separately\, interview ed the Justice for projects in the past\, and had both admired her trailbl azing work for women’s rights. But that was before she had broken out as the octogenarian rock star “Notorious RBG\,” with millennials extolli ng her virtues on Twitter and Tumblr\, stocking up on RBG tee-shirts and t ote bags and\, in extreme cases\, getting tattoos–-big\, permanent\, mul ti-color tattoos–-of her face.\n\nTalking about the RBG phenomenon one d ay\, we turned to each other and said “we need to make a documentary abo ut Justice Ginsburg right now.”\n\nA phrase we used in those early conve rsations was that RBG was “having her moment.” What we didn’t fully grasp then was how that moment was about to expand into something bigger a nd more important even as we were documenting her extraordinary life.\n\nW orking with a team of women in the top creative and executive roles\, we b egan filming in June of 2016\, doing our best to keep up with the Justice ’s hectic schedule. We filmed her in her office\, on vacation with her f amily and working out with her personal trainer. We also began tracking do wn the dramatic stories of the clients she represented as a young lawyer a rguing before the Supreme Court in the 1970’s. At that time\, it was per fectly legal to discriminate on the basis of sex. RBG’s brilliant legal strategy resulted in five groundbreaking rulings that made great strides t owards putting women and men on an equal footing before the law.\n\nAs wom en who began our careers in television news after RBG changed the world fo r working women\, we couldn’t help but think about how far we’ve come. And yet\, over the course of making this film\, a series of powerful men have been revealed as sexual harassers\, highlighting how far we still hav e to go.\n\nWe took to heart Justice Ginsburg’s approach to sexism and a dversity. When\, after graduating at the top of her law school class\, she could not get a job\, she remembered her mother’s advice: anger is a wa ste of time. Eventually\, she was able to use her formidable legal skills to fight for justice for women--a fight she has continued through five dec ades.\n\nJustice Ginsburg’s steadfast commitment remains\, not only for gender equality but for democratic institutions that protect the rights of all citizens. No wonder she is a millennial icon.\n\nMeeting RBG in perso n is a powerful experience. Her voice is soft\, but her words are so clear and carefully chosen that you find yourself drawing closer\, riveted. Aft er Donald Trump’s election\, the most frequent reaction we got when we t old people about the film was\, “How is her health? Is she OK?” We wan t audiences to see for themselves the Notorious RBG in action — staying up late into the night crafting blistering dissents and doing the planks\, squats and push-ups that keep her in shape to do the job she loves.\n\n – Betsy West and Julie Cohen\n\n\n\nDo consider also donating to our Her oes Fund HERE - each $8 donation guarantees a free ticket to an essential worker when we resume physical screenings\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/RBG 2.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:979@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20200930 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201015 DTSTAMP:20201008T163127Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/thank-you-good-night/ SUMMARY:Thank You and Good Night DESCRIPTION:New 4K Restoration by IndieCollect!\n\nA lost-and-found revelat ion from indie film and TV maverick Jan Oxenberg is a docu-fantasy narrati ve focused on the filmmaker’s hilarious\, messy\, Jewish family as they prepare to say goodbye to someone they love. Narrated by a cardboard cutou t of Oxenberg’s scowling child self\, Thank You and Good Night takes us on a journey through the proceedings\, attempting to defeat death and neve r say goodbye. An early Sundance hit but virtually unseen for decades\, th e film reemerges as a singular\, uncategorizable exploration of the meanin g of life\, death\, and the tangled stuff that is a family. In this poigna nt\, hilarious\, and complex reflection on letting go\, Oxenberg innovativ ely transforms personal tragedy into universally resonant art that is now claiming its rightful place as a classic of independent cinema. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/tha nk-you-and-good-night-30222id_208.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1000@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201002 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201023 DTSTAMP:20201012T233304Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/still-life/ SUMMARY:Still Life DESCRIPTION:“A human triumph. Sublime\, soulful art. Jia is among the mos t strikingly gifted filmmakers working today.” ~ Manohla Dargis\, The Ne w York Times\nIn Still Life\, great changes have come to the town of Fengj ie due to the construction of the Three Gorges hydro project: Countless fa milies that had lived there for many generations have had to relocate to o ther cities. Fengjie’s old town\, which has a 2000- year history\, has b een torn down and submerged forever\, but its new neighborhood hasn’t be en finished yet. There are still things that need to be salvaged and yet t here are also things that must be left behind. In Still Life\, such life-c hanging choices face both Sanming\, a miner traveling to Fengjie in search of his ex-wife of sixteen years\, and Shen Hong\, a nurse who has come to Fengjie to look for her husband who she hasn’t seen in two years. Both Sanming and Shen will find who they’re looking for\, but in the process they too will have to decide what is worth salvaging in their lives and wh at they need to let go of.\nia was making a documentary about painter Liu Xiaodong\, but was so struck by the devastation wrought by the giant dam ’s construction that he made this prize-winning feature at the same time \n\n\n\n \;\n\n***Do consider also donating to our Heroes Fund HERE - each $8 donation guarantees a free ticket to an essential worker when we r esume physical screenings\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Sti ll_Life_BRD_1-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:999@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201009 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201023 DTSTAMP:20201008T183003Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/aggie-2/ SUMMARY:Aggie DESCRIPTION:Can be viewed streaming on PC\, Smart TV\, Apple TV\, Roku\, Sm art Devices and through "Casting" to a TV plug-in\, but please note that t his film will not be streaming from the VTIFF site\, so do not try to use the VTIFF apps.\n\nAggie explores the nexus of art\, race\, and justice th rough the story of art collector and philanthropist Agnes “Aggie” Gund ’s life. Emmy-nominated director Catherine Gund focuses on her mother’ s journey to give viewers an understanding of the power of art to transfor m consciousness and inspire social change. Aggie is internationally recogn ized for her robust and prescient support of artists–particularly women and people of color–and her unwavering commitment to social justice issu es. After falling in love with art as a high-school student\, Aggie discov ers a new way of looking at the world. The film opens with Aggie selling R oy Lichtenstein’s “Masterpiece” For $165 million to start the Art fo r Justice Fund. The proceeds from one of the highest grossing artworks eve r sold fuel a monumental effort to reform the American criminal justice sy stem and end mass incarceration. The film captures Aggie as a true maveric k who demonstrates the unique role and potential of collectors and benefac tors to use art to fight justice. This is untapped terrain\, and we see Ag gie leading the way.\n\n\n\n \;\n\nDo consider also donating to our He roes Fund HERE - each $8 donation guarantees a free ticket to an essential worker when we resume physical screenings\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/3-a ggie-still-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:980@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201016 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201023 DTSTAMP:20201019T144716Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/martin-eden/ SUMMARY:Martin Eden DESCRIPTION:Directed by Pietro Marcello\nItaly | 2019 | 129 mins | Fiction\ nFilm Source: Kino Marquee\n\nPlease note: the distributor has asked us to limit viewing to anyone logging in from Vermont.\n\nAdapted from a 1909 n ovel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy ’s history\, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresc o in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the ma rvelously committed Luca Marinelli\, who won the Best Actor prize in Venic e FF) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes tha t his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student. The dissatisfactions of working -class toil and bourgeois success lead to political awakening and destruct ive anxiety in this enveloping\, superbly mounted bildungsroman.\n\n“An absolute blast. Includes documentary footage\, wealthy decadence\, left-wi ng politics\, angry speeches (in Italian!)\, beautiful women\, square-jawe d men\, quotations from Baudelaire and the heroic deployment of manual typ ewriters\, hand-rolled cigarettes\, ascots and Volvo sedans. Everything I love in movies\, more or less." ~ A.O. Scott\, The New York Times.\n\n\n\ nDirector's statement:\n\n"We loosely interpreted London’s novel and too k «Martin Eden» to be a fresco that foresaw the 20th-century’s pervers ions and torments\, as well as its crucial themes: the relationship betwee n the individual and society\, the role of mass culture\, the class strugg le… In the movie\, the parable of the negative hero created by London op ens with footage of the anarchist Errico Malatesta\, then draws parallels with the lives and works of a number of the poètes maudits writers of the 1900s\, from Vladímir Majakóvskij to Stig Dagerman and Nora May French. We imagined our Martin crossing the 1900s\, or rather a crasis\, a dreaml ike transposition of the 20th century\, without time constraints\, no long er in the original California of the novel but in a Naples that could be a ny city\, anywhere in the world."\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MAR TIN-EDEN-_-Luca-Marinelli-c-foto-di-Francesca-Errichiello-DSC_98352-scaled .jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1001@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201017T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201017T191000 DTSTAMP:20201016T195431Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shelter-in-place-showcase-2/ SUMMARY:Shelter in Place Showcase DESCRIPTION:A competitive showcase of short films made while sheltering in place in Vermont. A special screening of the selected films will take plac e as part of the events celebrating the renewed City Hall Park in downtown Burlington.\nNote: this event was postponed from October 16 to October 17 because of the rain.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/She lterInPlaceScreen-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington City Arts\, 135 Church Street\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.476625;-73.212827 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=135 Church Street\, Burling ton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlingto n City Arts:geo:44.476625,-73.212827 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:988@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201023 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201026 DTSTAMP:20201019T191005Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-front-page-2/ SUMMARY:The Front Page DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Arnie Malina\n\nThe Academy Film Archive and The F ilm Foundation restored the film in 2016 . Restoration funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation. Elements for this restoration provide d by The Howard Hughes Corporation\, the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas College of Fine Arts\, Department of Film and its Howard Hughes Collection at the Academy Film Archive.\n\n\nThe live stream Q&\;A for this film\ , in conjunction with This is Not a Movie\, will take place Sat\, Oct 24 a t 8pm. Available for Pass holders. Individual ticket purchasers will be ab le to view the recorded discussion the following day.\n\n\nFestival Passes are available now and may be purchased HERE. Individual ticket go on sale Friday\, October 16 at 9am.\n\nBen Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 p lay is one of the most durable comedies in the American repertory and Lewi s Milestone’s 1931 brash and brisk screen adaptation deserves a place of pride alongside it. Set in Prohibition-era Chicago\, this is a cynical va lentine to the ink-stained wretches of the world. The 1931 film version wa s the first and the one most contemporaneous to its depicted events. It is a pre-Code marvel with a machine-gun stride\, capturing a sense of nihili sm that the country was getting dragged into as the Depression kicked off. Its success started a cycle of cynical newspaper films. In 2010 the film was selected for the United States National Registry by the Library of Con gress as being “culturally\, historically\, or aesthetically significant and In 2016 the film was finally restored by the Academy Film Archive to the original American release version for the first time in decades. The version you will see is this restoration. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the -front-page.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:842@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201023 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201102 DTSTAMP:20201013T143504Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-international-film-festival-2020/ SUMMARY:Vermont International Film Festival 2020 DESCRIPTION:The Vermont International Film Festival is VTIFF's flagship eve nt. It takes place during the last 10 days in October on Burlington\, Verm ont's waterfront.\n\nThe festival is curated by a programming committee an d the Executive Director and does not accept submissions. The purpose of t he festival is to present a wide panorama of international and national in dependent cinema.\n\nIn 2020 the festival is virtual only. View this year' s programming. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/744 33508_3034580849892069_8555801838358626304_n.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:981@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201023 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201028 DTSTAMP:20201026T121305Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/park-row/ SUMMARY:Park Row DESCRIPTION:The live stream Q&\;A for this film\, in conjunction with Pa rk Row\, took place Sun\, Oct 25 at 8pm. Available for Pass holders. The r ecorded discussion can be viewed HERE\n\nFestival Passes are available now and may be purchased HERE. Individual ticket go on sale Friday\, October 16 at 9am.\n\nDirected by Sam Fuller | USA | 1952\n\n\nSet in the cutthroa t world of tabloid journalism in New York during the late 19th Century. ta kes its name from the street that was home to most of New York’s newspap ers in the late 19th century. “Written produced\, directed by a newspape r man about newspaper men. matches his tabloid style to the story of a new spaper war”.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Par k-Row.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:990@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201023 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201026 DTSTAMP:20201019T200312Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/this-is-not-a-movie-2/ SUMMARY:This is Not a Movie DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Olivia Milens\; Andrea Rogers\n\nThe live strea m Q&\;A for this film\, in conjunction with The Front Page\, will take place Sat\, Oct 24 at 8pm. Available for Pass holders. Individual ticket p urchasers will be able to view the recorded discussion the following day.\ n\n\nFestival Passes are available now and may be purchased HERE. Individu al ticket go on sale Friday\, October 16 at 9am.\n\nOne of the world’s p reeminent journalists\, Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East from his Beirut base for close to forty years\, covering both Gulf Wars\, the Sabra and Shatila massacre\, the ongoing conflict in Syria and much mo re.  “I think we should be objective and unbiased — on the side of t hose who suffer\,” he has famously declared. “If we were reporting the slave trade in the 18th century\, would we give equal time to the slave s hip captain?”\n\nYung Chang (Up the Yangtse\, China Heavyweight\, The Fr uit Hunters) captures Fisk in action\, crafting an invigorating film essay that challenges received wisdom on the Middle East while reinforcing the crucial need for investigative journalism in our frenzied digital age. “ I want the audience to engage with Fisk\, to question him\, to criticize h im\,” says Chang. “Fisk has a higher mission in the pursuit of truth t han being likeable.”\n\n"...the most insightful examination of the life and psyche of the combat zone correspondent..."\n~ Austin Chronicle\n\n\n\ nTHIS IS NOT A MOVIE - Press clip from NFB/marketing on Vimeo. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Thi s-is-not-a-Movie01-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:984@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201023 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201028 DTSTAMP:20201026T121231Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-black-press/ SUMMARY:The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Frank and Ducky Donath\n\n\nThe live stream Q&\ ;A for this film\, in conjunction with Park Row\, took place Sun\, Oct 25 at 8pm. Available for Pass holders. The recorded discussion can be viewed HERE\n\n\nFestival Passes are available now and may be purchased HERE. Ind ividual ticket go on sale Friday\, October 16 at 9am.\n\nThrough a treasur e trove of archival footage and firsthand interviews\, The Black Press exp lores how black journalists created an alternative media to tell their own stories—including invaluable coverage of black soldiers’ contribution s to World War II. Since the early 1800’s Black newspapers have existed in almost every major city in the U.S. From facilitating the migration of Southern Blacks to northern cities\; to recording the social and political events affecting the lives of African Americans\; to providing a showcase honoring Black soldiers in World War II\, the Black press documented life for millions of people that were otherwise ignored.\n\nStanley Nelson\, a three-time Primetime Emmy Award winner and a MacArthur Fellow\, is a dire ctor\, writer and producer of documentaries examining African-American his tory and experiences. He is a recipient of the 2013 National Humanities Me dal from President Obama.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Scr eenshot_2020-10-07-The-Black-Press-—-Firelight-Films.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:997@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201024 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201103 DTSTAMP:20201031T133942Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/livestream-qa-for-the-front-page-and-this-is- not-a-movie/ SUMMARY:Recorded Q&A for The Front Page and This is Not a Movie DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Yung Chang\, Jake Bernstein\, Alissa Rubin\nModerato r: Fran Stoddard\n*** Only festival Pass holders can join the livestream d iscussion. Watch the recorded discussion below\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/01. jpg CATEGORIES:2020 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:993@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201025 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201103 DTSTAMP:20201031T133958Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/livestream-park-row-and-the-black-press/ SUMMARY:Recorded Q&A for Park Row and The Black Press DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Stanley Nelson\, Christina Asquith and Maleeha Syed. \nModerator: Van Dora Williams\n*** Only festival Pass holders can join th e livestream discussion. Watch the recorded discussion below\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/02. jpg CATEGORIES:2020 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:991@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201026 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201029 DTSTAMP:20201028T023134Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-world-is-watching/ SUMMARY:The World is Watching DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Burlington-Puerto Cabezas Sister City Program\; Peter and Betsy Clavelle\;\n\n\nView the recorded discussion HERE\n\n\nFe stival Passes are available now and may be purchased HERE. Individual tick et go on sale Friday\, October 16 at 9am.\n\nThe World is Watching is a po litical film about the moral issues surrounding news gathering and newsmak ing in the electronic age. Who decides what constitutes the news? How do t hey decide? And what about the men and women who report from the field. Ar e foreign correspondents allowed to tell all that they see? Or is their fi rst loyalty to their employers? Do they merely serve as mouth-pieces for a n invisible editorial line? The film examines these complex issues by focu sing on several international journalists in Nicaragua as they cover the n egotiations surrounding the Arias Peace Plan in November 1987. With unprec edented access to the inner workings of ABC News\, what follows is a uniqu e portrait of a news crew in the field\, as it interacts with the editoria l process in the newsroom in New York City. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/wpp _World-Is-Watching_gallery_s9_640x480_pw_030110.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:987@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201026 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201029 DTSTAMP:20201028T023034Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/good-night-and-good-luck/ SUMMARY:Good Night\, And Good Luck. DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Todd Lockwood\n\nView the recorded discussion for this film and for The World is Watching HERE\n\n\nFestival Passes are avai lable now and may be purchased HERE. Individual ticket go on sale Friday\, October 16 at 9am.\n\nBurnishing the legend of Edward R. Murrow\, the CBS newsman who in the 1940's and 50's established a standard of journalistic integrity his profession has scrambled to live up to ever since\, Good Ni ght\, and Good Luck. is a passionate\, thoughtful essay on power\, truth-t elling and responsibility. Though it is a meticulously detailed reconstruc tion of an era\, the film is concerned with more than nostalgia. It unfold s\, cinema-verité style\, in the fast\, sometimes frantic present tense\, following Murrow and his colleagues and flashes back from a famous\, caut ionary speech that Murrow gave at an industry convention in 1958 to one of the most notable episodes in his career - his war of words and images wit h Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/goo d_luck_good_night21.jpg CATEGORIES:2020 VT International Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:998@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201027 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201103 DTSTAMP:20201031T134015Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/qa-good-night-and-good-luck-and-the-world-is- watching/ SUMMARY:Recorded Q&A for Good Night\, And Good Luck. and The World is Watch ing DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Peter Raymont\, Ann Galloway\, Jake Bernstein.\nMode rator: Traci Griffith\n*** Only festival Pass holders can join the livestr eam discussion.\n/h5>\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/121 700557_4049851528364991_7672186143520348415_o.jpg CATEGORIES:2020 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:983@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201028 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201031 DTSTAMP:20201030T030230Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-corporate-coup-detat/ SUMMARY:The Corporate Coup D'État DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Greg Epler Wood\n\n\nThe live stream Q&\;A for this film\, in conjunction with Network\, took place Thu\, Oct 29 at 8pm. Available for Pass holders.  Watch the recording HERE\n\n\nFestival Passe s are still available and may be purchased HERE. Individual ticket go on s ale Friday\, October 16 at 9am.\n\nJournalist Naomi Klein recently describ ed Trump’s administration as a “corporate coup d’etat.” Chris Hedg es and John Saul argue in the film that the real coup took place long befo re. This film tells the story of how the coup happened and aims to show it s disastrous effects on society’s most vulnerable citizens. The corporat e coup d’état has been devastating for people in “sacrifice zones” like the U.S. Rust Belt and Camden\, New Jersey\, where the film captures heart-breaking stories of citizens suffering from the effects of corporati st\, globalist\, and neo-liberal ideologies and policies. This investigati ve documentary blends the insights of philosophers\, authors and journalis ts with the experiences of citizens of the Rust Belt in the U.S. Midwest\, where the steel industry once flourished\, but where closures and outsour cing have left urban areas desolate and hopeless. Featuring: Chris Hedges\ , John Ralston Saul\, Cornel West\, Sarah Jaffe\, Lee Fang\, Maude Barlow\ , Phillip Martin.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Cor porate-Coup-dEtat-01-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:985@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201028 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201031 DTSTAMP:20201030T151932Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/network/ SUMMARY:Network DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Holly Cluse\n\n\nThe live stream Q&\;A for this film\, in conjunction with The Corporate Coup D'État\, took place Thu\, Oct 29 at 8pm. Available for Pass holders. Watch the recording HERE\n\n\nF estival Passes are available now and may be purchased HERE. Individual tic ket go on sale Friday\, October 16 at 9am.\n\nHoward Beale\, a veteran new scaster\, is informed by his ratings-driven network executives that he is about to be dumped because he "skews old" - in turn\, he uses his next bro adcast to announce that he is going to commit suicide on his final program . Screenwriter Paddy Chayefski received the Academy Award for Best Screenp lay.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/809 77_Network_18-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:996@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201029 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201103 DTSTAMP:20201031T134031Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/livestream-qa-for-network-and-the-corporate-d etat/ SUMMARY:Recorded Q&A for Network and The Corporate Coup D'État DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Fred Peabody\, Jeff Cohen\nModerators: Fran Stoddard \n*** Only festival Pass holders can join the livestream discussion.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/122 072214_4049895758360568_1703541807634214677_o.jpg CATEGORIES:2020 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:989@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201029 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201102 DTSTAMP:20201031T025243Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ace-in-the-hole-2/ SUMMARY:Ace in the Hole (aka The Big Carnival) DESCRIPTION:The live stream Q&\;A for this film\, in conjunction with Th e Sun Never Sets\, took place Fri\, Oct 30 at 8pm. Available for Pass hold ers. Watch the recorded discussion HEREhttps://vimeo.com/474058471\n\n\nFe stival Passes still available now and may be purchased HERE.\n\n\nA frustr ated former big-city journalist (Kirk Douglas)\, now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper\, exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career. Ace in the Hole is an uncompromising\, dark and harsh noirish commentary about the unscrupulous and self-serving actions of com promised tabloid-media journalists. Following on the heels of the merciles s Sunset Boulevard\, Wilder once again serves up a sharp\, biting satire. \n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ace -in-the-Hole.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:992@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201029 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201103 DTSTAMP:20201127T194733Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-sun-never-sets-2/ SUMMARY:The Sun Never Sets DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Nat Winthrop\n\nThe live stream Q&\;A for this film\, in conjunction with Ace in the Hole (aka The Big Carnival)\, took p lace Fri\, Oct 30 at 8pm. Watch the recorded discussion HERE\n\n\nFestival Passes are still available now and may be purchased HERE.\n\n\nAbout the Rio Grande Sun\, published in Espanola\, NM\, considered one of the best w eekly newspapers in the country. Bob Trapp\, the founder\, publisher and e ditor\, is the quintessential newspaper man\, the last of a vanishing bree d. Narrated by Bob Edwards. \n\n\n\nThe Sun Never Sets Trailer from Ben Da itz on Vimeo. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SUN -NEVER-SETS-02.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:995@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201030T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201102T210000 DTSTAMP:20201031T154428Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/livestream-qa-for-ace-in-the-hole-and-the-sun -never-sets/ SUMMARY:Recorded Q&A for Ace in the Hole and The Sun Never Sets DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Ben Daitz\, Bob Trapp\, Paula Routly\, Susan Halpern .\nModerator: Fran Stoddard\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/06. jpg CATEGORIES:2020 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:982@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201031 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201103 DTSTAMP:20201102T032857Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-thousand-cuts/ SUMMARY:A Thousand Cuts DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by John Douglas\n\nThe live stream Q&\;A for this film\, in conjunction with WBCN And The American Revolution\, took place S un\, Nov 30.\nWatch the recorded discussion HERE\n\n\nIn the time since Ro drigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines in 2016\, Maria Res sa has found herself locked in a good-and-evil struggle of Campbellian pro portions. As the co-founder and CEO of the Filipino news outlet Rappler\, she’s been one of the major bulwarks against his brutal regime\, reporti ng on the extrajudicial killings and aggressive misinformation campaigns i n spite of state-sponsored intimidation to the point of open threats. Ramo na S Diaz’s new documentary A Thousand Cuts captures this unfolding conf lict as Duterte ramps up his opposition and files cyber-libel charges agai nst Ressa\, one in a handful of lawsuits that could place her in prison fo r up to an entire century. Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy\, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns\, more starkly evident th an in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Jo urnalist Maria Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom —on the line in defense of truth and democracy.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1_- _A_THOUSAND_CUTS_still_courtesy_of_FRONTLINE___PBS.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:986@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201031 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201102 DTSTAMP:20201102T032612Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wbcn/ SUMMARY:WBCN and the American Revolution DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Greg Guma\; Tom McGrath\n\nThe live stream Q&\; A for this film\, in conjunction with A Thousand Cuts\, took place Sun\, N ov 30. Available for Pass holders. Watch the recorded discussion HERE\n\n\ nFestival Passes are still available now and may be purchased HERE.\n\n\nT he untold story of the radical underground radio station WBCN-FM\, set aga inst the dazzling and profound social\, political\, and cultural changes t hat took place in Boston and nationally during the late-1960s and early-70 s.  Told through the actual sights\, sounds\, and stories of a compelling cast of characters who connected through the radio station\, exploding mu sic and countercultural scenes\, militant anti-war activism\, civil rights struggles\, and the emerging women’s and LGBTQ-liberation movements.\n\ n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/WBC N.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:994@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201101T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201102T210000 DTSTAMP:20201102T033044Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/livestream-qa-for-wbcn-and-the-american-revol ution-and-a-thousand-cuts/ SUMMARY:Recorded Q&A for WBCN and The American Revolution and A Thousand Cu ts DESCRIPTION:Panelist: Bill Lichtenstein. Cathy Resmer\nModerator: Van Dora Williams\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/122 074183_4054043201279157_8239971840594033443_o.jpg CATEGORIES:2020 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1008@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201102 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201103 DTSTAMP:20201102T000558Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-corporate-coup-detat-repeat-screening/ SUMMARY:The Corporate Coup D'État - repeat screening DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Greg Epler Wood\n\n\nThe live stream Q&\;A for this film\, in conjunction with Network\, took place Thu\, Oct 29 at 8pm. Available for Pass holders.  Watch the recording HERE\n\nTicket link comi ng soon\n\nJournalist Naomi Klein recently described Trump’s administrat ion as a “corporate coup d’etat.” Chris Hedges and John Saul argue i n the film that the real coup took place long before. This film tells the story of how the coup happened and aims to show its disastrous effects on society’s most vulnerable citizens. The corporate coup d’état has bee n devastating for people in “sacrifice zones” like the U.S. Rust Belt and Camden\, New Jersey\, where the film captures heart-breaking stories o f citizens suffering from the effects of corporatist\, globalist\, and neo -liberal ideologies and policies. This investigative documentary blends th e insights of philosophers\, authors and journalists with the experiences of citizens of the Rust Belt in the U.S. Midwest\, where the steel industr y once flourished\, but where closures and outsourcing have left urban are as desolate and hopeless. Featuring: Chris Hedges\, John Ralston Saul\, Co rnel West\, Sarah Jaffe\, Lee Fang\, Maude Barlow\, Phillip Martin.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Cor porate-Coup-dEtat-01-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1009@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201102 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201103 DTSTAMP:20201030T192502Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/this-is-not-a-movie-repeat-screening/ SUMMARY:This is Not a Movie - Repeat Screening DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Olivia Milens\; Andrea Rogers\n\nThe live strea m Q&\;A for this film\, in conjunction with The Front Page\, will take place Sat\, Oct 24 at 8pm. Available for Pass holders. Individual ticket p urchasers will be able to view the recorded discussion the following day.\ n\nTicket link coming soon\n\nOne of the world’s preeminent journalists\ , Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East from his Beirut base f or close to forty years\, covering both Gulf Wars\, the Sabra and Shatila massacre\, the ongoing conflict in Syria and much more.  “I think we s hould be objective and unbiased — on the side of those who suffer\,” h e has famously declared. “If we were reporting the slave trade in the 18 th century\, would we give equal time to the slave ship captain?”\n\nYun g Chang (Up the Yangtse\, China Heavyweight\, The Fruit Hunters) captures Fisk in action\, crafting an invigorating film essay that challenges recei ved wisdom on the Middle East while reinforcing the crucial need for inves tigative journalism in our frenzied digital age. “I want the audience to engage with Fisk\, to question him\, to criticize him\,” says Chang. “Fisk has a higher mission in the pursuit of truth than being likeable. ”\n\n"...the most insightful examination of the life and psyche of the c ombat zone correspondent..."\n~ Austin Chronicle\n\n\n\nTHIS IS NOT A MOVI E - Press clip from NFB/marketing on Vimeo. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Thi s-is-not-a-Movie01-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1010@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201102 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201103 DTSTAMP:20201030T192424Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-black-press-soldiers-without-swords-repea t-screening/ SUMMARY:The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords - Repeat screening DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Frank and Ducky Donath\n\n\nThe live stream Q&\ ;A for this film\, in conjunction with Park Row\, took place Sun\, Oct 25 at 8pm. Available for Pass holders. The recorded discussion can be viewed HERE\n\nTicket link coming soon\n\nThrough a treasure trove of archival fo otage and firsthand interviews\, The Black Press explores how black journa lists created an alternative media to tell their own stories—including i nvaluable coverage of black soldiers’ contributions to World War II. Sin ce the early 1800’s Black newspapers have existed in almost every major city in the U.S. From facilitating the migration of Southern Blacks to nor thern cities\; to recording the social and political events affecting the lives of African Americans\; to providing a showcase honoring Black soldie rs in World War II\, the Black press documented life for millions of peopl e that were otherwise ignored.\n\nStanley Nelson\, a three-time Primetime Emmy Award winner and a MacArthur Fellow\, is a director\, writer and prod ucer of documentaries examining African-American history and experiences. He is a recipient of the 2013 National Humanities Medal from President Oba ma.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Scr eenshot_2020-10-07-The-Black-Press-—-Firelight-Films.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1006@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201120T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201129T000000 DTSTAMP:20201127T194554Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-mountain/ SUMMARY:Mountain DESCRIPTION:November Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this month.\n\nOnly th ree centuries ago\, setting out to climb a mountain would have been consid ered close to lunacy. Mountains were places of peril\, not beauty\, an upp er world to be shunned\, not sought out. Why do mountains now hold us spel lbound\, drawing us into their dominion\, often at the cost of our lives? From Tibet to Australia\, Alaska to Norway armed with drones\, Go-Pros and helicopters\, director Jennifer Peedom has fashioned an astonishing symph ony of mountaineers\, ice climbers\, free soloists\, heliskiers\, snowboar ders\, wingsuiters and parachuting mountain bikers. Willem Dafoe provides a narration sampled from British mountaineer Robert Macfarlane’s acclaim ed memoir Mountains of the Mind\, and a classical score from the Australia n Chamber Orchestra accompanies this majestic cinematic experience. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mou ntain-S-Slogo.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1007@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201120T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201129T000000 DTSTAMP:20201102T165942Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/through-the-night/ SUMMARY:Through the Night DESCRIPTION:\n\nNovember Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. We are una ble to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this month.\nThrou gh The Night is a love letter to single mothers and caregivers.\nTo make e nds meet\, people in the U.S. are working longer hours across multiple job s. This modern reality of non-stop work has resulted in an unexpected phen omenon: the flourishing of 24-hour daycare centers.\nThrough the Night\, a documentary by Bronx-based Afro-Latina DJ\, filmmaker\, and film executiv e Loira Limbal\, explores the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of two working mothers and a child care provider - whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Thr oughTheNight-S-Slogo.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1003@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201120 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201130 DTSTAMP:20201102T170125Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-booksellers/ SUMMARY:The Booksellers DESCRIPTION:November Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this month.\nD.W. Youn g’s elegant and absorbing documentary\, The Booksellers\, is a lively to ur of New York’s book world\, populated by an assortment of obsessives\, intellects\, eccentrics and dreamers\, past and present – from the Park Avenue Armory’s annual Antiquarian Book Fair\, where original editions can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars\; to the Strand and Argosy book stores\, still standing against all odds\; to the beautifully crammed apar tments of collectors and buyers. The film\, executive produced by Parker P osey\, features a range of commentators\, including Fran Lebowitz\, Susan Orlan\, Gay Talese\, and a community of dedicated book dealers and collect ors who strongly believe in the wonder of the object and what it holds wit hin. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Boo ksellers-S-Slogo.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1005@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201120 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201130 DTSTAMP:20201102T170056Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/gordon-lightfoot-if-you-could-read-my-mind/ SUMMARY:Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind DESCRIPTION:November Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this month.\n\nAn expl oration into the career\, music and influence of the iconic musician. With unprecedented access to the artist and featuring interviews with Sarah Mc Lachlan\, Alec Baldwin and more\, this intimate documentary follows Lightf oot’s evolution from choirboy in rural Canada to troubled troubadour to international star with hits including “If You Could Read My Mind”\, “Sundown”\, “Carefree Highway”\, and “Rainy Day People”. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Gor don-Lightfoot-S-Slogo.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1011@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201218 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTSTAMP:20201202T170841Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/split-screen-monthly-series/ SUMMARY:Split/Screen Monthly Series DESCRIPTION:Split/Screen is an eight-month curatorial collaboration between VTIFF and MNFF.\nBeginning November 2020 and ending June 2021 we are join tly presenting a monthly series of films\, each lasting 10 days.\n\nMonthl y pass $40\, individual tickets at $12.50.\nFree for VTIFF All Access Memb ers\, 20% discount for Patron members.\n\nVTIFF months - December\, Februa ry\, April and June\nMNFF months - November\, January\, March and May.\n\n View December Split/Screen program  HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SPL ITSCREEN_logo.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1032@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201218 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTSTAMP:20201230T182919Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/baby-boom/ SUMMARY:Baby Boom DESCRIPTION:With Diane Keaton and Sam Shepard.\n\n \;\n\nSet in Peru\, VT.\n\n \;\n\nCharles Shyer (Father of the Bride) creates a sophistica ted and screwballish comedy in the best ‘30s tradition. American journal ist\, writer\, and university professor Caryn James (Keaton) abandons a hi gh-powered Manhattan career for the joys of life in Vermont with a baby an d Sam Shepard.\n\n \;\n\nPurchase this month's Pass HERE.    Once y ou've purchased it\, watch out for an email confirmation with links to vie w all four films\n\nIf you only want to watch this film\, click on the WAT CH NOW button. Closed Captions available for this film.\n\n\n \;\n\nWa tch the conversation with Steve Bissette (author of Green Mountain Cinema\ , cartoonist and teacher) and Barbara McGrew\, VTIFF programming committee .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Bab y-Boom-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1031@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201218 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTSTAMP:20201230T182825Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/welcome-home-johnny-bristol/ SUMMARY:Welcome Home\, Johnny Bristol DESCRIPTION:With Martin Landau and Jane Alexander.\n\n \;\n\nSet in Cha rles\, VT.\n\n \;\n\nOne of the first films to focus on returning Viet nam veterans. Johnny Bristol (Landau) is a Vietnam veteran who\, as a pris oner\, kept his sanity by remembering his home town of Charles\, Vermont. He recalls a happy town with picnics and band concerts in a small town atm osphere\, all the while suffering in a cage from abuse\, poor food and neg lect. After he is rescued\, he is sent to a VA hospital to recuperate. Dur ing therapy he and his nurse\, Anne Palmer (Alexander) become engaged. The couple want to go to his home town\, but when he tries to go there\, he i s told there is no such place as Charles\, Vermont. When he insists there is such a place\, he is treated as a crazy vet. Anne tries to help him fin d an explanation. Bristol becomes convinced that somehow the government is responsible for his home town's disappearance.\n\n \;\n\nPurchase thi s month's Pass HERE.    Once you've purchased it\, watch out for an ema il confirmation with links to view all four films\n\nIf you only want to w atch this film\, click on the WATCH NOW button\n\nNote: We apologize for t he unsatisfactory quality of the video. This made for TV movie was not loo ked after properly over the years and this is the best quality we could fi nd. We recommend viewing it on your device\, rather than casting it onto a big TV screen.\n\n\nWatch the conversation with Steve Bissette (author of Green Mountain Cinema\, cartoonist and teacher) and Luke Baynes\, VTIFF p rogramming committee.\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Wel come-Home-Jonny-Bristol-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1029@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201218 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTSTAMP:20201230T183008Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/spellbound/ SUMMARY:Spellbound DESCRIPTION:With Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck.\n\n \;\n\nThe film wa s shot on a Hollywood sound stage\, the plot takes place in a mental asylu m in the green mountains of  Vermont. Spellbound was adapted by Hitchcock and Ben Hecht from the British novel by Francis Beeding\, "The House of D r. Edwardes"\, in which the asylum was located in the beautiful French Alp s.\n\n \;\n\nSpellbound is one of Hitchcock’s most forward looking p ictures of the 1940s: a thriller about a psychoanalyst at a Vermont mental asylum (Bergman)\, who begins to realize that the new director\, Dr. Edwa rdes (Peck)\, might not be who he appears to be. Beneath the facile trappi ngs there is an intriguing Hitchcockian study of role reversal\, with doct ors and patients\, men and women\, mothers and sons inverting their assign ed relationships with compelling\, subversive results.\nThe film\, includi ng surreal imagery contributed by artist Salvador Dali\, picked up six Osc ar nominations\, including Best Film Score which features one of the earli est uses of the theremin\, (an electronic musical instrument controlled wi thout physical contact by the thereminist) – an instrument later associa ted with science fiction films such as The Day the Earth Stood Still.\n\nP urchase this month's Pass HERE.    Once you've purchased it\, watch out for an email confirmation with links to view all four films\n\nIf you onl y want to watch this film\, click on the WATCH NOW button. Closed Captions available for this film.\n\n\n \;\n\nWatch the conversation with Stev e Bissette (author of Green Mountain Cinema\, cartoonist and teacher) and Luke Baynes\, VTIFF programming committee.\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/spe llbound2.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1030@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201218 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTSTAMP:20201230T183101Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nothing-sacred/ SUMMARY:Nothing Sacred DESCRIPTION:With Fredric March and Carole Lombard\n\n \;\n\nSet in Wars aw\, VT.\n\n \;\n\nAn unscrupulous reporter takes advantage of a tragi c story to sell papers and manipulate the world—sound familiar? This is a common tale\, but it was seldom told with such comic\, satirical flair a s here. The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht (who had previously dipped his pen in ink to write about journalists in the 1931 film The Front Page ).\nNothing Sacred is also notable as an early color film\, and one of the few screwball comedies in color: since that genre flourished in the 1930s \, few films used the relatively new and very expensive Technicolor proces s. The movie features the first montage and process effects in Technicolor \, and it was the first to incorporate rear screen projection (watch for i t during the airplane scene).\n\n \;\n\nPurchase this month's Pass HER E.    Once you've purchased it\, watch out for an email confirmation wit h links to view all four films\n\nIf you only want to watch this film\, cl ick on the WATCH NOW button\n\n \;\n\nWatch the conversation with Stev e Bissette (author of Green Mountain Cinema\, cartoonist and teacher) and Luke Baynes\, VTIFF programming committee. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Not hing-Sacred1.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1026@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201218 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210104 DTSTAMP:20201222T195501Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kid-flicks-ages-5/ SUMMARY:NYICFF Kid Flicks #1 - ages 5+ DESCRIPTION:A special program for the holidays of inspiring short films for ages 5+! Presented in partnership with New York International Children’ s Film Festival.\nThis film can be viewed on the VTIFF online portal (watc h.vtiff.org) or through the VTIFF apps on Apple TV 4K\, Roku\, and Amazon' s Fire TV Stick. You can also use Google Chromecast\, Apple Airplay or an HDMI cable to view\, depending on your TV and devices. Visit our FAQs for more info on how to watch or download our apps.\n\n\n \;\n\nNYICFF Ki d Flicks One keeps the dynamic of work and play lively with tales from aro und the globe. Cat Lake City has you covered if you\, like its loveable fe line\, feel like you just can’t catch a break in this hilarious tale of a hard-won vacay. But if you’re fortunate\, you know that effort and fun can happily co-exist as they do in the short doc The Magic of Chess. Fina lly\, meet another hard-worker who gets a little lost dawdling in the coun tryside in the beautifully hand-animated Boriya.\n\n \;\n\nCat Lake Ci ty\n\nGermany\, Animation\, Antje Heyn\; 2019\, 7 min.\n\nNo dialogue\n\nP ercy Cat is looking forward to a relaxing day in every kitty’s vacation paradise\, but will his cat nap turn into a tangle instead?\n\n \;\n\n The Magic of Chess\n\nUSA\, Documentary\, Jenny Schweitzer Bell\; 2019\, 5 min.\n\nIn English\n\nPlot your next move along with these clever\, funny kids from around the country as they ponder chess\, and life\, at the 201 9 Elementary Chess Championships.\n\n \;\n\nOverboard!\n\nCzech Republ ic\, Animation\, Filip Pošivač &\; Barbora Valecká\; 2019\, 12 min.\ n\nNo dialogue\n\nKooky Chameleon and cross-eyed Kiwi won’t let a little judgement stop them from making it onto the rescue ark.\n\n \;\n\nMy Brother Luca\n\nMexico\, Animation\, Carlos Algara &\; Catalina Serna\; 2019\, 9 min.\n\nIn English\n\nWhen an imaginative little girl discovers that her brother might have superpowers\, she sets out on a quest to make sure everyone else sees him as she does.\n\n \;\n\nWash Day\n\nCanada\ , Animation\, Jaida Salmon\; 2019\, 2 min.\n\nIn English\n\nJoin Zoey as s he goes through her weekly grueling routine of washing and styling her hai r.\n\n \;\n\nKonigiri-kun: Butterfly\n\nJapan\, Animation\, Mari Miyaz awa\; 2018\, 5 min.\n\nNo dialogue\n\nKonigiri-Kun wants to keep precious things close\, but sometimes the most beautiful thing of all is freedom.\n \n \;\n\nBoriya\n\nFrance and South Korea\, Animation\, Min Sung Ah\; 2020\, 17 min.\n\nBrief French dialogue with English subtitles\n\nDreamer\ , dawdler\, adventurer\, Bori tries her best on a day in the countryside\, but with everyone occupied during farming season\, she just may get off t rack.\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Web -Kids_1.png CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1033@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201218 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210104 DTSTAMP:20201222T195429Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kid-flicks-2-ages-8/ SUMMARY:NYICFF Kid Flicks #2 - ages 8+ DESCRIPTION:A special program for the holidays of inspiring short films for ages 8+! Presented in partnership with New York International Children’ s Film Festival.\nThis film can be viewed on the VTIFF online portal (watc h.vtiff.org) or through the VTIFF apps on Apple TV 4K\, Roku\, and Amazon' s Fire TV Stick. You can also use Google Chromecast\, Apple Airplay or an HDMI cable to view\, depending on your TV and devices. Visit our FAQs for more info on how to watch or download our apps.\n\n\n \;\nNYICFF Kid Flicks Two\nChallenging expectations and reflecting growth and resilience\ , NYICFF Kid Flicks Two is a fantastic trip on the road to growing up. Sur prises in a dumpling bring good luck\, and many reflections\, in the beaut iful stop motion animation The Coin. In The One You Never Forget\, a young teen tries to keep his first date under wraps\, but his parents have othe r ideas. In Home Away 3000\, a space traveller’s funky space van konks o ut on an unknown planet with plenty of surprises.\n\nIn English and other languages with English subtitles.\n\n \;\n3feet \nColombia | East Coas t Premiere \nLive Action\, Giselle Geney\, 2018\, 14 min.\nIn Spanish\, wi th English subtitles\n\n \;\nEaten\nIran | US Premiere \nAnimation\, M ohsen Rezapour\, 2019\, 7 min.\nNo dialogue\n\n \;\nHome Away 3000\nFr ance \nAnimation\, Héloïse Pétel &\; Philippe Baranzini\, 2018\, 11 min.\nNo dialogue\n\n \;\nPaper Kite طيارة ورق\nQatar | North American Premiere \nLive Action\, Nada Bedair\, 2019\, 7 min.\nIn Arabic\, with English subtitles\n\n \;\nShy &\; Ketchup\nChile \nAnimation\ , Teresa Romo\, 2019\, 4 min.\nIn English\n\n \;\nThe Butterfly Affect \nCanada | US Premiere \nAnimation\, Stephanie Blakey\, 2019\, 5 min.\nIn English\n\n \;\nThe Coin\nChina\, United States | New York Premiere \ nAnimation\, Siqi Song\, 2019\, 7 min.\nIn Chinese\, with English subtitle s\n\n \;\nThe One You Never Forget\nUnited States \nLive Action\, Morg an Jon Fox\, 2019\, 8 min.\nIn English\n\n \;\nWash Day \nCanada \nAni mation\, Jaida Salmon\, 2019\, 2 min.\nIn English\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Web -KF_2.png CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1034@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201227 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210118 DTSTAMP:20201222T194655Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/queen-of-hearts/ SUMMARY:Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack DESCRIPTION:At 88 years-old\, Audrey Flack holds a unique place in the hist ory of contemporary art in America. Feminist\, rebel\, mother\, painter\, sculptor and teacher\, Audrey’s often controversial 40-year career evolv ed from abstract expressionism in the 1950s to photorealism in the 1970s. One of the first women ever included in the famed Janson’s History of Ar t\, Audrey continues to create\, explore\, and inspire with her unique sty le and indomitable spirit.\n\n \;\n\nQueen of Hearts follows Flack as she takes her work in a brand new direction and reveals her long-term stru ggles as the mother of a child with autism. Flack has something deep and g enuine to communicate to the world. She is a provocateur and a rebel\, an example and an inspiration. Queen of Hearts is a moving portrait of an art ist who is still testing\, still experimenting\, still searching.\n\n  \;\n\nAbout the Director:\n\nAcademy Award winning filmmaker Deborah Shaff er began making social issue documentaries as a member of the Newsreel col lective the ‘70’s. She co-founded Pandora Films\, one of the first wom en’s film companies\, which produced several shorts. Her first feature d ocumentary\, The Wobblies\, premiered at the New York Film Festival in 197 9. During the 80’s Shaffer focused on human rights in Central America an d Latin America\, directing many films including Witness to War: Dr. Charl ie Clements which won the Academy Award for Short Documentary in 1985\, an d Fire From the Mountain and Dance of Hope which both played at the Sundan ce Film Festival. Shaffer directed one of the first post-September 11 film s\, From the Ashes: 10 Artists followed by From the Ashes: Epilogue\, whic h premiered at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals. She is also the Ex ecutive Producer of the Academy Award-nominated short Asylum\, and has dir ected numerous acclaimed public television programs on women and the arts. She directed and produced To Be Heard\, which won awards at numerous fest ivals and aired nationwide on PBS. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fello wship\, and the Irene Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award by the Human Righ ts Watch Film Festival. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Que enOfHearts-AudreyFlack_social-keyart_1080x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1021@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210118 DTSTAMP:20201222T194820Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/collective/ SUMMARY:Collective DESCRIPTION:Critics Pick\, New York Times. Romania's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards\n\nAfter an explosive fire claims the lives of 27 people a t Bucharest nightclub\, Colectiv\, officials reassure the public that surv iving victims will receive care in facilities that are “better than in G ermany.” Weeks later\, a rising causality count leads intrepid reporters at the Sports Gazette to investigate. Just as a crucial tip exposes Hexi Pharma\, a local firm’s culpability\, the firm’s owner dies under myst erious circumstances and the health minister quietly resigns amid the upro ar -but this is only the first chapter in a thrilling\, ever-twisting expo sé. Closely tracking the efforts of the Gazette team as they methodically discover layer upon layer of fraud and criminal malfeasance\, Collective is a fast-paced\, real-time detective story about truth\, accountability\, and the value of an independent press in partisan times.\n\n \;\n\n "Hands down\, the closest thing we saw at this year’s Toronto Internatio nal Film Festival to a full-on masterpiece. Absolutely brilliant." ~ David Fear\, Rolling Stone\n "Every now and then a documentary doesn’t just open your eyes but tears you apart. An explosive observational documentary about unfathomable corruption. This is truly a documentary for our times. " ~ Jay Weissberg\, Variety\n\n*** Note - Ticket purchasers have special a ccess to an interview with the director! ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Col lective-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1022@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210118 DTSTAMP:20201222T194852Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/zappa/ SUMMARY:Zappa DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Bridget Downey Meyer\n\n \;\n\nDirector Alex W inter and his team have crafted a documentary from over a thousand hours f rom Zappa’s personal vault. Made with the approval and cooperation of th e Zappa estate and narrated by Zappa's own words\, Zappa is an expansive a nd intimate portrait of an extraordinary and genuinely maverick musician/a rtist who was also fully engaged with the turbulent politics of his day. Z appa charts the late icon’s career as a self-taught teenaged musician wi th a taste for the avant-garde to his pioneering Mothers of Invention and his many musical left turns\, as well as his censorship battle with the Pa rents Music Resource Center and the productive years prior to his death.\n \n \;\n\nNote: As a bonus\, immediately following the film you can wat ch a live Zappa performance and backstage footage\, released from the Zapp a vaults for the first time. This bonus footage is exclusive to this virtu al cinema event\n\n \;\n\n "Zappa will immerse you in the mind of a g enius\, and you may never be the same again." ~ Peter Keough\, The Boston Globe\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/zap pa-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1023@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210111 DTSTAMP:20201222T195143Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-black-book-of-father-dinis/ SUMMARY:The Black Book of Father Dinis DESCRIPTION:Sarmiento explores the tumultuous lives of Laura (Lou de Laâge )\, a peasant maid\, and Sebastian (Vasco Varela da Silva)\, the young orp han in her charge\, against a backdrop of overflowing passion and revoluti onary intrigue in Europe at the twilight of the 18th century. An unlikely adventure yarn that strides the continent\, from Rome and Venice to London and Paris\, with whispers of conspiracies from the clergy\, the military\ , and the gentry\, this sumptuous period piece ponders the intertwined nat ure of fate\, desire\, and duty. Conceived by director Valeria Sarmiento a s an appendix to the expansive literary maze of her late partner Raul Ruiz 's landmark Mysteries of Lisbon\, this picaresque chronicle both enriches the earlier work and stands on its own as a grand meditation of the storie s we construct about ourselves.\n\n \;\n\nAbout the director: Valeria Sarmiento is a Chilean writer-director and editor who studied philosophy a nd filmmaking at the University of Chile in the 1960s. Based in Paris sinc e 1974\, her documentaries and feature films tend to address Latin America n gender politics but she is probably best known as the regular editor and collaborator of her late husband Raoul Ruiz (1941-2011) with whom she sha red the Chilean Art Critics Circle's Bicentennial Award for cinema in 2010 . She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988 and is often cited along side Angelina Vázquez and Marilú Mallet as a key woman filmmaker of Chil ean exile. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Bla ck-Box-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1024@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210118 DTSTAMP:20201223T145309Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/three-summers-tres-veroes/ SUMMARY:Three Summers (Três Verões) DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi\n\n \;\n\nMadá (Reg ina Casé) is the fifty-something caretaker for a cluster of luxury beachs ide condos owned by a wealthy Rio de Janeiro family. Unfolding over the co urse of three consecutive summers — 2015 to 2017 — the film follows he r as she invests in a roadside snack kiosk while tending to the every need of her condescending employers\, becomes a bystander in a major money-lau ndering scandal\, and eventually launches a whole new career. With every d izzying new turn of events\, Madá manages to retain her high spirits\, he r sense of loyalty to those who deserve it — and her eagle eye for oppor tunity. This humorous and inventive film about gross social and economic d isparities\n\n \;\n\nWritten by Kogut and Iana Cossoy Paro\, Three Sum mers is a sort of modern picaresque\, its tripartite structure allowing us to track its heroine’s roll-with-the-punches pluck while bearing witnes s to an epoch-defining scandal based on the real-life criminal investigati on Operation Car Wash. Acclaimed Brazilian actress Regina Casé (Special G rand Jury prize winner at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival for her work in The Second Mother) carries the film. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Thr eeSummers_Facebook_1200x628_Now.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1025@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210118 DTSTAMP:20201222T194615Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/city-hall/ SUMMARY:City Hall DESCRIPTION:For more than a half-century\, Fred Wiseman has been telling th e story of the United States\, one film at a time\, documenting institutio ns\, their social structure and the people who are part of them or who use them. Wiseman's film tiles are deceptively simple: Welfare\, Central Park \, Public Housing. The names suggest a universality\, and his latest is Ci ty Hall – the admin building of the City of Boston. Like other Wiseman m ovies though\, the documentary is fundamentally a portrait of a people. Wi thout narration or the usual documentary prompts\, City Hall is an explora tion of civil society and the common good.\n\nNote: Ticket includes bonus content: a recording of a conversation between Wiseman and Mayor Marty Wal sh\n\n \;\n\n "A vibrant half-day hangout with democracy in action." ~ David Ehrlich\, IndieWire\n "Serenely and thrillingly observant… [Wis eman] turns bureaucratic procedure into a kind of poetry\, and finds both comedy and profundity in the banal idioms of governance." ~ A. O. Scott\, The New York Times\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NYF F58_City-Hall_2-Courtesy-of-Zipporah-Films-Inc-1000x563-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1035@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210118 DTSTAMP:20201222T194536Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mayor/ SUMMARY:Mayor DESCRIPTION:\nWinner - NEXT:WAVE Award - CPH:DOX\nWinner- Grand Jury Award - Full Frame Documentary Film Festival\nWinner - Honorable Mention - Phila delphia Film Festival\nSponsored by the Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister C ity Program\nMayor is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid\, th e Christian mayor of Ramallah\, during his second term in office. His imme diate goals: repave the sidewalks\, attract more tourism\, and plan the ci ty's Christmas celebrations. His ultimate mission: to end the occupation o f Palestine. In a city like Ramallah\, even smaller problems have wider po litical ramifications: building a sewage treatment center in the West Bank isn’t easy. Rich with detailed observation and a surprising amount of h umor\, Mayor offers a portrait of dignity amidst the madness and absurdity of endless occupation while posing a question: how do you run a city when you don't have a country?\n\n\nCritic's Pick - NY Times: "[...] Mayor als o stands out because Osit has thought it through in cinematic terms: He kn ows when to dwell on a striking image (such as Hadid examining a painting of Jerusalem on his global travels) and when to let a counterintuitive sou ndtrack selection play through." ~ Ben Kenigsberg\n\n\n \n\n\n ""One of the Top 20 films of 2020. ...thrilling and perceptive. Essential viewing.. ."." ~ Eric Kohn\, Indiewire\n\n "Impressive. Engrossing. Mayor is a stud y in politics both micro and macro\, showing what happens when the two com e fatefully crashing together." ~ The Hollywood Reporter\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/may or_photo-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1019@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210118 DTSTAMP:20201222T194755Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/yalda/ SUMMARY:Yalda - A Night for Forgiveness DESCRIPTION:Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner - World Cinema\nThe lights and cameras are all in position. The moderator takes a last quick look at his notes. The final seconds of the intro ad roll by\, and then the show goes live. Tonight’s guest is Maryam\, a young woman condemned to death for murdering her husband. With her in the studio is Mona\, the daughter of th e dead man. Maryam is supposed to beg for forgiveness\, and her life\, for the camera. If Mona grants her forgiveness\, Maryam will live\, and the s how's sponsors will pay Mona a reward. If she denies it\, Maryam will die. Millions of television viewers are tuning in on the night of Yalda\, the Persian celebration of the winter solstice\, to see Maryam's fate unfold. Alluding to a real\, popular Iranian TV show\, the television studio serve s as a stage for a startling chamber play between these two women\, and th e social pressures behind their circumstances.\n\n \;\n\nYalda is a pu rposefully provocative drama that forces viewers to consider the dualities of reality and authenticity. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/YAL DA©_Somaye_Jafari-_JBA_Production_DSC_8329-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1020@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210111 DTSTAMP:20201222T195212Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/francisca/ SUMMARY:Francisca DESCRIPTION:This new 4K digital restoration by the Cinemateca Portuguesa pr emiered at the 76th Venice Film Festival in 2019. A sinister\, absorbing p ortrait of a mutually destructive love affair\, Manoel de Oliveira’s Fra ncisca is based on a novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís\, whose work he’d lat er adapt twice more. The book’s re-telling of a troubled passage in real -life author Camilo Castelo Branco life—his friend José Augusto embarke d on a perverse game of marital cat and mouse with Francisca\, the woman t he novelist loved—led Oliveira to new levels of stylistic and formal ima gination. With its elaborate title cards\, its abundance of shots in which the action is oriented directly toward the camera\, its gloomy interiors\ , and its show-stopping gala set-pieces\, Francisca is an exacting\, sumpt uous and utterly inimitable cinematic experience\, and one of Oliveira’s crowning achievements\n\n \;\n\n “A cross between a lush Visconti period piece and the stylized expressionism of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari . A titanic figure\, the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira (1908-2015 ) got his start in the era of silent cinema and completed his last feature at the age of 105.” ~ J. Hoberman\, The New York Times\n "A masterpiec e of modern cinema. A story of great subtlety\, density\, and emotional im pact. It is as if Jean-Marie Straub has collaborated with Max Ophuls.” ~ Dave Kehr\, When Movies Mattered.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Fra ncisca_1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1027@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20201228 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210111 DTSTAMP:20201222T195247Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/coded-bias/ SUMMARY:Coded Bias DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Lisa Schamberg and Pat Robins\n\n \;\n\nModern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it m ean when artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biased against? When MI T Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that most facial-recogniti on software does not accurately identify darker-skinned faces and the face s of women\, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algori thms. As it turns out\, artificial intelligence is not neutral\, and women are leading the charge to ensure our civil rights are protected. In June 2020\, IBM\, Amazon\, and Microsoft said they would pause the sale of faci al recognition to police. In a pivotal moment for racial equality\, and a decisive moment for how big tech will yield power\, Coded Bias is a trailb lazing film for public understanding and engagement with the algorithms th at impact us all.\n\nThis event includes a recorded panel discussion - sta rting about 6 minutes into the recording\, with Van Jones (CNN) moderating -Click Here \n\n \;\n\nAbout the filmmaker:\nShalini Kantayya is a T ED Fellow\, a William J. Fulbright Scholar\, and a finalist for the ABC Di sney DGA Directing Program.  She directed the season finale episode for t he National Geographic television series Breakthrough\, a series profiling trailblazing scientists transforming the future. Her debut feature film C atching the Sun\, about the race for a clean energy future\, was named a N ew York Times Critics’ Pick and was nominated for the Environmental Medi a Association Award for Best Documentary. An Associate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Kantayya finished in the top 10 out of 12\ ,000 filmmakers on Fox’s On the Lot\, a show by Steven Spielberg in sear ch of Hollywood’s next great director\n\n \;\n\nClosed Captions avai lable. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cod ed-bias.jpeg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1040@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210122 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTSTAMP:20210108T222727Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kajillionaire/ SUMMARY:Kajillionaire DESCRIPTION:\n\nFiction | 104 mins\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom acclaimed writer/dir ector Miranda July comes Kajillionaire\, a profoundly moving and wildly or iginal comedy feature film. Con artists Theresa and Robert have spent 26 y ears training their only daughter\, Old Dolio\, to swindle\, scam\, and st eal at every opportunity. During a desperate\, hastily conceived heist\, t hey charm a stranger into joining their next scam\, only to have their ent ire world turned upside down. Starring Debra Winger\, Richard Jenkins\, Ev an Rachel Wood and Gina Rodriguez\, Kajillionaire is a bold narrative acco mplishment from a daring and singular filmmaker.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanuary Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF membe rs free passes or discounts for this month.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/KAJ ILLIONAIRE.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1038@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210122 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTSTAMP:20210108T222654Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/coup-53-3/ SUMMARY:Coup 53 DESCRIPTION:\n\nDocumentary | 119 mins\n\n\n\n\nCoup 53 presents the story of the 1953 Anglo-American coup in Iran that overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and reinstalled the Shah. While making this stirring documentary\, Iranian director Taghi Amirani and reno wned editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now\, The Conversation\, The English Patient) discover extraordinary\, never before seen archival material hidd en for decades. The 16mm footage and documents not only allowed the filmma kers to tell the story of the overthrow of the Iranian government in unpre cedented detail\, but also to expose explosive revelations and dark secret s buried for 67 years. What began as an historical documentary about four fateful days in August 1953 turns into a live investigation\, taking the f ilmmakers into uncharted cinematic waters. The roots of Iran’s volatile relationship with the United States and Great Britain have never been so f orensically and dramatically revealed.\n\n\nJanuary Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or disc ounts for this month.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/COU P-53.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1039@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210122 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTSTAMP:20210108T222801Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/breaking-surface/ SUMMARY:Breaking Surface DESCRIPTION:\n\nFiction | 82 mins\n\n\n\n\n\nAn intense and utterly suspens eful adventure thriller\, Breaking Surface tells the story of half-sisters Ida and Tuva who set out on a winter dive in a remote part of the Norwegi an coastline a few days after Christmas. When a rockslide traps Tuva under water\, Ida surfaces to call for help and discovers that the slide has st ruck above water as well\, burying their equipment\, phones and car keys. Completely cut off from any chance of outside rescue\, a frantic race for survival unfolds and Ida is put to the ultimate test of character and forc efulness. During the struggle to save Tuva\, a fractured and troubled sist erhood is exposed\, and when all seems lost\, the stakes rise beyond simpl e survival.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanuary Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. W e are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this mont h.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/BRE AKING-SURFACE.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1041@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210122 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTSTAMP:20210108T222840Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mr-soul/ SUMMARY:Mr. Soul! DESCRIPTION:\n\nDocumentary | 104 mins\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom 1968 t o 1973\, the late night PBS variety show SOUL!\, guided by its cerebral pr oducer and host Ellis Haizlip\, offered an unfiltered and uncompromising c elebration of Black literature\, poetry\, music\, and politics—presentin g remarkable individuals whose voices had few other options for national e xposure\, and\, as a result\, found the program an improbable place to cal l home. The program was called the “Black Tonight Show” by some televi sion writers of the day\, but the distinctive style and substance of SOUL! was very much its own. The series was among the first to provide expanded images of African Americans on television\, shifting the gaze from inner- city poverty and violence to the vibrancy of the Black Arts Movement.\n\nI ncorporating participants’ recollections and illuminating archival clips \, the vibrant documentary Mr. SOUL! captures a critical moment in our nat ion’s culture whose impact continues to resonate\, and offers us a lovin g portrait of an unsung hero in Ellis Haizlip\, whose voice remains vital five decades on. The film’s director\, Melissa Haizlip\, received the 20 20 Critics Choice Award for Best First Documentary Feature for Mr. SOUL!\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanuary Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this mon th.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Mr. -Soul-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1049@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTSTAMP:20210212T142954Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hope/ SUMMARY:Hope DESCRIPTION:This film is geo-blocked and only available to viewers in Vermo nt\n\nShortlisted for Best International Feature Film: Norway's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards\n\n \;\n\nHope is a private and fragile st ory evolving across seven days: a life-threatening event reveals the feeli ngs of a couple who were previously in denial\, forcing them to face their evident yet well-hidden problems. Far from being a chronicle of yet anoth er midlife crisis\, work or ambitions\, Anja and Tomas’s crisis is a fin al chance to examine their relationship. These few dramatic days are an op portunity for redemption and for a reconciliation with both the past and a n unknown\, possibly brief future. Ultimately\, both must decide whether t here is still any hope for their love\, as life rarely gives anyone a seco nd chance to find out.\n"In this mostly autobiographical film\, Sødahl fa ces her past with realism and delivers an organically emotional\, never me lodramatic work whose raw and unpretentious approach is extremely moving a nd always remains truthful to her own experience." ~ CineEuropa\n\nThe Dir ector talks about the inspiration for the film:\n“Seven years ago\, when I received a terminal cancer diagnosis\, the idea of moviemaking vanished in a second. Two years later\, still alive but frail after the challengin g medical story\, I was offered the opportunity to direct an international feature. To do a major production was\, at the time\, way too premature\, but it awakened my urge to tell stories again. Almost against my own will \, I ended up writing my most autobiographical project ever. There was no way around it\n\nAlthough the story is told from my own perspective\, gett ing permission from my close family to deal with our common history was cr ucial in the process. In short\, I had long talks with my husband and\, la ter on\, individual lunches “interviewing” each of my three biological and three step-children. Primarily\, my question was how they remembered me from this particular week. Being strongly medicated on steroids combine d with survival urges – they presented “various portraits” of my cha racter.\nAs result\, I not only got to see myself through their eyes (aged 10-26 years old)\, but also saw the mechanisms of a modern family. Withou t doubt\, their contributions helped me to get the necessary distance to b uild a fictional character. Besides\, casting the talented actress Andrea Bræin Hovig will ensure that the main character\nwill have a life of her own.”\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Hop e-poster.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1042@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTSTAMP:20210212T144907Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vitalina-varela/ SUMMARY:Vitalina Varela DESCRIPTION:Portugal's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards - Best Interna tional Feature Film\n\nSponsored by Andrea Rogers\n\n \;\n\nVitalina V arela\, a 55-year-old woman from Cape Verde\, arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband's funeral. She's been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years.\nA film of deeply concentrated beauty\, Vitalina Varel a stars nonprofessional actor Vitalina Varela in an extraordinary performa nce based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who has tra veled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband\, after two decades of separat ion\, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbi dding land\, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Varela bel ongs in the lineage of the epic western narratives of John Ford\, in which a lonely figure returns to a hollowed-out homestead and is confronted by living reminders of their previous failed attempts at forming a life of st ability and peace.\n\nWinner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival\, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival\, Vitalina Varela is a film of shadow and whis per\, a profoundly moving and visually ravishing masterpiece.  * NY Times Critics Pick: Essential cinema.*\n\n"The Portuguese director conjures dar k\, dreamlike visions of post-colonial neglect and yearning that hover som ewhere between fantasy and neorealism\, horror and melodrama\, spiritualit y and desperation. Vitalina Varela\, Costa’s fifth journey into the sha ntytown Fontainhas outside of Lisbon\, once again showcases Costa’s mast erful ability to mine cinematic poetry from a unique environment and the m ournful figures who wander through its murky depths." ~ Indiewire\n\n  \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/vit alina-varela-2019-001-vitalina-leaning-against-black-lightened_0.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1050@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTSTAMP:20210201T211756Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-little-sister/ SUMMARY:My Little Sister (Schwesterlein) DESCRIPTION:Switzerland's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards - Best Inte rnational Feature Film\n\nWith Nina Hoss\nNY Time's Critic's Pick\n\n  \;\n\nLisa\, once a brilliant playwright\, no longer writes. She lives wit h her family in Switzerland\, but her heart remains in Berlin\, beating in time with that of her twin brother Sven\, the famous theater actor. Since Sven has been suffering from an aggressive type of leukemia\, the relatio nship between them has become even closer. Lisa does not want to accept th is blow of fate\, she does everything in her power to bring Sven back on s tage. For her soulmate she neglects everything else and even risks losing her husband. Her marriage goes awry\, but Lisa only has eyes for her broth er\, who reflects her deepest longings and awakens in her the desire to be creative\, to feel alive again.\n"Distinguished by a modestly discreet di recting style that allows the actors to shine\, MY LITTLE SISTER offers ne ither false uplift nor dreary realism." ~ New York Times\n“Never goes pr ecisely where the audience expects...” ~ Washington Post\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/My- Little-Sister.jpeg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1052@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTSTAMP:20210212T143154Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/scales/ SUMMARY:Scales DESCRIPTION:This film is geo-blocked and only available to viewers in Vermo nt\, New Hampshire and Maine\n\nSaudi Arabia's submission to the 2021 Acad emy Awards - Best International Feature Film\n\n \;\n\nA visually stun ning feminist parable set in a dystopian landscape. SCALES is a timeless m agical realist fable with a contemporary feminist message. Drawing on Arab ic poetry and folklore\, notably the ancient Syrian legend of the sea godd ess Atargatis\, SCALES follows the story of a strong-willed young girl\, H ayat\, whose poor fishing village is governed by a dark tradition. Shot on a remote stretch of Oman's rugged\, visually arresting coastline\, SCALES depicts a community where brutal chauvinistic tradition dictates that eac h family must sacrifice a baby daughter to the mysterious mermaid-like mon sters that lurk in the surrounding ocean to ensure the village can continu e their fishing expeditions. When Hayat’s father refuses\, the girl beco mes a pariah\, considered a curse by the village and urged to sacrifice he rself - but Hayat has her owns plans for her destiny.\n\n \;\n\nRead t he Director's statement about the film HERE\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sca les.png CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1043@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTSTAMP:20210211T161103Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/another-round-druk/ SUMMARY:Another Round (Druk) DESCRIPTION:Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film: Denmark's subm ission to the 2021 Academy Awards\n\n"A breath of fresh air for anyone who has been starving for intelligent entertainment." ~ Leonard Maltin\nWith Mads Mikkelsen\nFour friends\, all teachers at various stages of middle ag e\, are stuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at school or at home\, they embark on an audacious experiment from an obscure philosop her: to see if a constant level of alcohol in their blood will help them f ind greater freedom and happiness. At first they each find a new-found zes t\, but as the gang pushes their experiment further\, issues that have bee n simmering for years come to a head and the men are faced with a choice: reckon with their behavior or continue on the same course.\n\n"Sooner or l ater\, Hollywood will remake Another Round for the U.S. market. It will be a broad comedy about four middle-aged losers who rediscover their youthfu l zest for life through booze — only to learn\, after many pratfalls\, t hat life itself is the greatest intoxicant. They will apologize tearfully to their wives and reconnect with their mortified children. Think The Hang over\, but more life affirming.\n\nAnother Round is not that movie\, becau se Vinterberg (The Celebration) doesn't do broad comedy or uncomplicated a ffirmations. He does claustrophobic handheld-camera work and jarring contr asts. The movie opens with an extended scene in which a gang of teens — the protagonists' students — holds a beer-chugging race that evolves int o a bacchanal. It's every music video\, selling a dream of carefree exuber ance — until the director smash cuts to silence and a black screen.\n\nT he implication is that every binge must have an end. For Martin and the ot hers\, that means being marooned in the desert of middle age. When the men try to recapture their youthful high by getting smashed\, separately or t ogether\, the soundtrack swells\, and the film slips into music video mode again. It's a high for the audience as well as the characters — until t he music cuts out\, the consequences set in\, and Vinterberg returns to da rk\, ironic realism.\n\nViewers will inevitably ask: What's the message of all this? Is the filmmaker suggesting that people might\, in fact\, enjoy their lives more and do their jobs better while slightly inebriated? It s eems so (Another Round probably isn't a good watch for anyone trying to ma intain sobriety). And yet the film doesn't gloss over the grave long-term consequences of all that inebriation.\n\nWhen it comes to mood alterants\, Americans tend to want to think in all-or-nothing terms. How can a substa nce be both helpful and harmful? In my imaginary Hollywood version of Anot her Round\, the characters would eventually discover that true happiness c omes not from a bottle or a trick of brain chemistry but from love\, famil y and personal fulfillment." ~ Margot Harrison\, Seven Days\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ano therRound_press2.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1053@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTSTAMP:20210212T143125Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/you-will-die-at-twenty/ SUMMARY:You Will Die at Twenty DESCRIPTION:This film is geo-blocked and available only to viewers in USA\n \nSudan's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards - Best International Featu re Film\nWinner of the Lion of the Future Award for best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival\n\n \;\n\nA visually sumptuous “coming-of-d eath” fable. During her son’s naming ceremony\, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina’s child will die at the age of 20. Haunted by this prophecy\, Sa kina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil\, who grows up knowing a bout his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina’s ever-watchful eye\, he encoun ters friends\, ideas and challenges that make him question his destiny.\n\ n \n"NY times Critic's Pick! In his debut feature\, Amjad Abu Alala deepe ns a fable-like premise into a lyrical confrontation with the certitudes o f faith and the life-giving powers of doubt. [T]he movie’s ravishing com positions imbue the setting with the shimmer of myth. Dust-flecked beams o f sunlight slice through shadows\; green-robed dervishes glide down the Ni le in boats\; the turrets of a mosque pierce a startling blue sky. Avoidin g didactic conclusions or pat answers\, Alala’s film questions blind bel ief but finds boundless enchantment in every frame." ~ Devika Girish\, The New York Times\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/tu- mourras-a-20ans-photo.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1051@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTSTAMP:20210201T211239Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/once-upon-a-time-in-venezuela/ SUMMARY:Once Upon a Time in Venezuela DESCRIPTION:Venezuela's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards - Best Intern ational Feature Film\n\n \;\n\nWhen filmmaker Anabel Rodríguez Ríos visits a remote floating village in Venezuela to see its eternal lightning storms\, she discovers another ongoing and alarming situation taking plac e… Congo Mirador was once a magical\, thriving fishing community\, built on stilts near Latin American’s biggest oil field. But more recently\, Venezuela has been spiraling into chaos and violence\, and the village its elf is literally sinking from pollution and neglect – a prophetic reflec tion of Venezuela itself. At the center of the village’s existential fig ht stands two female leaders: Mrs. Tamara\, the Chavez-worshipping coordin ator\, not above bribery and intimidation\, and Natalie\, her most vocal c ritic and school teacher. As confidence erodes under President Maduro and Venezuela shapes up to become the world’s worst refugee crisis in 2020\, outpacing the displacement in Syria\, will the village find a way to stay afloat or will it become a political and ecological sacrifice? Shot over seven years\, Once Upon A Time In Venezuela bears witness to the corrosive consequences of corruption and government neglect that reaches the farthe st corners and pits neighbor against neighbor in a struggle for survival.\ n\n \;\n\nAnabel Rodríguez Ríos’s striking and mournful ode to her country bears firsthand witness to the irreversible consequences of gover nment corruption\, while simultaneously capturing the resilient spirit of those most directly affected by Venezuela’s profound economic and politi cal crises. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Onc euponaTiMEinVEnezuela_YoainiNavarroMidSize_Author-John-Márquez-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1046@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTSTAMP:20210201T211034Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/atlantis/ SUMMARY:Atlantis DESCRIPTION:Ukraine's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards - Best Internat ional Feature Film\n\nWinner of Grand Prize at Venice’s Orrizonti\n\n&nb sp\;\n\n"Filmed almost entirely of long takes and still camera work\, this hypnotic drama follows soldiers and scientists through a hellish near fut ure in post war Ukraine. Not a casual watch\, the lengthy sequences that m ake up the majority of Atlantis are meant to challenge viewers\, but are u nique in that they also provide meditative and generous space to ponder th e various complex emotions these characters are sorting out along the way. By the end\, you may feel disoriented\, but through the fog...hope." ~ Ry an Chartier\, VTIFF programming committee\n\nIn 2025\, Eastern Ukraine is a desert unsuitable for human habitation\, water a dear commodity brought by trucks. A wall is being built on the border. Sergiy\, a former soldier having trouble adapting to his new reality\, meets Katya while she’s on a humanitarian mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together\, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to f all in love again.\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/120 x160-ATLANTIS_DEF_BD-WEB.png CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1048@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210201 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTSTAMP:20210215T162357Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/charlatan/ SUMMARY:Charlatan DESCRIPTION:This film is geo-blocked and only available to viewers in Vermo nt\, New Hampshire and Maine\n\nShortlisted for Best International Feature Film: Czech Republic's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards\nSponsored b y Arnie Malina\, VTIFF Board\n\n \;\n\nIn this richly drawn portrait\, celebrated Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (Europa\, Europa\, Spoor) m anifests the riveting life and work of Czech herbalist and faith healer Ja n Mikolášek\, who cured hundreds with natural remedies. Magnanimous with his abilities\, he treated the poor and wealthy alike\, never turning awa y a patient—including the occupying Nazis forces and the president of th e country. Yet\, it was this last relationship that led to Mikolášek’s downfall\, as he was prosecuted for charlatanism by the subsequent Commun ist government. Holland weaves the complicated political situation of 20th century East Europe through Mikolasek’s personal life and mission\, sur prising the viewer time and again with sudden new perspectives.\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cha rlatan-928x523-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1054@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210205 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTSTAMP:20210211T161300Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/two-of-us-deux/ SUMMARY:Two of Us (Deux) DESCRIPTION:Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film: France's submi ssion to the 2021 Academy Awards\n\n \;\n\nWith Barbara Sukowa and Nin a Chevallier.\n\n"An entirely unique and uniquely vital lesbian love story . The tale of two older women whose decades-long secret relationship is th reatened after tragedy strikes covers emotional and thematic ground that t ranscends the sexual preferences of the two main characters." ~ Mark Keize r\, Variety\n\n \;\n\nSpecial bonus: Watch Q&\;A conducted by Isabe lle Huppert with director  Meneghetti and star Sukowa HERE\n\n \;\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/130 9378_twoofus_378830.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1044@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTSTAMP:20210225T152935Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/farewell-amor/ SUMMARY:Farewell Amor DESCRIPTION:Series Pass available HERE\nWe apologize to Fire TV app users - the app is temporarily down\, we hope to have it fixed very soon. Roku an d Apple TV are working fine.\n\nClosed captions available when viewing onl ine\, but not yet through your VTIFF apps\n\n \;\n\nFarewell Amor is a n intimate and deeply personal look at an inter-generational tale that has defined America since its inception.\n\n \;\n\nAfter 17 years apart\, Angolan immigrant Walter is joined in the U.S. by his wife and teen daugh ter. Now absolute strangers sharing a one bedroom Brooklyn apartment\, the y struggle to overcome the emotional distance between them. Walter is tryi ng to let go of a previous relationship while his wife Esther struggles wi th a new country\, culture and a husband who seems distant. Their daughter Sylvia is a dancer just like her father\, and while she also finds her ne w life difficult\, she bravely starts to explore the city and show herself through dance. The film is both a universal immigrant story and the uniqu e perspective of three characters bound together by history and hope.\n\n& nbsp\;\n\nDirector’s statement: “Much is reported in the news about im migrants\, and what they take from the societies that they immigrate to\, but I don’t see nearly as much reported on what immigrants give up\, the lengths they go to\, and the will power and faith that it takes to remain hopeful that one day they will live normal and happy lives together with their loved ones. […] I spent my childhood split between the US and Keny a. I was born in the California Bay where my parents had immigrated as Ful bright scholars from Tanzania\, and then when I was five my family moved t o Kenya where I spent my formative years through the end of high school be fore once again moving back to the US. In both places\, we as a Tanzanian family\, essentially lived as immigrants. All my memories and understandin g of what “home” meant was centered around the sharing of food\, music and dance. Many of the Africans/Tanzanians\, some who were exiled and uns ure whether they would ever return home\, relied on music and dance to rem ain connected to their culture and homeland. It was how they were able to share their culture with their children who were born abroad. Dancing to a particular song created a muscle-memory that preserved what they hoped th ey could one day return to.”\n\n[widget id="custom_html-5"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Far ewellAmorStill8.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,Split Screen Apr 16-25,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1045@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTSTAMP:20210225T152905Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/unapologetic/ SUMMARY:Unapologetic DESCRIPTION:Series Pass available HERE\nWe apologize to Fire TV app users - the app is temporarily down\, we hope to have it fixed very soon. Roku an d Apple TV are working fine.\n\nClosed captions available when viewing onl ine\, but not yet through your VTIFF apps\n\n \n\n \;\n\nCo-Sponsors: ACLU of Vermont and the Reporting &\; Documentary Storytelling progra m at the University of Vermont\n   \n\n \;\n\nAfter two Black Chicago ans are killed\, millennial organizers challenge an administration complic it in state violence against its residents. Told through the eyes of Jana é and Bella\, two fierce abolitionist leaders\, Unapologetic is a deep lo ok into the Movement for Black Lives\, from the police murder of Rekia Boy d to the election of Mayor Lori Lightfoot.\n\nO’Shay began making the fi lm organically in 2015 while attending one such protest equipped with a ca mera-in-hand. “I never imagined that I was on the precipice of capturing what will likely be one of the biggest movements of all time\,” she sai d. “What is so captivating to witness is the tapestry of this Black quee r feminist movement that lies at the helm of fighting for all Black rights .”\n\n \;\n\nRead the Director's Statement\n\nAs a bonus\, Pass and ticket holders can watch Director Ashley O'Shay in conversation with Profe ssor Deborah Ellis of UVM as an added bonus to this screening. Available s oon.\n\n[widget id="custom_html-5"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Una pologetic-main-image-1.png CATEGORIES:Split Screen,Split Screen Apr 16-25,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1056@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTSTAMP:20210223T171344Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/losing-ground/ SUMMARY:Losing Ground DESCRIPTION:Series Pass available HERE\nWe apologize to Fire TV app users - the app is temporarily down\, we hope to have it fixed very soon. Roku an d Apple TV are working fine.\n\nSponsored by Kevin Meehan\, VTIFF Board\n\ n \;\n\nOne of the first American features directed by a Black woman\, Kathleen Collins’s 1982 film wasn’t released until 2015. In 2020\, th e film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally\, historically\, or aesthetically significant".\nCast: With Seret Scott\, Bill Gunn\, Duane Jones\, Billie Allen\n\nTwo years after the film’s narrow debut\, Collins spoke to a cl ass of Howard University students about representation of the Black experi ence. She says\, “If you’ve been the notion of sin incarnate and you ’re now trying to correct that balance\, what do you do? You make Black people into saints.” Of this extreme binary\, she says\, “Neither one is reality. Both are tracks to dehumanize you.” Losing Ground is a compl ete departure from the saints vs. sinners trope that Collins warns of. Ins tead\, it focuses on that aforementioned emotional need and offers a study of complex individuals in the midst of respective existential crises.\nAc cording to Milestone\, after Losing Ground’s initial 1982 premiere and 1 983 follow-up\, it appeared once on PBS’s American Playhouse and then fa ded into obscurity\, not unlike Collins’ legacy. In 2015\, when Losing G round lived to see another day\, screenings were met with stunned admirati on. Critics found it hard to fathom how a film made three decades ago coul d still seem so fresh. The New Yorker‘s Richard Brody\, perhaps the firs t person to review Losing Ground\, described the film as “a nearly lost masterwork…Losing Ground plays like the record of a life revealed in rea l time.”\n\n \;\n\nWatch a Masterclass given by Collins in 1984\n\n[ widget id="custom_html-5"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Los ing-Ground.001_Scott_Gunn.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,Split Screen Apr 16-25,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1057@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210219 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTSTAMP:20210223T171413Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/illusions-blackout-a-mother/ SUMMARY:Illusions / Blackout / A Mother DESCRIPTION:Series Pass available HERE\nWe apologize to Fire TV app users - the app is temporarily down\, we hope to have it fixed very soon. Roku an d Apple TV are working fine.\n\n\n \;\n\nA program of three short film s\n\n \;\n\nIllusions | Julie Dash | 1982 | 34 mins \n\n\n\n“Now I am an illusion\, just like the films. They see me but they can’t recog nize me.” So states the protagonist of Illusions. The time is 1942\, a year after Pearl Harbor\; the place is National Studios\, a fictitious Ho llywood motion picture studio. Mignon Duprée\, a Black woman studio exec utive who appears to be white and Ester Jeeter\, an African American woma n who is the singing voice for a white Hollywood star are forced to come t o grips with a society that perpetuates false images as status quo.  Das h’s Illusions calls attention to the ways in which the Hollywood studi o system created the illusions that forced African-American women to the w ayside of film history only to be forgotten. Illusions follows Mignon's dilemma\, Ester's struggle and the use of cinema in wartime Hollywood: thr ee illusions in conflict with reality.\n"One of the most brilliant achieve ments in style and concept in recent American filmmaking..." ~ Clyde Tay lor Guest Curator Whitney Museum of Art \n"Cleverly uses film itself as a metaphor for the myths fostered by whites and men about Blacks and women ." ~ Marcia Pally Village Voice  \n\n \n\nBlackout | Natasha Ngaiza  | 2013 | 14 mins\n\n \n\nA sudden power outage leads to an impromptu shadow performance that inspires an African immigrant to revisit the pa st and confront her marriage.  Blackout explores the intricacies of tran snational African identity\, motherhood and memory. “This film was born out of the experiences of my mother\, my aunts and my grandmothers: immig rant women who have spent decades making homes away from home\; passing do wn memories of cultures\, histories and language to their children.” ~ Natasha Ngaiza\n \n\nA Mother | Natasha Ngaiza | 2020 | 16 mins\n\n\nA s a town copes with the disappearance of a little girl\, a mother of two m ust come to terms with her own decision to abort an unexpected pregnancy. “A Mother was written in the wake of the first wave of the Black Lives Matter movement. It was written after learning that mothers are more likel y to get abortion than non-mothers. It was written after the ProPublica  report headlined\, “Nothing Protects Black Women from Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth” while pregnant with my third child. It was written to h onor Black motherhood in the U.S.\, the beauty\, the heartache\, the mess\ , the loss and the hope. \n\nRead interview with Ngaiza here: http://m oveablefest.com/natasha-ngaiza-mother/ \n\n \;\n\n*** As a bonus\, Pa ss and ticket holders can watch Natasha Ngaiza in conversation with Dr. Pa ula Willoquet-Maricondi\, Dean of Communication and Creative Media at Cham plain College.\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-5"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/bla ckouttaxistill-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,Split Screen Apr 16-25,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1059@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210315 DTSTAMP:20210223T164721Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/once-upon-a-time-in-venezuela-2/ SUMMARY:Once Upon a Time in Venezuela DESCRIPTION:Venezuela's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards - Best Intern ational Feature Film\n\n \;\n\nWhen filmmaker Anabel Rodríguez Ríos visits a remote floating village in Venezuela to see its eternal lightning storms\, she discovers another ongoing and alarming situation taking plac e… Congo Mirador was once a magical\, thriving fishing community\, built on stilts near Latin American’s biggest oil field. But more recently\, Venezuela has been spiraling into chaos and violence\, and the village its elf is literally sinking from pollution and neglect – a prophetic reflec tion of Venezuela itself. At the center of the village’s existential fig ht stands two female leaders: Mrs. Tamara\, the Chavez-worshipping coordin ator\, not above bribery and intimidation\, and Natalie\, her most vocal c ritic and school teacher. As confidence erodes under President Maduro and Venezuela shapes up to become the world’s worst refugee crisis in 2020\, outpacing the displacement in Syria\, will the village find a way to stay afloat or will it become a political and ecological sacrifice? Shot over seven years\, Once Upon A Time In Venezuela bears witness to the corrosive consequences of corruption and government neglect that reaches the farthe st corners and pits neighbor against neighbor in a struggle for survival.\ n\n \;\n\nAnabel Rodríguez Ríos’s striking and mournful ode to her country bears firsthand witness to the irreversible consequences of gover nment corruption\, while simultaneously capturing the resilient spirit of those most directly affected by Venezuela’s profound economic and politi cal crises. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Onc euponaTiMEinVEnezuela_YoainiNavarroMidSize_Author-John-Márquez-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1068@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210315 DTSTAMP:20210223T165412Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/scales-2/ SUMMARY:Scales DESCRIPTION:This film is geo-blocked and only available to viewers in Vermo nt\, New Hampshire and Maine\n\nSaudi Arabia's submission to the 2021 Acad emy Awards - Best International Feature Film\n\n \;\n\nA visually stun ning feminist parable set in a dystopian landscape. SCALES is a timeless m agical realist fable with a contemporary feminist message. Drawing on Arab ic poetry and folklore\, notably the ancient Syrian legend of the sea godd ess Atargatis\, SCALES follows the story of a strong-willed young girl\, H ayat\, whose poor fishing village is governed by a dark tradition. Shot on a remote stretch of Oman's rugged\, visually arresting coastline\, SCALES depicts a community where brutal chauvinistic tradition dictates that eac h family must sacrifice a baby daughter to the mysterious mermaid-like mon sters that lurk in the surrounding ocean to ensure the village can continu e their fishing expeditions. When Hayat’s father refuses\, the girl beco mes a pariah\, considered a curse by the village and urged to sacrifice he rself - but Hayat has her owns plans for her destiny.\n\n \;\n\nRead t he Director's statement about the film HERE\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sca les.png CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1097@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210316 DTSTAMP:20210423T185530Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/this-is-not-a-burial-its-a-resurrection-2/ SUMMARY:This is Not a Burial\, It's a Resurrection DESCRIPTION:You may buy an individual ticket or a Series Pass HERE\n\n\n&nb sp\;\n\nSponsored by VTIFF Board members Ryan Chartier and Lorna-Kay Peal\ n\n \;\nSpecial Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking at the 2020 Sundan ce Film Festival\n\nThe film tells the story of an 80-year-old woman\, Man toa (Mary Twala Mlongo)\, who discovers on Christmas Day that her son has died in a mining accident in South Africa. With no family left alive\, she starts making arrangements for her own burial—only to be told by the ci ty council that her landlocked village\, Nasaretha\, is about to be floode d for the construction of a dam and that its residents will be resettled i n the city. But Mantoa is resolute in her desire to be buried alongside he r ancestors.\n"In a phone interview before the festival\, Mosese told me t hat this Gothic premise has its roots in reality. As part of the “Highla nds Water Project” conceived under apartheid\, Lesotho exports 780 milli on cubic metres of drinking water every year to South Africa. This entails the construction of reservoirs that force villagers out of their homes an d into urban centres. They leave behind their land\, crops\, and livestock \, and must either exhume their dead or abandon them to the flooding. Mose se recounted shaking hands with Nelson Mandela as a boy when the South Afr ican president visited Lesotho to inaugurate a dam\, and realizing later t he irony of this “lauded knight of democracy\,” as he described Mandel a\, coming to his country to continue the imperialist water project.  \n \n [...]  There is something pristine about the visuals in This Is Not a Burial. Although the process of making the film in the remote mountainous village of Ha Dinizulu was fraught—there was limited electricity and wat er\, and equipment had to be brought in from South Africa on horseback and mules—the landscape and its vibrant flora make for ethereally vivid tab leaux in the film\, as do the traditional blankets and shawls of Lesotho ( a country whose striking colors and designs inspired some of the costuming in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther). Surprisingly\, for Mosese\, the beaut y of the location was a cause of concern. “The curse of shooting in Afri ca\, because it is so beautiful\, is that you can end up pigeonholing your self within beauty. I don’t want the conversation to end in beauty\,” he said. “That’s why I chose the 4:3 [Academy] ratio\, because otherwi se the movie would be way too beautiful and that would overshadow the stor y. So I showed as little as I could.” ~ Dvika Girish\, Film Comment\n\n\ n[widget id="custom_html-5"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Unt itled_1.65.1.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,Split Screen Apr 16-25,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1063@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210315 DTSTAMP:20210223T165149Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/charlatan-2/ SUMMARY:Charlatan DESCRIPTION:This film is geo-blocked and only available to viewers in Vermo nt\, New Hampshire and Maine\n\nShortlisted for Best International Feature Film: Czech Republic's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards\nSponsored b y Arnie Malina\, VTIFF Board\n\n \;\n\nIn this richly drawn portrait\, celebrated Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (Europa\, Europa\, Spoor) m anifests the riveting life and work of Czech herbalist and faith healer Ja n Mikolášek\, who cured hundreds with natural remedies. Magnanimous with his abilities\, he treated the poor and wealthy alike\, never turning awa y a patient—including the occupying Nazis forces and the president of th e country. Yet\, it was this last relationship that led to Mikolášek’s downfall\, as he was prosecuted for charlatanism by the subsequent Commun ist government. Holland weaves the complicated political situation of 20th century East Europe through Mikolasek’s personal life and mission\, sur prising the viewer time and again with sudden new perspectives.\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cha rlatan-928x523-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1069@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210315 DTSTAMP:20210223T165444Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/two-of-us-deux-2/ SUMMARY:Two of Us (Deux) DESCRIPTION:Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film: France's submi ssion to the 2021 Academy Awards\n\n \;\n\nWith Barbara Sukowa and Nin a Chevallier.\n\n"An entirely unique and uniquely vital lesbian love story . The tale of two older women whose decades-long secret relationship is th reatened after tragedy strikes covers emotional and thematic ground that t ranscends the sexual preferences of the two main characters." ~ Mark Keize r\, Variety\n\n \;\n\nSpecial bonus: Watch Q&\;A conducted by Isabe lle Huppert with director  Meneghetti and star Sukowa HERE\n\n \;\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/130 9378_twoofus_378830.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1064@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210315 DTSTAMP:20210223T165220Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/atlantis-2/ SUMMARY:Atlantis DESCRIPTION:Ukraine's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards - Best Internat ional Feature Film\n\nWinner of Grand Prize at Venice’s Orrizonti\n\n&nb sp\;\n\n"Filmed almost entirely of long takes and still camera work\, this hypnotic drama follows soldiers and scientists through a hellish near fut ure in post war Ukraine. Not a casual watch\, the lengthy sequences that m ake up the majority of Atlantis are meant to challenge viewers\, but are u nique in that they also provide meditative and generous space to ponder th e various complex emotions these characters are sorting out along the way. By the end\, you may feel disoriented\, but through the fog...hope." ~ Ry an Chartier\, VTIFF programming committee\n\nIn 2025\, Eastern Ukraine is a desert unsuitable for human habitation\, water a dear commodity brought by trucks. A wall is being built on the border. Sergiy\, a former soldier having trouble adapting to his new reality\, meets Katya while she’s on a humanitarian mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together\, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to f all in love again.\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/120 x160-ATLANTIS_DEF_BD-WEB.png CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1062@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210315 DTSTAMP:20210223T165117Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vitalina-varela-2/ SUMMARY:Vitalina Varela DESCRIPTION:Portugal's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards - Best Interna tional Feature Film\n\nSponsored by Andrea Rogers\n\n \;\n\nVitalina V arela\, a 55-year-old woman from Cape Verde\, arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband's funeral. She's been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years.\nA film of deeply concentrated beauty\, Vitalina Varel a stars nonprofessional actor Vitalina Varela in an extraordinary performa nce based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who has tra veled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband\, after two decades of separat ion\, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbi dding land\, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Varela bel ongs in the lineage of the epic western narratives of John Ford\, in which a lonely figure returns to a hollowed-out homestead and is confronted by living reminders of their previous failed attempts at forming a life of st ability and peace.\n\nWinner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival\, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival\, Vitalina Varela is a film of shadow and whis per\, a profoundly moving and visually ravishing masterpiece.  * NY Times Critics Pick: Essential cinema.*\n\n"The Portuguese director conjures dar k\, dreamlike visions of post-colonial neglect and yearning that hover som ewhere between fantasy and neorealism\, horror and melodrama\, spiritualit y and desperation. Vitalina Varela\, Costa’s fifth journey into the sha ntytown Fontainhas outside of Lisbon\, once again showcases Costa’s mast erful ability to mine cinematic poetry from a unique environment and the m ournful figures who wander through its murky depths." ~ Indiewire\n\n  \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/vit alina-varela-2019-001-vitalina-leaning-against-black-lightened_0.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1060@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210315 DTSTAMP:20210223T165001Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/another-round-druk-2/ SUMMARY:Another Round (Druk) DESCRIPTION:Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film: Denmark's subm ission to the 2021 Academy Awards\n\n"A breath of fresh air for anyone who has been starving for intelligent entertainment." ~ Leonard Maltin\nWith Mads Mikkelsen\nFour friends\, all teachers at various stages of middle ag e\, are stuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at school or at home\, they embark on an audacious experiment from an obscure philosop her: to see if a constant level of alcohol in their blood will help them f ind greater freedom and happiness. At first they each find a new-found zes t\, but as the gang pushes their experiment further\, issues that have bee n simmering for years come to a head and the men are faced with a choice: reckon with their behavior or continue on the same course.\n\n"Sooner or l ater\, Hollywood will remake Another Round for the U.S. market. It will be a broad comedy about four middle-aged losers who rediscover their youthfu l zest for life through booze — only to learn\, after many pratfalls\, t hat life itself is the greatest intoxicant. They will apologize tearfully to their wives and reconnect with their mortified children. Think The Hang over\, but more life affirming.\n\nAnother Round is not that movie\, becau se Vinterberg (The Celebration) doesn't do broad comedy or uncomplicated a ffirmations. He does claustrophobic handheld-camera work and jarring contr asts. The movie opens with an extended scene in which a gang of teens — the protagonists' students — holds a beer-chugging race that evolves int o a bacchanal. It's every music video\, selling a dream of carefree exuber ance — until the director smash cuts to silence and a black screen.\n\nT he implication is that every binge must have an end. For Martin and the ot hers\, that means being marooned in the desert of middle age. When the men try to recapture their youthful high by getting smashed\, separately or t ogether\, the soundtrack swells\, and the film slips into music video mode again. It's a high for the audience as well as the characters — until t he music cuts out\, the consequences set in\, and Vinterberg returns to da rk\, ironic realism.\n\nViewers will inevitably ask: What's the message of all this? Is the filmmaker suggesting that people might\, in fact\, enjoy their lives more and do their jobs better while slightly inebriated? It s eems so (Another Round probably isn't a good watch for anyone trying to ma intain sobriety). And yet the film doesn't gloss over the grave long-term consequences of all that inebriation.\n\nWhen it comes to mood alterants\, Americans tend to want to think in all-or-nothing terms. How can a substa nce be both helpful and harmful? In my imaginary Hollywood version of Anot her Round\, the characters would eventually discover that true happiness c omes not from a bottle or a trick of brain chemistry but from love\, famil y and personal fulfillment." ~ Margot Harrison\, Seven Days\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ano therRound_press2.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1058@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210319 DTSTAMP:20210226T175818Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/til-kindgom-come/ SUMMARY:'Til Kindgom Come DESCRIPTION:We apologize but there are no Closed Captions available for thi s title\nSubtitles are available when viewing online\, but not yet through your VTIFF apps.\n\n \;\n\nMillions of American Evangelicals are pray ing for the State of Israel. Among them are the Binghams\, a dynasty of Ke ntucky pastors\, and their Evangelical congregants in an impoverished coal mining town. They donate sacrificially to Israel’s foremost philanthropi c organization\, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews\, bec ause they fervently believe the Jews are crucial to Jesus’ return. This film traces this unusual relationship\, from the moving of the American em bassy to Jerusalem and the annexation plan of the West Bank. With unparall eled access\, the film exposes a stunning back story of the Trump and Neta nyahu administrations\, where financial\, political and messianic motivati ons intersect with the apocalyptic world view that is insistently reshapin g American foreign policy toward Israel and the Middle East.\n\nBonus feat ure included in price of ticket: Q&\;A with the director and producer\n \n"[...] What emerges from the film is not only a disturbing picture of ho w extremist political and religious agendas are connected\, but also a sen se of the contradictions involved\, including – as Friedman points out - the dubious question for Jews of getting into bed with the far right. The re is also the fact that fundamentalist Christianity can only tenuously be considered pro-Jewish – as Yael Eckstein admits\, the insistence on Jes us is a problem. Indeed\, it emerges that believers in the Rapture predict that\, come Doomsday\, two thirds of Jews will die and the other third co nvert to Christianity\; the film also ends with Bingham senior addressing Zinstein in a half-jokingly aggressive way that fails to conceal some clea r anti-semitic sentiments." ~ Jonathan Romney\,\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n& nbsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Til KingdomCome_Poster_12.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1066@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210315 DTSTAMP:20210223T165317Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-little-sister-schwesterlein/ SUMMARY:My Little Sister (Schwesterlein) DESCRIPTION:Switzerland's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards - Best Inte rnational Feature Film\n\nWith Nina Hoss\nNY Time's Critic's Pick\n\n  \;\n\nLisa\, once a brilliant playwright\, no longer writes. She lives wit h her family in Switzerland\, but her heart remains in Berlin\, beating in time with that of her twin brother Sven\, the famous theater actor. Since Sven has been suffering from an aggressive type of leukemia\, the relatio nship between them has become even closer. Lisa does not want to accept th is blow of fate\, she does everything in her power to bring Sven back on s tage. For her soulmate she neglects everything else and even risks losing her husband. Her marriage goes awry\, but Lisa only has eyes for her broth er\, who reflects her deepest longings and awakens in her the desire to be creative\, to feel alive again.\n"Distinguished by a modestly discreet di recting style that allows the actors to shine\, MY LITTLE SISTER offers ne ither false uplift nor dreary realism." ~ New York Times\n“Never goes pr ecisely where the audience expects...” ~ Washington Post\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/My- Little-Sister.jpeg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1065@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210315 DTSTAMP:20210223T165252Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hope-2/ SUMMARY:Hope DESCRIPTION:This film is geo-blocked and only available to viewers in Vermo nt\n\nShortlisted for Best International Feature Film: Norway's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards\n\n \;\n\nHope is a private and fragile st ory evolving across seven days: a life-threatening event reveals the feeli ngs of a couple who were previously in denial\, forcing them to face their evident yet well-hidden problems. Far from being a chronicle of yet anoth er midlife crisis\, work or ambitions\, Anja and Tomas’s crisis is a fin al chance to examine their relationship. These few dramatic days are an op portunity for redemption and for a reconciliation with both the past and a n unknown\, possibly brief future. Ultimately\, both must decide whether t here is still any hope for their love\, as life rarely gives anyone a seco nd chance to find out.\n"In this mostly autobiographical film\, Sødahl fa ces her past with realism and delivers an organically emotional\, never me lodramatic work whose raw and unpretentious approach is extremely moving a nd always remains truthful to her own experience." ~ CineEuropa\n\nThe Dir ector talks about the inspiration for the film:\n“Seven years ago\, when I received a terminal cancer diagnosis\, the idea of moviemaking vanished in a second. Two years later\, still alive but frail after the challengin g medical story\, I was offered the opportunity to direct an international feature. To do a major production was\, at the time\, way too premature\, but it awakened my urge to tell stories again. Almost against my own will \, I ended up writing my most autobiographical project ever. There was no way around it\n\nAlthough the story is told from my own perspective\, gett ing permission from my close family to deal with our common history was cr ucial in the process. In short\, I had long talks with my husband and\, la ter on\, individual lunches “interviewing” each of my three biological and three step-children. Primarily\, my question was how they remembered me from this particular week. Being strongly medicated on steroids combine d with survival urges – they presented “various portraits” of my cha racter.\nAs result\, I not only got to see myself through their eyes (aged 10-26 years old)\, but also saw the mechanisms of a modern family. Withou t doubt\, their contributions helped me to get the necessary distance to b uild a fictional character. Besides\, casting the talented actress Andrea Bræin Hovig will ensure that the main character\nwill have a life of her own.”\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Hop e-poster.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1067@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210301 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210315 DTSTAMP:20210223T165343Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/you-will-die-at-twenty-2/ SUMMARY:You Will Die at Twenty DESCRIPTION:This film is geo-blocked and available only to viewers in USA\n \nSudan's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards - Best International Featu re Film\nWinner of the Lion of the Future Award for best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival\n\n \;\n\nA visually sumptuous “coming-of-d eath” fable. During her son’s naming ceremony\, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina’s child will die at the age of 20. Haunted by this prophecy\, Sa kina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil\, who grows up knowing a bout his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina’s ever-watchful eye\, he encoun ters friends\, ideas and challenges that make him question his destiny.\n\ n \n"NY times Critic's Pick! In his debut feature\, Amjad Abu Alala deepe ns a fable-like premise into a lyrical confrontation with the certitudes o f faith and the life-giving powers of doubt. [T]he movie’s ravishing com positions imbue the setting with the shimmer of myth. Dust-flecked beams o f sunlight slice through shadows\; green-robed dervishes glide down the Ni le in boats\; the turrets of a mosque pierce a startling blue sky. Avoidin g didactic conclusions or pat answers\, Alala’s film questions blind bel ief but finds boundless enchantment in every frame." ~ Devika Girish\, The New York Times\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/tu- mourras-a-20ans-photo.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1071@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210319 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210329 DTSTAMP:20210319T205104Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-dissident/ SUMMARY:The Dissident DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nWashington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was critical o f his beloved Saudi Arabia and of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s rep ressive policies. On October 2\, 2018\, Khashoggi entered the Saudi consul ate in Istanbul\, Turkey\, simply seeking marriage-related documents\, and never came out. The world subsequently learned that he had been brutally murdered that very same day.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith exclusive access to the Tur kish government’s evidence\, to Khashoggi’s fiancée\, Hatice Cengiz\, and to Khashoggi’s close friend and fellow Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaz iz\, Academy Award winning filmmaker Bryan Fogel (Icarus) unearths hidden secrets in this real-life international thriller whose timeliness and impa ct continues more than two years after Jamal Khashoggi’s death. Immensel y powerful and heartbreakingly candid\, The Dissident is an intimate port rait of a man who sacrificed everything for freedom of speech.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nMarch Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this month. If you will be vie wing this month's film through one of your apps\, please remember that you need to use the Middlebury Roku\, Firestick and Apple TV apps\, not the V TIFF ones.\n\n\n\nSeries Pass available  HERE\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The -Dissident-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1072@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210319 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210329 DTSTAMP:20210319T205016Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/some-kind-of-heaven/ SUMMARY:Some Kind of Heaven DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nSome Kind of Heaven\, directed by Lance Oppenheim\, goes behind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland to follow four residents of America’s largest retirement community\, The Villages in central Flo rida\, as they strive to find solace and meaning\n\n\nMarch Split/Screen f ilms are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this month. If you will be viewing this month's film thr ough one of your apps\, please remember that you need to use the Middlebur y Roku\, Firestick and Apple TV apps\, not the VTIFF ones.\n\n\n\nSeries P ass available HERE\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Som e-Kind-of-Heaven-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1073@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210319 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210329 DTSTAMP:20210319T205211Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-climb/ SUMMARY:The Climb DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nKyle and Mike are best friends who share a close bond – until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée and then tells him about it amid st a rigorous bicycle ride in the French Alps. The Climb is about a tumu ltuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laug hter\, heartbreak and rage. It is also the story of real-life best friends [the film’s director and producer] who turn their profound connection i nto a rich\, humane and frequently uproarious film about the boundaries (o r lack thereof) in all close friendships. Imbuing traditional comic set-pi eces – family Christmas\, disastrous bachelor party\, interrupted weddin g – with genuine cinematic flair\, The Climb expertly shifts gears bet ween full-blooded slapstick and wince-inducing studies of romantic and fra ternal relationships\, which sometimes crash but always seem to find the f riends getting back in the saddle.\n\n \;\n\n\nMarch Split/Screen film s are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this month. If you will be viewing this month's film throug h one of your apps\, please remember that you need to use the Middlebury R oku\, Firestick and Apple TV apps\, not the VTIFF ones.\n\n\n\nSeries Pass available  HERE\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The -Climb-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1074@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210319 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210329 DTSTAMP:20210319T210411Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-auschwitz-report/ SUMMARY:The Auschwitz Report DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE:  At the distributor’s request\, this film will be limited to Vermont and New Hampshire-based audiences only.\n\nExp erience the incredible true story of Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba\, Fred dy and Walter\, two young Slovak Jews who were deported to the Auschwitz c oncentration camp in 1942\, in the remarkable and stunning drama\, The Au schwitz Report. On April 10\, 1944\, after meticulous planning and with th e help and the resilience of their fellow prisoners\, the two men\, whom t he Nazis designated as “scribes” to dutifully account for each day’s inexorable deaths\, manage to escape their hideous environment. While the prisoners they had left behind courageously stand their ground against th e imperious Nazi officers\, the two men are driven on by the hope that the ir accumulated evidence of torture and extermination could save lives. Ema ciated and hurt\, they make their way through the mountains back to Slovak ia. With the help of chance encounters\, they finally cross the border and meet up with the Resistance and\, eventually\, The Red Cross. They compil e a detailed report about the systematic genocide taking place at Auschwit z. However\, with Nazi propaganda and international liaisons still in plac e\, their account seems to be too harrowing to believe. The Auschwitz Rep ort is Slovakia’s candidate for the 93rd Academy Awards in the best int ernational feature film category.\n\n \;\n\n\nMarch Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this month. If you will be viewing this month's film through one of your apps\, please remember that you need to use the Middlebury Ro ku\, Firestick and Apple TV apps\, not the VTIFF apps.\n\n\n\nSeries Pass available HERE\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The -Auschwitz-Report-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1085@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210329 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210416 DTSTAMP:20210329T134204Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/another-round-druk-3/ SUMMARY:Another Round (Druk) DESCRIPTION:Back by popular demand\n\nNominated for Best International Feat ure Film: Denmark's submission to the 2021 Academy Awards\n\n"A breath of fresh air for anyone who has been starving for intelligent entertainment." ~ Leonard Maltin\nWith Mads Mikkelsen\nFour friends\, all teachers at var ious stages of middle age\, are stuck in a rut. Unable to share their pass ions either at school or at home\, they embark on an audacious experiment from an obscure philosopher: to see if a constant level of alcohol in thei r blood will help them find greater freedom and happiness. At first they e ach find a new-found zest\, but as the gang pushes their experiment furthe r\, issues that have been simmering for years come to a head and the men a re faced with a choice: reckon with their behavior or continue on the same course.\n\n"Sooner or later\, Hollywood will remake Another Round for the U.S. market. It will be a broad comedy about four middle-aged losers who rediscover their youthful zest for life through booze — only to learn\, after many pratfalls\, that life itself is the greatest intoxicant. They w ill apologize tearfully to their wives and reconnect with their mortified children. Think The Hangover\, but more life affirming.\n\nAnother Round i s not that movie\, because Vinterberg (The Celebration) doesn't do broad c omedy or uncomplicated affirmations. He does claustrophobic handheld-camer a work and jarring contrasts. The movie opens with an extended scene in wh ich a gang of teens — the protagonists' students — holds a beer-chuggi ng race that evolves into a bacchanal. It's every music video\, selling a dream of carefree exuberance — until the director smash cuts to silence and a black screen.\n\nThe implication is that every binge must have an en d. For Martin and the others\, that means being marooned in the desert of middle age. When the men try to recapture their youthful high by getting s mashed\, separately or together\, the soundtrack swells\, and the film sli ps into music video mode again. It's a high for the audience as well as th e characters — until the music cuts out\, the consequences set in\, and Vinterberg returns to dark\, ironic realism.\n\nViewers will inevitably as k: What's the message of all this? Is the filmmaker suggesting that people might\, in fact\, enjoy their lives more and do their jobs better while s lightly inebriated? It seems so (Another Round probably isn't a good watch for anyone trying to maintain sobriety). And yet the film doesn't gloss o ver the grave long-term consequences of all that inebriation.\n\nWhen it c omes to mood alterants\, Americans tend to want to think in all-or-nothing terms. How can a substance be both helpful and harmful? In my imaginary H ollywood version of Another Round\, the characters would eventually discov er that true happiness comes not from a bottle or a trick of brain chemist ry but from love\, family and personal fulfillment." ~ Margot Harrison\, S even Days\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ano therRound_press2.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1081@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210329 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210416 DTSTAMP:20210329T134136Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/til-kindgom-come-2/ SUMMARY:'Til Kindgom Come DESCRIPTION:Back by popular demand\n\n \;\n\nWe apologize but there are no Closed Captions available for this title\nSubtitles are available when viewing online\, but not yet through your VTIFF apps.\n\n \;\n\n"Fasc inating and timely look at the curious (and some might say insidious) ties binding American evangelical Christians to Israeli politics\, and the cor rosive impact on Trump’s foreign policy.  A searing look at how Biblica l End Times and Rapture prophesies inform discourse between Americans and Israelis\, with Christians yearning for the second coming of Christ\, perh aps at the expense of Jews and Palestinians." ~ Brian Ortelere\, VTIFF Boa rd\n\nBonus feature included in price of ticket: Q&\;A with the directo r and producer\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Til KingdomCome_Poster_12.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1076@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210330 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210416 DTSTAMP:20210402T215451Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sophie-jones/ SUMMARY:Sophie Jones DESCRIPTION:"It would be nice if there were more movies like this\, but few have the talent to make them this well — to take a human-scale story an d make it feel\, not bigger than life\, but as grand scale as life actuall y is." ~ Mick LaSalle\, San Francisco Chronicle\n\n \;\n\nInspired by true experiences of grief\, girlhood\, and growing up\, Jessie Barr’s di rectorial debut\, Sophie Jones\, provides a stirring portrait of a sixteen year old. Stunned by the untimely death of her mother and struggling with the myriad challenges of teendom\, Sophie (played with striking immediacy by the director’s cousin Jessica Barr) tries everything she can to feel something again\, while holding herself together\, in this sensitive\, ac utely realized\, and utterly relatable coming-of-age story. And yet\, the film is imbued with a dry sense of humor. This is no clichéd coming-of-ag e story.\n\nThe direction rejects linear storytelling to operate more as a series of vignettes\, spread out over two or so years\, which follow Soph ie as she struggles to mourn her mother\, develop her own personality\, an d explore her sexual identity. We jump forward sometimes days\, sometimes weeks\, sometimes months\, but the focus is always two-pronged: the inner sadness Sophie carries that she rarely shares with anyone else\, and the o uter sexual confidence—tiptoeing into aggression—that she displays as she jumps from guy to guy.\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom _html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SJ- 30-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1077@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210330 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210416 DTSTAMP:20210401T165116Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-shape-of-things-to-come/ SUMMARY:A Shape of Things to Come DESCRIPTION:A Shape of Things to Come is a provocative portrait of a loner named Sundog who lives on the border in the Sonoran desert. The film creat es a world that stretches from the distant past\, to the ecological moveme nts of the 1960’s\, to a possible apocalyptic future. Sundog has a zen/r ock n roll sensibility —everything he does is of surprising interest. Ea ch frame of this carefully put together documentary contributes to a doubl e-edged portrait of Sundog: succinct\, suspenseful and mysterious. With st unning photography and imagery of the natural world of the desert. ~ Arnie Malina\, VTIFF programming committee\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Sha pe-of-Things-to-Come.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1087@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210330 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210416 DTSTAMP:20210329T133217Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-inheritance/ SUMMARY:The Inheritance DESCRIPTION:After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora — and his own place within it — Ephraim Asili makes his feat ure-length debut with The Inheritance\, an astonishing ensemble work set a lmost entirely within a West Philadelphia house where a community of young \, Black artists and activists form a collective. A scripted drama of char acters attempting to work towards political consensus — based partly on Asili’s own experiences in a Black liberationist group — weaves with a documentary recollection of the Philadelphia liberation group MOVE\, the victim of a notorious police bombing in 1985. Ceaselessly finding commonal ties between politics\, humor\, and philosophy\, with Black authors and ra dicals at its edges\, The Inheritance is a remarkable film about the world as we know it.\n\n \;\n\nNY Times Critic's Pick\; "Ephraim Asili’s debut feature film\, beautifully abandons genre to consider questions abou t community\, art and Black liberation" ~ New York Times\, Lovia Gyarkye\n \n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Inh eritance_1-1-scaled-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1080@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210330 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210416 DTSTAMP:20210329T133436Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/night-of-the-kings/ SUMMARY:Night of the Kings DESCRIPTION:Official Entry\, 93rd Academy Awards® Best International Featu re Film - Ivory Coast\n\nA young man is sent to “La Maca”\, a prison i n the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon\, he is designated by the Boss to be the new “Roman” and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning wha t fate awaits him\, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendar y outlaw named “Zama King” and has no choice but to make his story las t until dawn.\n\n \;\n\n"[...] The telling is remarkable. Lacôte brin gs us into Zama King’s story — and out of La Maca’s claustrophobic e nvirons — through brief illustrative sequences\, the loveliest of which show an ancient warrior-queen (Laetitia Ky) leading a procession along the coast and\, eventually\, an army into battle. [...] But as transporting a s these embellishments are\, we are held even more powerfully by the sheer force of Roman’s narration\, by the glow of the torchlight on the faces of his captive audience and by their vigorous responses to each new twist and turn. Sometimes they push back vocally against his narrative\; more o ften they accompany it\, through song\, dance and pantomime\, their bodies giving flesh and form to the storyteller’s words." ~ Justin Chang\, LA Times\n\n \;\n\nPhilippe Lacôte | Writer and Director\nLacôte grew u p in Abidjan near a movie theater –the “Magic”. His work as a direct or has taken on several forms\, before focusing in 2002 on the recent hist ory of his country with Chronicles Of War In The Ivory Coast\, a film on t he edge between a documentary and a diary. It is followed by the feature f ilm Run\, the story of a wandering madman\, selected in Canne’s Un Certa in Regard 2014. This selection confirmed his talent as a filmmaker and rev ealed a new voice from the African continent. Night of the Kings (original title La Nuit Des Rois)\, his second feature\, is a dive into the largest prison in West Africa\, during a night of red moon.\n\n \;\n\nRead an interview with the director HERE\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n[widget id= "custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Nig ht-of-the-kings--scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1084@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210330 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210416 DTSTAMP:20210402T215109Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rose-plays-julie/ SUMMARY:Rose Plays Julie DESCRIPTION:\nClosed Captions available for this film through your device\n \n\n \;\n\nA young adopted woman tracks down her birth mother only to be confronted by revelations that draw her into the dark world of her fath er. This is a film about digging up the past in more ways than one.   "T he tale taps into primal urges—for love\, revenge\, knowledge—and thes e urges give "Rose Plays Julie" a mythic quality\, like a story told since antiquity\, or a fable designed to express truths about the human conditi on. ROSE PLAYS JULIE is very controlled in its style: this control reaps h uge rewards." ~ Sheila O'Malley - Roger Ebert.\n\n \;\n\nLike Molloy a nd Lawlor’s previous films\, it\, too\, explores their recurrent themes of identity/doubling and performance. But there are also strong undercurre nts referring to Greek myths from Oedipus and Electra as well as King Agam emnon's killing of one of goddess Artemis’ sacred stags. The film was sh ot on location in Dublin and Wicklow in the summer of 2018\, its powerful soundtrack was originally composed and arranged by Irish composer\, Stephe n McKeon.\n\nHere's some of what the directors have to say about the origi ns of the film:\n\n"One day we will subject ourselves to psychoanalysis to find out why it is exactly we are so drawn to narratives and characters w here the central focus is identity under duress. We’re particularly inte rested in the loss of identity or the moment of transformation when someon e’s sense of their own identity is altered. Having made two previous fil ms in which our main characters quite literally step into someone else’s shoes and assimilate themselves into someone else’s life\, and in so do ing find a way to move forward with their own life\, with Rose Plays Julie we were intrigued by the idea that our central character Rose\, could bec ome a different version of herself\, Julie\, the person she would have bee n if she hadn’t been put up for adoption. At the heart of the film is Ro se’s desire to reconcile these two different versions of herself\, as no t knowing her past – where she came from – she is struggling to imagin e her future."\n\n\nAbout Molloy and Lawlor:\n\nBorn in Dublin\, Ireland C hristine Molloy and Joe Lawlor studied theater in the UK in the late 80s. From 1992 to 1999 they devised\, directed and performed in several interna tionally acclaimed theater shows before shifting their attention towards m oving image-based work. Between 2000 and 2003 they directed a number of ep isodic\, interactive works for the internet\, and large-scale community vi deo projects for galleries.\nBetween 2003 and 2010 they produced\, wrote a nd directed 10 acclaimed short films including the award winning Who Kille d Brown Owl and Joy.\nHelen\, their award-winning debut feature film\, pre miered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2008 before screeni ng at over 50 film festivals worldwide\, as well as being released in seve ral countries.  In 2016\, Molloy and Lawlor released to critical acclaim their debut documentary Further Beyond\, and they are currently working on a follow up documentary\, The Future Tense.\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="cus tom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Ros ePlaysJulie_photo-7.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1070@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210416 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210426 DTSTAMP:20210423T210649Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-defense/ SUMMARY:No Defense DESCRIPTION:Buy a ticket for this film or purchase a pass for the whole Spl it/Screen series HERE\n\n\n \;\n\nPlease note: this film can only be v iewed in Vermont\, New Hampshire\, Maine and Massachusetts.\n\n \;\n\n Closed captions available when viewing online\, but not yet through your V TIFF apps\n\nThis screening is sponsored by WILPF - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom\, Burlington branch\, and Lucky Next Door\n\n    \n\n \;\nA new documentary on PFAS by Pulitzer Prize-winning jou rnalist Sara Ganim spotlights the contamination in Oscoda\, Michigan. The film examines contamination by PFAS (a broad group of perfluoroalkyl and p olyfluoroalkyl substances) emanating from the old Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda\, Michigan\, and how a government’s conflict of interest has led to inaction and a growing water crisis in the area. No Defense looks a t the struggle between the U.S. military and communities dealing with PFAS contamination from U.S. military bases. Oscoda is just one example of tho se communities. but this is the first documentary that specifically focuse s on PFAS contamination at DOD (Department of Defense) sites\, of which th ere are hundreds of sites around the country. More than 650 towns contamin ated. Millions of Americans affected.\n\n\n​The largest-known polluter o f chemicals that are nearly indestructible… is also the regulator that h as failed to act. This is the story of the war on water.\n \;\n\nBonus Feature: On Earth Day\, April 22\, at 8pm EST\, a live panel discussion w as held led by Nancy Price and Marguerite Adelman of WILPF and by Anthony Spaniola of Need Our Water (NOW).\n\nThe 60 minute discussion can be viewe d HERE\n\nAnthony Spaniola is featured in the film and served as a consult ant.  He has a summer home on Oscoda near the military base.\n\nNancy Pri ce is the Co-Chair of the Women's International League for Peace and Freed om's Earth Democracy Issues Committee.  For over 20 years\, Nancy has bee n engaged with the progressive movement: as a founding member and early bo ard member of Move to Amend\; a board member of the US Peace Council\, the National Election Defense Coalition\, and the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution\; Co-Chair of the Alliance for Democracy\; and the Western Coordinator of their Defending Water for Life campaign.\n\nMar guerite Adelman is a team leader for the Vermont PFAS and Military Poisons Coalition and working with others interested in Military PFAS contaminati on in New Hampshire\, Maine\, and Massachusetts to replicate similar proje cts in those states.  All are welcome to attend the discussion of the fil m and to learn more about the military use of PFAS in the US and across th e globe.\n\n\n \n\n[widget id="custom_html-5"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/No- Defense-secondary-poster-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,Split Screen Apr 16-25,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1078@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210416 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210426 DTSTAMP:20210414T164833Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/this-is-not-a-burial-its-a-resurrection/ SUMMARY:This is Not a Burial\, It's a Resurrection DESCRIPTION:You may buy an individual ticket or a Series Pass HERE\n\n\n&nb sp\;\n\nSponsored by VTIFF Board members Ryan Chartier and Lorna-Kay Peal\ n\n \;\nSpecial Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking at the 2020 Sundan ce Film Festival\n\nThe film tells the story of an 80-year-old woman\, Man toa (Mary Twala Mlongo)\, who discovers on Christmas Day that her son has died in a mining accident in South Africa. With no family left alive\, she starts making arrangements for her own burial—only to be told by the ci ty council that her landlocked village\, Nasaretha\, is about to be floode d for the construction of a dam and that its residents will be resettled i n the city. But Mantoa is resolute in her desire to be buried alongside he r ancestors.\n"In a phone interview before the festival\, Mosese told me t hat this Gothic premise has its roots in reality. As part of the “Highla nds Water Project” conceived under apartheid\, Lesotho exports 780 milli on cubic metres of drinking water every year to South Africa. This entails the construction of reservoirs that force villagers out of their homes an d into urban centres. They leave behind their land\, crops\, and livestock \, and must either exhume their dead or abandon them to the flooding. Mose se recounted shaking hands with Nelson Mandela as a boy when the South Afr ican president visited Lesotho to inaugurate a dam\, and realizing later t he irony of this “lauded knight of democracy\,” as he described Mandel a\, coming to his country to continue the imperialist water project.  \n \n [...]  There is something pristine about the visuals in This Is Not a Burial. Although the process of making the film in the remote mountainous village of Ha Dinizulu was fraught—there was limited electricity and wat er\, and equipment had to be brought in from South Africa on horseback and mules—the landscape and its vibrant flora make for ethereally vivid tab leaux in the film\, as do the traditional blankets and shawls of Lesotho ( a country whose striking colors and designs inspired some of the costuming in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther). Surprisingly\, for Mosese\, the beaut y of the location was a cause of concern. “The curse of shooting in Afri ca\, because it is so beautiful\, is that you can end up pigeonholing your self within beauty. I don’t want the conversation to end in beauty\,” he said. “That’s why I chose the 4:3 [Academy] ratio\, because otherwi se the movie would be way too beautiful and that would overshadow the stor y. So I showed as little as I could.” ~ Dvika Girish\, Film Comment\n\n\ n[widget id="custom_html-5"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Unt itled_1.65.1.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,Split Screen Apr 16-25,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1086@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210416 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210426 DTSTAMP:20210414T164713Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/power-struggle-2/ SUMMARY:Power Struggle DESCRIPTION:Buy a ticket for this film or purchase a pass for the whole Spl it/Screen series HERE\n\n \;\n\n***Closed captions available when view ing online\, but not yet through your VTIFF apps\n\n \;\nFilmed over f ive years by director Robbie Leppzer\, Power Struggle portrays the heate d political battle to shut down the problem-plagued Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on the banks of the Connecticut River in southern Vermont.  The film follows the unfolding drama as citizen activists and elected stat e officials—alarmed at increasing safety violations—take on the federa l government and one of the biggest power companies in the U.S. to achieve a rare grassroots environmental victory.\nThe film captures perspectives on all sides of the controversy\, including from local residents both for and against nuclear power\, elected officials (including U.S. Senator Bern ie Sanders and Governor Peter Shumlin)\, nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen\ , a Vermont Yankee spokesperson\, federal nuclear regulators\, and many ac tivists.\n\nOfficial Film Website: www.PowerStruggleMovie.com\n\n\n \; \n\nBonus Feature: The film is followed immediately by an interview with t he director\, Robbie Leppzer.\n\n“Power Struggle is the remarkable story about how people power overcame corporate power and government cover-ups to finally shut down an aging and dangerous nuclear plant. We see how smal l town citizens were transformed into tenacious environmental activists wh o triumphed against the odds. Power Struggle is a hopeful story that remin ds us that citizen activism is not just possible\, it is essential to savi ng our endangered planet.” ~ David Goodman\, best-selling author\, journ alist and radio host\, THE VERMONT CONVERSATION\n\n\n \;\n\nRead artic le about the film and the director HERE\n\n \n\n[widget id="custom_html-5 "] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/06- POWER_STRUGGLE_Main_Promo_Photo-FACEBOOK-EVENT-1920X1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,Split Screen Apr 16-25,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1082@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210416 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210426 DTSTAMP:20210331T161241Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/anbessa/ SUMMARY:Anbessa DESCRIPTION:Buy a ticket for this film. Series Pass available HERE\n\n\n&nb sp\;\n\nTen-year-old Asalif and his mother have been displaced from their Ethiopian farmland by the construction of a condominium. Now living on the divide between a new and ancient world\, they are reminded that their cou ntry’s big dream of “progress” is not for them. Land developers come knocking and Asalif feels his mother’s fear of further displacement. On the other side\, ferocious hyenas lurk in a dark forest and local farmers speak their lore. To fight back against all that threatens his family\, A salif transforms into a lion (anbessa in Amharic). His newfound power take s him to places he never imagined inside and out of the condo until finall y\, Asalif must shed the lion persona and find the strength that resides i n him as a boy\, in order to deal with the tides of change and violence th at are usurping his family\, his country\, and his own identity.\n\n \ ;\n\nA stunning observational work\, Italian American director Mo Scarpell i’s debut feature Anbessa vibrantly mirrors its subject’s imagination with a creative approach to non-fiction filmmaking. The film is an urgent and caring portrait of those cast aside by the processes of modernization. \n\n \;\n\nAbout the director:\n\nScarpelli is an Italian American doc umentary filmmaker. Anbessa is her debut solo-directed film\, premiered at the Berlinale 2019 in Generations KPlus competition\, and was nominated f or the Crystal Bear in Generations KPlus\, as well as the Glashütte Docu mentary Prize. Her feature documentary Frame By Frame screened at SXSW 201 5\, Hot Docs (Audience Top Ten Films)\, BFI London Film Festival and 150+ other festivals\, garnering 15+ jury and audience awards as well as a Cine ma Eye Honors nomination.\n\nRead the director's statement about making th e film HERE\n\n[widget id="custom_html-5"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Anb essa_BTS_01.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,Split Screen Apr 16-25,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1099@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210426 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTSTAMP:20210423T185723Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-inheritance-2/ SUMMARY:The Inheritance DESCRIPTION:After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora — and his own place within it — Ephraim Asili makes his feat ure-length debut with The Inheritance\, an astonishing ensemble work set a lmost entirely within a West Philadelphia house where a community of young \, Black artists and activists form a collective. A scripted drama of char acters attempting to work towards political consensus — based partly on Asili’s own experiences in a Black liberationist group — weaves with a documentary recollection of the Philadelphia liberation group MOVE\, the victim of a notorious police bombing in 1985. Ceaselessly finding commonal ties between politics\, humor\, and philosophy\, with Black authors and ra dicals at its edges\, The Inheritance is a remarkable film about the world as we know it.\n\n \;\n\nNY Times Critic's Pick\; "Ephraim Asili’s debut feature film\, beautifully abandons genre to consider questions abou t community\, art and Black liberation" ~ New York Times\, Lovia Gyarkye\n \n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Inh eritance_1-1-scaled-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1100@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210426 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTSTAMP:20210423T185824Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sophie-jones-2/ SUMMARY:Sophie Jones DESCRIPTION:"It would be nice if there were more movies like this\, but few have the talent to make them this well — to take a human-scale story an d make it feel\, not bigger than life\, but as grand scale as life actuall y is." ~ Mick LaSalle\, San Francisco Chronicle\n\n \;\n\nInspired by true experiences of grief\, girlhood\, and growing up\, Jessie Barr’s di rectorial debut\, Sophie Jones\, provides a stirring portrait of a sixteen year old. Stunned by the untimely death of her mother and struggling with the myriad challenges of teendom\, Sophie (played with striking immediacy by the director’s cousin Jessica Barr) tries everything she can to feel something again\, while holding herself together\, in this sensitive\, ac utely realized\, and utterly relatable coming-of-age story. And yet\, the film is imbued with a dry sense of humor. This is no clichéd coming-of-ag e story.\n\nThe direction rejects linear storytelling to operate more as a series of vignettes\, spread out over two or so years\, which follow Soph ie as she struggles to mourn her mother\, develop her own personality\, an d explore her sexual identity. We jump forward sometimes days\, sometimes weeks\, sometimes months\, but the focus is always two-pronged: the inner sadness Sophie carries that she rarely shares with anyone else\, and the o uter sexual confidence—tiptoeing into aggression—that she displays as she jumps from guy to guy.\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom _html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SJ- 30-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1101@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210426 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTSTAMP:20210423T185906Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/night-of-the-kings-copy/ SUMMARY:Night of the Kings DESCRIPTION:Official Entry\, 93rd Academy Awards® Best International Featu re Film - Ivory Coast\n\nA young man is sent to “La Maca”\, a prison i n the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon\, he is designated by the Boss to be the new “Roman” and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning wha t fate awaits him\, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendar y outlaw named “Zama King” and has no choice but to make his story las t until dawn.\n\n \;\n\n"[...] The telling is remarkable. Lacôte brin gs us into Zama King’s story — and out of La Maca’s claustrophobic e nvirons — through brief illustrative sequences\, the loveliest of which show an ancient warrior-queen (Laetitia Ky) leading a procession along the coast and\, eventually\, an army into battle. [...] But as transporting a s these embellishments are\, we are held even more powerfully by the sheer force of Roman’s narration\, by the glow of the torchlight on the faces of his captive audience and by their vigorous responses to each new twist and turn. Sometimes they push back vocally against his narrative\; more o ften they accompany it\, through song\, dance and pantomime\, their bodies giving flesh and form to the storyteller’s words." ~ Justin Chang\, LA Times\n\n \;\n\nPhilippe Lacôte | Writer and Director\nLacôte grew u p in Abidjan near a movie theater –the “Magic”. His work as a direct or has taken on several forms\, before focusing in 2002 on the recent hist ory of his country with Chronicles Of War In The Ivory Coast\, a film on t he edge between a documentary and a diary. It is followed by the feature f ilm Run\, the story of a wandering madman\, selected in Canne’s Un Certa in Regard 2014. This selection confirmed his talent as a filmmaker and rev ealed a new voice from the African continent. Night of the Kings (original title La Nuit Des Rois)\, his second feature\, is a dive into the largest prison in West Africa\, during a night of red moon.\n\n \;\n\nRead an interview with the director HERE\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n[widget id= "custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Nig ht-of-the-kings--scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1102@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210426 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTSTAMP:20210423T185929Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-shape-of-things-to-come-2/ SUMMARY:A Shape of Things to Come DESCRIPTION:A Shape of Things to Come is a provocative portrait of a loner named Sundog who lives on the border in the Sonoran desert. The film creat es a world that stretches from the distant past\, to the ecological moveme nts of the 1960’s\, to a possible apocalyptic future. Sundog has a zen/r ock n roll sensibility —everything he does is of surprising interest. Ea ch frame of this carefully put together documentary contributes to a doubl e-edged portrait of Sundog: succinct\, suspenseful and mysterious. With st unning photography and imagery of the natural world of the desert. ~ Arnie Malina\, VTIFF programming committee\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Sha pe-of-Things-to-Come.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1103@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210426 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTSTAMP:20210423T185952Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rose-plays-julie-2/ SUMMARY:Rose Plays Julie DESCRIPTION:\nClosed Captions available for this film through your device\n \n\n \;\n\nA young adopted woman tracks down her birth mother only to be confronted by revelations that draw her into the dark world of her fath er. This is a film about digging up the past in more ways than one.   "T he tale taps into primal urges—for love\, revenge\, knowledge—and thes e urges give "Rose Plays Julie" a mythic quality\, like a story told since antiquity\, or a fable designed to express truths about the human conditi on. ROSE PLAYS JULIE is very controlled in its style: this control reaps h uge rewards." ~ Sheila O'Malley - Roger Ebert.\n\n \;\n\nLike Molloy a nd Lawlor’s previous films\, it\, too\, explores their recurrent themes of identity/doubling and performance. But there are also strong undercurre nts referring to Greek myths from Oedipus and Electra as well as King Agam emnon's killing of one of goddess Artemis’ sacred stags. The film was sh ot on location in Dublin and Wicklow in the summer of 2018\, its powerful soundtrack was originally composed and arranged by Irish composer\, Stephe n McKeon.\n\nHere's some of what the directors have to say about the origi ns of the film:\n\n"One day we will subject ourselves to psychoanalysis to find out why it is exactly we are so drawn to narratives and characters w here the central focus is identity under duress. We’re particularly inte rested in the loss of identity or the moment of transformation when someon e’s sense of their own identity is altered. Having made two previous fil ms in which our main characters quite literally step into someone else’s shoes and assimilate themselves into someone else’s life\, and in so do ing find a way to move forward with their own life\, with Rose Plays Julie we were intrigued by the idea that our central character Rose\, could bec ome a different version of herself\, Julie\, the person she would have bee n if she hadn’t been put up for adoption. At the heart of the film is Ro se’s desire to reconcile these two different versions of herself\, as no t knowing her past – where she came from – she is struggling to imagin e her future."\n\n\nAbout Molloy and Lawlor:\n\nBorn in Dublin\, Ireland C hristine Molloy and Joe Lawlor studied theater in the UK in the late 80s. From 1992 to 1999 they devised\, directed and performed in several interna tionally acclaimed theater shows before shifting their attention towards m oving image-based work. Between 2000 and 2003 they directed a number of ep isodic\, interactive works for the internet\, and large-scale community vi deo projects for galleries.\nBetween 2003 and 2010 they produced\, wrote a nd directed 10 acclaimed short films including the award winning Who Kille d Brown Owl and Joy.\nHelen\, their award-winning debut feature film\, pre miered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2008 before screeni ng at over 50 film festivals worldwide\, as well as being released in seve ral countries.  In 2016\, Molloy and Lawlor released to critical acclaim their debut documentary Further Beyond\, and they are currently working on a follow up documentary\, The Future Tense.\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="cus tom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Ros ePlaysJulie_photo-7.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1106@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210426 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTSTAMP:20210426T155948Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/another-round-druk-3-copy/ SUMMARY:Another Round (Druk) DESCRIPTION:Back by popular demand\n\nWinner! Best International Feature Fi lm - 2021 Academy Awards\n\n"A breath of fresh air for anyone who has been starving for intelligent entertainment." ~ Leonard Maltin\nWith Mads Mikk elsen\nFour friends\, all teachers at various stages of middle age\, are s tuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at school or at home\ , they embark on an audacious experiment from an obscure philosopher: to s ee if a constant level of alcohol in their blood will help them find great er freedom and happiness. At first they each find a new-found zest\, but a s the gang pushes their experiment further\, issues that have been simmeri ng for years come to a head and the men are faced with a choice: reckon wi th their behavior or continue on the same course.\n\n"Sooner or later\, Ho llywood will remake Another Round for the U.S. market. It will be a broad comedy about four middle-aged losers who rediscover their youthful zest fo r life through booze — only to learn\, after many pratfalls\, that life itself is the greatest intoxicant. They will apologize tearfully to their wives and reconnect with their mortified children. Think The Hangover\, bu t more life affirming.\n\nAnother Round is not that movie\, because Vinter berg (The Celebration) doesn't do broad comedy or uncomplicated affirmatio ns. He does claustrophobic handheld-camera work and jarring contrasts. The movie opens with an extended scene in which a gang of teens — the prota gonists' students — holds a beer-chugging race that evolves into a bacch anal. It's every music video\, selling a dream of carefree exuberance — until the director smash cuts to silence and a black screen.\n\nThe implic ation is that every binge must have an end. For Martin and the others\, th at means being marooned in the desert of middle age. When the men try to r ecapture their youthful high by getting smashed\, separately or together\, the soundtrack swells\, and the film slips into music video mode again. I t's a high for the audience as well as the characters — until the music cuts out\, the consequences set in\, and Vinterberg returns to dark\, iron ic realism.\n\nViewers will inevitably ask: What's the message of all this ? Is the filmmaker suggesting that people might\, in fact\, enjoy their li ves more and do their jobs better while slightly inebriated? It seems so ( Another Round probably isn't a good watch for anyone trying to maintain so briety). And yet the film doesn't gloss over the grave long-term consequen ces of all that inebriation.\n\nWhen it comes to mood alterants\, American s tend to want to think in all-or-nothing terms. How can a substance be bo th helpful and harmful? In my imaginary Hollywood version of Another Round \, the characters would eventually discover that true happiness comes not from a bottle or a trick of brain chemistry but from love\, family and per sonal fulfillment." ~ Margot Harrison\, Seven Days\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ano therRound_press2.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1075@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210426 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTSTAMP:20210423T185759Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/f-t-a/ SUMMARY:F.T.A. DESCRIPTION:Closed Captions available through your device\n\n\n \;\n\nS ponsored by VTIFF member John Douglas\n\n \;\n\nThis film is preceded by a new introduction by Jane Fonda!\n\n“The Show the Pentagon Couldn’ t Stop!” In 1971\, at the height of the Vietnam War\, Jane Fonda and Don ald Sutherland toured an anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia. It wa s directly engaged with and inspired by veterans against the war and\, nat urally\, it upset U.S. military higher-ups. The F.T.A. tour was highly con troversial and was a huge success among stationed soldiers.\n\nIn spite of positive reviews and business\, director Francine Parker’s film version was quickly taken out of circulation due to political pressures and has b een difficult to see for decades.\n\nF.T.A. has now been fully restored in 4K by IndieCollect.\n\n \;\n\nWith: Jane Fonda\, Donald Sutherland\, Paul Mooney Len Chandler\, Peter Boyle\, Holly Near\, Rita Martinson\, Mic hael Alaimo.\n\n \;\n\n\n"Holds up as a terrifically funny movie. Nixo n might be long dead\, but if you want to sock it to him regardless\, be s ure to check this out." ~ Dan Schindel\, Hyperallergic\n\n\n \;\n\n[wi dget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FTA _Still_10.png CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1094@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTSTAMP:20210510T144852Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff21-features-1/ SUMMARY:Feature #1 - The Mystery Mountain Project DESCRIPTION:The Mystery Mountain Project | 76 mins | Québec\nIn 1926\, a y oung couple set off into the British Columbia wilderness in search of an u ndiscovered mountain. A century later a group of would-be adventurers trie s to retrace their steps. They soon find they’ve bitten off more than th ey can chew and it will take everything they’ve got to avoid disaster.\n \n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FB- 1_1920x1005_1.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1095@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTSTAMP:20210510T145043Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/feature-2-the-long-coast/ SUMMARY:Feature #2 - The Long Coast DESCRIPTION:The Long Coast | 80 mins | Maine\n \;\n\nThis lyrical and a tmospheric film shows the beauty\, intimacy\, and uncertainty that Maine's seafolk face in rooting their lives in the ocean\, particularly as human actions — from overfishing\, to aquaculture\, to warming seas — confro nt Maine and its people with profound change.\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FB- 1_1920x1005_2.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1088@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTSTAMP:20210510T144724Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff21-shorts-4/ SUMMARY:Shorts #4 - Art and Action DESCRIPTION:\nThe Story of Coronavirus | 3 mins 59 secs\nDirected by Yoni G oodman\, Written &\; Produced by Deb Van Dyke (Vermont)\nYet another cr eative example from this producer-director team\, showing how through anim ation and simple voice over\, urgent medical messaging can reach and be un derstood by all cultures. This animated film was developed in response to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 with Yoni Goodman\, in collaboration with CDC\, IFRC\, and UNICEF\n\n \;\n\n \;\nNatasha Mayers: An Un-Stil l Life | 37 mins 51 secs\nDirected by Anita Clearfield &\; Geoffrey Lei ghton (Maine)\nArtist. Trickster. Activist. Now\, more than ever\, people want to see truthful\, creative role models like Natasha Mayers\, who is k nown as the “most committed activist artist” in Maine and who Senator George Mitchell called a “state treasure.” Presenting an artist who ha s remained true to her passion for over 50 years\, the film follows Natash a as she takes on social\, economic and environmental justice issues with humor\, irreverence and a keen aesthetic that enlightens while it entertai ns.\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\nWhile We Wait | 20 mins\nDirected by Lukas Huffman (New York) in partnership with Choreographer Hannah Dennison (Verm ont)\nAn experimental dance film that charts the emotional journey of an e nsemble who struggles to keep working after their 2020 world premier is po stponed due to a global pandemic.\n\nDirector statement: "In my fifth coll aboration with the choreographer Hannah Dennison we aim to create a cinema tic scrapbook about her ensemble's experience of 2020. After four years of creative development\, she was scheduled to stage the world premiere of h er latest dance performance\, 'The Quarry Project.' In a tragic blow to th e entire ensemble\, all performances were postponed in March\, 2020. Howev er\, they continued to train safely and find surprising ways to foster int imacy with each other. Their commitment to supporting each other became a source of inspiration during unsettling times. Our intention in making thi s film was to capture the emotional journey they experienced in 2020 and p ortray a sense of time that's been warped by the pandemic\; that it feels like the fastest and slowest days of our lives." ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FB- 1_1920x1005_7.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1096@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTSTAMP:20210510T145144Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/feature-3-the-x-factor/ SUMMARY:Feature #3 - The X Factor: Women in New England Politics DESCRIPTION:The X Factor: Women in New England Politics | 60 mins | Québec \n2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment protecting women 's right to vote. The X Factor looks at the trailblazing women of New Engl and and their impact on the political landscape.\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FB- 1_1920x1005_3.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1089@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTSTAMP:20210510T144751Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff21-shorts-1/ SUMMARY:Shorts #1 - Who We Are? DESCRIPTION:\nWishes | 5 mins 30 secs mins\nDirected by Amy Jenkins (New Ha mpshire)\n \;\n\nThe secret yearnings of a child for an alternate iden tity are traced through a decade of birthday wishes filmed by their mother .\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\nI'm Thinking About Leaving | 11 mins 4 7 secs\nDirected by Ryan Boera (NewYork)\nWritten &\; Produced by Conno r Wright (Vermont)\n \;\n\nRick\, a young man in rural Vermont attempt s to escape his father's emotional abuse in pursuit of an education. Dwigh t\, a manipulative and cruel bully\, attacks Rick yet again\, but they can 't seem to take their eyes off each other. Will Rick succeed in pursuing h is goal?\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\nStay for Tea | 22 mins 33 secs\nDirect ed by Paul Bronislaw Kmiec (Massachusetts)\n \;\n\n*** Co-Winner: VTIF F Award for Best Fiction Film.\n\nAs his memories evaporate from dementia\ , an elderly man confronts what he believes are ghosts. As he attempts to re-piece his identity\, he receives a message from a special visitor.\n\nA ward Citation:\n"A beautiful and touching\, but not cloying\, film.  The judges admired the film’s rhythm and structure\, the set\, and the way t he sound design added complexity and meaning to the story. All the pieces\ , including the script\, worked together to make a cohesive whole."\n\n&nb sp\;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\nStill Untitled/Encore sans titre | 14 mins 41 secs\nDirected by Geneviève Sauvé (Québec)\n \;\n\nA woman rece ives a text message from a man she likes who asks for her picture. Dissati sfied with the clichés she took\, she starts a game where she takes herse lf for the famous Cindy Sherman\, in four photographs from her Untitled Fi lm Stills series.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FB- 1_1920x1005_4.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1090@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTSTAMP:20210510T144656Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff21-shorts-2/ SUMMARY:Shorts #2 - Real and Unreal DESCRIPTION:\n \;\nWhat DID Happen to Alice? | 11 mins 56 secs\nDirecte d by Valerie Hird (Vermont)\n \;\n\nAlice\, a slip of white paper\, be lieves the American movie fantasy of the Middle East. Her illusions meet r eality among the wildly patterned landscapes and shifting winds of social media.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\nSnapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Mo vie that Never Got Made | 29 mins 34 secs\nDirected by John Campopiano (Ma ssachusetts)\n \;\n\nThe story of an unfinished monster movie and the creative friendship that outlasted it. This film will make you laugh.\n\n& nbsp\;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\nJohn Fawcett: A Toy Story | 10 mins 51 s ecs\nDirected by Bob Krist (Maine)\n \;\n\nFor nearly 40 years\, Fawce tt has run an amazing toy museum on the side of Route 1 in Waldoboro\, ME. It's the kind of place you always drive past\, but never seem to have tim e to visit. Which is is a shame because it is a magical excursion into our past.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\nLockshop | 14 mins 41 secs\nD irected by Cara Feinberg (Massachusetts)\n \;\n\nPatty Maestranzi's fa mily has run the same two-room lockshop in South Boston for nearly a centu ry. A wonderful portrait of a neighborhood shop\, showing how these fast-d isappearing places played a much wider role in the community.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FB- 1_1920x1005_5.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1091@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTSTAMP:20210510T144630Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff21-shorts-3/ SUMMARY:Shorts #3 - All In the Family DESCRIPTION:\nRoseline Like in the Movies / Roseline comme dans les films | 14 mins 45 secs\nDirected by Sara Bourdeau (Québec)\n*** Co-Winner: VTIF F Award for Best Fiction Film.\nRoseline is a renowned actress with an imp ressive career. After a lifetime on camera\, she gets ready to play the gr eatest role of her life. Fiction and reality blur together\, surfacing a d eeply buried secret—then: lights\, camera\, action.\n\nAward Citation:\n \n"Most films draw from a very few underlying basic stories. What distingu ishes one from another is how the story is told. The judges were unanimous in admiring the creative directorial approach that succeeded in holding o ur attention through an intertwining of mystery\, tenderness and humor. Th ey also made a point of noting the excellent acting."\n\n \;\n\n \ ;\nA Broken-Hearted Solstice/Solstice d’un cœur brisé | 12 mins 22 sec s\nDirected by Fanny Lefort (Québec)\nA professional mascot named Fauve g ets dumped by her boyfriend on the summer solstice\, aka the longest day o f the year. The icy storm she’s plunged into doesn’t quite fit with th e current heatwave.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\nA Mother | 15 mi ns 56 secs\nDirected by Natasha K Ngaiza (Vermont)\n \;\n\nAs a town c opes with the disappearance of a little girl\, a mother of two must come t o terms with her own decision to abort an unexpected pregnancy.\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\nThrough the Wall/A travers le mur | 20 mins\nD irected by Larissa Corriveau (Québec)\n \n \;\n\nSponsored by Anne B arbano and Michael George\n\n \;\n\nEdmond\, the only child of Jacques and Marie\, lives in a world without words\, a situation which slowly cre ates a breach in the heart of the family home. Diving into the depths of h er despair\, Marie discovers the surprising universe hidden in her son's s ilence.\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FB- 1_1920x1005_6.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1092@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTSTAMP:20210510T144601Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff21-shorts-5/ SUMMARY:Shorts #5 - Paradise Lost? DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n\nJet Line: Voicemails from the Flight Path | 12 min s\nDirected by Duane Peterson III &\; Patrick McCormack (Vermont)\nJet Line employs an anonymous hotline to elevate voices beneath Vermont's F-35 flight path. Tranquil scenes of unassuming neighborhoods near Burlington International Airport are juxtaposed with voicemails of the unheard\, thos e drowned out by the ear-shattering “sound of freedom.”\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n\nFragile Paradise | 12 mins 40 secs\nDirected by Greg Guma (Ve rmont)\nBennington\, VT: a cultural storm against the Vietnam War and othe r national actions was brewing as newcomers arrived in Vermont during the late 1960s. At its center were the schools. A collage of the spirit of the times in a particular place.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\nRewild ing the Northeast | 10 mins 43 secs\nDirected by Cassidy Motahari (Vermont )\n \;\n\nHighlights the importance of protecting forever-wild landsca pes across New England and the Adirondacks\, for nature and people. Includ es inspiring interviews with Susan Morse and others.\n\n \;\n\n \; \n\n\n\n \;\nThe Winding Farmland/Le rang pas drette | 25 mins\nDirect ed by Sarah-Christine Bourihane (Québec)\n \;\n\nIn an estate located in Quebec\, Carl and Alexandra are attempting to take on the life of thei r forefathers\, but cannot escape the reality of the modern world. The bel ief that their values will be transmitted kindles their hope and makes the m fight on.\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FB- 1_1920x1005_8.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1093@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210505 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTSTAMP:20210510T144535Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff21-shorts-6/ SUMMARY:Shorts #6 - Student Films DESCRIPTION:\n \;\nJust Being Here | 13 mins 18 secs\nDirected by Matte o Moretti (Vermont) | Winner of Audience Favorite\n\nWalter has lived alon e for most of his life and doesn't venture far from his house\, but his li fe is far from ordinary. He finds solace and wonder in the nature of his b ackyard in the company of special friends.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \ ;\nYellow Cards for Equal Pay | 10 mins 40 secs\nDirected by Maia Vota (Ve rmont)\n*** Winner: Goldstone Award for Most Promising Filmmaker\, sponsor ed by Bill Stetson***\n\nMembers of the Burlington High School girls socce r team\, inspired by the U.S. national soccer team and their lawsuit for e qual pay\, and Change the Story\, recount the launch of their #EqualPay mo vement.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\nCaptive/Captifs | 18 mins 20 sec s\nDirected by Philippe Vanasse-Paquet (Québec)\n\nXavier\, 16 years old\ , gets mysteriously trapped in a creepy basement with his younger brother\ , Léo. Their individual struggles to break out make them confront their r elationship in new ways\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\nClear as Cry stal | 9 mins 36 secs\nDirected by Christopher Brown (Vermont)\n \;\n\ nSponsored by Anne Barbano and Michael George\n\n \;\n\nA student on t he autism spectrum magically receives the ability to read social cues\, bu t will his newfound gift empower or crush him?\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n \n \;\nCooking the Quotes | 10 mins 3 secs\nDirected by Zane Swift (Ve rmont)\n \;\n\nA young newspaper journalist\, Jimmy Jacks\, gets kicke d out of a press briefing. After another paper threatens to publish a stor y of the event\, Jacks is given one day to find them a better story and sa ve his career.\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FB- 1_1920x1005_9.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1116@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210517 DTSTAMP:20210507T132336Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sophie-jones-3/ SUMMARY:Sophie Jones DESCRIPTION:"It would be nice if there were more movies like this\, but few have the talent to make them this well — to take a human-scale story an d make it feel\, not bigger than life\, but as grand scale as life actuall y is." ~ Mick LaSalle\, San Francisco Chronicle\n\n \;\n\nInspired by true experiences of grief\, girlhood\, and growing up\, Jessie Barr’s di rectorial debut\, Sophie Jones\, provides a stirring portrait of a sixteen year old. Stunned by the untimely death of her mother and struggling with the myriad challenges of teendom\, Sophie (played with striking immediacy by the director’s cousin Jessica Barr) tries everything she can to feel something again\, while holding herself together\, in this sensitive\, ac utely realized\, and utterly relatable coming-of-age story. And yet\, the film is imbued with a dry sense of humor. This is no clichéd coming-of-ag e story.\n\nThe direction rejects linear storytelling to operate more as a series of vignettes\, spread out over two or so years\, which follow Soph ie as she struggles to mourn her mother\, develop her own personality\, an d explore her sexual identity. We jump forward sometimes days\, sometimes weeks\, sometimes months\, but the focus is always two-pronged: the inner sadness Sophie carries that she rarely shares with anyone else\, and the o uter sexual confidence—tiptoeing into aggression—that she displays as she jumps from guy to guy.\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom _html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SJ- 30-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1117@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210517 DTSTAMP:20210507T132405Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-inheritance-3/ SUMMARY:The Inheritance DESCRIPTION:After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora — and his own place within it — Ephraim Asili makes his feat ure-length debut with The Inheritance\, an astonishing ensemble work set a lmost entirely within a West Philadelphia house where a community of young \, Black artists and activists form a collective. A scripted drama of char acters attempting to work towards political consensus — based partly on Asili’s own experiences in a Black liberationist group — weaves with a documentary recollection of the Philadelphia liberation group MOVE\, the victim of a notorious police bombing in 1985. Ceaselessly finding commonal ties between politics\, humor\, and philosophy\, with Black authors and ra dicals at its edges\, The Inheritance is a remarkable film about the world as we know it.\n\n \;\n\nNY Times Critic's Pick\; "Ephraim Asili’s debut feature film\, beautifully abandons genre to consider questions abou t community\, art and Black liberation" ~ New York Times\, Lovia Gyarkye\n \n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Inh eritance_1-1-scaled-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1119@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210517 DTSTAMP:20210510T132934Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/f-t-a-copy/ SUMMARY:F.T.A. DESCRIPTION:Closed Captions available through your device\n\n\n \;\n\nS ponsored by VTIFF member John Douglas\n\n \;\n\nThis film is preceded by a new introduction by Jane Fonda!\n\n“The Show the Pentagon Couldn’ t Stop!” In 1971\, at the height of the Vietnam War\, Jane Fonda and Don ald Sutherland toured an anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia. It wa s directly engaged with and inspired by veterans against the war and\, nat urally\, it upset U.S. military higher-ups. The F.T.A. tour was highly con troversial and was a huge success among stationed soldiers.\n\nIn spite of positive reviews and business\, director Francine Parker’s film version was quickly taken out of circulation due to political pressures and has b een difficult to see for decades.\n\nF.T.A. has now been fully restored in 4K by IndieCollect.\n\n \;\n\nWith: Jane Fonda\, Donald Sutherland\, Paul Mooney Len Chandler\, Peter Boyle\, Holly Near\, Rita Martinson\, Mic hael Alaimo.\n\n \;\n\n\n"Holds up as a terrifically funny movie. Nixo n might be long dead\, but if you want to sock it to him regardless\, be s ure to check this out." ~ Dan Schindel\, Hyperallergic\n\n\n \;\n\n[wi dget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FTA _Still_10.png CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1112@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210517 DTSTAMP:20210507T132142Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/another-round-druk-4/ SUMMARY:Another Round (Druk) DESCRIPTION:Back by popular demand\n\nWinner! Best International Feature Fi lm - 2021 Academy Awards\n\n"A breath of fresh air for anyone who has been starving for intelligent entertainment." ~ Leonard Maltin\nWith Mads Mikk elsen\nFour friends\, all teachers at various stages of middle age\, are s tuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at school or at home\ , they embark on an audacious experiment from an obscure philosopher: to s ee if a constant level of alcohol in their blood will help them find great er freedom and happiness. At first they each find a new-found zest\, but a s the gang pushes their experiment further\, issues that have been simmeri ng for years come to a head and the men are faced with a choice: reckon wi th their behavior or continue on the same course.\n\n"Sooner or later\, Ho llywood will remake Another Round for the U.S. market. It will be a broad comedy about four middle-aged losers who rediscover their youthful zest fo r life through booze — only to learn\, after many pratfalls\, that life itself is the greatest intoxicant. They will apologize tearfully to their wives and reconnect with their mortified children. Think The Hangover\, bu t more life affirming.\n\nAnother Round is not that movie\, because Vinter berg (The Celebration) doesn't do broad comedy or uncomplicated affirmatio ns. He does claustrophobic handheld-camera work and jarring contrasts. The movie opens with an extended scene in which a gang of teens — the prota gonists' students — holds a beer-chugging race that evolves into a bacch anal. It's every music video\, selling a dream of carefree exuberance — until the director smash cuts to silence and a black screen.\n\nThe implic ation is that every binge must have an end. For Martin and the others\, th at means being marooned in the desert of middle age. When the men try to r ecapture their youthful high by getting smashed\, separately or together\, the soundtrack swells\, and the film slips into music video mode again. I t's a high for the audience as well as the characters — until the music cuts out\, the consequences set in\, and Vinterberg returns to dark\, iron ic realism.\n\nViewers will inevitably ask: What's the message of all this ? Is the filmmaker suggesting that people might\, in fact\, enjoy their li ves more and do their jobs better while slightly inebriated? It seems so ( Another Round probably isn't a good watch for anyone trying to maintain so briety). And yet the film doesn't gloss over the grave long-term consequen ces of all that inebriation.\n\nWhen it comes to mood alterants\, American s tend to want to think in all-or-nothing terms. How can a substance be bo th helpful and harmful? In my imaginary Hollywood version of Another Round \, the characters would eventually discover that true happiness comes not from a bottle or a trick of brain chemistry but from love\, family and per sonal fulfillment." ~ Margot Harrison\, Seven Days\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ano therRound_press2.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1113@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210517 DTSTAMP:20210507T132224Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rose-plays-julie-3/ SUMMARY:Rose Plays Julie DESCRIPTION:\nClosed Captions available for this film through your device\n \n\n \;\n\nA young adopted woman tracks down her birth mother only to be confronted by revelations that draw her into the dark world of her fath er. This is a film about digging up the past in more ways than one.   "T he tale taps into primal urges—for love\, revenge\, knowledge—and thes e urges give "Rose Plays Julie" a mythic quality\, like a story told since antiquity\, or a fable designed to express truths about the human conditi on. ROSE PLAYS JULIE is very controlled in its style: this control reaps h uge rewards." ~ Sheila O'Malley - Roger Ebert.\n\n \;\n\nLike Molloy a nd Lawlor’s previous films\, it\, too\, explores their recurrent themes of identity/doubling and performance. But there are also strong undercurre nts referring to Greek myths from Oedipus and Electra as well as King Agam emnon's killing of one of goddess Artemis’ sacred stags. The film was sh ot on location in Dublin and Wicklow in the summer of 2018\, its powerful soundtrack was originally composed and arranged by Irish composer\, Stephe n McKeon.\n\nHere's some of what the directors have to say about the origi ns of the film:\n\n"One day we will subject ourselves to psychoanalysis to find out why it is exactly we are so drawn to narratives and characters w here the central focus is identity under duress. We’re particularly inte rested in the loss of identity or the moment of transformation when someon e’s sense of their own identity is altered. Having made two previous fil ms in which our main characters quite literally step into someone else’s shoes and assimilate themselves into someone else’s life\, and in so do ing find a way to move forward with their own life\, with Rose Plays Julie we were intrigued by the idea that our central character Rose\, could bec ome a different version of herself\, Julie\, the person she would have bee n if she hadn’t been put up for adoption. At the heart of the film is Ro se’s desire to reconcile these two different versions of herself\, as no t knowing her past – where she came from – she is struggling to imagin e her future."\n\n\nAbout Molloy and Lawlor:\n\nBorn in Dublin\, Ireland C hristine Molloy and Joe Lawlor studied theater in the UK in the late 80s. From 1992 to 1999 they devised\, directed and performed in several interna tionally acclaimed theater shows before shifting their attention towards m oving image-based work. Between 2000 and 2003 they directed a number of ep isodic\, interactive works for the internet\, and large-scale community vi deo projects for galleries.\nBetween 2003 and 2010 they produced\, wrote a nd directed 10 acclaimed short films including the award winning Who Kille d Brown Owl and Joy.\nHelen\, their award-winning debut feature film\, pre miered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2008 before screeni ng at over 50 film festivals worldwide\, as well as being released in seve ral countries.  In 2016\, Molloy and Lawlor released to critical acclaim their debut documentary Further Beyond\, and they are currently working on a follow up documentary\, The Future Tense.\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="cus tom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Ros ePlaysJulie_photo-7.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1114@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210517 DTSTAMP:20210507T132247Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-shape-of-things-to-come-3/ SUMMARY:A Shape of Things to Come DESCRIPTION:A Shape of Things to Come is a provocative portrait of a loner named Sundog who lives on the border in the Sonoran desert. The film creat es a world that stretches from the distant past\, to the ecological moveme nts of the 1960’s\, to a possible apocalyptic future. Sundog has a zen/r ock n roll sensibility —everything he does is of surprising interest. Ea ch frame of this carefully put together documentary contributes to a doubl e-edged portrait of Sundog: succinct\, suspenseful and mysterious. With st unning photography and imagery of the natural world of the desert. ~ Arnie Malina\, VTIFF programming committee\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Sha pe-of-Things-to-Come.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1115@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210510 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210517 DTSTAMP:20210507T132313Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/night-of-the-kings-2/ SUMMARY:Night of the Kings DESCRIPTION:Official Entry\, 93rd Academy Awards® Best International Featu re Film - Ivory Coast\n\nA young man is sent to “La Maca”\, a prison i n the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon\, he is designated by the Boss to be the new “Roman” and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning wha t fate awaits him\, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendar y outlaw named “Zama King” and has no choice but to make his story las t until dawn.\n\n \;\n\n"[...] The telling is remarkable. Lacôte brin gs us into Zama King’s story — and out of La Maca’s claustrophobic e nvirons — through brief illustrative sequences\, the loveliest of which show an ancient warrior-queen (Laetitia Ky) leading a procession along the coast and\, eventually\, an army into battle. [...] But as transporting a s these embellishments are\, we are held even more powerfully by the sheer force of Roman’s narration\, by the glow of the torchlight on the faces of his captive audience and by their vigorous responses to each new twist and turn. Sometimes they push back vocally against his narrative\; more o ften they accompany it\, through song\, dance and pantomime\, their bodies giving flesh and form to the storyteller’s words." ~ Justin Chang\, LA Times\n\n \;\n\nPhilippe Lacôte | Writer and Director\nLacôte grew u p in Abidjan near a movie theater –the “Magic”. His work as a direct or has taken on several forms\, before focusing in 2002 on the recent hist ory of his country with Chronicles Of War In The Ivory Coast\, a film on t he edge between a documentary and a diary. It is followed by the feature f ilm Run\, the story of a wandering madman\, selected in Canne’s Un Certa in Regard 2014. This selection confirmed his talent as a filmmaker and rev ealed a new voice from the African continent. Night of the Kings (original title La Nuit Des Rois)\, his second feature\, is a dive into the largest prison in West Africa\, during a night of red moon.\n\n \;\n\nRead an interview with the director HERE\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n[widget id= "custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Nig ht-of-the-kings--scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1108@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210521 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210531 DTSTAMP:20210504T145323Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/stray/ SUMMARY:Stray DESCRIPTION:\nStray explores what it means to live as a being without stat us or security\, following three stray dogs as they embark on inconspicuou s journeys through Turkish society. Zeytin\, fiercely independent\, embark s on adventures through the city at night\; Nazar\, nurturing and protecti ve\, easily befriends the humans around her\; while Kartal\, a shy puppy l iving on the outskirts of a construction site\, finds companions in the se curity guards who care for her. The strays’ disparate lives intersect wh en they each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians with whom t hey share the streets. Director Elizabeth Lo’s award-winning film is a c ritical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of d ogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.\n \;\n\n\nMay Split/ Screen program is curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members fr ee passes or discounts for this month. If you will be viewing the program through one of your apps\, please remember that you need to use the Middle bury Roku\, Firestick and Apple TV apps\, not the VTIFF apps.\n\n\n\nSerie s Pass available from May 7 HERE\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/str ay_still-1024x577-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1109@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210521 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210531 DTSTAMP:20210504T145822Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/people-vs-agent-orange/ SUMMARY:The People vs. Agent Orange DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nThe Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today\, the world over\, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant c ontrols weeds in farming\, forestry\, parks\, playground. It wreaks havoc on the human genome\, causing deformed births and deadly cancers.\n\nAfter decades of struggle and tragic personal losses\, two heroic women are lea ding a worldwide movement to end the plague and hold the manufacturers acc ountable. In France\, Tran To Nga is suing the American chemical industry for poisoning her in Vietnam. In America\, Carol Van Strum exposes the con tinuing use of toxic herbicides. Incriminating documents disappear. Activi sts are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contaminati on of reservoirs\, while a massive industrial cover-up goes on.\n\n \; \n\nSpecial Note: MNFF artistic director Jay Craven will lead a probing c onversation with The People vs. Agent Orange filmmakers Kate Taverna and Alan Adelson along with Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin\, attorney for Lincoln Co unty Community Rights lawsuit against aerial spraying of herbicides in Ore gon\, and Susan Hammond\, from Bellows Falls\, Vermont\, who leads the int ernationally respected War Legacies Project and was recently profiled in a New York Times Magazine feature story for her work on Agent Orange issues in Laos. The interview will be available on the MNFF watch portal as part of our Split/Screen May offering\n\n\nMay Split/Screen program is curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts fo r this month. If you will be viewing the program through one of your apps\ , please remember that you need to use the Middlebury Roku\, Firestick and Apple TV apps\, not the VTIFF apps.\n\n\n\nSeries Pass available from May 7 HERE\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/1PE OPLEVSAGEN_1-6_PubStills_4.jpg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1110@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210521 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210531 DTSTAMP:20210504T150702Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/swan-song/ SUMMARY:Swan Song DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nSwan Song\, a lovely drama based on the true story of its main character\, introduces us to retired hairdresser and local iconic ba r performer Pat Pitsenbarger\, played wonderfully by Udo Kier\, who has gi ven up on life from the confines of his small-town Sandusky\, Ohio nursing home. But when Pat gets word that a former client’s dying wish was for him to style her final hairdo\, he sets out on an epic journey across Sand usky to confront the ghosts of his past – and collect the beauty supplie s necessary for the job. Swan Song is a comical and bittersweet journey ab out rediscovering oneself\, and looking gorgeous while doing so.\n\n \ ;\n\n\nMay Split/Screen program is curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this month. If you will be vie wing the program through one of your apps\, please remember that you need to use the Middlebury Roku\, Firestick and Apple TV apps\, not the VTIFF a pps.\n\n\n\nSeries Pass available from May 7 HERE\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Swa n-Song-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1111@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210521 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210531 DTSTAMP:20210520T160653Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/donut-king/ SUMMARY:The Donut King DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nTed Ngoy’s story is one of fate\, love\, survival\, har d knocks and redemption. It’s the rags to riches story of a refugee esca ping Cambodia\, arriving in America in 1975 and building an unlikely multi -million dollar empire baking America’s favorite pastry\, the donut. Ted sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming refugees and helped them get on their feet by teaching them the ways of the donut business. By 1979\, he w as living the American Dream. But\, in life\, a great rise can come with a great fall. A fascinating and engrossing film.\n\n \;\n\n\nMay Split/ Screen program is curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members fr ee passes or discounts for this month. If you will be viewing the program through one of your apps\, please remember that you need to use the Middle bury Roku\, Firestick and Apple TV apps\, not the VTIFF apps.\n\n\n\nSerie s Pass available from May 7 HERE\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/don ut-kink.jpeg CATEGORIES:Split Screen,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1123@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210601 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210801 DTSTAMP:20210629T121629Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/emily-the-edge-of-chaos/ SUMMARY:Emily @ The Edge of Chaos DESCRIPTION:Closed Captions available.\n\n \;\n\nSponsored by The RODEO S\n\n \;\n\nIncluding: John Lithgow\, Lily Tomlin\, Leonard Nimoy\, Ri chard Lewis\, Matt Groening &\; more.\n\n \;\n\nEmily @ the Edge of Chaos interweaves Emily Levine’s live performance with animation\, appe arances by scientists\, and animated characters (John Lithgow as Sir Isaac Newton\, Lily Tomlin as Ayn Rand\, Leonard Nimoy as Sigmund Freud\, Richa rd Lewis as Aristotle\, Matt Groening as Aldo Leopold). The film uses phys ics\, which explains how the universe works\, to explain our metaphysics – the story of our values\, our institutions\, our interactions. Using h er own experience and a custom blend of insight and humor\, provocation an d inspiration\, personal story and social commentary\, Emily takes her aud ience through its own paradigm shift: from the Fear of Change to the Edge of Chaos.\n\nEmily Levine\, like her film\, was one-of-a-kind. She was a t elevision writer\, a stand-up performer\, and an out-of-the box-thinker\, whose brilliant TED Talks have been watched by millions. She made this fil m with Wendy Apple\, who produced and directed it. Wendy died in 2017 and Emily continued working on the film until she also passed away in 2019.\n\ n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/EAT OC-EmilyBroadway-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1121@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210601 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210801 DTSTAMP:20210629T121759Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/los-hermanos/ SUMMARY:Los Hermanos / The Brothers DESCRIPTION:Closed Captions available for this film through your device\n\n  \;\n\nThis film is sponsored by Frank and Ducky Donath\n\n\n \;\n \n\nTwo Cuban-born brothers\, both virtuoso musicians – Aldo and Ilmar L ópez-Gavilán – live on opposite sides of the geopolitical chasm that s eparates the U.S. and Cuba. But although they lead very different existenc es\, the brothers have an instinctual connection. Following their parallel lives in New York and Havana\, Los Hermanos / The Brothers offers an amaz ingly heartfelt – though often startling – view of estranged nations t hrough the lens of music and family. In capturing their momentous reunion and electrifying first performances together\, the film shows how family b onds can transcend politics. Featuring an electrifying\, genre-bending sco re composed by Aldo and performed with his brother\, Ilmar\, and with gues t appearances by maestro Joshua Bell and the Harlem Quartet.\n\n"A remarka ble film about a family ensnared in geopolitics and two brothers who lead very different lives and yet never lose their instinctual connection." - Allen Johnson\, San Francisco Chronicle\n\n"Six months without live music will be reason enough to see these two gifted musicians reunite across bor ders to perform publicly for the first time. The film offers a bright take on the endurance of family despite the policies of the day." - WBUR\, Bo ston Public Radio\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20. -HQ-silhouette-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1126@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210601 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210819 DTSTAMP:20210721T190514Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/there-is-no-evil/ SUMMARY:There is No Evil DESCRIPTION:Winner - Golden Bear at Berlin Int'l Film Festival\; NY Times C ritics Pick.\n\n \;\n\nDo not be put off by the length of the film - i t is worth your time\, and can also\, because of its structure\, be viewed over two sessions - 2 parts each session.\n\nShot in secret and smuggled out of Iran\, There is No Evil is an anthology film comprising four moral tales about men faced with a simple yet unthinkable choice – to follow orders to enforce the death penalty\, or resist and risk everything. Whate ver they decide\, it will directly or indirectly affect their lives\, thei r relationships\, and their consciences. Says director Mohammad Rasoulof: "As responsible citizens\, do we have a choice when enforcing the inhuman e orders of despots? As human beings\, to what extent are we to be held r esponsible for carrying out those orders? Where does the duality of love a nd moral responsibility leave us?" Suspenseful\, mysterious\, and shot thr ough with a sense of urgency\, Rasoulof’s film is an incisive look at th e moral strength and inner humanity of its protagonists.\n\n \;\n\n"On e of the most kinetic films ever made in secret" ~ Ben Kenigsberg\, NYT\n\ n \;\n\nDirector's Notes\n\nLast year\, I spotted one of my interrogat ors coming out of the bank as I was crossing a street in Tehran. Suddenly\ , I experienced an indescribable feeling. Without his knowledge\, I follow ed him for a while. After ten years\, he had aged a bit. I wanted to take a picture of him on my cellphone\, I wanted to run towards him\, reveal my self to him\, and angrily scream at him all of my questions. But when I lo oked at him closely\, and observed his mannerisms with my own eyes\, I cou ld not see an evil monster.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n[widget id ="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/the re-is-no-evil-04.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1124@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210601 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210801 DTSTAMP:20210629T121731Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/red-heaven/ SUMMARY:Red Heaven DESCRIPTION:Note: At the filmmakers' request\, this film is geo-blocked to viewing from Vermont only.\n\n \;\n\n*** Ticket to the film includes a n exclusive Q&\;A with co-director Katherine Gorringe conducted by Alex Lavin\, VTIFF programmer.\n\n \;\n\nIn preparation for the first huma n mission to Mars\, six volunteers take part in the ultimate dress rehears al\, living inside a year-long NASA simulation to understand the effects o f isolation on the human mind. A shockingly prescient film for the current moment\, Red Heaven is a testament to the human ability to endure in body and spirit\, despite isolation and uncertainty.\n\nHumans to Mars. That ’s our next great leap. But even if we can figure out how to survive on Mars\, NASA needs to know if we can withstand the psychological challenges . Filmed by the crew themselves while sealed in a 1000-square foot dome on the red\, rocky slope of a Hawaiian volcano\, Red Heaven captures the mou nting tension\, blossoming romance\, and intense feeling of distance from the rest of the world six strangers must face in the name of future space exploration. Red Heaven asks\, what do humans truly need to be healthy\, h appy\, and sane?\n\n \;\n\nAbout the filmmakers:\n\nDirector/Producer/ Editor: Katherine Gorringe\nKatherine Gorringe is a documentary director a nd editor whose work has been featured at numerous festivals worldwide inc luding SXSW\, CPH:DOX and Hot Docs. Her recent editing work includes the E mmy-nominated Netflix Original Saving Capitalism \, which follows former S ecretary of Labor Robert Reich. Red Heaven is her feature documentary dire ctorial debut.\n\n \;\n\nDirector/Producer: Lauren DeFilippo\nRed Heav en marks Lauren DeFilippo's feature-length directorial debut. She is curre ntly in production on two upcoming feature documentaries: Free Money (dire ctor/producer)\, about the world's largest universal basic income experime nt\, and Ailey (producer) about visionary dance choreographer\, Alvin Aile y.\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/red heaven_on_mars.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1127@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210625 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210819 DTSTAMP:20210721T190444Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/les-notres-our-own/ SUMMARY:Les Nôtres (Our Own) DESCRIPTION:Winner\, Best Narrative Feature at the Santa Fe Film Festival.\ n\n \;\n\nMagalie is a popular blonde 13-year old in the small town of Sainte-Adeline\, Québec\, is keeping a shocking secret: she's pregnant. But when she refuses to identify the real father\, suspicions among the to wnsfolk come to a boiling point and the layers of a carefully maintained s ocial varnish eventually crack. in a thriller-like structure\, details unv eil step after small step - the film will keep you uneasily on the edge of your seat. It "astutely unearths the racism that lurks under the surface of seemingly-woke white suburbia."\n\n \;\n\nBonus feature: Q&\;A w ith the director - Click HERE. (Q&\;A starts with the trailer)\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/LES _NOTRES_Final_crop-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1128@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210625 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210819 DTSTAMP:20210721T185852Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/truman-tennessee/ SUMMARY:Truman and Tennessee DESCRIPTION:Closed Captions available.\n\n \;\n\nJune 24 - Q&\;A wit h the director and actors. Link to join: https://filmforum.org/events/even t/virtual-qa-with-truman-tennessee-lisa-immordino-vreeland-and-jim-parsons \n\n \;\n\nThe brilliant work\, personal struggles\, and cultural impa ct of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explode s onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland masterfully collages a wealth of archival material \, including dishy talk show appearances with Dick Cavett and David Frost\ , with clips from some of the duo’s most memorable movie adaptions: A St reetcar Named Desire\, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\, The Glass Menagerie\, Break fast at Tiffany’s\, and In Cold Blood. Featuring vibrant voice-over work by award-winning actors Jim Parsons (Capote) and Zachary Quinto (Williams )\, the film is dripping with wit and wisdom.\n\n \;\n\nIt is a celebr ation of both men's fearless candor and often tumultuous friendship that h onors how their identity as gay Southerners informed their timeless artist ic achievements and relationships with family\, colleagues\, confidants\, and – most significantly – each other.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n[widge t id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Tru manTennessee_poster_675x1000.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1122@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210625 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210819 DTSTAMP:20210721T190741Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/against-the-current/ SUMMARY:Against the Current DESCRIPTION:How far do you have to travel to find yourself? And what sacrif ices are you willing to make to get there? Veiga Grétarsdóttir is the f irst person in the world to attempt to kayak over 2\,000 kilometers around Iceland\, counter-clockwise and “against the current.” This achieveme nt has been said to be comparable to climbing the mountain K2. Veiga’s  personal journey is no less remarkable. She was born 44 years ago as a boy in a fishing village on the far west coast of Iceland. Veigar had a wife and family but decided that she could no longer live as a man\, and at t he age of 38\, decided to undergo gender reassignment. The inner struggle for Veigar to become Veiga was a journey as difficult if not more so than the solo kayak expedition she undertakes. These two stories of conflict an d struggle are intertwined as the film follows her amazing 103 day journey around Iceland\, with the magical\, rugged coastline of the country a bac kdrop to the story of Veiga’s transition.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n[widg et id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Aga insttheCurrent_Photo1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1125@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210701 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210819 DTSTAMP:20210721T190541Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/never-gonna-snow-again/ SUMMARY:Never Gonna Snow Again DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Green Tara Space\n\n\n\n \;\n\nOn a gray\, fog gy morning outside a large Polish city\, a masseur from the East named Zhe nia (Alec Utgoff\, Stranger Things) enters the lives of the wealthy reside nts of a gated community. With his hypnotic presence and quasi-magical abi lities\, he is able to get a residence permit and starts plying his trade. The well-to-do residents in their cookie-cutter suburban homes seemingly have it all\, but they all suffer from an inner sadness\, some unexplained longing. The attractive and mysterious newcomer's hands heal\, and Zhenia ’s eyes seem to penetrate their souls. To them\, his Russian accent soun ds like a song from the past\, a memory of simpler times. The latest from writer/director Malgorzata Szumowska (Elles\, In the Name of) and her long time collaborator Michal Englert is an unclassifiable meditation on class\ , immigration\, and global warming shot through with Lynchian touches of t he otherworldly and moments of sober beauty and unexpected humor.\n\n  \;\n\n"Somewhere between Twin Peaks and Pasolini’s Teorema." ~ Jonathan Romney\, Screen Daily\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="cust om_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Sno w01-scaled-e1621189238632.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1129@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210715 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211001 DTSTAMP:20210901T155833Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/platform/ SUMMARY:Platform DESCRIPTION:Platform explores the unique and extraordinary tale of three si sters rejecting the assumptions placed upon them to become masters of Wush u\, a Chinese martial art. They are not free from the conservatism of thei r country - they are forced to cover themselves entirely\, unlike their op ponents - but they do not shy from these problems\, and succeed in spite o f them.\nWhile one might expect the strictures of a theocratic state to im pinge creative output\, these very restrictions push filmmakers to extraor dinary lengths to tell stories with unique\, even revolutionary methods. W hile compelling in content\, Sahar Mosayebi also proves herself very much a daughter of Iran’s history of engaging\, well-crafted cinema. The edit ing is especially impressive\, cutting together fights and training as tho ugh part of a choreographed action sequence. These scenes provide the docu mentary with a spark and the spirit of these fighters seems to infect the film itself - a welcome meeting of content and form. PLATFORM is more than a simple telling of a sporting success story\, it is an inspirational\, m otivational film about what can be achieved with hard work and dedication. \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-6" ] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/MAR Y2694-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1130@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210729 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211001 DTSTAMP:20210830T204734Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/her-socialist-smile/ SUMMARY:Her Socialist Smile DESCRIPTION:This film opens July 29th\nClosed captions available\n\n\nThoug h her life generated voluminous literature\, most people ignore the fact t hat iconic deaf-blind author Helen Keller (1880–1968) was one of the mos t passionate socialist advocates of her time. Continuing his work of patie nt and insightful political filmmaking\, director John Gianvito (Profit Mo tive and the Whispering Wind) resurrects Keller’s radical views\, which have been largely suppressed or sanitized over the years. Gianvito combine s onscreen text taken from her most memorable public appearances\, recorde d voiceover by politically engaged poet Carolyn Forché\, and quiet images of nature\, creating another unique blend of activism\, historical analys is and poetry. The film is a rousing reminder that Keller's undaunted acti vism for labor rights\, pacifism and women's suffrage was philosophically inseparable from her battles for the rights of the disabled.\n\n"Written\, directed and shot by John Gianvito\, Her Socialist Smile is a fascinating and challenging exploration of Keller’s political thought." ~ Glen Kenn y\, NY Times\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="cu stom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Her soc1-scaled-1-e1626879589476.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1131@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210805T201500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210805T220000 DTSTAMP:20210801T145055Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dr-strangelove/ SUMMARY:Dr. Strangelove: or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Burlington City Arts and the Women's Intern ational League for Peace and Justice - Burlington Chapter\n\n \;\n\nIf you've seen - it's worth watching again\, if you've only heard of it - yo u're in for a treat.\n\n\n\nStanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Co ld War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays three wi ldly different roles: Royal Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake\, timidly tr ying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (Sterling Hayden)\; the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded U.S. Pres ident Merkin Muffley\, who must deliver the very bad news to the Soviet pr emier\; and the titular Strangelove himself\, a wheelchair-bound president ial adviser with a Nazi past. Finding improbable hilarity in nearly every unimaginable scenario\, Dr. Strangelove\, or: How I Learned to Stop Worryi ng and Love the Bomb is a subversive masterpiece that officially announced Kubrick as an unparalleled stylist and pitch-black ironist.\n\n\nNOTE: Th ere will be several events leading up to the screening - all free:\n\nThe event will start at 1 pm\, and there will be activities for both youth and adults\, including painting for peace\, origami crane folding\, sidewalk chalk drawing\, a penny spending survey\, the telling of the Sadako story\ , and information &\; resources table. Activities will rotate from 1 to 7:30 pm\, when Dr. John Reuwer will lead a discussion on the risks of nuc lear weapons and the possibilities for eliminating them. From 8:15 to 10:0 0 pm\, we will show the classic film\, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned t o Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. \n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/dr- strangelove.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:City Hall Park\, Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 05401\, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 0540 1\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=City Hall Park:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1133@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210820 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211001 DTSTAMP:20210820T173254Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/forbidden-strings/ SUMMARY:The Forbidden Strings DESCRIPTION:Note: This film was made in 2019. It probably would not be poss ible today\, or tomorrow\, especially with a female lead singer.\n\n*** Th e distributor has asked us to geo-block the film to Vermont viewers only.\ n\nSynopsis: During the day\, they are laborers and do what most Afghan re fugees do in Iran\, which is carpentry and tailoring. But as night falls\, they change clothes and transform to what they dream to be—rock stars. Hakim\, Akbar\, Mohammad and Soraya are among the second generation of thr ee million Afghan refugees living in Iran since 1980s. Regardless of their refugee status and its limitations\, they dared to dream and managed to f orm their rock band five years ago. Their dream was clear: their first roc k concert should be in the motherland they have never seen\, Afghanistan. The film follows the journey of the Arikain band from Iran to Afghanistan despite all odds. They have various obstacles to overcome\, from tradition al families who are vehemently against music\, lack of financial means\, t o security issues inside Afghanistan. The road between Kabul to Bamyan fes tival is one of the most dangerous roads in Afghanistan\, under the full c ontrol of the Taliban. The film follows the Arikain shoulder to shoulder\, from the days they dream of a journey to their war-torn motherland\, to t he hectic and dangerous roads taking them to the music festival.\n\n \ ;\n\nDirector’s biography\n\nHasan Noori was born in Iran in 1985 from A fghan refugee parents. He holds a BA in sociology and an MA in cinema from Tehran University. He has worked for years as social worker for NGO’s f ighting child labor mainly in Afghan refugee community. The Forbidden Stri ng is Hasan’s first movie. He is an alumnus of IDFA summer school 2017.\ n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_html-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/for bidden-strings-00.jpeg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1147@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20210901 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211001 DTSTAMP:20210831T194916Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/can-you-bring-it/ SUMMARY:Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters DESCRIPTION:Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters brings to life the creative process that culminated in choreographer-dancer-direc tor Bill T. Jones’s tour de force ballet D-Man in the Waters\, one of th e most important works of art to come out of the AIDS crisis. In 1989\, D- Man in the Waters gave physical manifestation to the fear\, anger\, grief\ , and hope for salvation that the emerging Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Compan y (both partners at the time) felt as they were embattled by the AIDS epid emic. As a group of young dancers in the present re-interpret the work\, t hey deepen their understanding of its power – exploring what is at stake in their own personal lives in order to commit and perform it successfull y. Through an extraordinary collage of interviews\, archival material\, an d uniquely powerful cinematography\, this lyrical documentary uses the sto ry of this iconic dance to illustrate the power of art and the triumph of the human spirit.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n[widget id="custom_h tml-6"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/4_B illTJonesinrehearsalwithstudentswitharmsraised.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1107@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210902T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210902T210000 DTSTAMP:20210830T204536Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sisters-with-transistors/ SUMMARY:Sisters With Transistors DESCRIPTION:In partnership with\n\n\n\nWith support from\n\n\n\n \;\n\n "An electrifying study of musical heroines [...] an enchanting and superb documentary" ~  The Guardian\n\nThe remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers\, composers who embraced machines and their lib erating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to mus ic today. Narrated by Laurie Anderson\, the film maps a new history of ele ctronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations w ith machines redefined the boundaries of music and restored the central ro le of women in the history of music and society at large. The history of w omen is a history of silence. Until they insisted on being heard.\n\n  \;\n\nDirector's Notes:\n\nThis film is more than just the history of a mu sic genre: it's the story of how we hear and the critical but little-known role female pioneers play in that story. Once I came to understand the in tegral part that women had played in forming the soundtrack to our lives - from the dings and chimes when we receive a text message to the music we dance\, cry\nand sing to - I was compelled to break the silence that surro unded their stories.\n\n\n\nAnd as easily as these stories have been forgo tten\, they all too easily could not have happened. As Laurie Spiegel says in our exclusive interview\, “Composers were all white dead men. It was just not something I thought of as something I could ever do.” Classica lly there were no highprofile women composers. But with the discovery of e lectronic music\, women no longer needed permission from their male counte rparts to create – music now required just one person and a bunch of equ ipment\, opening up a whole new avenue for female composers. Many embraced this opportunity from the outset to create a new genre of music that also gave rise to almost every sound you hear on a day-to-day basis.\n\nThe to ols for making the first electronic music were the same as those found in physics labs and radar stations\, hence it long being associated with masc uline domains such as hard science and military technology. But\, just as women were instrumental in early computer programming\, telecommunications and broadcasting\, there were also a number of innovative and groundbreak ing female musicians who paved the way for modern music.\n\nWe know women and people of color have been silenced by hierarchies of privilege and opp ression\, but I’ve also come to believe that it’s the oversimplificati on of the way we tell stories\, our learned longing for a (generally white male) hero that has led to the erasure of their groundbreaking accomplish ments. That’s why I decided on a form featuring multiple heroines whose stories are told subjectively. As a way of confronting limiting storytelli ng practices\, I opted for a chronology that weaves\, a narration that’s not all-knowing.\n\nIn keeping with the vitality of the film’s subject\ , there won’t be any expert talking heads explaining the development of electronic music. Instead\, the film fuses rarely seen and newly discovere d moving images and stills culled from personal and public archives with m ultigenerational commentators in voiceover\, present-day reflections of pa rticipants in that history and a younger generation who have been influenc ed by its legacy. The shortlist includes: Holly Herndon\, Kim Gordon\, Jea n Michel Jarre\, Nite Jewel\, Morton Subotnik\, Rhys Chatham. The result i s an oral history that moves\, a series of personal recollections about th e key moments in the history of electronic music merged with collective cu lture that unfolds like a mixtape where the voice-over functions like lyri cs.\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/SWT -image-1.-MaryanneAmacher_courtesyofPeggyWeil.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:City Hall Park\, Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 05401\, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 0540 1\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=City Hall Park:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1139@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210916T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210916T204500 DTSTAMP:20210905T172411Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/how-they-got-over/ SUMMARY:How They Got Over DESCRIPTION:In partnership with\n\n\n\nWith support from\n\n\n\n*** Sneak P review! ***\n\n\n \;\n\nHow They Got Over tells the story of how Black gospel quartet music became a primary source of what would be known as ro ck and roll\, and in the process helped to break down racial walls in mid- twentieth century America.\n\nBeginning in the 1920s\, Black singers acros s the country took to the highways as the new technology of radio and reco rds made it possible to reach a wider audience. Intense competition brough t new ways to entertain\, first with guitars\, later with full bands\, the n with a performance style that would inspire Mick Jagger and a host of ot her rock and rollers.\n\nTheir music was infectious\, wrecking many a hous e on the chittlin’ circuit\, then graduating in the 40s and 50s to the A pollo and other major auditoriums across the country. The success of gospe l quartets inspired record labels to form “doo-wop” groups that entice d gospel singers like Sam Cooke\, Lou Rawls and Wilson Pickett to cross ov er to greater fame.\n\nHow They Got Over features classic performance foot age of the Soul Stirrers\, Dixie Hummingbirds\, Blind Boys of Alabama and Mississippi\, Sensational Nightingales\, Mighty Clouds of Joy\, Highway QC s\, Davis Sisters\, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and many more. Some of the great est names in quartet music are interviewed in the film\, giving vivid acco unts of how they “got over” in their performances: shouting\, bending over backwards\, dancing\, jumping off the stage – what came to be known as “gospel drama.”\n\nHow They Got Over celebrates the spirit of gosp el performers and how they helped usher in a musical revolution that chang ed the world forever.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/unn amed8.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:City Hall Park\, Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 05401\, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 0540 1\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=City Hall Park:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1120@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211008 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211018 DTSTAMP:20210928T172931Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermont-international-film-festival-2021/ SUMMARY:Vermont International Film Festival 2021 DESCRIPTION:In 2021 the festival is both in-person and virtual\, October 8- 17. The program is now live and passes and tickets on sale for members and Festival Pass holders. \n\nBuy your Pass HERE\n\nIndividual tickets on sa le to General Public ticket purchasers 9/29. Proof of vaccination required . The print version of the full program guide will be out in each copy of SevenDays on September 29.\n\n\nPDF of FESTIVAL PROGRAM\n\nFESTIVAL A-Z\n\ nDOWNLOAD THE FESTIVAL APP onto your mobile devices and create your person alized schedule! The app will update live if any changes occur.\n\n2021 SA FETY REGULATIONS\n\nThe 2021 Festival "look and feel" image was designed b y Champlain College graduate Marissa Garbiel. Find out more about Marissa' s graphic talents.\n\nThe Vermont International Film Festival is VTIFF's f lagship event. It takes place annually over 10 days in October on Burlingt on\, Vermont's waterfront. The festival is curated and by invitation only. \n\nThe festival is curated by a programming committee and the Executive D irector and does not accept submissions. The purpose of the festival is to present a wide panorama of international and national independent cinema. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fac ebook_banner-012-1.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1183@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211008T175000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211008T192500 DTSTAMP:20210929T212243Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/luzzu-savoy/ SUMMARY:Luzzu DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Thu\, Oct 14 | 4:15 pm | FH\nNot available on Vir tual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will b e on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThis debut film from writer-director-editor Alex Camilleri takes it s title from the small wooden boats used by the traditional fishermen of t he Maltese islands. When Jesmark\, played by nonprofessional actor Jesmark Scicluna\, can no longer support his family on the fishing trade practice d by his forebears\, he must weigh his birthright against the realities of the modern world. Should he continue to pursue the meager living of a fis herman or accept a EU payout to decommission his luzzu and\, instead\, wor k for the rapacious black market that ravages the waters of their bounty? This compelling story captures a man and a culture in crisis\, teetering b etween the old world and the new. Scicluna’s gripping performance\, cage d like a feral animal as the twin pressures of family and money close in\, won him the Sundance Jury Prize at the 2021 festival. ~Travis Weedon\n\n& nbsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Luz zu_photo5-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Savoy,VTIFF LOCATION:Savoy Theater\, 26 Main Street\, Montpelier\, Vermont\, United Sta tes X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=26 Main Street\, Montpelier \, Vermont\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Savoy Theater:geo:0, 0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1135@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211008T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211008T203000 DTSTAMP:20210929T131251Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sweet-thing/ SUMMARY:Sweet Thing DESCRIPTION:Tickets are now on sale for this Opening Night Screening.\n\n\n Exception: Festival Passes do not include Opening Night Screening\n\nAlso showing:  Sun\, Oct 10 | 10:00 am- 11:59 pm | Virtual | Geoblocked to VT\ n\n*Opening Night Film*\n*** Filmmaker in attendance (Opening Night only)\ nScreening followed by Opening Night party in the Atrium\n\nSweet Thing\, written and directed by indie stalwart Alexandre Rockwell (In the Soup\; F our Rooms\, Little Feet)\, centers around the lives of two children in con temporary New Bedford\, Massachusetts\, during one eventful summer spent i n a beach house with their mother and her boyfriend. The friendships\, loy alties and challenges of adolescence propel the story into a triumph of ch ildhood hope and resilience\, yet the film also provides a heartbreaking l ook at race and poverty’s impact on troubled youths. These kids\, Rockwe ll’s actual children\, are always on the move\, and the film’s best mo ments are also the most elemental: the physical beauty and emotional grace of its stars\, bustling through grungy streets and lakeside idylls. Featu ring black-and-white cinematography that captivates with visual lyricism a nd nimble flow\, Rockwell’s film is a great reminder of the rich history of American independent cinema\, where filmmakers across decades have bui lt dreamscapes out of the textures of everyday interactions. ~Orly Yadin ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/swe et-thing_photo-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1184@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211008T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211008T213000 DTSTAMP:20210924T170040Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-rescue-savoy/ SUMMARY:The Rescue DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Fri\, Oct 15 | 1:00 pm | BB\nNot available on Vir tual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will b e on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nWinner of People's Choice - Best Documentary at TIFF 2021.\n\nThe R escue chronicles the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach\, trapped deep inside a flooded cave. Academy Award-winning directo rs and producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo) reveal the perilous world of cave diving\, the bravery of the rescuers\, and the dedi cation of an entire community that made great sacrifices to save these you ng boys. An outing to explore a nearby system of caves after soccer practi ce transformed into a two-week saga of survival and a story that would cap ture the world’s attention. With exclusive access to footage from the re scue\, the film tells the story of the imagination\, determination and unp recedented teamwork displayed during this heroic edge-of-your-seat mission with life-or-death stakes.\n\n“Even though I knew the outcome\, I was a t the edge of my seat throughout.” ~Ethan Murphy\, VTIFF Programming Com mittee\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/The Rescue_TCR_0726_2_SG-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Savoy,VTIFF LOCATION:Savoy Theater\, 26 Main Street\, Montpelier\, Vermont\, United Sta tes X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=26 Main Street\, Montpelier \, Vermont\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Savoy Theater:geo:0, 0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1146@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T130000 DTSTAMP:20210924T155052Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/flee/ SUMMARY:Flee DESCRIPTION:Also showing:  Mon\, Oct 11 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual | Geoblocked to VT\n\n*This is one of three films selected by the Film and Media Culture Department at Middlebury College in partnership with VTIFF t o screen in the Hirschfield International Film Series. \n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individua l ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\n “Amin” is an Afghan refugee who arrived in Denmark over twenty years ago as an unac companied minor seeking asylum. Even now as a successful academic\, he has to hide the true story of his life and family in order to maintain his im migration status. To protect his identity\, Flee is told mostly through an imation. Amin relates the harrowing events that forced him and his family to desert their home and the dangerous obstacles they faced in seeking a n ew one. Some of the more dramatic events are spliced with real-life news f ootage\, bringing the weight of historical trauma to bear on Amin’s stor y of personal tragedy. This absorbing documentary is inventively told and sheds needed light on the lives of those forced to keep in the shadows. ~T ravis Weedon\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/FLE E_still_12.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1185@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T133000 DTSTAMP:20210929T184551Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ascension-savoy/ SUMMARY:Ascension DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sun\, Oct 10 | 7:00 pm | FH\nNot available on Vir tual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will b e on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nWinner\, Best Documentary\, Tribeca FF  \n\nA riveting observatio nal documentary\, at times amusing and always enlightening\, Ascension is choreographed to be a visual and aural ballet of both the working and weal thy classes in modern-day China. What makes this doc stand out from other films about working conditions in this fast-evolving country is the way we eavesdrop on private and casual conversations. The film lets the people t alk\, and we are there to listen. ~Orly Yadin\n\n“In lieu of a lecture\, Kingdon’s film\, which fits into a documentary tradition that includes Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a Great City and Godfrey Reggio’ s Koyaanisqatsi\, rather rewires your mental picture of contemporary China . Presented with no narrative and limited structure\, Ascension is a colle ction of breathtaking images and revelatory vignettes that position China as a simultaneously alien and completely universal cultural and industrial landscape\, never spelling out which direction points toward progress.” ~Daniel Feinberg\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASC ENSION-3.jpg CATEGORIES:2020 VT International Film Festival,2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Savoy,VTIFF LOCATION:Savoy Theater\, 26 Main Street\, Montpelier\, Vermont\, United Sta tes X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=26 Main Street\, Montpelier \, Vermont\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Savoy Theater:geo:0, 0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1156@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T150000 DTSTAMP:20210929T204222Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/seyran-ates-fh/ SUMMARY:Seyran Ates: Sex\, Revolution and Islam DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Oct 11 | 10:00 AM - 11:59 PM | Virtual\n\n* Followed by Q&\;A with Seyran Ates and the director - in person screeni ng only\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and wil l be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septemb er 29.\n\n \;\n\nThe exemplary humanitarian work of Turkish-German rad ical feminist\, lawyer\, and imam Seyran Ates is the central focus of this compelling and revealing documentary. As a young Muslim girl in Berlin\, Seyran grew up experiencing Islamic repression. Since then\, she has dedic ated herself to reforming Islam\, opening the first mosque with no gender segregation\, and educating and empowering LGBTQ Muslim youth to embrace t heir sexuality. The film reveals a determined woman\, one willing to put h er life on the line in the name of religious reform and sexual freedom. Th is glimpse inside the world of traditional Islam from a feminist imam's pe rspective ranges from intellectual philosophizing to raw pain\, while draw ing a nuanced portrait of its subject. The film\, like its subject\, has r eceived criticism from both the right and left. Come judge for yourselves. ~Orly Yadin\n\n \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sey ran-Ates-Sex-Revolution-and-Islam-credit-Integral-Film.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1186@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T141000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T154500 DTSTAMP:20210927T193600Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/writing-with-fire-savoy/ SUMMARY:Writing With Fire DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Fri\, Oct 15 | 4:30 pm | FH\nNot available on Vir tual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will b e on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nWinner of Audience &\; Special Jury awards at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival\n\nReporting from a social environment built to divide based on caste and gender\, a fearless group of journalists maintain India’s only women-led news outlet. The women of Khabar Lahariya (‘Waves of News ’) prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital even though many of their reporters don’t have access to electricity at home. Armed with smartphones\, Chief Reporter Meera and her team of investigative jou rnalists confront some of India’s biggest issues — exposing the relent less discrimination against women and amplifying the voices of those who s uffer from the oppressive caste system. Writing With Fire chronicles the a stonishing determination of these local reporters as they empower each oth er and hold those responsible for injustice to account. Reaching new audie nces through their growing platform\, the women of Khabar Lahariya redefin e what it means to be powerful in this timely and inspiring documentary. ~ Music Box Films\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WRI TING-WITH-FIRE-2021-Documentary-img1.png CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Savoy,VTIFF LOCATION:Savoy Theater\, 26 Main Street\, Montpelier\, Vermont\, United Sta tes X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=26 Main Street\, Montpelier \, Vermont\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Savoy Theater:geo:0, 0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1149@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T180000 DTSTAMP:20210924T155347Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/laughter-le-rire/ SUMMARY:Laughter (Le Rire)  DESCRIPTION:Also showing:  Mon\, Oct 11 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual\n\ nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sa le to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\n Laughter\, Martin Laroche’s slightly surreal and at times very funny fil m\, is fourth in a line of features centered around complex female charact ers and their relationships with tragedies. It incorporates scenes of a fu ll stand-up comedy routine\, a woman being buried alive in a mass grave\, and a musical sequence set to Michael Bublé’s 2005 song “Feeling Good ” — without any of them feeling out of place. Other than a starkly hor rific opening scene\, the film takes place largely in suburban Montreal — in modern-looking homes\, bakeries\, streets and a remarkably unremark able elderly center. In Laughter\, Laroche explores the survivor guilt phe nomenon — both for the victims and their persecutors — through love\, laughter and time. ~Orly Yadin\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Le- Rire_2.png CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1187@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T174500 DTSTAMP:20210929T212331Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/poppy-field-savoy/ SUMMARY:Poppy Field DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSun\, Oct 17 | 2:45 pm | FH\nTue\, Oct 19 | 10:0 0 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual ​| Geoblocked to VT\n\nTickets are on sale no w for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nCristi is a member of t he Bucharest police force\, which is sent to quell a protest at a local mo vie theater where a far-right group has interrupted the screening of a que er film. This police drama manages to subtly focus on the damages of socie tal homophobia while at the same time illuminating both the positive and c orrupt aspects of the police buddy system. Tightly shot and edited\, the f ilm has moments of tension that cause discomfort\, with many of the scenes portraying the internal struggle of Cristi\, played superbly by Conrad Me ricoffer.  An excellent example of the Romanian New Wave aesthetic\, Popp y Field is an illuminating film about the destructiveness of open secrets.   ~Orly Yadin ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/POP PY_FIELD_000001-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Savoy,VTIFF LOCATION:Savoy Theater\, 26 Main Street\, Montpelier\, Vermont\, United Sta tes X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=26 Main Street\, Montpelier \, Vermont\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Savoy Theater:geo:0, 0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1177@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T181000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T200000 DTSTAMP:20210927T193943Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bergman-island/ SUMMARY:Bergman Island DESCRIPTION:Not available on Virtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers a t 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nMia Hansen-Løve’s films don’t f linch from tackling big ideas. Whether it be the romance of architecture i n Goodbye\, First Love (2011) or the western canon of philosophical though t in Things to Come (2016)\, Hansen-Løve is adept at couching grand theme s in poignant character studies. Her newest directorial effort explores th e feminine creative spirit striving to distinguish itself within a monolit hically male medium— Hansen-Løve’s own medium\, in fact. Two filmmake rs\, married\, played by Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth\, travel to the island of Faro\, renown haunt of Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman. There\, they set to work on their separate screenplays. Their creative processes\, like the ir careers\, develop in stark contrast to each other\, and what emerges is a breezy\, wistful rumination on art\, commerce\, and gender set against bucolic island backdrops as one woman tries to figure out how to escape th e shadow of two men: one\, her husband\; the other\, an icon of European c inema. ~Travis Weedon\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/BER GMANISLANDStill3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Savoy,VTIFF LOCATION:Savoy Theater\, 26 Main Street\, Montpelier\, Vermont\, United Sta tes X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=26 Main Street\, Montpelier \, Vermont\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Savoy Theater:geo:0, 0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1157@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T203000 DTSTAMP:20210924T170634Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/undine/ SUMMARY:Undine DESCRIPTION:Not available on Virtual \n\nTickets are on sale now for Membe rs and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nUndine begins at an ending. The ti tular character\, played with ferocious vulnerability by Paula Beer\, tell s the man sitting across from her that if he leaves her\, she must kill hi m. The café setting situates them in modern Berlin\, but the content of t heir conversation is the stuff of myth\, passed down through the centuries from Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué to Hans Christian Andersen and a proli feration of iterations since. Now\, writer-director Christian Petzold offe rs his own take on the mermaid tale. Coming off the conclusion of his “L ove in the Times of Oppressive Systems” trilogy — comprising Barbara ( 2012)\, Phoenix (2014)\, and Transit (2018) — Petzold is embarking on a new trilogy of films inspired by German myths. Undine is the first in the series\, but\, as with all things Petzold\, beginnings and endings are les s than clear. Undine reunites the electrifying duo of Beer and Franz Rogow ski\, whose desperate chemistry first animated the labyrinthine Transit. L ike Barbara and Phoenix before it\, Undine also concerns the disjointed hi story of Berlin as a city ravaged by war and divided by occupation\, home to shifting seats of power and multitudinous identities over time. Perhaps only myth can repair the shambles of its past. ~Travis Weedon\n\n \;\ n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/UND INEStill1.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1188@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T203500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T220500 DTSTAMP:20210929T212425Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wildland-savoy/ SUMMARY:Wildland DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nWed\, Oct 13 | 7:00 pm | FH\nFri\, Oct 15\, | 10 :00 am - 11:59  pm | Virtual | Geoblocked to Vt\n\nTickets are on sale no w for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThis Danish crime drama comes from Jeanette Nordahl\, assistant director on the international tel evision sensation Borgen. After losing her mother in a car crash\, 17-year -old Ida (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) is put into the custody of her estranged aunt\, played with a mixture of warmth and cunning by Sidse Babett Knudsen (also of Borgen fame). Soon Ida is entangled in the web of extortion and violence that constitutes the family business. Will she break the cycle of crime that is her generational inheritance? Or will blood relations prove stronger than blood spilt? Stylish and provocative\, Wildland blends the tautness of a thriller with the emotional valence of a coming-of-age story . ~Travis Weedon\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\ n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Wil dlandpic-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Savoy,VTIFF LOCATION:Savoy Theater\, 26 Main Street\, Montpelier\, Vermont\, United Sta tes X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=26 Main Street\, Montpelier \, Vermont\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Savoy Theater:geo:0, 0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1168@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211009T223000 DTSTAMP:20210924T190532Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/all-the-streets-are-silent/ SUMMARY:All The Streets are Silent DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Oct 11 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual\n\nT ickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n“T he streets of N.Y. might be temporarily silent\, but in downtown Manhattan in the early 90’s\, they were the site of a dynamic collision between t wo vibrant subcultures: skateboarding and hip hop. Jeremy Elkin’s yet-to -premiere documentary\, All The Streets Are Silent\, narrated by Eli Morga n Gesner\, brings to life the magic of this time period and the convergenc e that created an urban style and visual language that would have an outsi zed and lasting cultural effect. If Paris Is Burning and KIDS had a baby\, you’d have this documentary love letter to New York  — examining rac e\, society\, fashion and street culture — and full of archival footage featuring legendary characters and figures from the downtown scene.” ~ T ribeca Film Festival\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/All -the-Streets-02.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1206@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T164810Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sweet-thing-virtual/ SUMMARY:Sweet Thing DESCRIPTION:Tickets will go on sale Monday\, October 4th at 10 am for Openi ng Night Screening\n\nTickets to all other screenings are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purch asers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nVirtual | Geoblocked to VT\n\ nAlso showing:  Fri\, Oct 8 | 7:00 pm | FH\n\n*Opening Night Film*\n*** F ilmmaker in attendance (Opening Night only)\nScreening followed by Opening Night party in the Atrium\n\nSweet Thing\, written and directed by indie stalwart Alexandre Rockwell (In the Soup\; Four Rooms)\, centers around th e lives of two children in contemporary New Bedford\, Massachusetts\, duri ng one eventful summer spent in a beach house with their mother and her bo yfriend. The friendships\, loyalties and challenges of adolescence propel the story into a triumph of childhood hope and resilience\, yet the film a lso provides a heartbreaking look at race and poverty’s impact on troubl ed youths. These kids\, Rockwell’s actual children\, are always on the m ove\, and the film’s best moments are also the most elemental: the physi cal beauty and emotional grace of its stars\, bustling through grungy stre ets and lakeside idylls. Featuring black-and-white cinematography that cap tivates with visual lyricism and nimble flow\, Rockwell’s film is a grea t reminder of the rich history of American independent cinema\, where film makers across decades have built dreamscapes out of the textures of everyd ay interactions. ~Orly Yadin ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/swe et-thing_photo-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1144@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T124500 DTSTAMP:20210924T154543Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cow/ SUMMARY:Cow DESCRIPTION:Not available on Virtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers a t 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nAndrea Arnold’s fiercely independe nt filmmaking has taken her from arthouse darling\, with low-budget critic al successes such as Fish Tank (2009) and American Honey (2016)\, to helmi ng the entire second season of HBO’s Big Little Lies. Her latest swerve is into cinéma vérité documentary. This one sinks down in the muck with two dairy cows — a mother and child — as they are herded through the daily routines of industrial milk production. The close proximity to these large\, gentle creatures and the intimacy of the camerawork imbues the fi lm with palpable tenderness\, while at the same time offering a privileged vantage point into an often invisible industry. ~Travis Weedon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cow _Still_2.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1189@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T143000 DTSTAMP:20210929T212514Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/becoming-cousteau-savoy/ SUMMARY:Becoming Cousteau DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Oct 16 | 11:30 am | BB\nNot available on Vi rtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nExplorer\, inventor\, father\, filmmaker — Jacques-Yves Cousteau was all of these things and more. This documentary from National Geograph ic recounts how the man came to be: from aviation officer to deep-sea dive r\; from oil surveyor to ocean conservationist. It is the story of an adve nturer whose profound love for the natural world would ultimately reveal t o him a planet in crisis. Diving into the treasure trove of The Cousteau S ociety’s archives\, Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (All In: The Fight for Democracy\; What Happened\, Miss Simone?) brings to the surface reel a fter reel of the astounding footage that made Cousteau a legend. The resul t is a visual banquet of underwater wonders. Becoming Cousteau honors Cous teau-the-filmmaker as much as it does Cousteau-the-naturalist. ~ Travis We edon\n\nIn Becoming Cousteau\, two-time Academy Award nominee Liz Garbus ( All In: The Fight for Democracy\, What Happened\, Miss Simone? and The Fa rm: Angola\, USA) worked with almost 550 hours of archival footage. This i ncluded over 240 hours of Cousteau’s videos as well as footage from The Cousteau Society\, which contains nearly 100 hours of rarely-seen footage from before he became one of the most important environmental figures of t he 20th century. Additionally\, over 100 hours of Cousteau’s audio journ als\, interviews and conversations with cohorts and friends help make Beco ming Cousteau an intimate and immersive experience into the life of the Fr ench explorer. Garbus eschews talking-head interviews in favor of an intri cately knit pastiche of Cousteau’s own words with archival and present-d ay audio interviews of those who knew him best in order to live and breath e in his visual world for the entirety of the film. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Bec omingCousteau_11_2759051.jpeg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Savoy,VTIFF LOCATION:Savoy Theater\, 26 Main Street\, Montpelier\, Vermont\, United Sta tes X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=26 Main Street\, Montpelier \, Vermont\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Savoy Theater:geo:0, 0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1137@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T154500 DTSTAMP:20210924T154335Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/center-stage/ SUMMARY:Center Stage DESCRIPTION:Also playing: Tue\, Oct 12 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual ​| Geoblocked to VT\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchase rs and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday \, September 29.\n\nMaggie Cheung\, in one of her greatest performances\, stars as Ruan Lingyu\, the enigmatic icon of China’s silent cinema era w ho took her own life at the age of 24. Stanley Kwan’s brilliant biopic b lends footage from Ruan’s surviving films with shots of Cheung reenactin g the onscreen action\, as well as imagined scenes of the actress’ compl icated personal life during the social upheaval that preceded the Second S ino-Japanese War. Further blurring the line between fiction and documentar y\, Kwan includes interviews with Ruan’s silver screen contemporaries co nducted by the film’s cast members\, plus Brechtian discussions among Ch eung and her fellow actors backstage between takes. And despite the multip le layers of meta-cinema and intentional artifice\, the film contains epip hanic moments of unfettered poignancy. Selected by Chicago Reader critic J onathan Rosenbaum as one of the top 10 films of the 1990s\, Center Stage i s\, as longtime Film Comment and RogerEbert.com contributor Sheila O’Mal ley succinctly put it\, “at the top of the heap of biopics\, the measuri ng stick by which [to] judge all others.”  ~Luke Baynes\n\n \;\n\n& nbsp\;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cen terStage_photo-7.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1190@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T171500 DTSTAMP:20210929T212557Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/faya-dayi-savoy/ SUMMARY:Faya Dayi DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nWed\, Oct 13 | 2 pm | FH\nFri\, Oct 15 | 10 :00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual\n\nHot Docs (Winner: Audience Award)\; Visions du  Réel (Winner: Grand Jury Prize\, FIPRESCI Award)\; Full Frame Document ary Film Festival (Winner: Grand Jury Award\, Filmmaker Award\, Emerging A rtist Award)  \n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchaser s and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\ , September 29.\n\nIn her hypnotic documentary feature\, Ethiopian-Mexican filmmaker Jessica Beshir explores the coexistence of everyday life and it s mythical undercurrents. Though a deeply personal project — Beshir was forced to leave her hometown of Harar with her family as a teenager due to growing political strife — she returned to make a film about the city\, its rural Oromo community of farmers\, and the harvesting of the country ’s most sought-after export\, Khat\, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for cent uries for religious meditations\, and Ethiopia's most lucrative cash crop today. The film is neither a straightforward work of nostalgia nor an issu e-oriented doc about a particular drug culture. Rather\, Beshir has constr ucted something dreamlike: a film that uses light\, texture\, and sound to illuminate the spiritual lives of people whose experiences often become f odder for ripped-from-the-headlines tales of migration. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/321 89id_002_0005_32189id_007-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Savoy,VTIFF LOCATION:Savoy Theater\, 26 Main Street\, Montpelier\, Vermont\, United Sta tes X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=26 Main Street\, Montpelier \, Vermont\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Savoy Theater:geo:0, 0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1173@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T180000 DTSTAMP:20210924T160012Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/objector/ SUMMARY:Objector DESCRIPTION:Not available on Virtual\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with the dire ctor \n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septembe r 29.\n\nLike all Israeli youth\, Atalya is obligated to become a soldier. Unlike most\, she questions the practices of her country’s military\, a nd becomes determined to challenge this rite of passage. The film follows Atalya’s journey and\, unlike many activist films\, allows us to gradual ly get to know her and her family\, putting human faces on this controvers ial topic. Her courage moves those around her to reconsider their own mora l and political positions. Middlebury College graduate Molly Stuart offers a unique window into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspectiv e of a young woman who seeks truth and takes a stand for justice. Through Atalya\, Objector also indirectly questions the definition of patriotism a nywhere. ~Orly Yadin\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/OBJ ECTOR-Still-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1191@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T203000 DTSTAMP:20210929T212639Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/what-do-we-see-when-we-look-at-the-sky-savoy/ SUMMARY:What Do We See When We Look At The Sky? DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Fri\, Oct 15 | 1:30 pm | FH\nNot available on Vir tual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will b e on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nWhen Lisa and Giorgi bump into each other\, it’s love at first si ght. They agree to meet again the next day. What they cannot foresee is th at an inexplicable curse will change both of their appearances before they wake. Unable to recognize each other\, Lisa’s and Giorgi’s romantic h opes are set adrift in the Georgian city of Kutaisi. What ensues is a film that challenges the very act of looking and the art of attention. Told wi th whimsy and endlessly surprising humor and misdirection\, the interrogat ive of the title is only the first in an ebullient examination of how we s ee and what we take from the experience. ~Travis Weedon\n\n \n\n \;\n \n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WHA T-DO-WE-SEE-WHEN-WE-LOOK-AT-THE-SKY.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Savoy,VTIFF LOCATION:Savoy Theater\, 26 Main Street\, Montpelier\, Vermont\, United Sta tes X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=26 Main Street\, Montpelier \, Vermont\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Savoy Theater:geo:0, 0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1141@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211010T204500 DTSTAMP:20210929T184525Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ascension/ SUMMARY:Ascension DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Oct 9 | 12:00 pm | Savoy\nNot available on Virtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and wil l be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septemb er 29.\n\nWinner\, Best Documentary\, Tribeca FF  \n\nA riveting observa tional documentary\, at times amusing and always enlightening\, Ascension is choreographed to be a visual and aural ballet of both the working and w ealthy classes in modern-day China. What makes this doc stand out from oth er films about working conditions in this fast-evolving country is the way we eavesdrop on private and casual conversations. The film lets the peopl e talk\, and we are there to listen. ~Orly Yadin\n\n“In lieu of a lectur e\, Kingdon’s film\, which fits into a documentary tradition that includ es Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a Great City and Godfrey Reggio ’s Koyaanisqatsi\, rather rewires your mental picture of contemporary Ch ina. Presented with no narrative and limited structure\, Ascension is a co llection of breathtaking images and revelatory vignettes that position Chi na as a simultaneously alien and completely universal cultural and industr ial landscape\, never spelling out which direction points toward progress. ” ~Daniel Feinberg\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASC ENSION-3.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1205@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T235900 DTSTAMP:20210929T204254Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/seyran-ates-virtual/ SUMMARY:Seyran Ates: Sex\, Revolution and Islam DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Oct 9 | 1:30 pm | FH\n\n*Followed by Q&\ ;A with Seyran Ates and the director - in person screening only\n\n\nTicke ts are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThe ex emplary humanitarian work of Turkish-German radical feminist\, lawyer\, an d imam Seyran Ates is the central focus of this compelling and revealing d ocumentary. As a young Muslim girl in Berlin\, Seyran grew up experiencing Islamic repression. Since then\, she has dedicated herself to reforming I slam\, opening the first mosque with no gender segregation\, and educating and empowering LGBTQ Muslim youth to embrace their sexuality. The film re veals a determined woman\, one willing to put her life on the line in the name of religious reform and sexual freedom. This glimpse inside the world of traditional Islam from a feminist imam's perspective ranges from intel lectual philosophizing to raw pain\, while drawing a nuanced portrait of i ts subject. The film\, like its subject\, has received criticism from both the right and left. Come judge for yourselves. ~Orly Yadin\n\n \n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sey ran-Ates-Sex-Revolution-and-Islam-credit-Integral-Film.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1198@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T155415Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/laughter-le-rire-virtual/ SUMMARY:Laughter (Le Rire) DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to USA\n\nAlso showing:  Sat\, Oct 9 | 4: 00 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Sept ember 29.\n\nLaughter\, Martin Laroche’s slightly surreal and at times v ery funny film\, is fourth in a line of features centered around complex f emale characters and their relationships with tragedies. It incorporates s cenes of a full stand-up comedy routine\, a woman being buried alive in a mass grave\, and a musical sequence set to Michael Bublé’s 2005 song “Feeling Good” — without any of them feeling out of place. Other tha n a starkly horrific opening scene\, the film takes place largely in subur ban Montreal — in modern-looking homes\, bakeries\, streets and a remark ably unremarkable elderly center. In Laughter\, Laroche explores the survi vor guilt phenomenon — both for the victims and their persecutors — th rough love\, laughter and time. ~Orly Yadin\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Le- Rire_2.png CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1215@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T155120Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/flee-virtual/ SUMMARY:Flee DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to VT\n\nAlso showing: Sat\, Oct 9 | 11:30 am | FH\n\n*This is one of three films selected by the Film and Media Cu lture Department at Middlebury College in partnership with VTIFF to screen in the Hirschfield International Film Series. \n\nTickets are on sale no w for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\n “Amin” is an Afgh an refugee who arrived in Denmark over twenty years ago as an unaccompanie d minor seeking asylum. Even now as a successful academic\, he has to hide the true story of his life and family in order to maintain his immigratio n status. To protect his identity\, Flee is told mostly through animation. Amin relates the harrowing events that forced him and his family to deser t their home and the dangerous obstacles they faced in seeking a new one. Some of the more dramatic events are spliced with real-life news footage\, bringing the weight of historical trauma to bear on Amin’s story of per sonal tragedy. This absorbing documentary is inventively told and sheds ne eded light on the lives of those forced to keep in the shadows. ~Travis We edon\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/FLE E_still_12.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1193@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T190611Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/all-the-streets-virtual/ SUMMARY:All The Streets are Silent DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Oct  9 | 9:00 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sa le now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual t icket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\n“The streets of N.Y. might be temporarily silent\, but in downtown Manhattan in the early 90’s\, they were the site of a dynamic collision between two vibrant sub cultures: skateboarding and hip hop. Jeremy Elkin’s yet-to-premiere docu mentary\, All The Streets Are Silent\, narrated by Eli Morgan Gesner\, bri ngs to life the magic of this time period and the convergence that created an urban style and visual language that would have an outsized and lastin g cultural effect. If Paris Is Burning and KIDS had a baby\, you’d have this documentary love letter to New York  — examining race\, society\, fashion and street culture — and full of archival footage featuring lege ndary characters and figures from the downtown scene.” ~ Tribeca Film Fe stival\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/All -the-Streets-02.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1158@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T160000 DTSTAMP:20210924T170146Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-whaler-boy/ SUMMARY:The Whaler Boy DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Wed\, Oct 13 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual | Ge oblocked to VT\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nWhen the internet arrives in the village\, bringing with it an intense longing for another life\, Leshka becomes infatuated with a webcam model from America — so far away and yet almost close enough to s ee across the waters of the Bering Strait. Coming of age in the male-domin ated whaling community\, Leshka's encounter with this mysterious woman awa kens a desire to find love outside the confines of his tiny world. He beco mes determined to meet her in real life\, setting forth on a dangerous adv enture across the raging waters of the sea. Featuring stunning cinematogra phy of the dramatic landscape and punctuated by off-kilter humor\, The Wha ler Boy breaks cliché after cliché with an almost fable-like simplicity that belies its sophisticated sensibility. ~Orly Yadin\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Wha lehunter_v15_tv-00_49_20_00-Still006.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1138@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T174500 DTSTAMP:20210924T170537Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/try-harder/ SUMMARY:Try Harder! DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Wed\, Oct 13 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual | Ge oblocked to VT\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\n“This whole process creates people who are very cynical about the colleges they end up going to\,” says one impending graduate in Debbie Lum’s probing\, empathetic and good-humored look at the hyperc ompetitive college application process at the No. 1 ranked public high sch ool in San Francisco.  Lum’s camera primarily shadows five students at the majority Asian American school — three of whom are Asian\, one birac ial and one white — as they navigate the sleep-deprived onslaught of cra mming for exams and writing college essays while dealing with parental pre ssures and their own insecurities. One student\, who is white\, says that even with a 4.0 GPA and a near-perfect SAT score he’d have only a 1 in 5 chance of getting into Stanford. The doc also examines the roles ethnicit y and racial profiling play in the college vetting process at Ivy League s chools and elite West Coast universities like Stanford\, which allegedly l imit the number of Asian Americans they accept. Try Harder! is a film that makes us genuinely care about the success of its young subjects even as w e recognize the absurdity and arbitrariness of a flawed process.  ~Luke B aynes\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/try harder_still_01.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1171@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211011T204500 DTSTAMP:20210924T165827Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-first-death-of-joana/ SUMMARY:The First Death of Joana DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Wed\, Oct 13 | 10 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual\n\nTick ets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThirt een-year-old Joana is curious about why her great-aunt died at 70 without ever having had a romantic relationship. As she confronts the values of he r community in pious southern Brazil\, Joana realizes that all the women i n her family have a secret\, while something hidden inside her also reveal s. Joana is not satisfied with the answers the adults give to her question s\, so she creates an imaginary universe that helps her to elaborate her o wn answers. Award-winning director and co-writer Cristiane Oliveira gives us a sensitive and frank exploration of hidden loves and changing views of gender roles and sexuality.  ~Orly Yadin\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/06B _The-First-Death-of-Joana_directed-by-Cristiane-Oliveira_with-Lisa-Gertum- Becker-and-and-Roberto-Oliveira-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1196@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T154505Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/center-stage-virtual/ SUMMARY:Center Stage DESCRIPTION:Virtual ​| Geoblocked to VT\n\nAlso playing: Sun\, Oct 10 | 1 :15 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Sep tember 29.\n\nMaggie Cheung\, in one of her greatest performances\, stars as Ruan Lingyu\, the enigmatic icon of China’s silent cinema era who too k her own life at the age of 24. Stanley Kwan’s brilliant biopic blends footage from Ruan’s surviving films with shots of Cheung reenacting the onscreen action\, as well as imagined scenes of the actress’ complicated personal life during the social upheaval that preceded the Second Sino-Ja panese War. Further blurring the line between fiction and documentary\, Kw an includes interviews with Ruan’s silver screen contemporaries conducte d by the film’s cast members\, plus Brechtian discussions among Cheung a nd her fellow actors backstage between takes. And despite the multiple lay ers of meta-cinema and intentional artifice\, the film contains epiphanic moments of unfettered poignancy. Selected by Chicago Reader critic Jonatha n Rosenbaum as one of the top 10 films of the 1990s\, Center Stage is\, as longtime Film Comment and RogerEbert.com contributor Sheila O’Malley su ccinctly put it\, “at the top of the heap of biopics\, the measuring sti ck by which [to] judge all others.”  ~Luke Baynes\n\n \;\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cen terStage_photo-7.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1140@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T153000 DTSTAMP:20210924T153258Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/anne-at-13000-ft/ SUMMARY:Anne at 13\,000 Ft. DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Thu\, Oct 14 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual\nTic kets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale t o individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, September 29.\n\nThe only time An ne (Deragh Campbell) doesn’t feel like she’s in free fall is when she ’s literally skydiving from an airplane. An anxious and reactive person\ , Anne has undue difficulty coping with everyday social and professional o bligations. She invites animosity from her coworkers at a daycare center. She subjects her romantic partner to increasingly awkward situations. Her volatility has her forever chafing against the bounds of acceptable behavi or. The film’s subjective handheld camerawork locks the audience into th e rollercoaster ride that is Anne’s personality\, but the portrayal is n ever cheap or exploitative. Canadian filmmaker Kazik Radwanski’s directi on is full of sympathy and humanism\, and Campbell’s performance is extr aordinary in her ability to endear the audience even as she repels those a round her. ~Travis Weedon\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ANN E-AT-13000-FT-02.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1153@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T180000 DTSTAMP:20210924T155942Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/north-by-current/ SUMMARY:North By Current DESCRIPTION:Not available on Virtual\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with the dire ctor\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will b e on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\n“After the inconclusive death of his young niece\, Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown determined to make a film abo ut the family's wrongful persecution. But soon the scope of his project ex pands and he finds himself investigating the depths of generational addict ion\, Christian fervor\, and trans embodiment. Using home movie footage an d present-day interviews to chart their story\, the filmmaker traces the f ine line between the truths and fictions that exist in every family. Turni ng the camera towards himself\, Madsen confronts his own relationship with masculinity and his interrogation of what it means to be a good brother. The result is a deeply personal tour de force\; a thoughtful\, provocative rumination on identity and familial responsibility.” ~Lucy Mukerjee\, T ribeca Film Festival\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/NBC _Diner_HiRes-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1164@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T204500 DTSTAMP:20210924T164840Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/take-me-somewhere-nice/ SUMMARY:Take Me Somewhere Nice  DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Thu\, Oct 14 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual | Ge oblocked to USA\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nWith her debut feature\, and based in The Netherlands\, Bosnian filmmaker Ena Sendijarević proves herself already an artist of co nsummate style and tone. The lethargy of Sendijarević’s characters allo ws ample time to savor her colorful\, eye-catching compositions. Full of p eculiar angles and sun-drenched vibrancy\, the liveliness of the framing c ontrasts the dour aimlessness of three teenagers on an odyssey through mod ern Bosnia. Irrepressible beauty and sensuality play strange bedfellows to the deadpan ennui that inflicts these characters’ emotional lives\, ham pered as they are by grim prospects in a country short on opportunity. You ng actress Sara Luna Zorić leads the cast with a presence so captivating audiences are sure to follow her wherever this sardonic road movie takes t hem. ~Travis Weedon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/TAK E_ME_SOMEWHERE_NICE9©Emo_Weemhoff.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1213@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T170604Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/try-harder-virtual/ SUMMARY:Try Harder! DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to VT\n\nAlso showing: Mon\, Oct 11 | 4:15 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and wi ll be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septem ber 29.\n\n“This whole process creates people who are very cynical about the colleges they end up going to\,” says one impending graduate in Deb bie Lum’s probing\, empathetic and good-humored look at the hypercompeti tive college application process at the No. 1 ranked public high school in San Francisco.  Lum’s camera primarily shadows five students at the ma jority Asian American school — three of whom are Asian\, one biracial an d one white — as they navigate the sleep-deprived onslaught of cramming for exams and writing college essays while dealing with parental pressures and their own insecurities. One student\, who is white\, says that even w ith a 4.0 GPA and a near-perfect SAT score he’d have only a 1 in 5 chanc e of getting into Stanford. The doc also examines the roles ethnicity and racial profiling play in the college vetting process at Ivy League schools and elite West Coast universities like Stanford\, which allegedly limit t he number of Asian Americans they accept. Try Harder! is a film that makes us genuinely care about the success of its young subjects even as we reco gnize the absurdity and arbitrariness of a flawed process.  ~Luke Baynes\ n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/try harder_still_01.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1209@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T165858Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-first-death-of-joana-virtual/ SUMMARY:The First Death of Joana DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Oct 11 | 7:00 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sal e now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ti cket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThirteen-year-old J oana is curious about why her great-aunt died at 70 without ever having ha d a romantic relationship. As she confronts the values of her community in pious southern Brazil\, Joana realizes that all the women in her family h ave a secret\, while something hidden inside her also reveals. Joana is no t satisfied with the answers the adults give to her questions\, so she cre ates an imaginary universe that helps her to elaborate her own answers. Aw ard-winning director and co-writer Cristiane Oliveira gives us a sensitive and frank exploration of hidden loves and changing views of gender roles and sexuality.  ~Orly Yadin\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/06B _The-First-Death-of-Joana_directed-by-Cristiane-Oliveira_with-Lisa-Gertum- Becker-and-and-Roberto-Oliveira-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1210@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T170218Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-whaler-boy-virtual/ SUMMARY:The Whaler Boy DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to VT\n\nAlso showing: Mon\, Oct 11 | 2:15 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and wi ll be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septem ber 29.\n\nWhen the internet arrives in the village\, bringing with it an intense longing for another life\, Leshka becomes infatuated with a webcam model from America — so far away and yet almost close enough to see acr oss the waters of the Bering Strait. Coming of age in the male-dominated w haling community\, Leshka's encounter with this mysterious woman awakens a desire to find love outside the confines of his tiny world. He becomes de termined to meet her in real life\, setting forth on a dangerous adventure across the raging waters of the sea. Featuring stunning cinematography of the dramatic landscape and punctuated by off-kilter humor\, The Whaler Bo y breaks cliché after cliché with an almost fable-like simplicity that b elies its sophisticated sensibility. ~Orly Yadin\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Wha lehunter_v15_tv-00_49_20_00-Still006.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1145@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T160000 DTSTAMP:20210924T154808Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/faya-dayi/ SUMMARY:Faya Dayi  DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSun\, Oct 10 | 3:15 pm | Savoy\nFri\, Oct 15 | 1 0 :00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual\n\n\nHot Docs (Winner: Audience Award)\; Vis ions du Réel (Winner: Grand Jury Prize\, FIPRESCI Award)\; Full Frame D ocumentary Film Festival (Winner: Grand Jury Award\, Filmmaker Award\, Eme rging Artist Award)  \n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass pu rchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wed nesday\, September 29.\n\nIn her hypnotic documentary feature\, Ethiopian- Mexican filmmaker Jessica Beshir explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical undercurrents. Though a deeply personal project — Besh ir was forced to leave her hometown of Harar with her family as a teenager due to growing political strife — she returned to make a film about the city\, its rural Oromo community of farmers\, and the harvesting of the c ountry’s most sought-after export\, Khat\, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed fo r centuries for religious meditations\, and Ethiopia's most lucrative cash crop today. The film is neither a straightforward work of nostalgia nor a n issue-oriented doc about a particular drug culture. Rather\, Beshir has constructed something dreamlike: a film that uses light\, texture\, and so und to illuminate the spiritual lives of people whose experiences often be come fodder for ripped-from-the-headlines tales of migration. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/321 89id_002_0005_32189id_007-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1165@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T180000 DTSTAMP:20210924T165729Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/taming-the-garden/ SUMMARY:Taming The Garden DESCRIPTION:Also showing\; Fri\, Oct 15 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual | Geoblocked to VT \n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchase rs and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday \, September 29.\n\nThe opening shot of filmmaker Salomé Jashi’s striki ng environmental tale captures a tree as tall as a 15-story building float ing on a barge across the vast Black Sea. Its destination lies within a ga rden countless miles away. Cryptically\, elliptically\, without narration or any outside intervention\, Taming the Garden relates a curious recent i ncident in rural Georgia when the billionaire ex-prime minister — still widely regarded as among the most powerful men in the country — decided to populate his vast private estate with mature trees. An observational do cumentary that explores themes of commercial worth and societal value\, Ja shi’s film plays more like myth than journalism\, as though she is docum enting the folklore of the future as it is happening. We are witness to th e arguments pro and con among the villagers\, but even when the locals don ’t acknowledge it\, Jashi’s watchful\, listening film is tuned to the wavelength of their collective\, subconscious regret. Whatever they might say\, there’s an understanding that to hack into those 15-meter-wide roo t systems is to tear into the very fabric of the community. ~excerpts from Jessica Chang\, Variety\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/TRE ES_still_01.png CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1159@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T203000 DTSTAMP:20210924T171022Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wildland/ SUMMARY:Wildland DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSat\, Oct 9 | 8:45 pm | Savoy\nFri\, Oct 15\, | 10:00 am - 11:59  pm | Virtual | Geoblocked to Vt\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual tick et purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThis Danish crime dra ma comes from Jeanette Nordahl\, assistant director on the international t elevision sensation Borgen. After losing her mother in a car crash\, 17-ye ar-old Ida (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) is put into the custody of her estrange d aunt\, played with a mixture of warmth and cunning by Sidse Babett Knuds en (also of Borgen fame). Soon Ida is entangled in the web of extortion an d violence that constitutes the family business. Will she break the cycle of crime that is her generational inheritance? Or will blood relations pro ve stronger than blood spilt? Stylish and provocative\, Wildland blends th e tautness of a thriller with the emotional valence of a coming-of-age sto ry. ~Travis Weedon \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Wil dlandpic-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1194@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T153417Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/anne-at-13000-ft-virtual/ SUMMARY:Anne at 13\,000 Ft. DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Tue\, Oct 12 | 2:15 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sal e now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ti cket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThe only time Anne (Deragh Campbell) doesn’t feel like she’s in free fall is when she’s literally skydiving from an airplane. An anxious and reactive person\, An ne has undue difficulty coping with everyday social and professional oblig ations. She invites animosity from her coworkers at a daycare center. She subjects her romantic partner to increasingly awkward situations. Her vola tility has her forever chafing against the bounds of acceptable behavior. The film’s subjective handheld camerawork locks the audience into the ro llercoaster ride that is Anne’s personality\, but the portrayal is never cheap or exploitative. Canadian filmmaker Kazik Radwanski’s direction i s full of sympathy and humanism\, and Campbell’s performance is extraord inary in her ability to endear the audience even as she repels those aroun d her. ~Travis Weedon\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ANN E-AT-13000-FT-02.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1207@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T164916Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/take-me-somewhere-nice-virtual/ SUMMARY:Take Me Somewhere Nice DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to USA\n\nAlso showing:Tue\, Oct 12 | 7:00 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and wi ll be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septem ber 29.\n\nWith her debut feature\, and based in The Netherlands\, Bosnian filmmaker Ena Sendijarević proves herself already an artist of consummat e style and tone. The lethargy of Sendijarević’s characters allows ampl e time to savor her colorful\, eye-catching compositions. Full of peculiar angles and sun-drenched vibrancy\, the liveliness of the framing contrast s the dour aimlessness of three teenagers on an odyssey through modern Bos nia. Irrepressible beauty and sensuality play strange bedfellows to the de adpan ennui that inflicts these characters’ emotional lives\, hampered a s they are by grim prospects in a country short on opportunity. Young actr ess Sara Luna Zorić leads the cast with a presence so captivating audienc es are sure to follow her wherever this sardonic road movie takes them. ~T ravis Weedon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/TAK E_ME_SOMEWHERE_NICE9©Emo_Weemhoff.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1152@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T154500 DTSTAMP:20210929T204335Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/money-has-four-legs/ SUMMARY:Money Has Four Legs DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sun\, Oct 16 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual\n\n* Followed by Q&\;A with the director (in person screening only)\n\nTicke ts are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nNote: Ma Aeint\, the co-writer and producer of the film\, was sent to prison aft er the making of this film\, and Maung Sun\, the director\, is in hiding. All proceeds from distribution will go toward attempts to release Aeint.   \n\nUnder pressure from his family\, his producers\, and the censorship office\, a young Burmese director struggles to make his feature film in Mo ney Has Four Legs. This delightful satire cleverly uses the film-within-a- film trope to lightly take aim at Myanmar’s strict censorship while also recognizing film’s place in Burmese culture. One comic mishap after ano ther ensues until his own life hilariously mirrors the cops-and-robbers ta le in his screenplay. This gleefully inventive film melds its local surrou ndings with fantastical elements of surprise\, adventure\, and visual flai r\, offering an illuminating street-level view of Myanmar. ~Orly Yadin\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Mon ey-Has-Four-Legs03.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1150@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T180000 DTSTAMP:20210924T155443Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/luzzu/ SUMMARY:Luzzu DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Fri\, Oct 8 | 5:50 PM | Savoy\nNot available on V irtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septembe r 29.\n\nThis debut film from writer-director-editor Alex Camilleri takes its title from the small wooden boats used by the traditional fishermen of the Maltese islands. When Jesmark\, played by nonprofessional actor Jesma rk Scicluna\, can no longer support his family on the fishing trade practi ced by his forebears\, he must weigh his birthright against the realities of the modern world. Should he continue to pursue the meager living of a f isherman or accept a EU payout to decommission his luzzu and\, instead\, w ork for the rapacious black market that ravages the waters of their bounty ? This compelling story captures a man and a culture in crisis\, teetering between the old world and the new. Scicluna’s gripping performance\, ca ged like a feral animal as the twin pressures of family and money close in \, won him the Sundance Jury Prize at the 2021 festival. ~Travis Weedon\n\ n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Luz zu_photo5-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1169@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T204500 DTSTAMP:20211004T160710Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beans/ SUMMARY:Beans DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Oct 16 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual | G eoblocked to VT\, NH\, ME\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, W ednesday\, September 29.\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with the director - Thur sday screening only\n\nTwelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: Torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence\; forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the indigenous upri sing known as the Oka Crisis\, which tore Québec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990. Director Tracey Deer is an award-winning indigenous female filmmaker\, born and raised in Kahnawá:ke.\n\nDirector ’s Note: “This project goes back a long way for me. I was Beans. I was twelve-years-old when I lived through an armed stand-off between my peopl e and the Québec and Canadian governments known as The Oka Crisis. The Mo hawk Nation of Kanesatake and Kahnawà:ke stood up to a formidable bully - and won. That summer I knew I wanted to become a filmmaker and vowed to o ne day tell this story.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/EMA films_BEANS_KiawentiioTarbell-Beans_ViolahBeauvais-RubycSebastienRaymond_0 0522-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1197@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T154947Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/faya-dayi-virtual/ SUMMARY:Faya Dayi DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSun\, Oct 10 | 3:15 pm | Savoy\nWed\, Oct 13 | 2 pm | FH\n\n\nHot Docs (Winner: Audience Award)\; Visions du Réel (Winn er: Grand Jury Prize\, FIPRESCI Award)\; Full Frame Documentary Film Festi val (Winner: Grand Jury Award\, Filmmaker Award\, Emerging Artist Award)   \n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29 .\n\nIn her hypnotic documentary feature\, Ethiopian-Mexican filmmaker Jes sica Beshir explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical u ndercurrents. Though a deeply personal project—Beshir was forced to lea ve her hometown of Harar with her family as a teenager due to growing po litical strife—she returned to make a film about the city\, its rural Or omo community of farmers\, and the harvesting of the country’s most soug ht-after export\, Khat\, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for rel igious meditations - and Ethiopia's most lucrative cash crop today. The fi lm is neither a straightforward work of nostalgia nor an issue-oriented do c about a particular drug culture. Rather\, Beshir has constructed somet hing dreamlike: a film that uses light\, texture\, and sound to illuminate the spiritual lives of people whose experiences often become fodder for r ipped-from-the-headlines tales of migration.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/321 89id_002_0005_32189id_007-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1208@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T165759Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/taming-the-garden-virtual/ SUMMARY:Taming The Garden DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to VT\n\nAlso showing\; Wed\, Oct 13 | 4:3 0 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and w ill be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septe mber 29.\n\nThe opening shot of filmmaker Salomé Jashi’s striking envir onmental tale captures a tree as tall as a 15-story building floating on a barge across the vast Black Sea. Its destination lies within a garden cou ntless miles away. Cryptically\, elliptically\, without narration or any o utside intervention\, Taming the Garden relates a curious recent incident in rural Georgia when the billionaire ex-prime minister — still widely r egarded as among the most powerful men in the country — decided to popul ate his vast private estate with mature trees. An observational documentar y that explores themes of commercial worth and societal value\, Jashi’s film plays more like myth than journalism\, as though she is documenting t he folklore of the future as it is happening. We are witness to the argume nts pro and con among the villagers\, but even when the locals don’t ack nowledge it\, Jashi’s watchful\, listening film is tuned to the waveleng th of their collective\, subconscious regret. Whatever they might say\, th ere’s an understanding that to hack into those 15-meter-wide root system s is to tear into the very fabric of the community. ~excerpts from Jessica Chang\, Variety\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/TRE ES_still_01.png CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1214@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T235900 DTSTAMP:20210924T171422Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wildland-virtual/ SUMMARY:Wildland DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to VT\n\nAlso showing:\nSat\, Oct 9 | 8:45 pm | Savoy\nWed\, Oct 13 | 7:00 pm | FH\n\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purch asers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThis Danish crime drama comes from Jeanette Nordahl\, assistant director on the international televisio n sensation Borgen. After losing her mother in a car crash\, 17-year-old I da (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) is put into the custody of her estranged aunt\, played with a mixture of warmth and cunning by Sidse Babett Knudsen (also of Borgen fame). Soon Ida is entangled in the web of extortion and violen ce that constitutes the family business. Will she break the cycle of crime that is her generational inheritance? Or will blood relations prove stron ger than blood spilt? Stylish and provocative\, Wildland blends the tautne ss of a thriller with the emotional valence of a coming-of-age story. ~Tra vis Weedon\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Wil dlandpic-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1154@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T143000 DTSTAMP:20210924T170000Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-rescue/ SUMMARY:The Rescue DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Fri\, Oct 8 | 8:00 pm | Savoy\nNot available on V irtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septembe r 29.\n\nWinner of People's Choice - Best Documentary at TIFF 2021.\n\nThe Rescue chronicles the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 Thai boys and their socc er coach\, trapped deep inside a flooded cave. Academy Award-winning direc tors and producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo) reveal th e perilous world of cave diving\, the bravery of the rescuers\, and the de dication of an entire community that made great sacrifices to save these y oung boys. An outing to explore a nearby system of caves after soccer prac tice transformed into a two-week saga of survival and a story that would c apture the world’s attention. With exclusive access to footage from the rescue\, the film tells the story of the imagination\, determination and u nprecedented teamwork displayed during this heroic edge-of-your-seat missi on with life-or-death stakes.\n\n“Even though I knew the outcome\, I was at the edge of my seat throughout.” ~Ethan Murphy\, VTIFF Programming C ommittee\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/The Rescue_TCR_0726_2_SG-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1162@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T160000 DTSTAMP:20210929T111651Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/what-do-we-see-when-we-look-at-the-sky/ SUMMARY:What Do We See When We Look At The Sky? DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sun\, Oct 10 | 6:00 pm | Savoy\nNot available on Virtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and wil l be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septemb er 29.\n\nWhen Lisa and Giorgi bump into each other\, it’s love at first sight. They agree to meet again the next day. What they cannot foresee is that an inexplicable curse will change both of their appearances before t hey wake. Unable to recognize each other\, Lisa’s and Giorgi’s romanti c hopes are set adrift in the Georgian city of Kutaisi. What ensues is a f ilm that challenges the very act of looking and the art of attention. Told with whimsy and endlessly surprising humor and misdirection\, the interro gative of the title is only the first in an ebullient examination of how w e see and what we take from the experience. ~Travis Weedon\n\n \n\n \ ;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WHA T-DO-WE-SEE-WHEN-WE-LOOK-AT-THE-SKY.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1136@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T173000 DTSTAMP:20210924T154613Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/el-planeta/ SUMMARY:El Planeta DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Oct 16 | 1:30 pm | BB\nNot available on Vir tual\n\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septembe r 29.\n\nWriter-director-star Amalia Ulman’s first feature is a deadpan comedy about the confiding\, codependent and contentious relationship betw een a mother and daughter who are on the verge of eviction from their cold and cramped apartment in a coastal city in Spain. Ulman — a multidiscip linary artist whose work includes video essays\, conceptual museum install ations and Instagram performance art — cast her real-life mother as her onscreen counterpart. Their lived-in chemistry and improvisatory banter le nd an offbeat comedic pathos to the hapless duo who blithely live beyond t heir means as the Spanish economy implodes around them following the 2008 financial crisis. Directed in a New Wave style that recalls the VTIFF 2013 hit Frances Ha (with shades of early Jim Jarmusch)\, El Planeta provides much needed comic relief at a moment in time when the cost of living conti nues to soar despite an unprecedented global crisis of a different making. ~Luke Baynes\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/El_ Planeta_02-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1176@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T181500 DTSTAMP:20210924T171502Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/writing-with-fire/ SUMMARY:Writing With Fire DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sun\, Oct 9 | 2:10 pm | Savoy\nNot available on V irtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septembe r 29.\n\nWinner of Audience &\; Special Jury awards at the 2021 Sundanc e Film Festival\n\nReporting from a social environment built to divide bas ed on caste and gender\, a fearless group of journalists maintain India’ s only women-led news outlet. The women of Khabar Lahariya (‘Waves of Ne ws’) prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital even thou gh many of their reporters don’t have access to electricity at home. Arm ed with smartphones\, Chief Reporter Meera and her team of investigative j ournalists confront some of India’s biggest issues — exposing the rele ntless discrimination against women and amplifying the voices of those who suffer from the oppressive caste system. Writing With Fire chronicles the astonishing determination of these local reporters as they empower each o ther and hold those responsible for injustice to account. Reaching new aud iences through their growing platform\, the women of Khabar Lahariya redef ine what it means to be powerful in this timely and inspiring documentary. ~Music Box Films\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WRI TING-WITH-FIRE-2021-Documentary-img1.png CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1167@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T201500 DTSTAMP:20211017T114804Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/petite-maman/ SUMMARY:Petite Maman DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sun\, Oct 17 10:00 am through Tue\, Oct 19 11:59 pm | Virtual ​| Geoblocked to VT\n\nSpecial Closing Weekend screening\n \n*This is one of three films selected by the Film and Media Culture Depar tment at Middlebury College in partnership with VTIFF to screen in the Hir schfield International Film Series. \n\nTickets are on sale now for Membe rs and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nBest known for 2019’s Portrait o f a Lady on Fire\, Céline Sciamma’s work is prized for her delicate\, p sychologically rich\, and compositionally precise portraits of young women awakening to their identities. Perhaps no writer-director has more firmly established herself in the coming-of-age genre. Such stories typically pr oceed forward in time\; Petite Maman moves forward by going backwards. Spu rred by the loss of a grandparent\, timelines cross and\, at the tender ag e of 8 years old\, a mother and daughter have a chance to become playmates . They meet at a shared moment of fear and uncertainty and are able to off er each other the support that the adults in their lives don’t know how to give. In Sciamma’s hands\, even time travel can be beautifully contai ned and emotionally grounded. ~Travis Weedon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Pet ite-Maman-8.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1172@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T204500 DTSTAMP:20210924T155810Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-ordinary-man/ SUMMARY:No Ordinary Man DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSun\, Oct 17 | 4:15 pm| BB\nTue\, Oct 19 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass p urchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, We dnesday\, September 29.\n\nA fascinating meta portrait of pianist Billy Ti pton\, a transgender man who died in 1989\, as told by transmasculine acto rs and thinkers. Chin-Yee and Joynt’s creative coup is their framing dev ice\, in which a group of (wonderfully eloquent) transmasculine actors — mostly white but not entirely — “audition” for a role in the docume ntary\, playing Tipton at crucial junctures of his life. Those scenes are woven together with interviews with several trans artists and writers\, an d footage of how the talk shows of that era handled Tipton's death and gen der discovery.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/NoO rdinaryMan_Billy4.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1174@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T204500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T221500 DTSTAMP:20210924T160659Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/poly-styrene/ SUMMARY:Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sun\, Oct 17 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual ​| Geoblocked to VT\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchase rs and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday \, September 29.\n\nCeleste Bell tells the story of her mother\, Marianne Joan Elliott-Said\, better known by her stage name\, Poly Styrene. Styrene sang with a rare prescience about identity\, consumerism\, postmodernism\ , and everything she saw unfolding in late 1970s Britain. As the frontwoma n of X-Ray Spex\, the Anglo-Somali punk musician was also a key inspiratio n for the riot grrrl and Afropunk movements. Compelling and timely\, Poly Styrene encompasses issues of belonging and the complexities of race\, men tal health and feminism\, along with wonderful use of archival footage — especially the scenes of punk rock in mid-1970s London and the rise of th e Right and its racism toward Blacks\, who at that time came to the U.K. p rimarily from the ex-British colonies in the Caribbean. The film includes comments from icons such as Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth\, Vivienne Westw ood and Neneh Cherry. ~Orly Yadin\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pol y-styrene-i-am-a-cliche.jpeg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1195@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T235900 DTSTAMP:20211004T160743Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beans-virtual/ SUMMARY:Beans DESCRIPTION:Virtual ​| Geoblocked to VT\, NH\, ME\n\nAlso showing: Thu\, Oct 14 | 7:00 pm | FH\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with the director - Thursda y screening only\n\nTwelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: Torn between inn ocent childhood and delinquent adolescence\; forced to grow up fast to bec ome the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the indigenous uprisin g known as the Oka Crisis\, which tore Québec and Canada apart for 78 ten se days in the summer of 1990. Director Tracey Deer is an award-winning in digenous female filmmaker\, born and raised in Kahnawá:ke.\n\nDirector’ s Note: “This project goes back a long way for me. I was Beans. I was tw elve-years-old when I lived through an armed stand-off between my people a nd the Québec and Canadian governments known as The Oka Crisis. The Mohaw k Nation of Kanesatake and Kahnawà:ke stood up to a formidable bully - an d won. That summer I knew I wanted to become a filmmaker and vowed to one day tell this story.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/EMA films_BEANS_KiawentiioTarbell-Beans_ViolahBeauvais-RubycSebastienRaymond_0 0522-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1199@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T235900 DTSTAMP:20210929T204421Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/money-has-four-legs-virtual/ SUMMARY:Money Has Four Legs DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Thu\, Oct 14 | 2:00 pm | FH\n\n*Followed by Q& \;A with the director (in person screening only)\n\nTickets are on sale no w for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nNote: Ma Aeint\, the co -writer and producer of the film\, was sent to prison after the making of this film\, and Maung Sun\, the director\, is in hiding. All proceeds from distribution will go toward attempts to release Aeint.  \n\nUnder press ure from his family\, his producers\, and the censorship office\, a young Burmese director struggles to make his feature film in Money Has Four Legs . This delightful satire cleverly uses the film-within-a-film trope to lig htly take aim at Myanmar’s strict censorship while also recognizing film ’s place in Burmese culture. One comic mishap after another ensues until his own life hilariously mirrors the cops-and-robbers tale in his screenp lay. This gleefully inventive film melds its local surroundings with fanta stical elements of surprise\, adventure\, and visual flair\, offering an i lluminating street-level view of Myanmar. ~Orly Yadin\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Mon ey-Has-Four-Legs03.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1178@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T123000 DTSTAMP:20210924T164541Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sundance-shorts/ SUMMARY:Sundance Shorts DESCRIPTION: Not available on Virtual\n\nTheatrical program of 7 short film s selected from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival program\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nBJ's Mobile Gift Shop | USA | Director and Screenwriter: Jason Park — A young Korean-Ame rican hustler runs throughout the city of Chicago making sales out of his "mobile gift shop."\n\nBlack Bodies | Canada | Director and Screenwriter: Kelly Fyffe-Marshall — A Black man laments as he comes face-to-face with the realities of being Black in the 21st century.\n\n The Criminals | Fra nce/Romania/Turkey | Director and Screenwriter: Serhat Karaaslan — In a town in Turkey\, a young couple is looking for some privacy. They are reje cted from the hotels because they do not have a marriage certificate. The Criminals received the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Writing.\n\nKKUM | South Korea/USA | Director and Screenwriter: Kang-min K im — My mother's dreams have always been strong premonitions for importa nt moments in my life. I rely on her dreams more than any religion.\n\nTo Know Her | USA/Hong Kong | Director: Natalie Chao — A poetic exploration of the camera's gaze and a family's relationship with the filmmaker's mot her.\n\nWhite Wedding | USA | Director and Screenwriter: Melody C. Roscher — Amidst a racially tense Southern wedding\, a biracial bride has the c hance to confront her estranged Black father after accidentally hiring his wedding band to perform.\n\nWiggle Room | USA | Directors and Screenwrite rs: Sam Guest\, Julia Baylis — Determined to save her wheelchair ramp fr om repossession\, Daisy confronts the shady insurance agent who owes her m oney. Wiggle Room received the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Pr ize for Acting.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SUN DANCE_SHORTS_TOUR_POSTER_2021-1.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1142@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T130000 DTSTAMP:20210924T154005Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/becoming-cousteau/ SUMMARY:Becoming Cousteau  DESCRIPTION:Also showing Sun\, Oct 10 | 1:00 pm | Savoy\nNot available on V irtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septembe r 29.\n\nExplorer\, inventor\, father\, filmmaker — Jacques-Yves Coustea u was all of these things and more. This documentary from National Geograp hic recounts how the man came to be: from aviation officer to deep-sea div er\; from oil surveyor to ocean conservationist. It is the story of an adv enturer whose profound love for the natural world would ultimately reveal to him a planet in crisis. Diving into the treasure trove of The Cousteau Society’s archives\, Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (All In: The Fight for Democracy\; What Happened\, Miss Simone?) brings to the surface reel after reel of the astounding footage that made Cousteau a legend. The resu lt is a visual banquet of underwater wonders. Becoming Cousteau honors Cou steau-the-filmmaker as much as it does Cousteau-the-naturalist. ~ Travis W eedon\n\nIn Becoming Cousteau\, two-time Academy Award nominee Liz Garbus (All In: The Fight for Democracy\, What Happened\, Miss Simone? and The F arm: Angola\, USA) worked with almost 550 hours of archival footage. This included over 240 hours of Cousteau’s videos as well as footage from The Cousteau Society\, which contains nearly 100 hours of rarely-seen footage from before he became one of the most important environmental figures of the 20th century. Additionally\, over 100 hours of Cousteau’s audio jour nals\, interviews and conversations with cohorts and friends help make Bec oming Cousteau an intimate and immersive experience into the life of the F rench explorer. Garbus eschews talking-head interviews in favor of an intr icately knit pastiche of Cousteau’s own words with archival and present- day audio interviews of those who knew him best in order to live and breat he in his visual world for the entirety of the film. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Bec omingCousteau_11_2759051.jpeg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1151@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T151500 DTSTAMP:20211001T024840Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/made-here-film-festival-award-winners/ SUMMARY:Made Here Film Festival Award Winners  DESCRIPTION:*Followed by Q&\;As with the directors\, moderated by Eric F ord\n\nNot available on Virtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10 am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n Yellow Cards For Equal Pay | 10 min 40 se c | English\nDirected by Maia Vota (VT) \n*** Winner: Goldstone Award for Most Promising Filmmaker\, sponsored by Bill Stetson \nMembers of th e Burlington High School girls soccer team\, inspired by the U.S. national soccer team and their lawsuit for equal pay\, and Change the Story\, reco unt the launch of their #EqualPay movement.  \n Just Being Here | 13 min 18 sec| English\nDirected by Matteo Moretti (VT)\n*** Winner: Media Fac tory Award for Audience Favorite\nWalter has lived alone for most of his l ife and doesn’t venture far from his house\, but his life is far from or dinary. He finds solace and wonder in the nature of his backyard in the co mpany of special friends.\n Roseline Like In The Movies / Roseline Comme D ans Les Films | 14 min 45 sec | French w/ subtitles\nDirected by Sara Bour deau (QC) \n*** Co-Winner: VTIFF Award for Best Fiction Film  | Co-Sponso r Consulate General of Canada in Boston\nRoseline is a renowned actress wi th an impressive career. After a lifetime on camera\, she gets ready to pl ay the greatest role of her life. Fiction and reality blur together\, surf acing a deeply buried secret — then: lights\, camera\, action.\n Stay Fo r Tea | 22 min 33 sec| English\nDirected by Paul Bronislaw Kmiec (MA)  \n *** Co-Winner: VTIFF Award for Best Fiction Film. \nAs his memories evaporate from dementia\, an elderly man confronts what he believes are gh osts. As he attempts to re-piece his identity\, he receives a message from a special visitor.\n Natasha Mayers: An Un-still Life | 37 min 51 sec| En glish\nDirected by Anita Clearfield &\; Geoffrey Leighton (ME) \n***  Winner: Vermont PBS Award for Best Documentary\nArtist. Trickster. Activis t. Now\, more than ever\, people want to see truthful\, creative role mode ls like Natasha Mayers\, who is known as the “most committed activist ar tist” in Maine and who Senator George Mitchell called a “state treasur e.”\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Mad eHereBanner_May5-9.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1179@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T150000 DTSTAMP:20210924T154647Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/el-planeta2/ SUMMARY:El Planeta DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Fri\, Oct 15 | 4:00 pm | BB\nNot available on Vir tual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will b e on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nWriter-director-star Amalia Ulman’s first feature is a deadpan co medy about the confiding\, codependent and contentious relationship betwee n a mother and daughter who are on the verge of eviction from their cold a nd cramped apartment in a coastal city in Spain. Ulman — a multidiscipli nary artist whose work includes video essays\, conceptual museum installat ions and Instagram performance art — cast her real-life mother as her on screen counterpart. Their lived-in chemistry and improvisatory banter lend an offbeat comedic pathos to the hapless duo who blithely live beyond the ir means as the Spanish economy implodes around them following the 2008 fi nancial crisis. Directed in a New Wave style that recalls the VTIFF 2013 h it Frances Ha (with shades of early Jim Jarmusch)\, El Planeta provides mu ch needed comic relief at a moment in time when the cost of living continu es to soar despite an unprecedented global crisis of a different making. ~ Luke Baynes\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/El_ Planeta_01-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1166@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T161500 DTSTAMP:20211012T183108Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wild-food-special-event/ SUMMARY:Wild Foods DESCRIPTION:Producers In Attendance \n\nThis presentation of previews from a national PBS travel and food series includes a reception. Scheduled for premiere in the spring of 2023\, it takes audiences on a journey around t he world to rediscover food in its natural environment. Along this journey \, audiences visit exotic locations and meet a vast array of people changi ng the way we eat and interact with the natural world. The premiere episod e is set in Vermont and features accessibility to local and organic food\, unique landscapes\, outdoor lifestyles and environmental stewardship.\n\n At its core\, Wild Foods is a show about agroecology\, or the naturalizati on of our food system. It presents new ideas for environmental stewardship in an accessible and entertaining manner. Every show features host Kevin Chap\, a Vermont-based environmentalist\, writer and professional forager\ , gathering local and wild ingredients\, meeting prominent members from th e food community and preparing world-class cuisine with the help of profes sional chefs. The series looks to nature as inspiration for developing new approaches to regenerative agriculture\, indigenous wisdom\, sustainabili ty and personal relationship to nature. ~ The producers\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/102 4x454-WildFoods-VTIFF-copy.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Atrium\, 60 Lake Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05 401\, United States GEO:44.4774721;-73.2196927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, Burlington \, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landi ng Atrium:geo:44.4774721,-73.2196927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1155@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T174500 DTSTAMP:20210925T165925Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ruth-stones-vast-library-of-the-female-mind/ SUMMARY:Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind DESCRIPTION:***World premiere\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with the director\n\ nNot available on Virtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, W ednesday\, September 29.\n\nAfter tragedy strikes\, acclaimed poet Ruth St one retreated to the margins of the literary world\, working tirelessly to provide for her children\, and transforming her intense grief into poetry \, using simple\, startling language. Using an intimate approach\, the fil m\, 12 years in the making\, combines vérité footage of Ruth at differen t times of her life\, reciting poetry and talking about how she writes\, i ntertwined with the lively and heartfelt observations of people who knew h er. These include award-winning poets Sharon Olds\, Toi Derricotte\, Major Jackson\, Chard deNiord and Edward Hirsch\, as well as those who knew her best — her daughters and grandchildren. Beloved by many\, Ruth’s hous e in Goshen\, Vermont\, became a mecca for students\, poets\, friends and family members. There she inspired people to make art and write\, not only through activities such as the “poetry game\,” but by providing solac e and nurture\, surrounded by nature and camaraderie. ~Nora Jacobson\n\n* Cover photo by David Carlson\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/rut h-in-phoebes-hat-cape-cod-1977-by-David-Carlson-1.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1148@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T181500 DTSTAMP:20210924T155157Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hive/ SUMMARY:Hive DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSun\, Oct 17 | 2:15 pm | BB\nTue\, Oct 19 | 10:0 0 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual Geoblocked to USA\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purc hasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThe winner of three major aw ards at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival\, Hive is based on the true story of Fahrije\, who\, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village \, has lived with fading hope since her husband went missing during the wa r in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling family\, she pulls the other widows together to launch a business selling a local food product a gainst the backdrop of Eastern Europe’s civil unrest and lingering misog yny.\n\n“Uplifting\, beautifully shot and with strong acting\, this is a peek into a world we rarely see\, in a fascinating historical and cultura l context. Hive made me run to try red pepper spread in an effort to enter the world of the women in the film.” ~Julia Swift\, VTIFF Programming C ommittee\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hiv e_Still_5_credit_Alexander-Bloom-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1192@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T190000 DTSTAMP:20211012T183328Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/community-champion/ SUMMARY:VTIFF Community Champion Award - Bill Stetson DESCRIPTION:Special Event\n\nSpecial reception to honor E. W. III Stetson\, recipient of the 2021 VTIFF Community Champion Award. The annual VTIFF Co mmunity Champion Award goes to an individual who has contributed to the po wer of film as a transformative art form that enriches our communities. \n \nThis is a fundraiser for VTIFF\, with a recommended donation of $50 or m ore. We very much hope you will attend and help support our year round pro gramming. To attend and donate\, click on the “Get Tickets” link.\n\nW ine by Shelburne Vineyard\, food by A Single Pebble. Your ticket includes a glass of wine and food. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/FRI -OCT-15-8-MSL-copy-copy.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Atrium\, 60 Lake Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05 401\, United States GEO:44.4774721;-73.2196927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, Burlington \, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landi ng Atrium:geo:44.4774721,-73.2196927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1161@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T210000 DTSTAMP:20210929T111126Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-worst-person-in-the-world/ SUMMARY:The Worst Person In The World DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSun\, Oct 17 | 12 pm | FH\nTue\, Oct 19 | 10:00 am- 11:59 pm | Virtual | Geoblocked to Vt\n\nSpecial Closing Weekend scree ning\n\n*This is one of three films selected by the Film and Media Cultur e Department at Middlebury College in partnership with VTIFF to screen in the Hirschfield International Film Series.\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purch asers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThis delightful romantic come dy from Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier isn’t afraid to take risks with t he form. Divided into twelve chapters\, plus a prologue and epilogue\, The Worst Person in the World explores the process of falling in and out of l ove\, and maybe in again\, and maybe out again\, with all the joy\, hearta che\, spontaneity\, and resentment the experience can bring. Renate Reinsv e won the Best Actress award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for her deep ly felt work as the impulsive and charming Julie\, a young woman prone to trying on identities and loves as she searches for the ones that fit just right. The Worst Person in the World is the third installment in Trier’s loosely connected “Oslo Trilogy.” ~Travis Weedon\n\n \n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Wor st-Person-in-the-World-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1163@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211016T213000 DTSTAMP:20210924T171627Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/youssou-ndour-return-to-goree/ SUMMARY:Youssou N’Dour: Return To Gorée DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Oct 18 | 10:00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual\n\nT ickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nIn itially released in 2008\, the 2021 re-release of the musical odyssey Yous sou N’Dour: Return to Gorée powerfully resonates with the Black Lives M atter movement and such films as Questlove’s Summer of Soul.  The film follows the great Senegalese singer and world music star Youssou N’Dour ’s historical journey tracing the trail left by enslaved Africans and th e jazz music they engendered. We follow N’Dour from Senegal to Atlanta\, New Orleans\, New York City\, France and Luxembourg as he works on perfec ting his band’s jazz reflections on his own African songs. The powerful climax of the film is the final concert in Gorée\, the island off the coa st of Dakar\, Senegal\, known as “the door of no return\,” which has b een preserved as a symbol of the slave trade and a commemoration of its vi ctims. Memorable musical standouts include the spectacular Atlanta a cappe lla singers the Harmony Harmoneers\; the luminous harmonica improvisations of Gregoire Maret\; the New Orleans-based drummer Idris Muhammad\; and th e Tunisian pianist Moncef Genoud. Amiri Baraka\, the fiery African America n writer and activist\, helps to illuminate the history. Ultimately\, the film is a testament to the power of music transformed through cross-cultur al encounters\, and it serves as a powerful reminder of a history often ob scured. ~Arnie Malina\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\ n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ret urn-to-Gorée-02-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1220@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211017 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211020 DTSTAMP:20211017T154400Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/try-harder-virtual2/ SUMMARY:Try Harder! DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to VT\n\nAlso showing: Mon\, Oct 11 | 4:15 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and wi ll be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septem ber 29.\n\n“This whole process creates people who are very cynical about the colleges they end up going to\,” says one impending graduate in Deb bie Lum’s probing\, empathetic and good-humored look at the hypercompeti tive college application process at the No. 1 ranked public high school in San Francisco.  Lum’s camera primarily shadows five students at the ma jority Asian American school — three of whom are Asian\, one biracial an d one white — as they navigate the sleep-deprived onslaught of cramming for exams and writing college essays while dealing with parental pressures and their own insecurities. One student\, who is white\, says that even w ith a 4.0 GPA and a near-perfect SAT score he’d have only a 1 in 5 chanc e of getting into Stanford. The doc also examines the roles ethnicity and racial profiling play in the college vetting process at Ivy League schools and elite West Coast universities like Stanford\, which allegedly limit t he number of Asian Americans they accept. Try Harder! is a film that makes us genuinely care about the success of its young subjects even as we reco gnize the absurdity and arbitrariness of a flawed process.  ~Luke Baynes\ n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/try harder_still_01.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1204@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211017 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211020 DTSTAMP:20211017T154753Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/youssou-ndour-return-to-goree-virtual/ SUMMARY:Youssou N’Dour: Return To Gorée DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Oct 16 | 7:30 pm | BB\n\nTickets are on sal e now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ti cket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nInitially released in 2008\, the 2021 re-release of the musical odyssey Youssou N’Dour: Ret urn to Gorée powerfully resonates with the Black Lives Matter movement an d such films as Questlove’s Summer of Soul.  The film follows the great Senegalese singer and world music star Youssou N’Dour’s historical jo urney tracing the trail left by enslaved Africans and the jazz music they engendered. We follow N’Dour from Senegal to Atlanta\, New Orleans\, New York City\, France and Luxembourg as he works on perfecting his band’s jazz reflections on his own African songs. The powerful climax of the film is the final concert in Gorée\, the island off the coast of Dakar\, Sene gal\, known as “the door of no return\,” which has been preserved as a symbol of the slave trade and a commemoration of its victims. Memorable m usical standouts include the spectacular Atlanta a cappella singers the Ha rmony Harmoneers\; the luminous harmonica improvisations of Gregoire Maret \; the New Orleans-based drummer Idris Muhammad\; and the Tunisian pianist Moncef Genoud. Amiri Baraka\, the fiery African American writer and activ ist\, helps to illuminate the history. Ultimately\, the film is a testamen t to the power of music transformed through cross-cultural encounters\, an d it serves as a powerful reminder of a history often obscured. ~Arnie Mal ina\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ret urn-to-Gorée-02-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1221@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211017 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211020 DTSTAMP:20211017T154309Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/take-me-somewhere-nice-virtual2/ SUMMARY:Take Me Somewhere Nice DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to USA\n\nAlso showing:Tue\, Oct 12 | 7:00 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and wi ll be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septem ber 29.\n\nWith her debut feature\, and based in The Netherlands\, Bosnian filmmaker Ena Sendijarević proves herself already an artist of consummat e style and tone. The lethargy of Sendijarević’s characters allows ampl e time to savor her colorful\, eye-catching compositions. Full of peculiar angles and sun-drenched vibrancy\, the liveliness of the framing contrast s the dour aimlessness of three teenagers on an odyssey through modern Bos nia. Irrepressible beauty and sensuality play strange bedfellows to the de adpan ennui that inflicts these characters’ emotional lives\, hampered a s they are by grim prospects in a country short on opportunity. Young actr ess Sara Luna Zorić leads the cast with a presence so captivating audienc es are sure to follow her wherever this sardonic road movie takes them. ~T ravis Weedon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/TAK E_ME_SOMEWHERE_NICE9©Emo_Weemhoff.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1222@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211017 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211020 DTSTAMP:20211017T154208Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beans-virtual2/ SUMMARY:Beans DESCRIPTION:Virtual ​| Geoblocked to VT\, NH\, ME\n\nAlso showing: Thu\, Oct 14 | 7:00 pm | FH\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with the director - Thursda y screening only\n\nTwelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: Torn between inn ocent childhood and delinquent adolescence\; forced to grow up fast to bec ome the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the indigenous uprisin g known as the Oka Crisis\, which tore Québec and Canada apart for 78 ten se days in the summer of 1990. Director Tracey Deer is an award-winning in digenous female filmmaker\, born and raised in Kahnawá:ke.\n\nDirector’ s Note: “This project goes back a long way for me. I was Beans. I was tw elve-years-old when I lived through an armed stand-off between my people a nd the Québec and Canadian governments known as The Oka Crisis. The Mohaw k Nation of Kanesatake and Kahnawà:ke stood up to a formidable bully - an d won. That summer I knew I wanted to become a filmmaker and vowed to one day tell this story.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/EMA films_BEANS_KiawentiioTarbell-Beans_ViolahBeauvais-RubycSebastienRaymond_0 0522-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1201@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211017 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211020 DTSTAMP:20211017T155012Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/petite-maman-virtual/ SUMMARY:Petite Maman DESCRIPTION:Virtual ​| Geoblocked to VT\n\nAlso showing: Fri\, Oct 15 | 7 :00 pm | FH\n\n*This is one of three films selected by the Film and Media Culture Department at Middlebury College in partnership with VTIFF to scre en in the Hirschfield International Film Series. \n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual tick et purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nBest known for 2019 ’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire\, Céline Sciamma’s work is prized for h er delicate\, psychologically rich\, and compositionally precise portraits of young women awakening to their identities. Perhaps no writer-director has more firmly established herself in the coming-of-age genre. Such stori es typically proceed forward in time\; Petite Maman moves forward by going backwards. Spurred by the loss of a grandparent\, timelines cross and\, a t the tender age of 8 years old\, a mother and daughter have a chance to b ecome playmates. They meet at a shared moment of fear and uncertainty and are able to offer each other the support that the adults in their lives do n’t know how to give. In Sciamma’s hands\, even time travel can be bea utifully contained and emotionally grounded. ~Travis Weedon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Pet ite-Maman-8.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1218@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211017 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211020 DTSTAMP:20211017T155243Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/all-the-streets-virtual2/ SUMMARY:All The Streets are Silent DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Oct  9 | 9:00 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sa le now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual t icket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\n“The streets of N.Y. might be temporarily silent\, but in downtown Manhattan in the early 90’s\, they were the site of a dynamic collision between two vibrant sub cultures: skateboarding and hip hop. Jeremy Elkin’s yet-to-premiere docu mentary\, All The Streets Are Silent\, narrated by Eli Morgan Gesner\, bri ngs to life the magic of this time period and the convergence that created an urban style and visual language that would have an outsized and lastin g cultural effect. If Paris Is Burning and KIDS had a baby\, you’d have this documentary love letter to New York  — examining race\, society\, fashion and street culture — and full of archival footage featuring lege ndary characters and figures from the downtown scene.” ~ Tribeca Film Fe stival\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/All -the-Streets-02.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1219@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211017 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211020 DTSTAMP:20211017T154456Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/flee-virtual2/ SUMMARY:Flee DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to VT\n\nAlso showing: Sat\, Oct 9 | 11:30 am | FH\n\n*This is one of three films selected by the Film and Media Cu lture Department at Middlebury College in partnership with VTIFF to screen in the Hirschfield International Film Series. \n\nTickets are on sale no w for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\n “Amin” is an Afgh an refugee who arrived in Denmark over twenty years ago as an unaccompanie d minor seeking asylum. Even now as a successful academic\, he has to hide the true story of his life and family in order to maintain his immigratio n status. To protect his identity\, Flee is told mostly through animation. Amin relates the harrowing events that forced him and his family to deser t their home and the dangerous obstacles they faced in seeking a new one. Some of the more dramatic events are spliced with real-life news footage\, bringing the weight of historical trauma to bear on Amin’s story of per sonal tragedy. This absorbing documentary is inventively told and sheds ne eded light on the lives of those forced to keep in the shadows. ~Travis We edon\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/FLE E_still_12.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1202@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T235900 DTSTAMP:20211016T204311Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/poly-styrene-virtual/ SUMMARY:Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché DESCRIPTION:Virtual ​| Geoblocked to VT\n\nAlso showing: Fri\, Oct 15 | 8 :45 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Sep tember 29.\n\nCeleste Bell tells the story of her mother\, Marianne Joan E lliott-Said\, better known by her stage name\, Poly Styrene. Styrene sang with a rare prescience about identity\, consumerism\, postmodernism\, and everything she saw unfolding in late 1970s Britain. As the frontwoman of X -Ray Spex\, the Anglo-Somali punk musician was also a key inspiration for the riot grrrl and Afropunk movements. Compelling and timely\, Poly Styren e encompasses issues of belonging and the complexities of race\, mental he alth and feminism\, along with wonderful use of archival footage — espec ially the scenes of punk rock in mid-1970s London and the rise of the Righ t and its racism toward Blacks\, who at that time came to the U.K. primari ly from the ex-British colonies in the Caribbean. The film includes commen ts from icons such as Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth\, Vivienne Westwood an d Neneh Cherry. ~Orly Yadin\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/pol y-styrene-i-am-a-cliche.jpeg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1170@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T131500 DTSTAMP:20210924T154740Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fauci/ SUMMARY:Fauci DESCRIPTION:Followed by Q &\; A with Zac Nicholson\, cinematographer\n\n Not available on Virtual\n\nNote: Magnolia Pictures\, the distributor\, ha s decided to only open Fauci in theaters that are implementing COVID-19 va ccine and masking requirements for their guests.\n\nTickets are on sale no w for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\n“It’s hard to imagi ne a less appealing film\, in the late summer of 2021\, than a documentary about Dr. Anthony Fauci\, a man who’s already been on all of our screen s every day for the last 18 months. Nevertheless\, the filmmakers\, with u nprecedented access to the doctor\,  have created a fittingly sober and u nflashy biodoc that is a testament to the values he’s embodied during hi s many decades of being a public servant.”\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n&nbs p\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/FAU CI-02-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1180@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T140000 DTSTAMP:20211017T114121Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-worst-person-in-the-world2/ SUMMARY:The Worst Person In The World DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSat\, Oct 16 | 7:00 pm | FH\nMon\, Oct 18 10:00 am through Tue\, Oct 19 11:59 pm | Virtual | Geoblocked to Vt\n\n*This is one of three films selected by the Film and Media Culture Department at Mi ddlebury College in partnership with VTIFF to screen in the Hirschfield In ternational Film Series.\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass p urchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, We dnesday\, September 29.\n\nThis delightful romantic comedy from Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier isn’t afraid to take risks with the form. Divided i nto twelve chapters\, plus a prologue and epilogue\, The Worst Person in t he World explores the process of falling in and out of love\, and maybe in again\, and maybe out again\, with all the joy\, heartache\, spontaneity\ , and resentment the experience can bring. Renate Reinsve won the Best Act ress award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for her deeply felt work as th e impulsive and charming Julie\, a young woman prone to trying on identiti es and loves as she searches for the ones that fit just right. The Worst P erson in the World is the third installment in Trier’s loosely connected “Oslo Trilogy.” ~Travis Weedon\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/THE -WORST-PERSON-IN-THE-WORLD-02.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1181@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T154500 DTSTAMP:20211017T114018Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hive2/ SUMMARY:Hive DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSat\, Oct 16 | 4:45 pm | BB\nMon\, Oct 18 10:00 am through Tue\, Oct 19 11:59 pm | Virtual Geoblocked to USA\n\nTickets ar e on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to indiv idual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThe winner of three major awards at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival\, Hive is based o n the true story of Fahrije\, who\, like many of the other women in her pa triarchal village\, has lived with fading hope since her husband went miss ing during the war in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling famil y\, she pulls the other widows together to launch a business selling a loc al food product against the backdrop of Eastern Europe’s civil unrest an d lingering misogyny.\n\n“Uplifting\, beautifully shot and with strong a cting\, this is a peek into a world we rarely see\, in a fascinating histo rical and cultural context. Hive made me run to try red pepper spread in a n effort to enter the world of the women in the film.” ~Julia Swift\, VT IFF Programming Committee\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hiv e_Still_5_credit_Alexander-Bloom-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1175@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T161500 DTSTAMP:20210924T160834Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/poppy-field/ SUMMARY:Poppy Field DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSat\, Oct 9 | 4:15 pm | Savoy\nTue\, Oct 19 | 10 :00 am - 11:59 pm | Virtual ​| Geoblocked to VT\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual tick et purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nCristi is a member of the Bucharest police force\, which is sent to quell a protest at a local movie theater where a far-right group has interrupted the screening of a q ueer film. This police drama manages to subtly focus on the damages of soc ietal homophobia while at the same time illuminating both the positive and corrupt aspects of the police buddy system. Tightly shot and edited\, the film has moments of tension that cause discomfort\, with many of the scen es portraying the internal struggle of Cristi\, played superbly by Conrad Mericoffer.  An excellent example of the Romanian New Wave aesthetic\, Po ppy Field is an illuminating film about the destructiveness of open secret s.  ~Orly Yadin ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/POP PY_FIELD_000001-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1182@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T174500 DTSTAMP:20211017T113945Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-ordinary-man2/ SUMMARY:No Ordinary Man DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nFri\, Oct 15 | 7:15 pm | BB\nMon\, Oct 18 10:00 am through Tue\, Oct 19 11:59 pm | Virtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purch asers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nA fascinating meta portrait o f pianist Billy Tipton\, a transgender man who died in 1989\, as told by t ransmasculine actors and thinkers. Chin-Yee and Joynt’s creative coup is their framing device\, in which a group of (wonderfully eloquent) transma sculine actors — mostly white but not entirely — “audition” for a role in the documentary\, playing Tipton at crucial junctures of his life. Those scenes are woven together with interviews with several trans artist s and writers\, and footage of how the talk shows of that era handled Tipt on's death and gender discovery.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/NoO rdinaryMan_Billy4.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1160@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T180000 DTSTAMP:20211017T113642Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-woman-who-ran/ SUMMARY:The Woman Who Ran DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Oct 18 10:00 am through Tue\, Oct 19 11:59 pm | Virtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers an d will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Se ptember 29.\n\nThree encounters — two planned and one chanced — segmen t this deceptively simple work from master director Hong Sang-soo. Gam-hee \, played by Hong’s frequent collaborator Kim Min-hee\, visits old frien ds during what appear to be her first days apart from her husband in over five years. Each visit is a variation on the theme of female friendship an d male intrusion. Hong’s usual modulations are on display\, where banal conversations quickly turn knotted with tension and moments of emotional o utburst break the passive-aggressive chill in the air. But it’s the grac e and subtlety of Hong’s unfussy style that make his films a source of s uch beguiling wonder and a welcomed tonic in our hyperactive media landsca pe. Some critics describe Hong’s filmmaking as decidedly anti-cinematic\ , but\, after over twenty films in as many years\, his static compositions and unvarnished cinematography have come to distinguish a cinema all his own. ~Travis Weedon\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n&nb sp\;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The -Woman-Who-Ran-01.png CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1134@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T203000 DTSTAMP:20210924T154243Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/berlin-symphony/ SUMMARY:Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin\, die Sinfonie der Großst adt) DESCRIPTION:***Closing Night Film\n\nFollowed by Closing Night Party\n\nNot available on Virtual\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purc hasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wedne sday\, September 29.\n\nWith live music accompaniment by Randal Pierce and his band of 7 musicians. This composition was originally commissioned by The Flynn for the 2021 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival\n\nOne of the gro undbreaking works of Weimar cinema\, captured at a time when the German na tion was still reeling from the effects of WWI\, Berlin: Symphony of a Gre at City is an impressive rhythmic collage of cinematic effects and documen tary material. Predating Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929) b y two years\, the film elicits comparisons with the Soviet montage aesthet ic but develops its own editing principles that align more with music and symphony than traditional forms of cinematic expression. Shot on location in a naturalistic style\, it was a reaction to the then popular German Exp ressionism style of such films as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (shown at VT IFF 2019\, also with live music by Randal Pierce). However\, the creative editing makes it anything but naturalistic\, offering a poetic day in the life of Berlin\, in five acts.  ~Orly Yadin\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ber lin-Symphony-of-a-Great-City-Banner-1.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1211@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211018 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211020 DTSTAMP:20211017T154718Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-woman-who-ran-virtual/ SUMMARY:The Woman Who Ran DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sun\, Oct 17 | 4:45 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sal e now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ti cket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThree encounters — two planned and one chanced — segment this deceptively simple work f rom master director Hong Sang-soo. Gam-hee\, played by Hong’s frequent c ollaborator Kim Min-hee\, visits old friends during what appear to be her first days apart from her husband in over five years. Each visit is a vari ation on the theme of female friendship and male intrusion. Hong’s usual modulations are on display\, where banal conversations quickly turn knott ed with tension and moments of emotional outburst break the passive-aggres sive chill in the air. But it’s the grace and subtlety of Hong’s unfus sy style that make his films a source of such beguiling wonder and a welco med tonic in our hyperactive media landscape. Some critics describe Hong ’s filmmaking as decidedly anti-cinematic\, but\, after over twenty film s in as many years\, his static compositions and unvarnished cinematograph y have come to distinguish a cinema all his own. ~Travis Weedon\n \n\n&nb sp\;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The -Woman-Who-Ran-01.png CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1212@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211018 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211020 DTSTAMP:20211017T154635Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-worst-person-in-the-world-virtual/ SUMMARY:The Worst Person In The World DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to VT\n\nAlso showing:\nSat\, Oct 16 | 7:0 0 pm | FH\nSun\, Oct 17 | 12:00 pm | FH\n\n*This is one of three films se lected by the Film and Media Culture Department at Middlebury College in p artnership with VTIFF to screen in the Hirschfield International Film Seri es.\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 2 9.\n\nThis delightful romantic comedy from Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier isn’t afraid to take risks with the form. Divided into twelve chapters\, plus a prologue and epilogue\, The Worst Person in the World explores the process of falling in and out of love\, and maybe in again\, and maybe ou t again\, with all the joy\, heartache\, spontaneity\, and resentment the experience can bring. Renate Reinsve won the Best Actress award at the 202 1 Cannes Film Festival for her deeply felt work as the impulsive and charm ing Julie\, a young woman prone to trying on identities and loves as she s earches for the ones that fit just right. The Worst Person in the World is the third installment in Trier’s loosely connected “Oslo Trilogy.” ~Travis Weedon\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \ ;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Wor st-Person-in-the-World-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1216@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211018 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211020 DTSTAMP:20211017T121217Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hive-virtual/ SUMMARY:Hive DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to USA\n\nAlso showing:\nSat\, Oct 16 | 4: 45pm | BB\nSun\, Oct 17 | 2:15 pm | BB\n\nTickets are on sale now for Memb ers and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchaser s at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nThe winner of three major awards at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival\, Hive is based on the true story of Fa hrije\, who\, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village\, ha s lived with fading hope since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling family\, she pulls the othe r widows together to launch a business selling a local food product agains t the backdrop of Eastern Europe’s civil unrest and lingering misogyny.\ n\n“Uplifting\, beautifully shot and with strong acting\, this is a peek into a world we rarely see\, in a fascinating historical and cultural con text. Hive made me run to try red pepper spread in an effort to enter the world of the women in the film.” ~Julia Swift\, VTIFF Programming Commit tee\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hiv e_Still_5_credit_Alexander-Bloom-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1200@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211018 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211020 DTSTAMP:20211017T155058Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-ordinary-man-virtual/ SUMMARY:No Ordinary Man DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nFri\, Oct 15 | 7:15 pm | BB\nSun\, Oct 17 | 4:15 pm | BB\n\nTickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and wi ll be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am\, Wednesday\, Septem ber 29.\n\nA fascinating meta portrait of pianist Billy Tipton\, a transge nder man who died in 1989\, as told by transmasculine actors and thinkers. Chin-Yee and Joynt’s creative coup is their framing device\, in which a group of (wonderfully eloquent) transmasculine actors — mostly white bu t not entirely — “audition” for a role in the documentary\, playing Tipton at crucial junctures of his life. Those scenes are woven together w ith interviews with several trans artists and writers\, and footage of how the talk shows of that era handled Tipton's death and gender discovery.\n \n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/NoO rdinaryMan_Billy4.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1203@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T235900 DTSTAMP:20211002T180740Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/poppy-field-virtual/ SUMMARY:Poppy Field DESCRIPTION:Virtual | Geoblocked to VT\n\nAlso showing:\nSat\, Oct 9 | 4:15 pm | Savoy\nSun\, Oct 17 | 2:45 pm | FH\n\nTickets are on sale now for Me mbers and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchas ers at 10am\, Wednesday\, September 29.\n\nCristi is a member of the Bucha rest police force\, which is sent to quell a protest at a local movie thea ter where a far-right group has interrupted the screening of a queer film. This police drama manages to subtly focus on the damages of societal homo phobia while at the same time illuminating both the positive and corrupt a spects of the police buddy system. Tightly shot and edited\, the film has moments of tension that cause discomfort\, with many of the scenes portray ing the internal struggle of Cristi\, played superbly by Conrad Mericoffer .  An excellent example of the Romanian New Wave aesthetic\, Poppy Field is an illuminating film about the destructiveness of open secrets.  ~Orly Yadin ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/POP PY_FIELD_000001-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2021 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1217@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211116 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20211117 DTSTAMP:20211209T214721Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bright-green-thing/ SUMMARY:Vermont and the Bright Green Nothing DESCRIPTION:*World Premiere*\n\nFollowed by a Q&\;A with the filmmaker a nd Bo Moore\, moderated by Eric Ford\, Executive Producer &\; Host of M ade Here on Vermont PBS\n\n\n\nTen years ago this November 16th\, a Vermon t T-Shirt artist known as “Bo the Eat More Kale guy\,” took to social media to say that the fast food giant Chick-fil-A had ordered him to cease and desist printing T-Shirts with the words "Eat More Kale." What happene d next\, Bo said\, “The world responded.”\n\n Vermont and the Bright Green Nothing takes a deep dive into a story that was broadcast around the world from Vermont\, seen by millions\, and moved over a hundred thousand people to physically do something to support Bo Moore and his T-Shirt bus iness. Culled from thousands of pages of documents and hundreds of hours o f never-before-seen footage — this Vermont-made documentary was funded o n Kickstarter and includes interviews with many of the world’s leading t rademark scholars in addition to the late Milton Glaser\, designer of the I (Heart) NY logo\, and best-selling business author Seth Godin.\nPlease j oin us!\n\nJames Lantz has also created "footnotes" to the film. You may a ccess them HERE.\n\nNote: this event is "pay as you can". You may book and donate HERE. The theater will have a reduced capacity\, so we recommend y ou book your tickets in advance. Walk-up sales only if space allows.\n\nVT IFF's chief concern is the safety of the audience and VTIFF staff. Proof o f vaccination will be required at the door. Proof can either be a physical card or a digital version on your phone. Masking indoors is mandatory. Th ank you.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Kal e-high-res-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event,Vermont Films,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1223@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T173000 DTSTAMP:20211129T192234Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/paper-and-glue/ SUMMARY:Paper and Glue DESCRIPTION:JR turns the camera on his own work as he builds some of his mo st monumental projects. From early illicit graffiti videos captured on Par is rooftops at night\, to the US-Mexico border\, to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro\, to a current collaboration at a California supermax prison\, the film follows JR as he turns these communities inside out\, turning images of residents into eye-catching and immersive art installations.\n\nPaper &\; Glue follows the Oscar-nominated Faces Places\, which was directed by JR along with Agnès Varda.\n\nOne of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influe ntial People in 2018\, JR is a visual artist who exhibits freely in the st reets of the world\, pasting huge portraits of anonymous people in unexpec ted places. His work is about raising questions\, seeking an encounter bet ween the subject and the passer-by.\n\nJR's notes: "Paper &\; Glue is a film that challenges viewers' perceptions by lifting the voices of people and places that are often overlooked. The film is the culmination of year s of my work and includes an archive of photography and videos that span b ack to my adolescence. At the time of many of these recordings\, I had no intention or awareness they could be used in this way. To have my work com e full circle exemplifies the power of film\, and the power of Paper &\ ; Glue. I hope this film further uplifts the essentiality of art and the p otential it holds to reshape even our most ingrained beliefs. By challengi ng our expectations of people and places\, I hope to change our greater pe rceptions of the world."\n\nWe strongly recommend that you book your ticke t online in advance: seating will be limited. All Access members need not book - your seats are guaranteed up to 10 minutes before start of screenin g.\n\nVTIFF's chief concern is the safety of the audience and VTIFF staff. Proof of vaccination will be required at the door. Proof can either be a physical card or a digital version on your phone. Masking indoors is manda tory. Thank you.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/VTI FF_Paper-and-Glue_12-2_1200x675_TW-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1226@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T211500 DTSTAMP:20211129T192158Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vonnegut/ SUMMARY:Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time DESCRIPTION:As an adolescent enthralled by his novel Slaughterhouse-Five\, Robert Weide wrote a letter to Kurt Vonnegut\, proposing to make a documen tary on the author. Surprisingly\, Vonnegut agreed\, and the two struck up a decades-long collaboration that grew into an enduring friendship. Fille d with rare archival footage and interviews with family\, colleagues and V onnegut himself\, Weide’s portrait offers a deep\, intimate look into th e life and work of one of the giants of American literature.\n\n \n\nWe s trongly recommend that you book your ticket online in advance: seating wil l be limited. All Access members need not book - your seats are guaranteed up to 10 minutes before start of screening.\n\nVTIFF's chief concern is t he safety of the audience and VTIFF staff. Proof of vaccination will be re quired at the door. Proof can either be a physical card or a digital versi on on your phone. Masking indoors is mandatory. Thank you.\n\n \;\n\n\ n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/VTI FF_Kurt-Vonnegut_Unstuck-In-Time_12-2_1200x628.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1229@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T181500 DTSTAMP:20220106T142850Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/france/ SUMMARY:France DESCRIPTION:We are sorry to announce that this screening has been postponed until it's safer to attend in person\, but we have made it available on V TIFF's Virtual Cinema for Vermont-based viewers - Book HERE\n\n\n\n\n\nA s atirical drama set in contemporary Paris\, Léa Seydoux stars as France d e Meurs\, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career\, h ome life\, and psychological stability are turned upside down after she ca relessly drives into a young delivery man on a busy street. This unexpecte d eruption of reality triggers a series of self-reckonings as well as a st range romance that proves impossible to shake. As France attempts to to sl ow down and retreat into a simpler\, anonymous life\, her fame continues t o pursue her. Starting out as a tragicomic satire of the news media\, writ er-director Bruno Dumont’s provocative new film spirals out into somethi ng darker as it examines the difficulty of maintaining one’s sense of se lf in a corrosive culture.\n\n\n* Read an extensive (and very French in st yle...) interview with the director HERE.\n\nDumont is one of the most sin gular and admired French writer-directors of the last two and a half decad es. He directed The Life of Jesus\, his first feature film in 1997 at the age of thirty-eight\, shot in the town of Bailleul\, his birthplace\, in t he north of France. The film brought him immediate recognition: selected f or the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors Fortnight\, it was awarded the S pecial Mention for the Caméra d’Or. Pursuing a demanding and raw vein o f filmmaking\, Dumont returned to Cannes in 1999 withHumanity in Official Competition. The film was recognized with the Grand Prix anda double actin g award for its two non-professional actors. Dumont left the North of Fran ce to shoot Twenty nine Palms in the California desert\, a road movie sele cted for the 2003 Venice Film Festival. He won his second Cannes Grand Pri x for Flanders\, a harsh film on the ravages of war. He then directed two films about religion\,mysticism\, and their excesses: Hadewijch and Outsid e Satan. After a biopic in which he directed Juliette Binoche (Camille Cla udel 1915)\, Bruno Dumont broadened his audience with the resounding succe ss of his mini-series Li’l Quinquin\, SlackBay (with Juliette Binoche)\, which was presented in Official Competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festi val\, and was named by Cahiers du Cinéma “one of the best 10 films of 2 016”. Dumont then turned his interest to the tragic fate of Joan of Arc and directed the musical Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc\, a select ion of Cannes’Directors Fortnight in 2017\, then Joan of Arc\, which was at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2019 and received a Special Mention fro m the Jury.\n\n\n\n\n***\n\nVTIFF's chief concern is the safety of the aud ience and VTIFF staff. Proof of vaccination will be required at the door. Proof can either be a physical card or a digital version on your phone. Ma sking indoors is mandatory. Thank you.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Fra nce-1-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1231@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220107 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220122 DTSTAMP:20220106T142631Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/france-virtual/ SUMMARY:France (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nA satirical drama set in contemporary Paris\, Léa S eydoux stars as France de Meurs\, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV jou rnalist whose career\, home life\, and psychological stability are turned upside down after she carelessly drives into a young delivery man on a bus y street. This unexpected eruption of reality triggers a series of self-re ckonings as well as a strange romance that proves impossible to shake. As France attempts to to slow down and retreat into a simpler\, anonymous lif e\, her fame continues to pursue her. Starting out as a tragicomic satire of the news media\, writer-director Bruno Dumont’s provocative new film spirals out into something darker as it examines the difficulty of maintai ning one’s sense of self in a corrosive culture.\n\n\n* Read an extensiv e (and very French in style...) interview with the director HERE.\n\nDumon t is one of the most singular and admired French writer-directors of the l ast two and a half decades. He directed The Life of Jesus\, his first feat ure film in 1997 at the age of thirty-eight\, shot in the town of Bailleul \, his birthplace\, in the north of France. The film brought him immediate recognition: selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors Fortnigh t\, it was awarded the Special Mention for the Caméra d’Or. Pursuing a demanding and raw vein of filmmaking\, Dumont returned to Cannes in 1999 w ithHumanity in Official Competition. The film was recognized with the Gran d Prix anda double acting award for its two non-professional actors. Dumon t left the North of France to shoot Twenty nine Palms in the California de sert\, a road movie selected for the 2003 Venice Film Festival. He won his second Cannes Grand Prix for Flanders\, a harsh film on the ravages of wa r. He then directed two films about religion\,mysticism\, and their excess es: Hadewijch and Outside Satan. After a biopic in which he directed Julie tte Binoche (Camille Claudel 1915)\, Bruno Dumont broadened his audience w ith the resounding success of his mini-series Li’l Quinquin\, SlackBay ( with Juliette Binoche)\, which was presented in Official Competition at th e 2016 Cannes Film Festival\, and was named by Cahiers du Cinéma “one o f the best 10 films of 2016”. Dumont then turned his interest to the tra gic fate of Joan of Arc and directed the musical Jeanette: The Childhood o f Joan of Arc\, a selection of Cannes’Directors Fortnight in 2017\, then Joan of Arc\, which was at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2019 and receiv ed a Special Mention from the Jury.\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Fra nce-1-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1230@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220110 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220125 DTSTAMP:20220106T142721Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bullet-proof/ SUMMARY:Bulletproof (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Only available virtually\, geo-blocked to Vermont.\n\nClosed Ca ptions available\n\n\n\n\nBulletproof explores the complexities of violenc e in schools by looking at the strategies employed to prevent it. The film observes the longstanding rituals that take place in and around American schools: homecoming parades\, basketball practice\, morning announcements\ , and math class. Unfolding alongside these scenes are a collection of new er traditions: lockdown drills\, teacher firearms training\, metal detecto r screenings\, and school safety trade shows. Bulletproof asks what these rituals reflect back at us\, looking beyond immediate causes and responses to mass shootings in a cinematic meditation on the array of forces that s hape the culture of violence in the United States.\n\n\n“Chilling. Candi d and heartbreaking. A keenly observational documentary that depicts the d ay-to-day normalization of the unspeakable.”~ Guy Lodge\, Variety\n\n\n\ n***\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Bul letproof6_class_cr-Derek-Howard_16x9.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1242@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220127 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220210 DTSTAMP:20220127T192237Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/song-called-hate-virtual/ SUMMARY:A Song Called Hate (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:\n\nOne of a pair of virtual offerings this month\, showcasing witty but earnest films about young artists using their art to engage in t he political sphere. (See also UpperCase Print)\n\n\n200 million are watch ing! This is the reality facing Hatari\, a group of performance artists fr om Iceland\, when they decide to enter Eurovision. But the stunt quickly g oes too far when they are selected to represent Iceland at the 2019 Song C ontest.\n\nNow Hatari are destined to travel to Tel Aviv\, Israel\, to rep resent their tiny country on the world stage. Faced with the pressing poli tical context of the Israel-Palestine conflict\, Hatari resolve to do some thing\; to try to make a difference.\n\nHatari (Icelandic for ‘Hater’) \, declare themselves ’an award winning\, anti-capitalist\, BDSM\, techn o band’. They turn heads and open minds with their full-on antics. But c an they use their art to contribute to this critical debate? Or will their message fail to pierce the shiny bubble created by Eurovision?\n\nAs Hata ri try to change the world\, A Song Called Hate charts how this journey ch anges them.\n\n\n\n\nDirector's Statement:\n\n\nEstablished in the wake of the Second World War\, Eurovision is the longest running annual internati onal television contest. Despite calls for boycotts\, Tel Aviv was chosen to host the competition in 2019. Hatari\, Iceland’s self-declared award- winning\, anti-capitalist\, BDSM techno band\, decide to enter the contest . I was taken aback by their decision and pulled together a tiny crew toge ther to film Hatari’s participation in the Icelandic round of Eurovision . Our film starts with their unforeseen win. As Hatari was now Iceland’s official entry to Eurovision 2019 I was faced with the fact that there wa sn’t the time or resources to find a director and I took the challenge f rom executive producers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard to take a step into the unknown\, direct this film.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ASC H_Still_2_credits_EggertJóhannesson-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1235@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220127 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220210 DTSTAMP:20220127T192531Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/uppercaseprint-virtual/ SUMMARY:Uppercase Print (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:One of a pair of virtual offerings this month\, showcasing witt y but earnest films about young artists using their art to engage in the p olitical sphere. (See also A Song Called Hate).\n\nOne of the "Best Films of 2021" - “Uppercase Print expands the practice of nonfiction filmmakin g into ingeniously imaginative dimensions… Jude\, with his multiple dime nsions of inquiry and imagination\, poses philosophical questions about co nscience and consciousness\, media consumption and social order\, that rea ch far beyond the case and era at hand to challenge the deceptions and del usions of ostensible present-day democracies.” – Richard Brody\, The N ew Yorker\n“It is a fierce and impassioned denunciation of evil\, part o f a continuing wave of Romanian filmmaking dealing with the Ceaușescu and post-Ceaușescu eras.” – Peter Bradshaw\, The Guardian\n\nIn 1981\, c halk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spac es in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom\, alluded to t he democratic developments taking place in Romania’s socialist sister co untries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. The culprit was Mugur Călinescu\, a teenager who was still at school at the time and whose case is documented in the files of the Romanian secret police. Theat er director Gianina Cărbunariu created a documentary play based on this m aterial.\n\nBesides presenting the play\, Radu Jude also uses archival foo tage from Romanian TV of the era. Cooking shows alternate with interrogati ons\, transcripts of wiretapped phone calls with recommendations to exerci se instead of taking sedatives. This dialectical montage creates an image of a dictatorial surveillance state\, drawing on the authorized popular en tertainment of the Ceaușescu regime in order to unmask it.\n\n*** Intervi ew with the directors HERE ***\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/upp ercaseprint_photo2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1228@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220203T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220203T181500 DTSTAMP:20220201T213523Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/storm-lake1/ SUMMARY:Storm Lake DESCRIPTION:This screening is part of Middlebury New Filmmakers' Winter Tou r. The Burlington screening is organized and hosted by VTIFF.\n* The scree ning will be followed by Q&\;A with Director/Producer Beth Levison and Angelo Lynn\, publisher of the Addison Independent in Middlebury\n\nNote: The theater will have a reduced capacity\, so we recommend you book your t ickets in advance. Walk-up sales only if space allows.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDark c louds hang over the cornfields of Storm Lake\, Iowa\, which has seen its f air share of change in the 40 years since Big Agriculture came to town. Fa rmers blow their life savings on new equipment they hope will keep their l ivelihoods intact. Migrant workers flock here—welcome and not—for thei r slice of the American Dream. The people of Storm Lake confront a changin g community as global forces threaten their precarious existence.  Enter 63-year-old Pulitzer-prize winner Art Cullen and his family-run newspaper\ , The Storm Lake Times. Day-in and day- out\, the Cullens deliver local ne ws and biting editorials on a shoestring budget for their 3\,000 readers. Come hell or pandemic\, they’ll fight to preserve this town they call ho me. There’s simply too much at stake.\n\n \;\n\nJERRY RISIUS | DIREC TOR + DP\nWith over 25 years experience as DP on such projects as The King maker (Toronto Int’l Film Festival 2019)\, Generation Wealth (Sundance 2 018)\, Seeing Allred (Sundance 2018/Netflix)\, Brave New Voices (HBO 2009) \, The Devil Came on Horseback (Sundance 2007)\, and more recently\, as a Field Producer/DP on Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and Parts Unknown s eries\, Brooklyn- based Jerry Risius grew up on a hog farm about an hour f rom Storm Lake and brings a depth of filmmaking experience along with a lo cal perspective that very few can.\n\nBETH LEVISON | DIRECTOR + PRODUCER\n Beth Levison is an Emmy and Peabody-winning producer/director based in NYC . Her most recent producing efforts include Women in Blue (Tribeca Film Fe stival 2020/Independent Lens) and Emmy- nominated Made in Boise (AFI DOCS 2019/Independent Lens). Previous producing credits include 32 Pills: My Si ster’s Suicide (HBO 2017)\, Emmy-nominated Personal Statement (PBS 2018) \, and her independent directorial/producing debut\, Lemon (PBS 2011). Bet h is the founder of Hazel Pictures\, a co-founder of the Documentary Produ cers Alliance (DPA)\, producing faculty with the School of Visual Arts (SV A)\, and a member of AMPAS.\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n***\n\nVTIFF's chief con cern is the safety of the audience and VTIFF staff. Proof of vaccination w ill be required at the door. Proof can either be a physical card or a digi tal version on your phone. Masking indoors is mandatory. Thank you.\n\n\n\ n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Sto rm-Lake-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1227@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220203T201500 DTSTAMP:20220118T213555Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ants-and-the-grasshopper/ SUMMARY:The Ants & The Grasshopper DESCRIPTION:This screening is part of Middlebury New Filmmakers' Winter Tou r. The Burlington screening is organized and hosted by VTIFF.\nNote: The t heater will have a reduced capacity\, so we recommend you book your ticket s in advance. Walk-up sales only if space allows.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat do we owe each other in the face of an existential crisis like the climate emerg ency? That’s one big question at the heart of The Ants and the Grasshopp er\, a recently released documentary exploring how power and privilege sha pe climate justice and food justice from Africa to America – and how we might move forward together.\n\nAnita Chitaya has a gift\; she can help br ing abundant food from dead soil\, she can make men fight for gender equal ity\, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now\, to save her home from extreme weather\, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americ ans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to th e White House\, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her jou rney takes her across all the divisions shaping the US\, from the rural-ur ban divide\, to schisms of race\, class and gender\, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe we live on a different planet from everyone el se. It will take all her skill and experience to persuade us that we’re all in this together. This documentary\, ten years in the making\, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change\, gender and racial inequality\, the gaps between the rich and the poor\, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet.\ n\n \;\n\nDirector Bios\n\n Raj Patel\n\nRaj Patel (co-director/produ cer) is a James Beard Award winning activist and New York Times bestsellin g writer. He has testified about food and hunger to the US\, UK and EU gov ernments\, and his book on the food system\, Stuffed and Starved\, has bee n translated into a dozen languages. He worked for the World Bank and WTO and was tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them. His academ ic career spans Oxford\, the London School of Economics\, Cornell Universi ty\, the University of California at Berkeley where he taught with Michael Pollan. He is currently a research professor at Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas\, Austin.\n\n Zak Piper\n\nZa k Piper (co-director/producer) is an Emmy-winning and Producers Guild Awar d-winning documentary filmmaker most known for producing the critically ac claimed film Life Itself\, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival a nd later won a Critics Choice Award. Zak also co-produced the acclaimed fi lm The Interrupters\, which was hailed as one of the year’s best films b y The New Yorker\, Chicago Tribune\, Entertainment Weekly\, and LA Times. Prior to these films\, Zak co-produced At the Death House Door\, which pre miered at the SXSW Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Academy Award s. Zak is currently producing or directing a number of documentary project s in development or production.\n\n\n\n\n\n***\n\nVTIFF's chief concern is the safety of the audience and VTIFF staff. Proof of vaccination will be required at the door. Proof can either be a physical card or a digital ver sion on your phone. Masking indoors is mandatory. Thank you.\n\n\n\n \ ;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ani ta-and-eli-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1261@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T160000 DTSTAMP:20220228T165708Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shorts-1-panel-discussion/ SUMMARY:Shorts Program # 1 + Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Download the VTIFF app and get quick a ccess to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Members\n\n A program of award-winning shorts (73 mins)\, followed by a panel discussi on (45 mins) - not available virtually\n\nMelody of Language – Ned Castl e &\; Matt Day\nThis is the Way We Rise – Ciara Lacy\nNow is the Time – Christopher Auchter\nAgainst the Darkness – Frederick Wiseman \n\n Panel: Vera Longtoe Sheehan\, Melody Mackin\, Chief Don Stevens\, Frederic k M. Wiseman \n\n*** Immediately following this program\, you are invited to a "Tea and Cake" reception hosted by ECHO\, to continue the conversati on in a less formal manner***\n\n \;\n\nThe festival program is in par tnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Now -is-the-Time.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Shorts LOCATION:ECHO Center Lakeside Hall\, 1 College St\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4764229;-73.22100449999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1 College St\, Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ECHO Center La keside Hall:geo:44.4764229,-73.22100449999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1239@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T183000 DTSTAMP:20220228T165348Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/another-country/ SUMMARY:Another Country DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Download the VTIFF app and get quick a ccess to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Members\n\n The film is also available on VTIFF's Virtual Cinema from Friday\, March 4 th through March 6th.\n\nThe great Australian Aboriginal actor David Gulpi lil (Walkabout\, Crocodile Dundee) tells the tale of ‘Another Country’ \, a story of what happened when his people’s way of life was interrupte d. This documentary film speaks to the havoc caused by the superimposition of a new culture over an old culture and the consequent problems in diver se areas of daily life\, such as time\, money\, garbage and errant kangaro os. As the narrator Gulpilil introduces us to these very different world p aradigms and with humor and panache\, gives us first hand insight on the c lashes\, confusions and chaos between cultures.\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n\n\n \ ;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ano ther-Country-01.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1249@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T204500 DTSTAMP:20220228T165736Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/smoke-signals/ SUMMARY:Smoke Signals DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Download the VTIFF app and get quick a ccess to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Members\nAl so playing Sunday\, March 6\, 1pm at The Savoy Theater in Montpelier. Tick ets for the Savoy HERE. VTIFF Membership and Passes do not apply.\n\nThis film is not available virtually.\n\nWinner of Audience Award at Sundance F F.\nSmoke Signals marked a major milestone as the first film written\, dir ected and acted by Native Americans.If there’s one person Victor Joseph doesn’t want to have accompany him when he sets out from the Coeur d’A lene Indian Reservation to retrieve his father’s ashes\, it’s Thomas B uilds-the-Fire. Thomas tells endless stories\, and many of them aren’t e ven true. But Thomas has money\, and Victor doesn’t. Their journey not o nly forges a lasting bond between these young men “born of flame and ash \,” but what Victor discovers enables him to finally forgive his father for deserting the family.\n\n \;\n\nThe festival program is in partner ship with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Smo ke-Signals-02.png CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1257@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220304 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220307 DTSTAMP:20220303T143742Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/another-country-virtual/ SUMMARY:Another Country (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Virtual films play over 3 days\, start ing at midnight on the first day listed.\n\n Download the VTIFF app and ge t quick access to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you d ownloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on i t now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Me mbers\n\nThe film plays in-theater March 3.\n\nThe great Australian Aborig inal actor David Gulpilil (Walkabout\, Crocodile Dundee) tells the tale of ‘Another Country’\, a story of what happened when his people’s way of life was interrupted. This documentary film speaks to the havoc caused by the superimposition of a new culture over an old culture and the conseq uent problems in diverse areas of daily life\, such as time\, money\, garb age and errant kangaroos. As the narrator Gulpilil introduces us to these very different world paradigms and with humor and panache\, gives us first hand insight on the clashes\, confusions and chaos between cultures.\n\nT he festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Ass ociation\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ano ther-Country-01.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1244@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220304 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220309 DTSTAMP:20220303T144223Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sami-blood-virtual/ SUMMARY:Sami Blood (virtual) DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. This film plays over 5 days\, starting at midnight on the first day listed.\n\n Download the VTIFF app and get q uick access to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you down loaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it n ow and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Membe rs\n\nThis film is only available virtually.\n\nThis sensitive coming-of-a ge film brings audiences back in time to Northern Sweden in the 1930s and the colonial oppression of the indigenous Sami people. Expertly helmed by first-time Swedish-Sami writer-director Amanda Kernell\, the film follows a young girl caught between her family and her dreams for the future — a ll while raising questions about whose dreams she is chasing: her own\, or those she has ingested through her Swedish education. The director and ta lented actress have created a very real depiction of female sexuality with out the usual Madonna-whore stereotypes. This is not a tortured story of a n occupied people\, but rather a complex tale of a strong young woman sear ching for her future\, her dreams\, her connections and her identity.\n\nD irector’s comment\n\nMany older Samis left everything behind and became Swedish and I’ve always wondered\; what happens to you if you cut all ti es with your culture and history? And can you really become someone else? Sami Blood is declaration of love to those who left and stayed – told fr om Elle Marja’s perspective. I wanted to make a film where we see the Sa mi society from within\, a film where we experience this dark part of Swed ish colonial history in a physical way. A film with yoik and blood.\n\n&nb sp\;\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Ar tists Association\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/bil d4_hicropped-copy-kopi.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1243@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T144500 DTSTAMP:20220228T170022Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lost-bird/ SUMMARY:Daughter of a Lost Bird / Lost Moccasin DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Download the VTIFF app and get quick a ccess to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Members\n\n The film is also available on VTIFF's Virtual Cinema from Saturday\, March 5th through March 7th.\n\nClosed Captions available.\n\nKendra\, an adult Native adoptee\, reconnects with her birth family\, discovers her Lummi h eritage\, and confronts issues of her own identity. Her moving and singula r story represents many affected by the Indian Child Welfare Act and the I ndian Adoption Project. This is a film that raises questions about identit y and belonging\, about culture and community.\n\n***The screening will be followed by a Q&\;A with the directors and with Kendra\, the daughter in the film***\n\nThe program will begin with a 10-minute short film by Ro ger Boyer\, Lost Moccasin: a Sixties Scoop survivor (the mass removal of I ndigenous children from their families and communities)\, goes on a journe y to speak with his birth uncle about the day that Bradford and his siblin gs were all taken from their mother.\n\n\n \;\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/gi_ Daughter-of-a-Lost-Bird-Still-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1248@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T174500 DTSTAMP:20220228T165512Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/end-of-the-line/ SUMMARY:End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Download the VTIFF app and get quick a ccess to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Members\n\n The film is also available on VTIFF's Virtual Cinema from Saturday\, March 5th through March 7th.\n\nAlso playing Sunday\, March 6th\, 3 pm at The S avoy Theater in Montpelier. VTIFF Membership and Passes do not apply. Tick ets for the Savoy HERE.\n\nA story of a small group of Indigenous women wh o risk their lives to stop the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline con struction that desecrated their ancient burial and prayer sites and threat ens their land\, water\, and very existence. When the population of their peaceful protest camp exceeds 10\,000\, the women unwittingly find themsel ves the leaders of a global movement. The film also features searing testi mony of the Indian boarding school and foster home atrocities\, and the sh ocking record of forced sterilization programs. Exclusive interviews with Zintkala Mahpiya Win Black Owl (who gave birth at the Standing Rock protes ts) and visionary commentary from medicine woman Linda Black Elk\, PhD\, g ive End of the Line an authentic grounding in the essence of American Indi an heritage\, and the struggle for survival in the face of genocide.\n\n\n \n\n\nTold through a combination of cinema verité\, interviews\, handhel d\, Ronin\, drone\, GoPro\, and archival footage\, End of the Line capture s history in the making as the largest gathering of Native Americans in mo re than 200 years takes place on the Great Plains of North Dakota.\n\n\n\n \n\nEnd of the Line is both an exploration of the rise of indigenous and f eminine power in the areas of social and environmental justice\, and a sea ring and deeply personal story of four brave women. Together\, they must f ace the personal costs of leadership\, even as their own lives and identit ies are left transformed by one of the great political and cultural events of the early 21st century.\n\n***Followed by Q&\;A with the director\n \nSponsored by Kalché Wines\n\nThe festival program is in partnership wit h the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/end oftheiline_photo_04_cheryl_angel.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1247@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T204500 DTSTAMP:20220228T165931Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/drunktowns-finest/ SUMMARY:Drunktown's Finest DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Download the VTIFF app and get quick a ccess to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Members\n\n The film is also available on VTIFF's Virtual Cinema from Saturday\, March 5th through March 7th.\n\nTwo decades ago\, Sydney Freeland’s hometown of Gallup\, New Mexico\, was labeled “Drunktown\, USA” by a national n ews program. In elementary school at the time\, the reservation-raised Fre eland found it strange that journalists had descended into town mostly to point their cameras at the local winos. Executive-produced by Robert Redfo rd\, the film focuses on three interlocking stories young Native Americans - an adopted Christian girl\, a rebellious father-to-be\, and a trans wom an\, who strive to escape the hardships of life on an Indian reservation. There’s alcoholism\, of course. Poverty and the scarcity of decent jobs. The search for a coherent self-image\, particularly in terms of balance b etween tradition and contemporary Anglo-American mores. Freeland carefully constructs a story that avoids many of the stigmas and stereotypes of Nat ive life\, yet still portrays the real challenges Native people face.\n\n& nbsp\;\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Dru nktowns-finest-02.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1258@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220305 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220308 DTSTAMP:20220303T143807Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/drunktowns-finest-virtual/ SUMMARY:Drunktown's Finest (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Ticket link coming soon. Virtual films play over 3 days\, starting at midnight on the first day listed.\n\nDownl oad the VTIFF app and get quick access to all festival events\, create you r own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont Inter national FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passh olders and All Access Members\n\nThe film plays in-theater March 4.\n\nTwo decades ago\, Sydney Freeland’s hometown of Gallup\, New Mexico\, was l abeled “Drunktown\, USA” by a national news program. In elementary sch ool at the time\, the reservation-raised Freeland found it strange that jo urnalists had descended into town mostly to point their cameras at the loc al winos. Executive-produced by Robert Redford\, the film focuses on three interlocking stories young Native Americans - an adopted Christian girl\, a rebellious father-to-be\, and a trans woman\, who strive to escape the hardships of life on an Indian reservation. There’s alcoholism\, of cour se. Poverty and the scarcity of decent jobs. The search for a coherent sel f-image\, particularly in terms of balance between tradition and contempor ary Anglo-American mores. Freeland carefully constructs a story that avoid s many of the stigmas and stereotypes of Native life\, yet still portrays the real challenges Native people face.\n\n \;\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n\n\n&nb sp\;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Dru nktowns-finest-02.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1259@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220305 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220308 DTSTAMP:20220303T143928Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/daughter-of-a-lost-bird-virtual/ SUMMARY:Daughter of a Lost Bird / Lost Moccasin(Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Virtual films play over 3 days\, start ing at midnight on the first day listed.\n\n Download the VTIFF app and ge t quick access to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you d ownloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on i t now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Me mbers\n\nThe films play in theater March 4\n\nKendra\, an adult Native ado ptee\, reconnects with her birth family\, discovers her Lummi heritage\, a nd confronts issues of her own identity. Her moving and singular story rep resents many affected by the Indian Child Welfare Act and the Indian Adopt ion Project. This is a film that raises questions about identity and belon ging\, about culture and community.\n\n***Bonus content: short film Lost M occasin by Roger Boyer***\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nThe festival program is in p artnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n\n\n \;\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/gi_ Daughter-of-a-Lost-Bird-Still-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1256@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220305 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220308 DTSTAMP:20220303T144001Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/end-of-the-line-virtual/ SUMMARY:End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Virtual films play over 3 days\, start ing at midnight on the first day listed.\n\n Download the VTIFF app and ge t quick access to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you d ownloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on i t now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Me mbers. Buy your Pass HERE today (valid for in-theater and virtual)\, or cl ick\n\nThe film plays in-theater March 4.\n\nA story of a small group of I ndigenous women who risk their lives to stop the $3.8 billion Dakota Acces s oil pipeline construction that desecrated their ancient burial and praye r sites and threatens their land\, water\, and very existence. When the po pulation of their peaceful protest camp exceeds 10\,000\, the women unwitt ingly find themselves the leaders of a global movement. The film also feat ures searing testimony of the Indian boarding school and foster home atroc ities\, and the shocking record of forced sterilization programs. Exclusiv e interviews with Zintkala Mahpiya Win Black Owl (who gave birth at the St anding Rock protests) and visionary commentary from medicine woman Linda B lack Elk\, PhD\, give End of the Line an authentic grounding in the essenc e of American Indian heritage\, and the struggle for survival in the face of genocide.\n\n\n\n\n\nTold through a combination of cinema verité\, in terviews\, handheld\, Ronin\, drone\, GoPro\, and archival footage\, End o f the Line captures history in the making as the largest gathering of Nati ve Americans in more than 200 years takes place on the Great Plains of Nor th Dakota.\n\n\n\n\n\nEnd of the Line is both an exploration of the rise o f indigenous and feminine power in the areas of social and environmental j ustice\, and a searing and deeply personal story of four brave women. Toge ther\, they must face the personal costs of leadership\, even as their own lives and identities are left transformed by one of the great political a nd cultural events of the early 21st century.\n\n***Followed by Q&\;A w ith the director (in-theater only)\n\n\n \;\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n\n\n \ ;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/end oftheiline_photo_04_cheryl_angel.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1241@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220305T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220305T143000 DTSTAMP:20220228T165541Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nothing-but-the-sun/ SUMMARY:Nothing But the Sun (Apenas el sol) DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Download the VTIFF app and get quick a ccess to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Members\n\n The film is also available on VTIFF's Virtual Cinema from Sunday\, March 6 th through March 8th.\n\nAlso playing Sunday\, March 6th at 6 pm at The Sa voy Theater in Montpelier. VTIFF Membership and Passes do not apply.  Tic kets for the Savoy HERE.\n\nParaguay’s official submission for both Docu mentary and International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards\, Nothin g but the Sun tells the story of Mateo Sobode Chiqueno who has been record ing stories\, songs\, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people -the last uncon tacted people of the Chaco - since the seventies. Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting\, and in an attempt to preserve fragments of a disa ppearing culture\, Mateo walks across communities in the arid and desolate Paraguayan Chaco region\, and registers on cassettes the experiences of o ther Ayoreo who\, like him\, were born in the vast forest\, free and nomad ic\, without any contact with civilization\, until religious missionaries forced them to abandon their ancestral territory\, their means of subsiste nce\, their beliefs and their home.\n\n***Followed by Q&\;A with the di rector and producer\n\nDirector Bio:\n\nArami Ullón was born in 1978 in A sunción (Paraguay). She produced “18 and a Half Cigarettes” (Marcelo Tolces -ESP/MEX/PY\, 2011). She directed the short film "Ausencia de un no mbre propio" (PY\, 1998) and the featuredocumentaries El tiempo nublado (C H/PY\, 2014) and Apenas El Sol (CH/PY\, 2020). El Tiempo Nublado was Parag uay's first entry to the Oscars (2016). Her second feature documentary Ape nas El Sol was the opening film of IDFA (International Documentary Festiva l of Amsterdam\, Netherlands 2020) and received the FIPRESCI award at the Istanbul Documentary Days (Turkey -2021). Her films have been screened at prestigious festivals\nsuch as Locarno (Switzerland)\, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)\, HotDocs (Canada)\, Montreal International Documentary Festiva l (Canada)\, Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine de la Habana (Cuba)\, D OC NYC\, among many others. Ullon's second feature\, Apenas El Sol (Nothin g But The Sun) has been selected by the Paraguayan Academy of Cinematograp hic Arts and as the official entry to represent Paraguay at the upcoming A cademy Awards ®. The film is also nominated for the IDA awards. Ullón li ves and works in Switzerland and in Paraguay.\n\nThe festival program is i n partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n\n\n \;\ n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MEF -Bild-3_300dpi.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1240@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220305T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220305T181500 DTSTAMP:20220228T170049Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/atanarjuat/ SUMMARY:Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Download the VTIFF app and get quick a ccess to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Members\n\n This film is not available virtually.\n\nBased on an ancient Inuk folktale and set in the village of Igloolik\, in what is now the Canadian territor y of Nunavut\, Atanarjuat was the first feature-length film made entirely in the Inuktitut language. It was also the first Canadian motion picture t o win the Caméra d’Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. To fully apprec iate the significance of Atanarjuat\, it helps to understand the film it i s in conversation with: Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North. It demyst ifies the exotic\, other-wordly aboriginal stereotype by telling a univers al story that is at least 1\,000 years old\, recording a way of life that still existed within living memory.\n\nRomantic tensions lead to tragedy w ithin a small\, closely knit community of people who depend on one another for survival\, surrounded by a landscape of ice and snow. The Fast Runner shows how people either learn to get along under those circumstances\, or pay a terrible price.\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/FAS T-RUNNER-02.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1238@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220305T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220305T203000 DTSTAMP:20220228T165422Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vai/ SUMMARY:Vai DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Download the VTIFF app and get quick a ccess to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Members\n\n The film is also available on VTIFF's Virtual Cinema from Sunday\, March 6 th through March 8th.\n\nVai\, meaning water\, is a portmanteau feature fi lm made by nine female Pacific filmmakers filmed in seven different Pacifi c countries. The film follows a journey of empowerment through culture ove r the lifetime of one woman\, Vai\, played by different Indigenous actress es in each of the countries. The result is neither straightforward narrati ve nor polemical abstract\, but instead a meditation on womanhood and vani shing traditions.\n\nThe task of each writer-helmer was to create a 10-min ute vignette from a fictive woman’s life\, each segment advancing a deca de or so forward\, deploying a single continuous shot where possible.\n\nT he festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Ass ociation\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Vai -3-72dpi.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1260@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220306 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220309 DTSTAMP:20220303T144034Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vai-virtual/ SUMMARY:VAI (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Virtual films play over 3 days\, start ing at midnight on the first day listed.\n\n Download the VTIFF app and ge t quick access to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you d ownloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on i t now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Me mbers\n\nThe film is plays in-theater March 5.\n\nVai\, meaning water\, is a portmanteau feature film made by nine female Pacific filmmakers filmed in seven different Pacific countries. The film follows a journey of empowe rment through culture over the lifetime of one woman\, Vai\, played by dif ferent Indigenous actresses in each of the countries. The result is neithe r straightforward narrative nor polemical abstract\, but instead a meditat ion on womanhood and vanishing traditions.\n\nThe task of each writer-helm er was to create a 10-minute vignette from a fictive woman’s life\, each segment advancing a decade or so forward\, deploying a single continuous shot where possible.\n\n \;\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Vai -3-72dpi.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1252@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220306 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220309 DTSTAMP:20220303T144138Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nothing-but-the-sun-virtual/ SUMMARY:Nothing But the Sun (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Virtual films play over 3 days\, start ing at midnight on the first day listed.\n\n Download the VTIFF app and ge t quick access to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you d ownloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on i t now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Me mbers\n\nThe film will be shown in-theater on Saturday\, March 5\, followe d by Q&\;A with the director and producer\n\nParaguay’s official subm ission for both Documentary and International Feature Film at the 94th Aca demy Awards\, Nothing but the Sun tells the story of Mateo Sobode Chiqueno who has been recording stories\, songs\, and testimonies of his Ayoreo pe ople -the last uncontacted people of the Chaco - since the seventies. Faci ng the consequences of a violent uprooting\, and in an attempt to preserve fragments of a disappearing culture\, Mateo walks across communities in t he arid and desolate Paraguayan Chaco region\, and registers on cassettes the experiences of other Ayoreo who\, like him\, were born in the vast for est\, free and nomadic\, without any contact with civilization\, until rel igious missionaries forced them to abandon their ancestral territory\, the ir means of subsistence\, their beliefs and their home.\n\n \;\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Associ ation\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MEF -Bild-3_300dpi.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1264@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T153000 DTSTAMP:20220228T165633Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shorts-2/ SUMMARY:Shorts Program #2 + Panel DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Download the VTIFF app and get quick a ccess to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Members. No t available virtually\n\nFast Horse - Alexandra Lazarowich\,\n\nLittle Chi ef - Erica Tremblay\n\nThe Fourfold - Alisi Telengut\n\n1609 – The Other Side of History – Frederick Wiseman\n\n \;\n\nPanel: Vera Longtoe S heehan\, Melody Mackin\, Chief Don Stevens\, Frederick M Wiseman\n\nThe pr ogram will be followed by a "Tea and Cake" reception at ECHO\n\n \;\n\ nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists A ssociation\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The -Fourfold.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1251@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T174500 DTSTAMP:20220228T165606Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/run-woman-run/ SUMMARY:Run Woman Run DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Download the VTIFF app and get quick a ccess to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Members\n\n Also showing on VTIFF's Virtual Cinema from March 7th through 9th.\n\nAlso playing Sunday\, March 6\, 8 pm at The Savoy Theater in Montpelier. VTIFF Membership and Passes do not apply.  Tickets for the Savoy HERE.\n\nRun Woman Run is a magical dramedy about Beck\, a single mom who learns how to reclaim her dreams\, family and honor her life\, all thanks to an unlikel y coach. Beck is goaded into running a marathon by the ghostly appearance of legendary Onondaga marathon runner Tom Longboat. It is through these Ho nor Runs that Beck turns her life around\, becoming who she was before gri ef took over. Along the way Beck meets Jon\, a guy who grew up outside of Six Nations\, but who has moved home to reconnect with their community. Wi th the help of Tom\, Beck embraces the possibility of a new love\, a renew ed relationship with her son and family\, and a new shot at her dream of s peaking her language.\n\n \;\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/run -woman-run.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1250@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T203000 DTSTAMP:20220228T165447Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/whale-rider/ SUMMARY:Whale Rider DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Download the VTIFF app and get quick a ccess to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you downloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Members\n\n Also showing on VTIFF's Virtual Cinema from March 7th through March 9th\n\ n*Closing Night Film*\n\nSet in Whāngārā\, a town on the East Coast of the North Island\, Whale Rider tells the story of a young Māori girl\, Pa i (Keisha Castle-Hughes). Pai must challenge tradition and simultaneously embrace the past while finding the strength and will to lead her people. B ased on Witi Ihimaera’s novel\, “The Whale Rider”\, marrying a speci fic sense of place and culture with a universal coming-of-age story\, Whal e Rider met incredible success worldwide\; it won multiple audience choice awards\, including those at Sundance and Toronto. Whale Rider is not a si mplistic fable but the story of real people living in modern times.\n\n&nb sp\;\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Ar tists Association\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Wha le_Rider-236344884-large.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1254@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220307 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220310 DTSTAMP:20220303T144102Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/run-woman-run-virtual/ SUMMARY:Run Woman Run (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Virtual films play over 3 days\, start ing at midnight on the first day listed.\n\n Download the VTIFF app and ge t quick access to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you d ownloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on i t now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Me mbers\n\nAlso showing in theater March 6\n\nRun Woman Run is a magical dra medy about Beck\, a single mom who learns how to reclaim her dreams\, fami ly and honor her life\, all thanks to an unlikely coach. Beck is goaded in to running a marathon by the ghostly appearance of legendary Onondaga mara thon runner Tom Longboat. It is through these Honor Runs that Beck turns h er life around\, becoming who she was before grief took over. Along the wa y Beck meets Jon\, a guy who grew up outside of Six Nations\, but who has moved home to reconnect with their community. With the help of Tom\, Beck embraces the possibility of a new love\, a renewed relationship with her s on and family\, and a new shot at her dream of speaking her language.\n\n& nbsp\;\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/run -woman-run.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1255@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220307 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220310 DTSTAMP:20220303T143854Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/whale-rider-virtual/ SUMMARY:Whale Rider Virtual DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon. Virtual films play over 3 days\, start ing at midnight on the first day listed.\n\nDownload the VTIFF app and get quick access to all festival events\, create your own schedule. If you do wnloaded the app in October for the Vermont International FF\, click on it now and you'll see it updated.\n\nFree for Passholders and All Access Mem bers\n\nAlso showing in-theater March 6\n\n*Closing Night Film*\n\nSet in Whāngārā\, a town on the East Coast of the North Island\, Whale Rider t ells the story of a young Māori girl\, Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes). Pai mu st challenge tradition and simultaneously embrace the past while finding t he strength and will to lead her people. Based on Witi Ihimaera’s novel\ , “The Whale Rider”\, marrying a specific sense of place and culture w ith a universal coming-of-age story\, Whale Rider met incredible success w orldwide\; it won multiple audience choice awards\, including those at Sun dance and Toronto. Whale Rider is not a simplistic fable but the story of real people living in modern times.\n\n \;\n\nThe festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Wha le_Rider-236344884-large.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1245@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220310 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220324 DTSTAMP:20220302T200605Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/songs-of-repression/ SUMMARY:Songs of Repression DESCRIPTION:Ticket link coming soon.\n\nOne of a pair of virtual offerings this month\, one a documentary\, the other fiction\, focusing on hidden se crets in closed communities. (See also Les Eblouis - The Dazzled).\n\nAt t he foot of the Andes Mountains in Chile lies an idyllic German colony. How ever\, the beauty of the place contains a grim past. In 1961\, the German preacher Paul Schäfer and his congregation moved to Chile with the stated aim of helping the poor. They established Colonia Dignidad (Colony of Dig nity)\, which transformed into a closed sect. Songs of Repression explores how the remaining residents of the colony deal with 45 years of child abu se\, collective beatings and slave-like living conditions. It also reveals how people in the colony assisted Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973 – 199 0) in torturing and killing political prisoners and burying them in mass g raves on their own 16\,000 hectares of land.\n\nIn 2007\, Schäfer was arr ested and the colony opened up. During that process\, the colony changed i ts name to Villa Baviera (Bavarian Village). Around 120 people still live there today. This film is about them – now. They work in agriculture and have turned the place into a tourist resort where you can relax\, eat Ger man cuisine and listen to yodeling. We meet those who completely deny the horrors and wish to only remember the bright moments\, those who still tod ay go through severe emotional struggles – and those caught in between.\ n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/SOR .jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1246@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220310 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220324 DTSTAMP:20220302T201236Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dazzled-eblouis-virtual/ SUMMARY:The Dazzled (Les eblouis) DESCRIPTION:One of a pair of virtual offerings this month\, one a documenta ry\, the other fiction\, focusing on hidden secrets in closed communities. (See also Songs of Repression).\n\nActress-turned-director Sarah Suco’s debut feature is a mesmerizing slow burn set in an insular Catholic commu nity.\n\nWhen promising 12-year-old acrobat Camille (a breakout Céleste B runnquell) performs in a sketch that seems to make light of prayer\, the c hurch’s leader—known only as “The Shepherd” (Jean-Pierre Darroussi n of Le Havre)—asks her parents to withdraw her from circus training. He r mother (Camille Cottin) has become emotionally dependent on the parish\, while her father (Éric Caravaca\, Lover for a Day) seems brainwashed\; a midst this\, covertly secular Camille and her younger brothers must come i nto their own.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/The -Dazzled-Les-eblouis-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1265@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T180000 DTSTAMP:20220331T161518Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/aheds-knee/ SUMMARY:Ahed's Knee DESCRIPTION:Also available on VTIFF's Virtual Cinema April 8-10\n\n\n\n\nWi nner - Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.\n\nY\, a celebrated Israeli filmmaker\, arrives in a remote desert village to present one of his film s at a local library. Struggling to cope with the recent news of his mothe r’s fatal illness\, he is pushed into a spiral of rage when the host of the screening\, a government employee\, asks him to sign a form placing re strictions on what he can say at the film’s Q&\;A. Told over the cour se of one day\, the film depicts Y as he battles against the loss of freed om in his country and the fear of losing his mother. Lapid ( The Kindergar ten Teacher\, Synonyms) wrote the film soon after the death of his own mot her\, who worked as an editor on many of his works. This masterfully detai led\, complex drama offers a sharp critique of the censorship\, hypocrisy\ , and violence instigated by Israel and repressive governments everywhere. The fact that Lapid’s film was produced\, largely funded\, and highly a cclaimed in Israel highlights the complexities of a national cinema that r efuses to be muzzled\, born of the divisions of society itself.\n\n\n\n E xcerpt from the Director's notes: "In the script I wrote\, the film direct or goes down a road I couldn’t possibly take. He's willing to\nsacrifice the Libraries’ deputy director to slow down the fast-moving fascist tan k. Is he a hero? Or a villain? Is he bringing a disaster on a noble\, youn g woman? On a much more honest\, brave woman than he is? Or is he dealing with a cowardly woman\, doing a rogue state's dirty work? In those dark da ys\, isn't the divide between victims and offenders\, the strong and the w eak\, those higher up and those below\, fading? Borders are blurred\, we'r e all together on the same sinking ship." For the full Director's statemen t download the PDF HERE.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nVTIFF's chief concern is the saf ety of the audience and VTIFF staff. Proof of vaccination will be required at the door. Proof can either be a physical card or a digital version on your phone. Masking indoors is mandatory. Thank you.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n&nb sp\;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ahe dsKnee5.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1236@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T210000 DTSTAMP:20220314T211244Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fiddlers-journey/ SUMMARY:Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen DESCRIPTION:Also available on VTIFF's Virtual Cinema April 8-10\n\nDaniel R aim\, the director\, will join us via Zoom for a Q&\;A immediately foll owing the screening. \n\n\n\n\nThe fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversar y of "Fiddler on the Roof\," the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made."\n\nNarrated by Jeff Goldblum \, Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen captures the humor and drama of dir ector Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic .\n\nOscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind\, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage as well as original interviews with Jewison\, Topol (Tevye)\, composer John Williams\, production designer Robert F. Boyle\, film critic Kenneth Turan \, lyricist Sheldon Harnick\, and actresses Rosalind Harris\, Michele Mars h\, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters).\n\nDirector's statement HERE\n\n \n\n\n***\n\nVTIFF's chief concern is the safety of the audience and VTIFF staff. Proof of vaccination will be required at the door. Proof can eithe r be a physical card or a digital version on your phone. Masking indoors i s mandatory. Thank you.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/FID DLERSJOURNEY_01.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1237@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220408 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220411 DTSTAMP:20220409T143617Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fiddlers-journey-virtual/ SUMMARY:Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing In-theater screening on Thursday\, April 7 at 7pm\ , followed by Q&\;A with the director.\n\nClosed captions available.  The virtual screening is geo-blocked to Vermont only.\n\n\n\n\nThe fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of "Fiddler on the Roof\," the film Paul ine Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever mad e."\n\nNarrated by Jeff Goldblum\, Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen cap tures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate t he lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic.\n\nOscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind\, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage as well as original interviews with Jewison\ , Topol (Tevye)\, composer John Williams\, production designer Robert F. B oyle\, film critic Kenneth Turan\, lyricist Sheldon Harnick\, and actresse s Rosalind Harris\, Michele Marsh\, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters).\ n\nDirector's statement HERE\n\n\n\n\n***\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/FID DLERSJOURNEY_01.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1266@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220408 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220411 DTSTAMP:20220409T143559Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/aheds-knee-virtual/ SUMMARY:Ahed's Knee (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing in-theater\, Thursday\, April 7\, at 4 PM.\n\n\n\n \nWinner - Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.\n\nY\, a celebrated Isr aeli filmmaker\, arrives in a remote desert village to present one of his films at a local library. Struggling to cope with the recent news of his m other’s fatal illness\, he is pushed into a spiral of rage when the host of the screening\, a government employee\, asks him to sign a form placin g restrictions on what he can say at the film’s Q&\;A. Told over the course of one day\, the film depicts Y as he battles against the loss of f reedom in his country and the fear of losing his mother. Lapid ( The Kinde rgarten Teacher\, Synonyms) wrote the film soon after the death of his own mother\, who worked as an editor on many of his works. This masterfully d etailed\, complex drama offers a sharp critique of the censorship\, hypocr isy\, and violence instigated by Israel and repressive governments everywh ere. The fact that Lapid’s film was produced\, largely funded\, and high ly acclaimed in Israel highlights the complexities of a national cinema th at refuses to be muzzled\, born of the divisions of society itself.\n\n\n\ n Excerpt from the Director's notes: "In the script I wrote\, the film di rector goes down a road I couldn’t possibly take. He's willing to\nsacri fice the Libraries’ deputy director to slow down the fast-moving fascist tank. Is he a hero? Or a villain? Is he bringing a disaster on a noble\, young woman? On a much more honest\, brave woman than he is? Or is he deal ing with a cowardly woman\, doing a rogue state's dirty work? In those dar k days\, isn't the divide between victims and offenders\, the strong and t he weak\, those higher up and those below\, fading? Borders are blurred\, we're all together on the same sinking ship." For the full Director's stat ement download the PDF HERE.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\ n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ahe dsKnee5.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1275@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T141500 DTSTAMP:20220425T163458Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-how-safe-are-we/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: HOW SAFE ARE WE? DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nCITIZEN P ATROL / VIGILE \nQC / Xavier Beauchesne-Rondeau / 9:30 \nAfter his dau ghter has an allegedly traumatic encounter with a man with Arab roots\, a father decides to organize a neighborhood watch patrol. At the same time\, POC Blaise moves into his new apartment across the way.  \n\nTHE PRICE OF SAFETY \nVT / Chris Spencer / 54 mins\n*** Jury Special Mention ***\ nDeftly telling a nuanced and complex story\, balancing nitty-gritty detai ls of city governance and a broader perspective\, the film explores nation al conversations of over-policing and racial bias as they unfold in the co mmunity of Vergennes\, VT. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_2x-SH-how-safe_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1276@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T154500 DTSTAMP:20220425T163430Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-call-me-oldfashioned-1/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: CALL ME OLD FASHIONED #1 DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nHOMEWARD CLOWN\nMA / Allison Power / 5:51\nA lost clown travels across trouble stri cken 1930's America to reunite with his circus family. \n\nTHE CANDY TIN  \nMA / Shane Butler / 14:30 \nA grimy\, dented candy tin sits in a th rift store. How did it get there? What stories could it tell? Who used it\ , loved it—and left it?  \n\nTHE GOLDEN AGE / L’AGE D’ÔR \nQC / Emmanuelle Lacombe / Fiction / 22 mins \nBy day\, Sasha works at her f amily’s flea market shop. By night\, she makes YouTube videos. During Qu ebec's National Day\, a client films Sasha as she performs a duet with her grandmother\, a fallen star in Quebec's music industry. Sasha sees her po pularity skyrocket. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-Old-fashioned-FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1277@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T171500 DTSTAMP:20220425T163406Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-transformations/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: TRANSFORMATIONS DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nBEYOND TH E SCRIPT\nVT / Anthony Marques / 10:06\nShowcasing multiple talents and fo rms of art in detail\, Marques takes us through his breakdown of art. \n\ nEXPIRATION\nQC / Joris Cottin / 20:11\n*** Jury Special Mention ***\nStee ve Day has been suffering from ALS and decides to call for assistance in d ying. At the same time\, visits to hospitals are suspended. Steeve then re nts a hotel room to spend his last days and receive his loved ones.  \n\n REARRANGING SKIN: A LOVE LETTER TO THE WORLD \nNH / Elizabeth Myer / 10: 20 \nDivya Anantharaman\, a visionary\, Brooklyn-based taxidermist and q ueer woman of color\, transforms a once bloody and violent practice into a beautiful\, ecological\, and humane work of art.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-Transformations-FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1279@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T184500 DTSTAMP:20220425T163342Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-who-are-we/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: WHO ARE WE? DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\n TIMESICK LOVE TRAVELLER\nVT / Ella Linnea Causer / 6:15\nA time and truth-bending personal narrative that explores trans representation in a queered erotic history. This film-within-a-film provides hope for our protagonist and vi ewers alike.  \n\n ME VALE! \nVT / Christian Acosta / 12 mins\nGrapplin g with his dual culturalism\, Gabe\, 21\, the American born son of Colombi an immigrants\, decides to go partying with his best friend/roommate.   \n\n AN UNINTERRUPTED VIEW OF THE SEA \nQC / Mika Yatsuhashi / 15:08 \ nUsing old photographs\, Super 8mm film and FBI documents\, a Japanese Ame rican filmmaker tells the story of her family’s struggle to prove their American identities during World War II.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-Who-We-Are3.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1281@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T211500 DTSTAMP:20220425T163310Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-gabor/ SUMMARY:GABOR DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nQC / Joan nie Lafrenière / 104 mins\n*** Co-winner\, Vermont PBS Award for Best Doc umentary ***\n\nA quirky and vibrant portrait of Gabor Szilasi\, the 93-ye ar-old giant of Canadian contemporary photography. It is an uplifting immi grant story and an inspiring lesson on how to grow old with elegance and d ignity.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/FB_ 1920x1005_Gabor.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Made Here Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1282@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T130000 DTSTAMP:20220425T163245Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-the-green-knight/ SUMMARY:THE GREEN KNIGHT DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nVT / Mark Freeman\, Brandon St. Cyr / 38:05\nA coming-of-age story about Arthur’s nephew and youngest of his knights. Adapted from the 14th century Arthuri an poem\, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\, we follow Gawain as he learns his humility and thereby earning his true nobility. \n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers-The-Green-Knight_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1272@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T141500 DTSTAMP:20220425T163159Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-out-and-about/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: OUT AND ABOUT DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nWOMAN OF THE WOODS \nQC / Olivier Frigon / 3:50 \nA woman goes into the woods t o enjoy the peaceful nature only to be disturbed by a vile polluter so she decides to take matters into her own hands.  \n\nRIDING THE RAILS \n VT / Evan Kay / 10:05 \nUsing a bicycle modified to ride on abandoned tr ain tracks\, pro mountain bike rider Alex and his wife Ella head out into the unknown in search of remote fishing\, camping\, biking\, and adventure .  \n\nDERRICK &\; BOYD  \nMA / Chris Goodwin / Fiction / 25:40  \nTwo small-time thieves have to dispose of a body after a robbery goes aw ry while trying not to kill each other in the process. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-Out-and-about-FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1271@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T154500 DTSTAMP:20220425T163106Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-the-sounds-of-music-1/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC # 1 DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nSCULPTING VIBRATION / SCULPTER LA VIBRATION \nQC / Felippe Martin / 8:55 \nBern ard Bosa has been offering vibratory concerts in Quebec for more than 10 y ears. He tells us what led him to make and introduce didgeridoos in his vi bratory practice. But what exactly is vibration used for?   \nX-VOTIVE\ nVT / Trish Denton / 34:18\nA visual album set to the atmospheric\, neo-so ul sound of Acqua Mossa. This quest narrative follows a heroic Black Time Traveler through a dream-like world as she hunts for six sacred relics tha t will unlock a portal to new\, possible futures. \n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_2x-SH-sounds-of-music-1_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1270@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T173000 DTSTAMP:20220425T163042Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-sounds-of-music-2/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC # 2 DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nA CHANGE OF SONG \nME / Gordon LePage / 6:04 \nA resourceful raccoon helps a fell ow creature out of a bad groove.\n\nPOPSTAR\nVT / Will Hoppin / 7:47\nIn t his “rags to rags” comedy\, Michael\, a 20-year old man who lives with his mom\, aspires to become a TikTok sensation.\n\nNIGHT MUSIC\nVT / LUKA S HUFFMAN / 14:30\nIn 1933\, John and Alan Lomax travel through the Americ an South recording unheard folk songs. They bribe their way into the count ry’s most oppressive penitentiary. In order to record a chain gang singi ng\, the father must confront his own personal traumas.  \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-The-Sounds-of-Music-2_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1304@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T190000 DTSTAMP:20220420T180222Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/filmmakers-reception-at-mhff/ SUMMARY:Filmmakers Reception at MHFF DESCRIPTION:This event is now at capacity. We hope you can join us next yea r.\n\nFilmmakers Reception at the Made Here Film Festival\, hosted by VTIF F\, Vermont Production Collective and Vermont Creative Network.\n\nThis ev ent is intended for regional filmmakers and people who support them and is by invitation only. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Rec eption-invite-for-web_social.png CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Other Events LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1273@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T191500 DTSTAMP:20220425T163007Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-passion-in-a-pandemic/ SUMMARY:PASSION IN A PANDEMIC: MAKING OPERA AT HANOVER HIGH DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nVT / Nora Jacobson / 67 mins\n*** Co-winner\, Vermont PBS Award for Best Documentar y ***\n\nA fascinating documentary about a former opera singer who initiat es an experimental opera program at a New Hampshire high school in the mid st of the Covid pandemic\, culminating in a live concert.  \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers-Passion-in-a-pandemic_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Made Here Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1274@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T210000 DTSTAMP:20220425T162912Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-good-night-out/ SUMMARY:SHORTS - A GOOD NIGHT OUT DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nBABATOURA  \nQC / Guillaume Collin / 11 mins\n*** Co-winner\, Penny Cluse Award fo r Best fiction ***\nBenoit and Catherine\, a couple in their late twenties \, go to his parents' house for dinner. It is with surprise and apprehensi on that they learn that the whole family is invited for supper...  \n\n BAR STORIES FROM QUEER MAINE \nME / Betsy Carson\, Wendy Chapkis / 15:41  \nOffers funny and often poignant accounts of gay bars as important ven ues for community\, organizing\, sex\, and safety\, and reveals the threat to queer culture of our disappearing social spaces.  \n\nALL IN\nQC / Philippe Vanasse-Paquet\, Rosalie Rémillard / 10:50\nEllis\, a bored stat istician who's cruelly in need of an adrenaline rush in his grey life\, ge ts swirled into a euphoric junky environment: the world of underground pok er.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-A-Good-Night-out_FB-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1283@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T133000 DTSTAMP:20220425T162822Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-call-me-oldfashioned-2/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: CALL ME OLD FASHIONED # 2 DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\n TYPECAST  \nMA / Rick Groleau / 7:28\n*** Winner\, Class Four Award for Best Cine matography *** \nThree typewriters that have taken on the personalities of their dead owners - a Catholic priest\, a famous novelist\, and a beatn ik poet - tussle in an escalating battle of words and expose a damning hyp ocrisy.  \n\n EYESORE \nVT / David Smith / 18:21 \nA charming film about an old Vermont building of no particular historical significance tha t has come to the end of its life. \n\n THE CARRIER BAG \nMA / Sarina H ahn  / 23:19 \nTitled after an essay by Ursula K. LeGuin on the relatio nship between narrative and technology\, this essay film explores the tens ion between the desire to capture life and the flux of the endlessly trans forming world.  \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-Old-Fashioned-2_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1284@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T150000 DTSTAMP:20220425T162759Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-states-of-transition/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: STATES OF TRANSITION DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\n THE UNCA NNY WAYS OF BEINGS / LA VIE DES ÊTRES \nQC / Cédric Bérard-Patry / 12 :34 \nLudovic’s boyhood collapses: following a miscarriage\, his mothe r Brigitte disappears in the emergency room. Seeking to find her\, Ludovic finds himself drawn into the hospital maze.  \n\n ALL ABOUT GIRLS / LE S FILLES AUSSI \nQC / Myriam Guimond / 19:48 \nIn the summer of '99\, four very close sisters have only one idea in mind: to do it. The complexi ty of the relationship that unites them with their overprotective mother t urns the summer into a summer of liberty\, passion\, and forbidden secrets .   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_2x-SH-States-of-Transition_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1286@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T161500 DTSTAMP:20220425T162732Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-getting-in-sync/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: GETTING IN SYNC DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nLOUISE FR OM 9 TO 5 / LOUISE DE 5 A 9\nQC / Julien G. Marcotte / 12:25\nLouise works as a human resources advisor. She operates in a tense work environment in which power dynamics take many forms. Trying to manage a conflict between the interests of the company and those of the employees\, Louise will be confronted with various means of pressure oscillating between contempt and violence. Her choice will have serious repercussions. \n\nBLUE IN GREEN  \nVT / Hannah Marks / 12:56 \nTwo interweaving stories dealing with s ubstance abuse in Vermont.  \n\nPROBLEMS OF SYNCHRONIZATION / PROBLEMES DE SYNCHRONISATION\nQC / Charles Gourde / 8:45 \nSimon\, an aging drumm er whose youthful days are over\, is affected by a unique illness. Seeking help\, Simon goes on a journey to find the person who will save him. At l east\, that is what he wishes for.  \n\nSCARS \nQC / Alex Anna / 10 m ins\n*** Jury Special Mention ***\n\nAlex Anna’s body is a canvas: her s cars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming. Live action and ani mation intertwine in this short and poetic documentary\, both intimate and universal.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_4x-SH-Getting-in-Sync_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1285@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T173000 DTSTAMP:20220425T162709Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-mind-games/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: MIND GAMES DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nGAMBLING MANAGER \nVT / Jeremy Rayburn / 3:44 \nA baseball manager has a lot ri ding on the first pitch.  \n\nTHEREFORE\, SOCRATES IS MORTAL / TOUS LES HOMMES SONT MORTELS \nQC / Alexandre Isabelle / 12:34 \nFacing the cl imate crisis\, Louise\, a philosophy teacher\, turns words into action.   \n\nROSA\nQC / Jean-Michel Gervais\, Gabriel J. Lemay / 19:10\nAfter bei ng touched by a patient's story\, a psychiatrist learns the hard way that appearances are sometimes deceptive.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH_Mind-Games_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1287@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T193000 DTSTAMP:20220425T162640Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-noise-of-engines/ SUMMARY:THE NOISE OF ENGINES / LE BRUIT DES MOTEURS DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Mon\, Apr 25 - Sun\, May 1 | Virtual\n\nTHE NOISE OF ENGINES / LE BRUIT DES MOTEURS\nQC / Philippe Gregoire / 79 Mins\n*** Co-Winner\, Penny Cluse Award for Best Fiction ***\n\nMixing realism with fantasy\, in this film about the essence of belonging\, Alexandre\, an ins tructor at the Canadian customs college\, in a small town in Québec near the border with the US\, finds himself under surveillance by police invest igators trying to get to the bottom of the sexually explicit drawings that have been troubling the town. \n\n \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/The -Noise-of-EngineS.png CATEGORIES:Feature,Made Here Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1288@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220425 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220502 DTSTAMP:20220414T181636Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-how-safe-are-we-virtual/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: HOW SAFE ARE WE? (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Fri\, Apr 21 | 1:00 pm- 2:15 pm | In Person\n\nCI TIZEN PATROL / VIGILE \nQC / Xavier Beauchesne-Rondeau / 9:30 \nAfter his daughter has an allegedly traumatic encounter with a man with Arab roo ts\, a father decides to organize a neighborhood watch patrol. At the same time\, POC Blaise moves into his new apartment across the way.  \n\nTH E PRICE OF SAFETY \nVT / Chris Spencer / 54 mins\n*** Jury Special Menti on ***\nDeftly telling a nuanced and complex story\, balancing nitty-gritt y details of city governance and a broader perspective\, the film explores national conversations of over-policing and racial bias as they unfold in the community of Vergennes\, VT. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_2x-SH-how-safe_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1289@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220425 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220502 DTSTAMP:20220413T154846Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-call-me-oldfashioned-1-virtual/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: CALL ME OLD FASHIONED #1 (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Fri\, Apr 22 | 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm | In Person\n\nH OMEWARD CLOWN\nMA / Allison Power / 5:51\nA lost clown travels across trou ble stricken 1930's America to reunite with his circus family. \n\nTHE CAN DY TIN \nMA / Shane Butler / 14:30 \nA grimy\, dented candy tin sits i n a thrift store. How did it get there? What stories could it tell? Who us ed it\, loved it—and left it?  \n\nTHE GOLDEN AGE / L’AGE D’ÔR  \nQC / Emmanuelle Lacombe / Fiction / 22 mins \nBy day\, Sasha works at her family’s flea market shop. By night\, she makes YouTube videos. D uring Quebec's National Day\, a client films Sasha as she performs a duet with her grandmother\, a fallen star in Quebec's music industry. Sasha see s her popularity skyrocket. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-Old-fashioned-FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1300@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220413T005514Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-states-of-transition-virtual/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: STATES OF TRANSITION (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sun\, Apr 24 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | In Person\n\n THE UNCANNY WAYS OF BEINGS / LA VIE DES ÊTRES \nQC / Cédric Bérard-Pa try / 12:34 \nLudovic’s boyhood collapses: following a miscarriage\, h is mother Brigitte disappears in the emergency room. Seeking to find her\, Ludovic finds himself drawn into the hospital maze.  \n\n ALL ABOUT GI RLS / LES FILLES AUSSI \nQC / Myriam Guimond / 19:48 \nIn the summer o f '99\, four very close sisters have only one idea in mind: to do it. The complexity of the relationship that unites them with their overprotective mother turns the summer into a summer of liberty\, passion\, and forbidden secrets.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_2x-SH-States-of-Transition_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1293@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220413T004523Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-the-green-knight-virtual/ SUMMARY:THE GREEN KNIGHT (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Apr 23 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | In Person\n\n VT / Mark Freeman\, Brandon St. Cyr / 38:05\nA coming-of-age story about A rthur’s nephew and youngest of his knights. Adapted from the 14th centur y Arthurian poem\, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\, we follow Gawain as h e learns his humility and thereby earning his true nobility. \n\n\n\n&nbs p\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers-The-Green-Knight_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1301@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220413T011412Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-getting-in-sync-virtual/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: GETTING IN SYNC (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sun\, Apr 24 | 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm | In Person\n\nL OUISE FROM 9 TO 5 / LOUISE DE 5 A 9\nQC / Julien G. Marcotte / 12:25\nLoui se works as a human resources advisor. She operates in a tense work enviro nment in which power dynamics take many forms. Trying to manage a conflict between the interests of the company and those of the employees\, Louise will be confronted with various means of pressure oscillating between cont empt and violence. Her choice will have serious repercussions. \n\nBLUE I N GREEN \nVT / Hannah Marks / 12:56 \nTwo interweaving stories dealing with substance abuse in Vermont.  \n\nPROBLEMS OF SYNCHRONIZATION / PR OBLEMES DE SYNCHRONISATION\nQC / Charles Gourde / 8:45 \nSimon\, an agin g drummer whose youthful days are over\, is affected by a unique illness. Seeking help\, Simon goes on a journey to find the person who will save hi m. At least\, that is what he wishes for.  \n\nSCARS \nQC / Alex Anna / 10 mins\nAlex Anna’s body is a canvas: her scars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming. Live action and animation intertwine in this short and poetic documentary\, both intimate and universal.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_4x-SH-Getting-in-Sync_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1294@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220413T010447Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-out-and-about-virtual/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: OUT AND ABOUT (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Apr 23 | 1:15 pm - 2:25 pm | In Person\n\nW OMAN OF THE WOODS \nQC / Olivier Frigon / 3:50 \nA woman goes into the woods to enjoy the peaceful nature only to be disturbed by a vile pollute r so she decides to take matters into her own hands.  \n\nRIDING THE RA ILS \nVT / Evan Kay / 10:05 \nUsing a bicycle modified to ride on aban doned train tracks\, pro mountain bike rider Alex and his wife Ella head o ut into the unknown in search of remote fishing\, camping\, biking\, and a dventure.  \n\nDERRICK &\; BOYD  \nMA / Chris Goodwin / Fiction / 25:40 \nTwo small-time thieves have to dispose of a body after a robbery goes awry while trying not to kill each other in the process. \n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-Out-and-about-FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1302@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220413T011503Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-mind-games-virtual/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: MIND GAMES (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sun\, Apr 24 | 4:45 pm - 5:30 pm | In Person\n\nG AMBLING MANAGER \nVT / Jeremy Rayburn / 3:44 \nA baseball manager has a lot riding on the first pitch.  \n\nTHEREFORE\, SOCRATES IS MORTAL / TOUS LES HOMMES SONT MORTELS \nQC / Alexandre Isabelle / 12:34 \nFacin g the climate crisis\, Louise\, a philosophy teacher\, turns words into ac tion.  \n\nROSA\nQC / Jean-Michel Gervais\, Gabriel J. Lemay / 19:10\nA fter being touched by a patient's story\, a psychiatrist learns the hard w ay that appearances are sometimes deceptive.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH_Mind-Games_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1295@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220413T010641Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-the-sounds-of-music-1-virtual/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC # 1 (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Apr 23 | 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm | In Person\n\nS CULPTING VIBRATION / SCULPTER LA VIBRATION \nQC / Felippe Martin / 8:55  \nBernard Bosa has been offering vibratory concerts in Quebec for more than 10 years. He tells us what led him to make and introduce didgeridoos in his vibratory practice. But what exactly is vibration used for?   \n \nX-VOTIVE\nVT / Trish Denton / 34:18\nA visual album set to the atmospher ic\, neo-soul sound of Acqua Mossa. This quest narrative follows a heroic Black Time Traveler through a dream-like world as she hunts for six sacred relics that will unlock a portal to new\, possible futures. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_2x-SH-sounds-of-music-1_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1303@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220414T180741Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-noise-of-engines-virtual/ SUMMARY:THE NOISE OF ENGINES / LE BRUIT DES MOTEURS (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sun\, Apr 24 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | In Person\n\nT HE NOISE OF ENGINES / LE BRUIT DES MOTEURS\nQC / Philippe Gregoire / 79 Mi ns\n\n*** Co-winner of the Penny Cluse Award for Best Fiction ***\n\n\nMix ing realism with fantasy\, in this film about the essence of belonging\, A lexandre\, an instructor at the Canadian customs college\, in a small town in Québec near the border with the US\, finds himself under surveillance by police investigators trying to get to the bottom of the sexually expli cit drawings that have been troubling the town. \n\n \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/The -Noise-of-EngineS.png CATEGORIES:Feature,Made Here Film Festival,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1296@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220413T010753Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-sounds-of-music-2-virtual/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC # 2 (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Apr 23 | 4:30 pm- 5:30 pm | In Person\n\nA CHANGE OF SONG \nME / Gordon LePage / 6:04 \nA resourceful raccoon helps a fellow creature out of a bad groove.\n\nPOPSTAR\nVT / Will Hoppin / 7:4 7\nIn this “rags to rags” comedy\, Michael\, a 20-year old man who liv es with his mom\, aspires to become a TikTok sensation.\n\nNIGHT MUSIC\nVT / LUKAS HUFFMAN / 14:30\nIn 1933\, John and Alan Lomax travel through the American South recording unheard folk songs. They bribe their way into th e country’s most oppressive penitentiary. In order to record a chain gan g singing\, the father must confront his own personal traumas.  \n\n&nb sp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-The-Sounds-of-Music-2_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1297@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220414T181318Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-passion-in-a-pandemic-virtual/ SUMMARY:PASSION IN A PANDEMIC: MAKING OPERA AT HANOVER HIGH (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Apr 23 | 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm | In Person\n\nV T / Nora Jacobson / 67 mins\n*** Co-winner of the Vermont PBS Award for Be st Documentary ***\n\nA fascinating documentary about a former opera singe r who initiates an experimental opera program at a New Hampshire high scho ol in the midst of the Covid pandemic\, culminating in a live concert.  \ n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers-Passion-in-a-pandemic_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Vermont Films,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1290@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220415T192320Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-transformations-virtual/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: TRANSFORMATIONS (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Fri\, Apr 22 | 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm | In Person\n\nB EYOND THE SCRIPT\nVT / Anthony Marques / 10:06\nShowcasing multiple talent s and forms of art in detail\, Marques takes us through his breakdown of a rt. \n\nEXPIRATION\nQC / Joris Cottin / 20:11\n*** Jury Special Mention * **\nSteeve Day has been suffering from ALS and decides to call for assista nce in dying. At the same time\, visits to hospitals are suspended. Steeve then rents a hotel room to spend his last days and receive his loved ones .  \n\nREARRANGING SKIN: A LOVE LETTER TO THE WORLD \nNH / Elizabeth My er / 10:20 \nDivya Anantharaman\, a visionary\, Brooklyn-based taxidermi st and queer woman of color\, transforms a once bloody and violent practic e into a beautiful\, ecological\, and humane work of art.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-Transformations-FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1298@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220415T142912Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-good-night-out-virtual/ SUMMARY:SHORTS - A GOOD NIGHT OUT (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Apr 23 | 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | In Person\n\nB ABATOURA \nQC / Guillaume Collin / 11 mins\n*** Co-winner of the Penny C luse Award for Best Fiction ***\nBenoit and Catherine\, a couple in their late twenties\, go to his parents' house for dinner. It is with surprise a nd apprehension that they learn that the whole family is invited for suppe r...  \n\nBAR STORIES FROM QUEER MAINE \nME / Betsy Carson\, Wendy Ch apkis / 15:41 \nOffers funny and often poignant accounts of gay bars as important venues for community\, organizing\, sex\, and safety\, and revea ls the threat to queer culture of our disappearing social spaces.  \n\n ALL IN\nQC / Philippe Vanasse-Paquet\, Rosalie Rémillard / 10:50\nEllis\, a bored statistician who's cruelly in need of an adrenaline rush in his g rey life\, gets swirled into a euphoric junky environment: the world of un derground poker.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-A-Good-Night-out_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1291@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220412T193947Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-who-are-we-virtual/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: WHO ARE WE? (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Fri\, Apr 22 | 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm | In Person\n\n TIMESICK LOVE TRAVELLER\nVT / Ella Linnea Causer / 6:15\nA time and truth -bending personal narrative that explores trans representation in a queere d erotic history. This film-within-a-film provides hope for our protagonis t and viewers alike.  \n\n ME VALE! \nVT / Christian Acosta / 12 mins\n Grappling with his dual culturalism\, Gabe\, 21\, the American born son of Colombian immigrants\, decides to go partying with his best friend/roomma te.  \n\n AN UNINTERRUPTED VIEW OF THE SEA \nQC / Mika Yatsuhashi / 1 5:08 \nUsing old photographs\, Super 8mm film and FBI documents\, a Japa nese American filmmaker tells the story of her family’s struggle to prov e their American identities during World War II.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-Who-We-Are3.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1299@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220414T180944Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-call-me-oldfashioned-2-virtual/ SUMMARY:SHORTS: CALL ME OLD FASHIONED # 2 (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sun\, Apr 24 - 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | In Person\n\n TYPECAST \nMA / Rick Groleau / 7:28 \n\n*** Winner of the Class Four Award for Best Cinematography ***\nThree typewriters that have taken on th e personalities of their dead owners - a Catholic priest\, a famous noveli st\, and a beatnik poet - tussle in an escalating battle of words and expo se a damning hypocrisy.  \n\n EYESORE \nVT / David Smith / 18:21 \n A charming film about an old Vermont building of no particular historical significance that has come to the end of its life. \n\n THE CARRIER BAG  \nMA / Sarina Hahn  / 23:19 \nTitled after an essay by Ursula K. LeG uin on the relationship between narrative and technology\, this essay film explores the tension between the desire to capture life and the flux of t he endlessly transforming world.  \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VTI FF_wrappers_3x-SH-Old-Fashioned-2_FB.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1292@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T000100 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T235900 DTSTAMP:20220414T181409Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff22-gabor-virtual/ SUMMARY:GABOR (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Fri\, Apr 22 | 7:15 pm - 9:15 pm | In Person\n\nQ C / Joannie Lafrenière / 104 mins\n*** Co-winner of the Vermont PBS Award for Best Documentary ***\n\nA quirky and vibrant portrait of Gabor Szilas i\, the 93-year-old giant of Canadian contemporary photography. It is an u plifting immigrant story and an inspiring lesson on how to grow old with e legance and dignity.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/FB_ 1920x1005_Gabor.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Made Here Film Festival,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1267@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220505T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220505T173000 DTSTAMP:20220506T144152Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hit-the-road/ SUMMARY:Hit the Road DESCRIPTION:Also screening virtually May 6th - 8th on VTIFF's Virtual Cinem a\n\nWinner: Best Film – BFI London Film Festival\n\n"Critic's Pick! Fro m the first jokey moments of Hit the Road until its heartbreaking end you will not want to be anywhere else." – The New York Times\n\nPanah Panahi \, son and collaborator of embattled Iranian master Jafar Panahi\, makes a striking feature debut with this charming\, sharp-witted\, and deeply mov ing comic drama. Hit the Road takes the tradition of the Iranian road-trip movie and adds unexpected twists and turns. It follows a family of four – two middle-aged parents and their sons\, one a taciturn adult\, the ot her an ebullient six-year-old – as they drive across the Iranian country side. Over the course of the trip\, they bond over memories of the past\, grapple with fears of the unknown\, and fuss over their sick dog. Unspoken tensions arise and the film builds emotional momentum as it slowly reveal s the furtive purpose for their journey. The result is a humanist drama th at offers an authentic\, raw\, and deeply sincere observation of an Irania n family preparing to part with one of their own.\n\n Read (download the PDF) an interview with the director HERE\n\n***\n\nVTIFF's chief concern i s the safety of the audience and VTIFF staff. Proof of vaccination will be required at the door. Proof can either be a physical card or a digital ve rsion on your phone. Masking indoors is mandatory. Thank you.\n\n\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Hit -the-Road-–-Key-Still.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1234@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220505T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220505T211500 DTSTAMP:20220409T143631Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/martin-eden-craven-copy/ SUMMARY:Jack London's Martin Eden DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Jay Craven will attend the screening and Q&\;A.\n\ nJack London’s Martin Eden is based on the celebrated writer’s autobio graphical novel.  Set in 1909\, it tells the story of a poor and unschool ed sailor who unexpectedly meets Ruth Morse\, a magnetic young woman of me ans and education. Their unconventional attraction upends both lives and p ropels timely themes of impossible love\, dogged individualism in pursuit of the American Dream\, and the quest for a comfortable place in an incons tant world.\n\nMartin Eden’s cast includes Andrew Richardson in the titl e role and Hayley Griffith and Annet Mahendru as Ruth Morse and Lizzie Con nolly\, respectively.  Richardson trained at Carnegie Mellon and London ’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Royal Academy of Dance.  His credi ts include eight film and television productions along with theatrical sta gings of Taming of the Shrew and Othello.\n\nAnnet Mahendru is best known for her co-starring role as Nina Krilova\, the U.S. Russian embassy operat ive who has a love affair with FBI agent\, Stan Beeman\, in the long-runni ng Emmy-winning series\, The Americans.  She also co-starred as Elena Eva novich in the Amazon series\, The Romanoffs.\n\nHayley Griffth’s credits include Law and Order and Bull.  Other supporting actors Missy Yager (Ma d Men\, Manchester by the Sea)\, Grainger Hines (Lincoln\, The Ballad of B uster Scruggs)\, Phil McGlaston (Broadway’s Little Foxes\, Athol Fugard ’s Master Harold and the Boys\, August Wilson’s Fences)\, Michael Benz (Downton Abbey\, Joker)\, Jo Armeniox (Boardwalk Empire)\, Ken Wulf Clark (House of Cards) and Rebecca Faulkenberry (co-star of Spiderman on Broadw ay).\n\nJack London was America’s most popular writer at the turn of the 20th century\, having written stories including “Call of the Wild” an d “White Fang.” His novel\, “Martin Eden\,” inspired Ernest Heming way\, Susan Sontag and Upton Sinclair\, among others.\n\nJack London’s M artin Eden was produced through director Craven’s Semester Cinema progra m\, hosted for this iteration at Sarah Lawrence College.  28 professional s mentored and collaborated with 35 students to make the film.\n\nRead the director's statement HERE\n\nRead about Jay Craven HERE\n\n***\n\nVTIFF's chief concern is the safety of the audience and VTIFF staff. Proof of vac cination will be required at the door. Proof can either be a physical card or a digital version on your phone. Masking indoors is mandatory. Thank y ou.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Mar tin-and-Ruth-at-Piano-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings,Vermont Films LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1268@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220506 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220509 DTSTAMP:20220506T144044Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hit-the-road-virtual/ SUMMARY:Hit the Road (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also screening in-theater\, Thursday\, May 6 at 4pm\n\nWinner: Best Film – BFI London Film Festival\n\n"Critic's Pick! From the first j okey moments of Hit the Road until its heartbreaking end you will not want to be anywhere else." – The New York Times\n\nPanah Panahi\, son and co llaborator of embattled Iranian master Jafar Panahi\, makes a striking fea ture debut with this charming\, sharp-witted\, and deeply moving comic dra ma. Hit the Road takes the tradition of the Iranian road-trip movie and ad ds unexpected twists and turns. It follows a family of four – two middle -aged parents and their sons\, one a taciturn adult\, the other an ebullie nt six-year-old – as they drive across the Iranian countryside. Over the course of the trip\, they bond over memories of the past\, grapple with f ears of the unknown\, and fuss over their sick dog. Unspoken tensions aris e and the film builds emotional momentum as it slowly reveals the furtive purpose for their journey. The result is a humanist drama that offers an a uthentic\, raw\, and deeply sincere observation of an Iranian family prepa ring to part with one of their own.\n\n Read (download the PDF) an interv iew with the director HERE\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Hit -the-Road-–-Key-Still.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1269@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220506 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220509 DTSTAMP:20220409T143507Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jack-londons-martin-eden-virtual/ SUMMARY:Jack London's Martin Eden (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Jay Craven will attend the Q&\;A of the in-theater screening\, Thursday\, May 5\, at 7pm.\n\nJack London’s Martin Eden is based on the celebrated writer’s autobiographical novel.  Set in 1909\, it tells the story of a poor and unschooled sailor who unexpectedly meets Ruth Morse\, a magnetic young woman of means and education. Their unconve ntional attraction upends both lives and propels timely themes of impossib le love\, dogged individualism in pursuit of the American Dream\, and the quest for a comfortable place in an inconstant world.\n\nMartin Eden’s c ast includes Andrew Richardson in the title role and Hayley Griffith and A nnet Mahendru as Ruth Morse and Lizzie Connolly\, respectively.  Richards on trained at Carnegie Mellon and London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Royal Academy of Dance.  His credits include eight film and televisi on productions along with theatrical stagings of Taming of the Shrew and O thello.\n\nAnnet Mahendru is best known for her co-starring role as Nina K rilova\, the U.S. Russian embassy operative who has a love affair with FBI agent\, Stan Beeman\, in the long-running Emmy-winning series\, The Ameri cans.  She also co-starred as Elena Evanovich in the Amazon series\, The Romanoffs.\n\nHayley Griffth’s credits include Law and Order and Bull.  Other supporting actors Missy Yager (Mad Men\, Manchester by the Sea)\, G rainger Hines (Lincoln\, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs)\, Phil McGlaston (B roadway’s Little Foxes\, Athol Fugard’s Master Harold and the Boys\, A ugust Wilson’s Fences)\, Michael Benz (Downton Abbey\, Joker)\, Jo Armen iox (Boardwalk Empire)\, Ken Wulf Clark (House of Cards) and Rebecca Faulk enberry (co-star of Spiderman on Broadway).\n\nJack London was America’s most popular writer at the turn of the 20th century\, having written stor ies including “Call of the Wild” and “White Fang.” His novel\, “ Martin Eden\,” inspired Ernest Hemingway\, Susan Sontag and Upton Sincla ir\, among others.\n\nJack London’s Martin Eden was produced through dir ector Craven’s Semester Cinema program\, hosted for this iteration at Sa rah Lawrence College.  28 professionals mentored and collaborated with 35 students to make the film.\n\nRead the director's statement HERE\n\nRead about Jay Craven HERE\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Mar tin-and-Ruth-at-Piano-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings,Vermont Films,Virtual,VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1305@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220512 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20220607 DTSTAMP:20220526T143024Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/donbass-virtual/ SUMMARY:Donbass (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:“The mastery of tone and style explains why Loznitsa won the best director's prize for Donbass in the Cannes Festival's Un Certain Rega rd section... Powerful and immediate\, and made with such a lucid artistic vision." ~ BBC\n\n"Unnerving in a way that's hard to put into words... Th e images of what was happening then provide a prologue to the horrors we a re witnessing now — and amount to an unheeded warning." Critic's Pick! ~ The New York Times \n\nIn the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine\, mid-20 10s: a hybrid war takes place\, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by Russian-separatist gangs. In the Donbass\, war is called peace\, propaganda is uttered as tru th\, and hatred is declared to be love. Life is suffused with fear and sus picion. What is real and what is fake news? Called "a darkly satirical omn ibus of scathing vignettes" by the Washington Post\, Donbass serves as a c rucial interpretation of the Russo-Ukrainian war\, but the film is not\, u ltimately\, a tale of one region or one conflict. It is about a world lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us. "There is no other antiwar film quite like Donbass" (Los Angeles Times).\n \n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Don bass-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1310@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220609T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220609T204500 DTSTAMP:20220609T170339Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/neptune-frost/ SUMMARY:Neptune Frost DESCRIPTION:Note: this film is only offered in-person.\n\nMulti-hyphenate\, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision\, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes\, ideas\, and songs that Williams has explored in h is work\, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Co-directed with the Rwa ndan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman\, the film takes place in the hilltops of Burundi\, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an othe rworldly e-waste dump\, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regim e exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an in tersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces\, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circui try. Set between states of being – past and present\, dream and waking l ife\, colonized and free\, male and female\, memory and prescience – Nep tune Frost is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebr al cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends. \n\n***Note: Thank you to our friends at WRIF who showed this film at thei r festival and hosted a discussion panel about the film and Afro futurism with Dartmouth College faculty members Desirée Garcia\, Misty De Berry\, and Iyabo Kwayana. The panel is streaming HERE.\n\n\n***VTIFF's chief conc ern is the safety of the audience and VTIFF staff. Main Street Landing pol icy is that you must be fully vaccinated to enter the building. Masking in doors is mandatory. Thank you.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Nep tuneFrost_still_2-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1308@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220622T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220622T203000 DTSTAMP:20220622T162917Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunset-on-the-lake-22/ SUMMARY:Sunset On The Lake DESCRIPTION:Annual event to benefit the Vermont International Film Festival and to honor a VTIFF Community Champion whose work supports the community through film.\nThe 2022 honoree is Vermont filmmaker Nora Jacobson.\n\nNo ra Jacobson is a film director\, film producer\, screenwriter\, and a film editor.\n\nShe has a particular interest in films about place\, ethnicity \, gender and social justice and believes that the first steps in advancin g social change come from  provoking meaningful discourse. Nora also dedi cated many years to being the lead producer and editor of Freedom &\; U nity: The Vermont Movie -  the first-ever documentary series about Vermon t. The six-part film was a collaboration of over four dozen critically acc laimed Vermont filmmakers. She is also a tireless believer in educating yo uth\, giving them opportunities to learn the trade. In this context she al so initiated Freedom &\; Unity TV -an annual youth competition of films about Vermont. Since 2016\, Nora has also worked as the Coordinator of VT IFF's program VAMP (Vermont Archive Movie Project)\, documenting Vermont f ilms in a comprehensive and ever-evolving online database.\n\nWe are honor ed that Nora has accepted to be the honoree of the 2022 VTIFF Community Ch ampion Award.\n\n***Read the testimony by Board member Greg Epler Wood HER E***\n\nPlease join us at 6:30 on June 22 to enjoy hors d'oeuvres\, wine a nd beer and a beautiful sunset over the lake\, and meet Nora Jacobson. Don ations to this event go towards benefiting VTIFF and our programs.\n\n\nWh ether you are able to attend or\, if you cannot but still wish to donate i n honor of Nora\, you may contribute HERE ONLINE. You will be asked if you plan to attend or not.\nYou can also mail a check to VTIFF\, P. O. Box 48 3\, Burlington\, VT 05402. If you pay by check and wish to attend you must email gail@vtiff.org by June 15th.  You will then receive any updates vi a email in case of postponement to the rain date of June 23.\n\nPrevious h onorees have been Mariah Riggs\, Robin Lloyd\, Bess O'Brien\, Olivia Milen s and Bill Stetson. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SUN SET_Web-Header.jpg CATEGORIES:Other Events LOCATION:Meehan home\, 72 Bartlett Bay Road\, S. Burlington\, vt\, 05403\, United States GEO:44.429354;-73.21898859999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=72 Bartlett Bay Road\, S. B urlington\, vt\, 05403\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Meehan h ome:geo:44.429354,-73.21898859999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1307@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220626T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220626T160000 DTSTAMP:20220626T123326Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/marcel-the-shell/ SUMMARY:Marcel The Shell With Shoes On - SOLD OUT! DESCRIPTION:Note: this film is only offered in-person.\n\nThis film is suit able for the whole family. Adults with no children  - we guarantee you wi ll enjoy this as well.\n\nWe're also thrilled that Nick Paley\, who co-wro te and produced the film\, and is a Vermont native - will zoom in at the e nd of the screening for a Q&\;A!\n\nMarcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and t heir pet lint\, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells\, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a d ocumentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb\, th e short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans\, a s well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at finding his long-lost fa mily. A beloved character gets his big-screen debut in this hilarious and heartwarming story about finding connection in the smallest corners.\n\nSt arring Jenny Slate\, Rosa Salazar\, Thomas Mann\, and Isabella Rossellini. \n\n"What you'll scope out in this small marvel of a mockumentary is how M arcel copes with loss of family\, loneliness and sudden media fame\, and h ow he relates\, on 60 Minutes\, to Lesley Stahl. I can't wait to see it an d him again.." ~ Wall Street Journal\n\n***VTIFF's chief concern is the sa fety of the audience and VTIFF staff. Main Street Landing policy is that y ou must be fully vaccinated to enter the building. Masking indoors is mand atory. Thank you.\n\n Thank you\, Main Street Landing for your sponsorship \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/mar cel_C.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Kid Friendly,Other Events,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1309@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220707T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220707T204500 DTSTAMP:20220609T182131Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cane-fire/ SUMMARY:Cane Fire DESCRIPTION:Note: this film is only offered in-person.\n\nThe Hawaiian isla nd of Kauaʻi is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty \, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement\, hyper- exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. Cane Fire crit ically examines the island’s history — and the various strategies by w hich Hollywood has represented it—through four generations of director A nthony Banua-Simon’s family\, who first immigrated to Kauaʻi from the P hilippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse arra y of sources—from Banua-Simon’s observational footage\, to amateur You Tube travelogues\, to epic Hollywood dance sequences — Cane Fire offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cas t Indigenous and working-class residents as "extras" in their own story.\n \n"A necessary corrective to the perception of Hawaiian identity that diag noses the problem of representation in pop culture through the filmmaker ’s own deeply personal lens." ~Eric Kohn\, Indiewire\n\n***VTIFF's chief concern is the safety of the audience and VTIFF staff. Main Street Landin g policy is that you must be fully vaccinated to enter the building. Maski ng indoors is mandatory. Thank you.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/pos ter.png CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1311@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220804T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220804T213000 DTSTAMP:20220804T165749Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lost-illusions/ SUMMARY:Lost Illusions (Illusions perdues) DESCRIPTION:Note: this film is only offered in-person.\n\nWinner of seven C ésar Awards\, including Best Film!\n\nXavier Giannoli’s headlong modern and cinematic adaptation of a Balzac novel paints a timely picture of lit erary ambition and media corruption in 19th-century France\, a ravishing v ision of the birth of modern media. In some ways it is a very old-fashione d\, supremely French movie\, full of costumes and quill pens\, sex and spe echifying\, and stylish acting even in the smallest roles. However\, "Gian noli illuminates the dank frenzy of the 19th-century attention economy wit h an eye on our own post-truth era. If there’s any justice\, this movie will become a touchstone among the grasping\, scheming denizens of the cur rent media jungle." ~ A. O. Scott\, The New York Times.\n\n"Period-drama p erfection. Acted with such terrific panache that not enjoying it is imposs ible. The film’s galloping momentum is exhilarating\, and there is broad comedy in its elision of carnal desire and social ambition. Superb." ~ Pe ter Bradshaw\, The Guardian\n\n***VTIFF's chief concern is the safety of t he audience and VTIFF staff. Main Street Landing policy is masking indoors is mandatory. Please don't forget to bring your mask. Thank you.\n\n    \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LOS T-ILLUSIONS_img3_72dpi.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1314@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220901T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220901T203000 DTSTAMP:20220804T165720Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fire-of-love/ SUMMARY:Fire of Love DESCRIPTION:Note: this film is only offered in-person.\n\nMulti-award winni ng film - Sundance\, SXSW\, NY Times Critic's Pick\n\n\n"The subjects of S ara Dosa’s new documentary “Fire of Love” are Maurice and Katia Kraf ft\, married French scientists who devoted their lives to the study of vol canoes. Really\, though\, it might be more accurate to describe the couple \, who died in a volcanic eruption in 1991\, as co-directors\, since they were the ones who captured the most arresting images in this curious and h aunting film.\nThose images\, still and moving\, record the before\, durin g and after of volcanic eruptions on several continents. Some of these are terrifying\, as molten rock shoots skyward and clouds of ash roll down th e sides of mountains. Others are eerie\, capturing the glow of an active c rater or the otherworldly contours of newly formed rock. The sheer existen ce of these photos is mind-boggling when you think about how close the peo ple with the cameras must have been to the lava and the smoke." ~A. O. Sco tt\, NY Times\n\n\n***Thank you Jennifer Rangnow for adopting this film*** \n\n***VTIFF's chief concern is the safety of the audience and VTIFF staff . Main Street Landing policy is masking indoors is mandatory. Please don't forget to bring your mask. Thank you.\n\n    \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/202 2-09-01-FIRE-OF-LOVE.jpeg CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1313@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T210000 DTSTAMP:20220720T201540Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/flicks-in-the-park/ SUMMARY:Flicks in the Park: Favorites from VTIFF's Made Here Film Festival DESCRIPTION:Join us in City Hall Park to enjoy a selection of MHFF22 favori te short films. Some of the filmmakers will be there too\, to talk with yo u about their work.\n\nThe Made Here Film Festival is a partnership with V ermont Public and is sponsored in part by Maine Public. The next MHFF will take place April 21-23\, 2033.\nBABATOURA by Collin Guillaume\, Québec\n HOMEWARD CLOWN by Allison\, Massachusetts\nRIDING THE RAILS by Evan Kay\, Vermont\nTYPECAST by Rick Groleau\, Massachusetts\nCHANGE OF SONG by Gordo n Lepage\, Maine\nNIGHT MUSIC by Lukas Huffman\, Vermont\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Mad eHereBanner_for-Flicks_1920x1080-copy.png CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings,Special Event LOCATION:City Hall Park\, Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 05401\, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 0540 1\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=City Hall Park:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1338@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220909T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220909T210000 DTSTAMP:20220830T135332Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiff-sneak-preview-at-art-hop/ SUMMARY:VTIFF Sneak Preview at Art Hop DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Art Hop to get a sneak peek of this year's festival line up. Watch film trailers\, grab a snack and meet the festival programmers and staff.\n\nNew to VTIFF?  Come to the party\, sign up\, a nd get a complimentary ticket to the festival!\\\n\nThank you to our host sponsor Class Four!\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/VTI FF_820x312.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Special Event LOCATION:Class Four\, 28 Howard Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United S tates X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=28 Howard Street\, Burlingt on\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Class Four:geo: 0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1392@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T203000 DTSTAMP:20221006T134041Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nasty-women/ SUMMARY:Cinema's First Nasty Women: Queens of Destruction DESCRIPTION:Enjoy an evening full of illuminating and convention-breaking f ilms\, preceded by a selection of trailers from the 2022 Vermont Internati onal Film Festival!\n\nFeaturing rarely-seen silent films about feminist p rotest\, anarchic slapstick mayhem\, and evocative gender play. The women included are indeed very “nasty”—they organize labor strikes\, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts\, explode out of the chimney\, electrocu te the police\, and assume a rogues’ gallery of playful identities that joyously dismantle gender binaries and sexual norms.\n\nThese films have b een restored and curated by UCLA Film Archives. The films are accompanied by specially-commissioned music scores.\n\nStatement from the UCLA curator s: "We launched this project in the midst of anti-feminist whiplash and ri sing global authoritarianism. We associate the 'nasty women' rallying cry with the archives of early film feminism because of its descriptive accura cy as well as its uncanny relevance to the present-day proliferation of fe minist film culture." ~Maggie Hennefeld\, Laura Horak &\; Elif Rongen-K aynakçi ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/unn amed1.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1357@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T211500 DTSTAMP:20221018T171037Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/broker/ SUMMARY:Broker DESCRIPTION:***Opening Night Film***\n\nException: Festival Passes/10 Packs do not include Opening Night Screening. You may purchase individual ticke ts for the film\, or an individual combo for film + reception.\n\nAcclaime d Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda\, whom most audiences know from his 2018 Palme d’Or-winning film Shoplifters\, understands that circumstance s sometimes have more to do with creating family units than biology ever c ould. In Broker\, two would-be human traffickers\, who sell abandoned infa nts to willing parents\, hit a snag in their business plan when one baby ’s biological mother wants to tag along on their sales route. Throw in a murder case and a couple cops hot on their tail\, and all the ingredients are in place for a gritty underworld thriller. But that’s not this film . Kore-eda’s abiding faith in the goodness of humanity is a guiding ligh t through even the most noir-tinged elements of this comedic\, heart-warmi ng drama. He is less interested in the gravity of his characters’ trespa sses than in the emotional truths of what draws them together and what for ces them apart. Kore-eda’s first film set in South Korea features freque nt Bong Joon-ho collaborator Song Kang-ho\, lead of the Oscar-winning film Parasite\, and K-pop star IU\, in a breakout role as a young mother faced with an impossible decision. ~TW\n\nThe screening will be followed by Ope ning Night Party at Deep City. Light fare and desserts\, cash bar.\n\n\n&n bsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/BRO KER_STI-MKT-01-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1355@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T124500 DTSTAMP:20221012T204141Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sundance-indigenous-shorts/ SUMMARY:Sundance Indigenous Shorts Tour DESCRIPTION:A 91 minute program of 6 films directed by Indigenous filmmaker s\, featuring titles from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival shorts program a nd from alumni of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program.\n\nThe Headhu nter’s Daughter\nDirector and Screenwriter: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan - Ífugão\, Visayan | Philippines | Leaving her family behind\, Lynn tra verses the harrowing roads of the Cordilleran highlands to try her luck in the city as a country singer. \n\nKicking the Clouds\nDirector: Sky Hopi nka - Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians | USA\nCentered on a 50 year old cassette tape of a Pechanga language lesson between the dir ector’s grandmother and great-grandmother\, and contextualized by an int erview with his mother in his Pacific NW hometown. \n\nLong Line of Ladie s\nDirector: Rayka Zehtabchi\, Shaandiin Tome - Diné\, | USA\nA girl and her community prepare for her Ihuk\, the once-dormant coming of age ceremo ny of the Karuk and Yurok tribes of Northern California. \n\nMaidenhood \ nDirector: Xochitl Enriquez Mendoza - Zapoteca\, Screenwriters: Xochitl En riquez Mendoza | Mexico\nCatalina submits to the tradition of her people t o demonstrate her purity and worth as a woman to her beloved\, but her bod y betrays her and she fails to demonstrate her chastity. \n\nThe Original Shareholder Experience\nDirector: Petyr Xyst - Roadrunner clan in the Pue blo of Laguna | USA\nAn Indigenous telepresenter nearing the top of her cl ass must contend with her career prospects and her moral credibility as sh e's asked to sell a genocidal product on live television.\n\nᎤᏕᏲᏅ (Udeyonv) (What They’ve Been Taught)\nDirector: Brit Hensel - Cherokee N ation\, Producers: Taylor Hensel\, Adam Mazo\, Kavi Pillay\, Tracy Rector | USA\nThis film explores expressions of reciprocity in the Cherokee world \, brought to life through a story told by an elder and first language spe aker.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/sho rt-film-grand-jury-prize-the-headhunters-daughter_51849390070_o.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Shorts LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1365@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T150000 DTSTAMP:20221012T162622Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/r-m-n-1/ SUMMARY:R.M.N. DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 28\n\nRomanian auteur Cristian Mungiu’s firs t feature since Graduation (screened at VTIFF 2017) is set in a Transylvan ian village during the 2019 holiday season. At the center of the drama are short-fused laborer Matthias and his erstwhile lover Csilla\, a bakery ma nager whose hiring of Sri Lankan immigrants exposes deep-seated nativism a mong the multiethnic villagers of Romanian\, Hungarian\, and German descen t. Mungiu\, perhaps best known for his 2007 Palme d’Or-winning abortion thriller 4 Months\, 3 Weeks and 2 Days\, is a master of slow-burning tensi on and moments of unexpected poignancy. Highlighted by a bravura extended take at a town hall forum that alludes to pandemic-era racism against Asia ns\, R.M.N.’s indictment of xenophobic NIMBYism resonates far beyond the Romanian borders. ~LB\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/RMN -copy.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1344@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T151500 DTSTAMP:20221021T125310Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/utama/ SUMMARY:Utama DESCRIPTION:Also playing Oct 26\n\n*Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dr amatic competition at Sundance and Bolivia's Official Submission to the 20 23 Academy Awards*\n\nHome is where the water is. In the Bolivian highland s\, an elderly Quechua couple (played by actual couple José Calcina and L uisa Quispe–authentic\, nonprofessional actors whom Loayza Grisi had to convince to participate)\, has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought\, Virginio and his wife Sisa face a dile mma: resist\, or be defeated by the environment and time itself. Utama mea ns “our home” in the Quechua dialect\, and these two intend to die the re\, despite the polite appeals of their grandson Clever (Santos Choque)\, who visits them with the mission of convincing them to move to the city. A typical millennial\, he’s always on his phone\, oblivious to the beaut y all around him. But we the audience have the privilege of taking it in t hanks to the sublime cinematography. The breathtaking opening shot — of Virginio walking alone across a dark\, dry plain\, toward the blazing sunr ise beyond the mountains–is worth anyone’s time. And if that’s not e nough\, the bright pink tassels pinned to the ears of the herd of llamas a re a striking dose of color against the desiccated vistas. ~OY\n\n***This screening followed by Zoom Q&\;A with the director***\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Uta ma_1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1317@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T180000 DTSTAMP:20221012T151746Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beyond-zero/ SUMMARY:Beyond Zero DESCRIPTION:After a life-changing epiphany\, the CEO of a global public com pany embarks on a high- stakes quest to eliminate all negative environment al impacts by 2020. To succeed\, the company must overcome deep skepticism \, abandon the status quo. and ignite a new industrial revolution. Beyond Zero chronicles the story of visionary leader
 Ray Anderson and his comp any\, Interface\, as they embark on a high-stakes journey to become a 100% sustainable enterprise. Ray’s heroic leadership serves as an inspiratio n for organizations at any stage and a call to action that ignites the hum an spirit.\n\n*** The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q& \;A with the filmmaker and Kent Gregoire\, Certified Conscious Capitalism Consultant and Co-Founder of 100 Months to Change ***\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Scr een-Shot-2022-09-22-at-5.05.07-PM.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1339@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T174500 DTSTAMP:20221012T162054Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/il-buco-1/ SUMMARY:Il Buco DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 26\n\n\nIn Il Buco (“The Hole”)\, director Michelangelo Frammartino re-stages the 1961 discovery of the Bifurto Abys s\, one of the deepest caves in the world\, located in Italy’s Calabrian plateau. Luxuriating in the sights and sounds of the unspoiled Italian co untryside\, Frammartino transports the viewer to another time and place wi th an authenticity typically only achievable in documentary. But Frammarti no’s observational approach belies the technical wizardry involved in ca pturing the speleologists as they descend deeper and deeper into the narro w passages of the cave. It is filmmaking as confounding as it is engrossin g. In a parallel plot line\, a shepherd watches the discoverers from the h ills above\, witnessing time pass and the slow creep of modernity. ~TW\n\n "Inspired by a 1960s Italian potholing expedition\, Michelangelo Frammarti no’s almost wordless film is spellbinding." ~Wendy Ide\, The Guardian\n\ n***Followed by a reception sponsored by Vermont Italian Cultural Associat ion***\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IlB uco_still6-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1359@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T210000 DTSTAMP:20221012T161429Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/decision-to-leave/ SUMMARY:Decision to Leave DESCRIPTION:South Korea’s submission to the Oscars in Best International Feature category.\n\nDazzlingly shot and edited\, Park Chan-wook’s Decis ion to Leave is a police procedural of uncommonly nuanced psychological de pth and sensitivity. Taking its cue from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo in i ts examination of neurotic romantic obsession\, Park’s brilliantly cast film features Tang Wei (the costar of Ang Lee’s controversial Lust\, Cau tion) as the widow of a man who died under suspicious circumstances while rock climbing. Park Hae-il (who played a suspect in Bong Joon-ho’s maste rpiece Memories of Murder) is the detective with severe sleep apnea who fa lls in love with the widow despite her becoming the prime suspect in the c ase. Park Chan-wook\, who won the best director prize at the 2022 Cannes F ilm Festival\, is in complete command of the full bag of cinematic techniq ues he honed in contemporary classics like Oldboy and The Handmaiden. At t urns thrilling and tender\, South Korea’s official submission for best i nternational feature at next year’s Oscars is must-see material from a m odern maestro. ~LB\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Dec ision-to-Leave1.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1321@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T210000 DTSTAMP:20221012T151410Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/alcarras-1/ SUMMARY:Alcarràs DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 24\n\n\nWinner of the 2022 Golden Bear\, the h ighest award at the Berlin International Film Festival\, Carla Simón's Al carràs is a rich\, poignant tale about the impact of industrial developme nt on agriculture (a Catalan peach farm in Spain) and a close-knit family' s fragility and love for a cherished place. Filled with remarkable nonprof essional performances and sharp perceptions of family dynamics–the power of old age and of childhood–Alcarràs is both sunlit and grave. The los s of a farm to solar development is presented with searing political consc ience. ~AM\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ALC ARRAS_Still1-SM.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1352@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T200000 DTSTAMP:20221012T162213Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kintsugi-angel-1/ SUMMARY:Kintsugi Angel DESCRIPTION:Also at 8:30pm. Capacity is limited so be sure to book early.\n \nCome on a journey! Gather at the Atrium and follow the dancers on a myst erious journey down inside the building to a surprise location for a short film screening.\nPart film screening and part immersive art installation\ , Kintsugi Angel is a boundary breaking cinematic experience. The project is the result of a year-long collaboration between innovative artist Erika Senft Miller and award-winning filmmaker Lukas Huffman. As a reaction to a world that has become increasingly polarized\, the two were inspired to craft an experience that engages with the universal feelings of otherness and the longing to belong. By combining their respective mediums\, they’ ve created an evocative journey for your mind and body. Tickets are limite d.\n\nArtistic Direction by Erika Senft Miller\, film directed by Lukas Hu ffman\, live performance by Holly Chagnon and Mireya Guerra\, music by Qas im Naqvi\, lighting design by Chris Jeffrey.\n\nThank you to The Media Fac tory for providing the screening equipment.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n& nbsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/KA- Thumbnail_2.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Atrium\, 60 Lake Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05 401\, United States GEO:44.4774721;-73.2196927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, Burlington \, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landi ng Atrium:geo:44.4774721,-73.2196927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1353@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T210000 DTSTAMP:20221012T162240Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kintsugi-angel-2/ SUMMARY:Kintsugi Angel DESCRIPTION:Also at 7:30pm. Capacity is limited so be sure to book early.\n \nCome on a journey! Gather at the Atrium and follow the dancers on a myst erious journey down inside the building to a surprise location for a short film screening.\nPart film screening and part immersive art installation\ , Kintsugi Angel is a boundary breaking cinematic experience. The project is the result of a year-long collaboration between innovative artist Erika Senft Miller and award-winning filmmaker Lukas Huffman. As a reaction to a world that has become increasingly polarized\, the two were inspired to craft an experience that engages with the universal feelings of otherness and the longing to belong. By combining their respective mediums\, they’ ve created an evocative journey for your mind and body. Tickets are limite d.\n\nArtistic Direction by Erika Senft Miller\, film directed by Lukas Hu ffman\, live performance by Holly Chagnon and Mireya Guerra\, music by Qas im Naqvi\, lighting design by Chris Jeffrey\, olifactory experience by Ali ce &\; the Magician.\n\nThank you to The Media Factory for providing th e screening equipment.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/KA- Thumbnail_2.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Atrium\, 60 Lake Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05 401\, United States GEO:44.4774721;-73.2196927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, Burlington \, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landi ng Atrium:geo:44.4774721,-73.2196927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1334@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T224500 DTSTAMP:20221016T160304Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/experiments-in-queer-cinema/ SUMMARY:Experiments in Queer Cinema DESCRIPTION:This program was curated by Angelo Madsen Minax.\nRead John Kil lacky's piece in VTDigger about Angelo Madsen Minax and our program HERE\n \nMEDICINE AND MAGIC\, by TJ Cuthand | 2021 | Canada | 5 mins\nStories of Nêhiyaw medicine and Scottish Folk Magic\, and the way colonization affec ted their practice.\n\nTHE CAPACITY FOR ADEQUATE ANGER\, by Vika Kirchenba uer | 2021 | Germany | 15 min\nA collage of ephemera both personal and pub lic traverses the distance between present and past in a self-reflexive fo rm of artistic critique that considers contemporary art from a perspective of class. Through voice-over and flashes of imagery Kirchenbauer’s auto biographical video contemplates the sociological dimensions of negative af fect\, and what forms of political agency such emotions facilitate or impe de.\n\nTHE OBITUARY SHOW by Augusto Cascales | 2022 | UK | 22 min\nA satir ical absurdist film based on a homonymous theater play by CAConrad. The fi lm registers collective and individual suffering as a blurred continuum in which love\, humour and sorrow illuminate the constant political\, ecolog ical\, existential\, and alienating crisis in our contemporary landscapes\ , through an act of radical protest and queer liberation.\n\nBIGGER ON THE INSIDE by Angelo Madsen Minax | 2022 | USA | 19 min\nFrom an isolated woo ded cabin a trans man stargazes\, scruff chats with guys\, watches youtube tutorials\, takes drugs\, and lies about taking drugs - feeling his way t hrough a cosmology of embodiment.\n\nVIDEO HOME SYSTEM\, by Sharlene Bambo at | Canada | 2018 | 19 min\nTraces the convergence of popular culture and politics in Pakistan during the 1980s and 1990s. This video showcases the connections between pop culture and nationalism\, and how bootleg economi es kept the cinema industry alive during periods of censorship.\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/BOT I_Telescope-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Shorts LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1356@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T124500 DTSTAMP:20221012T204155Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sundance-shorts-tour-2022/ SUMMARY:Sundance Shorts Tour 2022 DESCRIPTION:A 95 minute program of 7 films from the 2022 Sundance Film Fest ival shorts program.\n\nGoodbye Jerome! (Au revoir Jérôme!)\nDirectors: Gabrielle Selnet\, Adam Sillard\, Chloé Farr | France\nHaving just arrive d in paradise\, Jerome sets out to find his wife Maryline. In the course o f his search\, he sinks into a surreal and colorful world in which no one seems to be able to help him.\n\nIf I Go Will They Miss Me\nDirector: Walt er Thompson-Hernández | USA\nLil’ Ant has been obsessed with Pegasus\, the Greek mythological character\, since first learning about him at schoo l in Watts\, California. He begins to notice imaginary airplane people aro und his home\, and yearns to fly with them.\n\nMakassar is a City for Foot ball Fans\nDirector: Khozy Rizal | Indonesia/France\nIn a city where men h ave to go crazy about football\, Akbar has to pretend to love the game in order to prevent rejection from his new college friends. The film won the Jury Prize at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Asia.\n\nStranger Than Rotte rdam with Sara Driver\nDirectors: Lewie Kloster\, Noah Kloster | USA\nIn 1 982\, the completion of Jim Jarmusch’s sophomore film\, Stranger Than Pa radise\, hinged on producer Sara Driver’s willingness and ability to smu ggle one of the world’s rarest and most controversial films across the A tlantic Ocean.\n\nTraining Wheels\nDirector: Alison Rich | USA\nA socially inept woman rents one man to prepare for another.\n\nYou Go Girl!\nDirect or: Shariffa Ali | USA\nAudrey\, a New York City comedian who can make a j oke of any situation\, faces a staggering challenge in the beautiful mount ains of Oregon. Can this city woman overcome her fears and rise?\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/FY2 2_SHORTS-TOUR.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Shorts LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1397@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T121500 DTSTAMP:20221012T161551Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/family-shorts-2/ SUMMARY:Family Shorts DESCRIPTION:\n Bristles: When the most beautiful brush in the jar suddenly dries out\, he does everything he can to save his beautiful bristles to b e able to paint again.\n Kenya's Symphony: Kenya\, a bold five-year old g irl\, is reluctantly dragged to a symphony by her mother. Through the powe r of the orchestra\, the young girl's passion for music blossoms before he r own eyes.\n Bellysaurus: A tiny dinosaur dreams she is a scary big dino saur. When danger strikes\, she learns it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Literally.\n Bench: A short film about sharing....\n Wash Day: F ollows a young black girl as she spends the day washing\, and styling her hair.\n Sounds Between the Crowns: A homeless musician was kicked out of the city after the queen saw his face. Although the guards destroyed his i nstrument\, he doesn't lose the motivation to fix it.\n The Girls of the Wind: Searching for independence\, a young girl receives an unexpected vis it from the Daughters of Wind.\n Trails of the Morning: Here comes a litt le girl who’s more of a morning person than Morning itself… and offers us a tender and touching portrait of friendship.\n Kayak: A father and h is baby’s kayak outing along a peaceful river turns out to be a real fam ily adventure.\n\n \;\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Pho to-1-Bristles_Still01.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Kid Friendly,Pass/10Pack,Shorts LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1335@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T150000 DTSTAMP:20221012T161638Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/feathers-1/ SUMMARY:Feathers DESCRIPTION:Also showing October 26\n\n\nIn this bleakly funny debut featur e\, Egyptian filmmaker Omar El Zohairy eviscerates the three-pronged stupi dity of capitalism\, patriarchy\, and bureaucracy. An embattled wife and m other (Demyana Nassar) must fend for herself and her children when her hus band (Samy Bassouny) disappears under bizarre and surreal circumstances. P overty plagues her every turn\, and El Zohairy focuses on the transactiona l nature undergirding each obstacle and opportunity she encounters. Despit e the decrepitude of many of the objects in frame\, El Zohairy exhibits a warm and delicate eye for composition and a sharpness to his visual storyt elling that harkens back to the best of the silent era. ~TW\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1-c opie.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1366@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T144500 DTSTAMP:20221012T162740Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/roaring-20s-les-annees-20/ SUMMARY:Roaring '20s (Les Annees 20) DESCRIPTION:Also playing virtually all day Oct 24-28\n\nFor nearly 90 minut es straight\, the camera never stops rolling. It bounces from conversation to conversation\, traverses sidewalks and subways\, hops aboard motorcycl es and bicycles\, settles at esplanades and park benches. In one continuou s shot\, Roaring '20s ping-pongs through the streets of Paris just as the city heaves a huge sigh of relief emerging from the spring of 2020 pandemi c lockdown. The film’s diverse cast of characters provides a cross-secti on of Parisian life during this young century. As one character says\, “ a century only really starts in the ‘20s.” Discussions of race\, art\, class\, anxiety\, the Internet\, masks\, love\, and loneliness fill the a ir—a discursive symphony for our times. The director goes by a pseudonym \, Elisabeth Vogler\, which suits a film so grounded in the tension betwee n revelation and anonymity. ~TW\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/A20 _1.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1386@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T170000 DTSTAMP:20221012T204124Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shouting-down-midnight-1/ SUMMARY:Shouting Down Midnight DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 28\n\nA timely\, lucid\, and galvanizing film\ , this reportage from across the Texas landscape finds its hero in an unus ually relatable politician\, while keeping everything framed within the la rger history of this reproductive rights struggle. In 2013\, women shared real stories to help Texas State Senator Wendy Davis filibuster in defense of Texas women’s access to reproductive healthcare. As the capitol fill ed to capacity for the first time in its history\, and people all over the world tuned in\, Sen. Davis read testimony from women strongly opposed to the bill which would effectively force draconian\, pre-Roe v. Wade condit ions on women again. The bill ultimately passed\, but not before Texas wom en–and some men–made it clear that the Texas legislature had gone too far. Says director Gretchen Stoeltje: "Our characters are women whose lett ers Senator Davis read during the filibuster\, Senator Davis herself\, and one young activist who chose her fate that day. Since then\, we’ve foll owed these women to understand how that day changed their lives\, and why the fight for reproductive freedom is more important than ever.”\n\n***O ct 28 screening is followed by a Q&\;A via Zoom with the director***\n\ nCommunity Support by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sho uting-Down-Midnight-03.jpeg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1331@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T174500 DTSTAMP:20221012T155828Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/crows-are-white-1/ SUMMARY:Crows Are White DESCRIPTION:Also showing in-theater Oct 28\, and virtually all day Oct 29-3 1.\n\n\nAre crows ever white? Of course not. Crows Are White borrows its t itle from a story about a Buddhist monk who was taught never to question h is teachers\, even when they said things that were objectively wrong. Ahme d Nahseen\, a fresh new voice in nonfiction filmmaking\, takes the long ro ad to find ways to question the traditions of his Muslim parents\, in part icular the command to marry another Muslim. After decades of living a secr et life\, he travels to a strict Japanese monastery in search of guidance\ , but the only monk who will help him prefers ice cream and heavy metal ov er meditation. Nahseen tells us early on in the film: “I’ll be honest with you\, I’m a fantastic liar. But I’m trying something new here — I’m going to try to tell the truth.” Crows Are White is an honest and irreverent exploration of truth\, faith\, and love. While the film’s en ding scene may be worthy of Hollywood\, Nahseen’s humorous voice\, his m ishaps en route\, and the movie’s low-key score make this a true indie f ilm. ~OY\n\n*** This screening will be followed by a Zoom Q&\;A with th e Director***\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Cro ws-are-White.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1369@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T204500 DTSTAMP:20221012T204454Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vengeance-is-mine/ SUMMARY:Vengeance is Mine DESCRIPTION:Deprived of a proper release in 1984\, Michael Roemer’s domes tic drama of women in trouble is only now getting the audience it deserves . Following his belatedly lauded Nothing But a Man (1964) and The Plot Aga inst Harry (1971)\, Vengeance Is Mine further cements Roemer’s reputatio n as a consistently incisive and sharp-elbowed observer of the American co ndition\, with a focus on people rather than types. In Vengeance Is Mine\, Jo’s (Brooke Adams) closest relationships—those with her mother and h usband—are fraught and riven with pain. She glimpses a chance at redempt ion when she befriends fourteen-year-old Jackie (Ari Meyers) whose parents are going through an ugly divorce. Inevitably\, Jo gets in too deep\, lea ding to a final confrontation with Jackie’s mother (Trish Van Devere) wo rthy of the film’s hard-boiled title. ~TW\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/VM_ R1_2.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1326@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T204500 DTSTAMP:20221012T191722Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/boycott/ SUMMARY:Boycott DESCRIPTION:Also showing virtually all day Oct 24-30\n\n\nAs a response to the growing BDS movement\, 33 states across the US recently passed legisla tion barring citizens from engaging in any form of boycott relating to the foreign country of Israel. In light of these laws\, three brave individua ls\, with much risk to their livelihoods\, are fighting back to preserve w hat they believe is protected by their First Amendment right to free speec h. A newspaper man in Arkansas\, an attorney in Arizona\, and a speech the rapist in Texas all file suit against their respective states for infringe ment of their constitutional rights. Julia Bacha’s inspiring and informa tive documentary follows their lawsuits and\, in the process\, explores th e foundations of boycott in America and exposes how this sudden proliferat ion of anti-BDS laws came to be. ~TW\n\nThis screening will be followed by a Q&\;A with Daniel Nerenberg from the Just Vision team.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1_B OYCOTT_SM-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1377@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221024 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221029 DTSTAMP:20221019T140743Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/roaring-20s-les-annees-20-virtual/ SUMMARY:Roaring '20s (Les Annees 20) (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also playing in-theater Oct 23\, followed by Zoom Q&\;A with the producer\n\n\nPlease note the virtual ticket for this film is only vi ewable in the U.S. &\; Canada.\n\nFor nearly 90 minutes straight\, the camera never stops rolling. It bounces from conversation to conversation\, traverses sidewalks and subways\, hops aboard motorcycles and bicycles\, settles at esplanades and park benches. In one continuous shot\, Roaring ' 20s ping-pongs through the streets of Paris just as the city heaves a huge sigh of relief emerging from the spring of 2020 pandemic lockdown. The fi lm’s diverse cast of characters provides a cross-section of Parisian lif e during this young century. As one character says\, “a century only rea lly starts in the ‘20s.” Discussions of race\, art\, class\, anxiety\, the Internet\, masks\, love\, and loneliness fill the air—a discursive symphony for our times. The director goes by a pseudonym\, Elisabeth Vogle r\, which suits a film so grounded in the tension between revelation and a nonymity. ~TW\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/A20 _1.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1371@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221024 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221031 DTSTAMP:20221018T200846Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/boycott-virtual/ SUMMARY:Boycott (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing in-theater\, with Q&\;A Oct 23\n\n\nPlease note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in New England.\n\nAs a response to the growing BDS movement\, 33 states across the US recently p assed legislation barring citizens from engaging in any form of boycott re lating to the foreign country of Israel. In light of these laws\, three br ave individuals\, with much risk to their livelihoods\, are fighting back to preserve what they believe is protected by their First Amendment right to free speech. A newspaper man in Arkansas\, an attorney in Arizona\, and a speech therapist in Texas all file suit against their respective states for infringement of their constitutional rights. Julia Bacha’s inspirin g and informative documentary follows their lawsuits and\, in the process\ , explores the foundations of boycott in America and exposes how this sudd en proliferation of anti-BDS laws came to be. ~TW\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1_B OYCOTT_SM-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1350@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T150000 DTSTAMP:20221012T204221Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-falconer-1/ SUMMARY:The Falconer DESCRIPTION:Also showing Friday\, Oct 28\, and virtually all day Oct 29-31\ n\nBest Environmental Feature at BendFilm and a Special Jury Prize at Cine ma on the Bayou.\nRodney Stotts is one of just a few certified African-Ame rican falconers in the US. In this surprising and incisive portrait of a r emarkable man\, we see Rodney overcome his troubled past and pervasive rac ial discrimination to devote himself to the art and sport of falconry. Ult imately\, Rodney is a life-force\, a soaring falconer and poet\, a protect or of his community and of the natural world. With visually sumptuous phot ography\, a socially engaged perspective\, and a great soundtrack taboot\, filmmaker Annie Kaempfer offers a complex portrait of the life-long trava ils of being a Black man in America. ~AM\n\n\n*Followed by a Q&\;A via Zoom with the director (Friday screening only).\n\n\n\n*Annie Kaempfer ser ves on the Board of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capi tal and has consulted for the Ford Foundation\, JustFilms and FotoDC.\n\n& nbsp\;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The -Falconer-signature-photo.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1363@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T153000 DTSTAMP:20221012T162423Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-sunny-maad-1/ SUMMARY:My Sunny Maad DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 27\n\nBased on a novel by the Czech investigat ive journalist Petra Procházková\, My Sunny Maad sensitively portrays th e complex environment of Kabul in the second decade of the 21st century. H erra (voiced by Zuzana Stivínová)\, a young Czech woman\, falls in love with Afghani Nazir (Hynek Cermák) while studying in Prague. Moving to a p ost-Taliban Afghanistan with no sense of expectation\, she must navigate h er life as a bride in a foreign landscape. With a cautiously liberal grand father\, an unconventional adopted child\, and half-sisters desperate to e scape domestic violence\, the family’s boundaries of social norms are pu shed to the point of life-threatening danger. Animation director Michaela Pavlàtovà uses her recognized talent (an Oscar nomination\, a Golden Bea r in Berlin\, and a Crystal in Annecy) to offer up a touching and enlighte ning tale that’s accessible to all audiences but which also manages to s how welcomed restraint when it comes to the risk of melodrama and the bran d of Western-world judgment that often hangs over a subject such as this. The director deftly sidesteps these pitfalls thanks to her deeply human ap proach and the simplicity that plays out perfectly in her rendering of the story through different modes of storytelling. ~OY\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/My_ Sunny_Maad_Photo1©NEGATIV_S.R.O–SACREBLEU_PRODUCTIONS–BFILM_S.R.O.– ČESKÁ_TELEVIZE–ALKAY_ANIMATION_PRAGUE_S.R.O.–GAOSHAN_PICTURES–IN NERVISION_2021-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1351@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T174500 DTSTAMP:20221012T151343Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/al-carras-2/ SUMMARY:Alcarràs DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 22\n\n\nWinner of the 2022 Golden Bear\, the h ighest award at the Berlin International Film Festival\, Carla Simón's Al carràs is a rich\, poignant tale about the impact of industrial developme nt on agriculture (a Catalan peach farm in Spain) and a close-knit family' s fragility and love for a cherished place. Filled with remarkable nonprof essional performances and sharp perceptions of family dynamics–the power of old age and of childhood–Alcarràs is both sunlit and grave. The los s of a farm to solar development is presented with searing political consc ience. ~AM\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ALC ARRAS_Still3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1318@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T173000 DTSTAMP:20221012T151223Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-night-of-knowing-nothing/ SUMMARY:A Night of Knowing Nothing DESCRIPTION:The narrator of A Night of Knowing Nothing casts a nocturnal sp ell. She reads aloud from love letters supposedly found in a cupboard at t he Film &\; Television Institute of India. Beneath her words\, universi ty students dance the night away. In an uncanny blend of fact and fiction\ , Payal Kapadia’s debut feature\, and the winner of the Golden Eye award for best documentary at the 2021 Cannes International Film Festival\, fol lows an uprising of student protests in response to austerity measures imp osed by India’s far-right government. With archival footage abutting doc umentation of contemporary struggle and personal yearning inflecting mass movement\, Kapadia’s film occupies a liminal space between dreams and li fe\, art and politics. Her film is as sensual as it is powerful\, as delic ate as it is sloganeering. It captures a generation that feels squeezed an d trapped in a cinematic form that is expansive beyond any genre constrain ts. ~TW\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/A-N IGHT-OF-KNOWING-NOTHING-01-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1330@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T203000 DTSTAMP:20221023T164823Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/costa-brava-lebanon-1/ SUMMARY:Costa Brava\, Lebanon DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 29 in-theater\, and virtually all day Oct 30-N ov 1\n\n\nLebanon's submission to the 2023 Academy Awards.\nSoraya (Nadine Labaki) and Walid (Saleh Bakri) put their political activism in the rear- view mirror a long time ago. They escaped the insalubrious air of Beirut f or a green mountainside where they can farm and raise their daughters in q uiet harmony. After years of inhabiting this little piece of paradise unpe rturbed\, they awake one morning to the rumble of earth movers. A new gove rnment project to establish a landfill on the neighboring property pierces their idyllic bubble. This intrusion from the outside puts a strain on th e family dynamics as parents remember the past\, children yearn for the fu ture\, and the very notion of escape is thrown into question. In this subv ersive debut feature\, director Mounia Akl peppers the emotional and polit ical truths of her film with elegant touches of magical realism. The seemi ng ease by which Akl blends these elements suggests not just an emerging t alent\, but a filmmaker already in full command of her art. ~TW\n\n*** You may watch a conversation with the director and the two main characters HE RE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1-c osta-brava-lebanon-copyright-abbout-productions-scaled-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1320@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221024T210000 DTSTAMP:20221012T151317Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/aftersun/ SUMMARY:Aftersun DESCRIPTION:Scrambled\, pixelated images emerge like memories struggling to come into focus. The source is an old MiniDV camcorder brought along to d ocument the joys of a sun-soaked father-daughter vacation between 11-year- old Sophie (Frankie Corio) and 30-year-old Callum (Paul Mescal). Sophie’ s parents aren’t together\, and she lives with her mother\, so the novel excitement in her and Callum’s bond is immediately apparent. But there ’s distance\, as well—a thinly disguised ruefulness in the young fathe r\; a loneliness and questing in the adolescent daughter. Charlotte Wells ’ debut feature is a mature distillation of connection and alienation in even the most intimate relationships. Sometimes told with the fragmentari ness of memories spilling over in a soup of insight and regret\, Aftersun movingly captures both the fleetingness of moments shared with someone you love and the bittersweet traces those moments can leave on the heart. ~TW ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Aft ersun.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1325@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T153000 DTSTAMP:20221012T151200Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-man-of-integrity/ SUMMARY:A Man of Integrity DESCRIPTION:VTIFF is proud to bring you another of Mohammad Rasoulof’s fi lms. Manuscripts Don’t Burn\, in 2014\, and There is no Evil\, in 2021\, were both festival hits. Now in an Iranian jail\, like his fellow filmmak er and compatriot Jaafar Panahi\, Rasoulof has been making scathing social commentary films aimed at the Iranian regime for over a decade. He remain s relatively unknown and underappreciated in the US\, despite winning nume rous prizes at top festivals\, like Cannes and Berlin. In A Man of Integri ty\, an examination of corruption and state cronyism\, Reza (Reza Akhlaghi rad) leads a simple life along with his wife (Soudabeh Beizaee) and young son in a remote village in Northern Iran. He spends his days working on hi s goldfish farm. Nearby\, a private company\, with close links to the gove rnment and local authorities\, has taken control over nearly every aspect of regional life. Its shareholders\, accumulating wealth\, power\, and eco nomic influence\, have been pushing local farmers and small owners to sell off their belongings\, farms\, and estates\, to the benefit of the compan y. A Man of Integrity proceeds with the deliberate pace and simmering tens ion of a ‘70s political thriller\, and every narrative twist hammers hom e the same point: it’s hard to be a good man in a bad system. ~OY\n\nRea d (or download) the Producer's notes HERE\n\n \n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/A_M an_of_Integrity_photo1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1336@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T151500 DTSTAMP:20221012T161840Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/full-time-a-plein-temps-1/ SUMMARY:Full Time (A Plein Temps) DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 27\n\n\nA superb exercise in everyday suspense \, Full Time is based on the simple premise of a divorced mother trying to get to work on time while raising two kids and attempting to squeeze in t he exhausting and dehumanizing ordeal of the corporate interview process. And though there’s not a mask in sight\, the added monkey wrench of a na tional transit strike perfectly distills the chaos and dysfunction of the Covid era. Tautly paced\, with a pulsing electronic score and a magnetic p erformance by Laure Calamy as the single mom with a degree in economics wo rking as a hotel housekeeper to make ends meet\, Full Time will hit home f or anyone who has been at the end of their rope during a desperate job sea rch. ~LB\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/01- 2021-07-22_STILL_TO_VENISE_0097721-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1389@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T174500 DTSTAMP:20221012T204052Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rodeo-1/ SUMMARY:Rodeo DESCRIPTION:Rodeo takes viewers inside the cacophonous\, adrenaline-fueled world of France’s underground motocross scene. Hot-tempered Julia (Julie Ledrue) steals everything she has\, including the high-end dirt bikes tha t gain her entry into the B-Mores\, an exclusive gang of riders who specia lize in full-throttle acrobatics. Julia’s welcome is fraught. She consta ntly has to prove herself to the more experienced male riders\, but her de ft hand at stealing has a way of smoothing things over—until it doesn’ t. Director Lola Quivoron spent four years embedded in groups of “urban rodeo” riders as a documentarian and photojournalist. Now\, Quivoron’s low-budget verité filmmaking meets death-defying stunt work in this grit ty thriller that is just as much a heist caper as it is a coming-of-age st ory. Winner of the special jury prize in Cannes’ 2022 Un Certain Regard section\, Rodeo brings a clandestine subculture to the screen with startli ng vivacity. ~TW\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ROD EO-01.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1345@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T173000 DTSTAMP:20221012T204321Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wobblies/ SUMMARY:The Wobblies DESCRIPTION:Also playing virtually all day Oct 26-28\n\nFounded in Chicago in 1905\, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing uns killed workers into one big union and changed the course of American histo ry. This compelling documentary of the IWW (or “The Wobblies” as they were known) tells the story of workers in factories\, sawmills\, wheat fie lds\, forests\, mines\, and on the docks as they organize and demand bette r wages\, healthcare\, overtime pay\, and safer working conditions. In som e respects\, men and women\, Black and white\, skilled and unskilled worke rs joining a union and speaking their minds seems so long ago\, but in oth er ways\, the film mirrors today’s headlines\, depicting a nation ravage d by corporate greed. In this recently restored documentary from 1979\, fi lmmakers Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird weave history\, archival film fo otage\, interviews with former workers (then in their 80s and 90s)\, carto ons\, original art\, and classic Wobbly songs (many written by Joe Hill) t o pay tribute to the legacy of these rebels who paved the way and risked t heir lives for many of the rights that we still have today.\n\nRestored by the Museum of Modern Art and recently inducted into the National Film Reg istry of the Library of Congress.\n\n***Followed by an in-person Q&\;A with director Deborah Shaffer***\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/WOB S.street1.final1_-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1329@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T204500 DTSTAMP:20221019T201753Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/corsage/ SUMMARY:Corsage DESCRIPTION:***2nd screening added on Friday\, Oct 28 at 1pm (replacing the scheduled screening of Burning Days***\n\nAustria's submission to the Osc ars in Best International Feature category.\nVicky Krieps - Winner – Bes t Actor – Un Certain Regard– Cannes 2022\nWinner Best Film at 2022 BFI London Film Festival.\n\nThe Empress Elisabeth of Corsage is an irreveren t\, often immature\, first lady with an insatiable desire to determine her own future. Having helped establish the doomed joint Austro-Hungarian Mon archy\, Elisabeth (or Sissi) certainly occupies a special place in the hea rts and minds of Austrians. In a reimagining of the fabled empress by writ er-director Marie Kreutzer\, Corsage is a witty subversion of biopic and c ostume-drama clichés. Brilliantly played by Vicky Krieps as mysterious an d sensual\, imperious and severe\, in many ways Kreutzer’s film is a stu dy in anger. It is 1877 in Vienna\, and Sissi is turning 40. Every day she faces the figurative and literal struggle to fit into her tightly drawn c orsage and get down to a terrifying 18-inch waistline. For Sissi\, the per sonal is political. Kreutzer’s insertion of anachronistic songs and imag inary encounters both reinforce the empress’ unease and allow her a repr ieve by time-traveling\, momentarily\, to the present day. Kreutzer’s pr evious film\, The Ground Beneath My Feet\, from 2019\, had a similar shrew d sense of how women are isolated and restricted by whatever status they h ave been able to cultivate. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/COR SAGE-Cannes-Film-Festival-H-2022.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1324@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T203000 DTSTAMP:20221006T134037Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/as-far-as-i-can-walk-1/ SUMMARY:As Far As I Can Walk DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 30\n\n\nTickets are on sale at 10am\, Fri\, Oc t 7 for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual tick et purchasers at 10am\, Wed\, Oct 12.\n\nThis loose re-imagining of a trad itional medieval epic\, in which contemporary African migrants take the pl ace of Serbian national heroes\, succeeds where other films have failed. O scar-nominated Stefan Arsenijević has created an utterly compelling love story between two Ghanaian refugees. He actively subverts some of the most commonly held beliefs around not just the migrant crisis but people on th e margins\, in general\, by focusing on the couple as complex\, fully real ized people whose relationship and tribulations propel the narrative forwa rd. This is a gripping and moving story\, beautifully directed\, written\, and acted. It will engross you from the first frame to the last. As Far A s I Can Walk well deserves its many awards from the Karlovy Vary Internati onal Film Festival and the KineNove Film Festival. ~OY\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/As- Far-As-I-Can-Walk-Ababuo-_-Strahinya-in-the-camp-01.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1378@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221026 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221029 DTSTAMP:20221019T141949Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wobblies-virtual/ SUMMARY:The Wobblies (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also playing in-theater Oct 25\, followed by an in-person Q& \;A with director Deborah Shaffer\n\n\nPlease note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in Vermont.\n\nFounded in Chicago in 1905\, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing unskilled worker s into one big union and changed the course of American history. This comp elling documentary of the IWW (or “The Wobblies” as they were known) t ells the story of workers in factories\, sawmills\, wheat fields\, forests \, mines\, and on the docks as they organize and demand better wages\, hea lthcare\, overtime pay\, and safer working conditions. In some respects\, men and women\, Black and white\, skilled and unskilled workers joining a union and speaking their minds seems so long ago\, but in other ways\, the film mirrors today’s headlines\, depicting a nation ravaged by corporat e greed. In this recently restored documentary from 1979\, filmmakers Debo rah Shaffer and Stewart Bird weave history\, archival film footage\, inter views with former workers (then in their 80s and 90s)\, cartoons\, origina l art\, and classic Wobbly songs (many written by Joe Hill) to pay tribute to the legacy of these rebels who paved the way and risked their lives fo r many of the rights that we still have today.\n\nRestored by the Museum o f Modern Art and recently inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.\n\n \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/WOB S.street1.final1_-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1388@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T150000 DTSTAMP:20221012T204442Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/utama-2/ SUMMARY:Utama DESCRIPTION:Also playing Oct 22\n\n*Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dr amatic competition at Sundance and Bolivia's Official Submission to the 20 23 Academy Awards*\n\nHome is where the water is. In the Bolivian highland s\, an elderly Quechua couple (played by actual couple José Calcina and L uisa Quispe–authentic\, nonprofessional actors whom Loayza Grisi had to convince to participate)\, has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought\, Virginio and his wife Sisa face a dile mma: resist\, or be defeated by the environment and time itself. Utama mea ns “our home” in the Quechua dialect\, and these two intend to die the re\, despite the polite appeals of their grandson Clever (Santos Choque)\, who visits them with the mission of convincing them to move to the city. A typical millennial\, he’s always on his phone\, oblivious to the beaut y all around him. But we the audience have the privilege of taking it in t hanks to the sublime cinematography. The breathtaking opening shot — of Virginio walking alone across a dark\, dry plain\, toward the blazing sunr ise beyond the mountains–is worth anyone’s time. And if that’s not e nough\, the bright pink tassels pinned to the ears of the herd of llamas a re a striking dose of color against the desiccated vistas. ~OY\n\n \n\n&n bsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Uta ma_1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1328@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T153000 DTSTAMP:20221012T154207Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/close/ SUMMARY:Close DESCRIPTION:Belgium's submission to the 2023 Academy Awards.\n\nTwo thirtee n-year-old boys\, Léo (Eden Dambrine) and Rémi (Gustav De Waele)\, share an intimate friendship. They lean on each other physically just as much a s they do emotionally. As they enter high school\, though\, classmates beg in to question their closeness and their sexuality. The judgment of others drives a rift between the two boys and leads to heart-shattering conseque nces. This Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2022 Cannes International Film F estival is a raw\, phenomenally acted drama of youth in crisis. It has cat apulted Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont onto the world stage as a writer and director of tender instincts and incredible facility with young talent. ~ TW\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Clo se.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1332@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T174500 DTSTAMP:20221012T155922Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/de-humani/ SUMMARY:De Humani Corporis Fabrica DESCRIPTION:Director of Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab Luci en Castaing-Taylor and his colleague Véréna Paravel recognize the integr al role of image-making in modern medical science. With their unparalleled feel for immersive editing\, which they first exhibited in the 2012 fishi ng industry documentary Leviathan\, Castaing-Taylor and Paravel stitch tog ether fragments of footage from a handful of hospitals in France\, explori ng the insides and outside of the human body and offering a privileged per spective into the professional spaces that make the body their business. T he result is a transportive journey into the smallest recesses a camera ca n access\, revealing both the fragility and the robustness of the matter t hat makes us mortal. ~TW\n\n“Thinking about how modern medicine has used the tools of cinema to develop its own powers of seeing\, we wanted to tr y to do the opposite\, to borrow the tools of medicine for cinema\, to all ow us to see the human body in a way almost none of us ever get to see\, a nd to break open the usual ways we look at our bodies and the world\,” P aravel said while describing the process of conceiving the film. “To giv e us a view of our interior selves that’s more corporeal\, more incarnat e. But one that also lets us glimpse our vulnerability: the fragility of l ife and the ever-present specter of death.” ~Castaing-Taylor &\; Para vel.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/DeH umani-1-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1383@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T174500 DTSTAMP:20221016T155707Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/il-buco-2/ SUMMARY:Il Buco DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 22\n\n\nIn Il Buco (“The Hole”)\, director Michelangelo Frammartino re-stages the 1961 discovery of the Bifurto Abys s\, one of the deepest caves in the world\, located in Italy’s Calabrian plateau. Luxuriating in the sights and sounds of the unspoiled Italian co untryside\, Frammartino transports the viewer to another time and place wi th an authenticity typically only achievable in documentary. But Frammarti no’s observational approach belies the technical wizardry involved in ca pturing the speleologists as they descend deeper and deeper into the narro w passages of the cave. It is filmmaking as confounding as it is engrossin g. In a parallel plot line\, a shepherd watches the discoverers from the h ills above\, witnessing time pass and the slow creep of modernity. ~TW\n\n "Inspired by a 1960s Italian potholing expedition\, Michelangelo Frammarti no’s almost wordless film is spellbinding." ~Wendy Ide\, The Guardian\n\ n***Followed by a reception sponsored by Vermont Italian Cultural Associat ion*** We are delighted that John Fusco will be joining us for this screen ing and reception.\n\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IlB uco_still6-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1380@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T204500 DTSTAMP:20221012T161615Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/feathers-2/ SUMMARY:Feathers DESCRIPTION:Also showing October 23\n\n\nIn this bleakly funny debut featur e\, Egyptian filmmaker Omar El Zohairy eviscerates the three-pronged stupi dity of capitalism\, patriarchy\, and bureaucracy. An embattled wife and m other (Demyana Nassar) must fend for herself and her children when her hus band (Samy Bassouny) disappears under bizarre and surreal circumstances. P overty plagues her every turn\, and El Zohairy focuses on the transactiona l nature undergirding each obstacle and opportunity she encounters. Despit e the decrepitude of many of the objects in frame\, El Zohairy exhibits a warm and delicate eye for composition and a sharpness to his visual storyt elling that harkens back to the best of the silent era. ~TW\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1-c opie.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1347@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T203000 DTSTAMP:20221012T162148Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/killer-of-sheep/ SUMMARY:Killer of Sheep DESCRIPTION:More than a landmark in independent filmmaking\, Killer of Shee p is one of the finest films ever made about finding meaning in the hardsh ips of everyday living. Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles—a predomina ntly Black neighborhood still showing the scars of the 1965 racial justice riots—Charles Burnett’s episodic first feature centers on a sleep-dep rived slaughterhouse worker (Henry G. Sanders) and his proudly resilient w ife (Kaycee Moore)\, whose marriage wavers under the burden of financial s train. With gentle humor and a discerning documentary eye\, Burnett finds poetry in the rhythms of workaday life—the sensuous comfort of a warm cu p of coffee\; the transient thrill of a new car engine\; the melancholy jo y of slow dancing to a Dinah Washington ballad. Made for less than $10\,00 0\, Burnett’s UCLA thesis film interweaves street scenes of childhood pl ay that serve as a Greek chorus questioning what it means to be an adult i n a world where children grow up fast. ~LB\n\n***Followed by an in-person Q&\;A with director Charles Burnett\, recipient of VTIFF’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to American Cinema***\n\nThank you to UVM’s Col lege of Arts &\; Sciences\, Film &\; Television Studies Program and Humanities Center for assistance in bringing and hosting Mr. Burnett.\n\n& nbsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/KIL LER-OF-SHEEP-STILL-01-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1367@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T153000 DTSTAMP:20221015T212612Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/robe-of-gems/ SUMMARY:Robe of Gems DESCRIPTION:Winner\, Silver Bear Jury Prize\, Berlin 2022\n\nDisappearance is at the heart of Robe of Gems. A wealthy\, white divorcee\, Isabel (Nail ea Norvind)\, moves into her mother’s old rural Mexican villa with her t wo adolescent children. Their housekeeper\, Mari (Antonia Olivares)\, has a sister who has been missing for over a year. As police reports and commu nity searches provide no resolution\, Isabel foolheartedly takes matters i nto her own hands. Natalia López’s debut feature is a haunting evocatio n of contemporary Mexico in thrall to violent narcos and kidnappers. The f ilm’s patient\, elliptical unfolding mirrors the tenuousness of a societ y corrupted at its very core\, in which the drug trade infects all strata\ , seeping into familial\, social\, and occupational bonds\, and gnawing th em threadbare. Like the characters themselves\, viewers of the film rarely have firm footing whilst navigating this devastating\, hostile environmen t. But López’s strong directorial choices\, sophisticated visual langua ge\, and emotionally poignant editing make for a film as captivating as it is unsettling. ~TW\n\n***Followed by Zoom Q&\;A with the director***\n \n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ROB E-Main.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1384@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T151500 DTSTAMP:20221012T162452Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-sunny-maad-2/ SUMMARY:My Sunny Maad DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 24\n\nBased on a novel by the Czech investigat ive journalist Petra Procházková\, My Sunny Maad sensitively portrays th e complex environment of Kabul in the second decade of the 21st century. H erra (voiced by Zuzana Stivínová)\, a young Czech woman\, falls in love with Afghani Nazir (Hynek Cermák) while studying in Prague. Moving to a p ost-Taliban Afghanistan with no sense of expectation\, she must navigate h er life as a bride in a foreign landscape. With a cautiously liberal grand father\, an unconventional adopted child\, and half-sisters desperate to e scape domestic violence\, the family’s boundaries of social norms are pu shed to the point of life-threatening danger. Animation director Michaela Pavlàtovà uses her recognized talent (an Oscar nomination\, a Golden Bea r in Berlin\, and a Crystal in Annecy) to offer up a touching and enlighte ning tale that’s accessible to all audiences but which also manages to s how welcomed restraint when it comes to the risk of melodrama and the bran d of Western-world judgment that often hangs over a subject such as this. The director deftly sidesteps these pitfalls thanks to her deeply human ap proach and the simplicity that plays out perfectly in her rendering of the story through different modes of storytelling. ~OY\n\n \;\n\n \; CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1348@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T173000 DTSTAMP:20221012T204416Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/to-sleep-with-anger/ SUMMARY:To Sleep With Anger DESCRIPTION:VTIFF’s spotlight on the films of independent trailblazer Cha rles Burnett continues with To Sleep with Anger\, a potent comedic drama a bout a middle-class African-American household in South Central Los Angele s facing a generational clash between the traditional rural values of the family’s Southern-born elders and the next generation’s urban mindset. Precipitating the conflict is Harry (played by Danny Glover in a towering performance)\, a friend of questionable repute from back home who shows u p on their doorstep unannounced and quickly upends the fragile family dyna mic. Burnett\, who was born in Mississippi but grew up in Los Angeles\, mi xes realism with a healthy dose of Southern folklore\, leading to a satisf yingly cathartic conclusion. ~LB\n\n***Followed by an in-person Q&\;A w ith director Charles Burnett\, recipient of VTIFF’s Award for Outstandin g Contribution to American Cinema***\n\nThank you to UVM’s College of Ar ts &\; Sciences\, Film &\; Television Studies Program and Humanities Center for assistance in bringing and hosting Mr. Burnett.\n\n \;\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/To- Sleep-With-Anger-poster1.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1337@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T180000 DTSTAMP:20221012T162006Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/happening-1/ SUMMARY:Happening (L'évènement) DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 29\n\n\nWinner\, Golden Lion at the 2021 Venic e film festival.\n\nFrance\, 1963. Audrey Diwan’s film captures the pani c of an unwanted pregnancy before the legalization of abortion in provinci al France. Adapted from Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel Happening recounts the journey of a young woman’s physical and emotional battle to access illegal abortion in a desperate race against the clock. Anne is pr egnant. With mounting suppressed panic\, she waits for her period and repe atedly writes “rien” in her diary.  Her future is about to be destroy ed\, but even asking for an abortion is to risk a jail sentence for you an d anyone else who helps – or fails to denounce you. Diwan structures the film so that at first we don’t know who the father is\, nor do we witne ss the moment of conception\, mirroring Anne’s own sense of denial. The extended duration of the film’s long takes build suspense like a thrille r. Happening is a powerful and gripping drama set in a society that condem ned female desire and sexual liberty. Despite being set 60 years ago\, the film has a disorienting and timeless feel that reinforces the idea that a woman’s reproductive rights are perennially fragile. ~OY\n\nNote: Ernau x is the recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature\n\n \n\n \; \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Hap pening-photo2.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1323@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T203000 DTSTAMP:20221027T230847Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/almas-rainbow/ SUMMARY:Alma's Rainbow DESCRIPTION:Also showing virtually all day Oct 28-30: \n\nPlease note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in Vermont.\n\nOne of the fi rst films produced\, written\, and directed by an African-American woman\, this landmark achievement in ‘90s Black cinema has been restored by the Academy Film Archive\, the Film Foundation\, and Milestone Films. Dr. Ayo ka Chenzira is a pioneer of cinematic storytelling\, working consistently since the 1970s as an animator\, experimental filmmaker\, and media arts e ducator. Her debut live-action feature Alma’s Rainbow\, from 1994\, is a generously playful portrait of Black womanhood. Alma Gold (Kim Weston-Mor an) is raising her teenage daughter\, Rainbow (Victoria Gabriella Platt)\, and running a hair salon out of the downstairs of their Brooklyn residenc e. When Alma’s estranged and eccentric sister\, Ruby (Mizan Nunes)\, ret urns from Paris\, the sisters lock horns on the proper director for Rainbo w’s education. It’s a coming-of-age dramedy that wrestles with the com plexities of self-expression\, self-image\, and sovereignty over one’s b ody. Alma’s Rainbow is presented in conjunction with Chenzira’s satiri cal animated short Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People\, from 1984. ~TW\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/alm as_rainbow_2_Ruby_RainbowSM.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1381@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T203000 DTSTAMP:20221012T161804Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/full-time-a-plein-temps-2/ SUMMARY:Full Time (A Plein Temps) DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 25\n\n\nA superb exercise in everyday suspense \, Full Time is based on the simple premise of a divorced mother trying to get to work on time while raising two kids and attempting to squeeze in t he exhausting and dehumanizing ordeal of the corporate interview process. And though there’s not a mask in sight\, the added monkey wrench of a na tional transit strike perfectly distills the chaos and dysfunction of the Covid era. Tautly paced\, with a pulsing electronic score and a magnetic p erformance by Laure Calamy as the single mom with a degree in economics wo rking as a hotel housekeeper to make ends meet\, Full Time will hit home f or anyone who has been at the end of their rope during a desperate job sea rch. ~LB\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/01- 2021-07-22_STILL_TO_VENISE_0097721-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1370@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221028 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221031 DTSTAMP:20221016T161400Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/almas-rainbow-virtual/ SUMMARY:Alma's Rainbow (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing in-theater Oct 27\n\n\nOne of the first films prod uced\, written\, and directed by an African-American woman\, this landmark achievement in ‘90s Black cinema has been restored by the Academy Film Archive\, the Film Foundation\, and Milestone Films. Dr. Ayoka Chenzira is a pioneer of cinematic storytelling\, working consistently since the 1970 s as an animator\, experimental filmmaker\, and media arts educator. Her d ebut live-action feature Alma’s Rainbow\, from 1994\, is a generously pl ayful portrait of Black womanhood. Alma Gold (Kim Weston-Moran) is raising her teenage daughter\, Rainbow (Victoria Gabriella Platt)\, and running a hair salon out of the downstairs of their Brooklyn residence. When Alma ’s estranged and eccentric sister\, Ruby (Mizan Nunes)\, returns from Pa ris\, the sisters lock horns on the proper director for Rainbow’s educat ion. It’s a coming-of-age dramedy that wrestles with the complexities of self-expression\, self-image\, and sovereignty over one’s body. Alma’ s Rainbow is presented in conjunction with Chenzira’s satirical animated short Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People\, from 1984. ~TW\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/alm as_rainbow_2_Ruby_RainbowSM.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1327@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T151500 DTSTAMP:20221019T202309Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/burning-days/ SUMMARY:Burning Days - screening replaced DESCRIPTION:We are very sad to announce that because of insurmountable tech nical issues we are unable to screen this film. The screening slot has bee n replaced by a second screening of Corsage.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Bur ning-Days01.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1400@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T150000 DTSTAMP:20221019T201931Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/corsage-2/ SUMMARY:Corsage DESCRIPTION:***Also Showing Tuesday\, Oct 25***\n\nAustria's submission to the Oscars in Best International Feature category.\nVicky Krieps - Winner – Best Actor – Un Certain Regard– Cannes 2022\nWinner Best Film at 2 022 BFI London Film Festival.\n\nThe Empress Elisabeth of Corsage is an ir reverent\, often immature\, first lady with an insatiable desire to determ ine her own future. Having helped establish the doomed joint Austro-Hungar ian Monarchy\, Elisabeth (or Sissi) certainly occupies a special place in the hearts and minds of Austrians. In a reimagining of the fabled empress by writer-director Marie Kreutzer\, Corsage is a witty subversion of biopi c and costume-drama clichés. Brilliantly played by Vicky Krieps as myster ious and sensual\, imperious and severe\, in many ways Kreutzer’s film i s a study in anger. It is 1877 in Vienna\, and Sissi is turning 40. Every day she faces the figurative and literal struggle to fit into her tightly drawn corsage and get down to a terrifying 18-inch waistline. For Sissi\, the personal is political. Kreutzer’s insertion of anachronistic songs a nd imaginary encounters both reinforce the empress’ unease and allow her a reprieve by time-traveling\, momentarily\, to the present day. Kreutzer ’s previous film\, The Ground Beneath My Feet\, from 2019\, had a simila r shrewd sense of how women are isolated and restricted by whatever status they have been able to cultivate. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/COR SAGE-Cannes-Film-Festival-H-2022.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1346@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T153000 DTSTAMP:20221012T204109Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shouting-down-midnight-2/ SUMMARY:Shouting Down Midnight DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 23\n\nA timely\, lucid\, and galvanizing film\ , this reportage from across the Texas landscape finds its hero in an unus ually relatable politician\, while keeping everything framed within the la rger history of this reproductive rights struggle. In 2013\, women shared real stories to help Texas State Senator Wendy Davis filibuster in defense of Texas women’s access to reproductive healthcare. As the capitol fill ed to capacity for the first time in its history\, and people all over the world tuned in\, Sen. Davis read testimony from women strongly opposed to the bill which would effectively force draconian\, pre-Roe v. Wade condit ions on women again. The bill ultimately passed\, but not before Texas wom en–and some men–made it clear that the Texas legislature had gone too far. Says director Gretchen Stoeltje: "Our characters are women whose lett ers Senator Davis read during the filibuster\, Senator Davis herself\, and one young activist who chose her fate that day. Since then\, we’ve foll owed these women to understand how that day changed their lives\, and why the fight for reproductive freedom is more important than ever.”\n\n***F ollowed by a Q&\;A via Zoom with the director - this screening only***\ n\nCommunity Support by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England\n\n&nbs p\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sho uting-Down-Midnight-03.jpeg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1385@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T174500 DTSTAMP:20221012T162649Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/r-m-n-2/ SUMMARY:R.M.N. DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 22\n\nRomanian auteur Cristian Mungiu’s firs t feature since Graduation (screened at VTIFF 2017) is set in a Transylvan ian village during the 2019 holiday season. At the center of the drama are short-fused laborer Matthias and his erstwhile lover Csilla\, a bakery ma nager whose hiring of Sri Lankan immigrants exposes deep-seated nativism a mong the multiethnic villagers of Romanian\, Hungarian\, and German descen t. Mungiu\, perhaps best known for his 2007 Palme d’Or-winning abortion thriller 4 Months\, 3 Weeks and 2 Days\, is a master of slow-burning tensi on and moments of unexpected poignancy. Highlighted by a bravura extended take at a town hall forum that alludes to pandemic-era racism against Asia ns\, R.M.N.’s indictment of xenophobic NIMBYism resonates far beyond the Romanian borders. ~LB\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/RMN -copy.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1341@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T180000 DTSTAMP:20221006T134232Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/luca/ SUMMARY:LUCA - family film DESCRIPTION:A film for the whole family. Come on over to the South Burlingt on Public Library\, grab an Italian snack\, and watch this wonderful movie . A great way to spend Friday afternoon! Set in a seaside town on the Ital ian Riviera\, Disney and Pixar's Luca is a coming-of-age story about a you ng boy experiencing an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adven tures with his friend Alberto\, but their fun is threatened by a deeply he ld secret: they're sea monsters from a world below the water's surface.\n\ n***No need to book a ticket.***\n\n*Hosted by South Burlington Public Lib rary\, in partnership with the Vermont Italian Cultural Association. The f ilm is shown at the library under a public performance site license by Swa nk Movie Licensing USA.\n*Free parking is available in front or back of th e library.\n\n \;\n\n   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Luc a.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Kid Friendly LOCATION:South Burlington Public Library\, 180 Market Street\, S Burlington \, VT\, 05403\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Market Street\, S Burli ngton\, VT\, 05403\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=South Burlin gton Public Library:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1349@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T173000 DTSTAMP:20221012T204208Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-falconer-2/ SUMMARY:The Falconer DESCRIPTION:Also playing Monday\, Oct 24\, and virtually all day Oct 29-31\ nBest Environmental Feature at BendFilm and a Special Jury Prize at Cinema on the Bayou.\nRodney Stotts is one of just a few certified African-Ameri can falconers in the US. In this surprising and incisive portrait of a rem arkable man\, we see Rodney overcome his troubled past and pervasive racia l discrimination to devote himself to the art and sport of falconry. Ultim ately\, Rodney is a life-force\, a soaring falconer and poet\, a protector of his community and of the natural world. With visually sumptuous photog raphy\, a socially engaged perspective\, and a great soundtrack taboot\, f ilmmaker Annie Kaempfer offers a complex portrait of the life-long travail s of being a Black man in America. ~AM\n\n\n*Followed by a Q&\;A via Zo om with the director (Friday screening only).\n\n\n\n*Annie Kaempfer serve s on the Board of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capita l and has consulted for the Ford Foundation\, JustFilms and FotoDC.\n\n\n\ n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The -Falconer-signature-photo.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1315@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T203000 DTSTAMP:20221012T151435Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/all-that-breathes/ SUMMARY:All That Breathes DESCRIPTION:The environment in New Delhi is inhospitable to people and anim als alike. The air over India’s capital is so thick with pollution\, eve ry day birds drop from the sky. At the same time\, failing infrastructure and widespread violence plague those living at street level. Still\, two b rothers\, Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad\, make it their mission to trea t the vulnerable winged creatures of this teeming metropolis. All that Bre athes\, winner of the top documentary prizes at both the 2022 Sundance Fil m Festival and the Cannes International Film Festival\, is a lovely\, at t imes poetic\, depiction of urban fauna and the forced adaptations of livin g through the Anthropocene. At its center is a portrait of the compassiona te humanity still available for the smallest creatures even when faced wit h the largest challenges. ~TW ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/all thatbreathes_still_011.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Feature,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1374@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T204500 DTSTAMP:20221012T155711Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/crows-are-white-2/ SUMMARY:Crows Are White DESCRIPTION:Also showing in-theater Oct 23 (with director Q&\;A)\, and v irtually all day Oct 29-31.\n\n\nAre crows ever white? Of course not. Crow s Are White borrows its title from a story about a Buddhist monk who was t aught never to question his teachers\, even when they said things that wer e objectively wrong. Ahmed Nahseen\, a fresh new voice in nonfiction filmm aking\, takes the long road to find ways to question the traditions of his Muslim parents\, in particular the command to marry another Muslim. After decades of living a secret life\, he travels to a strict Japanese monaste ry in search of guidance\, but the only monk who will help him prefers ice cream and heavy metal over meditation. Nahseen tells us early on in the f ilm: “I’ll be honest with you\, I’m a fantastic liar. But I’m tryi ng something new here — I’m going to try to tell the truth.” Crows A re White is an honest and irreverent exploration of truth\, faith\, and lo ve. While the film’s ending scene may be worthy of Hollywood\, Nahseen ’s humorous voice\, his mishaps en route\, and the movie’s low-key sco re make this a true indie film. ~OY\n\n \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Cro ws-are-White.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1364@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221028T223000 DTSTAMP:20221012T162522Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/please-baby-plesae/ SUMMARY:Please Baby Please DESCRIPTION:The film opens on a gang of leather-clad street toughs posing a nd swaying to discordant jazz. The overt West Side Story reference invites the viewer into the glossy\, pastiche-fueled world of Please Baby Please\ , a title like a 1950’s pop-ballad refrain\, saturated in neon\, studded with vintage cars\, bobby socks\, and ascots\, and dripping in beatnik sl ang and poetry. The film’s flamboyant\, quasi-musical aesthetic is a fir ehose of desire\, and director Amanda Kramer drowns the screen with style and sensuality. The cast is game for all the carnivalesque cheekiness she can conjure. Andrea Riseborough clocks about a thousand different tones an d expressions per scene\, ambling between cat-like slink and wise-guy braw n\, and Harry Melling continues to impress with his eclectic career choice s since appearing as Dudley Dursely in the Harry Potter series. The two pl ay a couple\, Suze and Arthur\, who witness a murder by the balletic hoodl ums\, and it sends their marriage and gender identities into free fall. Th e film dances and swoons around the central question of “What is a man? ”—a ripe interrogation for the retro mid-century setting\, during whic h antiquated notions of gender conformity abounded. Nothing here is musty or stale\, though. Kramer’s vision is fresh\, electric\, and thrillingly modern. ~TW\n\n“Blending camp melodrama with snappy dialogue\, romantic songs\, and S&\;M dance routines\, the lurid alternate universe Kramer conjures is as rebellious and playful as her unlikely heroes.” - Film C omment\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/PLE ASE-BABY-PLEASE.jpeg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1375@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221029 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221101 DTSTAMP:20221019T140302Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/crows-are-white-virtual/ SUMMARY:Crows Are White (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing in-theater Oct 23 (with director Q&\;A) and Oct 28\n\n\nPlease note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in Vermont.\n\nAre crows ever white? Of course not. Crows Are White borrows i ts title from a story about a Buddhist monk who was taught never to questi on his teachers\, even when they said things that were objectively wrong. Ahmed Nahseen\, a fresh new voice in nonfiction filmmaking\, takes the lon g road to find ways to question the traditions of his Muslim parents\, in particular the command to marry another Muslim. After decades of living a secret life\, he travels to a strict Japanese monastery in search of guida nce\, but the only monk who will help him prefers ice cream and heavy meta l over meditation. Nahseen tells us early on in the film: “I’ll be hon est with you\, I’m a fantastic liar. But I’m trying something new here — I’m going to try to tell the truth.” Crows Are White is an honest and irreverent exploration of truth\, faith\, and love. While the film’ s ending scene may be worthy of Hollywood\, Nahseen’s humorous voice\, h is mishaps en route\, and the movie’s low-key score make this a true ind ie film. ~OY\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Cro ws-are-White.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1354@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221029 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221101 DTSTAMP:20221019T140429Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-falconer-virtual/ SUMMARY:The Falconer (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also playing in-theater Monday\, Oct 24 and Friday\, Oct 28\n\n \nPlease note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in New Eng land.\nBest Environmental Feature at BendFilm and a Special Jury Prize at Cinema on the Bayou.\nRodney Stotts is one of just a few certified African -American falconers in the US. In this surprising and incisive portrait of a remarkable man\, we see Rodney overcome his troubled past and pervasive racial discrimination to devote himself to the art and sport of falconry. Ultimately\, Rodney is a life-force\, a soaring falconer and poet\, a pro tector of his community and of the natural world. With visually sumptuous photography\, a socially engaged perspective\, and a great soundtrack tabo ot\, filmmaker Annie Kaempfer offers a complex portrait of the life-long t ravails of being a Black man in America. ~AM\n\n\n*Followed by a Q&\;A via Zoom with the director (Friday in-theater screening only).\n\n\n\n*Ann ie Kaempfer serves on the Board of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital and has consulted for the Ford Foundation\, JustFilms a nd FotoDC.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The -Falconer-signature-photo.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1343@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T131500 DTSTAMP:20221022T195844Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/3-short-films-feeling-nature/ SUMMARY:3 Short Films: Feeling Nature DESCRIPTION:QUEUE\nDirected by Walter Ungerer\nUSA | 2021 | Experimental | 12 min |\nWalter Ungerer: “Though birds and people appear to have some s imilar qualities: affection\, caring\, tolerance\, aggressiveness\, bellig erence\, combativeness\; in the scheme of things\, we are all waiting our turn – in the queue.”\n\nTREE\nDirected by Walter Ungerer\nUSA| 2022 | Experimental | 13:31\n\nWalter Ungerer: "Nature is immense. It is overwhe lming and breathtaking. Think of a tsunami\, tornado\, or earthquake. It i s powerful\, complicated\, and unpredictable. I am in awe of it. As humans it is our landscape in which we live."\n\nA JUDDERING\nDirected by James Lantz\nUSA | 2022 | Fiction | 19:02 min\nThrough his bare feet\, a trouble d teen (played by Vermont actor Oscar Williams) feels something wrong with the Earth. He tries to convey the danger to his cigar-chomping\, Cadillac -driving grandfather — only Granddad won’t listen. ~JL\n\nFollowed by a video introduction by Walter Ungerer and an in-theater Q&\;A with Jam es Lantz.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/A-J UDDERING-72dpi.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Shorts LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1373@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T154500 DTSTAMP:20221019T210146Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/costa-brava-lebanon-2/ SUMMARY:Costa Brava\, Lebanon DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 24 in-theater\, and virtually all day Oct 30-N ov 1\n\n\nLebanon's submission to the 2023 Academy Awards.\nSoraya (Nadine Labaki) and Walid (Saleh Bakri) put their political activism in the rear- view mirror a long time ago. They escaped the insalubrious air of Beirut f or a green mountainside where they can farm and raise their daughters in q uiet harmony. After years of inhabiting this little piece of paradise unpe rturbed\, they awake one morning to the rumble of earth movers. A new gove rnment project to establish a landfill on the neighboring property pierces their idyllic bubble. This intrusion from the outside puts a strain on th e family dynamics as parents remember the past\, children yearn for the fu ture\, and the very notion of escape is thrown into question. In this subv ersive debut feature\, director Mounia Akl peppers the emotional and polit ical truths of her film with elegant touches of magical realism. The seemi ng ease by which Akl blends these elements suggests not just an emerging t alent\, but a filmmaker already in full command of her art. ~TW\n\n*** You may watch a conversation with the director and the two main characters HE RE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1-c osta-brava-lebanon-copyright-abbout-productions-scaled-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1368@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T160000 DTSTAMP:20221012T204255Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/velvet-queen/ SUMMARY:The Velvet Queen (La Panthere des Neiges) DESCRIPTION:Also showing virtually all day Oct 30 - Nov 1\n\nThere are few films as unabashedly gorgeous as The Velvet Queen\, yet the film is less a bout the spectacle before our eyes and more about the act of looking itsel f and appreciating what appears. The documentary follows celebrated wildli fe photographer Vincent Munier and adventurer Sylvain Tesson as they trek the Tibetan Highlands for a glimpse of the ever-elusive snow leopard and w hatever else happens to grace their sightline. While hiking\, Munier and T esson share a philosophy of patience and privation\, seeking unobtrusive h armony with the landscape in order to behold the wonders of what it has to reveal. It’s a film as much about a way of being as it is about capturi ng glimpses of rare beauties in an exotic terrain. ~TW\n\n***The screening will be followed at 4:30 by a talk by Joel Sartore.  The talk is free bu t requires separate booking***\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/PAN THERE_03_©Munier.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1362@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T180000 DTSTAMP:20221012T162316Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/luzifer/ SUMMARY:Luzifer DESCRIPTION:Also showing virtually all day Oct 30 - Nov 1\n\n\nDespite its heavily connotative title\, Luzifer is not a horror film\, at least not in the usual way of jump scares and gore. But a sense of menace does pervade the story from beginning to end. A mother and her neurodivergent adult so n\, embodied with feral abandon by Susanne Jensen and Franz Rogowski\, hav e forsaken society for a remote existence in the Austrian Alps\, where the y practice a form of religious fanaticism grounded in self-denial and kins hip with nature. One day\, a drone appears\, disturbing their fragile soli tude with its mechanized whirring. As these robotic whirlybirds crisscross the sky surveying the land for ski resort development\, the mother and so n find themselves in a desperate struggle to maintain their life of auster ity and seclusion. ~TW\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/05_ Presse_LUZIFER-4k_2.1.4-Kopie-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1340@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T180000 DTSTAMP:20221006T134230Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/joel-sartore-photo-ark/ SUMMARY:Joel Sartore: Photo Ark DESCRIPTION:A talk by Joel Sartore followed by Q&\;A (in person and remo tely). If you cannot make it in person\, you may register to join the webi nar remotely HERE.  Registration for in person will open October 7.\n\nHe ather Furman\, The Nature Conservancy\, Vermont's Executive Director\, wil l be at the Film House in person to moderate the Q&\;A.\nThis talk is p art of a day devoted to films with an environmental focus at the Vermont I nternational Film Festival.\n\nJoel Sartore is an American photographer fo cusing on conservation photography\, speaker\, author\, teacher\, and a lo ng-time contributor to National Geographic magazine.He is the head of The National Geographic Photo Ark project\, a 25-year effort to document the a pproximately 12\,000 species living in the world's zoos and wildlife sanct uaries.\n\nJoel is on a mission to document endangered species and landsca pes in order to show a world worth saving. His interest in nature started in childhood\, when he learned about the very last passenger pigeon from o ne of his mother’s Time-Life picture books. He has since been chased by a wide variety of species including wolves\, grizzlies\, musk oxen\, lions \, elephants and polar bears. His first National Geographic assignments in troduced him to nature photography\, and also allowed him to see human imp act on the environment first-hand. In his words\, “It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species\, we’re actually saving ourselves.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ANI 082-00122_hr_-1920x1231-1.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1382@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T203000 DTSTAMP:20221012T161936Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/happening-2/ SUMMARY:Happening (L'évènement) DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 27\n\n\nWinner\, Golden Lion at the 2021 Venic e film festival.\n\n\nFrance\, 1963. Audrey Diwan’s film captures the pa nic of an unwanted pregnancy before the legalization of abortion in provin cial France. Adapted from Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel\, Happen ing recounts the journey of a young woman’s physical and emotional battl e to access illegal abortion in a desperate race against the clock. Anne i s pregnant. With mounting suppressed panic\, she waits for her period and repeatedly writes “rien” in her diary.  Her future is about to be des troyed\, but even asking for an abortion is to risk a jail sentence for yo u and anyone else who helps – or fails to denounce you. Diwan structures the film so that at first we don’t know who the father is\, nor do we w itness the moment of conception\, mirroring Anne’s own sense of denial. The extended duration of the film’s long takes build suspense like a thr iller. Happening is a powerful and gripping drama set in a society that co ndemned female desire and sexual liberty. Despite being set 60 years ago\, the film has a disorienting and timeless feel that reinforces the idea th at a woman’s reproductive rights are perennially fragile. ~OY\n\nNote: E rnaux is the recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature\n\n \n\n&nb sp\;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Hap pening-photo2.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1361@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T203000 DTSTAMP:20221018T184023Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eo/ SUMMARY:EO DESCRIPTION:Poland’s submission to the Oscars in Best International Featu re category.\n\nEO isn’t the type of film one would expect from an 84-ye ar-old director—even a director of Jerzy Skolimowski’s distinction and pedigree. Jettisoning anything that may be regarded as conventional cinem atic technique\, Skolimowski harnesses the vast and varied capabilities of digital filmmaking to construct an inventive\, offbeat odyssey across mod ern Europe\, as seen through the impressionable eyes of a donkey\, the epo nymous EO. Riffing on Robert Bresson’s classic film\, Au hasard Balthaza r\, about a saintly ass\, Skolimowski emphasizes the gentle gaze and endur ing innocence of his four-legged lead in contrast to the depraved\, compli cated lives of the people EO meets along the way. In an entrancing blend o f art and heart\, this jury prize winner at the 2022 Cannes International Film Festival is an avant-garde film for the animal-welfare crowd. ~TW\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/EO- donkey-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1319@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T230000 DTSTAMP:20221012T151251Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/after-blue/ SUMMARY:After Blue (Dirty Paradise) DESCRIPTION:After Blue (Dirty Paradise) aspires for instant cult status. On a post-Earth planet pocked with crystals and smeared with goop\, a mother and daughter (Elina Löwensohn and Paula-Luna Breitenfelder) are on a mis sion to find and kill a criminal named Kate Bush (Agata Buzek). This futur e alternative world is devoid of men and machines\, but hallmarks of earth ly culture still linger\, such as guns named after high-end fashion design ers. The elaborate sets of alien foliage in Bertrand Mandico’s film have a handcrafted ‘80’s sensibility\, as do the barrage of practical in-c amera effects that swirl across the screen in a kaleidoscope of rear proje ctions\, colored filters\, and superimpositions. With unhinged creativity seeping through every nook and cranny of the production\, this adult fairy tale is a hallucinatory odyssey across strange lands\, amidst strange fol ks and strange creatures. ~TW\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Aft er-Blue-Roxy.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1376@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221030 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221102 DTSTAMP:20221019T140557Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/luzifer-virtual/ SUMMARY:Luzifer (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing in-theater Oct 29\n\nPlease note the virtual ticke t for this film is only viewable in the U.S.\n\nDespite its heavily connot ative title\, Luzifer is not a horror film\, at least not in the usual way of jump scares and gore. But a sense of menace does pervade the story fro m beginning to end. A mother and her neurodivergent adult son\, embodied w ith feral abandon by Susanne Jensen and Franz Rogowski\, have forsaken soc iety for a remote existence in the Austrian Alps\, where they practice a f orm of religious fanaticism grounded in self-denial and kinship with natur e. One day\, a drone appears\, disturbing their fragile solitude with its mechanized whirring. As these robotic whirlybirds crisscross the sky surve ying the land for ski resort development\, the mother and son find themsel ves in a desperate struggle to maintain their life of austerity and seclus ion. ~TW\n\n \n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/05_ Presse_LUZIFER-4k_2.1.4-Kopie-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1387@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221030 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221102 DTSTAMP:20221019T141044Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/velvet-queen-virtual/ SUMMARY:The Velvet Queen (La Panthere des Neiges) Virtual DESCRIPTION:Also showing in-theater Oct 29\n\n\nPlease note the virtual tic ket for this film is only viewable in the U.S &\; Canada.\n\nThere are few films as unabashedly gorgeous as The Velvet Queen\, yet the film is le ss about the spectacle before our eyes and more about the act of looking i tself and appreciating what appears. The documentary follows celebrated wi ldlife photographer Vincent Munier and adventurer Sylvain Tesson as they t rek the Tibetan Highlands for a glimpse of the ever-elusive snow leopard a nd whatever else happens to grace their sightline. While hiking\, Munier a nd Tesson share a philosophy of patience and privation\, seeking unobtrusi ve harmony with the landscape in order to behold the wonders of what it ha s to reveal. It’s a film as much about a way of being as it is about cap turing glimpses of rare beauties in an exotic terrain. ~TW\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/PAN THERE_03_©Munier.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1372@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221030 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221102 DTSTAMP:20221019T203228Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/costa-brava-lebanon-virtual/ SUMMARY:Costa Brava\, Lebanon (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 24 and 29 in-theater\n\nPlease note the virtua l ticket for this film is only viewable in the U.S &\; Canada.\n\nLeban on's submission to the 2023 Academy Awards.\nSoraya (Nadine Labaki) and Wa lid (Saleh Bakri) put their political activism in the rear-view mirror a l ong time ago. They escaped the insalubrious air of Beirut for a green moun tainside where they can farm and raise their daughters in quiet harmony. A fter years of inhabiting this little piece of paradise unperturbed\, they awake one morning to the rumble of earth movers. A new government project to establish a landfill on the neighboring property pierces their idyllic bubble. This intrusion from the outside puts a strain on the family dynami cs as parents remember the past\, children yearn for the future\, and the very notion of escape is thrown into question. In this subversive debut fe ature\, director Mounia Akl peppers the emotional and political truths of her film with elegant touches of magical realism. The seeming ease by whic h Akl blends these elements suggests not just an emerging talent\, but a f ilmmaker already in full command of her art. ~TW\n\n*** You may watch a co nversation with the director and the two main characters HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1-c osta-brava-lebanon-copyright-abbout-productions-scaled-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1391@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T124500 DTSTAMP:20221012T153811Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/breathless/ SUMMARY:Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) DESCRIPTION:Special tribute to Jean-Luc Godard: The film\, a 4K restoratio n\, will be introduced by film critic\, author\, and scholar David Sterrit t. Sterritt is chair of the National Society of Film Critics\, editor-in-c hief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video\, and a contributing writer at Cineaste. He is the author of The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible and editor of Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews.\n\nBest Director Ber lin Film Festival (1960)\n\nOn September 13th of this year\, filmmaking pi oneer Jean-Luc Godard passed away by assisted suicide. Prolific\, inventiv e\, politically radical\, and aesthetically uncompromising until the very end (his final film\, The Image Book\, was released in 2018)\, there is no overstating Godard’s profound influence on the shape and style of moder n cinema. His debut feature\, Breathless (1960)\, was a watershed moment. Even more so than fellow French New Wave auteur Francois Truffaut’s Palm e d’Or-winning The 400 Blows from the previous year\, Breathless announc ed a cinematic language steeped in the iconography of classic Hollywood bu t disassembled into something far more angular and vivid. With seemingly u nmotivated jump cuts inserted into scenes and long discursive conversation s vacant of typical plot mechanics\, Godard created a film with the dynami sm of free jazz and the wit of puckish youth. The now legendary performanc es from Jean-Paul Belmondo\, who plays a rakish Humphrey Bogart type\, and Jean Seberg\, in her iconic pixie crop barking “New York Herald Tribune ” down the Champs-Élysées\, present a picture of Hollywood romance mad e new through changing sexual mores\, improvisatory acting\, and self-cons cious awareness of their cinematic antecedents. Even today\, this crime ca per feels buoyant and alive\, a celluloid testament to art as rebellion. ~ TW\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Bre athless-4K-Still-2-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1395@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T173000 DTSTAMP:20221006T134328Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/quarry-project-vr/ SUMMARY:The Quarry Project 360° DESCRIPTION:The Quarry Project was a site-specific dance/theater piece crea ted for the Wells Lamson quarry\, one of the oldest\, deepest granite quar ries in the country\, now flooded and in “reserve.” 14 sold-out shows took place in August 2022 and a film of the performance is forthcoming. Cr eated and directed by Hannah Dennison\, The Quarry Project was led by 6 ar tistic collaborators and performed by a 20-person ensemble on 6 floating s tages. For more information visit thequarryproject2022.com\n\nThe Quarry P roject 360° video experience puts the viewer on the water alongside the e nsemble for an immersive glimpse at this ambitious project and extraordina ry space. Come early  before another screening\, or linger after one\, an d see for yourself!\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The -Quarry-Project-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1379@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T144500 DTSTAMP:20221012T151722Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/as-far-as-i-can-walk-2/ SUMMARY:As Far As I Can Walk DESCRIPTION:Also showing Oct 25\n\n\nThis loose re-imagining of a tradition al medieval epic\, in which contemporary African migrants take the place o f Serbian national heroes\, succeeds where other films have failed. Oscar- nominated Stefan Arsenijević has created an utterly compelling love story between two Ghanaian refugees. He actively subverts some of the most comm only held beliefs around not just the migrant crisis but people on the mar gins\, in general\, by focusing on the couple as complex\, fully realized people whose relationship and tribulations propel the narrative forward. T his is a gripping and moving story\, beautifully directed\, written\, and acted. It will engross you from the first frame to the last. As Far As I C an Walk well deserves its many awards from the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the KineNove Film Festival. ~OY\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/As- Far-As-I-Can-Walk-Ababuo-_-Strahinya-in-the-camp-01.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1394@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T141500 DTSTAMP:20221030T173835Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/three-minutes-a-lengthening/ SUMMARY:Three Minutes. A Lengthening DESCRIPTION:Also showing virtually all day - Oct 31-Nov 2\n\nThree-minutes ’ worth of 16mm film on the verge of ruin is what Glenn Kurtz found in h is parent’s Florida home shortly after their passing. Shot by Kurtz’s grandfather on a European tour in 1938\, the amateur footage captures the Jewish community of Nasielsk\, Poland\, just one year prior to the Nazis ’ brutal invasion. Frame by frame\, slowed\, stilled\, played backwards and forwards\, Three Minutes: A Lengthening interrogates the found footage to resurrect the people and the town that disappeared in one of history ’s most monumental tragedies. Based on Kurtz’s award-winning book\, Th ree Minutes in Poland\, and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter\, this docume ntary is an act of archival revelation\, both fascinating in its scholarsh ip and chilling in its discovery. ~TW\n\n\n***Followed by a Q&\;A via Z oom with the director - this screening only***\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-T HREE-MINUTES-A-LENGTHENING-image.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1399@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T163000 DTSTAMP:20221018T183225Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/boycott-copy/ SUMMARY:Boycott - screening replaced DESCRIPTION:Also showing in Film House on Sunday\, Oct 23 and virtually all day Oct 24-30\n\n\nThis Sunday screening has now been replaced by ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED by Laura Poitras. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1_B OYCOTT_SM-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1398@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T171500 DTSTAMP:20221012T151557Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/all-the-beauty/ SUMMARY:All the Beauty and the Bloodshed DESCRIPTION:Last minute addition to the festival\, so it does not appear in the printed guide!!\n\nIn her essential\, urgent\, and arrestingly struct ured new documentary\, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Laura Poitras (Ci tizenfour) weaves two narratives: the fabled life and career of era-defini ng artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family\, the pharmace utical dynasty Goldin personally took on in her fight to hold accountable those responsible for the deadly opioid epidemic. Following her own person al struggle with opioid addiction\, Goldin\, who rose from the New York “No Wave” underground to become one of the great photographers of the late 20th century\, put herself at the forefront of the battle against the Sacklers\, both as an activist at art institutions around the world that had accepted millions from the family and as an advocate for the destigmat ization of drug addiction. Illustrated with a rich trove of photographs by Goldin\, who mesmerizingly narrates her own story\, including her dysfunc tional suburban upbringing\, the loss of her teenage sister\, and her comm unity’s fight against AIDS in the 1980s\, Poitras’s film is an enthral ling\, empowering work that stirringly connects personal tragedy\, politic al awareness\, and artistic expression. ~New York Film Festival\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/All -the-Beauty-and-the-Bloodshed.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1342@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T180000 DTSTAMP:20221012T162358Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/memoria/ SUMMARY:Memoria DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes 2022. NYT Critic's Pick.\n\n Apichatpong Weerasethakul is the director who brought us the mesmerizing U ncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives and Tropical Malady\, but with Memo ria we move from the Southeast Asian jungles to the lush Andean mountains\ , zones of magic\, where the modern distinction between myth and fact does not apply. By contrast\, the urban spaces are depicted as sleek and insti tutional\, places ruled by science and technology. Tilda Swinton’s chara cter is hearing a sound that no one else can hear. What exactly is this so und and why does it haunt her so\, apart from her growing realization that she may be the only one who can hear it? She goes on a journey to find it s source\, or its meaning. Along the way\, we pause to contemplate the rem nants of ancient civilizations and the chaos of modern life. Every scene u nfolds with quiet\, meticulous clarity\, but Weerasethakul’s luminous pr ecision only deepens the mystery. Sound has always been a crucial element in Weerasethakul's films — veritable symphonies of rushing water\, chatt ering wildlife\, and soaring Thai pop — asking us to listen\, not just t o look. ~OY\n\nNote: The distributor Neon devised an experimental release strategy for Memoria. Their idea is for the movie to play exclusively and eternally on the big screen\, one theater and one city at a time\; it will never be made available on DVD or home-streaming platforms. Seize your op portunity to witness this modern marvel. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mem oria-2.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1396@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T190000 DTSTAMP:20221012T161740Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/filmmakers-reception/ SUMMARY:Filmmakers' Reception DESCRIPTION:VTIFF closing night mixer\, hosted by The Vermont Production Co llective. Come by\, say hi and meet filmmaking professionals from around t he region. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres and cash bar. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/VPC _logo_web.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Atrium\, 60 Lake Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05 401\, United States GEO:44.4774721;-73.2196927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, Burlington \, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landi ng Atrium:geo:44.4774721,-73.2196927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1333@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T210000 DTSTAMP:20221030T172743Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dead-ringer/ SUMMARY:Dead Ringer DESCRIPTION:**Please note this film is SOLD OUT. We will start a waitlist a t 6:00PM at the box office at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center.* *\n\n*Closing Night Film*\n\nWe're honored to be bringing you one of the r arest films we've ever presented. Allan Nicholls' Dead Ringer has only bee n shown once or twice in the almost 40 years since Nicholls and his crew c ompleted it\, despite its undeniable quality. It centers on singer-musicia n Meat Loaf (no\, you do not have to be a Meat Loaf fan to enjoy this wond erfully entertaining and moving film)\, who had just seen his Bat Out of H ell album become a monster zillion-selling phenomenon. Dead Ringer\, the f ilm\, is a comical look at the life of a rock star in the ‘80s as Meat L oaf prepares for a world tour in support of his newest album. Parallel to his story runs the story of a dead ringer look-alike to the star\, bringin g an additional layer of complexity to the narrative. Why has the film gon e virtually unseen for all these years? Arcane corporate legal issues betw een Meat Loaf\, his record company\, and songwriter Jim Steinman\, have pr evented the film from reaching its audience in the form in which it was ma de and intended to be seen. Nicholls brings us his private print in a newl y digitized version of the film\, supervised by its original editor\, Norm Smith. Come one\, come all\, to this joyful event. ~OY\n\n***Nicholls\, w ith his editor Norm Smith\, will be at the screening for a Q&\;A***\nFo llowing the Q&\;A\, join us for the Closing Night party with live music by the Hokum Brothers\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Scr een-Shot-2022-09-06-at-11.13.33-AM.png CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1393@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221031 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20221103 DTSTAMP:20221019T140925Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/three-minutes-a-lengthening-virtual/ SUMMARY:Three Minutes. A Lengthening (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Also showing: Sat\, Oct 22 | BB\n\nPlease note the virtual tick et for this film is only viewable in the U.S &\; Canada.\n\nThree-minut es’ worth of 16mm film on the verge of ruin is what Glenn Kurtz found in his parent’s Florida home shortly after their passing. Shot by Kurtz’ s grandfather on a European tour in 1938\, the amateur footage captures th e Jewish community of Nasielsk\, Poland\, just one year prior to the Nazis ’ brutal invasion. Frame by frame\, slowed\, stilled\, played backwards and forwards\, Three Minutes: A Lengthening interrogates the found footage to resurrect the people and the town that disappeared in one of history ’s most monumental tragedies. Based on Kurtz’s award-winning book\, Th ree Minutes in Poland\, and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter\, this docume ntary is an act of archival revelation\, both fascinating in its scholarsh ip and chilling in its discovery. ~TW\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-T HREE-MINUTES-A-LENGTHENING-image.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1401@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T213000 DTSTAMP:20221101T203122Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rrr/ SUMMARY:R.R.R. DESCRIPTION:This may be the first block-buster VTIFF has ever presented! We 're delighted to offer RRR on the big screen (by far the best way to watch ) in its original Telugu language version.\n"Rajamouli unfolds the many tw ists and turns of [the] story with such confidently rampaging energy that\ , by comparison\, most Hollywood blockbusters feel anemic." ~John Powers\, NPR\n"To call this the best blockbuster of 2022 is only partially accurat e\; it’s really several of the best blockbusters\, plural\, you’re apt to catch this year." ~David Fear\, Rolling Stone\nRRR (or Rise! Roar! Rev olt!) is an exhilarating\, action-packed spectacular mythologizing two rea l-life freedom fighters who helped lead India’s fight for independence f rom the British Raj\, Komaram Bheem (N.T Rama Rao Jr.\, aka Jr NTR) and Al luri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan). Set in the 1920s before their fight for I ndia’s independence began\, RRR imagines a fictional meeting between the two\, set into motion when a young Gond girl is stolen from her village b y British soldiers.\nWith staggeringly choreographed action sequences\, an all-timer of a musical number*)\, and a powerful story\, RRR is pure big screen joy from start to finish.  Audiences across the world have been wo n over\, it's a great big party\, and you're invited- come join!\n*) The m usical number “Naatu Naatu” (Telugu for “Native Native”) from RRR has also become a viral hit thanks to Charan and Rama Rao’s playful sync opated dance moves and infectious singing.\n*** Note: The screening will s tart at 6:30PM (instead of our usual 7pm start time) and\, as is customary for Indian films\, RRR is designed for an intermission after a massive ac tion scene (the "interval bang"). There will be a 5-10 minute intermission .\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/RRR _HINDI_4K_UHD.00_39_21_02.Still030_3840x2000-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1402@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221201T203000 DTSTAMP:20221120T204349Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mission-joy/ SUMMARY:Mission: Joy - Finding Happiness in Troubled Times DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nDeeply moving and laugh-out-loud funny\, Mission: JOY i s a documentary with unprecedented access to the unlikely friendship of tw o international icons who transcend religion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu. In their final joint mission\, these self-described m ischievous brothers give a master class in how to create joy in a world th at was never easy for them. They offer neuroscience-backed wisdom to help each of us live with more joy\, despite circumstances.\n\n\n\n\nDirected b y Academy Award winning Louis Psihoyos (The Cove) and Peggy Callahan (film maker who heads the anti- slavery organization\, Voices4Freedom)\, the fil m was shot primarily over 5 days at the Dalai Lama's residence in Dharamsa la.\n\nHappy holidays!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mis sionjoy_OHH0227_credit_tenzin_choejor.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1404@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230112T210000 DTSTAMP:20221209T161423Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-conformist-il-conformista/ SUMMARY:The Conformist (Il conformista) DESCRIPTION:In Mussolini’s Italy\, repressed Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintig nant)\, trying to purge memories of a youthful\, homosexual episode – an d murder – joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in\, flashin g back to a dance party for the blind\; an insane asylum in a stadium\; an d wife Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli) and lover Anna (Dominique Sanda) dancin g the tango in a working-class hall – just some of the many anthology hi ghlights of Bertolucci’s masterpiece and first international hit. \n\nTh e Conformist is a lavishly produced Freudian political melodrama\, a portr ait of the psychological need to conform and be "normal" at the social lev el in general and the political level in particular. The screenplay is bas ed on Alberto Moravia’s 1951\, with a score by the great Georges Delerue (Contempt\, Jules et Jim\, etc.) and breathtaking color cinematography by the Oscar-winning Vittorio Storaro.\n\nThe first American release (1970) was trimmed by 5 minutes compared to the Italian release. The missing scen e\, which features blind people dancing\, was restored in the 1996 reissue . The restored version is the original theatrical version. In 2011\, the C ineteca di Bologna commissioned a 2K restoration of The Conformist\, super vised by Storaro himself (and approved by Bertolucci)\, which screened in the Cannes Classics series on May 11\, 2011\, in conjunction with the pres entation of honorary Palme d’Or to Bertolucci.\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Con f-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1423@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T210000 DTSTAMP:20230109T170454Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dead-ringer-special/ SUMMARY:Dead Ringer - Special Screening DESCRIPTION:All proceeds from this screening will be shared between VTIFF a nd Big Heavy World.\n\n\nWe're honored to be bringing you one of the rares t films we've ever presented. Allan Nicholls' Dead Ringer has only been sh own two or three times in the almost 40 years since Nicholls and his crew completed it\, despite its undeniable quality. It centers on singer-musici an Meat Loaf (no\, you do not have to be a Meat Loaf fan to enjoy this won derfully entertaining and moving film)\, who had just seen his Bat Out of Hell album become a monster zillion-selling phenomenon. Dead Ringer\, the film\, is a comical look at the life of a rock star in the ‘80s as Meat Loaf prepares for a world tour in support of his newest album. Parallel to his story runs the story of a dead ringer look-alike to the star\, bringi ng an additional layer of complexity and sensitivity to the narrative. Why has the film gone virtually unseen for all these years? Arcane corporate legal issues between Meat Loaf\, his record company\, and songwriter Jim S teinman\, have prevented the film from reaching its audience in the form i n which it was made and intended to be seen. Nicholls brings us his privat e print in a newly digitized version of the film\, supervised by its origi nal editor\, Norm Smith. Come one\, come all\, to this joyful event and he lp support music and film organizations in Vermont.\n\n\n***Dead Ringer wi ll be shown at The T-Rex Theater at The Double E in the large-format\, 400 -seat T-Rex Theater\, on a screen that is three stories tall\, with 18 amp lifiers and 124 speakers providing an immersive sound experience. Allan Ni cholls will attend the screening and conduct a Q&\;A at its end.\n\nThi s benefit screening is made possible by the host sponsor\,  The T-Rex The ater at The Double E\, and with the help of Higher Ground — and Peter Ed elman\, Alex Crothers and Michael Jager — supporters of the nonprofit mi ssions of Big Heavy World and the Vermont International Film Festival (VTI FF).\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Scr een-Shot-2022-09-06-at-11.13.33-AM.png CATEGORIES:Other Events,Special Event LOCATION:Essex Cinemas\, 21 Essex Way\, Essex\, VT\, 05452\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=21 Essex Way\, Essex\, VT\, 05452\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Essex Cinemas:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1312@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230216 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230220 DTSTAMP:20230423T202633Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/grff2023/ SUMMARY:Global Roots Film Festival: OSCAR® Contenders DESCRIPTION:This year’s Global Roots Film Festival took a look at a selec tion of International Submissions to the 2023 Academy Awards. We focused o n why countries select one film over another to represent them\, not on wh ich films will please the Academy members.\n\nThe films are listed below i n alphabetical order\, but you may browse (or download) the entire festiva l brochure HERE\n\nArgentina 1985\n\nThe Blue Caftan\n\nEternal Spring\n\n Girl Picture\n\nHoly Spider\n\nJoyland\n\nMediterranean Fever\n\nNostalgia \n\nSaint Omer\n\nThe Quiet Girl\n\nTembele\n\n \;\n\nMark your calend ars for this annual 4-day event that takes a deep look at the cinema of pa rticular regions.\n\n\nThe festival will take place at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center.\n\n  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Glo balRoots_2023_720x720_Square.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1403@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T211500 DTSTAMP:20230203T170535Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/argentina-1985/ SUMMARY:Argentina 1985 DESCRIPTION:Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes will go on sale at 10am Fe bruary 3rd\, and tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am Feb ruary 7th.\n\nNominated for the Academy Awards\n\nA fascinating historical re-enactment of a major historical moment in Argentinian history. The fil m succeeds in balancing the pathos of the David-vs-Goliath Trial of the Ju ntas with a lightness of touch.   Julio Strassera\, a public prosecutor\, Luis Moreno Ocampo\, a young lawyer\, and their inexperienced legal team dared to prosecute the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship a nd\, against all odds\, bring them to justice in a race against time. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/arg entina1-superJumbo.webp CATEGORIES:Global Roots,Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1421@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230217T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230217T181500 DTSTAMP:20230210T185936Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/holy-spider/ SUMMARY:Holy Spider DESCRIPTION:Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes will go on sale at 10am Fe bruary 3rd\, and tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am Feb ruary 7th.\n\nShortlisted for the Academy Awards\nZar Amir Ebrahimi - winn er of Best Actress in Cannes Film Festival\n\nSet in Iran but shot in Jord an\, this is Ali Abassi’s third feature (his celebrated debut Border pla yed at VTIFF in 2018). Female journalist Rahimi travels to the Iranian hol y city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. Co nstructed as a thriller\, the film is also a clear\, multi-faceted picture of many obstacles and challenges that Iranian women face. As Rahimi draws closer to exposing his crimes\, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the tr ue story of the ‘Spider Killer’ Saeed Hanaei\, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed 16 women between 2000 and 2001.\n\n*Followe d by a reception in the Lake Lobby at 6:15\n\nFascinating interview with t he star about acting hurdles in an Iranian film HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Hol y-Spider.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1414@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230217T210000 DTSTAMP:20230210T190631Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nostalgia/ SUMMARY:Nostalgia DESCRIPTION:Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes will go on sale at 10am Fe bruary 3rd\, and tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am Feb ruary 7th.\n\n*Introduced by Antonello Borra\, Italian Professor of Italia n cinema at UVM*\n\nAfter decades abroad\, a man returns to his neighborho od in Naples for closure. Based on Neapolitan author Ermanno Rea’s novel by the same title\, it is set and shot in Naples’ vibrant Sanità quart er\, in the heart of the city. Nostalgia\, exquisitely shot and acted\, is a story about mothers and sons\, about gangsters and priests\, and about a peculiar kind of longing for the past in a place where little has change d for hundreds of years. Naples then and Naples now are the same. Nostalgi a isn’t what it used to be\, it seems.\n\n* Preceded by a reception at i n the Lake Lobby 6:15\, sponsored by the Vermont Italian Cultural Associat ion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/nos talgia-crop.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1415@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T134500 DTSTAMP:20230210T190430Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eternal-spring/ SUMMARY:Eternal Spring DESCRIPTION:Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes will go on sale at 10am Fe bruary 3rd\, and tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am Feb ruary 7th.\n\nA mesmerizing\, and at the same time controversial\, animate d documentary. In 2002\, members of the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gon g hijacked a state TV station in China. Their goal was to counter the gove rnment narrative about their practice. In the aftermath\, police raids swe ep Changchun City. The drawings of comic book illustrator Daxiong (Star Wa rs) are transposed into sweeping 3-D animation to tell the story\, which u nfolds at the engaging clip of a heist thriller.\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with the director* ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ete rnalspring_still_03_credit_lofty_sky_pictures.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1416@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T160000 DTSTAMP:20230210T190345Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/quiet-girl/ SUMMARY:The Quiet Girl DESCRIPTION:Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes will go on sale at 10am Fe bruary 3rd\, and tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am Feb ruary 7th.\n\nNominated for the Academy Awards\n\nThe first Irish-language film to win the Irish Academy Award for best film.\nThis beautiful and co mpassionate jewel of a film\, which already feels like a classic\, is a ch ild’s-eye look at our fallen world\; Based on “Foster”\, the acclaim ed story by Irish author Claire Keegan\, The Quiet Girl is an achingly bea utiful film that beguiles and surprises at every turn. At once an elegy fo r a lost child and a beacon of hope for a future generation\, it speaks of poverty\, family\, and the power of silence like few other films around t hese days.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The _Quiet_Girl_Cáit_Catherine_Clinch_studies_the_man_of_the_house_Seán-co py.png CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1417@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T181500 DTSTAMP:20230210T190248Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mediterranean-fever/ SUMMARY:Mediterranean Fever DESCRIPTION:Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes will go on sale at 10am Fe bruary 3rd\, and tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am Feb ruary 7th.\n\nWinner\, Best Screenplay in Cannes' Un Certain Regard.\nPale stinian-Israeli writer-director Haj’s serio-comic Mediterranean Fever ex plores a complicated friendship-enmity between two middle-aged neighbors. The film builds up with small jenga blocks of humor and well-observed vign ettes\, so that we hardly notice when things go awry. Keeping us guessing right up to the end\, this anecdotal comedy about depression is a refreshi ng look at the region's political turmoil with a lovely friendship at its heart.\n\nFollowed by a reception in the Lake Lobby at 6:15 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/MED -FEV-Photo-3-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1418@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T211500 DTSTAMP:20230210T190035Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/joyland/ SUMMARY:Joyland DESCRIPTION:Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes will go on sale at 10am Fe bruary 3rd\, and tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am Feb ruary 7th.\n\nShortlisted for the Academy Awards\nWinner ​​Queer Palme and the Jury Prize in Cannes.\n\n“Discouraged identities and taboo desi res emerge tentatively into the open in Joyland. Tartly funny and plunging ly sad in equal measure\, this is nuanced\, humane queer filmmaking\, more concerned with the textures and particulars of its own intimate story tha n with grander social statements — even if\, as a tale of transgender de sire in a Muslim country\, its very premise makes it a boundary-breaker. ” ~ Guy Lodge\, Variety\n\n*Preceded by a reception in the Lake Lobby at 6:15 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Joy land-__-Bike-1-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1419@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T131500 DTSTAMP:20230210T190121Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tembele/ SUMMARY:Tembele DESCRIPTION:Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes will go on sale at 10am Fe bruary 3rd\, and tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am Feb ruary 7th.\n\nIn the history of the Oscars\, only nine African films have ever been nominated for the best international feature prize. Tembele\, di rected and produced by actor-turned-director Mugisha who first rose to fam e in 2008 on reality show Big Brother Africa\, makes history as Uganda’s first ever Oscar submission. Shot in indigenous languages\, it follows a man who works on a garbage truck\, battling a mental setback after losing a son. The film treads a thin line between reality and make belief\, emplo ying Crows\, Ravens and Marabou storks to produce a surrealist\, psycholog ical drama.\n\n*Followed by Q&\;A with the director* ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Tem bele-poster.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1420@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T151500 DTSTAMP:20230210T190005Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/blue-caftan/ SUMMARY:The Blue Caftan DESCRIPTION:Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes will go on sale at 10am Fe bruary 3rd\, and tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am Feb ruary 7th.\n\nShortlisted for the Academy Awards\nWinner:  Jury Prize at the Marrakech International Film Festival\n\nA beautiful\, sensuous\, pati ently crafted story of Mina and Halim (her closeted gay husband)\, a coupl e running a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas\ , Salé. The hire of a dashing apprentice leads us immediately to think we know what’s coming next. But no.\nThe film subverts expectations at alm ost every turn and reveals ordinary people trying to find a balance betwee n tradition\, modernity and freedom in a conservative society. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The -Blue-Caftan.png CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1413@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T181500 DTSTAMP:20230210T190803Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/saint-omer/ SUMMARY:Saint Omer DESCRIPTION:Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes will go on sale at 10am Fe bruary 3rd\, and tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am Feb ruary 7th.\n\nShortlisted for the Academy Awards.\nWinner of the Silver Li on and the Lion of the Future at the Venice Film Festival.\nNew York Times Critics Pick\n\nDocumentarian Alice Diop’s extraordinary debut fiction feature follows the experiences of a young novelist attempting to write a new version of the Medea myth.  It retells a 2016 infanticide case while casually inventing a wrenching new grammar for the true-life tragedy genre . Saint Omer is both a courtroom drama and also an unusual kind of true-cr ime chronicle.Challenging accepted ideas of perspective\, subjectivity and objectivity\, it is a complex meditation on Black women in modern-day Fra nce. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SAI NT-OMER-Still-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1422@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T204500 DTSTAMP:20230210T185902Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/girl-picture/ SUMMARY:Girl Picture DESCRIPTION:Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes are now on sale. \n\nTicke ts to the general public will go on sale at 10am February 7th.\n\nWinner o f the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival\n\nThree young girls at the cusp of womanhood try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland b y trying to draw their own contours. In the process\, they move between dr eams\, reality\, friendship and relationships\, and try to make sense of t he whole mess.\n\n*Preceded by a reception in the Lake Lobby at 6:15pm ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/01_ MAIN-STILL_Girl_Picture.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1424@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T150000 DTSTAMP:20230118T195132Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/luca-2/ SUMMARY:LUCA - Free for the whole family DESCRIPTION:A film for the whole family. Come on over to the South Burlingt on Public Library\, grab an Italian snack\, and watch this wonderful movie . A great way to spend Friday afternoon! Set in a seaside town on the Ital ian Riviera\, Disney and Pixar's Luca is a coming-of-age story about a you ng boy experiencing an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adven tures with his friend Alberto\, but their fun is threatened by a deeply he ld secret: they're sea monsters from a world below the water's surface.\n\ n***No need to book a ticket.***\n\n*Hosted by South Burlington Public Lib rary\, in partnership with the Vermont Italian Cultural Association. The f ilm is shown at the library under a public performance site license by Swa nk Movie Licensing USA.\n*Free parking is available in front or back of th e library.\n\n \;\n\n   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Luc a.jpg CATEGORIES:2022 VT International Film Festival,Kid Friendly,Special Event LOCATION:South Burlington Public Library\, 180 Market Street\, S Burlington \, VT\, 05403\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Market Street\, S Burli ngton\, VT\, 05403\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=South Burlin gton Public Library:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1425@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T204500 DTSTAMP:20230222T220107Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/family-game/ SUMMARY:Family Game (Arsenault et fils) DESCRIPTION:A tight thriller simultaneously works as a sensitive portrait o f rural Quebec\, not far from the border with USA. Meet the Arsenaults\, a small-time tight-knit poach family who have ruled for generations in the back-country district of Témiscouata\, Quebec. Arsenault &\; Sons is t he name of their family auto repair shop that serves as cover for their mo re illicit activities. The return of Anthony\, the youngest of the family\ , then the arrival of Emilie\, a radio host who exerts a strong influence on Anthony and especially his older brother Adam\, will come to test the h armony of the clan.\n\nScreening to mark the month of Francophonie. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Scr eenshot_2023-01-26-Family-Game-2022.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1431@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T183000 DTSTAMP:20230224T192359Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mnff-winter-tour-pasang/ SUMMARY:MNFF Vermont Tour: Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest DESCRIPTION:Winner: AICEF Prize for Cross-Cultural Filmmaking\n\nScreening is followed by a Q&\;A with the producer. Moderated by Jay Craven\n\nTh is is the remarkable story of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa\, the indigenous trailbl azer who battled racism\, gender discrimination\, and political opposition in her quest to become the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest. He r courageous\, tragic journey would greatly move her country\, inspiring n ew generations to reach for their rights.\n\nThis film is part of the MNFF Vermont Tour ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/pas ang-in-the-shadow-of-everest-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1430@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T211500 DTSTAMP:20230227T030809Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mnff-winter-tour-the-automat/ SUMMARY:MNFF Vermont Tour: The Automat DESCRIPTION:Followed by Q&\;A in person with the director Lisa Hurwitz\n WINNER: Clio Visualizing History Prize for the Advancement of Women in Fil m\n\nThe Automat recounts the lost history of the iconic restaurant chain Horn &\; Hardart\, which served affordable-priced quality food to milli ons of New Yorkers and Philadelphians for more than a century. The chain w elcomed minority populations\, including immigrants\, the working-class\, Blacks and women\, all of whom were often unwelcome in restaurants. Founde d by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart in 1888\, it revolutionized the nation ’s restaurant scene with comfortable interiors\, quality food and state of the art technology.\n\nThis film is part of the MNFF Vermont Tour. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/aut omat-3-2048x1152-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1432@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T211500 DTSTAMP:20230327T201205Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pacifiction/ SUMMARY:Pacifiction DESCRIPTION:Cahiers du Cinéma No. 1 Film of the Year 2022\n\nOn the French Polynesian island of Tahiti\, the High Commissioner of the Republic and F rench government official De Roller (Benoît Magimel) is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings h im to navigate the high end ’establishment’ as well as shady venues wh ere he mingles with the locals. Especially since a persistent rumor has be en going around: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.\n\n* Download and read an int erview with the director HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Pac ifiction_2.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1436@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T164500 DTSTAMP:20230408T212502Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/martin-eden-mhff/ SUMMARY:Jack London's Martin Eden DESCRIPTION:Based on London’s autobiographical novel. A poor and unschool ed sailor (Martin Eden)\, unexpectedly meets Ruth Morse\, a magnetic young woman of means and education. Their unconventional attraction upends both lives and propels timely themes of impossible love\, dogged individualism in pursuit of the American Dream and more.\n\n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n \n*Read or download the director statement about the making of the film HE RE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/192 0x1005_Jack-Londons-Martin-Eden.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1434@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T190000 DTSTAMP:20230401T152751Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/douglas-lanahan-award/ SUMMARY:Douglas-Lanahan Award Presentation and film DESCRIPTION:Join us for the inaugural event of the presentation of the Doug las-Lanahan Award\, given to a group or an individual for their outstandin g contribution to the community through film. This $1\,000 cash award is i n the name of John Douglas and Eleanor (Bobbie) Lanahan\, Vermont media ar tists who have been involved in Vermont's community of filmmakers and arti sts.  The award is sponsored by Jane and Bill Stetson.\n\nThe first of it s kind\, the award recipients in 2023 are the Vermont Production Collectiv e. VPC is a grassroots organization connecting the film\, video\, photogra phy\, sound\, and graphics industries in Vermont\, with the belief that we are stronger together. Come to the event to hear more about what they do. \n\n\n\nThe award event will include a special 25 minute film about the wo rk of Douglas and Lanahan.\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG _0996-scaled-e1679090074140.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Special Event LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1437@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T203000 DTSTAMP:20230424T135046Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/whitman-brook/ SUMMARY:Whitman Brook DESCRIPTION:Co-Winner of the Vermont Public Award for Best Documentary\, sp onsored by Vermont Public\; Winner of the Audience Favorite Award sponsore d by Media Factory\n\n\nAn abandoned apple orchard\, rescued by chance\, t hrives under the caring hands of the people driven to rejuvenate this Verm ont hillside\, who encourage the trees to flourish where once they stood b ent and broken. A four-season meditation on time\, change\, loss\, and ren ewal.\n\n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\nDirector statement:\n\nHow do you cr eate an experience that will last? How do you change a person’s perspect ive? These are questions filmmakers continually ask. The answer (I think) happens over time. It cannot be forced. It lingers at the corners of the m ind and is brought into focus slowly.\n\nWhitman Brook Orchard resides on a hill at the far edge of a residential development. It awaits quietly on the road less traveled for those who notice. In creating this film\, I hop e to unfold a story of unexpected experiences that hold the power to chang e perspectives. This film is about life's pace and observation. It’s a s tory of love\, loss\, renewal\, and wonder. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/120 0x675_Whitman-Brook.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1438@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T134500 DTSTAMP:20230408T213044Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rivers-lakes/ SUMMARY:Rivers and Lakes DESCRIPTION: CHICAS AL AGUA | Liz McGregor | 17:58 | ME | Spanish w/ subtit les\nYou can count the number of female paddlers in Futaleufú\, Chile on one hand... but all this is changing with the creation of a kayak course f or teenage girls.\n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n \;\n\n FIRE &\; AS H |​​ Andreas John | 12:21 | VT |\nFaced with death and the inevitable dissolution of his physical body\, Vermont beatmaster and hip hop artist JL (Johnny Morris) embarks on a journey of creation and transformation.\n* Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n \;\n\n  NO OTHER LAKE | Jordan Rowell\, Duane Peterson III | 40 | VT | \nJordan Rowell embarks on a two week kayak ing trip along the 120-mile length of Lake Champlain\, stopping to talk to a wide range of characters about the future of their shared basin\n*Filmm aker in attendance*\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-RIVERS-AND-LAKES_1920x1005.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1439@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T153000 DTSTAMP:20230404T173453Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/roland-and-mary/ SUMMARY:Roland & Mary\, A Winter of Towing in the Northeast Kingdom DESCRIPTION:The film explores the lovingly contentious relationship behind legendary Vermont towing company Roland’s Wrecker Service. Set to the st ark backdrop of a Vermont winter\, Dillon rides along on calls with his ca mera (Which was multiple times kindly suggested for Dillon to shove somewh ere) as Roland and Mary take an honest look back on the trials of a diffic ult career\, with the unflinching humor and stubborn independence that pul led them through.\n\n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/120 0x675_Roland-and-Mary.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1440@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T170000 DTSTAMP:20230408T213000Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bells-are-ringing/ SUMMARY:The Bells Are Ringing DESCRIPTION: LATE FOR CHURCH | Kevin Harkey | 3:02 | VT\nA family races to get to church on time.\n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n \;\n\n SOLITAIRE | Amy Neswald | 19 | ME\nA small town minister who presides over marriage s doomed to fail finds solace in the game solitaire as the rest of his lif e crumbles.\n*Filmmakers in attendance*\n\n \;\n\n DREPPER\, THE HAPPI EST MAN ON EARTH | Mason Aksamit | 12:02 | RI\nWhen Lennon tells his three brothers he plans to kill himself in one month\, he creates a chain of ev ents that lead to his brothers’ demise.\n\n \;\n\n TRICK OR TREES (L E VENDEUR DE BROADWAY) | Simon Larochelle | 28:32 | QC | French w/ subtitl es\nCo-Winner of the Vermont Public Award for Best Documentary\nEach year in December\, Marc-Antoine goes back to NYC to sell Christmas trees. From his little sidewalk shack\, he witnesses the daily life of New Yorkers see king the perfect Christmas ornament\, giving him an original view of Ameri ca’s social classes.\n*Filmmaker in attendance* ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-THE-BELLS-ARE-RINGING_1920x1005.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1441@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T184500 DTSTAMP:20230404T173207Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/city-life/ SUMMARY:City Life DESCRIPTION: A SHORE AWAY (L’AUTRE RIVE) | Gaëlle Graton | 17:33 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nNewly employed in an emergency shelter for people ex periencing homelessness\, Genevieve is shocked to meet again with Camille. \n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n \;\n\n QUEEN CITY BLUES | Ethan WL | 3 8 | MA\nJury Special Mention\nThree friends search for a missing man in Ma nchester\, New Hampshire. A unique combination  of crime story and city a rchitecture.\n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n \;\n\n NO ENTRY | Philippe Vanasse-Paquet\, Dimitri Lavallée | 14:02 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nUr bex abounds in Montreal. To taste it is to get addicted. These filmmakers took that risk.\n*Filmmakers in attendance*\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-CITY-LIFE_1200x675.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1442@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T204500 DTSTAMP:20230404T173634Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/parents-divorce/ SUMMARY:How to Get Your Parents to Divorce (Pas d'chicane dans ma cabane!) DESCRIPTION:Jury Special Mention\n\nJustine\, 12\, firmly believes that she will be happier once her parents are divorced. The catch? They have no pl ans to do so. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/120 0x675_How-to-Get-Your-Parentsto-Divorce.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Made Here Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1445@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T134500 DTSTAMP:20230404T173121Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lost-and-found/ SUMMARY:Lost and Found DESCRIPTION: COINCIDENCES | Neil Ira Needleman | 3:50 | ME\n“This is a tr ue story. All these decades later\, I still have a hard time believing tha t this actually happened in 1997.”\n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n \; \n\n PUERTO RICO | John Rasmussen | 8:57 | VT\nThe Burlington Police found Paul O’Toole unresponsive on a heat grate on the coldest night of the y ear\, December 17\, 2011. Based on Jim Ellefson’s poem “In Dreams Paul Returns to Tell Us What It's Like.” Jim was a close friend of Paul’s. \n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n \;\n\n KISS ME (EMBRASSE-MOI DONC) | L aetitia Mallette | 15:38 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nJury Special Mention\ nAfter a tragic accident\, Nathan\, Esteban and Romane escape Montreal\, t aking refuge in a cottage. Haunted by memories of the past\, they pass the time in unusual ways.\n\n \;\n\n DANAVAN | Jean-David Rodrigue\, Fran ie-Éléonore Bernier | 12:37 | QC\nIn the Limoilou neighborhood of Quebec City\, René and Polo are apprehensive about the arrival of the new next- door neighbor.\n\n \;\n\n ASKA | Clara Milo | 14:01 | QC\nWinner - Ega n Media Award for Best Sound\nAska oversees the pilgrimage of two young si sters through the landscapes of Iceland in their quest to appease an ill-t empered volcano.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-LOST-AND-FOUND_1200x675.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1444@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T151500 DTSTAMP:20230408T212656Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/very-nice-day/ SUMMARY:Very Nice Day (Tres Belle Journée) DESCRIPTION:Jérémie\, a bicycle courier\, crisscrosses the city at full s peed delivering anonymous backpacks. Lonely\, he records a podcast in whic h he shares his conspiratorial view of the world. The film was shot entire ly on a cellphone.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/192 0x1005_Very-Nice-Day.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1443@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T164500 DTSTAMP:20230404T172240Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/family-connections/ SUMMARY:Family Connections DESCRIPTION: EYE FOR AN EYE (OEIL POUR OEIL) | Anthony Coveney | 9:11 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nAs the planet dies\, the adults are making out. In a stroke of good luck\, Mathieu discovers a contraceptive far more effecti ve than condoms.\n\n \;\n\n SENTINELS | Matthew Luhrman | 14:58 | ME\n Determined to save her father from a worsening illness\, an imaginative gi rl attempts to conjure magical guardians to protect him.\n*Filmmaker in at tendance*\n\n \;\n\n EVERYTHING’S FINE (TOUT ROULE) | Audrey Nantel- Gagnon | 9:59 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nJury Special Mention\nMelanie’ s strongest wish is to have a family that stays together. Meanwhile\, her boyfriend David is about to roll away to become a long-distance truck driv er.\n\n \;\n\n MIETTE | Maude Bouchard\, Camille Trudel | 12:34 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nThrough the encounter between a director and a scarr ed young woman\, Miette explores how guilt shapes our personal narrative a nd relationships.\n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n \;\n\n AXEL | Tom Mul l | 15:53 | VT \nWinner - Class Four Award for Best Cinematography\nExplor es themes of childhood and rebellion through the lens of a 14-year-old ska teboarder\, musician and graffiti artist in upstate Vermont.\n*Filmmakers in attendance*\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-FAMILY-CONNECTIONS_1200x675.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1433@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T180000 DTSTAMP:20230402T203704Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/panel-vpc/ SUMMARY:Panel: Getting Things Done in Vermont DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nOpen to all who work in\, or support\, filmmaking. By inv itation only.\n\nA panel discussion with rising Vermont filmmakers on how they fund\, create\, and share their work with the world.\n\nA Filmmakers reception will follow with complimentary hors d’oeuvres\, beer and wine\ , hosted by VPC\, the Vermont Creative Network and VTIFF.\n\n\nThis event is in the Festival screening room\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/202 3-MHFF-reception-invite_720x720.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1435@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T190000 DTSTAMP:20230402T203642Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/filmmakers-reception-2/ SUMMARY:Filmmakers Reception DESCRIPTION:\nThis event is intended for all who work in\, or support\, fil mmaking.  By invitation only.\n\nSnacks and drinks\, networking and prese ntation of Made Here Film Festival awards.\nThis event is hosted by the Ve rmont Production Collective\, Vermont Creative Network\, VTIFF and Burling ton Beer Co. VPC board members will be there to talk about what they do.\n \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/202 3-MHFF-reception-invite_720x720.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Special Event LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1446@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230415T200000 DTSTAMP:20230408T213256Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/artists-at-work/ SUMMARY:Artists at Work DESCRIPTION: FLUX | John R Killacky | 14:30 | VT\nInspired by scores\, prop ositions\, and performance actions of Fluxus-era artists\, Killacky perfor ms his own gestures based on their instructions and prompts.\n*Filmmaker i n attendance*\n\n \;\n\nMARIE. EDUARDO. SOPHIE | Thomas Corriveau | 3 :15 | QC\nAn immersive dive into the movement of bodies and painting\, wit h three magnificent performers of contemporary dance from Montreal. The fi lm has been selected to compete in the world's most renowned animation fes tival\, Annecy International Animation Film Festival\, in June this year.\ n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n \;\n\n ARTIFACTS OF THE PRESENT | Willo w O'Feral\, Brad Heck | 13:45 | VT\nJury Special Mention\nArtist Brian Coh en pulls his body of work together in his studio home on the coast of Main e as he faces terminal cancer at 60 years old.\n*Filmmaker in attendance*\ n\n \;\n\n DRAGON POETS OF BOSTON | Gordon LePage | 8:20 | ME\nTwo und eremployed dragons have a revelation when they audition for a podcast.\n*F ilmmaker in attendance* ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-ARTISTS-AT-WORK_1200x675.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1447@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T141500 DTSTAMP:20230408T213153Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/305-bellechasse/ SUMMARY:305 Bellechasse DESCRIPTION:Jury Special Mention\n\nThis film is a gateway to the richness of the creative life of artists who have established their studio in this ancient pasta factory. Located at the confluence of the neighborhoods of P etite-Patrie\, Mile End and Little Italy\, the building has become\, over time\, a lair of artists of talent and renown and one of the hidden treasu res of contemporary painting in Montreal. Last October\, the building was sold to a real estate company. Now the artists' presence at 305 is in jeop ardy.\n\n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/120 0x675_305-BELLECHASSE.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1448@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T160000 DTSTAMP:20230408T213432Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/earthlings/ SUMMARY:Earthlings DESCRIPTION: QUINN REDSHIFT | Kate Fahr | 27:32 | VT\nA fun\, animated\, sc i-fi adventure\, combining retro styling and modern space opera.\n*Filmmak er in attendance*\n\n \;\n\n USUAL SPLEEN (LE TEMPS D’UN SPLEEN) | A nthony Coveney\, Miguel Lambert\, François Lalonde\, CAO | 21:56 | QC | F rench w/ subtitles\n4 stories. A spleen. Bitter looks. Between loneliness and disappointments.\n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n \;\n\n WATERCRAFT (MOTOMARINE) | Gabriel Auclair-Doucet | 4:10 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nE lsa is looking to buy herself a house salesman. Two new participants will need to overcome challenges to determine the chosen one.\n*Filmmaker in at tendance*\n\n \;\n\n 10 WOMEN ON THE TELEPHONE (10 FEMMES AU TÉLÉPHO NE | Julie Roy | 11:33 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nTen women are connected by a telephone chain. When one of them is missing\, they struggle to find her. But who are they forgetting along the way?\n\n\n TALENT SHOW | Noah Mauchly | 9:03 | NH\nMade for Youtube\, Talent Show is a parody of high sc hool romance movies\, telling the story of a character named Will attempti ng to woo his crush\, Jen\, by performing at their high school talent show .\n*Filmmaker in attendance*\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-EARTHLINGS_1200x675.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1450@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T181500 DTSTAMP:20230404T173023Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/perseverance/ SUMMARY:Perseverance DESCRIPTION: INTERWOVEN (LES ENTREMAILLES) | Ariel St-Louis Lamoureux | 22: 48 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nFive Innu\, Franco-Québécois and Zapotec artisans converse over their work. From their techniques\, objects and tex tile traditions\, intersecting stories emerge. Their clothes reflect on id entity and otherness.\n*Filmmakers in attendance\n\n\n \;\n\n TAKING U P SPACE | Anthony Marques\, Scott Cherhoniak | 36 | VT\nVermont plus-size powerlifter Laura Carter trains for the USS Nationals “Strongman” comp etition while overcoming the tragic loss of her cousin to Huntington's dis ease. \n*Filmmakers in attendance\n\n\n \n\n TASTE OF LOVE (SABOR Y AMOR ) | Luke Robins\, Ivonne Serna | 9:04 | VT | Spanish w/ subtitles\nSet in rural Vermont\, this documentary shares the story of a Mexican migrant wom an who\, faced with limited job prospects\, discovers comfort\, livelihood \, and community through her love of cooking. \n*Filmmakers in attendance \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-perseverance_1200x675.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1449@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T203000 DTSTAMP:20230408T213335Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/backlash/ SUMMARY:Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age DESCRIPTION:Backlash plunges us into the vortex of online misogyny and docu ments hatred towards women. The film\, reminiscent of a psychological thri ller\, follows four women across two continents: former President of the I talian parliament Laura Boldrini\, former Democratic representative Kiah M orris\, French actor and YouTuber Marion Séclin\, and Donna Zuckerberg\, a specialist in online violence against women and the sister of Facebook ’s founder. This tour de force reveals the devastating effects such unap ologetic hatred has on victims\, and brings to light the singular objectiv e of cyber-misogyny: to silence women who shine. Some targets of cyber-vio lence will crumble under the crystallizing force of the click. Others\, pr oud warriors\, will stand tall and refuse to be silenced. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/192 0x1005_Backlash.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1469@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T203000 DTSTAMP:20230401T214940Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/butterfly-queen/ SUMMARY:Butterfly Queen DESCRIPTION:This screening is related to Made Here Film Festival\n\nFrom th e filmmakers: "Casey (a sheep farmer/cartoonist) and Robin (basically a va gabond) are lost in a magical forest\, struggling to find Casey’s sketch book so they can get the hell back home. Unfortunately\, The Butterfly Que en wants the sketchbook too\, and A) she’s clever\, B) she’s desperate and C) she makes the rules.\n\nIt’s a bit punk\, a lot queer and it wil l probably make you think about who your best friend really is.\nWe shot t he whole thing around Ryegate\, VT\, pop. 1\,165." ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/But terfly-Queen.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Special Event LOCATION:Brennan's Pub\, Davis Center at UVM\, 590 Main St\, Burlington\, V T\, 05405\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Davis Center at UVM\, 590 M ain St\, Burlington\, VT\, 05405\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITL E=Brennan's Pub:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1457@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230404T172534Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/parents-divorce-virtual/ SUMMARY:How to Get Your Parents to Divorce (Pas d'chicane dans ma cabanne!) (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Justine\, 12\, firmly believes that she will be happier once he r parents are divorced. The catch? They have no plans to do so. \n\n*Jury Special Mention*\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/120 0x675_How-to-Get-Your-Parentsto-Divorce.jpg CATEGORIES:Feature,Made Here Film Festival,Virtual LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1465@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230404T172355Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/backlash-virtual/ SUMMARY:Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Backlash plunges us into the vortex of online misogyny and docu ments hatred towards women. The film\, reminiscent of a psychological thri ller\, follows four women across two continents: former President of the I talian parliament Laura Boldrini\, former Democratic representative Kiah M orris\, French actor and YouTuber Marion Séclin\, and Donna Zuckerberg\, a specialist in online violence against women and the sister of Facebook ’s founder. This tour de force reveals the devastating effects such unap ologetic hatred has on victims\, and brings to light the singular objectiv e of cyber-misogyny: to silence women who shine. Some targets of cyber-vio lence will crumble under the crystallizing force of the click. Others\, pr oud warriors\, will stand tall and refuse to be silenced. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/192 0x1005_Backlash.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1458@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230404T180238Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lost-and-found-virtual/ SUMMARY:Lost and Found (Virtual) DESCRIPTION: COINCIDENCES | Neil Ira Needleman | 3:50 | ME\n“This is a tr ue story. All these decades later\, I still have a hard time believing tha t this actually happened in 1997.”\n\n \;\n\n PUERTO RICO | John Ras mussen | 8:57 | VT\nThe Burlington Police found Paul O’Toole unresponsiv e on a heat grate on the coldest night of the year\, December 17\, 2011. B ased on Jim Ellefson’s poem “In Dreams Paul Returns to Tell Us What It 's Like.” Jim was a close friend of Paul’s.\n\n \;\n\n KISS ME (EM BRASSE-MOI DONC) | Laetitia Mallette | 15:38 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nJ ury Special Mention\nAfter a tragic accident\, Nathan\, Esteban and Romane escape Montreal\, taking refuge in a cottage. Haunted by memories of the past\, they pass the time in unusual ways.\n\n \;\n\n DANAVAN | Jean-D avid Rodrigue\, Franie-Éléonore Bernier | 12:37 | QC\nIn the Limoilou ne ighborhood of Quebec City\, René and Polo are apprehensive about the arri val of the new next-door neighbor.\n\n \;\n\n ASKA | Clara Milo | 14:0 1 | QC\nWinner - Egan Media Award for Best Sound\nAska oversees the pilgri mage of two young sisters through the landscapes of Iceland in their quest to appease an ill-tempered volcano.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-LOST-AND-FOUND_1200x675.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1451@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230408T212629Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/martin-eden-mhff-virtual/ SUMMARY:Jack London's Martin Eden (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Based on London’s autobiographical novel. A poor and unschool ed sailor (Martin Eden)\, unexpectedly meets Ruth Morse\, a magnetic young woman of means and education. Their unconventional attraction upends both lives and propels timely themes of impossible love\, dogged individualism in pursuit of the American Dream and more.\n\n*Read or download the direc tor statement about the making of the film HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/192 0x1005_Jack-Londons-Martin-Eden.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1459@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230404T172737Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/very-nice-day-virtual/ SUMMARY:Very Nice Day (Tres Belle Journée) (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Jérémie\, a bicycle courier\, crisscrosses the city at full s peed delivering anonymous backpacks. Lonely\, he records a podcast in whic h he shares his conspiratorial view of the world. The film was shot entire ly on a cellphone.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/120 0x675_Very-Nice-Day.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1452@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230424T135115Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/whitman-brook-virtual/ SUMMARY:Whitman Brook (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Co-Winner of the Vermont Public Award for Best Documentary\, sp onsored by Vermont Public\; Winner of the Audience Favorite Award sponsore d by Media Factory\n\nAn abandoned apple orchard\, rescued by chance\, thr ives under the caring hands of the people driven to rejuvenate this Vermon t hillside\, who encourage the trees to flourish where once they stood ben t and broken. A four-season meditation on time\, change\, loss\, and renew al.\n\nDirector statement:\n\nHow do you create an experience that will la st? How do you change a person’s perspective? These are questions filmma kers continually ask. The answer (I think) happens over time. It cannot be forced. It lingers at the corners of the mind and is brought into focus s lowly.\n\nWhitman Brook Orchard resides on a hill at the far edge of a res idential development. It awaits quietly on the road less traveled for thos e who notice. In creating this film\, I hope to unfold a story of unexpect ed experiences that hold the power to change perspectives. This film is ab out life's pace and observation. It’s a story of love\, loss\, renewal\, and wonder. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/120 0x675_Whitman-Brook.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1460@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230401T212911Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/family-connections-virtual/ SUMMARY:Family Connections (Virtual) DESCRIPTION: EYE FOR AN EYE (OEIL POUR OEIL) | Anthony Coveney | 9:11 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nAs the planet dies\, the adults are making out. In a stroke of good luck\, Mathieu discovers a contraceptive far more effecti ve than condoms.\n\n \;\n\n SENTINELS | Matthew Luhrman | 14:58 | ME\n Determined to save her father from a worsening illness\, an imaginative gi rl attempts to conjure magical guardians to protect him.\n\n \;\n\n EV ERYTHING’S FINE (TOUT ROULE) | Audrey Nantel-Gagnon | 9:59 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nJury Special Mention\nMelanie’s strongest wish is to have a family that stays together. Meanwhile\, her boyfriend David is about to roll away to become a long-distance truck driver.\n\n \;\n\n MIETTE | Maude Bouchard\, Camille Trudel | 12:34 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nThrou gh the encounter between a director and a scarred young woman\, Miette exp lores how guilt shapes our personal narrative and relationships.\n\n \ ;\n\n AXEL | Tom Mull | 15:53 | VT \nWinner - Class Four Award for Best Ci nematography\nExplores themes of childhood and rebellion through the lens of a 14-year-old skateboarder\, musician and graffiti artist in upstate Ve rmont.\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1453@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230404T173340Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rivers-lakes-virtual/ SUMMARY:Rivers and Lakes (Virtual) DESCRIPTION: CHICAS AL AGUA | Liz McGregor | 17:58 | ME | Spanish w/ subtit les\nYou can count the number of female paddlers in Futaleufú\, Chile on one hand... but all this is changing with the creation of a kayak course f or teenage girls.\n\n \;\n\n FIRE &\; ASH |​​ Andreas John | 12 :21 | VT |\nFaced with death and the inevitable dissolution of his physica l body\, Vermont beatmaster and hip hop artist JL (Johnny Morris) embarks on a journey of creation and transformation.\n\n \;\n\n NO OTHER LAKE | Jordan Rowell\, Duane Peterson III | 40 | VT | \nJordan Rowell embarks o n a two week kayaking trip along the 120-mile length of Lake Champlain\, s topping to talk to a wide range of characters about the future of their sh ared basin\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-RIVERS-AND-LAKES_1200x675.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1461@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230408T213611Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/perseverance-virtual/ SUMMARY:Perseverance (Virtual) DESCRIPTION: INTERWOVEN (LES ENTREMAILLES) | Ariel St-Louis Lamoureux | 22: 48 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nFive Innu\, Franco-Québécois and Zapotec artisans converse over their work. From their techniques\, objects and tex tile traditions\, intersecting stories emerge. Their clothes reflect on id entity and otherness.\n\n\n \;\n\n TAKING UP SPACE | Anthony Marques\, Scott Cherhoniak | 36 | VT\nVermont plus-size powerlifter Laura Carter tr ains for the USS Nationals “Strongman” competition while overcoming th e tragic loss of her cousin to Huntington's disease. \n\n\n \n\n TASTE O F LOVE (SABOR Y AMOR) | Luke Robins\, Ivonne Serna | 9:04 | VT | Spanish w/ subtitles\nSet in rural Vermont\, this documentary shares the story of a Mexican migrant woman who\, faced with limited job prospects\, discovers comfort\, livelihood\, and community through her love of cooking. \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-perseverance_1200x675.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1454@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230404T172641Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/roland-and-mary-virtual/ SUMMARY:Roland & Mary\, A Winter of Towing in the Northeast Kingdom (Virtua l) DESCRIPTION:The film explores the lovingly contentious relationship behind legendary Vermont towing company Roland’s Wrecker Service. Set to the st ark backdrop of a Vermont winter\, Dillon rides along on calls with his ca mera (Which was multiple times kindly suggested for Dillon to shove somewh ere) as Roland and Mary take an honest look back on the trials of a diffic ult career\, with the unflinching humor and stubborn independence that pul led them through.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/120 0x675_Roland-and-Mary.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1462@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230404T180146Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/artists-at-work-copy/ SUMMARY:Artists at Work (Virtual) DESCRIPTION: FLUX | John R Killacky | 14:30 | VT\nInspired by scores\, prop ositions\, and performance actions of Fluxus-era artists\, Killacky perfor ms his own gestures based on their instructions and prompts.\n\n \;\n\ nMARIE. EDUARDO. SOPHIE | Thomas Corriveau | 3:15 | QC\nAn immersive dive into the movement of bodies and painting\, with three magnificent perform ers of contemporary dance from Montreal. The film has been selected to com pete in the world's most renowned animation festival\, Annecy Internationa l Animation Film Festival\, in June this year.\n\n \;\n\n ARTIFACTS OF THE PRESENT | Willow O'Feral\, Brad Heck | 13:45 | VT\nJury Special Menti on\nArtist Brian Cohen pulls his body of work together in his studio home on the coast of Maine as he faces terminal cancer at 60 years old.\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n DRAGON POETS OF BOSTON | Gordon LePage | 8:20 | ME\nTwo underemplo yed dragons have a revelation when they audition for a podcast. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-ARTISTS-AT-WORK_1200x675.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1455@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230404T173604Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bells-are-ringing-virtual/ SUMMARY:The Bells Are Ringing (Virtual) DESCRIPTION: LATE FOR CHURCH | Kevin Harkey | 3:02 | VT\nA family races to get to church on time.\n\n \;\n\n SOLITAIRE | Amy Neswald | 19 | ME\nA small town minister who presides over marriages doomed to fail finds sola ce in the game solitaire as the rest of his life crumbles.\n\n \;\n\n DREPPER\, THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH | Mason Aksamit | 12:02 | RI\nWhen Len non tells his three brothers he plans to kill himself in one month\, he cr eates a chain of events that lead to his brothers’ demise.\n\n \;\n\ n TRICK OR TREES (LE VENDEUR DE BROADWAY) | Simon Larochelle | 28:32 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nCo-Winner of the Vermont Public Award for Best Docu mentary\nEach year in December\, Marc-Antoine goes back to NYC to sell Chr istmas trees. From his little sidewalk shack\, he witnesses the daily life of New Yorkers seeking the perfect Christmas ornament\, giving him an ori ginal view of America’s social classes.\n*Filmmaker in attendance* ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-THE-BELLS-ARE-RINGING_1200x675.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1463@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230404T172445Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/305-bellechasse-virtual/ SUMMARY:305 Bellechasse (Virtual) DESCRIPTION:Jury Special Mention\n\nThis film is a gateway to the richness of the creative life of artists who have established their studio in this ancient pasta factory. Located at the confluence of the neighborhoods of P etite-Patrie\, Mile End and Little Italy\, the building has become\, over time\, a lair of artists of talent and renown and one of the hidden treasu res of contemporary painting in Montreal. Last October\, the building was sold to a real estate company. Now the artists' presence at 305 is in jeop ardy.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/120 0x675_305-BELLECHASSE.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1456@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230404T142839Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/city-life-virtual/ SUMMARY:City Life (Virtual) DESCRIPTION: A SHORE AWAY (L’AUTRE RIVE) | Gaëlle Graton | 17:33 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nNewly employed in an emergency shelter for people ex periencing homelessness\, Genevieve is shocked to meet again with Camille. \n\n \;\n\n QUEEN CITY BLUES | Ethan WL | 38 | MA\nJury Special Mentio n\nThree friends search for a missing man in Manchester\, New Hampshire. A unique combination  of crime story and city architecture.\n\n \;\n\n NO ENTRY | Philippe Vanasse-Paquet\, Dimitri Lavallée | 14:02 | QC | Fre nch w/ subtitles\nUrbex abounds in Montreal. To taste it is to get addicte d. These filmmakers took that risk.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Que en-City-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1464@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DTSTAMP:20230404T173419Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/earthlings-virtual/ SUMMARY:Earthlings (Virtual) DESCRIPTION: QUINN REDSHIFT | Kate Fahr | 27:32 | VT\nA fun\, animated\, sc i-fi adventure\, combining retro styling and modern space opera.\n\n \ ;\n\n USUAL SPLEEN (LE TEMPS D’UN SPLEEN) | Anthony Coveney\, Miguel Lam bert\, François Lalonde\, CAO | 21:56 | QC | French w/ subtitles\n4 stori es. A spleen. Bitter looks. Between loneliness and disappointments.\n\n&nb sp\;\n\n WATERCRAFT (MOTOMARINE) | Gabriel Auclair-Doucet | 4:10 | QC | Fr ench w/ subtitles\nElsa is looking to buy herself a house salesman. Two ne w participants will need to overcome challenges to determine the chosen on e.\n\n \;\n\n 10 WOMEN ON THE TELEPHONE (10 FEMMES AU TÉLÉPHONE | Ju lie Roy | 11:33 | QC | French w/ subtitles\nTen women are connected by a t elephone chain. When one of them is missing\, they struggle to find her. B ut who are they forgetting along the way?\n\n\n TALENT SHOW | Noah Mauchly | 9:03 | NH\nMade for Youtube\, Talent Show is a parody of high school ro mance movies\, telling the story of a character named Will attempting to w oo his crush\, Jen\, by performing at their high school talent show.\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sho rts-–-EARTHLINGS_1200x675.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts,Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1470@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230504T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230504T210000 DTSTAMP:20230419T192058Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bloodsweatandtears/ SUMMARY:What the Hell Happened to Blood\, Sweat & Tears? DESCRIPTION:A political thriller with a classic rock band at the heart of t he action\, What the Hell Happened to Blood\, Sweat &\; Tears? involves the U.S. State Department\, the Nixon White House\, the governments of Yu goslavia\, Romania and Poland and documentary footage that has been suppre ssed for over 50 years by one or all of the above.\n\nIn June 1970\, hot o ff their spectacular Grammy® win for Album of the Year (besting The Beatl es’ “Abbey Road”)\, Blood\, Sweat &\; Tears becomes the first Ame rican rock band to perform behind the Iron Curtain\, doing concerts in Yug oslavia\, Romania and Poland on a tour sponsored by the U.S. State Departm ent. Like much of the youth in America\, band members have been outspoken and critical of the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War. The Iron Cur tain Tour seems to be a curious decision by the band\, which was at the ve ry height of their popularity.Upon their return\, the band becomes a victi m of the significant societal upheaval and culture wars in a polarized Ame rica\, divided as much then as it is now. Political criticism typically co mes from one side or the other. But in 1970\, Blood\, Sweat &\; Tears f ind themselves in the crossfire from both the Right and the Left and the g roup suffers greatly as a result. Suddenly\, they are no longer hip and co ol and lose support from fans\, the media\, concert bookers and the record ing industry. In short\, the Right is outraged by the U.S. government foot ing the bill for an anti-war/anti-Nixon rock band to tour overseas and ref er to Blood\, Sweat &\; Tears members as “Communists”. The Left is critical of the band for appearing to be an instrument of the U.S. governm ent and/or the CIA. Through documentary footage shot during the Iron Curta in tour (and thought to be lost) and present-day interviews with band memb ers and historians\, as well as the unsealing of government records\, What the Hell Happened to Blood\, Sweat and Tears? unravels the details of thi s extraordinary year in the life of the band. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Kat z-181-Warsaw-DCT-Steve-Katz-Jim-Fielder-onstage-CLEANED1-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1466@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T152500 DTSTAMP:20230430T185449Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-truffle-hunters/ SUMMARY:Italian Cinema Day: The Truffle Hunters DESCRIPTION:Click on the Get Ticket link for this film\, or click HERE for a day pass valid for all three films.\n\nOne of three films at the Italian Cinema Day hosted by VTIFF and VICA\, Host sponsor Main Street Landing\nS ee also Big Night and L'immensità\n\n"Set amid the hilly woodlands of the Piedmont region of Italy\, this entrancingly low-key affair (whose numero us executive producers include Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagni no) leads us into a secretive world far removed from the globalized bustle of modern technology. Here\, we meet a disparate group of men whose close st relationships seem to be with their dogs (“If my dog dies I would die too\,” says one) as they search for the rare and tasty white truffles t hat embody their disappearing way of life. Dweck and Kershaw spent years e arning the trust of their subjects\, documenting their lives with empathy\ , honesty and a generous helping of melancholy humour. Through their eyes we discover an ecosystem that is ruggedly permanent yet fragile and transi tory\, in danger of extinction. Deteriorating soil\, poisonous competition and the depletion of woodlands are all part of the problem\, with one ret iring hunter declaring that nowadays “people are greedy… they know not hing about the forest but they want to plunder it”. Joyous on-camera son g (both a cappella and with accordion) is deployed to sublime effect\, wit h sound designer Stephen Urata weaving barks\, bells\, creaks and wind-whi stles together in symphonic fashion." ~ The Guardian\n\nThank you for spon soring this film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Tru ffle-Hunters.webp CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1472@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T210000 DTSTAMP:20230501T193333Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/italian-cinema-day/ SUMMARY:Italian Cinema Day DESCRIPTION:Ticket link on this page is for a day pass. If you wish to purc hase individual tickets to specific films\, click on your preferred titles below\n\nWe are celebrating Italian films and food in partnership with th e Vermont Italian Cultural Association.\nThere will be a bar and snack bet ween the screenings.\n\nCheck out each film below!\n\n2 PM - The Truffle H unters\, sponsored by Karma Bird House\n\n4 PM - Big Night\, sponsored by  Peter Ciardelli and David Arms Jr. \n\n7 PM - L'immensità\, sponsored b y Jane Pincus\n\n \;\n\nThank you to our all our sponsors\n\n  \n\n&n bsp\;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/202 3-05-07-italian-cinema-day_1920x1005px-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1467@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T174500 DTSTAMP:20230430T185506Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/big-night/ SUMMARY:Italian Cinema Day: Big Night DESCRIPTION:Click on the Get Ticket link for this film\, or click HERE for a day pass valid for all three films.\nOne of three films at the Italian C inema Day hosted by VTIFF and VICA\, Host sponsor Main Street Landing\nSee also The Truffle Hunters and L'immensità\nBig Night focuses on the volat ile relationship between two immigrant restaurateurs\, the uncompromising chef Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and his younger sibling\, Secondo (Stanley Tucc i)\, who runs the dining room and is trying desperately to keep the busine ss afloat.\nThat’s a particular challenge because Big Night is set in th e late 1950s\, when American customers in Italian restaurants demanded spa ghetti and meatballs\, not delicate Venetian rice dishes. Over the course of a few days\, the brothers cook\, bicker\, court women (Isabella Rossell ini\, Minnie Driver and Alison Janney)\, and host a wild\, hours-long feas t for the musician Louis Prima\, in an attempt to drum up the good press t hey need to stay alive.\nBig Night helped kick off a revolution in America n food culture. “The idea that the Italians had broken the meal into dis tinct antipasto\, pasta\, and farinaceous products\, followed by a main co urse\, was still news to Americans back in the 1990s\,” ~ Mario Batali\, who was given his first show on Food Network that same year. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Big -Night.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1468@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T204500 DTSTAMP:20230430T185351Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/limmensita/ SUMMARY:Italian Cinema Day: L'immensità DESCRIPTION:Click on the Get Ticket link for this film\, or click HERE for a day pass valid for all three films.\n\nOne of three films at the Italian Cinema Day hosted by VTIFF and VICA\, Host sponsor Main Street Landing\nS ee also The Truffle Hunters and Big Night\n\nCrialese’s largely autobiog raphical work (he came out as trans during the première of the film at th e Venice Film Festival)\, is a portrait of a dysfunctional family in 1970s Rome. Penélope Cruz stars as Clara\, Spanish ex-pat\, an unhappily marri ed mother of three coping with mental health issues. The core of the story involves her eldest child\, Adriana/Andrea (played by newcomer Luana Giul iani)\, a trans boy who lacks the language to describe his gender dysphori a and simply tells adults that he’s an alien from another galaxy. Clara focuses her attention on the kids\, connecting with them by channeling her own inner child. The song and dance sequences she has with the kids\, esp ecially the opening scene to Raffaella Carrà’s 70s chart hit Rumore/Si\ , Ci Sto\, are quite spectacular\; they and other flights of fancy\, count er the undertones of bleakness and depression. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Lim mensita1.jpeg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1409@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230601T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230601T204500 DTSTAMP:20230509T201306Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/other-peoples-children/ SUMMARY:Other People's Children (Les enfants des autres) DESCRIPTION:Watch out for Frederic Weisman cameo appearance!\n\nNew Directo rs New Films 2023. Winner Best First Feature - London FF\, Jerusalem FF\, Best Director Athens FF\n\nA superb Virginie Efira plays Rachel\, a dedica ted high school teacher who begins a bittersweet romance with a single dad . Deftly written\, directed with a light hand\, the film captures moments of acute sadness without ever sinking into sentimentality. It delicately b alances humor with melancholy\, creating a sharply observed relationship d rama that explores maternal instincts and midlife crises with bittersweet compassion.\n\nExcerpt from interview with Zlotowski: "I began by adapting Romain Gary’s novel Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid\, a novel that confr onts a man’s impotence head on. But something resisted. Not because I co uldn’t project myself into this man who was unable to get hard\, or who feared no longer being able to\, but perhaps because I could identify too well. Gradually I recognized my own impotence\, that of a 40-year-old woma n without children\, who wants one\, and in part raises those of another w oman. A stepmother without being a mother herself. As painfully commonplac e as male impotence\, this situation was nevertheless the starting point o f a story worthy of being told\, having hardly been told before."\n\n"Othe r People’s Children is romantic — tender\, sexy\, very French .... Wit h delicacy and with a sympathetic if unsentimental gaze\, Zlotowski has ga thered together the story’s seemingly disparate\, charming and aching pi eces ... and turned these fragments of life into a life\, one that’s as worth living as it is worth watching.” ~Manohla Darvis\, NYT\n\nHOST SPO NSOR\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/OTH ER-PEOPLES-CHILDREN_img6_72dpi.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1410@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230713T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230713T203500 DTSTAMP:20230619T193845Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/chile-76/ SUMMARY:Chile '76 DESCRIPTION:\n\nSet during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictators hip\, Chile ‘76 builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense t hriller as it explores one woman’s precarious flirtation with political engagement. Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) leads a sheltered upper middle class existence. She heads to her summer house in the off-season to supervise i ts renovation\, while also performing local charitable works through her c hurch. Her husband\, children\, and grandchildren come back and forth duri ng the winter vacation\, bringing reminders of the world beyond. When the family priest asks her to take care of an injured young man he has been sh eltering in secret\, Carmen is inadvertently drawn into the world of the C hilean political opposition and must face real-world threats she is unprep ared to handle\, with potentially disastrous consequences for her and her entire family.\n\nNY Times Critics Pick: "Chile ’76 is a sly genre exerc ise\, an example of how political repression can squeeze a domestic melodr ama until it takes the shape of a spy thriller."\n\n\n\n\n\n“Dazzling. W hat begins as a muted marital melodrama slowly boils into a restrained pol itical thriller\, with an ease and skill all the more impressive in a firs t feature.”~ Manuel Betancourt\, Variety\n\nHost Sponsor: \n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Chi le76_photo4-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1426@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230803T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230803T203000 DTSTAMP:20230620T204053Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/passages/ SUMMARY:Passages DESCRIPTION:Tomas (Franz Rogowski) and Martin (Ben Wishaw) are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsive ly begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe (Adéle Exar chopoulos). But when Martin begins an affair of his own\, Tomas must confr ont life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with. "Sa chs (Forty Shades of Blue\, Keep the Lights On) has previously shown a can ny knack for recognizing the often uncomfortable subtleties of relationshi ps [...]. Passages an eye-openingly explicit film\, with one gay sex scene that is the most unfettered I have seen in relatively mainstream cinema f or a long time\, but otherwise emotionally restrained" ~The Guardian\n\n* This screening has been adopted by Ravi Venkataraman from Burlington.\n\n& nbsp\;\n\nWatch trailer HERE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Pas sages.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1476@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230831T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230831T203000 DTSTAMP:20230829T193707Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/and-the-king-said/ SUMMARY:And the King Said\, What a Fantastic Machine DESCRIPTION:A visually exuberant documentary that dissects the history of i mage-making\, using a mind-boggling array of archival footage. From the bi rth of the camera obscura to the screening of the first moving picture and from the invention of the webcam to the first viral video\, this witty an d thought-provoking documentary chases the rise of image culture as we kno w it. By collaging historic archive material of great dictators parading i n front of cheering crowds with home videos\, live-streaming content and c lips of thrill-seekers hanging out at the top of a skyscraper\, or harrowi ng press photography exhibiting violence\, it offers an emblematic study o f cinema and the social history it creates: What are the implications of b eing exposed to the billions of images competing for our attention?\n\n&nb sp\;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/And theKingSaidWhataFantasticMachine.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1411@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230831T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230831T210000 DTSTAMP:20230615T141805Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/monthly-screening-2-copy-2-copy/ SUMMARY:Monthly Screening DESCRIPTION:Save the date. Film title to be announced closer to the time ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Mon thly-logo.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1427@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T210000 DTSTAMP:20231012T161900Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-films-of-orly-yadin/ SUMMARY:Serious Animation: The Films of Orly Yadin DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special event to celebrate former VTIFF Ex ecutive Director Orly Yadin. First\, we'll highlight Orly the filmmaker\, screening a selection of her own short films in the Film House. She'll pro vide the introductions. Then we'll step downstairs to our new space (!!!) at 60 Lake Street\, right next to Skinny Pancake\, where we invite you to enjoy some sweet treats and a cash bar. It's a great opportunity to say t hank you to Orly for her immense contribution to growing the film culture in our community. Pick up a 2023 VTIFF program guide as well\, check out o ur new in-progress space\, and meet new Executive Director\, Steve MacQue en. Be sure to book a ticket in advance\, as seating is limited.\n\n****** *****\n\nThis program is a selection of short animation films produced by Orly Yadin while living in London. Most of these films are animated docume ntaries – an approach to the telling of true stories and facts pioneered by various women animators in the 1980s. Orly will introduce the films. I f you're interested in the concept of documentary animation\, you may read /download a transcript of a lecture by Orly given at the Imperial War Muse um (London) for a conference about The Holocaust and the Moving Image.\n\n Blind Justice series - 1988\nA selection from a 30-minute series of 4 shor t films about women and the law\, based on real court cases in the UK – Produced by Orly Yadin\nSomeone Must Be Trusted\nDirected and animated by Christine Roche and Gillian Lacey\n7 mins 26 secs\nAn opera in 3 tragic ac ts\, portraying different aspects of discrimination against women – at h ome\, at work and in the courts\, through use of music and humor\nSome Pro tection\nDirected and animated by Marjut Rimminen\n10 mins\nBased on the t rue story of Josie O’Dwyer\, who was jailed for “her own protection” after being raped as a teenager. Using Josie’s own voice as personal co mmentary.\n***********\n\nThe Stain - 1991\nDirected and animated by Marju t Rimminen and Christine Roche\, produced by Orly Yadin\nInspired by a bri ef newspaper story about suicidal octogenarian twins. Uses a variety of an imation styles to spin a claustrophobic web of incest and intrigue. 1991\, 11 mins\n\n***********\n\nSilence - 1998\nWritten\, Directed and Produced by Orly Yadin and Sylvie Bringas\n(Short-listed for the Academy Awards)\n Animated documentary about a little girl holocaust survivor and her learne d and self-imposed silences. 1998\, 11 mins\n\n**********\n\nTreasure  se ries - 2002\nCo-produced by Orly Yadin\nAn episode from a 26-part satirica l series about a teenage girl as perceived through her mother’s eyes\nTh e Goldfish Murderer\nTreasure discovers that her goldfish are sick\, and w hile she manages to save them for a while\, an oddball friend of hers make s it all worse.  2001\, 10 mins\n**********\n\nOne Alcoholic to Another - 2011\nWritten\, Directed and Produced by Eleanor Lanahan and Orly Yadin\n Trailer for a 40-minute film about Vermont's history with alcohol ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/The -Stain01.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Shorts,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1475@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T213000 DTSTAMP:20231002T002036Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/noir/ SUMMARY:NIGHT OF NOIR: HANGOVER SQUARE & THEREMIN NOIR DESCRIPTION:This is quite the evening we have planned! Partnering for the f irst time with UVM's Lane Series\, we’ll open VTIFF with an exciting eve nt celebrating the sounds and images of film noir. We begin with a screeni ng of the seldom-seen 1945 noir film\, Hangover Square\, starring Laird Cr egar\, Linda Darnell\, and George Saunders and featuring a score by the gr eat Bernard Herrmann. After the film\, the exceptional trio Theremin Noir (Rob Schwimmer\, Theremin/Haken Continuum\; Sara Caswell\, violin\; Uri Ca in\, piano)\, will perform a live concert featuring the works of Herrmann including pieces from such unforgettable films as Marnie\, Vertigo\, and  Psycho\, as well as original works by these three masterful musicians.\n \nYour ticket includes entrance to the film\, beginning at 6pm\; a recepti on by Let's Pretend Catering following the film\, featuring hearty hors d ’oeuvres and a cash bar\, and the performance of Theremin Noir\, which w ill begin at 8:15.\n\nNOTE: This evening will not compete with the officia l Opening Night film of VTIFF at the Film House that will take place Satur day\, Oct 21.\n\n Laird Cregar and Linda Darnelle\n\nABOUT THE FILM AND TH E MUSIC SCORE\nBased on the novel Hangover Square\; or\, The Man with Two Minds by Patrick Hamilton\, the film depicts a turn of the century Engli sh composer\, who\, in the midst of writing a dark symphony\, also finds h imself suffering from intermittent blackouts. 20th Century-Fox found great popular and critical success with the release of the medium-budget thrill er The Lodger (1944)\, which won over audiences with its fog-shrouded\, turn-of-the-century London teeming with bawdy showgirls\, murder\, and an atmosphere of paranoia. The film was a showcase for Fox contract star Lair d Cregar\, who won acclaim for his brooding performance in the title role. Hangover Square (1945) is the follow-up film\, reuniting the director an d scenarist of The Lodger with Laird Cregar and co-star George Sanders\, with the addition of Linda Darnell.\nThe film’s score\, by the prolific and talented Bernard Herrmann\, was apparently known as "Concerto Macabre ”. Herrmann so enjoyed how director John Brahm used his score that he st ated that he “had photographed his music”. Music plays a crucial role in Hangover Square\, and the score became a showcase for Harrmann’s tal ent. The composer had always preferred to work during a film's production (as he had on two previous memorable occasions - for Orson Welles' Citize n Kane and William Dieterle's All That Money Can Buy [both 1941])\, and this project required an original concerto prior to shooting. In his book  A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann\, Steve n C. Smith describes the composer's use of repeating motifs to emphasize t he themes of the film: "Herrmann carefully establishes each thematic stran d in his score so that their ultimate presentation makes sense to us\, as well as to Bone onscreen.”\nOne fan of Hangover Square\, and of Herrman n's score in particular\, was a fifteen-year-old music student in New York named Stephen Sondheim. The future composer of Sweeny Todd wrote Herrma nn a letter in praise of the concerto and received a thank-you note in rep ly. Smith quotes Sondheim\, who recalls "I can still play the opening eigh t bars\, since they were glimpsed briefly on Laird Cregar's piano during t he course of the film\, and I dutifully memorized them by sitting through the picture twice."\nThe director Brahm marks the film immediately with a brutal murder from the point-of-view of the killer\, a London composer nam ed George Harvey Bone (Cregar) with the flourish of a startling subjective camera scene\, utilizing a range of closeups\, swooping camera moves and camera effects to work up a sense of delirium.\nThis is a psychological ch iller you won't soon forget.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/LAN E_FALL23_WEB_SQ_THERMIN_NOIR_POSTER_550x550.jpeg CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:UVM Recital Hall\, 384 South Prospect Street\,\, Burlington\, VT\, 05405\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=384 South Prospect Street\, \, Burlington\, VT\, 05405\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UVM Recital Hall:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1500@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T141500 DTSTAMP:20231010T140230Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/flood/ SUMMARY:AFTER THE FLOOD DESCRIPTION:Will the flood that caused so much damage in Vermont in July ha ppen again\, and what can be done to mitigate the danger? This special fes tival event will present a short video from Vermont Public depicting the d amage of the flood in the Montpelier area and its impact on residents and business owners\, followed by a panel of conservation experts from The Nat ure Conservancy\, exploring what we can do to prevent it in the future.\n\ nThe Panel will be moderated by Eve Frankel\, State Director at the Nature Conservancy VT and with panelists Dr. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux\, Vermont State Climatologist and TNC Vermont Advisory Council Member\, as well as Lauren Oates\, Director of Policy and Governmental Affairs.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nT he event is free\, but all donations to this event will go to support the reconstruction of The Savoy Theater in Montpelier\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Aft er-the-Flood.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1531@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T144500 DTSTAMP:20231013T203943Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-tuba-thieves/ SUMMARY:THE TUBA THIEVES DESCRIPTION:Taking a surprising string of tuba thefts at high schools acros s California as its jumping-off point\, The Tuba Thieves embarks on an inv entive and engaging cinematic rumination on sound\, deafness\, and visual language. Open Captions are present throughout\, translating language\, bo th spoken and signed\, and decoding the soundscape with deft\, evocative d escriptions. Urban noise\, the crackle of wildfires\, and the hum of machi nery are just as central to the film’s ambient palette as character and story. There is the felt sense that The Tuba Thieves is aiming to break th rough cinema’s sound barrier. ~TW\n“A complex\, enigmatic look at the impact of sound on day-to-day life and what happens when it’s removed fr om the picture — the theft\, in essence\, happens within the language of the movie itself. ~ Eric Kohn\, Indiewire\n\nNote: *Everyone in the audie nce will have the opportunity to hold a latex balloon during the screening . This technique is a throwback to the tradition of Deaf moviegoers who wo uld gather in Deaf clubs in the 1950s and 60s and hold balloons while watc hing films together. The latex membrane of the balloon is another form of access—a second speaker—for the audience to feel the soundtrack. Sound waves travel through the air into the surface of the balloon\, enabling t he audience to access a huge range of vibrations\, from the tiny sensitive sounds to deeper sub-bass frequencies. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/the tubathieves_nyke_landscape_02.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1483@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T180000 DTSTAMP:20231013T205720Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/about-dry-grasses/ SUMMARY:ABOUT DRY GRASSES (KURU OTLAR ÜSTÜNE) DESCRIPTION:Like us\, you may think that most films are far too long. About Dry Grasses is an exception: it is tense\, engrossing\, and full of ideas and contradictions\, with subtle writing and performances that fully just ify its length. Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep\, Once Upon a Tim e in Anatolia\, The Wild Pear Tree) may be the most important Turkish dire ctor of the past few decades and in About Dry Grasses he proves this once again.  Ceylan has created a talkative and often discomforting tale of a small-town art teacher\, his 12-year-old female student\, and an accusatio n of impropriety that might be false on its surface\, but is rooted in tru ths the camera sees. A ravishingly cinematic piece of work revolving aroun d a complex central character\, a cynical\, manipulative monster of a high -school art teacher whose spiritual and moral void is revealed gradually i n a series of masterful brushstrokes. ~OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Abo ut-Dry-Grasses-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1481@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T174500 DTSTAMP:20231010T135531Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/20000-species-of-bees1/ SUMMARY:20\,000 SPECIES OF BEES (20\,000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS) DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSATURDAY\, OCT 28 | 3:45 PM | BB\n\nSet in Basqu e country\, this is a most wonderful\, sensitive\, delicate film\, portray ing in a complex way relationships among a multigenerational extended fami ly.  20\,000 Species of Bees gives each of the (mainly) women in the fami ly enough screen time for us to get to know them. One of the young ones is an 8-year-old male by birth\, girl by self-identification. But the film d oesn’t assert itself as an issue drama — in large part because\, as So laguren presents the protagonist’s gradual steps toward self-realization \, her film doesn’t see much of a problem to begin with.  Great Aunt Lo urde\, a solitary bee-keeper\, tells the child that there are 20\,000 spec ies of bees – all of them good. The performances are uniformly complex a nd believable. This is a remarkable\, tender fiction feature debut for the director and a fascinating portrait of a diverse group of women. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/200 00-Species-of-Bees-01.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1527@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T211500 DTSTAMP:20231014T215517Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-taste-of-things/ SUMMARY:THE TASTE OF THINGS (LA PASSION DE DODIN-BOUFFANT) DESCRIPTION:*** Opening Night film at the Film House ***\n\nTràn Anh Hùng ’s (The Scent of Green Papaya) lush gastronomy-themed romance\, starring Juliet Binoche and Benoît Magimel won best director at Cannes Film Festi val this year and is competing with Anatomy of a Fall for France’s submi ssions to the 2024 Academy Awards. This sensorial film\, set in late-19th century France\, opens with a mouthwatering cooking sequence that runs nea rly 40 minutes and portrays a slow-burning romance with a minimalist plot. Yet\, Hùng\, best known for his Cannes Camera d’or-winner The Scent of Green Papaya\, tells Variety: “What was important to me was not to make a film about gastronomy. It was more about the filmmaking challenge that gastronomy presented. The idea was to weave gastronomy into a love story a nd see how a man and a woman who share the same passion for the culinary a rt and have lived together for over 25 years form this spiritual bond. I w anted to choreograph the cooking in a cinematic way so that it would becom e magnificent\, like a ballet.” As Travis Weedon\, a VTIFF programmer wr ote: “A romance of such delicacy and sumptuousness is a rare specimen th ese days. Every frame\, from the first to the last\, bespeaks care and aff ection.” VTIFF programmer Holly Cluse noted: “Sensual\, delicious\, me smerizing. the last sentence of dialogue -- perfect. Can't wait to see it again with Charles…” ~OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Tas te-of-Things-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1536@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T120000 DTSTAMP:20231010T141602Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/family-films/ SUMMARY:Family Films DESCRIPTION:A PROGRAM OF SHORT FILMS\n\nSuitable for 5 and up - 60 min tota l\n\n* This event is free for all but advance booking is recommended\n\nTH E FOX AND THE PIGEON\, Canada\, Directed by Chelsea van Tol\, Tyler Pacan a\, Matt Walton\, Morgan Thompson\, Sharon Gabriella\, Viktor Ivanovski\, Sang Lee\nThe Fox and the Pigeon feel the need to fit in – but aren’t they interesting enough\, just the way they are?\n\nBLEWISH\, USA\, Direct ed by Ezra Edmond\nWhen Ezra’s classmates are confused that he’s both Black and Jewish (Blewish)\, Ezra gets frustrated\, and decides to hide hi s Jewish identity to avoid more awkward conversations about it. But when h e meets two other Blewish kids\, he finally begins to embrace his whole id entity\, and decides to throw a party with them!\n\nBALLOOM\, Canada\, Dir ected by Kayla Borecky\nA clown struggles to accept the inevitable demise of his balloon animals\, but with the help of those around him\, he gains a new perspective that helps him appreciate the present and accept the nat ure of change.\n\nT-REX\, Germany\, Directed by Julia Ocker\nSadly\, the T -Rex is very bad at playing basketball.\n\nMEL FELL\, USA\, Directed by Ga len Fott\nOne day\, when Mama bird is away\, Mel decides it’s time to le arn to fly. She’s been in the nest long enough. Despite the fears of her cautious siblings\, Mel takes to the sky…and plummets! A host of tree-d welling animals try to intervene\, but Mel remains committed to mastering the art of flight.\n\nPETE\, USA\, Directed by Brett Parker\nPete is an a nimated short film based on a true story about gender identity\, little le ague baseball\, the people who inspire change by trying to be themselves\, and the superheroes who allow that change to happen.\n\nSPIRIT OF THE FOR EST\, Indonesia\, Directed by Daud Nugraha\nA young girl learns to respect the land after stumbling into a sacred grove with ancient secrets.\n\nWIN TER IN A DAY\, USA\, Directed by Liddy Salter\nThis animated short follows two best friends\, Bear and Fox\, and the adventures they have on the las t day before Bear’s hibernation. Bear dreams of one day experiencing win ter and is sad to be missing it once again. With the help of some friends\ , Fox creates winter in a day for Bear.\n\nBATTLE OF THE CENTURY\, USA\, D irected by Clyde Bruckman\, Produced and written by Hal Roach\n Silent sho rt film from 1927 starring double act Laurel and Hardy. A scheming fight m anager attempts to collect insurance on his puny fighter by causing an acc ident. Things don't go according to plan\, and the situation escalates int o a pie-throwing battle of epic proportions. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/fam ily-films.png CATEGORIES:Kid Friendly,Pass/10Pack,Shorts LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1486@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T134500 DTSTAMP:20231021T232422Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/all-you-hear-is-noise1/ SUMMARY:ALL YOU HEAR IS NOISE DESCRIPTION:*SUNDAY\, OCT 22  SOLD OUT\, Join the waiting list at the VTIF F Box Office\, 11:15am\,  one hour before screening.*\n\nAlso Showing:\nT UESDAY\, OCT 24 | 11:45  AM | FH\n\nNote: In 2021\, VTIFF hosted a work-i n-progress of this film\, the filmmakers soliciting feedback from our audi ence. Two years later\, we’re proud to present the finished film after i ts premiere earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. \n\nAll You H ear is Noise centers the stories of three people navigating life with inte llectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Trent Hampton\, Melanie Ho lmes\, and Chris Wines travel to the United Arab Emirates to compete in th e Special Olympics World Games\, an inclusive and progressive environment for them to be in\, but upon returning home are reminded of the struggles they face in their daily lives\, including barriers to employment\, relati onships\, and more. While the story is built around an athletic journey\, the messaging of the film subverts the tropes (e.g. inspiration porn\, sup ercrip\, etc.) that dominate representation of people with I/DD in the med ia – especially in conjunction with storytelling around the Special Olym pics. ~OY\n\n***Followed by an in-person Q&\;A with the filmmakers and participants at both screenings***\n\n***Tuesday’s screening is a sensor y-friendly presentation*** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ALL -YOU-HEAR-IS-NOISE-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1530@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T140000 DTSTAMP:20231013T201854Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/totem/ SUMMARY:TOTEM DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize 2023 at the Berlin Internat ional Film Festival\n\nMexican director Lila Avilés’ marvelous second f eature unfolds over a single day\, as a large extended family throws a rau cous\, lavish birthday party for one of its own. But seen through the eyes of 8-year-old Sol (sensational newcomer Naima Senties)\, the joys\, smile s and hugs of the party mask a deeper sorrow. Despite a large cast\, Avile s draws each character in exquisite\, compassionate detail\, from the booz ing sister to the pained father\, frequently finding their loneliness with in the crowd. The film’s golden glow\, the layered family dynamics\, and perfectly calibrated performances create a luminous portrait of a  lovin g family poised on the edge of grief. It’s the kind of brilliantly obser ved film in which a pause before blowing out birthday candles carries the immense emotional weight of revelation. - SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TOT EM_Stills-1-KEY-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1489@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T153000 DTSTAMP:20231015T015103Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-art-of-subtitling/ SUMMARY:THE ART OF SUBTITLING DESCRIPTION:This event is free but advance booking is recommended\n\n"An im portant part of film restoration today is the one most overlooked: subtitl ing.  Subtitles\, introduced in the US in the early 1930s\, were first ad ded sparsely to foreign films\, the belief being that people didn’t go t o the movies to read. In recent years\, new technology has allowed them to be sharper than ever\, both visually and textually. Bruce Goldstein\, fou nder of Rialto Pictures\, gives a fascinating history of translation and subtitling in the movies and his own insights as subtitle editor of over 5 0 classic films\, including The Battle of Algiers\, Breathless\, Grand I llusion\, Nights of Cabiria\, The White Shiek\, the original Japanese  Godzilla\, and Julien Duvivier’s French film noir classic Panique (scr eening later today at Film House).\n\n\n\nAbout Bruce Goldstein\nBruce Gol dstein is the founder and co-president of Rialto Pictures\, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “the gold standard of classic film distributors\ ,” and founding repertory artistic director of New York’s Film Forum\, which\, under his direction\, has premiered virtually every major film re storation of the past 38 years.  Goldstein has also personally curated ov er 500 retrospectives and festivals\, many of which have been emulated aro und the world.  His work as a producer and filmmaker has been seen on HBO Max\, the Criterion Channel\, and TCM\, as well as at TCM’s annual Cla ssic Film Festival in Hollywood. Goldstein has been decorated with the Fre nch order of “Chevalier” and has received lifetime achievement award s from Anthology Film Archives\, George Eastman Museum\, and the San Fran cisco Film Festival\, as well as a special award from the New York Film Cr itics Circle for “visionary film programming."  Earlier this year\,   the Museum of Modern Art in New York honored Rialto Pictures with a 30-fil m 25th anniversary retrospective.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/THE -RT-OF-SUBTITLING.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1506@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T160000 DTSTAMP:20231022T174652Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hummingbirds/ SUMMARY:HUMMINGBIRDS DESCRIPTION:*SOLD OUT\, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office\, 1:3 0pm\,  one hour before screening.*\n\nSilvia Del Carmen Castaños and Est efanía “Beba” Contreras are both the directors and subjects of the pl ayful documentary Hummingbirds\, which chronicles a summer of singalongs\, hangouts\, activism\, bar-hopping and lots of goofing around in the borde r town of Laredo\, Texas. The solidarity between the two friends – who w ere 18 and 21\, respectively\, when the film was shot in the summer of 201 9 – is palpable and real\, and the movie is joyous mostly because it’s just so damn fun to hang out with these two. There’s a melancholy under tow at work here\, too\, with plenty of introspection to go along with the hijinx\, as Silvia deals with the immigration process\, and the two of th em confront the stresses ahead of future adulthood. Ultimately\, the film is a testament to the power of true friendship in facing an uncertain worl d. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hum mingbirds-Bingo-Silvia-Del-Carmen-Castanos-L-Estefania-Beba-Contreras-R.pn g CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1518@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T180000 DTSTAMP:20231017T140141Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/panique/ SUMMARY:PANIQUE DESCRIPTION:"If I were an architect and I had to build a monument to the ci nema\," wrote Jean Renoir\, "I would place a statue of Julien Duvivier abo ve the entrance." Duvivier made 70 films between 1919 and 1967\, many of t hem landmarks of French cinema. His first postwar project\, a noir adaptat ion of Georges Simenon's “Mr. Hire's Engagement” (later adapted by Pat rice Leconte as Monsieur Hire)\, stars Michel Simon as a reviled voyeur fr amed for a murder by the girl he adores. “Seeing it today in a beautiful ly modulated print should send shivers through audiences already worried a bout mob rule\, enforced conformity\, and a willingness to pin blame on an yone different” (Michael Sragow).\n\n*** Pierre Simenon\, son of Georges \, will introduce the film\, and the screening will be followed by an in-p erson conversation with Mr. Simenon and Bruce Goldstein\, founder and co-P resident of Rialto Pictures *** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Pan ique2.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1492@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T211500 DTSTAMP:20231021T232230Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/la-chimera/ SUMMARY:LA CHIMERA DESCRIPTION:*SOLD OUT\, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office\, 6pm \,  one hour before screening.*\n\nAlice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro)\, one of the most important contemporary independent filmmakers\, conjures a magical\, hilarious\, romantic adventure set in a rural Italy eternally c aught between the ancient and the modern. Josh O’Connor (The Crown) star s as Arthur\, a ne’er-do well Englishman\, handsomely rumpled and recent ly out of prison\, who returns to a rural town in central Italy where he h esitantly reconnects with a ragtag group of tombaroli (tomb raiders)\, for whom he uses his uncanny powers of divination to locate graves that date back to the Etruscan period and teem with antiquities of immense value to collectors and museums. With fantastic choreography\, cinematography\, sou nd design\, music and performances\, Rohrwacher works as a magician who al so has no fear of occasionally breaking the fourth wall. ~OY\n\n*** Preced ed by 6pm reception sponsored by VICA *** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/LA- CHIMERA2.-Courtesy-of-NEON.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1488@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T204500 DTSTAMP:20231013T201351Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/animalia/ SUMMARY:ANIMALIA (PARMIS NOUS) DESCRIPTION:Itto (Oumaïma Barid) is pregnant and alone\, and all the money from her husband’s rich family can’t seem to save her. In the rural c ountryside of Morocco an extraterrestrial phenomenon is taking place\, and the structures that have governed society and protected the wealthy and p rivileged matter little now. Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Special J ury Prize for Creative Vision at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival\, this de but feature from French-Moroccan director Sofia Alaoui imagines grand them es with modest means. Amongst sweeping desert vistas and spectacular set p ieces\, the film locates the tense and thrilling story of one resilient wo man as things fall apart and a new center must be found. ~TW ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ANI MALIA.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1528@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T151500 DTSTAMP:20231013T201251Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tori-and-lokita1/ SUMMARY:TORI AND LOKITA DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nFRIDAY\, OCT 27 | 7:15 PM | BB\n\nShowing us the human toll of an inhumane system\, Tori and Lokita is another social-real ist gem from the masters of the form\, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Full of heart and indignant fury\, the film follows 11-year-old Tori (Pablo Sch ils) and 16-year-old Lokita (Joely Mbundu)\, undocumented immigrants who h ave left Cameroon and Benin\, respectively\, for a new life in Belgium. Bu t the undocumented life is brutal\, and they are mercilessly exploited\, h arassed and threatened from all sides. Their saving grace is each other. T he duo’s friendship is profound and deeply beautiful\, a thing of value that somehow exists despite a corrupt\, evil system that seeks to monetize their misery. Both leads are non-professional actors\, and they are treme ndous.  The filmmakers’ worldview is famously bleak yet compassionate\, and this harrowing\, heartbreaking but oh-so-human film is one of their v ery best. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tor iandlokita1.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1484@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T154500 DTSTAMP:20231013T201059Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/all-dirt-roads-taste-of-salt/ SUMMARY:ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT DESCRIPTION:Mud between the fingers. The murmur of locusts\, frogs and cric kets. The pregnant air of an oncoming storm. The warmth of summer sun. The caress of a lover’s hand. Rain on the skin. \n\nRaven Jackson’s stag gering feature debut evokes the texture of memories\, as she lyrically yet vividly tells the story of Mack\, a woman in rural Mississippi dealing wi th life’s struggles\, joys and secrets over several decades. Eschewing s tandard chronology and mostly dialogue-free\, this poetic and beautifully crafted portrait heralds the arrival of an artist with a deeply assured vi sion. Aided by Jomo Fray’s gorgeous cinematography and a number of subtl e\, powerful and largely wordless performances\, Jackson creates a univers e that you can see\, feel\, touch\, smell. It’s both an immersive experi ence and a remarkable film. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/All -Dirt-Roads-Taste-of-Salt-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1503@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T180000 DTSTAMP:20231013T202432Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/goodbye-julia/ SUMMARY:GOODBYE JULIA DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSATURDAY | OCT 28 | 1:15 PM | BB\n\nWinner of th e Freedom Prize at Cannes’ un Certain Regard\, this striking debut featu re from Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani deftly balances the personal and political\, keeping the characters front and center while illuminating how political strife can make enemies from friends. Taking place just pri or to the 2011 secession of South Sudan\, Goodbye Julia tells the story of Mona\, a young Northern Sudanese woman in a tense marriage\, whose action s lead to the murder of a South Sudanese man\, a crime for which the only repercussions are the rumblings of Mona’s conscience. In an attempt to m ake amends\, she becomes friends with the victim’s widow\, but\, inevita bly\, the country’s political turmoil forces a personal reckoning. Don ’t come late: more happens in the first 13 minutes of this film than hap pens in a lot of double-features. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Goo dbye-Julia02.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1505@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T180000 DTSTAMP:20231010T142140Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/here/ SUMMARY:HERE DESCRIPTION:Bas Devos’ latest is set in Brussels\, where a Romanian const ruction worker (Stefan Gota) cooks soup\, then meets a Chinese doctoral st udent (Liyo Gong) who studies mosses. They meet once in a restaurant\, the n again in the woods. People drop in and out\, there’s no real cause and effect\, and the movie develops its own exquisite dream-logic in place of a traditional narrative. But it all works beautifully. For Devos\, it’s not words that convey meaning\, but everything else\, which is why the em phasis here is on the exquisite cinematography (Grimm Vandekerckhove) and the intricate sound design (Boris Debackere). Working together\, they crea te an effect that is truly immersive. If you can be present to the gentle movement and minute observations of Here\, miracles are possible. ~SM\n\n\ n *** Preceded by Pedro Costa’s magnificent 8-minute short Daughters of Fire (As Filhas do Fogo). Set against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean i sland of Cape Verde\, the film follows three sisters who are separated by the eruption of the local Fogo Volcano. *** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Her e_still_5s-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1519@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T210000 DTSTAMP:20231022T150704Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/perfect-days/ SUMMARY:PERFECT DAYS DESCRIPTION:*SOLD OUT\, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office\, 6pm \,  one hour before screening.*\n\nWenders has crafted a film of deceptiv e simplicity\, depicting the story of Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho)\, who seems utterly content with the daily routine of his life as a cleaner of toilet s in Tokyo. “Like Groundhog Days”\, says Wenders\, “but whereas Bill Murray tries to escape the repetitive nature of his existence\, Hirayama embraces it. In Japanese culture\, in pottery for example\, there is an em phasis on the nobility of the process - the potter’s secret is doing it for the first time each time\, and for our man\, Hirayama\, it’s the sam e. Each day\, he’s doing it for the first time.”  Who he is remains c inematically intriguing\, as the film spends its latter half slowly unrave ling what lies beneath his veneer of contentment with a series of unexpect ed encounters. Outside of his very structured daily routine Hirayama enjoy s his passion for music and  books. The memorable soundtrack includes Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” – the inspiration for the film’s title. We nders observes the tiny details of a routine existence with such clarity\, soulfulness and empathy that they build a cumulative emotional power almo st without you noticing. A deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us. ~OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Per fectDays.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1515@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T210000 DTSTAMP:20231013T201644Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/orlando-my-political-biography1/ SUMMARY:ORLANDO\, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (ORLANDO\, MA BIOGRAPHIE POLITIQUE ) DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nFRIDAY\, OCT 27 |  2:15 PM | BB\n\n*Winner -Spe cial Jury Award Encounters Section\, Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film \, Special Jury Mention Documentary Award - 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. \n\nWriter\, philosopher\, and now filmmaker\, Paul B. Preciad o’s newest work is poetic in form and function. Hybridizing literary ada ptation with modes of fiction and nonfiction filmmaking\, Preciado uses Vi rginia Woolf’s 1928 century-spanning\, gender-bending romance\, Orlando: A Biography\, as a template for the modern trans experience. Interlacing passages from the novel with contemporary testimonies\, including the film maker’s own\, the film fashions its focus on “gender poets\,” those whose lives transcend the bounds of binary expression. Preciado’s cast o f contemporary Orlandos offer intimate access and playful insight into the ir experiences with hormones\, gender-affirming care\, institutional erasu re\, and the political positioning of trans-people subjected to a normativ e regime. No two stories are the same\, and\, yet\, somehow Woolf’s fant astical biography contains them all. ~TW ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Orl ando-3.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1535@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T133000 DTSTAMP:20231012T142439Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/all-you-hear-is-noise2/ SUMMARY:ALL YOU HEAR IS NOISE DESCRIPTION:Also Showing:\nSUNDAY\, OCT 22 | 12:15  PM | FH\n\nNote: In 20 21\, VTIFF hosted a work-in-progress of this film\, the filmmakers solicit ing feedback from our audience. Two years later\, we’re proud to present the finished film after its premiere earlier this year at the Tribeca Fil m Festival. \n\nAll You Hear is Noise centers the stories of three people navigating life with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Trent Hampton\, Melanie Holmes\, and Chris Wines travel to the United Arab Emirates to compete in the Special Olympics World Games\, an inclusive an d progressive environment for them to be in\, but upon returning home are reminded of the struggles they face in their daily lives\, including barri ers to employment\, relationships\, and more. While the story is built aro und an athletic journey\, the messaging of the film subverts the tropes (e .g. inspiration porn\, supercrip\, etc.) that dominate representation of p eople with I/DD in the media – especially in conjunction with storytelli ng around the Special Olympics. ~OY\n\n***Followed by an in-person Q&\; A with the filmmakers and participants at both screenings***\n\n***Tuesday ’s screening is a sensory-friendly presentation*** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ALL -YOU-HEAR-IS-NOISE-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1485@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T160000 DTSTAMP:20231015T201350Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/all-governments-lie/ SUMMARY:ALL GOVERNMENTS LIE: Truth\, Deception\, and the Spirit of I.F. Sto ne DESCRIPTION:An urgent and fascinating documentary. Even if you belong to th e choir it’s preaching to\, it has the rare distinction of being a film you can agree and argue with at the same time. I.F. Stone\, a trend-settin g investigative journalist\, was highly influential through his self-publi shed newsletter\, I.F. Stone’s Weekly. He tweaked and railed against the sins of the U.S. government and the mainstream media. Stone didn’t call government officials\, and wasn’t even accredited to attend a White Hou se press conference. Instead\, he went into back rooms and pored through d ocuments and transcripts to learn what was really going on.  In the film\ , Michael Moore compares Stone to Toto in The Wizard of Oz\, tugging back the curtain to reveal the power elite hiding behind their image of authori ty. The film is mostly devoted to the pluck and courage of his present-day inheritors such as Laura Poitras\, Amy Goodman\, Glenn Greenwald among ot hers – all of whom are carrying on the tradition of renegade muckraking that Stone almost single-handedly put on the map in the postwar era. Direc tor Fred Peabody\, whose film The Corporate Coup D’Etat was shown at VTI FF in 2020\, succeeds in creating a lively film that suggests that I.F. St one’s kind of fearless reporting has not disappeared but may be gaining traction. ~OY\n\n\n*** Followed by Q&\;A with the director Fred Peabody and with the co-producer Jeff Cohen*** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/All -Governments-Lie.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1493@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T154500 DTSTAMP:20231014T215628Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-crime-is-mine1/ SUMMARY:THE CRIME IS MINE (MON CRIME) DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nTHURSDAY | OCT 26 | 4:15 PM | FH\n\nA seeming tr ifle of a comedy that manages to be subversive\, feminist\, utterly amoral \, and completely delightful\, Francois Ozon’s The Crime Is Mine embrace s\, in the words of its director\, “the triumph of sorority.” In 1935 Paris\, debt-ridden actress Madeline (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) rebuffs a lasci vious producer\, who ends up dead. Accused of the crime and defended by he r lawyer/roommate Pauline (Rebecca Marder)...well\, why give away too much ? The mid-film appearance of Isabelle Huppert as the Cruella-DeVille-ish a ctress Odette Chaumette is a gift from the movie gods. According to Ozon\, the movie’s influences include Truffaut’s The Last Metro\, Blake Edwa rds’ Victor/Victoria\, and the elegant comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and Je an Renoir. The era – at least\, the movie version of that era – is sum ptuously recreated through its sets\, props and costumes. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/THE -CRIME-IS-MINE-01-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1479@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T180000 DTSTAMP:20231010T140056Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/afire1/ SUMMARY:AFIRE (ROTER HIMMEL) DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nWEDNESDAY\, OCT 25 | 7:15 PM | BB\n\nIn Christia n Petzold’s (Phoenix\; Transit) newest romance\, fires ravage the countr yside while passions amongst a group of young people smolder at a vacation hideaway. Over a hot\, dry summer\, two friends decamp to the seaside: on e to finish his novel\, and the other to complete his photography portfoli o. An initially elusive houseguest awaits them there\, Nadja (Paula Beer)\ , who makes love noisily in the night and leaves a messy kitchen in the mo rning. The close quarters of the three ignites feelings of insecurity\, lu st\, joy\, and even love. In the distance\, forest fires burn\, encroachin g ever closer on their summer getaway. The scorching second installment to Petzold’s “Elements Trilogy\,” after his watery Undine (2021)\, is a humorous\, biting send-up of artistic self-involvement and intellectual pretensions\, set within the loose and sultry atmosphere of a summer holid ay but throbbing with the urgency of impending annihilation. ~TW ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AFI RE_Still1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1501@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T180000 DTSTAMP:20231013T203038Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fremont/ SUMMARY:FREMONT DESCRIPTION:This modest B&\;W film packs quite a punch. Donya (Anaita Wa li Zada) is a 20-something Afghan immigrant living in the “Little Kabul ” of Fremont\, California. She’s having trouble sleeping and her solit ary existence finds her working at a fortune-cookie company and watching s oap operas as she dines alone at a local restaurant. Director Babak Jalali infuses his tale with warmth and humor\, and he’s helped by newcomer Za da\, herself an Afghan immigrant\, who anchors the film with her note-perf ect performance. Populated by a cast of quirky\, unique characters – inc luding The Bear himself\, Jeremy Allen White – Fremont is an ode to the curious beauty of building a new life in a strange land. ~SM\n“Showing h umor in situations that are bleak doesn’t underplay the seriousness or d epth of a story but\, rather\, it can add layers to the sense of realism. As the saying goes: ‘He who cries only has one pain. But he who laughs h as a thousand and one pains…” – director Babak Jalali. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Fre mont_still6_300dpi-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1539@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T190000 DTSTAMP:20231020T154917Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vpc-reception/ SUMMARY:Vermont Production Collective Reception DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin us for special happy hour sponsored by the Vermont Pro duction Collective.\n\nVPC was established in 2021 by working professional s\, to support established and aspiring artists in film production and rel ated fields. We exist to facilitate collaboration\, mentorships\, network ing\, and more.\n\nVPC amplifies and promotes the work already happening in Vermont while supporting the continued growth and development of the cr eative industries here.\n\nRepresentatives on the Board of VPC will be at the reception to tell us more about the important work they do. CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1499@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T204500 DTSTAMP:20231024T142303Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fallen-leaves/ SUMMARY:FALLEN LEAVES (KUOLLEET LEHDET) DESCRIPTION:Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre\; The Other Side of Hope) presents a playful working-class love story where companionship is the only respite f rom the grimness of life. Ansa (Alma Pöysti) and Holappa (Jussi Vatanen) both have their troubles keeping down a job. Holappa takes to the bottle o n and off work\; Ansa relaxes at home as her radio reports on the latest a trocities happening in Kiev. A chance meeting between the two loners leads to a romance deferred\, again and again and again. In the quiet space of their longing and connection\, Kaurismäki slips in a steady stream of dea dpan gags\, always finding levity in the heaviness\, reprieve in the burde n\, for a kind of barebones romantic comedy that sneaks up on you with its heart and humor. ~TW. Fallen Leaves won the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival\, and is Finland's entry to the 2024 Academy Awards. \n\n\n *** Preceded by the newly restored 1927 classic Laurel and Hardy 17 minute short The Battle of the Century - undoubtedly the best pie fight you will ever see *** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FAL LEN-LEAVES-3.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1477@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T204500 DTSTAMP:20231024T135302Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/26-2-to-life1/ SUMMARY:26.2 TO LIFE DESCRIPTION:*TUESDAY\, OCT 24 SOLD OUT\, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office\, 6:15pm\,  one hour before screening.*\n\nAlso showing:\nFRI DAY\, OCT 27 | 4:15 PM | FH\n\nHow do you find meaning and purpose when yo u’re serving life without parole? For a group of lifers in San Quentin P rison\, you just keep running. In Christine Yoo’s award-winning document ary 26.2 To Life\, we meet the men of the 1000 Mile Club\, the prison’s long-distance running group. Every November\, they run the San Quentin Pri son Marathon – 105 grueling laps through a crowded prison yard. It’s n ot about winning\, or running the best time – it’s about making the mo st of a chance to be defined by something more than their crimes.  While the film takes place in a grim universe – nearly all the action occurs i nside San Quentin – it’s ultimately an inspirational story that offers a glimpse into the lives of men navigating an impossible-to-imagine fate to find redemption and\, maybe\, some kind of freedom. ~SM\n\n\n*** Follow ed by in-person Q&\;A with the director (Friday screening only) *** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/26. 2.To-Life-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1490@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T144500 DTSTAMP:20231013T203730Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/between-the-rains/ SUMMARY:BETWEEN THE RAINS DESCRIPTION:Winner\, Best Documentary\, Tribeca Festival 2023\nWinner\, Bes t Cinematography in a Documentary Feature\, Tribeca Festival 2023\n\nDocum enting the Turkana-Ngaremara community as they contend with prolonged drou ght\, this visually stunning coming-of-age story follows a young\, orphane d man’s journey to adapt to radically changing climate conditions in Nor thern Kenya. Kolei\, the film’s primary subject\, must grapple with pers onal tragedies alongside complex tribal conflicts brought on by environmen tal catastrophes in his pastoral region. With these mounting communal tens ions and rapidly shifting culture\, the threat of climate change is not ju st a looming notion but a present reality. By threading interpersonal scen es with sweeping landscape cinematography\, this documentary provides an i ntimate look at a vulnerable population fighting to bridge tradition with new circumstances. The visceral\, near-consuming anxieties of the sensitiv e Kolei contextualize how global crisis affects individuals. Through this lens\, the film lays a framework for a collective reckoning on how to stri ve with the ecological perils shaping the world and eventually facing us a ll. ~Shakira Refos\, Tribeca FF\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/BET WEEN_THE_RAINS-01-Clean-16x9-1.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1507@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T154500 DTSTAMP:20231013T202741Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/joan-baez-i-am-a-noise1/ SUMMARY:JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSATURDAY\, OCT 28 | 7:15 PM | BB\n\nEven if you ’re a fan of Joan Baez and have been following her career for decades\, there are plenty of surprises in the new doc from directors Miri Navasky\, Karen O’Connor and Maeve O’Boyle.  An unusually intimate entry into the popular-song-biopic sweepstakes\, I Am a Noise deftly navigates the pr ofessional and personal\, covering her career from folk-goddess to activis t to Bob Dylan collaborator and\, finally\, as an icon on her farewell tou r. There’s more than enough musical history and archival footage to make a case for Baez as a legend. But it’s the personal stuff that startles – she digs deep on her family\, particularly her (and her sister Mimi’ s) innate darkness and unwillingness to be happy. The final third of the f ilm goes way beyond what we expect from the average rock-star bio\, stunni ng us (and Baez) with her unearthed family legacy. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Joa n-Baez-2.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1517@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T180000 DTSTAMP:20231013T202953Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/our-body/ SUMMARY:OUR BODY (NOTRE CORPS) DESCRIPTION:The French director Claire Simon was making a film about a Pari s hospital when she found out she had cancer. So she became a character in her own film. “I had to film a lot of naked women\,” Simon says in a recent interview. “Then I was naked\, too\, and I was just like them. Th is changed my point of view entirely\; it helped me cope and be calm in th e face of my own sickness.” Simon assembles intimate patient-doctor cons ultations and surgical procedures into something like a volume of short st ories\, with a clear sense that there’s been a dialog between the filmma ker and the subject.. She observes the everyday operations of the gynecolo gical ward and in the process\, she questions what it means to live in a w oman’s body\, filming the diversity\, singularity and beauty of patients in all stages of life. Through these many encounters\, the specific fears \, desires and struggles of these individuals become the health challenges we all face\, even the filmmaker herself. One of France's premier nonfict ion filmmakers\, Claire Simon’s work as a writer\, director\, and cinema tographer is rooted in the “direct cinema” teachings of the Ateliers V aran\, a documentary training program founded by Jean Rouch. ~OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/OUR -BODY-3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1511@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T180000 DTSTAMP:20231013T201948Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/limbo1/ SUMMARY:LIMBO DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSUNDAY\, OCT 29 | 3:15 PM | FH\n\nIn this gritty \, downbeat\, Outback noir\, detective Travis Hurley (Simon Baker of The M entalist\, unrecognizable) arrives in the town of Limbo to investigate the cold-case murder of a local Indigenous girl 20 years earlier. The murder investigation moves slowly\, since director Ivan Sen is focusing more on t he atmosphere (like any good noir). Loaded with interesting characters who have little to lose\, this visually distinctive work is shot in striking monochrome B&\;W and set in a rarely seen part of rural Australia - roc ky\, dusty\, foreboding – where people live in spaces carved out of the earth. Sen handles the writing\, cinematography\, editing\, music and visu al effects\, which may account for the uncanny unity of concept and execut ion. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Lim bo-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1498@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T210000 DTSTAMP:20231017T180204Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/esther-made-me-gay/ SUMMARY:ESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY DESCRIPTION:Cultural anthropologist and proud lesbian Esther Newton was yea rs ahead of her time when she studied Midwestern drag shows in the 1960’ s. A pathbreaking cultural anthropologist\, dog-agility enthusiast\, and i conic butch lesbian\, Esther Newton is now entering her eighth decade writ ing about queer communities. Inspired by Margaret Mead and Gertrude Stein\ , Newton forged a path for queer studies in academia\, her life’s work i nfluencing generations of activists and scholars. In a light and fluid sty le\, the film tells her story\, of awakening to gay life in the 1950’s\, the women’s liberation movement and lesbian-feminism\, drag culture\, a nd forging a butch identity which for her is now in conversation with tran s-masculinity. ~OY\n\n***Followed by an in-person talk with Debra Zimmerma n \, recipient of VTIFF’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to American Cinema\, sponsored by CSE Holding Co.\, with additional support by the UV M Film &\; Television Studies Program*** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Est her-Newton-Made-Me-Gay.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1478@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T210000 DTSTAMP:20231022T202704Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/afire2/ SUMMARY:AFIRE (ROTER HIMMEL) DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nTUESDAY\, OCT 24 | 4:15 PM | BB\n\nIn Christian Petzold’s (Phoenix\; Transit) newest romance\, fires ravage the countrys ide while passions amongst a group of young people smolder at a vacation h ideaway. Over a hot\, dry summer\, two friends decamp to the seaside: one to finish his novel\, and the other to complete his photography portfolio. An initially elusive houseguest awaits them there\, Nadja (Paula Beer)\, who makes love noisily in the night and leaves a messy kitchen in the morn ing. The close quarters of the three ignites feelings of insecurity\, lust \, joy\, and even love. In the distance\, forest fires burn\, encroaching ever closer on their summer getaway. The scorching second installment to P etzold’s “Elements Trilogy\,” after his watery Undine (2021)\, is a humorous\, biting send-up of artistic self-involvement and intellectual pr etensions\, set within the loose and sultry atmosphere of a summer holiday but throbbing with the urgency of impending annihilation. ~TW ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AFI RE_Still1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1513@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T154500 DTSTAMP:20231013T203519Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mami-wata-hardcoded/ SUMMARY:MAMI WATA (HARDCODED) DESCRIPTION:There’s unrest In the oceanside village of Iyi\, where the pe ople are losing faith in the revered Mama Efe (Rita Edochie)\, who acts as an intermediary for the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata. When a myster ious rebel deserter arrives\, conflict brews\, and then erupts\, leaving E fe’s daughter Zinwe (Uzoamaka Aniunoh) and cynical protégé Prisca (Eve lyne Ily Juhen) to restore the faith. Based on a Nigerian folktale\, direc tor C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s film benefits immensely from the glorious B &\;W cinematography of Lilis Soares\; her work earned a special prize a t this year’s Sundance\, and contains some of the most striking imagery on display at VTIFF this year. This story of opportunistic men using viole nce to overthrow a matriarchy in harmony with nature also boasts a whopper of a surprise ending. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Mam i-Wata.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1532@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T154500 DTSTAMP:20231010T145037Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/umberto-eco-a-library-of-the-world/ SUMMARY:UMBERTO ECO: A LIBRARY OF THE WORLD (UMBERTO ECO: LA BIBLIOTECA DEL MONDO) DESCRIPTION:This stimulating documentary presents the biography of a man\, the books he inhabited\, and the books that inhabited him. Author\, semiol ogist\, lover of language\, literature\, and lying\, Umberto Eco was a bib liophile in the truest sense of the word\, and David Ferrario’s film doe s justice to those dangerously dated passions. The camera pores over yello wed pages\, cracked spines\, walls and walls of books from libraries the w orld over\, giving substance to the labyrinthine connections of Eco’s mi nd. In addition to being the story of a man and his erudition\, Ferrario ’s documentary is a cautionary tale about the loss of history and truth in an endlessly prolific digital library. All demagoguery starts with a li e. What happens when truth becomes incommunicable? ~TW ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Umb erto-Eco.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1533@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T180000 DTSTAMP:20231013T200716Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/white-balls-on-walls/ SUMMARY:WHITE BALLS ON WALLS DESCRIPTION:The world-renowned Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam allowed a came ra behind the scenes of a process that raises uncomfortable and awkward qu estions. Can a painting still be entitled “The Prostitutes”? When you appraise art\, should you also take the skin color or gender of the artist into account? And how is one to engage with visitors who find all this “too politically correct”? The film follows the new director of the St edelijk as he attempts to change the museum's policies and curation to be more inclusive and progressive. Presented with a slightly tongue-in-cheek tone\, filmmaker Sarah Vos takes us into the most private conversations an d arguments between the curators and managers. As so many museums around t he world\, including close to home in Vermont\, struggle with how to reass ess their collections and curatorial decisions\, this film is as timely as it is entertaining. ~OY\n\n***Followed by a Q&\;A with Kristan Hanson\ , the Fleming Museum’s Curator of Collections and Exhibitions.*** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/WHI TE-BALLS-ON-WALLS-Courtesy-Icarus-Films_STILL_02.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1494@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T180000 DTSTAMP:20231015T181149Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-crime-is-mine-mon-crime2/ SUMMARY:THE CRIME IS MINE (MON CRIME) DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nTUESDAY | OCT 24 | 2:00 PM | FH\n\nA seeming tri fle of a comedy that manages to be subversive\, feminist\, utterly amoral\ , and completely delightful\, Francois Ozon’s The Crime Is Mine embraces \, in the words of its director\, “the triumph of sorority.” In 1935 P aris\, debt-ridden actress Madeline (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) rebuffs a lasciv ious producer\, who ends up dead. Accused of the crime and defended by her lawyer/roommate Pauline (Rebecca Marder)...well\, why give away too much? The mid-film appearance of Isabelle Huppert as the Cruella-DeVille-ish ac tress Odette Chaumette is a gift from the movie gods. According to Ozon\, the movie’s influences include Truffaut’s The Last Metro\, Blake Edwar ds’ Victor/Victoria\, and the elegant comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and Jea n Renoir. The era – at least\, the movie version of that era – is sump tuously recreated through its sets\, props and costumes. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/THE -CRIME-IS-MINE-01-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1509@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T210000 DTSTAMP:20231013T195514Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/like-a-fish-on-the-moon1/ SUMMARY:LIKE A FISH ON THE MOON DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nSUNDAY\, OCT 29 | 1 PM | BB\n\nWriter-Director H ajiha’s taut family drama of parents grappling with the sudden mutism of their young son is of such authenticity that it’s almost as if one was watching an observational documentary. The immaculate script\, superb acti ng by a cast of three non-professionals\, the cinematography - never flash y but skillfully employed to serve the ever-shifting dynamics amongst the characters - all come together to create a sensitive film that portrays th e shifting dynamics within a couple who have been taken out of their comfo rt zone in a situation they cannot understand. As one of our programmers n oted\, it is discovering gems like these that make our curatorial work so rewarding. ~OY\n\n*** Followed by in-person Q&\;A with the director - T hursday screening only *** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Lik e-A-Fish-on-the-Moon.02-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1525@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T210000 DTSTAMP:20231026T212536Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sleep/ SUMMARY:SLEEP DESCRIPTION:ATTENTION: THIS FILM HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO TECHNICAL ISSUES \nANIMALIA will play instead. SLEEP ticket purchasers can see ANIMALIA wit hout exchanging their tickets. \n\nJason Yu’s Sleep takes the familiar somnambulism motif from multiple horror movies and slowly builds something wholly original from it. Starting as a comedy\, morphing into a marital d rama\, then going somewhere else altogether\, Sleep is one wild ride. A hu sband (Lee Sun-kyun\, the wealthy young father in Parasite) and his very p regnant wife (Jung Yu-mi) live in their very tiny apartment – you’ll b ecome very familiar with it – and things are fine until he starts sleepw alking. And sleep eating. And ever-crazier things in his sleep. Then the b aby is born. Then things get weird. Yu\, who worked as assistant director under Bong Joon-Ho\, loves to build tension and shift tones. Though deeply frightening\, this is one of the funnier horror movies in recent years\, and Yu is fearless\, placing puppies\, babies and pregnant women directly in harm’s way. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Sle ep-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1534@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T211500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T230000 DTSTAMP:20231010T144843Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wicker-man/ SUMMARY:THE WICKER MAN DESCRIPTION:Before there was Midsommar or Nicholas Cage screaming about bee s\, there was 1973’s folk horror classic The Wicker Man. Now in a stunni ng 50th anniversary 4k restoration\, this seminal British folk horror film welcomes viewers to the remote Scottish enclave of Summerisle. Sergeant H owie (Edward Woodward) has received an anonymous report that a girl has go ne missing on the island\, but when he arrives\, the wary residents deny s he ever existed. An eerie mystery unfolds plunging Howie deep into the pag an rituals practiced by the small\, isolated community. A case study in th e dangers of shared delusions and a landmark in seventies freak-out cinema \, The Wicker Man’s rapturous\, combustible conclusion has seared its in delible mark on the history of cinema. ~TW ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/the -Wicker-Man-6-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1495@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T154500 DTSTAMP:20231017T180327Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-disappearance-of-shere-hite/ SUMMARY:THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE DESCRIPTION:Shere Hite’s 1976 book\, The Hite Report was a huge best-sell er that challenged the basic cultural conceptions of female sexuality and sex itself\, particularly as it related to female pleasure. According to N ewsweek\, it has sold 50 million copies and is the 30th-best-selling book (and 3rd-best-selling non-fiction book) of all time. Today\, few remember her. What happened? This doc from Nicole Newnham (Crip Camp) examines that question. As influential and earthshaking as the Report was\, the conserv ative\, male backlash was equally intense. Archival clips show Hite as she was ambushed by Maury Povich\, mocked and mansplained by a number of inte rviewers\, and shouted down by an all-male audience on the Oprah Winfrey S how. Hite died in 2020\, having lived her last decades in Europe. \n\nIf you didn’t know her before\, you’ll wonder why you never heard of Sher e Hite. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DIS APPEARANCE-OF-SHERE-HITE-THE-Still-2-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1516@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T160000 DTSTAMP:20231013T201711Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/orlando-my-political-biography2/ SUMMARY:ORLANDO\, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (ORLANDO\, MA BIOGRAPHIE POLITIQUE ) DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nMONDAY\, OCT 23 |  7:15 PM | BB\n\n*Winner -Spe cial Jury Award Encounters Section\, Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film \, Special Jury Mention Documentary Award - 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. \n\nWriter\, philosopher\, and now filmmaker\, Paul B. Preciad o’s newest work is poetic in form and function. Hybridizing literary ada ptation with modes of fiction and nonfiction filmmaking\, Preciado uses Vi rginia Woolf’s 1928 century-spanning\, gender-bending romance\, Orlando: A Biography\, as a template for the modern trans experience. Interlacing passages from the novel with contemporary testimonies\, including the film maker’s own\, the film fashions its focus on “gender poets\,” those whose lives transcend the bounds of binary expression. Preciado’s cast o f contemporary Orlandos offer intimate access and playful insight into the ir experiences with hormones\, gender-affirming care\, institutional erasu re\, and the political positioning of trans-people subjected to a normativ e regime. No two stories are the same\, and\, yet\, somehow Woolf’s fant astical biography contains them all. ~TW ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Orl ando-3.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1480@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T180000 DTSTAMP:20231016T162225Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/26-2-to-life2/ SUMMARY:26.2 TO LIFE DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nTUESDAY\, OCT 24 | 7:15 PM | BB\n\n\nHow do you find meaning and purpose when you’re serving life without parole? For a group of lifers in San Quentin Prison\, you just keep running. In Christin e Yoo’s award-winning documentary 26.2 To Life\, we meet the men of the 1000 Mile Club\, the prison’s long-distance running group. Every Novembe r\, they run the San Quentin Prison Marathon – 105 grueling laps through a crowded prison yard. It’s not about winning\, or running the best tim e – it’s about making the most of a chance to be defined by something more than their crimes.  While the film takes place in a grim universe – nearly all the action occurs inside San Quentin – it’s ultimately an inspirational story that offers a glimpse into the lives of men navigat ing an impossible-to-imagine fate to find redemption and\, maybe\, some ki nd of freedom. ~SM\n\n\n*** Followed by in-person Q&\;A with the direct or (Friday screening only) *** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/26. 2.To-Life-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1526@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T180000 DTSTAMP:20231013T202852Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/smoking-causes-coughing/ SUMMARY:SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING (FUMER FAIT TOUSSER) DESCRIPTION:Delight in Quentin Dupieux’s madcap infidelity to genre expec tations in this bloody\, fun\, French superhero spoof. Tangling with low-b udget\, rubber-suited villains\, the Tobacco Force dispels adversaries wit h the explosive\, cancer-causing effects of cigarette smoke. But when a st reak of individualism threatens the Tobacco Force’s group cohesion\, the ir boss sends them away on a team-building retreat. There\, the film slips into a mosaic of gory\, humorous campfire tales\, each more stupefying th an the last. ~TW ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Smo king-Causes-Coughing-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1491@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T210000 DTSTAMP:20231027T134407Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cette-maison/ SUMMARY:CETTE MAISON DESCRIPTION:Director Miryam Charles’ dreamlike\, haunting first feature b egins with a real-life personal tragedy – the hanging of her 14-year-old cousin\, Tessa\, in her bedroom\, an act originally ruled suicide but lat er determined to be homicide\, still unsolved – and uses that to explore events real and unimagined\, as well as futures unlived. Shot in 16mm\, t he film weaves between documentary and hallucination\, real locations and theatrical sets\, and even an imaginary landscape of Haiti\, as she recoun ts her family’s migration to Quebec. Tessa reappears\, forever 14\, spea king with her mother in the present day\, and this astonishing film turns into its own kind of ghost story. With this debut\, Charles makes her mark as a filmmaker to watch in the future. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CET TE_MAISON_THIS_HOUSE_image01_DEFAULT.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1529@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T204500 DTSTAMP:20231010T144946Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tori-and-lokita2/ SUMMARY:TORI AND LOKITA DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nMONDAY\, OCT 23 | 1:45 PM | BB\n\nShowing us the human toll of an inhumane system\, Tori and Lokita is another social-real ist gem from the masters of the form\, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Full of heart and indignant fury\, the film follows 11-year-old Tori (Pablo Sch ils) and 16-year-old Lokita (Joely Mbundu)\, undocumented immigrants who h ave left Cameroon and Benin\, respectively\, for a new life in Belgium. Bu t the undocumented life is brutal\, and they are mercilessly exploited\, h arassed and threatened from all sides. Their saving grace is each other. T he duo’s friendship is profound and deeply beautiful\, a thing of value that somehow exists despite a corrupt\, evil system that seeks to monetize their misery. Both leads are non-professional actors\, and they are treme ndous.  The filmmakers’ worldview is famously bleak yet compassionate\, and this harrowing\, heartbreaking but oh-so-human film is one of their v ery best. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tor iandlokita1.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1497@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T211500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T230000 DTSTAMP:20231013T202556Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/enter-the-dragon/ SUMMARY:ENTER THE DRAGON DESCRIPTION:Yes\, the plot is lifted from Dr. No. Sure\, the dialogue is a bit stilted. But as it celebrates its 50th year\, Enter the Dragon remains one of the most influential\, profitable and\, thanks to Bruce Lee\, pure ly enjoyable films ever made. Fifty years have done nothing to diminish Le e’s sheer magnetism and star power. He’s the movie’s sole selling po int\, and that’s more than enough. While the production was famously tro ubled\, there’s no denying the results. The fights (all choreographed by Lee)\, particularly the hall-of-mirrors finale\, remain the best and most influential in the genre. Budgeted at $850\,000\, the film has grossed mo re than $400 million\, making it one of the most profitable films ever mad e. In 2004\, the Library of Congress’ dubbed it a “culturally signific ant film.” Sadly\, Lee died of a cerebral edema at age 32\, weeks before the movie’s release. What if…? ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ent er-the-dragon-1200-1200-675-675-crop-000000.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1514@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T124500 DTSTAMP:20231013T210218Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/omen/ SUMMARY:OMEN (AUGURE) DESCRIPTION:Congolese rapper-turned-filmmaker Baloji creates a mind-melting tale of displacement and belonging\, told through the interconnecting sto ries of four people in modern-day Kinshasa accused of witchcraft. Seamless ly weaving multiple narrative threads through a magical-realist lens\, the film uses a wildly eclectic musical score\, elaborate and offbeat costumi ng (a gang of street kids in pink tutus\, for instance)\, and careening ca mera movement to create a constantly vibrating energy that hums throughout . Given the internecine strife that has riven the Democratic Republic of C ongo for so long\, Kinshasa has not even had an active movie theater for m ost of the past 25 years\, let alone a film industry\, so hopefully this v ibrant Belgian/Dutch/Congolese co-production points to better days ahead. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ome n-Still.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1522@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T130000 DTSTAMP:20231010T144353Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rule-of-two-walls/ SUMMARY:RULE OF TWO WALLS DESCRIPTION:For many Ukrainians\, their first act of defiance was not to le ave. This documentary follows artists on the ground during the Russian inv asion who are continuing their work even as the world crumbles around them . Urgent\, visceral\, and poetic\, Rule of Two Walls does not avert its ey es from the horrible realities of life during wartime but finds inspiratio n in how artists are channeling those experiences into works of resistance \, hope\, and\, even\, beauty. ~TW ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/RUL E_OF_TWO_WALLS-01-Clean-16x9-1.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1496@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T150000 DTSTAMP:20231010T141244Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eileen/ SUMMARY:EILEEN DESCRIPTION:You cannot go far wrong with a star performance by Anne Hathawa y\, cinematography by Ari Wegner\, a score by Richard Reed Parry and direc tion by William Oldroyd. Eileen is an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s n ovel of the same name. This 1960s Massachusetts-set film\, could be interp reted as a tale of personal liberation of sly\, socially withdrawn Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) by high-heeled blond prison psychologist Dr. Rebecca S t. John (Hathaway). But the film moves across several genres – romantic melodrama to film noir into black-comedy horror\, and comes to rest somewh ere in the realms of a Hitchcock thriller. Note the opening credits – a direct pastiche of Rear Window. This slow burning film\, with a precise sc ript calculated to the smallest details\, changes gear dramatically in the second half with one single line of dialog\, to become a sinister look at secrets people hold within. ~OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/EIL EEN_dir-William-Oldroyd_photo-cred-Jeong-Park-HIRES-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1504@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T153000 DTSTAMP:20231013T202458Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/goodbye-julia-2/ SUMMARY:GOODBYE JULIA DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nMONDAY | OCT 23 | 3:45 PM | BB\n\nWinner of the Freedom Prize at Cannes’ un Certain Regard\, this striking debut feature from Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani deftly balances the personal an d political\, keeping the characters front and center while illuminating h ow political strife can make enemies from friends. Taking place just prior to the 2011 secession of South Sudan\, Goodbye Julia tells the story of M ona\, a young Northern Sudanese woman in a tense marriage\, whose actions lead to the murder of a South Sudanese man\, a crime for which the only re percussions are the rumblings of Mona’s conscience. In an attempt to mak e amends\, she becomes friends with the victim’s widow\, but\, inevitabl y\, the country’s political turmoil forces a personal reckoning. Don’t come late: more happens in the first 13 minutes of this film than happens in a lot of double-features. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Goo dbye-Julia02.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1520@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T180000 DTSTAMP:20231018T164300Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rachel-hendrix/ SUMMARY:RACHEL HENDRIX DESCRIPTION:A deeply moving meditation on grief and loss\, Rachel Hendrix i s the first new film in a decade from indie-film icon Victor Nuñez\, who once again sets the tale in his own vividly evoked North Florida\, a cinem atic landscape he has made his own over 7 features in a 44-year career. Nu ñez has a knack for getting career-best performances (see: Ed Harris\, As hley Judd and Peter Fonda)\, and now you can add Lori Singer\, who anchors the film with her astonishing performance as the title character\, a univ ersity English professor dealing with the loss of her husband\, struggling to maintain personal\, professional and family relationships\, and furthe r isolated by the nightmare of Covid. Complex\, poignant\, compassionate a nd beautifully observed\, it’s a late-career masterpiece from one of Ame rican film’s best-kept secrets. ~SM\n\n*** Followed by an in-person talk with Victor Nuñez and Lori Singer . Nuñez is the recipient of VTIFF’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to American Cinema\, sponsored by CSE Holding Co.\, with additional support by the UVM Film &\; Television St udies Program*** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Rac hel-Hendrix-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1482@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T180000 DTSTAMP:20231026T183818Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/20000-species-of-bees2/ SUMMARY:20\,000 SPECIES OF BEES (20\,000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS) DESCRIPTION:*SATURDAY\, OCT 28 SOLD OUT\, Join the waiting list at the VTIF F Box Office\, 3pm\,  one hour before screening.*\n\nAlso showing:\nSATUR DAY\, OCT 21 | 3:30 PM | FH\n\nSet in Basque country\, this is a most wond erful\, sensitive\, delicate film\, portraying in a complex way relationsh ips among a multigenerational extended family.  20\,000 Species of Bees g ives each of the (mainly) women in the family enough screen time for us to get to know them. One of the young ones is an 8-year-old male by birth\, girl by self-identification. But the film doesn’t assert itself as an is sue drama — in large part because\, as Solaguren presents the protagonis t’s gradual steps toward self-realization\, her film doesn’t see much of a problem to begin with.  Great Aunt Lourde\, a solitary bee-keeper\, tells the child that there are 20\,000 species of bees – all of them goo d. The performances are uniformly complex and believable. This is a remark able\, tender fiction feature debut for the director and a fascinating por trait of a diverse group of women. ~ OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/200 00-Species-of-Bees-01.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1487@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T213000 DTSTAMP:20231022T150332Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/anatomy-of-a-fall/ SUMMARY:ANATOMY OF A FALL (ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE) DESCRIPTION:*SOLD OUT\, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office\, 6pm \,  one hour before screening.*\n\nWinner\, Palme d’Or\, 2023 Cannes Fi lm Festival\n\nDirector Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is an explosiv e family drama disguised as a courtroom procedural. In a snowy\, isolated cabin in the Alps\, a couple – husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) and wife Sa ndra (Sandra Huller) – live with their blind son. When the husband turns up dead\, Sandra is suspected of his murder…and their son is the only w itness. From that bare premise\, a plot of enormous complexity begins to s lowly unpeel itself\, calling into question the very nature of truth and m arriage itself. Gorgeously photographed and scripted\, Triet’s film crea tes an atmosphere of crushing intensity\, and Huller towers over the proce edings\, giving one of the best screen performances in recent memory. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ana tomy-Of-A-Fall-Still-3.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1508@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T211500 DTSTAMP:20231026T184013Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/joan-baez-i-am-a-noise2/ SUMMARY:JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE DESCRIPTION:*SATURDAY\, OCT 28 SOLD OUT\, Join the waiting list at the VTIF F Box Office\, 6:15pm\,  one hour before screening.*\n\nAlso showing:\nWE DNESDAY\, OCT 25 | 1:45 PM | FH\n\nEven if you’re a fan of Joan Baez and have been following her career for decades\, there are plenty of surprise s in the new doc from directors Miri Navasky\, Karen O’Connor and Maeve O’Boyle.  An unusually intimate entry into the popular-song-biopic swee pstakes\, I Am a Noise deftly navigates the professional and personal\, co vering her career from folk-goddess to activist to Bob Dylan collaborator and\, finally\, as an icon on her farewell tour. There’s more than enoug h musical history and archival footage to make a case for Baez as a legend . But it’s the personal stuff that startles – she digs deep on her fam ily\, particularly her (and her sister Mimi’s) innate darkness and unwil lingness to be happy. The final third of the film goes way beyond what we expect from the average rock-star bio\, stunning us (and Baez) with her un earthed family legacy. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Joa n-Baez-2.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1537@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T123000 DTSTAMP:20231005T130426Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/animation-workshop-2/ SUMMARY:Animation workshop for the whole family DESCRIPTION:Free event for all ages -but advance booking is recommended\n\n \nSteve Woloshen\, world-renowned animation director from Montreal\, will be here with film strips and colored markers. Make your own film strip and then watch it animated on the screen. All creations will be combined to c reate one animated short! A creative delight for all ages. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Wol oshen-at-work-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1474@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T203000 DTSTAMP:20231029T184451Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fff/ SUMMARY:FOOD\, FILM & FRIENDSHIP - Lunch/Dinner and Films DESCRIPTION:*** TICKETS/PASSPORT NO LONGER AVAILABLE\, NO DAY OF SALES.***\ n \;\nThe Vermont International Film Festival is delighted to be prese nting this very special day\, in partnership with the Québec Government O ffice in Boston\, Tourisme Haut Richelieu &\; Montérégie\, The Essex Resort &\; Spa\, the Vermont Department of Economic Development and wit h top chefs from Québec and Vermont\, of Food\, Film &\; Friendship. \ n*************\nRead more about the chefs from Québec and Vermont HERE\n\ n These amazing chefs will whip up dishes and unique tasting menus inspire d by the documentary The Empire of Scents (Le Nez) produced by Lucie Tremb lay who will attend the screening and by the classic Canadian film C.R.A.Z .Y. by renowned Québec filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée.  This special day\, FFF for short\, is inspired by the Cuisine\, Cinéma et confidences festiv al (CCC)\, launched by Lucie Tremblay. A round table with the chefs is sch eduled after each film.\n*************\nTHE PROGRAM\nLunch at 11:30 AM\, e nds 2:30 PM\n\n\n* Welcome with hors d'oeuvres and meet Marie-Claude Franc oeur - Québec’s Delegate to Boston and the chefs.\n\n* Sit down to a de lectable range of small dishes\, wine and beer created by the chefs and in spired by the film you will be watching: Le Nez (The Empire 0f Scents).\n\ n* After the screening\, there will be a round table with the chefs and wi th Lucie Tremblay\, producer of Le Nez We are also delighted to be hosting Jean-Martin Fortier who will give a brief talk bout Exploring Farm-to-tab le Agrotourism in Monterégie: The pride of offering an amazingly fresh\, tasty and local produce all year round\, thanks to our gardens\, greenhous es and of course\, our network of wonderful local artisan farmers.\n\nRead more about About Jean-Martin Fortier and his work to raise awareness of t he vital importance of regenerative agriculture on a human scale and devel oping sustainable and resilient food systems.\n\n2 PM - End.\n\n \;\n\ nDinner at 5:00 PM\, ends 8:30 PM\n\n\nWelcome with cocktails and hors d'o euvres\, and meet (or re-meet) Marie-Claude Francoeur - Québec’s Delega te to Boston and the chefs.\n\n* A full dinner with wine and beer accompan ied by the classic Québec film C.R.A.Z.Y. by renowned Québec filmmaker J ean-Marc Vallée.\n\n* After the screening\, there will be a round table w ith the chefs\n\n* 8:30 PM - End\n\n \;\n\n*** Want to make a weekend of it? Our partners at the Essex Resort will be offering Ticket and Passpo rt buyers a special rate for overnight stays. A promo code will be in your email confirmation after you purchase a ticket or passport.\n\nFFF Sponso rs\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FFF -logo_circle-color-e1696273600657.png CATEGORIES:Passport,Special Event LOCATION:Essex Resort & Spa\, 70 Essex Way\, Essex Junction\, VT\, 05452\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=70 Essex Way\, Essex Juncti on\, VT\, 05452\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Essex Resort & Spa:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1524@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T143000 DTSTAMP:20240126T164917Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/silver-haze/ SUMMARY:SILVER HAZE DESCRIPTION:Nurse Franky (Vicky Knight) isn’t happy. A nurse who lives wi th her large\, working-class family\, Franky is obsessed with wreaking rev enge on whoever set the fire that left her scarred when she was a child. N ow 23\, she’s incapable of a healthy relationship (as the one she shares with her loser-boyfriend makes clear) and frustrated at her dead-end life . Then she meets Florence (Esmé Creed-Miles)\, a suicide survivor\, and s omething clicks. The two of them give it a shot\, but they’re damaged so uls (as is everyone in the film)\, so it isn’t a Hollywood romance.  Th is searing drama of damaged souls seeking shelter marks the second collabo ration between writer/director Sasha Polak and non-actress Knight\, and Po lak based much of the story on Knight’s life. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SIL VER-HAZE-3-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:2023 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1502@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T143000 DTSTAMP:20231028T155403Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-future/ SUMMARY:THE FUTURE DESCRIPTION:This second screening of The Future\, replaces the second scree ning of Like a Fish on the Moon. If you already booked a ticket for the la tter\, you may use this ticket for The Future.\n\nWhen Israel’s Minister of Space and Tourism is murdered in the lead-up to the country’s first mission to the moon\, Yaffa (Samar Qupty\, Junction ‘48)\, a young Pales tinian university student from the occupied West Bank\, confesses to the m urder. Scientist Nurit (Reymond Amsalem) asks for permission to interview the assassin. As the pioneer of The Future Project\, an algorithm-based pr ogram meant to predict acts of terrorism\, if you’re Israeli or resistan ce if you’re Palestinian. Nurit is convinced that the unrepentant Yaffa is withholding her whole motivation. The two women face off\, determined t o give nothing away\, over a potentially fraught series of encounters. As the truth is exposed — and the spacecraft carrying a nation’s dreams n ears its destination — an increasingly disillusioned Nurit inches toward s a profoundly troubling realization. A taut\, engrossing drama that pares the struggle for liberation down to its essence. Suffused with a potent i rony\, and powered by two riveting performances\, The Future balances symp athy for its main characters with a lucid\, unsentimental grasp of the iss ues at stake. ~OY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/03_ THE-FUTURE-by-NOAM-KAPLAN-2.1-C005_web-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1510@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T143000 DTSTAMP:20231028T150517Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/like-a-fish-on-the-moon2/ SUMMARY:LIKE A FISH ON THE MOON DESCRIPTION:This screening has been cancelled because of technical issues. In its place we are showing a second screening of The Future. If you have already booked tickets for Like a Fish\, you may use those for The Future. \n\nWriter-Director Hajiha’s taut family drama of parents grappling with the sudden mutism of their young son is of such authenticity that it’s almost as if one was watching an observational documentary. The immaculate script\, superb acting by a cast of three non-professionals\, the cinemat ography - never flashy but skillfully employed to serve the ever-shifting dynamics amongst the characters - all come together to create a sensitive film that portrays the shifting dynamics within a couple who have been tak en out of their comfort zone in a situation they cannot understand. As one of our programmers noted\, it is discovering gems like these that make ou r curatorial work so rewarding. ~OY\n\n*** Followed by in-person Q&\;A with the director - Thursday screening only *** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Lik e-A-Fish-on-the-Moon.02-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1521@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T170000 DTSTAMP:20240314T140453Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ruby-in-paradise/ SUMMARY:RUBY IN PARADISE DESCRIPTION:*SOLD OUT\, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office\, 1:4 5pm\,  one hour before screening.*\n\nWinner of the Grand Jury Prize at t he 1993 Sundance Film Festival\, Victor Nuñez’s magical Ruby in Paradis e is a simple story of a young working-class woman fleeing a bad situation to find herself in Nuñez’s familiar cinematic realm\, North Florida\, where she learns her own self-worth. But the film is so deeply felt\, intr icately crafted and beautifully performed – Ashley Judd’s star-making titular performance earned her an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead – that it becomes much more than the sum of its parts. Ava Duverna y\, director of Selma\, said the film “became really formative for me… It’s a simple film. A beautiful film. I’d never seen anything like thi s before.” Roger Ebert cited it as one of the best films of its year\, c alling it “a breathtaking movie…the writing\, the acting\, the lightin g\, the direction…you will be looking at a movie that knows exactly what it is about and how to achieve it.” ~SM\n\n*** Followed by in-person Q& amp\;A with the director\, Victor Nuñez\, recipient of VTIFF’s Award fo r Outstanding Contribution to American Cinema\, sponsored by CSE Holding C o.\, with additional support by the UVM Film &\; Television Studies Pro gram*** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Rub y-in-Paradise.jpeg CATEGORIES:2023 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1512@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T170000 DTSTAMP:20231010T142924Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/limbo2/ SUMMARY:LIMBO DESCRIPTION:Also showing:\nWEDNESDAY\, OCT 25 | 4:15 PM | FH\n\nIn this gri tty\, downbeat\, Outback noir\, detective Travis Hurley (Simon Baker of Th e Mentalist\, unrecognizable) arrives in the town of Limbo to investigate the cold-case murder of a local Indigenous girl 20 years earlier. The murd er investigation moves slowly\, since director Ivan Sen is focusing more o n the atmosphere (like any good noir). Loaded with interesting characters who have little to lose\, this visually distinctive work is shot in striki ng monochrome B&\;W and set in a rarely seen part of rural Australia - rocky\, dusty\, foreboding – where people live in spaces carved out of t he earth. Sen handles the writing\, cinematography\, editing\, music and v isual effects\, which may account for the uncanny unity of concept and exe cution. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Lim bo-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1523@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T210000 DTSTAMP:20231029T200015Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/scream-of-my-blood-a-gogol-bordello-story/ SUMMARY:SCREAM OF MY BLOOD: A GOGOL BORDELLO STORY DESCRIPTION:*SOLD OUT*\nNo additional sales at the door.\n\nHumming with th e over-the-top energy of its loquacious frontman\, Scream of My Blood: A G ogol Bordello Story tells the dizzying\, picaresque tale of Eugene Hütz\, a Ukrainian raconteur turned globe-trotting rock star (rock friends like Steve Albini and Iggy Pop show up to say good things). It’s an immigrant story\, and Hütz and other band members speak in depth about the cultura l roots of their music\, while Hütz in particular draws attention to his Romani family members and the influence that community has on him. The doc wisely mixes live-music footage with Hütz’s astonishing biography\, wh ich touches on the Chernobyl disaster\, the fall of the Soviet empire\, em igration to America\, teenage years on the punk scene in Burlington\, and the building of his band\, Gogol Bordello\, on the Lower East Side of New York City. Speaking of Burlington\, Hütz recalls being taken aback by the small-town vibe at first\, but cites it as crucial to his development. Ve rmont audiences will be taken by the (brief) bits of archival footage of t he Burlington and the 242 Main punk-rock scene that thrived there in the ‘80s and ‘90s. But the concert footage explains Hütz and the band’s appeal more than words could – raucous\, barely in control\, on the raz or’s edge between euphoria and disaster…it’s thrilling stuff. ~SM\n\ n***After the film: a performance by Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello*** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/scr eam-of-my-blood.png CATEGORIES:Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1541@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T160000 DTSTAMP:20231102T170016Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/middlebury-new-filmmakers-festival-tour-2023- dusty-stones/ SUMMARY:Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Tour 2023 | Dusty & Stones DESCRIPTION:The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival\, in collaboration with the Vermont International Film Festival\, presents two great musical docum entaries -- Little Richard: I Am Everything and Dusty &\; Stones -- as part of MNFF's 2023 tour of the state. Attendees of both films are invited to a reception in the Main Street Landing Film House Lobby from 5:30 - 7: 00 pm.\n\nDusty &\; Stones is a continent-crossing hero’s journey sto ry told through country music. The documentary intimately chronicles the r emarkable ride of cousins Gazi “Dusty” Simelane and Linda “Stones” Msibi\, a determined duo of struggling country singers from the tiny Afri can Kingdom of Eswatini (known as Swaziland at the time of filming) who lo ng for their big break. When they are unexpectedly invited to record their songs in Nashville and to compete in a Texas battle of the bands\, Dusty and Stones embark on their long-awaited first pilgrimage to the ancestral heart of country music. Over a momentous ten-day road trip through the Ame rican South\, Dusty and Stones bring their music to life in a top Nashvill e recording studio\, explore the storied locales of their favorite country songs\, and excitedly engage with the culture they’ve long felt part of from afar.\n“An often captivating crowd-pleaser that weaves contemporar y politics in its backdrop…a character study rife with terrific music an d presence.” – The Film Stage\n**There will be an in -person Q&\;A with editor Loulwa Khoury following the screening** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MNF F-Dusty-Stones.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1540@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T190000 DTSTAMP:20231102T170022Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/middlebury-new-filmmakers-festival-tour-2023- little-richard-i-am-everything/ SUMMARY:Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Tour 2023 | Little Richard: I Am Everything DESCRIPTION:The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival\, in collaboration with the Vermont International Film Festival\, presents two great musical docum entaries -- Little Richard: I Am Everything and Dusty &\; Stones -- as part of MNFF's 2023 tour of the state. Attendees of both films are invited to a reception in the Main Street Landing Film House Lobby from 5:30 - 7: 00 pm.\n\nLittle Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black que er origins of rock n’ roll\, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman . Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard ’s complicated inner world\, the film unspools the icon’s life story w ith all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family\, mu sicians\, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars\, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression\, yet what he ga ve to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life\ , Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God\, sex and rock n’ roll. The world tried to put him in a box\, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes – he was unabashedly everything.\n\n“It 's cool and so fun." – NPR\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/lit tle-richard-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1543@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T210000 DTSTAMP:20231130T154817Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/la-syndicaliste/ SUMMARY:La Syndicaliste DESCRIPTION:A political thriller based on a true story\, Jean-Paul Salome ’s La Syndicaliste is powered by a towering performance from one of the world’s great actors\, Isabelle Huppert. Set in the world of nuclear pow er and corrupt politics\, La Syndicaliste follows the true story of Mauree n Kearney (Huppert)\, an experienced union rep who turns whistleblower whe n she discovers international backroom dealings\, exposing secrets that sh ook the French nuclear sector. The story takes a harrowing turn when Maure en\, fighting to bring the scandal to light\, is violently sexually assaul ted in her own home. As the attack is investigated\, the police start to s ee Maureen as a suspect\, not a victim\, and she must fight to clear her n ame. \n\nHuppert’s uproarious comic turn in Francois Ozone’s The Crim e Is Mine was a highlight of the 2023 Vermont International Film Festival\ , but La Syndicaliste is an entirely different animal. Anchoring nearly ev ery scene\, she offers a deeply internal performance\, suggesting the char acter’s inner turmoil rather than flaunting it. It’s a beautifully cal ibrated\, deeply moving performance…add it to the list.\n\n \;\n\n&n bsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Syn dicaliste_3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1544@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T210000 DTSTAMP:20240112T205246Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/monster/ SUMMARY:Monster DESCRIPTION:"Who's the monster?"\n\nIt's a question that comes up frequentl y in the latest film from the great Kore-eda Hirokazu (Shoplifters\, Broke r) though the answers are far from definitive. Winner of the Best Screenpl ay Award at Cannes\, Monster is a masterpiece of shifting perspectives tha t surprises from beginning to end.  Scripted by Sakamoto Yuji\, the film is an artfully constructed\, achingly compassionate tale that features the final score from Oscar winner Ryuichi Sakamoto (The Last Emperor) whose m inimal\, haunting piano adds immeasurably to the film.\n\nWhen her young s on Minato starts to behave strangely\, his mother feels that there is some thing wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible\, she storms into t he school demanding to know what's going on. But as the story unfolds thro ugh the eyes of mother\, teacher and child\, the truth gradually emerges. Gently devastating in its compassion\, Monster is a masterpiece of shift ing perspectives that surprises to the end.\n\nThe films critical receptio n has been nothing short of rapturous\, making it one the best-reviewed fi lms of 2023:\n\n"It poetically shows the power of perspective. So well-obs erved\, nuanced\, and compassionately told." - NPR\n\n"One of the films th at gave me the most to think about this year." - Filmweek\n\n“Monster i s one of the finest films of the year\, and its structure — like its cir cle of characters — carries secrets that can only be unraveled through p atience and empathy." - The New York Times\n\n"If possible\, watch Monster more than once." - The New Yorker\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Mon ster-WellGoUSA-HiRes5-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1545@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240208T204500 DTSTAMP:20240130T144843Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/four-daughters/ SUMMARY:Four Daughters DESCRIPTION:Winner: Best Documentary\, Cannes\; Best Documentary\, Gotham I ndependent Film Awards\; Best Documentary\, Toronto International Film Fes tival\; many more. \n\nThis riveting exploration of rebellion\, memory\, a nd sisterhood reconstructs the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughte rs\, unpacking a complex family history to examine how the Tunisian woman' s two eldest were radicalized by Islamic extremists. Casting professional actresses as the missing daughters\, along with acclaimed Egyptian-Tunisia n actress Hend Sabri as Olfa\, award-winning director Kaouther Ben Hania r estages pivotal moments in the family's life. Four Daughters is a compelli ng portrait of five women and a unique and ambitious work of nonfiction ci nema that explores the nature of memory\, the weight of inherited trauma\, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters. At The New Yorker\, Richard Brody found the film to be a “revelatory\, poignant blend of drama\, me mory and self-scrutiny\,” while The San Francisco Chronicle dubbed it “one of the best films of the year.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Fou rDaughters_photo2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1546@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T181500 DTSTAMP:20240201T200930Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/concrete-utopia/ SUMMARY:Concrete Utopia DESCRIPTION:The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. W hile no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch\, or what caused the earthquake\, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building le ft standing…Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes\, outsiders start comi ng to Hwang Gung Apartments to escape the extreme cold. Before long\, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Can em pathy and goodwill function in a post-apocalyptic world? Do ethics and mor als matter in a world based solely on survival? Do property rights trump h uman rights? Like a ‘70s disaster movie with a soul\, Concrete Utopia is “a fractious\, blood-soaked drama about the will to survive that feels like Earthquake crossed with Lord of the Flies” (Variety). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/con crete-utopia.png CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1547@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T210000 DTSTAMP:20240130T145030Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/io-capitano/ SUMMARY:IO Capitano DESCRIPTION:Winner: Silver Lion (best director)\, Venice Film Festival\n\nT wo Senegalese teenagers\, Seydou and Moussa\, travel from Dakar to Europe in the hope of becoming pop stars in Europe\, finding danger\, heartbreak\ , and unexpected joy along the way. An Italian-made film in which none of the settings\, none of the actors\, and very little of the dialogue are ac tually Italian\, this is the immigrant journey told as a sweeping adventur e epic. A breathtaking\, high-stakes journey across desert and sea\, Io Ca pitano features a phenomenal debut performance from Seydou Sarr. The film earned multiple prizes at the 2023 Venice Film Festival: the Silver Lion f or Matteo Garrone’s direction\, and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for S arr’s riveting turn. Indiewire called it “an utterly stunning and unco mmonly human look at the descent into Hades that so many people face when they journey to Europe\, dreaming of creating a better life for themselves .” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Io- Capitano_Still-1_Courtesy-of-Cohen-Media-Group.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1548@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T130000 DTSTAMP:20240130T145113Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/banel-adama/ SUMMARY:Banel & Adama DESCRIPTION:Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. Longing for a home of the ir own\, they have decided to live apart from their families\, outside of the village. When Adama informs the village that he won’t accept his blo od duty as future chief\, the community is disrupted\, quickly followed by nature itself. The rains don’t come. Animals die for no reason. People start asking questions. Who’s to blame? A beautiful and beautifully enig matic work from first-time director Ramata-Toulaye Sy\, Banel &\; Adama explores the drive for individualism in a tightly knit\, traditional comm unity. This utterly ravishing film is “an impressive piece of work from a natural filmmaker” (The Guardian). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ban el-adama-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1549@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T150000 DTSTAMP:20240130T145144Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bye-bye-tiberias/ SUMMARY:Bye Bye Tiberias DESCRIPTION:Winner: Best Documentary\, London Film Festival\n\nThirty years ago\, Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass (best-known for Succession\, as wel l as films like Lemon Tree and Paradise Now) left her village in Galilee t o follow her dreams of acting in France. In this poignant portrait\, both deeply personal and inescapably political\, filmmaker Lina Soualem — who is also Abbas’ daughter — traces the story of her mother\, her mother ’s mother\, and their extended family\, all of whose lives have been def ined by separation\, exile\, and displacement. Interwoven with nostalgic h ome video recordings and rich archival footage of Palestinian life through the decades\, Bye Bye Tiberias is a moving memoir about the burden of lea ving\, the endurance of memory\, and the determination to forge one’s ow n destinies and identities. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/bye -bye-tiberias_1920x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1550@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T181500 DTSTAMP:20240130T145227Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/do-not-expect-too-much-from-the-end-of-the-wo rld/ SUMMARY:Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World DESCRIPTION:Winner: Chicago International Film Festival\, Best Performance (Ilinca Manolache)\n\nIn this blistering satire of a corporate world that prizes profits over humanity\, radical Romanian provocateur Radu Jude take s us on a wild ride as he follows Angela\, an overworked production assist ant tasked with filming the victims of a workplace accident. Stuffed with ideas\, the film makes room for cameos by much-maligned film director Uwe Boll and German actress Nina Hoss\, though its energy comes from the inten se\, hilarious lead performance by Ilinca Manolache\, as both Angela and h er bizarre TikTok alter ego\, an epithet-spewing buffoon modeled on Andrew Tate. Sight and Sound raved\, “Funny\, fierce\, unstoppable\, Radu Jude ’s latest film is quite simply essential viewing for anyone trying to su rvive the world as we now know it.” \n\nAnd no less an arbiter of bad t aste than director John Waters (Pink Flamingos) listed the film as one of his 2023 favorites\, calling it “a maddeningly radical\, tedious\, shock ingly repetitious\, brilliant 2-hour-and-43-minute\, Godard-meets-Harmony- Korine masterpiece…When I finished watching the movie\, I was pretty sur e I didn’t like it\, but when I woke up the next morning\, I realized I loved it. Suffer for cinema! Sometimes it’s worth it!” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/do- not-expect-too-much.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1551@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T203000 DTSTAMP:20240130T145332Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-teachers-lounge/ SUMMARY:The Teachers' Lounge DESCRIPTION:Winner: Outstanding Feature Film\, German Film Awards\n\nCarla Nowak (Leonie Benesch\, fabulous) is a dedicated\, idealistic young teache r in her first job at a German middle school. Her relaxed rapport with her seventh-grade students is put under stress when a series of thefts occur at the school\, and a staff investigation leads to accusations and mistrus t among outraged parents\, opinionated colleagues\, and angry students. Ca ught in the middle of these complex dynamics\, Carla tries to mediate—bu t the more she tries to do everything right\, the more everything goes wro ng. A masterpiece of ever-ratcheting tension\, the tautly scripted The Tea chers Lounge “might be the most nerve-shredding thriller of the year” (Mashable). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/the -teachers-lounge.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1552@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T204500 DTSTAMP:20240210T211149Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/smoke-sauna-sisterhood/ SUMMARY:Smoke Sauna Sisterhood DESCRIPTION:*SOLD OUT*\n\nWinner: Director’s Prize for International Docu mentary\, Sundance Film Festival\n\nIn the darkness of the smoke sauna\, a revered Estonian tradition\, women share their innermost secrets and inti mate experiences. Through a sense of communion\, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength. Named one of the year ’s best films by The New York Times and Screen International\, the film also received the director’s prize for international documentary at the Sundance Film Festival\, which called the film “A transcendental story o f women that bring us into their bodies\, their traumas and their healing. Tales of patriarchy that we have rarely seen on screen come together with cinematic beauty\, humor\, wisdom and refreshing self-awareness.”  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Smo ke-Sauna-Sisterhood-Still5_cAnts-Tammik-_-Alexandra-Film.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1553@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T134500 DTSTAMP:20240130T145414Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/i-have-electric-dreams/ SUMMARY:I Have Electric Dreams DESCRIPTION:Eva is a strong-willed\, restless 16-year-old girl who lives wi th her mother\, her younger sister\, and their cat\, but desperately wants to move in with her estranged father\, despite (or because of) the sense of brooding danger he gives off. Clinging onto him as he careens recklessl y through a second adolescence\, she balances between the tenderness and s ensitivity of teenage life and the ruthlessness of the adult world. With i ts rich cast of complex characters routinely making poor decisions\, I Hav e Electric Dreams captures the thin line between love and hate\, in a worl d where male aggression and rage intertwine with the vertigo of female sex ual awakening. Winner of Best Direction\, Actress and Actor at the 2023 Lo carno Film Festival\, this feature debut from Valentina Maurelis “...is an aesthetically and emotionally upsetting story that does an excellent jo b of forcibly tapping into our own poisonous relationships\, whether paren tal\, romantic\, or platonic” (Medium). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/iha veelectricdreams1.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1554@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T154500 DTSTAMP:20240201T200823Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tiger-stripes/ SUMMARY:Tiger Stripes DESCRIPTION:Winner: Critics Week Grand Prize\, Cannes Film Festival\n\nPrec ocious and quick-witted\, 12-year-old Zaffan spends her days rebelling aga inst her strict Islamic religious school and swimming in the lake with her best friends. It’s all pretty idyllic – until she gets her first peri od before anyone else in her class. Soon\, other parts of her body begin t o transform in terrifyingly grotesque ways. Ostracized by her peers – an d what’s with that creature lurking around in the forest? – Zaffan (vi brantly embodied by newcomer Zafreen Zairizal) must choose between confor mity and individuality. A Malaysian\, female take on the body-horror genre \, this dazzling debut by Amanda Nell Eu takes other cues from 1950s South east Asian monster cinema and Gen-Z internet culture.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TIG ER-STRIPES.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1555@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T181500 DTSTAMP:20240130T145600Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-promised-land/ SUMMARY:The Promised Land DESCRIPTION:Winner: Best Actor (Mikkelsen)\, European Film Awards\n\nIn “ the kind of ravishing\, rousing epic we don’t really get much of anymore ” (New York Magazine)\, the fabulous Mads Mikkelsen offers one of his fi nest performances as Captain Ludvig Kahlen\, a proud\, ambitious\, but imp overished 18th-century war hero who sets out to tame a vast uninhabitable stretch of land. Unfortunately\, that land belongs to the merciless\, sadi stic\, and vengeful Frederik De Schinkel\, and he doesn’t like sharing. Conflict ensues. Screen International calls it “an invigoratingly savage Nordic western…an expansive\, sweeping epic with hope in its heart and dirt under its nails.” This is top-quality filmmaking with a strong scri pt\, excellent direction\, and fine supporting performances\, but the real treat is Mikkelsen\, who has never been more compelling. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/the -promised-land.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1556@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T181500 DTSTAMP:20240210T212429Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mother-of-all-lies/ SUMMARY:Mother of All Lies DESCRIPTION:*SOLD OUT*\n\nA Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history in this highly creative docu-drama. Us ing a scale-model of her old Moroccan neighborhood\, populated by handmade figurines (sculpted by the director’s father\, dressed by her mother)\, filmmaker Asmae ElMoudir fuses personal and national history as she refle cts on the 1981 Bread Riots\, drawing out connections to modern Morocco\, much to the chagrin of her domineering and downright scary grandmother. Ar e some truths better left unspoken?  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/the -mother-of-all-lies.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Festival,Global Roots LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1559@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T204500 DTSTAMP:20240220T133958Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/top-hat/ SUMMARY:Opening Night screening…Top Hat DESCRIPTION:The Screening Room @VTIFF officially opens with Top Hat\, the f ourth and finest pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers\, and indisputa bly one of the greatest musicals ever made. In fact\, we’d even say that the “Cheek to Cheek” sequence is one of the pinnacles of American art istic achievement in the 20th century\, as sublime a union of music and da nce as you’re likely to see\, ever. Why open with Top Hat? Because…fun \, that’s why. Frothy as a great cappuccino\, as luxurious as a Lamborgh ini\, and as elegant as Cary Grant in a tuxedo\, Top Hat is pure joy in ce lluloid (now digital) form. There’s a plot and it’s ridiculous\, but t hat’s okay\, because there’s sublime dancing by Fred &\; Ginger and heavenly songs by Irving Berlin. It's that rare thing: a movie that every one can love. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/120 0px-Top-Hat-Rogers-Astaire.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1560@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240302T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240302T210000 DTSTAMP:20240220T180415Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-man-called-adam/ SUMMARY:Ray Vega presents…A Man Called Adam DESCRIPTION:Jazz trumpeter\, composer\, UVM professor and all-around good g uy Ray Vega presents the first in a series of  jazz-scored films. \n\nA M an Called Adam features Sammy Davis Jr. in possibly his greatest film role \, reinvigorating the character of the “self-destructive jazz musician. ” The film boasts a fantastic score by jazz great Benny Carter\, with Na t Adderley providing the trumpet solos (mimed by Davis). The supporting ca st is a knockout\, featuring Louis Armstrong (!!)\, Ossie Davis and Cicely Tyson\, as well as a number of  prominent musicians\, such as Mel Torme\ , Kai Winding and George Rhodes. Director Leo Penn does good work\, but he ’s probably better known for his progeny (Sean and Christoper Penn). Ray will introduce the movie\, then be on-hand afterward for a post-screening conversation.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/A-M an-Called-Adam-Still-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1558@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T211000 DTSTAMP:20240221T204354Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/animalkingdom/ SUMMARY:The Animal Kingdom DESCRIPTION:In the remarkable new French film The Animal Kingdom\, humanity is transforming. In a hurry.\n\nThis darkly imaginative exploration of a human ecosystem undergoing inexplicable—but potentially liberating—tra nsformation takes place in the present day\, as a wave of mutations gradua lly transforms some humans into avian-animal hybrids. These new creatures are not exactly welcomed into polite society\, as fear\, resentment and la tent bigotry seek to take the upper hand. One family is torn apart as the mother exhibits symptoms\, forcing the father and son to embark on a quest to save her.\n\nThe result is a "spellbinding magic-realist fable" (Deadl ine) that is "rippling with visual invention" (Screen Daily).\n\nA huge hi t in France\, The Animal Kingdom opened the Un Certain Regard section at C annes last year\, and leads all films with 12 nominations at the upcoming Cesar Awards\, including best picture\, director\, actor\, screenplay\, ci nematography and music. The Cesars will be handed out on February 23.\n\nT he Animal Kingdom gets its American premiere as the opening film in Lincol n Center's "Rendez-Vous with French Film" festival on Feb. 29. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/7-1 -scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1561@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T220000 DTSTAMP:20240305T191122Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/inside-the-yellow-cocoon-shell/ SUMMARY:Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Camera d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival an d the prestigious André Bazin Prize from Cahiers du Cinéma\, this enthra lling debut from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An is a reverie on faith\ , loss\, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth. The sudde n death of his sister-in-law brings unexpected responsibilities to Thien ( Le Phong Vu)\, who is reluctantly tasked with bringing his five-year-old n ephew Dao to their countryside hometown. Thien is spurred forward by a ser ies of dreams that reignite suppressed memories\, forbidden desires\, and specters of his own youth. What began as a journey home becomes a pilgrima ge marked by visual splendor and mystical overtones\, a quest for understa nding and certainty in a Vietnam that seems unable to provide any clear an swers. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell interrogates the persistence and com plexity of faith\, not only in the spiritual but in the delicate beauty of earthly existence. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/yel low-coccoon2.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1562@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240309T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240309T204500 DTSTAMP:20240307T164747Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/victims-of-sin/ SUMMARY:Victims of Sin (1950) DESCRIPTION:First thing: just watch this trailer and tell me you don’t wa nt to see this movie. You know you do!\n\nRarely screened in the United St ates and long due for rediscovery\, Victims of Sin is famed Mexican direct or Emilio Fernández’s unique blend of film noir\, melodrama\, and musi cal. Acting/dancing sensation Ninón Sevilla plays Violeta\, a cabaret pe rformer who adopts an abandoned child\, forcing her to give up her career. A kindhearted club owner saves her from a life of poverty and prostitutio n\, but things get complicated when the baby’s father – Rodolfo\, the murderous pimp – is freed from prison and seeks to reclaim his son. Best known for the award-winning María Candelaria (1944)\, Fernández infus es Victims with impassioned songs and performances by Sevilla\, an icon of Mexican cinema and a purveyor of African\, Caribbean\, and Cuban dance st yles. She dominates and illuminates the screen in every frame. \n\nVictim s of Sin was fully restored in 4K from the original 35mm nitrate camera negative\, which had been damaged from mishandling over the decades\, by P eter Conheim (Cinema Preservation Alliance/USA) and Viviana Garcia-Besné (Permanencia Voluntaria/Mexico). Permanencia Voluntaria and Cinema Preserv ation Alliance co-produced the preservation effort with further assistance from IMCINE and the Academy Film Archive\, bringing VICTIMS OF SIN back to the screen with a clarity and depth not seen since its original releas e. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Vic timsOfSin_image_06.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1563@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T213000 DTSTAMP:20240315T181731Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pandoras-box-1929/ SUMMARY:Pandora’s Box (1929) DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT\n\nFeaturing one of the greatest\, sexiest and most ov erwhelming performances ever put on film\, Pandora’s Box is one of the s ilent era’s essential films. That performance comes from Kansas native a nd onetime Ziegfeld girl Louise Brooks\, whose legendary persona was defin ed by this delightfully lurid\, controversial melodrama. Helmed by the tit anic German auteur G.W. Pabst – who also discovered Garbo – this very Weimar film follows the downward spiral of the fiery\, brash\, yet innocen t showgirl Lulu (Brooks)\, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she comes in contact with. Daring and stylish\, Pandora's Box is a testament to Brooks's dazzling individuality. Plus\, Jack the Ripper makes one of his greatest screen appearances in an oddly compelling\, if a nachronistic\, cameo. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Pan dorasBox.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1564@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T200000 DTSTAMP:20240220T114007Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/occupied-city-1/ SUMMARY:Occupied City DESCRIPTION:“Extraordinary…intense\, absorbing and epically scaled chro nicle” - The New York Times\nThis remarkable documentary\, the latest fr om British director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)\, performs a number o f cinematic miracles. Based on the book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterd am 1940-1945) by Bianca Stigter\, Occupied City is a minutely detailed\, d oor-to-door view of the Nazi occupation of World War II that manages to co nnect the present to that vivid past without a single talking-head intervi ew or a single frame of archival material. Instead\, McQueen uses everyday scenes from contemporary Amsterdam to chronicle the fate of the city’s Jewish population during World War II. It’s a staggering piece of storyt elling.\n\nThis very long movie (four-and-a-half-hours\, plus intermission ) also does a trick with time. As Manohla Dargis points out in her The New York Times rave\, “Time is stretched differently in Occupied City and p asses far more quickly than you might imagine\, despite the running time. ”\n\nIt’s one of the most audacious\, striking and visionary films of the year\, and we’re proud to present Steve McQueen’s Occupied City in The Screening Room.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Occ upied_City.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1565@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T200000 DTSTAMP:20240220T182051Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/occupied-city-2/ SUMMARY:Occupied City DESCRIPTION:“Extraordinary…intense\, absorbing and epically scaled chro nicle” - The New York Times\nThis remarkable documentary\, the latest fr om British director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)\, performs a number o f cinematic miracles. Based on the book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterd am 1940-1945) by Bianca Stigter\, Occupied City is a minutely detailed\, d oor-to-door view of the Nazi occupation of World War II that manages to co nnect the present to that vivid past without a single talking-head intervi ew or a single frame of archival material. Instead\, McQueen uses everyday scenes from contemporary Amsterdam to chronicle the fate of the city’s Jewish population during World War II. It’s a staggering piece of storyt elling.\n\nThis very long movie (four-and-a-half-hours\, plus intermission ) also does a trick with time. As Manohla Dargis points out in her The New York Times rave\, “Time is stretched differently in Occupied City and p asses far more quickly than you might imagine\, despite the running time. ”\n\nIt’s one of the most audacious\, striking and visionary films of the year\, and we’re proud to present Steve McQueen’s Occupied City in The Screening Room.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Occ upied_City.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1566@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T203000 DTSTAMP:20240322T202812Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/elevator-to-the-gallows/ SUMMARY:Ray Vega presents…#2: Elevator to the Gallows DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT\n\nRay Vega returns for part two of his exploration of films with great jazz soundtracks\, this time looking at Louis Malle’s supremely stylish proto-New-Wave 1958 noir\, featuring a knockout soundtra ck from no less than Miles Davis. Just 25 years old when he made the film\ , Malle employs a moderately ridiculous plot as a mechanism to film Jeanne Moreau wandering around Paris at night\, looking sad. Legendary cinematog rapher Henri Decaë – the man behind the lens for some of the best films by Jean-Pierre Melville\, Claude Chabrol and Francois Truffaut – create s Paris as a dreamy\, nocturnal wonderland of sexy sadness and elegant lon ging. An important pre-New-Wave film –  and a definite touchstone for G odard’s Breathless just two years later (another movie about a guy\, a g irl\, a gun and a nice car set to a jazz soundtrack) – Elevator to the G allows remains a fabulously French cinematic experience.\n\nAs for the sou ndtrack\, legend has it that Davis wrote the score in one sitting while wa tching the film\, then recorded the music in one late-night session while sipping champagne with Louis Malle and Jeanne Moreau between takes. Some p eople know how to live. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Ele vator-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1568@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T203000 DTSTAMP:20240329T154423Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/but-im-a-cheerleader/ SUMMARY:Katniss Everqueer presents…Queer Coming-Out Stories: But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT\n\nMovies are a powerful thing. They can alert you to a world you may not have known even existed\, a place where you just might belong. And so it was with burlesque artist Katniss Everqueer the first t ime she saw Jamie Babbitt’s 1999 cult hit But I’m a Cheerleader. Everq ueer will intro the film with a personal take on its impact\, then host a post-screening conversation. \n\nLargely derided by critics upon its rele ase\, but now regarded as an LGBTQ+ cult classic (IndieWire dubbed it “t he best lesbian film ever made” in 2023)\, But I’m a Cheerleader’s n one-too-subtle but hilarious satire is evident in its plot outline\, in wh ich popular-girl Megan is sent to a conversion-therapy camp to “cure” her of her lesbianism. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t work. Director Babbitt said her goal was to make a gay Clueless\, and that the film’s candy-col or palette was meant to create a vibe of “Barbie Dream House meets Edwar d Scissorhands.” Mission accomplished. Initially rated NC-17 before some minor edits\,  But I’m a Cheerleader feels pretty PG-13 today. \n\nTh e film’s dream cast is headed up by the trio of Natasha Lyonne\, Melanie Lynskey and Clea Duvall\, and ably augmented by characters actors such as Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull)\, Bud Cort (Harold and Maude)\, Mink Stole ( Polyester)\, and RuPaul (not in drag). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/che erleader-2.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1569@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T170000 DTSTAMP:20240225T173836Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/de-humani-corporis-fabrica-2022/ SUMMARY:De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022) DESCRIPTION:So\, first off\, this movie is not for everyone (see content wa rning at the bottom of description). Rather\, this is an account of surgic al and clinical procedures in a number of Paris hospitals\, with extreme\, graphic closeups and some deeply disturbing images. It gives us explicit images of operations on the eye\, the brain and the penis\, and takes us i nto the surreal\, microsurgical inner-space of the body. Using tiny camera s and amazing medical technology\, the filmmakers (and the viewer) plunge into the viscera of the human body\, flinching at absolutely nothing. That said\, it is an utterly fascinating\, altogether new way to look at life – the human body\, specifically\, and humanity\, generally.\n\nThe New Y ork Times: “A phantasmagorical journey… An eye-opening film…. Throug h these directors’ eyes\, these bodies look wondrous and unsettling\, ma cabre and beautiful\, and often uncannily unfamiliar. Critic’s Pick!”  \n\nThe Los Angeles Times:  "Extraordinary... digs deep into the human body and opens up landscapes as otherworldly – and harrowing – as any you're likely to see. The result is a work of purest corporeal poetry... a nd a remarkably unvarnished\, sympathetic portrait of doctors and nurses a t work."\n\nThe title comes from anatomist Andreas Vesalius’ groundbreak ing study of human anatomy\, published in 1543 with incredibly detailed (a nd\, often\, very odd) drawings of all aspects of the human body. Just as Vesalius opened the human body to science\, so the makers of De Humani Cor poris Fabrica open the human body to the cinema.\n\nCONTENT WARNING: Pleas e be aware that De Humani Corporis Fabrica contains graphic documentary f ootage of surgery and other medical procedures. Viewer discretion is advis ed. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/DeH umani-3-scaled-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1590@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T204500 DTSTAMP:20240321T135745Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-monk-and-the-gun/ SUMMARY:The Monk and The Gun DESCRIPTION:The Monk and The Gun captures the wonder and disruption as Bhut an becomes one of the world’s youngest democracies. Known throughout the world for its extraordinary beauty and its emphasis on Gross National Hap piness\, the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan was the last nation to con nect to the internet and television. And if that weren’t enough change\, the King announced shortly afterwards that he would cede his power to the people via their vote and a new form of government – Democracy.\n\nAn e lderly lama (Kelsang Choejey)\, recognizing that extraordinary change is a bout to sweep through his country\, is troubled by the possible outcomes. He instructs his young disciple Tashi (Tandin Wangchuk) to set forth into the kingdom and bring him two guns before the full moon to “set it right .” The young monk is perplexed by his guru’s request\, and his familia rity with guns is based solely on images from the only film available on t elevision: James Bond. His quest brings him into contact with a scheming A merican gun collector Ron (Harry Einhorn)\, leading to a most unexpected o utcome.\n\nThe film is the second effort from writer/director Pawo Choynin g Dorji\, following his first film\, 2021's Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom \, which was the first Bhutanese film ever nominated for an Oscar (as Best International Feature). The Monk and the Gun made the shortlist of 15 fil ms for the Best International Film Oscar but not the final cut. A devout B uddhist\, Dorji's films are marked by gentleness\, wit and compassion for his characters\, even the stupid gun-collecting American. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/the -Monk-and-the-Gun-feature.jpeg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1591@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240406T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240406T220000 DTSTAMP:20240405T195055Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/2001-a-space-odyssey/ SUMMARY:2001: A Space Odyssey DESCRIPTION:If you’re talking about eclipses on film\, you have to talk a bout 2001: A Space Odyssey.\n\nThe film opens with a staggering shot of th e sun\, earth and moon falling into alignment. Only slowly do you realize that you’re not seeing it from an earthbound perspective. It’s the fir st mind-blowing moment in this masterpiece\, but it’s not the last\, and the movie is only 90 seconds old. \n\nNot just the best movie ever set ( partly) in outer space\, but a clear contender for the best movie ever mad e\, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey continues to enthrall even 5 6 years after its release. If anything\, the movie is more prescient than ever\, drawing parallels between Hal the malevolent computer and our curre nt social conversation about artificial intelligence.\n\nVoted the best fi lm ever by 480 filmmakers in Sight &\; Sound magazine in 2022\, the fil m’s audacious use of music\, phenomenal sets\, trippy LSD-ish visual eff ects\, knockout costumes from ape-suits to spacesuits\, and willingness to tackle the big questions (such as\, “Where did humanity come from?”) make it a unique experience.\n\nWhether seeing the film for the 10th or\, if you’re lucky enough\, the first time\, it is a magical\, splendiferou s cinematic adventure\, one-of-a-kind and still unequaled.\n\nRegister her e to receive your free tickets - 2001: A Space Oddyssey ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Obs curaBTV_VTIFF-Films_2001_Screeningroom.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.47627869999999;-73.21286079999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=149 Church Street\, Burling ton\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Contois Audito rium:geo:44.47627869999999,-73.21286079999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1592@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T160000 DTSTAMP:20240405T194541Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/moonflix-matinee/ SUMMARY:Moonflix Matinee: 100 Years of Short Films About the Moon DESCRIPTION:From the silent era to present-day Pixar\, here’s a great col lection of family-friendly short films about the moon.\n\nThe Eclipse\, or the Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)\, 9 minutes\nDirected by the gre at genius of early cinema\, Georges Melies\, this whimsical and hilarious silent film from 117 years ago (!!) opens with a classic re-enactment of a n eclipse\, featuring a devilish sun and impish moon. \n\nMoonland (1926) \, 10 minutes\nA boy and his dog take a trip to the Moon\, where they enco unter cranky bald spirits\, giant mushrooms\, castles\, and a guy who look s mysteriously like the Wizard of Oz. This silent short by Neil McGuire fe atures glorious fantasy backdrops and oozes imagination from every frame.  \n\nHaredevil Hare (1948)\, 8 minutes\nA classic Bugs Bunny cartoon crea ted by the great Chuck Jones\, Haredevil Hare is one of the best Looney Tu nes ever\, which means it’s a highwater mark in American comedy.. Bugs i s the first rabbit on the moon\, but must deal with a particularly hostile and hilarious alien. \n\nA Grand Day Out\, featuring Wallace &\; Grom it (1989)\, 23 minutes\nThe first of Nick Park’s claymation Wallace & \; Gromit films\, and still among the funniest. Cheese- loving inventor Wa llace and his dog Gromit run out of cheese. Believing the moon is made of cheese\, they build a rocket and fly to the Moon\, where they encounter a coin-operated robot.\n\nLa Luna (2011)\, 7 minutes\nA beautiful Pixar shor t about a young boy who ventures out on a boat with his father and grandfa ther\, and ends up on the moon. Loosely based on a story by Italo Calvino\ , the film meshes analog elements such as watercolor backdrops into its pa lette\, which was influenced by Hayao Miyazaki’s anime and Italian carto onist Osvaldo Cavandoli (aka Cava).\n\nSponsored by:\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Obs curaBTV_VTIFF-Films-Moonflix_screeningroom.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1570@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T201500 DTSTAMP:20240410T184442Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/opening-night/ SUMMARY:Opening Night DESCRIPTION:This screening is SOLD OUT.\n\n \;\n\n\nI Have Something to Get Off My Chest | Cedar O'Dowd | 8:21 | VT\n*Made Here Fund Awardee*\nA trans man heals from surgery. Live action narrative blends with experiment al animation.\n\n \;\n\n\nThe Migrant Body | Paula Gil Higa\, Cal Hopw ood | 12 | VT\nAn examination of human migration and motives for individua l displacement through the creative lens of PH Dance's Artistic Director\, Paula Higa\, deriving from her personal experience as a dual citizen of B razil and the United States.\n\n \;\n\n\nStillpoint | John Killacky | 3:05 | VT\n*Jury Honorable Mention*\nA visual poem rumination on living wi th chronic pain.\n\n \;\n\n\nM. T. Nestor | John Schlag | 16:38 | VT\n *Jury Honorable Mention*\nAn android has trouble accepting the loss of his owner\, until he finds a way to give her a new life. A humorous\, subtle and - surprisingly - a human tale.\n*East Coast Premiere*\n\n \;\n\n\n Grafton | Bryan Santiago | 26:06 | VT\n*Jury Honorable Mention*\nA psychol ogical thriller about a woman who gets lost on the interstate and stumbles upon a small town where she reluctantly assumes the identity of someone e lse.\n\n \;\n\n\nLove of the Land | Travis Van Alstyne | 8:38 | VT\n*M ade Here Fund Awardee*\nA short animated film based on the true and tragic story of VT farmer Romaine Tenney.\n\n \;\n\n\nConnected | Chad Ervin | 35:34 | VT\nVermont's Grassroots Effort for Rural Broadband. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MHF F-2024-VTIFF_wrappers_7x_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1571@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T130000 DTSTAMP:20240402T121223Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/roots/ SUMMARY:Roots DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n\nExhumation (Dirt: Part Four)\nDavid Finkelstein | 21 | VT\nPoetic imagery\, music\, and invocatory language\, follow two men in a series of esoteric experiments. A poetic meditation on our relation to the soil and the energies buried within it.\n\n \;\n\n\nBloodroot\n Lukas Huffman | 16 | VT\nOver the course of their lives\, two brothers com e to terms with their kinship and mortality.\n\n \;\n\n\nOh Sirop \nMa rie Côté | 14:13 | QC\nWith the end of Quebec winter comes the maple sea son and its traditions centered around the sugar shack. An encounter with families that have been producing maple syrup professionally or artisanall y for decades.\n\n \;\n\n\nThe Shadows of Paper Trees\nAida Daneshvar\ , Christopher Dreisbach | 6:30 | VT\nA film odyssey that illustrates\, int erprets\, and illuminates verses from “Panjereh” (Window) by the late\ , legendary Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad.\n\n \;\n\n\nBaile Do Los Diablos\nVictoria Simone | 16:20 | MA\nIn a small jungle town the Dance of the Devils is a celebration of the continued existence of the Borucan peo ple who successfully resisted Spanish invasion.\n\n \n\n\nThe Ruse (La Ru se)\nJohane Prégent | 10:45 | QC\nClara\, 14-year-old\, eats her lunch ev ery day hidden away in the school bathroom. In the eyes of her peers\, she ’s a bitch. Then 12-year-old Felix stumbles into HER safe place. They ma ke up a strategy to change their fates. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ROO TS_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1572@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T151500 DTSTAMP:20240402T121253Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/discussion-reimagining-the-outdoors/ SUMMARY:Discussion: Reimagining The Outdoors DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nIf you‘ve ever watched cable\, you’ve seen the o utdoors depicted as the place we go to conquer nature. Michael Rosenfeld\, executive producer of America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston\, discusse s how the PBS series dug deeper—revealing the surprising ways we interac t with the outdoors today. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Ros enfeld-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1593@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T171500 DTSTAMP:20240402T121323Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/quiet-time-1/ SUMMARY:Quiet Time DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n\nToday We Climbed a Hill\nGordon LePage | 7:31 | ME \nTwo mice build a mountain to reach a box of Corn Flakes.\n\n \;\n\n\ nThe Quietest Year\nKaren Akins | 74 | VT\n*Vermont Premiere*\nMade during the pandemic\, Akins’ darkly quirky personal quest to curb noise pollut ion in her quaint Vermont village uncovers dire consequences for noise reg ulation\, an urgent yet overlooked crisis for both public health and civil society. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Qui et-Time_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1574@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T204500 DTSTAMP:20240402T121347Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bitter-sweet/ SUMMARY:Bitter Sweet DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n\nZeppo!\nNoah Mauchly | 9:44 | NH\n*Jury Special Me ntion*\nZeppo finds a balloon and is overwhelmed with joy. After tragedy s trikes\, the cruel mundanity of life takes control once again\, leading Ze ppo down a surreal path of self acceptance.\n\n \;\n\n\nNice People\nJ eff Griecci | 95 | ME\nOld lovers reunite\, a friendship is betrayed\, a p et is killed\, a runaway discovered\, and a co-worker comes back from the dead in these droll interconnected tales about suffering from kindness. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Bit ter-Sweet_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Short + Feature,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1575@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T121500 DTSTAMP:20240402T121426Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/workshop-crowdfunding-to-build-independence/ SUMMARY:Workshop: Crowdfunding to Build Independence DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nJoin Seed&\;Spark Founder and CEO Emily Best and Vermont filmmaker Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas to learn more about crowdfundin g.\n\nMost people think about crowdfunding simply as a fundraising tool\, but it's so much more than that. Discover how to have a successful crowdfu nding campaign. You’ll learn how to find your audience\, structure your crowdfunding campaign\, pick the right goal and incentives\, and more. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Wor kshop-Thumbnail.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1576@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T141500 DTSTAMP:20240402T121448Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/workshop-the-art-of-the-pitch/ SUMMARY:Workshop: The Art of the Pitch DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nSeed&\;Spark Founder and CEO Emily Best leads a d iscussion about project pitching. Knowing how to convey the specifics abou t your project in a dynamic\, succinct way can land you not only investors \, but collaborators\, audience members\, and more. Skills learned: how to prepare for a pitch meeting\, how to adapt your pitch to different audien ces\, and how to follow up\, setting your work up for success. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Emi lyBest-Art-of-the-Pitch-Main.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1577@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T160000 DTSTAMP:20240402T121533Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/discussion-music-in-film/ SUMMARY:Discussion: Music in Film DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nLearn all the ins and outs of music licensing and us age in film from Rick Clark\, a long-time music producer and industry prof essional from Nashville\,Tennessee. Rick is joined by Vermont musicians To m Pearo and Neil Cleary with Big Heavy World\, to discuss their Vermont mu sic licensing platform.\n\n* Sponsored by Mike Gordon * ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mai n-Rick-Clark-Music-Supervisor-Dark-Winds-photo-credit-AJ-Holmes-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1578@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T180000 DTSTAMP:20240412T181549Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/up-and-down/ SUMMARY:Up and Down DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out\n\n\nThe World Is Ours (Le Monde Est A Elles)\nNadia Louis-Desmarchais | 21:27 | QC\nSix Montreal teenage girl s with symptoms of anxiety and depression\, leave their urban environment for the first time to take part in a nature canoe-camping expedition.\n\n& nbsp\;\n\n\nWeight\, What?\nSarah Furie | 28:12 | MA\nImagine you diligent ly and dedicatedly work for a company\, and suddenly they fire you solely for the way you look. You’ve gained weight and they don’t want you on their payroll any longer. It’s 100% legal here in Massachusetts.\n\n&nbs p\;\n\n\nThirty-Second Season\nCharles-Emile LaFrance | 18:46 | QC\nNorman d lost his wife Alexandra eight years ago and has been isolated in his apa rtment since. His longtime solitude is interrupted when an old friend walk s in with his camera.\n\n \;\n\n\nThe Shadow Tale\nSusan Chasen | 17:3 9 | MA\n*VTIFF Award for Best Experimental Film*\nCreating a living animal from the inside out is not easy. It takes devotion\, craft\, and care. Bu t even with all of that\, results cannot be controlled\, and can be heartb reaking.\n\n \;\n\n\nClitoris Andromeda\nAbigail Wilkins | 15:07 | VT\ nAfter dropping out of college mid-semester\, Shayla moves back home to Mi nnesota and begins cam girling under the noses of her parents. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Up- and-Down_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1579@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T211500 DTSTAMP:20240412T180302Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/transformations-2/ SUMMARY:Transformations DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out\n\n\nThe Dam (Barrage)\nRémi Fréch ette | 19 min | QC\nIn 1964\, during the construction of an electric dam\, a macabre discovery causes a serious incident. Raymond and Fleurian are s ent to the site to repair it.\n\n \;\n\n\nThe Yorkie Werewolf\nMichael DiBiasio-Ornelas | 74 min | VT\nA rebellious teen witch is turned into a tiny werewolf and thrown into the middle of a decades-old war between one small town's creatures of the night -- and the local mafia. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Tra nsformations_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Short + Feature LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1580@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T123000 DTSTAMP:20240410T184300Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/special-event-screenwriting-incubator/ SUMMARY:Special Event: Screenwriting Incubator DESCRIPTION:This special event is SOLD OUT!\n\n\n\nThe Vermont Production C ollective (VPC) presents: A Staged Reading Of New Vermont-based Screenplay s\n\nVPC invites you to a Staged Reading of selected scenes from new works for film\, developed over the last nine months in the Vermont Screenplay Incubator by 5 local screenwriters. The stories\, while all set in Vermont \, will transport us back in time\, from a deep dive into how federal deci sions affected a rural VT farmer in the 1960s\, to what was really on the mind of teenagers in the 1980s. Other stories explore what actions an ever -changing physical appearance may drive someone to take\, why another may choose a quiet life in the Green Mountains\, and even give us answers as t o how the Vatican’s powers could reach Barre. A cohort of local actors w ill bring the scenes to life and provide you with a look into the filmmaki ng process for narrative fiction films.\n\nJoin us to determine who wins t he ‘audience award’ sponsored by FastLights and Vermont Magazine\, whi ch will help support production of the winning film.\n\n\n*The award will be announced at the 5:30pm Filmmakers’ Reception on Saturday\, sponsored by VPC*\n\n\nSolve for X and Why - Written by Marianne DiMascio\n\nThe Is land of Misfit Toys - Written by Ben Johnson\n\nMetamorphosizer - Written by Billy Bob Thompson\n\nWindmill Hill - Written by Sam T. McFarland\n\nI Am My Domain - Written by Sean Kirby*\n\n*The project\, I Am My Domain\, i s supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council\, the National Endowment f or the Arts\, and the Vermont Community Foundation. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Eve nt-Incubator_square.png CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Special Event LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1581@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T130000 DTSTAMP:20240410T184426Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/workshop-first-day-on-set/ SUMMARY:Workshop: First Day On Set: What To Know When You’re Getting Star ted In The Film Industry DESCRIPTION:This workshop is SOLD OUT.\n\nLocation: The Media Factory \nIn this presentation and hands-on workshop\, Women in Film and Video New Engl and (WIFVNE)\, President Emerita and Line Producer Alecia Orsini and Camer a Operator and Rental Tech at Talamas\, Scott Lebeda\, walk you through so me of the lingo\, gear\, safety procedures\, and best practices for becomi ng a production assistant.\n\nThis workshop is presented by Women in Film and Video New England (WIFVNE) and hosted by Media Factory.\n\n*Space i s limited. Be sure to book early* ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/mai n-mediafactoryworkshop.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:The Media Factory\, 208 Flynn Ave Suite 2G\, Burlington\, VT\, 054 01\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=208 Flynn Ave Suite 2G\, Bu rlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The Media Factory:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1582@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T140000 DTSTAMP:20240402T121729Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/workshop-lighting-for-the-camera/ SUMMARY:Workshop: Lighting for the Camera DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nLocation: Driven Studio\n\nJoin Pat Wright\, lightin g professional at Driven Studio\, for a demonstration of different lightin g techniques\, including interview and product lighting. \n\n*Space is ve ry limited. Be sure to book early* ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Pat -Wright-Lighting-workshop-Driven-thumb-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Driven Studio\, 180 Flynn Avenue\, Unit 8\, Burlington\, VT\, 0540 1\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Avenue\, Unit 8\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Driven Studio:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1583@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T143000 DTSTAMP:20240402T121756Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/unexpected/ SUMMARY:Unexpected DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n\nClear Results\nSeth Jarvis | 3:21 | VT\nWhen you n eed to be sure\, choose Clear Results Home Pregnancy Test.\n\n \;\n\n\ nA Shit Day (Jour De Merde) \nKevin T. Landry | 91:21 | QC\n*Jury Honorabl e Mention*\nA single mother\, drowning under the abuses of her ex-husband is sent by her condescending boss to the middle of nowhere to interview a strange hermit. Darkly humorous and surreal events ensue\, setting up an a bsurdly rotten day for both of them. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Une xpected_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1584@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T164500 DTSTAMP:20240421T191320Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/separation/ SUMMARY:Separation DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n\nCicada - Winner of the MHFF 2024 Audience Favorite Award\nMatteo Moretti | 13:23 | RI\nAfter losing his wife\, Papou reconci les with a changed sense of belonging as he returns to his home village wi thout her. A tender portrait of Moretti’s Greek grandparents. \n\n  \;\n\n\nMy Tomato Heart (Mon Coeur De Tomate)\nBenôit Le Rouzès Ménard | 14:57 | QC\nMadeleine is forced to quit her position at the neighborhood grocery store. Except that her job is her whole life\, her only family. S he spends her last days at work fighting to save what is dear to her heart .\n\n \;\n\n\nAn Occurrence\nDien Vo | 17:25 | QC\nA distant\, cultura lly-mixed family attempts a ceremonial day together. Lifelong emotions sur face through small gestures\, while the world around them keeps changing a nd carries on\n\n \;\n\n\nRough Blazing Star \nChristopher Wiersema | 29 | VT\n* Winner\, Vermont Public Award for Best Documentary *\nThrough a poetic inquiry responding to texts and research\, the film creates a rich tapestry that weaves through anarchism\, memory\, Emma Goldman\, local hi story of Barre in VT\, and a shared love of flowers.\n\n \;\n\n\nThe C aptain’s Dream (La Reve Du Capitaine)\nCharles Gourde\, Yuan Zha | 15 | QC\n* VTIFF Board of Directors Award for Best Fiction *\nFinally\, the cap tain of a submarine is about to find the mythical fish that will bring him glory. However\, his past reveals the reasons that motivated him to leave \, thus questioning the very basis of his quest for happiness. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sep aration_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1585@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T210000 DTSTAMP:20240413T211809Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/gamma-rays/ SUMMARY:Gamma Rays (Les Rayons Gamma) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out\n* VTIFF Award for Best Fiction *\n\ nFilmed with non-professional actors from immigrant communities\, the film follows three young people\, each discovering their own path in life. Hum orous and compassionate\, this dramedy is a revelation. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Gam ma-Rays_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1588@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T124500 DTSTAMP:20240402T122052Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/illusions/ SUMMARY:Illusions DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n\nHuguette: A Story In Hifi (Huguette En Hifi)\nDavi d Dufresne-Denis | 8:55 | QC\nWe don’t see much of Huguette in our famil y home movies. This is the story of a woman\, a mother\, a grandmother who has been worried all her life.\n\n \;\n\n\nLarsen\nSarah Toussaint-L éveillé | 7 | QC\nArielle\, 35\, is depressed. She invites two friends t o dinner. Ashamed of the mess in her apartment\, she tries to tackle her d irty dishes but fails. Magically they continue to pile up and overwhelm he r.\n\n \;\n\n\nThe Last Rhino (Le Dernier Rhinoceros)\nGuillaume Harve y | 19:02 | QC\nThe last of the northern white rhinos is dead. Lili\, a 70 year-old grandmother\, led a comfortable retired life until hearing this devastating news. An original and drôle take on a serious issue.\n\n  \;\n\n\nFork Man\nAdam Henry Garcia | 6:25 | VT\nFork Man gives voice to a character from Beauty and the Beast who did not have an enchanted experie nce at the castle. Quite the opposite in fact.\n\n \;\n\n\nThe Flower Darkens (A La Fontaine)\nPhilippe Berthelet | 13:30 | QC\nAlice\, a high s chool senior\, is uncertain about her own talent and ambition. She seeks c omfort from her mother\, and her friend Julien’s music. News delivered b y the school principal marks the start of a complex relationship with abse nt grief. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Ill usions_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1587@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T150000 DTSTAMP:20240402T122122Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/identity/ SUMMARY:Identity DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n\nAudishun \nMarianne DiMascio | 4:54 | VT\nA woman auditions for a groundbreaking new play.\n\n \;\n\n\nThe Weenies (Les Roteuses)\nGarance Chagnon-Grégoire | 13:25 | QC\nPhilomène and Carolann e are the anti-capitalist feminist punk-rock group «The Weenies». After a fiery argument both their friendship and their highly (un)anticipated gi g are put at risk.\n\n \;\n\n\nMemory Game (Jeu De Memoire)\nDirected by Philippe Cormier | 8:06 | QC\nThe story of the fall from grace of Andr é\, an aging visual artist preparing to leave his life’s work to a muse um but whose dark past is exposed by his children.\n\n \;\n\n\nFriend Of A Friend (Ami D’ami)\nSimon Gualtieri | 15 | QC\nJules is bi. Bi as i n bisexual. Bi\, even though he’s only slept with women. Bi and ready to try his first experience with Samuel\, a friend of friend.\n\n \;\n\n \nDragon Agent-Wreckers of Boston\nGordon LePage | 8:32| ME\nTwo dragon br others from Boston try using AI to replace their agent. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Ide ntity_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1589@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T173000 DTSTAMP:20240402T122150Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/just-getting-by/ SUMMARY:Just Getting By DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nJust Getting By is a sweeping and yet intimate look at the lives of Vermonters who are struggling with food and housing insecu rity. The film explores the day-to-day challenges and incredible resilienc y that low-income Vermonters bear witness to every day. Just Getting By sh eds light on an often hidden Vermont population persevering against all od ds to feed and house themselves and their families. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Jus t-Getting-By_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1586@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T194500 DTSTAMP:20240402T122217Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/saras-circus/ SUMMARY:Sara’s Circus DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nSara Morgan Greene is a 20­-year circus veteran\, a nd 43-year-old single mother\, with a big dream—to start her own tented circus. She decides that now is the time to fulfill it before her mentor a nd stepmother Soos passes away. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sar as-Circus_1920x1005px.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,Shorts LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1594@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T140000 DTSTAMP:20240420T142506Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rick-winston-book-event/ SUMMARY:Save Me a Seat: A Rick Winston Book Event DESCRIPTION:Vermont's film scene would be an entirely different and much le sser animal without Rick Winston's contributions. The New-York-born Winsto n arrived in Vermont in 1970 and quickly founded the Lightning Ridge Film Society\, which then became Montpelier's iconic Savoy Theater. Winston was a founder of the Green Mountain Film Festival and its Programming Directo r until 2012. He's captured these and many more experiences in his fantast ic book Save Me a Seat: A Life With Movies\, which he'll be discussing at The Screening Room @ VTIFF on Saturday\, April 20.\n\nThe hour-long event will feature numerous stills from the films that have impacted his life an d work since childhood\, and there will be plenty of time for discussion\, too. He'll focus on how a small-town film society grew into one of Vermon t's most respected and long-running cinemas.\n\nIn case you don't have a c opy of the book\, no worries! Copies of Save Me a Seat will be available f or purchase at the event: $17 cash / $19 card\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ric kWinston-HiRes.jpeg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1595@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240426T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240426T211500 DTSTAMP:20240408T124011Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ray-vega-round-midnight/ SUMMARY:Ray Vega presents…‘Round Midnight DESCRIPTION:For the third installment in his Jazz Soundtracks series\, loca l jazzman Ray Vega offers up this classic from 1986. Propelled by jazz imm ortal Dexter Gordon’s singular\, phenomenal lead performance and Herbie Hancock’s dazzling soundtrack\, Bertrand Tavernier’s ‘Round Midnight is one of the very best movies about jazz\, the music and the people who make it.\n\nIn an Oscar-nominated performance\, Gordon plays Dale Turner\, an American expatriate saxophonist in Paris struggling with addiction. Go rdon essentially re-wrote his character\, adding all manner of wisdom and witticisms to the proceedings\, basing some of his style on his mentor Les ter Young. It’s hard to describe the majesty of Gordon’s performance\, so I’ll let Richard Brody from The New Yorker do it: “The entire film is defined by Gordon’s voice\, gestures\, manner—his sheer presence …Essentially\, Gordon is the movie. It’s not just that he should have had a writing credit\; he’s almost the auteur…His performance remains one of the most distinctive and moving in cinema.”\n\nAgreed.\n\nAnd the music! Hancock won an Oscar for the music\, of course – really\, you al most have to pity the other nominees. The performances\, and there are man y full performances here\, derive much of their power from the director’ s insistence that the music be recorded live as the musicians played it\, so…what you see is what you get. And you get a LOT! In addition to Hanco ck and Gordon\, the film features a veritable who’s who of jazz legends – Wayne Shorter\, Bobby Hutcherson\, Billy Higgins\, Cedar Walton\, Fred die Hubbard\, Ron Carter\, Tony Williams\, etc.\n\n‘Round Midnight has u ndergone a fantastic 4K restoration featuring 5.1 sound\, which will be he ard to great effect in The Screening Room\, which just happens to have 5.1 surround-sound. Trust me\, it sounds good.\n\nSave the date - Tickets to be available soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rou nd-midnight.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1598@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T191500 DTSTAMP:20240420T205844Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/menu-plaisirs-les-troisgros/ SUMMARY:Menu-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros DESCRIPTION:Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest film\, Menus- Plaisirs– Les Troisgros\, is a film about the Troisgros family and their three restaurants: Troisgros\, Le Central and Colline\, located in three neighboring locations in bucolic central France. Troisgros is a legendary restaurant\, founded 93 years ago with a sustaining 3-star Michelin rating for the past 55 years. In 2020\, Troisgros was awarded a Michelin green s tar for exemplary sustainable practices. Much of the film takes place at T roisgros.\n\nThe present chef\, Cesar Troisgros\, is the fourth generation of the family to be in charge at Troisgros. The film shows the day-to-day operations involving the purchase\, preparation and service at this resta urant\, including visits to a cheese processing plant\, a vineyard\, a cat tle ranch working on best farming practices\, and an organic farmer whose farm\, along with the garden of the restaurant\, provides organic produce for the restaurants. The Troisgros family’s interest in biodiversity is illustrated in their choice and preparation of their distinctive menu and their efforts to reduce food waste.\n\nThe film shows the great artistry\, ingenuity\, imagination\, and hard work of the restaurant staff in creati ng\, preparing\, and presenting meals of the highest quality. Additionally \, the collaboration within the Troisgros family is evident as the father\ , Michel\, transfers the leadership in the kitchen to his son\, Cesar and collaborates with his wife\, who runs the hotel and his other son who runs La Colline.\n\nAs is his style\, Wiseman – a pioneer of “direct cinem a” – is unobtrusive\, using the camera to observe and document the sub jects\, rather than critique them. This is his 46th film. There are many c lassics on that list\, and Menu-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros\, is now among them. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/men us.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1599@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T203500 DTSTAMP:20240418T192731Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-peoples-joker/ SUMMARY:The People’s Joker DESCRIPTION:Strictly as a legal undertaking\, The People’s Joker is fasci nating just for the fact of its existence – IndieWire accurately calls i t “one of the most impressive and subversive stretches of fair use law e ver put to film.” Writer/director/star Vera Drew adapts and deeply subve rts the famous DC Comics villain\, taking shots at all variety of trademar ked superheroes…and gets away with it.\n\nThe real miracle is that\, bey ond that\, the movie itself is fabulous\, a deeply\, meaningful and person al take on gender identity tied to an insurgent\, hilarious pop-culture ri ff. The plot: A law-breaking\, not-very-good comedian who is grappling wit h her gender identity forms a new anti-comedy troupe with a friend and fin ds herself battling a totalitarian society and its fascistic caped enforce r\, who you may have heard of.\n\n“The People’s Joker is the best supe rhero movie I’ve ever seen\,” raved Richard Brody of The New Yorker. “Because\, unlike studio-produced films in the genre\, it responds to th e filmmaker’s deep personal concerns.”\n\nThe film parodies 2019’s J oker\, but also draws on Martin Scorsese’s King of Comedy\, mixing glori ously low-rent (and crowdsourced!) animated sequences with equally glam-sh abby live-action material. Animated Lorne Michaels\, voiced by Maria Bamfo rd (really\, how did this thing get made?)\, is particularly amusing\, tho ugh it’s unlikely that Lorne Michaels thinks so.\n\nIt’s the hot-butto n movie of the moment. Come watch it with us. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/peo ple-joker.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1596@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240510T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240510T201500 DTSTAMP:20240420T205438Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bushman/ SUMMARY:Bushman DESCRIPTION:In 1968\, Peace Corps veteran David Schickele enlisted his frie nd Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam to star in a light-hearted comedy about the adve ntures of a young Nigerian intellectual in San Francisco. Using a docu-fic tional style reminiscent of Cassavetes' Shadows\, the film observes the fo ibles of late 1960s African-American culture with an outsider's incisive e ye. The result is less frothy comedy\, and more of a vibrant snapshot of t he nation's racial politics\, from interracial romance to cross-cultural m isunderstandings and countercultural joy.\n\nThe film morphs into a docume ntary when the director's voice abruptly intrudes to narrate its star's en raging fate: Okpokam was accused of a crime he did not commit and was thro wn in prison before being expelled from the country. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/bus hman.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1597@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T204500 DTSTAMP:20240420T210628Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/chameleon-street/ SUMMARY:Chameleon Street DESCRIPTION:This criminally overlooked comic masterpiece finally gets a 4k restoration and the deluxe treatment it deserves!\n\nWendell B. Harris wro te\, directed and starred in this edgy\, hilarious deep-dive into the mind of a brilliant African-American\, William Douglas Street\, a man who seek s to adopt any identity – baseball player\, journalist\, Harvard grad st udent\, even surgeon – other than his own. Harris fully embodies Street\ , a riveting cinematic character\, as he ascends (and descends) through th e social order\, where he is briefly accepted\, then harshly rejected\, at each turn.\n\nHarris tells the story in a creatively shambolic fashion\, with flashbacks\, flash-forwards and voiceovers all combined to dizzying e ffect. Chameleon Street won the Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award in 1990\, then dropped from sight for 30 years. Harris never made another film\, which\, once you've seen this\, will feel like a true loss to Ameri can cinema. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cha melon.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1610@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240601T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240601T204500 DTSTAMP:20240520T133647Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/le-samourai-2/ SUMMARY:Le Samouraï (1967) DESCRIPTION:Everyone has their own idea of cinematic ‘cool’: maybe you think Bogart in The Big Sleep can’t be beat\, or that Brando’s Wild On e is the ultimate\, or that Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley in the Alien franc hise is tops. Hey\, it’s all valid\, but if your list doesn’t have Ala in Delon in Jean-Pierre’s so-cool-it’s-glacial 1967 masterpiece Le Sam ourai\, somewhere on it\, well…your list is defective.\n\nIn a career-de fining performance\, Delon plays Jef Costello\, a contract killer with sam urai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit\, Jef finds hi mself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless emplo yer\, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat – or his seemingl y bottomless well of unshakeable cool – can protect him. \n\nAs elegant ly stylized as it gets\, Le Samouraï is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s A merican gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture with a liberal dose o f Japanese lone-warrior mythology. All of this is overseen by the great Me lville\, who made a heaping helping of other great films – Bob le Flambe ur\, Un Flic\, Le Circle Rouge\, Army of Shadows – but Le Samouraï is t he ultimate distillation of his style and sensibility.\n\nLe Samouraï wi ll be shown in its resplendent new 4K restoration\, so\, like most films i n The Screening Room\, it will look and sound great. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/le- samourai.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1611@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240602T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240602T164500 DTSTAMP:20240521T124325Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sweet-dreams-2023/ SUMMARY:Sweet Dreams (2023) DESCRIPTION:Turns out\, maybe colonialism isn’t so great after all. And E na Sendijarevic’s magnificent Sweet Dreams\, one of the best films of 20 23\, “captures the putrefaction of colonial rule with a morbid sense of humor” (Slant).\n\nSet in the Dutch East Indies at the dawn of the 20th century\, Sweet Dreams focuses on the aftermath of the death of a Dutch su gar-plantation owner. His widow summons their children from the Netherland s for the reading of the will\, believing that the passing-on of the estat e is a mere formality. Surprises await.\n\n"Sweet Dreams is gorgeously sho t\, masterfully composed…its stylised storytelling never ceasing to capt ivate. Comparisons to films like The Favourite and Corsage are inevitable – these films have a great deal in common and sit neatly in the pantheon of great offbeat period pieces.” -- Marina Ashioti\, Little White Lies. \n\nBeautiful to look at\, but with acid running its veins\, Sweet Dreams manages to find a tone that is both enraged and icily detached. There’s a formality to the proceedings\, which are rendered with striking cinemato graphy and sound/production/costume design\, but  Sendijarevic’s vision has plenty of room for playfulness as well\, mixing wit and surrealism wi th its none-too-subtle message.\n\n“Sendijarević and cinematographer E mo Weemhoff craft images so beautiful they’re unnerving.” - Stephen Sa ito\, The Moveable Fest\n\nThe result is a ravishing movie with lots to sa y. This is just the second feature film from Bosnian-Dutch writer/director Ena Sendijarevic\, and she is definitely a major talent to watch. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Scr eenshot-2024-05-19-5.19.44-PM.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1600@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240606T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240606T210000 DTSTAMP:20240517T165513Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-old-oak/ SUMMARY:The Old Oak DESCRIPTION:Believe it or not\, The Old Oak is Ken Loach’s final film. Af ter a career of more than 60 years\, the British director — a two-time P alme d’Or winner whose works include such masterpieces as Kes\, The Wind That Shakes the Barley\, Land and Freedom\, and My Name is Joe — is cal ling it a day.\n\nThat’s the bad news. The good news is that The Old Oak is a more-than-fitting sendoff for such a major filmmaker. It’s a socia l-realist work that wears its lefty politics on its sleeve\, as usual\, an d it delves deeply into character\, managing to be heartfelt and emotional without being sentimental. \n\nA pub owner\, TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) \, struggles to keep afloat in a withering mining town in Northern England . His situation is complicated by the arrival of Syrian refugees\, who are placed in the community’s empty homes. The two communities are wary of each other and the atmosphere is rife with resentment. Both sides are hurt ing\, but bridging the gap proves difficult.\n\nMixing professional actors with newcomers and filming it all on location with a gritty\, uber-realis tic feel\, The Old Oak is unmistakably a Ken Loach film\, and all the bett er for it.\n\n“His late work is unmistakable\, driven by fierce moral cl arity and outrage on behalf of the people whom capitalism and Britain’s government\, supposedly constructed for citizens’ benefit\, have left be hind\,” said The New York Times in its rave review. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Old Oak_photo_1.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1607@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240614T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240614T203000 DTSTAMP:20240522T150116Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/madchen-in-uniform/ SUMMARY:Mädchen in Uniform DESCRIPTION:An absolutely astonishing and hugely important film from 1931\, Madchen in Uniform was written and directed by women\, and features an al l-female cast. A hit in several countries upon its release\, it was suppre ssed by the Nazis\, who attempted to destroy all copies of the film (stupi d Nazis!)\, but it lives on and\, indeed\, retains its power to this very day.\n\nIn an all-girls boarding school\, sensitive new student Manuela fi nds not-unrequited love with her teacher\, Fräulein von Bernburg.  Brimm ing with sensuality and decidedly anti-authoritarian (Nazis hate that)\, M adchen in Uniform is  “one of the few films to have an inherently gay s ensibility\, (and) it is also one of the most central to establishing a hi story of lesbian cinema\,” according to film historian B. Ruby Rich.\n\n In addition to its importance\, it’s just a helluva movie\, beautifully staged\, acted and photographed. It’s more evidence that Weimar Germany was well ahead of the curve in filmmaking and could have challenged the U. S. had it not been for…Nazis. Instead\, the U.S. film industry benefited greatly from the flood of German artists and craftspeople who managed to flee the country.\n\nThe film was popular in the U.S.\, though it almost d idn’t make it to our screens. A push was made to ban the film in the U.S . prior to its premier in 1933\, but the First Lady of New York\, Eleanor Roosevelt\, supported the film\, and the ban failed.\n\nDirector Leontine Sagan left Germany for England in the early 1930s and worked in the London theater\, becoming the first female producer at the famed Drury Lane. Scr eenwriter Christa Winsloe also made it out of Germany but she and her part ner\, author Simone Gentet\, were wrongly accused of being Nazi spies and murdered without trial by French nationalists in 1945.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mad chen.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1602@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240616T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240616T164500 DTSTAMP:20240605T104250Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/drop-dead-gorgeous/ SUMMARY:Drop Dead Gorgeous DESCRIPTION:Comedian Adison Eyring presents this over-the-top satire of bea uty-pageant life\, in which an annual contest in small-town Minnesota turn s ridiculously and hilariously competitive. She’ll tell us why this part icular comedy connected with her.\n\nI bet the cast had something to do wi th it. Who’s in it\, you ask? Well\, how about Ellen Barkin\, Kirsten Du nst\, Allison Janney\, Denise Richards\, Brittany Murphy\, Kirstie Alley a nd Amy Adams. What a cast! Where are Melissa Joan Hart and Sarah Michelle Gellar? They auditioned\, but didn’t make the cut.\n\nThe film was criti cally derided upon its release but has gained steam over the years as a cu lt favorite\, which is not too surprising\, since critics seemed to get ev erything wrong in the ‘90s. Michael Patrick Jann (Let’s Go To Prison!) directed the film\, which takes its place among the frontrunners in the g enre (Little Miss Sunshine\, Miss Congeniality\, Smile).\n\n\n\nAdison Eyr ing is a standup comedian and writer from Houston\, Texas. She's intereste d in diverse storytelling about how absurd it is to be a modern woman. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/dro p-dead.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1608@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T201500 DTSTAMP:20240522T150850Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-queen-1968/ SUMMARY:The Queen (1968) DESCRIPTION:More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race\, this ground-brea king documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant intr oduced audiences to the world of competitive drag. The film takes us backs tage to kiki with the contestants as they rehearse\, throw shade\, and tra nsform into their drag personas in the lead-up to the big event. Organized by LGBTQ icon/activist Flawless Sabrina\, the competition boasted a star- studded panel of judges including Andy Warhol\, Larry Rivers\, and Terry S outhern.\n\nBut perhaps most memorable is an epic diatribe calling out the pageant's bias delivered by Crystal LaBeija\, who would go on to form the influential House of LaBeija\, heavily featured in Paris Is Burning (1990 ). A vibrant piece of queer history and a snapshot of New York in its just -pre-Stonewall moment\, The Queen can now be seen in full resplendence tha nks to a new restoration from the original camera negative. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Scr eenshot-2024-05-20-2.50.30-PM.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1603@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T204500 DTSTAMP:20240605T104630Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/real-genius/ SUMMARY:Real Genius DESCRIPTION:An ‘80s-comedy\, college-coming-of-age flick that’s more in terested in cerebral matters than ways of the flesh is interesting enough. Then when you cross the outstanding director Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl \, Rambling Rose) with the guys who wrote Police Academy\, you get….Real Genius.\n\nVermont comedian Max Higgins loves this movie\, and he’ll te ll us why. Maybe it’s the presence of Val Kilmer in just his second film \, or maybe it’s those liquid nitrogen coins\, or the amazing conclusion involving tricks with lasers. Or maybe it’s because the film was photog raphed by legendary\, Oscar-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond (McCab e &\; Mrs. Miller\, Close Encounters of the Third Kind\, The Deer Hunte r). The only way to find out is to come and see the film.\n\nMax Higgins i s a Burlington-based standup comedian\, artist\, musician\, and comedy pro ducer. He won the 2023 Seven Days readers' choice award ("Daysies")  for "Best Vermont Standup Comedian." ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/rea l.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1613@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240629T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240629T204500 DTSTAMP:20240531T191635Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/happy-together/ SUMMARY:Happy Together DESCRIPTION:One of the most searing romances of the 1990s\, Happy Together\ , Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw\, lushly stylized portrait of a relatio nship in breakdown\, casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheu ng as a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a turbulent cycle of infatuation and destructive jealousy as they break up\, make up\, and fall apart again and again. The title\, in case you haven’t guessed\, is ironic.\n\nSetting out to depict the dynamics of a queer relationship wit h empathy and complexity on the cusp of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong—w hen the country’s LGBT community suddenly faced an uncertain future—Wo ng crafts a feverish look at the life cycle of a love affair that’s by t urns devastating and deliriously romantic.\n\nShot by ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle in both luminous monochrome and luscious saturated color \, Happy Together is an intoxicating exploration of displacement and desir e that swoons with the ache and exhilaration of love at its heart-tearing extremes.\n\nA fabulous film by one of the greatest and most influential f ilmmakers of his time (and ever since) in his creative prime\, Happy Toget her is one of the key films of the ‘90s\, both for what it has to say an d the beautiful\, stylish way it goes about saying it. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/hap pytogether.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1604@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240705T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240705T203000 DTSTAMP:20240605T105103Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/design-for-living/ SUMMARY:Design for Living (1933) DESCRIPTION:A brilliant example of all that we lost when the Hays Code land ed on Hollywood and prevented anything funny from happening from 1934 to 1 968 (with exceptions\, sure)\, Design for Living is a sexy comedy for adul ts…what’s not to love?\n\nWriter/director and funny guy Seth Jarvis pr esents this stone-cold masterpiece of early American talkie comedy.\n\nGar y Cooper\, Fredric March\, and Miriam Hopkins – extraordinarily beautifu l and dapper\, each and every one of them – play a trio of American arti st-wannabes in Paris who enter into a very adult “gentleman’s agree­m ent” (figure it out) in this continental pre-Code comedy\, freely adapte d by Ben Hecht from a play by Noël Coward and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. This film has it all: staggeringly beautiful leads\, an incredible suppor ting cast (Edward Everett Horton!)\, production design to die for\, typica lly gold-standard directorial elegance from the great Lubitsch\, and a per fectly sexy\, racy script laden with glorious one-line asides.\n\nNo wonde r Seth likes it so much.\n\nSeth Jarvis is a writer\, performer\, and thea tarian. He is the director for the sketch comedy troupe Stealing From Work \, as well as a teaching artist for the Vermont Young Playwrights program. An unrepentant movie geek\, Jarvis was the buyer and co-manager for Water front Video during its sixteen-year run. This past spring\, two of his fil ms were shown at VTIFF’s Made Here Film Festival. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/des ign.jpeg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1614@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240706T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240706T201500 DTSTAMP:20240531T194441Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/terrestrial-verses/ SUMMARY:Terrestrial Verses (2024) DESCRIPTION:This audacious film consists of nine scenes\, all single-takes from a static camera\, yet it is utterly riveting. In the vignettes\, all set in Tehran\, nine ordinary Iranians from a variety of backgrounds face off against an unseen\, uncaring and frequently hostile bureaucrat. The ab surdity and horror of authoritarian control is ultimately laid bare. \n\nA new father seeks to register his newborn son under the name David\, but i s told that the name is insufficiently Islamic\; a 20-something rideshare driver caught on camera without a hijab attempts to retrieve her impounded car\; a man with poem tattoos applies for a driver’s license\; an elder ly woman pleads with the police for the return of her beloved dog. None of it goes well. \n\n“Gripping\,” says The New York Times. “Because e ach vignette is no more than a few minutes long and consists of Kafkaesque conversations that border on the absurd\, Terrestrial Verses operates wit h a cumulative effect…When you don’t have much power\, then the tempta tion to lord it over those who have even less is a strong one. Asgari and Khatami seem to know this well\, and manage to make Terrestrial Verses int o something approaching a thriller.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Ter restrial-Verses_still2.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1601@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240711T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240711T213000 DTSTAMP:20240522T142211Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/green-border/ SUMMARY:Green Border DESCRIPTION:In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-calle d “green border” between Belarus and Poland\, refugees from the Middle East and Africa are lured by government propaganda promising easy passage to the European Union. Unable to cross in Europe and unable to turn back\ , they find themselves trapped in a rapidly escalating geopolitical stand- off. An unflinching depiction of the migrant crisis captured in stark blac k and white\, this riveting film explores the intractable issue from multi ple perspectives: a Syrian family fleeing ISIS caught between cruel border guards in both countries\; young guards instructed to brutalize and rejec t the migrants\; and activists who aid the refugees and great personal ris k.\n\nWinner of the Special Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival\, The Green Border is the latest film from the brilliant\, thrice-Oscar-nominated Pol ish director Angieszka Holland\, whose previous work includes Europa\, Eur opa (1990)\, The Secret Garden (1993)\, The Angry Harvest (1985) and In Da rkness (2011)\, as well as handful of episodes of the greatest American TV series ever\, The Wire.\n\nThe film has received largely glowing reviews from the international press\, prior to its June 21 release in the U.S. Th e Evening Standard said that Holland was “Like a skilled conductor\, dir ecting  this large orchestra of players to produce an incredible ensemble work that will remain in the memory long after viewing\,” while Variety called the film  “a heart-in-mouth thriller set on the Polish-Belarusi an border that wraps its social critique in the razor wire of punchy\, int elligent cinematic craft.”\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/gre en-border.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1615@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T210000 DTSTAMP:20240531T195930Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/west-indies-the-fugitive-slaves/ SUMMARY:West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979) DESCRIPTION:There aren’t too many movies like Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty. From 1979\, this musical dramatizes 400 ye ars of French colonialism in Africa through song and dance. Though the sto ry traverses oceans\, the film was shot entirely on a massive replica of a slave ship built in an abandoned factory in Paris.\n\nWest Indies proved a watershed event for African cinema—the continent’s first musical as well as a sui generis amalgam of historical epic\, Broadway revue\, Brecht ian theater\, and joyous agitprop. With the enormous mock slave ship as th e film’s only soundstage\, Hondo mounts intricately choreographed reenac tments and dance numbers to investigate a relentless parade of imperialist oppression. No mere extravaganza\, West Indies is a call to arms for a sp ectacular yet critical cinematic reimagining of an entire people’s histo ry of resistance and struggle.\n\nGiven its explosive subject matter and p resentation\, it’s not hard to see how Hondo frightened the mainstream. His movies struggled to get proper distribution\, and he financed his film s by dubbing American films and becoming the French voices of Morgan Freem an\, Eddie Murphy and Denzel Washington. Few saw West Indies\, despite the fact that everyone who watched it absolutely loved it. \n\nOne such fan is Oscar winner Barry Jenkins\, director of Moonlight\, who’s attempting to get the film to a wider audience.\n\n“I was blown away when I first saw it\, but saddened that this wasn’t something in the canon\,” Jenki ns said. “If you’re a young person who loves movies\, how is this not one of the first five films that someone’s telling you to watch?”\n\nW e’re thrilled to show West Indies: Fugitive Slaves of Liberty in The Scr eening Room @VTIFF and we certainly hope you’ll join us.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Wes tIndies_image_06.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1609@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240714T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240714T163000 DTSTAMP:20240613T180426Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cries-whispers-1973/ SUMMARY:Cries & Whispers (1972) DESCRIPTION:It’s Ingmar Bergman’s Birthday!!\n\nSince we’ve been high lighting comedians and comedies in recent weeks\, it seemed like a good id ea to throw in a movie that has not one single laugh or moment of levity i n it anywhere. Plus\, it’s Ingmar Bergman’s birthday\, so…Cries & \; Whispers! And while it may not have laughs\, it’s one of the greatest films ever made (imho).\n\nIn a country house in turn-of-the-20th-century rural Sweden\, a woman is dying of cancer. Her two sisters and her maid t end to her. That’s pretty much it\, except for the harrowing deep dive y ou take into the souls of all these women\, and feel all the pain\, rage\, yearning\, disconnectedness\, fear\, passion and love that they’re most ly unable or forbidden to express.\n\nOther than Kari Sylwan – a dancer who so fabulously plays the role of the maid\, Anna – the three main lea ds are major players in Bergman’s repertory company: Liv Ullmann (12 fil ms with Bergman)\, Harriett Andersson (9 films) and Ingrid Thulin (9 films ).  They are simply breathtaking\, acting at a level that’s hard to con ceive\, but a pleasure to behold. They convey these women just by being. T hey say more while sitting still than most actors do with a three-page mon ologue.\n\nThe film was distributed in the U.S. by the late\, great Roger Corman (thanks for everything and RIP\, Roger!!)\, whose usual fare was al ong the lines of Student Nurses and Caged Heat. He jumped at the chance to bring Bergman’s film to the U.S. It turned out to be the most unlikely of hits. A humorless Swedish movie about a woman dying of cancer? A movie with almost no music but plenty of ticking clocks and painful shrieks? It not only made money\, it fully crossed into the mainstream\, earning Oscar nominations for Best Picture\, Best Director and Best Screenplay\, and wi nning the fully deserved Best Cinematography Oscar for Sven Nykvist (in fa ct\, if you’ve ever wondered why The Screening Room is red\, this movie is the answer).\n\nAs is our birthday-screening tradition\, please stay wi th us afterwards for birthday cake and a round of “Happy Birthday.” In gmar would’ve wanted it that way! ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Cri es-Whispers-new-site.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1605@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240802T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240802T203000 DTSTAMP:20240730T132005Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/harold-maude/ SUMMARY:Harold & Maude (1971) DESCRIPTION:Two funeral-crashers – a teenaged boy and an elderly woman (B ud Cort and Ruth Gordon\, respectively\, both utterly fabulous) – develo p a deep relationship in this classic ‘70s comedy from Hal Ashby. The hu mor is dark-dark-dark – there’s death everywhere\, and much of guffaw- humor comes from Harold’s increasingly elaborate and hysterical fake-sui cide attempts – but there’s a very human heart in the movie.\n\nWriter /performer Marianne DiMascio thinks this film is quite funny\, and plucked it from a longer list of films\, all of them hilarious. Why? Come watch t he movie and she’ll explain.\n\nLooking back\, it’s hard to believe th at this film didn’t secure Oscar nominations for Best Actress (Ruth Gord on)\, Best Original Screenplay (Colin Higgins)\, or Best Scoring Adaptatio n and Original Song Score (Cat Stevens)\, but…so it goes. For director A shby\, the film launched him into an amazing decade\, in which he would he lm such classics as The Last Detail\, Shampoo\, Coming Home and Being Ther e (wow!).\n\nThe film was a commercial disappointment and received notable negative reviews from Vincent Canby at The New York Times and Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times. But from those ashes rose one of the original c ult films\, which caught on with a young audience that flocked to midnight screenings for years afterward\, actually putting the film into the black in 1983.  A theater in Italy has been showing the film non-stop (except for Covid) since its release in 1971.\n\n\nMarianne DiMascio is the writer for Stealing from Work\, a Vermont-based sketch comedy troupe. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/har oldmaude_1280.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1616@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240803T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240803T161500 DTSTAMP:20240730T131818Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/paris-is-burning-1990/ SUMMARY:Paris Is Burning (1990) DESCRIPTION:Presented by drag artist Rhedd Rhumm as part of the ongoing “ Queer Coming-Out Stories\,” Paris Is Burning chronicles NYC's ball cultu re\, and addresses some pressing questions\, such as: Where does voguing c ome from\, and what\, exactly\, is throwing shade? This landmark documenta ry provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York C ity’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene. Made over seve n years\, Paris Is Burning offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses\,” from fierce contests for trophies\, to house mothers offeri ng sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia and transphobia\, racism\ , AIDS\, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers\, drag queens\, and tran s women—including Willi Ninja\, Pepper LaBeija\, Dorian Corey\, and Venu s Xtravaganza—Paris Is Burning brings it\, celebrating the joy of moveme nt\, the force of eloquence\, and the draw of community.\n\n\n\nRhedd Rhum m is a Host and performer from the Burlington area. She has produced shows such as her Drag me to the Shore shows at Higher Ground\, and her JOY sho ws which celebrate Juneteenth and an all black cast. She is also a LGBTQ+ Health Educator and Harm Reductionist. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/100 0001055.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1618@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240807T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240807T204500 DTSTAMP:20240727T002920Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/crossing/ SUMMARY:Crossing DESCRIPTION:From acclaimed director Levan Akin (And Then We Danced)\, Cross ing is a moving and tender tale of identity\, acceptance\, and unlikely co nnection that transcends borders and generations. Lia\, a retired school t eacher living in Georgia\, hears from a young neighbor Achi that her long lost niece\, Tekla\, a transgender woman\, has crossed the border into Tur key. Hoping to bring Tekla home after a period of estrangement\, Lia trave ls to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi to find her. Exploring the hidd en depths of the city\, they cross paths with a transgender lawyer called Evrim\, who helps them in their search. Humanistic and compassionate\, Aki n’s third feature is a heartfelt portrayal of overcoming the degrees of separation that divide us.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CRO SSING_Still-1.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1606@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240811T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240811T163000 DTSTAMP:20240730T131930Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-incredible-shrinking-woman/ SUMMARY:The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) DESCRIPTION:The great Lily Tomlin does her thing in this comedy\, written b y Tomlin’s longtime creative partner Jane Wagner. This creative mix of p hysical comedy\, satire\, sci-fi and social commentary baffled critics whe n it came out in 1981\, but has achieved cult status in the intervening de cades.\n\nTomlin plays Pat Kramer\, a suburban California housewife who ge ts chemical poisoning from household products\, shrinks to a miniscule siz e\, then becomes a media darling. Tomlin is helped out by a strong support ing cast featuring Ned Beatty\, Charles Grodin and Henry Gibson.\n\nAmy Ha lpin Riley is the Co-Founder of Full Circle Theater Collaborative. As an a rtist educator\, she has served as Director of Education for Vermont Stage and Producing Artistic Director of the Flynn Youth Theater Company. She s tudied at the Second City Conservatory in Chicago\, then moved to NYC and joined the Uprights Citizens Brigade. Locally\, Amy has performed with Ver mont Stage\, Stealing From Work and is a regular performer at the Vermont Comedy Club. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/lil y.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1612@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240816T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240816T203000 DTSTAMP:20240730T131900Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/king-creole/ SUMMARY:King Creole DESCRIPTION:"An Elvis movie? Really?!"\nYes\, absolutely. It’s true that\ , as a rule\, Elvis movies are terrible. Who’d argue with that? They ten d to be lazy enterprises with cookie-cutter scripts\, embarrassing songs\, mediocre production values\, baked-in misogyny\, and deeply uninspired – and often utterly indifferent – performances from Big El himself.\nB ut King Creole\, his fourth film\, is fabulous\, I swear. Really!\n\nIt’ s one of two actually GOOD Elvis movies (Jailhouse Rock being the other). I’ll grant you that 2 out of 31 is not a very good batting average (.064 )\, but taken on its own merits\, King Creole is a fabulous entry in the c anon of 1950s Juvenile-Delinquent/Rock &\; Roll movies.\n\nWhat does th is movie have that other Elvis movies don’t? Let’s list them:\n-- A re al director\, Michael Curtiz. The guy won the Oscar for directing Casablan ca – Casablanca\, for god’s sake!! – and helmed such classics as The Adventures of Robin Hood\, Yankee Doodle Dandy\, Captain Blood\, Mildred Pierce\, and White Christmas. He was a highly qualified pro with a proven track record\, not the usual Elvis hack (sorry\, Norman Taurog).\n\n-- A q uality villain\, Walter Matthau. He’s Maxie Fields\, the evil mob boss o f New Orleans\, and maybe that sounds ridiculous if Bad News Bears is your Matthau touchstone\, but he’s a very fine actor (Oscar winner\, fwiw) a nd he has no trouble oozing menace.\n\n-- An alluring femme fatale\, Carol yn Jones. Elvis movies are well-known for being populated by flavor-of-the -month actresses with a certain physical unanimity – yes\, Ann-Margret i s a clear exception – but Carolyn Jones\, the future Morticia Adams\, is several cuts above. As female characters in Elvis movies go (a low bar\, admittedly)\, her take on the self-loathing\, tortured gun moll who just w ants to be good is downright deep.\n\n-- Songs that are grounded in the pl ot. Mostly Elvis performs on stage because he plays a performer\, and the other musical numbers – like the fabulous duet with the crawfish vendor or that weird drugstore-robbery-with-acoustic-guitar – are based on musi cal interactions. None of that egregious stuff like him singing “A Dog ’s Life” with full backing band while piloting a helicopter full of do gs in Paradise Hawaiian Style…I mean\, that’s just stupid!\n\n-- A mod erately believable plot. Is 23-year-old Elvis a bit old to be playing high -school senior Danny? Yeah\, maybe. But the New Orleans locale\, and Elvis ’ moral struggles with family\, art\, love and crime actually make sense \, for a change.\n\n-- Good songs. These are blues-drenched\, R&\;B-hea vy rock songs\, many of them written by the legendary team of Lieber &\ ; Stoller\, making for that rare Elvis movie for which the standalone soun dtrack is a valuable addition to a record collection. There’s not a “Q ueenie Wahine’s Papaya” or “No Room To Rhumba in a Sports Car” or “Yoga Is As Yoga Does” to be found.\n\n-- A good performance from Elvi s. Stranger things have happened\, and Elvis responds to the quality mater ial by bringing his brooding A-game. Is he on par with Brando or James Dea n? Well\, no. But is he thoroughly believable as a sullen loner prone to f its of violent rage who can drive a crowd wild with an off-the-cuff versio n of “Trouble”? Hell\, yeah!\n\n-- Absolutely rocking musical sequence s. On tunes like “Crawfish\,” “Trouble\,” “Hard Headed Woman\, ” Elvis is absolutely electric\, and it’s easy to see what America saw in the young man.\nSo\, for one day\, let’s set aside his complicated l egacy and just enjoy what Elvis Presley did well (i.e.\, that rock &\; roll thing). We’ll have some treats to commemorate\, probably involving peanut butter and bananas (his favorite)\, though certainly not fried. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/kin g-creole-elvis-presley-1108x0-c-default2.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1617@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240901T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240901T170000 DTSTAMP:20240731T180814Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/saved-2004/ SUMMARY:Saved! (2004) DESCRIPTION:As part of VTIFF’s ongoing “Queer Coming-Out Stories\,” E moji Nightmare presents this 2004 comedy\, which offers a set-up along the lines of: what if Heathers or Mean Girls took place a Christian school? W hen Mary (Jena Malone)\, a Christian high-school student\, attempts to 'cu re' her friend of his homosexuality\, it backfires and she ends up pregnan t. This satire has some pointed things to say about organized religion and hypocrisy\, but its essential point is that we’re actually not all that different\, and\, as screenwriter Michael Urban said\, “The film is abo ut how having a crisis of faith is really the only way to affirm one’s f aith.” This one has quite the cast with Macaulay Culkin\, Heather Matara zzo\, Eva Amurri\, plus a scene-stealing turn from Mandy Moore as the loud est worshipper in school (in a role originally intended for Anne Hathaway) . Critic Michael Sragow said “Saved! is the audacious feel-good satire o f 2004.”\n\n\nEmoji Nightmare (Justin Marsh) has been performing across Vermont and the region since 2015 and is one of the state’s leading drag entertainers. She has hosted\, performed in\, and/or produced several maj or events over the past decade\, including New Queers Eve\, Pride Ball\, F irst Friday\, Glitter &\; Duct Tape\, The Vermont Pride Festival\, Pain t: A Drag Cabaret\, Queen City Drag Cabaret\, Queer Pop-Up Dance Party\, a nd SASS. She is a frequent guest on Amber Live! and a multi-year nominee f or Seven Days’ annual Daysies Awards for Best Drag Performer in Vermont. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/sav ed-1024x653-1.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1619@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240904T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240904T210000 DTSTAMP:20240904T210141Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sugarcane/ SUMMARY:Sugarcane (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening of Sugarcane is sold out. \nA stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life\, Sugarcane\, th e debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie\, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of internatio nal reckoning. In 2021\, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Can ada. After years of silence\, the forced separation\, assimilation and abu se many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brou ght to light\, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to des troy Indigenous communities. Set amidst a groundbreaking investigation\, S ugarcane illuminates the beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergen erational trauma and finding the strength to persevere.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GB_ MSPIFF43_Sugarcane_1920x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1621@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240913T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240913T190000 DTSTAMP:20240910T151611Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-woman-under-the-influence/ SUMMARY:A Woman Under the Influence (1974) DESCRIPTION:VTIFF remembers the great Gena Rowlands with this film\, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. A Woman Under the Influence is not only Rowlands’ finest performance in a career filled with A-list eff orts\, but one of the greatest\, most daring performances ever committed t o screen by any actor\, anywhere\, ever. \n\nRowlands died on August 14\, 2024 at the age of 94\, leaving behind an incredible body of work. Richar d Brody\, film critic for The New Yorker said in 2021\, “The most import ant and original movie actor of the past half-century-plus is Gena Rowland s.” Rowlands received a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 2015\, though exac tly how she didn’t win in 1974 is anybody’s guess. \n\nArguably the a pex of director John Cassavetes’ actor-friendly\, improv-heavy\, truth-i s-all style\, A Woman Under the Influence tells the story of Mabel (Rowlan ds)\, an eccentric woman whose deteriorating mental state exasperates her loving but baffled husband (Peter Falk\, dynamite). The married duo of dir ector Cassavetes and star Rowlands made eight films together\, including a nother masterpiece or two (or three)\, but it doesn’t get much better th an this. Rowlands herself remained incredibly proud of the work that she\, Cassavetes\, and Falk put into the film\, and believed it to be her best.  \n\nThe film very nearly didn’t get made. Falk put up $500\,000 of his own money (thanks\, Columbo!) to get it filmed\, but for 18 months after its completion\, no distributor would touch it. When the New York Film Fes tival rejected the film\, Cassavetes asked his friend and acolyte Martin S corsese to intervene\, leading Scorsese to threaten the removal of his own film from the festival. The NYFF capitulated\, and A Woman Under the Infl uence went on to earn two Oscar nominations for best picture and director (somehow Falk was overlooked in a year that Art Carney won Best Actor).  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/wom anunder.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1620@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240915T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240915T150000 DTSTAMP:20240821T132603Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/clips-conversations/ SUMMARY:Clips & Conversations DESCRIPTION:Since the late-'60s\, Todd Lockwood has been shooting black and white studio portraits of friends and acquaintances. His large-scale prin ts are an exercise in hyperrealism\, exquisite light\, and authenticity. E very well-earned wrinkle and blemish are magnified and gloriously rendered . In 2015\, he began experimenting with a new kind of portraiture\, combin ing portrait photography\, cinema\, and writing. He calls them "Cinema Por traits." These pieces continue his portrait aesthetic and are technically virtuosic and poignantly intimate\, inviting the viewer into relationship with his subjects.\n\nFor this event\, Todd Lockwood and collaborator John Killacky talk about his portraits\, with the artist sharing some of the C inema Portraits\, including those of Stephen Kiernan\, Margaret Strouse\, John Douglas\, Mike Gordon\, and Killacky. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Mik e-Gordon-still.jpeg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1622@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T190000 DTSTAMP:20240904T143842Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/3-women/ SUMMARY:3 Women (1977) DESCRIPTION:VTIFF remembers the fabulous Shelley Duvall with one of her pea k performances as the fast-talking\, self-absorbed Millie from Robert Altm an’s 3 Women. \n\nThough perhaps best-known for her committed (and woef ully misunderstood) performance as Wendy Torrance in 1980’s The Shining\ , Duvall had a long and varied career. Still\, it’s hard to deny that Du vall’s spirited take on eccentric characters was a perfect fit for both Altman and the 1970s\; she made six films with Altman\, concluding with he r hilarious Olive Oyl in Popeye (1980). \n\nFor our money\, though\, 3 Wo men is where it’s at. This is prime Duvall\, unique and mega-chatty\, in a role that she basically wrote and created herself. Her Millie is a forc e of nature\, a non-stop tsunami of language\, confident and utterly cluel ess. Her forceful personality tends to drive other people in the opposite direction\, but she hypnotizes the meek and submissive Pinky (Sissy Spacek \, also fabulous)\, and their relationship provides the basis for the film . \n\nThe film earned Duvall awards as Best Actress from the Cannes Film Festival and the L.A. Film Critics Association. Interestingly enough\, Spa cek won Best Actress from the N.Y. Film Critics. 3 Women was based on a dr eam Altman had–back when filmmakers could do that with studio backing– and clearly works as a '70s California update to Ingmar Bergman’s Person a. \n\nDuvall made many other films\, and was the creator/producer of the great '80s cable-TV show Faerie Tale Theatre. She was an original and she will be missed\, but we’ll have movies like 3 Women forever. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/3-W omen-1977-3.jpeg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1624@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T190000 DTSTAMP:20240913T200810Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beau-travail/ SUMMARY:Beau Travail (1999) DESCRIPTION:French Foreign Legion officer Galoup loves his tough\, strictly regimented life of leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti . . . at least until that pesky new recruit Sentain comes along and ruins everything. Jea lousy and obsession take over and things don’t end well in this absolute barn-burner of a movie by the great Claire Denis\, which both celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and takes its place as one of the finest fi lms in that span.  \n\nWith her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melvi lle’s Billy Budd\, Sailor\, Claire Denis firmly established herself as o ne of the great visual tone poets of our time. Ranked as the 7th greatest film of all time in the 2022 Sight &\; Sound poll\, Beau Travail is Den is’ desert vision of desire and despair\, brotherhood and otherhood. \n \nDenis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold military and masculine code s of honor\, colonialism’s legacy\, destructive jealousy\, and repressed desire into shimmering\, hypnotic images that ultimately explode in one o f the most startling and unforgettable endings in all of modern cinema.\n\ nPeter Bradshaw of The Guardian sure liked it\, calling it “a mesmeric\, masculine ballet whose beauty and confident power . . . simply go beyond conventional ideas of transgression or homoeroticism . . . What is really remarkable is the way she succeeds in fusing the real and the dreamlike\, the naturalistic and the figurative\, into one visual conceit. Never for o ne moment does this shimmering\, simmering emotional desert storm of a fil m relax its grip on your senses."\n\nIf you haven’t seen it before\, tre at yourself. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Bea u-Travail.jpeg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1623@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240929T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240929T150000 DTSTAMP:20240919T184026Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/silent-movie-day-shoes/ SUMMARY:Shoes (1916) DESCRIPTION:Celebrating Silent Movie Day\n\nIt’s national Silent Movie Da y\, so we’re joining in with this 108-year-old film (!!!) directed by Lo is Weber\, just before Hollywood basically froze women out of the director ’s chair for the next few decades. \n\nShoes is a socially conscious pi cture\, the story of a working woman trying to support a family on $5 a we ek\, desperate for a $3 pair of shoes that is always just out of reach\, a nd the downward economic spiral that leads her into despair and prostituti on. \n\nWeber was one of the most important and prolific directors of the silent film era\, as well as a writer\, producer\, actress\, and head of her own production company. In an era when it was tough for women to get b ehind the camera (preceding the era when it was actually impossible)\, Web er forged the way for filmmakers\, women\, and men\, who saw film as an op portunity to create art imbued with their own ideas and philosophies.\n\nA wealth of details fills every frame\, while remarkable effects and dream sequences enhance the story. The tinting is particularly beautiful\, with a yellow tint throughout the store and home scenes with blue tinting to si gnal night shots. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sho es014.EvaLookingInMirror_800x-1.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1626@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T190000 DTSTAMP:20240917T133741Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/laura/ SUMMARY:Laura (1944) DESCRIPTION:UVM students Kiere Skuntz and Daniella Sanson Copatti love Davi d Lynch\, so they’ve gone looking for some of his sources. They found so me good ones\, which they’ll share in their Lynch Before Lynch series th is weekend\; for instance\, Otto Preminger’s 1944 noir masterpiece Laura .\n\nLaura (Gene Tierney\, radiant) had everything. Who’d want to kill h er? Detective McPherson (Dana Andrews) looks for answers\, encountering on e of the greatest trios of character actors ever assembled on film: Judith Anderson as Laura’s best friend\; Vincent Price as Laura’s would-be S outhern suitor\, sporting an accent that Roger Ebert dubbed "somewhere bet ween Kentucky and Transylvania"\; and\, best of all\, Clifton Webb as the fabulous Waldo Lydecker. \n\nThe film overflows with oddball moments. Tha t scene with McPherson questioning Lydecker while he’s taking a bath is just . . . wow—that might be called Lynchian\, but I’ll leave those co nnections to Kiera and Daniella\, who’ll introduce this weekend’s film s. \n\nOh wait\, the score! Fun fact: director Otto Preminger wanted to u se Duke Ellington’s "Sophisticated Lady" for the theme\, but composer Da vid Raskin objected. A furious Preminger gave Raskin the weekend to write something better\, so Raskin wrote “Laura\,” which has been recorded b y more than 400 artists\, and remains one of the most instantly recognizab le themes in film history. Preminger ate crow admirably and went on to wor k with Raskin on four more films (Ellington did okay\, too). Though it was listed as the seventh-greatest American film score by the AFI\, it someho w wasn’t nominated for the Oscar in 1944\, even though 20 other films ma de the cut.\n\nAbout the programmers\n\nKiera Skuntz and Daniella Sanson C opatti are juniors attending the University of Vermont for Film and Media Studies. Both students share a passion for film and inspirational storytel ling. Kiera plans to work with animation and consumer advertising for a ca reer path\, while Daniella aspires to become a cinematographer. The duo me t through film studies classes offered at UVM\, including an introspective course titled Twin Peaks &\; Lynch’s World\, which has inspired this two-film series for VTIFF.\n\nKiera Skuntz is originally from Pennsylvani a and previously went to school for communication art and design. Daniella is originally from Massachusetts and is technically inclined in camera op erations and sound design. Daniella and Kiera have worked on creative proj ects in the past centered on the horror genre and surrealism. Their first project together followed a young girl seeking love from a peer student\, which was not reciprocated\, ending in a suspenseful death. Daniella and K iera hope to continue their careers together and explore all forms of film .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/lau ra1944.81004-scaled.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1627@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241005T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241005T190000 DTSTAMP:20240917T133724Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sunset-boulevard/ SUMMARY:Sunset Boulevard (1950) DESCRIPTION:Sunset Boulevard as a template for things Lynchian? Yes indeed\ , say hosts (and UVM Film &\; Television students) Kiera Skuntz and Dan iella Sanson Copatti. They’ll introduce the film and set us up for an op portunity to see Billy Wilder’s stone-cold classic through a new lens.  \n\nIn case you’re unfamiliar with the plot: screenwriter Joe Gillis (Wi lliam Holden) tells us about the very busy events of his recent life from a unique position (face-down in the pool). It involves stumbling across th e decaying mansion of a faded silent-film star\, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swa nson)\, and getting seduced into her macabre universe. You can see the fil m as a drama with plenty of acidic humor\, or as a jet-black comedy . . . it works either way. \n\nThe screenplay is sharp as an ice-pick\, the per formances are pitch-perfect\, the art/set direction utterly remarkable. Th e film earned Wilder his third Oscar (of six) for Best Original Screenplay . \n\nYes\, this is a chance to watch a classic film with a different per spective\, but if you haven’t seen it for the first time yet . . . it’ s time.\n\nAbout the programmers\n\nKiera Skuntz and Daniella Sanson Copat ti are juniors attending the University of Vermont for Film and Media Stud ies. Both students share a passion for film and inspirational storytelling . Kiera plans to work with animation and consumer advertising for a career path\, while Daniella aspires to become a cinematographer. The duo met th rough film studies classes offered at UVM\, including an introspective cou rse titled Twin Peaks &\; Lynch’s World\, which has inspired this two -film series for VTIFF.\n\nKiera Skuntz is originally from Pennsylvania an d previously went to school for communication art and design. Daniella is originally from Massachusetts and is technically inclined in camera operat ions and sound design. Daniella and Kiera have worked on creative projects in the past centered on the horror genre and surrealism. Their first proj ect together followed a young girl seeking love from a peer student\, whic h was not reciprocated\, ending in a suspenseful death. Daniella and Kiera hope to continue their careers together and explore all forms of film.\n\ n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ima ge-w1280.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1628@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241006T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241006T150000 DTSTAMP:20240918T191551Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/malcolm-x/ SUMMARY:Malcolm X (1972) DESCRIPTION:James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documenta ry about the life of the assassinated Black leader through various sources \, focusing mostly on newsreels\, archival footage\, riveting public appea rances\, and speeches by the man himself. \n\nPoet Rajnii Eddins hosts th e film as part of his duo of screening selections\, which concludes with S pike Lee’s summer-in-Brooklyn coming-of-age story Crooklyn on Sunday\, O ctober 13. \n\nDirector Arnold Perl originally wanted to make a dramatic film about the life of Malcolm X\, but found that several close sources we re uninterested in talking to him about a fictional project. The script th at he wrote for that film—with huge input from Alex Haley’s classic Th e Autobiography of Malcolm X—become the basis for Spike Lee’s film Mal colm X thirty years later. \n\nMalcolm’s widow\, Betty Shabazz\, served as an advisor on the film\, which was nominated for an Oscar as Best Docu mentary Feature in 1972. Sadly\, director Perl died during the editing of the film\, and did not see its release and positive critical reception.\n\ nPROGRAMMER: RAJNII EDDINS  \n\nOriginally from Seattle\, Washington\, s poken-word poet/emcee and teaching artist Rajnii Eddins has been engaging diverse community audiences for over 30 years. He was the youngest member of the Afrikan American Writers Alliance at age 11\, and has been actively sharing with youth and community in Vermont since 2010.\n\nRajnii’s div erse talents and passions allow him to offer a wide variety of powerful ex periences that foster connection\, learning\, and mutual growth. He thrive s at creating spaces that are educational\, explorative\, and celebratory\ , whether in a classroom\, a conference hall\, a community center\, or onl ine.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/MV5 BOGRmYTA0YmQtYzYyNS00MDcyLWJhZGUtMWFlZjljZjFjMGYwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjc5NjEzN A@@._V1_.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1625@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T180000 DTSTAMP:20240909T161314Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/2024-festival-preview/ SUMMARY:2024 Vermont International Festival Preview DESCRIPTION:VTIFF members get first access to tickets for this event. Becom e a member any time. \nThis year's Vermont International Film Festival— AKA the best 10 days of fall—is right around the corner. Join us on Octo ber 9 in the Film House at Main Street Landing for the unveiling of the ja m-packed 2024 lineup of buzzworthy cinema from around the world. We'll hos t a reception in the Film House lobby beforehand with light bites and a ca sh bar from Foam/Deep City followed by the presentation of trailers and hi ghlights for this year's festival films. You'll get the inside scoop about all you need to know regarding special events\, visiting filmmakers\, and much more. It's time to get excited for another wonderful Vermont Interna tional Film Festival. We can't wait to share what's in store.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/fes tivl-preview-header.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1629@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T190000 DTSTAMP:20240918T193332Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/daisies/ SUMMARY:Daisies (1966) DESCRIPTION:“If the entire world is bad\, why shouldn’t we be?”\n\n  Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy\, a pair of he donistic young women (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová)\, both named Ma rie\, embark on a gleefully debauched odyssey of gluttony\, giddy destruct ion\, and anti-patriarchal resistance\, in which nothing is safe from thei r nihilistic pursuit of pleasure. But what happens when the fun is over?\n \nMatching her anarchic message with an equally radical aesthetic\, direct or Věra Chytilová\, with the close collaboration of cinematographer Jaro slav Kučera\, unleashes an optical storm of fluctuating film stocks\, kal eidoscopic montages\, cartoonish stop-motion cutouts\, and surreal costume s designed by Ester Krumbachová\, who also cowrote the script. The result is Daisies\, the most defiant provocation of the Czechoslovak New Wave\, an exuberant call to rebellion aimed squarely at those who uphold authorit arian oppression in any form.\n\n"The Czech New Wave is perhaps best known for wry\, poignant tales like Milos Forman’s Loves of a Blonde and Jiri Menzel’s Closely Watched Trains\, but the extraordinary 1966 film Daisi es represents an exhilarating\, lesser-known strain of the Czech New Wave\ ," wrote Nicola Rapold in the New York Times. "This radically mischievous work was the second feature of the wave’s sole female director\, Vera Ch ytilova. In her visually arresting\, capricious film—full of colorful ex periments\, dazzling collage effects and surrealist antics—two dangerous ly bored young women have anarchic fun in a series of loosely connected ep isodes." ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/the newyorker_daisies.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1630@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T150000 DTSTAMP:20241010T175943Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/crooklyn/ SUMMARY:Crooklyn (1994) DESCRIPTION:Vermont poet Rajnii Eddins presents one of Spike Lee’s finest films\, a vibrant\, semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher\, her stubborn jazz musician husband\, and their five kids living in Brookly n in 1973. Blessed with a fabulous soundtrack of great R&\;B hits from that era\, and alive with Lee’s often-experimental visual sense\, the fi lm buzzes with the energy of youth.  \n\nLee wrote the film along with s iblings Joie and Clinqué—in fact\, the two siblings originally pitched Crooklyn to Nickelodeon as a TV series\, but the kids at a test-screening gave it a thumbs down—and the film reflects their own upbringing. The ac tion is seen through the eyes of the youngest daughter\, Troy (Zelda Harri s)\, as she deals with some major life changes amid her lively\, tumultuou s household and neighborhood. \n\nAfter his deep involvement in the epic Malcolm X\, Lee was looking for a project a little lighter in tone. Crookl yn is that\, for sure\, but the film is often lazily labeled a “comedy\, ” when there is actually a good bit of dramatic heft here. As the origin al Washington Post review put it: “Modulating from heavy to light\, from angry to lyrical\, and so on\, the movie's an enjoyable\, emotional symph ony.”\n\nThe kids are fabulous\, and both Delroy Lindo and Alfre Woodard shine as the somewhat mismatched parents. \n\nPROGRAMMER: RAJNII EDDINS   \n\nOriginally from Seattle\, Washington\, spoken-word poet/emcee and teaching artist Rajnii Eddins has been engaging diverse community audience s for over 30 years. He was the youngest member of the Afrikan American Wr iters Alliance at age 11\, and has been actively sharing with youth and co mmunity in Vermont since 2010.\n\nRajnii’s diverse talents and passions allow him to offer a wide variety of powerful experiences that foster conn ection\, learning\, and mutual growth. He thrives at creating spaces that are educational\, explorative\, and celebratory\, whether in a classroom\, a conference hall\, a community center\, or online.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cro oklyn-e1557777096467.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1634@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T210000 DTSTAMP:20241009T233342Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/all-we-imagine-as-light/ SUMMARY:ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT. CHECK BACK FOR TICKET RELEASES.\n\nThe Grand Prix win ner at Cannes\, Payal Kapadia’s remarkable film finds poetry and profund ity in the everyday\, creating magic from a tale of two nurses navigating life in a teeming Mumbai. Given her unerring eye for imagery\, and her abi lity to get beyond the surface and dig into the core of her characters\, i t’s hard to believe that this is just Kapadia’s second film. It’s on e of the year’s best pictures\, hands down.\n\nThe nurses are roommates of slightly different ages\, and\, though very different\, they build a re lationship after a rocky start\, finding commonality in such mundane items as a housecat and a rice cooker. They each struggle with work and persona l relationships—and\, for a while\, each other—as they seek to build m eaningful lives in a dense city.\n\nMagnificently photographed by Ranabir Das\, Mumbai teems\, heaves\, and glows all around them. At times\, it pro vides an almost fantastical setting\, lit by fairy lights and fireworks. I t’s one of the great film depictions of a city as a character in the sto ry. In fact\, it’s almost sad to leave when the two women head for the c oast\, but the magic only gets more intense at the shoreline. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AWI ALphotoprincipalevalidee.jpeg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1667@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T134500 DTSTAMP:20241008T135225Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/little-kid-flicks/ SUMMARY:LITTLE KID FLICKS DESCRIPTION:Let your little ones discover the magic of the big screen with Little Kid Flicks. VTIFF is excited to bring this popular collection of fa mily friendly short films back for its 25th year. Whether diving down into the ocean for a pufferfish standoff or skating to victory across the ice\ , these shorts are sure to enchant and delight kids and adults alike! This year features weird\, wild\, and fun animated films from Germany (Pufferf ish\, Forever Seven)\, Czechia (My name is Edgar and I have a cow)\, Franc e (Coquille)\, and Lithuania (Hoofs on Skates). The anchor for this series comes from the UK with Jac Hamman and Sarah Scrimgeour's Tabby McTat\, a lively adaptation of the fan-favorite children’s book by celebrated auth or Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler\, the pair behind classi cs The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom. Recommended for ages 5+. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Lit tle-Kids-Flicks-tabbyMcTat.webp CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1657@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T151500 DTSTAMP:20241016T131648Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/far-out-life-on-and-after-the-commune/ SUMMARY:FAR OUT: LIFE ON AND AFTER THE COMMUNE DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT: CHECK BACK FOR TICKET RELEASES\n\nIt all sounds bliss ful and idyllic and totally of a different era: in 1968 a group of radical journalists leave New York City for the country\, landing in Western Mass achusetts and Southern Vermont\, where they set up a commune and become pi oneers in back-to-the-land organic farming. But what happens next? Where d o the lives of these young idealists lead? Far Out follows the long strang e trip of the collective as they wage dramatic battles over atomic power\; team up with Jackson Browne\, Bonnie Raitt\, and Graham Nash to produce s old out concerts at Madison Square Garden\; and band together to take up l eft-wing causes of the moment. Tracing 50 years in the lives of the member s\, Far Out is lively\, humorous\, inspiring\, and irreverent. Blending co ntemporary interviews and a remarkable trove of original archival footage\ , you meet a variety of colorful individuals who share curiosity about pol itics\, spirituality\, and civic engagement\, as well as hope for a better life and a more compassionate world. ~OO\n\nAfter the 10/19 showing of th e film\, there is a Q&\;A with director Charles Light and participant V erandah Porche.\n\nAlso screens Friday\, October 25 | 1:15 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Far -Out_Still-3.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1656@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T153000 DTSTAMP:20241008T134624Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/every-little-thing-fh/ SUMMARY:EVERY LITTLE THING DESCRIPTION:Amidst the glitz and glamor of Hollywood\, hummingbirds fit rig ht in. Zippy and sequined\, they are gorgeous\, vibrant creatures that are gone in a flash. A heartwarming film of joy and wonder\, Every Little Thi ng tells the deceptively simple story of a woman in Los Angeles\, Terry Ma sear\, who nurtures wounded hummingbirds back to health. Brought into shar p focus through breathtaking super slow-motion photography\, Every Little Thing introduces us to many of Masear's diminutive patients\, all with ind ividual stories\, characteristics\, and personalities. This documentary is a sweet and intimate love letter to these marvelous\, fragile animals\, a llowing us to see them as we never have before. The compassion that Masear shows her Lilliputian charges serves as a lesson to us all\, a reminder t hat in the smallest of acts\, and in the tiniest beings\, we might find gr ace. ~OO\n\nAlso screens Saturday\, October 26 | 2:15 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/eve ry-little-thing.png CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1650@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T174500 DTSTAMP:20241008T134038Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eephus/ SUMMARY:EEPHUS DESCRIPTION:A new cult classic indie sports movie in the making\, EEPHUS is an elegy for America's pastime and an affectionate depiction of beer leag ue camaraderie. It's also just flat-out funny\, with a hell of a comedic b atting average and a lovable Massachusetts-brand of brininess. It's the en d of an era for a recreational baseball league as a bunch of long-in-the-t ooth hangers on—including an appearance by local hero hurler Bill “Spa ceman” Lee—gather together for one final game before their hallowed di amond is demolished. As the game stretches into extra innings\, and daylig ht fades\, this group of salty underdogs reflects on their years of friend ship and their shared love of the game as they make peace with the end. EE PHUS is positively dripping with nostalgia\, capturing the unreal golden g low of a New England autumn that only exists in the mind. Lived-in\, ribal d\, and a blast of a hangout movie\, EEPHUS is so full of wonderful non-se quiturs and chin-music zingers that the movie's poetry and melancholy will catch you flat-footed. ~OO\n\nAfter the film\, there is a Q&\;A with f ormer Boston Red Sox and current Burlington Cardinals pitcher Bill Lee\, w ho plays a part in the film.\n\nAlso screens on Tuesday\, October 22 | 1:4 5 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Eep hus.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1653@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T181500 DTSTAMP:20241008T173714Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eternal-you/ SUMMARY:ETERNAL YOU DESCRIPTION:“If you had the chance to talk to a loved one who died\, woul d you take it?” That's the pitch of Eternal You\, the thought-provoking documentary about AI technology from German filmmakers Hans Block and Mori tz Riesewieck. But that question doesn't quite get to the heart of the mat ter. What the technology on display here is really offering is an algorith mic approximation of your loved one\, and what Eternal You is investigatin g is the uncanny valley between our memories and the increasingly life-lik e technological representations of those who have passed away—ghosts in the machine who are monetized by hungry startups. In this documentary\, we see any number of concerning and confusing moments in the interactions be tween grieving humans and imperfect tech: using a VR simulation\, a mother reunites with the young daughter she lost for the viewing pleasure millio ns on national TV\; a company creates a vocal filter that can say anything you want in the voice of the deceased\; the avatar in a subscription-base d AI chat program tells the user that they are stuck in hell. Eternal You is scratching at the surface of the infinite ethical quandaries of the AI Wild West we are all now living in. ~OO\n\nAlso screens on Saturday\, Octo ber 26 | 12 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ete rnalYou1.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1639@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T210000 DTSTAMP:20241008T133145Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bird/ SUMMARY:BIRD DESCRIPTION:When we last heard from writer-director Andrea Arnold—Academy Award winner\, three-time Jury Prize awardee at Cannes\, and one of the m ost celebrated auteurs in the world—she was taking a detour to document the life cycle of a cow in cinéma vérité style. Bird marks her triumpha nt return to narrative feature film and synthesizes a number of points fro m across her two-decade career. Starring two of the hottest indie darlings of the moment—Franz Rogowski (Passages\, Transit) and Barry Keoghan (Th e Banshees of Inisherin\, Saltburn)—Arnold returns to her childhood stom ping grounds of Kent to tell the story of 12 year old Bailey\, who lives w ith her brother Hunter and her scammer father Bug in a rundown squat. Cont inuing her exploration of disenfranchised young women struggling through f amily dysfunction and squalid settings tinged with violence\, Arnold tells coming-of-age stories like no one else—rough-hewn\, impressionistic\, g ritty\, and disarmingly sensitive. A worthy continuation of Arnold's dirtb ag-chic opus American Honey\, Bird is both beautiful and unflinching. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/bir d.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1640@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T210000 DTSTAMP:20241008T133222Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/black-box-diaries-bb/ SUMMARY:BLACK BOX DIARIES DESCRIPTION:It's a story that is depressingly familiar\, especially over th e last few years: a powerful man (and sexual predator) drugs and assaults a young ambitious woman trying to build her career. What makes Black Box D iaries stand out? First and foremost it is the remarkable courage and winn ing personality of journalist Shiori Itō\, the woman at the center of thi s story\, who turns her trauma into strength before our eyes. Using her in vestigative skills\, she painstakingly builds a case against her attacker\ , Noriyuki Yamaguchi—a well-known journalist and close personal friend\, and biographer\, of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe—as well a s to decry the outdated consent laws on the books in Japan. Also remarkabl e is Itō taking the helm as director of her own story\, confidently stepp ing into the role of filmmaker\, adapting her memoir Black Box\, and weavi ng a compelling and sophisticated story of survival. Itō\, who became the face of Japan’s #MeToo movement and was named one of Time's 100 Most In fluential People\, has crafted an emotional\, candid\, and timely rallying cry for victims around the world. ~OO\n\nAlso screens on Thursday\, Octob er 24 | 2 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/bla ckboxdiaries_still_50a.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1647@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T134500 DTSTAMP:20241008T141031Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-dog-thief/ SUMMARY:THE DOG THIEF DESCRIPTION:Set in the Bolivian capital of La Paz\, The Dog Thief is told t hrough the wild eyes of Martin\, a teenager scraping together a living as a shoeshiner. Martin is an orphan and a loner with few friends and fewer o pportunities\, but he hatches an ill-conceived scheme to take advantage of his best client\, the lonely\, fastidious tailor Mr. Novoa. Martin conspi res with another ruffian to steal Novoa's cherished German Shepherd compan ion\, intending to scam a reward from the well-off man. But there's a secr et buried in this uneasy relationship between the boy and his target that casts this melancholy\, tightly constructed narrative in a new light. As t hey grow closer\, and Martin draws out the endgame\, the nature of this pa rable takes on new and surprising dimensions. Alfredo Castro gives an asto unding lead performance\, portraying this troubled\, reticent adolescent a s convincingly damaged but also deeply sympathetic. Between Tomičić's as sured direction and Castro's soulful naturalism\, The Dog Thief transcends sentimentality\; instead it is urgent\, thematically rich\, but also enig matic. By turns tense and introspective\, with unmistakable shades of Ital ian Neorealism\, this beautifully shot film pierces your heart like prime De Sica. ~OO\n\nAlso screens on Thursday\, October 24 | 1:45 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/dog -thief-4.png CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1672@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T151500 DTSTAMP:20241016T135537Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nocturnes/ SUMMARY:NOCTURNES DESCRIPTION:Nocturnes speaks to the lepidopterist in all of us. Through rem arkable patience\, keen observation\, and beautiful compositions\, directo rs Anupama Srinivasan and Anirban Dutta conjure a transportive\, deeply im mersive sensorial experience. Nocturnes' is a celebration of meticulous\, rigorous observation\, imploring us to look closer at the hidden interconn ectedness of the natural world. Following a research team deep in the East ern Himalaya mountains\, we watch as they set up illuminated canvases nigh t after night\, tracking and documenting countless species of moths at dif ferent elevations. The dynamic between the researchers—lead ecologist Ma nsi and her hired help from the Bugun community—is low-key\, collaborati ve\, and also revealing about the cultures and people from this region of the world\, a remote ecological “hot spot” on the border of India and Bhutan. Nocturnes is ultimately about uncovering the profound\, sometimes imperceptible ripple effects of climate change\, zeroing in on species we readily take for granted. The pulsing\, vibrating symphony of thousands of moths clustered together\, and the incredible\, colorful biodiversity on display\, is endlessly fascinating to behold\, and worth saving. ~OO\n\nAl so screens on Wednesday\, October 23 | 4:30 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Noc turnes_sub2-scaled-1.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1697@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T160000 DTSTAMP:20241021T214051Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mamifera-2/ SUMMARY:MAMIFERA DESCRIPTION:Mamifera is both a lovely\, well-observed character study and a thoroughly relatable portrait of a quarter-life crisis in slow-motion. Th e film focuses on Lola—a fabulous Maria Rodriguez Soto—a woman who has always been certain that being a mother is not for her. Of course\, this being a movie\, you can guess what happens next: Just when her comfortable domestic life with her partner\, Bruno\, and her work as an art teacher s pecializing in decoupage\, feels complete\, life throws a curve ball and s he finds out she's expecting. Her choice is clear to her but she has to pa use due to Spain's mandatory abortion waiting period. What follows is a pa rallel three-day existential journey for Lola and Bruno filled with amusin g familial interactions\, friends enduring their own personal crises\, a b unch of vivid dreams where Lola's cutouts and anxieties come to life\, and hard truths leading to life-changing decisions. Director-writer Liliana T orres clearly harbors a lot of affection for these characters and their ch osen family\, all of which pours out in a profound\, moving final gesture. ~OO\n\nAlso screens Thursday\, October 24 | 7:15 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/mam ifera.png CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1642@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T133436Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/born-in-flames/ SUMMARY:BORN IN FLAMES DESCRIPTION:As revolutionary now as when it was released in 1983\, Lizzie B orden’s Born in Flames is a Molotov cocktail of feminist futurism that ’s both an essential document of its time and radically ahead of it. \n \nSet in a fictional America 10 years after a social-democratic revolution \, things are still pretty miserable for women. So when prominent Black re volutionary Adelaide Norris is killed\, a truly diverse coalition of women decides to bring it all down. Made for $40\,000 (not a typo) and shot ove r five years with a cast of non-professional actors\, Born in Flames posit ively hums with indie energy. \n\n“Perhaps the sole entry in the hybrid genre of radical-lesbian-feminist sci-fi vérité” (Village Voice)\, Bo rn in Flames has come to be revered as a landmark in American independent film\, and in many ways\, the scene still hasn’t caught up to it. ~SM\n\ nThe film is followed by a Q&\;A with Lizzie Borden\, this year’s rec ipient of the VTIFF Award for Outstanding Contribution to American Cinema\ , sponsored by CSE Holding Co. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/bor n-in-flames-2.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1683@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T140644Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shahid/ SUMMARY:SHAHID DESCRIPTION:North American premiere\n\nA wildly clever and frequently hilar ious film in which an actress plays a film director named Narges Shahid Ka lhor (whom we often see in conversation with the director Narges Kalhor)\, and directs her in a film…which we watch. It’s called Shahid. Basical ly\, Kalhor has decided that she no longer wants the “Shahid” part of her name. It is an honorific that reflects religious martyrdom in the fami ly history but Kalhor doesn’t really buy into it. At all. However\, chan ging her name isn’t as easy as it sounds. As if the bureaucratic problem s weren’t enough—born in Iran\, she lives in Germany—it gets even wo rse when her long-dead great grandfather\, the heroic martyr who bestowed this name on the family\, shows up to talk her out of it. And while he’s at it\, he and his friends bust some serious dance moves.\n\nSimultaneous ly silly and profound\, heady and nutty\, Shahid is a deft piece of meta-f ilmmaking in which everything falls into place. The structure allows for a lot of playfulness\, but at its heart the film deals with the heavy issue s of legacy and coming to terms with the past. ~SM\n\nAlso screens Thursda y\, October 24 | 7 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sha hid_Still_14.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1679@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T211500 DTSTAMP:20241008T140335Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pavements/ SUMMARY:PAVEMENTS DESCRIPTION:Like the other rock biopic in this year’s festival (Eno)\, Al ex Ross Perry’s Pavements subverts the traditional format and comes up w ith something that far more accurately reflects the famed alt-rock band\, which came to prominence in the ’90s. The poster children for ironic det achment\, the band clearly doesn’t take the process too seriously\, but ends up coming up with something surprisingly endearing.\n\nThe film’s a udacious structure juggles four separate narrative strands: the actual ban d preparing for its first concerts in 12 years\; a (fake?) off-Broadway mu sical called Slanted! Enchanted!\; a gallery show designed to look like th e Whitney Museum\; and a fake biopic called Range Life\, that features act ors playing the band\, and Jason Schwartzman as the group’s bumbling man ager.\n\nPerry\, who directed the feature Her Smell in 2018 but is predomi nantly a video director\, clearly loves Pavement\, going so far as to call them “the world’s most important and influential band.” Okay. Ultim ately\, his indirect approach pays off in capturing the band’s spirit\, its restless experimentation\, and its ever-glorious sense of humor. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pav ements-movie-joe-keery-stephen-malkmus.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1708@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T204500 DTSTAMP:20241017T140429Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/separated/ SUMMARY:SEPARATED DESCRIPTION:Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (“as influential a doc maker as the industry has” - Variety) incisively probes the dark est chapters in recent American history: family separations. Merging narra tive vignettes of one migrant family’s plight with hard-hitting intervie ws with government officials\, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty\, as hundreds of families remain separa ted today. Separated plays not as a screed\, but as a thriller. You can fe el the tension as Morris untangles the trail of responsibility\, drawing a thin\, clear line through a real-world conspiracy that resulted in more t han 4\,000 kids — some no more than infants — being whisked away to fa cilities far removed from their parents.\nThis screening is followed by a discussion with NBC News Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboro ff\, author of Separated: Inside an American Tragedy and executive produce r of Separated.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/sep arated_diego_armando_lara_lagunes_bus.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1645@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T143000 DTSTAMP:20241008T173408Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/darkest-miriam-fh/ SUMMARY:DARKEST MIRIAM DESCRIPTION:Toronto librarian Miriam is reserved\, almost to a fault. She s eems to enjoy her job at the library—except for those weird letters she keeps finding\, apparently addressed to the world at large\, though someho w connecting with her personally—but she seems to be at a remove from li fe. That changes when she meets a cab driver named Janko.\n\nA quiet marve l of a movie\, Naomi Jaye’s second feature probes Miriam’s inner life\ , watching her at work for long stretches as she deals with library regula rs…and those weird letters. As Miriam\, Britt Lower is a revelation\, su ggesting layers of depth and feeling while playing it cool on the surface. That could serve as a metaphor for the movie\, in which even the most mun dane scenes seem to carry hidden weight and meaning.\n\nWith Charlie Kaufm an serving as executive producer\, Darkest Miriam is a calling card for bo th Jaye and Lower\, who have created an odd and wonderful misfit of a movi e. ~SM\n\nAlso screens on Sunday\, October 27 | 4:15 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dar kest-Miriam_Still-010.png CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1692@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T151500 DTSTAMP:20241008T161014Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/working-girls/ SUMMARY:WORKING GIRLS DESCRIPTION:In Lizzie Borden’s second great film of the ’80s\, she look s at sex work through the lens of labor\, free of judgement and full of co mpassion—it’s a viewpoint we still don’t see in a society that stigm atizes the profession and its workers\, and an entertainment industry that uses their experience in the name of cheap sensationalism.\n\nBorden’s richly detailed film was inspired by the experiences of sex workers whom s he met during her five-year shoot for 1983’s Born in Flames. The film fo llows Molly (Louise Smith)\, a photographer by trade\, as she goes through her working day\, navigating a steady stream of clients while getting sup port from her warm and nurturing work family. Through it all\, she seeks t o stay grounded in a business where the personal and the professional diss olve into each other all too easily.\n\nGiven the thousands of times that prostitution has been dramatized on screen\, it’s startling to see Borde n boldly desensationalize the subject\, offering an empathetic\, humanizin g\, often humorous depiction of women for whom this work is just another d ay at the office. ~SM\n\nThe film is followed by a Q&\;A with Lizzie Bo rden\, this year’s recipient of the VTIFF Award for Outstanding Contribu tion to American Cinema\, sponsored by CSE Holding Co. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/wor king-girls.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1649@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T180000 DTSTAMP:20241003T203020Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dying/ SUMMARY:DYING (STERBEN) DESCRIPTION:Matthias Glasner's epic thanatopsis\, his first cinematic effor t since 2012's Mercy\, is sweeping in its scope but finely textured in its telling. Dying was this year's Best Picture at the 2024 German Film Award s and was awarded the Silver Bear for best screenplay at the Berlin Intern ational Film Festival. Lars Eidinger (Everyone Else\, White Noise) leads a collection of high-caliber dramatic performances in this story about the estranged Lunies family. Father Gerd is suffering from dementia and Mother Lissy's health is starting to rapidly decline as well. Meanwhile\, son To m\, a classical composer\, is desperately trying to realize his orchestral masterpiece—titled "Dying"—and daughter Ellen is dealing with addicti on and her own personal crises. Told in five overlapping chapters\, Glasne r's depiction of the indignities of aging\, the fallout for those close to the infirmed\, and the ways that family dynamics suddenly invert is inten sely relatable and harrowing. Dying is a film that is unflinching in its d epiction of grief and regret\, but also imbued with humor\, heart\, and un deniable humanity. It's also not afraid to indulge its operatic emotional peaks and major-key reflexivity\, making this movie about the inevitable f eel very much alive. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/5-S TERBEN-Lilith-Stangenberg-©Jakub-Bejnarowicz_Port-au-Prince_Schwarzweiss_ Senator.jpeg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1632@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T174500 DTSTAMP:20241008T161123Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/agent-of-happiness/ SUMMARY:AGENT OF HAPPINESS DESCRIPTION:How do we quantify happiness? In Bhutan\, the self-proclaimed h appiest country in the world\, they have a mathematical formula for it. In the lovely and fascinating Agent of Happiness\, directors Arun Bhattari a nd Dorottya Zurbo follow two government Happiness Agents as they trek thro ugh the Himalayas\, assessing people’s contentment\, even as their own c ould use a boost.\n\nAgent of Happiness has no axe to grind with the curre nt system\, though it does suggest that there may be nuance to our feeling s that can’t quite be harnessed by a 1-10 scale. Instead\, it focuses on people\, mostly our agents\, Amber and Guna\, but also the many other peo ple along their staggeringly beautiful Himalayan route. Gorgeously shot\, quirky\, and full of heart. Agent of Happiness is a thoroughly winning fil m. ~SM\n\nA Science on Screen presentation\, this film also features a tal k from UVM professor Dr. Chris Danforth\, who has developed a real-time re mote sensor for global happiness using online interactions. He’ll talk a bout his team’s work with happiness\, and compare it with what we’ve s een in the film.\n\n\n\nAn initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre\, wit h major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation\n\nThis film also scre ens Sunday\, October 27 | 2 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Age nt_of_Happiness_-Still-1.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1662@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T210000 DTSTAMP:20241008T153210Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/girls-will-be-girls/ SUMMARY:GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS DESCRIPTION:Set in a strict\, well-to-do boarding school in India in the '9 0s\, Girls Will Be Girls has all the hallmarks of your standard coming-of- age gauntlet: hormonal teens crushing hard\; dirty tricks from clashing cl iques\; overachievers and ne'er do wells\; and a self-contained setting wh ere uniforms are mandatory\, decorum is unimpeachable\, and tradition is s acrosanct. But\, somehow\, Girls Will Be Girls makes these elements fresh\ , new\, and alive. That starts with our protagonist\, Mira (Preeti Panigra hi)\, who is head of the class and resented by her peers. In any other fil m she'd be the antagonist\; here she is deeply relatable—as studious as she is conflicted. Add to that an emotionally sophisticated\, carefully cr afted narrative where Mira and her mother vie for the attention of a hands ome\, suspiciously mature new student\, Sri. Anchored by a trio of excepti onal performances—including scene-stealing work from Kani Kusruti\, in a breakout year for the veteran actress—Girls Will Be Girls is a beautifu lly rendered film in every respect\, a strikingly assured debut from Shuch i Talati that is overflowing with empathy. ~OO\n\nAlso screens Thursday\, October 24 | 4 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/gir ls-will-be-girls.jpeg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1636@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T210000 DTSTAMP:20241019T211018Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/amal-bb/ SUMMARY:AMAL DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT. WAIT LIST STARTS 1 HOUR IN PERSON AT THE BOX OFFICE.\ n\nAmal\, the latest from Moroccan-Belgian director Jawad Rhalib\, works a s both an urgent philosophical dilemma and a tightly-wound thriller. It dr ops us in the middle of a secondary school class body that is starkly divi ded and introduces a catalyst that inflames this volatile setting. Set in Brussels\, the school where idealistic\, progressive teacher Amal works is an oasis in a conservative Muslim community. When one student is accused of homosexuality\, dangerous views and violent rhetoric breach the neutral territory of the school grounds. Amal finds herself on the front lines\, trying to instill both compassion and logic in students who are being indo ctrinated and radicalized by a hard-line religion teacher. Lubna Azabal (I ncendies\, The Blue Caftan) holds the center as the eponymous character\, a defiant educator willing and sometimes eager to provoke. Intellectually curious but also righteously humane\, Amal is a sharp\, tense treatise tha t comes to a fine point. ~OO\n\nAlso screens on Thursday\, October 24 | 4: 15 | FH ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AMA L_Bendita_Film_Sales_05.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1651@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T153000 DTSTAMP:20241008T134146Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eephus-2/ SUMMARY:EEPHUS DESCRIPTION:A new cult classic indie sports movie in the making\, EEPHUS is an elegy for America's pastime and an affectionate depiction of beer leag ue camaraderie. It's also just flat-out funny\, with a hell of a comedic b atting average and a lovable Massachusetts-brand of brininess. It's the en d of an era for a recreational baseball league as a bunch of long-in-the-t ooth hangers on—including an appearance by local hero hurler Bill “Spa ceman” Lee—gather together for one final game before their hallowed di amond is demolished. As the game stretches into extra innings\, and daylig ht fades\, this group of salty underdogs reflects on their years of friend ship and their shared love of the game as they make peace with the end. EE PHUS is positively dripping with nostalgia\, capturing the unreal golden g low of a New England autumn that only exists in the mind. Lived-in\, ribal d\, and a blast of a hangout movie\, EEPHUS is so full of wonderful non-se quiturs and chin-music zingers that the movie's poetry and melancholy will catch you flat-footed. ~OO\n\nEEPHUS also screens on Saturday\, October 1 9 | 4 PM\n\nThere is a Q&\;A with former Boston Red Sox and current Bur lington Cardinals pitcher Bill Lee\, who plays a part in the film\, at the screening on Saturday\, October 19.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Eep hus.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1670@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T153000 DTSTAMP:20241008T175349Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-other-land/ SUMMARY:NO OTHER LAND DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, 1\,000 Palestinian homes were selected for demolition in the village of Masafer Yatta\, the largest mass expulsion order in the West Bank since the Israeli occupation began. Local resident Basel Adra a nd Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham document this destruction house by hou se over four years in No Other Land\, winner of this year's Berlinale Docu mentary Film Award. This heartbreaking documentary captures the trauma and confusion of the families who are displaced as soldiers enter their remot e village and bulldoze their homes. Water manes are busted\, tools are con fiscated\, cars are seized\, residents are forced into caves\, and dissent is met with violence. No Other Land is a potent reminder of the importanc e and power of ground-level journalism in the face of injustice. At the ce nter of the story is a poignant friendship that we see deepen and fray ove r time as Basel and Yuval shoulder the responsibility of telling the stori es of the dispossessed. ~TW\n\nAlso screens Friday\, October 25 | 7:15 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/No- Other-Land_Still_courtesy-Antipode-films.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1661@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T154100Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-girl-with-the-needle/ SUMMARY:THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE (PIGEN MED NÅLEN) DESCRIPTION:Not for the faint of heart. Director Magnus van Horn describes his gothic horror film as a “fairy tale for adults\,” which makes you wonder what kind of fairy tales they read in Denmark.\n\nHarrowing and utt erly compelling\, The Girl With The Needle is a stark study of the lack of choices for women in a cold\, cold world. It’s 1917\, the Great War has just ended\, and things are pretty grim. At the bottom of the social orde r\, factory worker Karoline finds herself pregnant\, unwed\, abandoned\, a nd utterly desperate. At her very darkest hour\, she meets a kindly woman who takes her in. But this angel of mercy is\, to say the least\, not what she seems.\n\nThe film creates its own very specific universe\, though th ere are vibes of David Lynch\, Lars von Trier\, and Tod Browning. Michael Dymek’s thrilling monochromatic B&\;W photography suggests charcoal e tchings\, while production designer Jagna Dobesz admirably creates a claus trophobic\, unforgiving Copenhagen comprised of dirty street and cramped r ooms\, while composer Frederikke Hoffmeir’s occasionally nerve-shredding score adds immeasurably to the proceedings.\n\nRich and satisfying\, but dark-dark-dark\, The Girl With the Needle offers a unique cinematic experi ence. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/THE -GIRL-WITH-THE-NEEDLE-1.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1664@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T155818Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-great-yawn-of-history/ SUMMARY:THE GREAT YAWN OF HISTORY (KHAMYAZEYE BOZORG) DESCRIPTION:Mysterious and elusive\, Aliyar Rasti’s excellent two-hander conceals a great reservoir of emotional and spiritual turmoil under a pati ent\, placid surface. Recruited for a cryptic treasure hunt\, damaged youn g agnostic Shoja accompanies Beitollah on a journey to Northern Iran in se arch of a cave that may or may not exist with a cache of gold coins. An ol der man of deep but wavering faith\, Beitollah is in search of far more th an riches\, and his reasons for needing a companion are equally uncertain. As they travel from cave to cave\, they meet a variety of people of noble and nefarious intent. Rasti\, in his feature debut\, brings a photographe r's eye to every frame\, crafting a movie with an intuitive visual sensibi lity and letting the power of its images convey profound ambiguity. The Gr eat Yawn of History harnesses the tremendous dramatic storytelling that is central to Iranian filmmaking\, inverting The Treasure of the Sierra Madr e on a beguiling\, soulful metaphorical journey into the desert. ~OO\n\nAl so screens Sunday\, October 27 | 2:15 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/The -Great-Yawn-of-History.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1674@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T210000 DTSTAMP:20241008T135951Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/oceans-are-the-real-continents/ SUMMARY:OCEANS ARE THE REAL CONTINENTS (LOS OCÉANOS SON LOS VERDADEROS CON TINENTES) DESCRIPTION:Tommaso Santambrogio’s debut feature is a stunningly photogra phed black-and-white portrait of Cuba. A tryptic of gently intersecting st ories\, set in San Antonio de los Baños\, the film follows the romance of a young artistic couple as their creative passions pull them in different directions\, an elderly woman reliving her past through letters from a lo ng lost love\, and two street kids who dream of playing for the Yankees. S trikingly lensed by Lorenzo Casadio Vannucci\, with a cast of non-professi onal actors\, Oceans Are the Real Continents has the texture and resonance of social realism\, with unmistakable echoes of Mikhail Kalatozov's I Am Cuba\, but a wonderful sense of style that is poetic\, emotional\, and int oxicating. Santambrogio captures the essence of a country that is unstuck in time\, haunted by ghosts of past\, present\, and an uncertain future. A rtful and patient\, these carefully woven stories portray a people in exil e\, with deep roots in their homeland but a yearning for all there is to e xperience outside this isolated island. ~OO\n\nAlso screens Saturday\, Oct ober 26 | 4 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Oce ans_7.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1687@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T204500 DTSTAMP:20241008T160328Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/universal-language/ SUMMARY:UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION:Canadian experimental filmmaker Matthew Rankin's sophomore feat ure film\, which has already been chosen as Canada's Oscar contender\, is set "somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg." That should give you some ide a of the absurdist satirical tone that Rankin is aiming for in this advent urous work inspired as much by Mohsen Makhmalbaf as hometown hero Guy Madd in. The film weaves together a collection of seemingly disparate tall tale s: Negin and Nazgol find money frozen in ice and try to claim it\; Massoud \, a guide in Winnipeg\, leads a confused and disoriented tour group\; and Matthew (played by the director himself) quits his unfulfilling job as a provincial government wonk in Quebec to travel back to his mother in Winni peg. Set in a fantasy version of Canada\, where Persian and French are the two official languages and loneliness is the common currency\, this gentl e comedy is eccentric and open hearted\, and marks Rankin as a talent to w atch on the international stage. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Uni versal-Language_Still-5.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1686@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T211500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T224500 DTSTAMP:20241008T155016Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-texas-chain-saw-massacre/ SUMMARY:THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE DESCRIPTION:"Who will survive and what will be left of them." Fifty years o n\, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is arguably the greatest horror movie of all time\, a grisly piece of American nastiness and a key film of '70s New Hollywood. Remembered for being bloodier than it actually is\, the gritti ness of the movie is lodged in the popular imagination\, influencing multi ple generations of horror auteurs trying to tap into its uniquely bad vibe s. Tobe Hooper's intense filmmaking radiates the overwhelming heat of Texa s in summer while reflecting on the carnage of the Vietnam War\, serial ki ller Ed Gein\, and the unknowable darkness lurking in remote corners of th e U.S. The members of the cannibalistic Sawyer clan—a warped-mirror fami ly unit\, with instant icon Leatherface as the brutish heavy—are as ente rtaining as they are repulsive. Hastening the rise of slasher films\, and birthing the Final Girl trope\, this is where the modern era of horror beg ins. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/tex as_chainsaw_massacre_1_lc_03.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1637@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T151500 DTSTAMP:20241008T154440Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/armand/ SUMMARY:ARMAND DESCRIPTION:Something has happened between six-year-old Armand and his scho olmate Jon. The parents are called to the school for a meeting—including a chilly Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) as Armand's mothe r\, a famous actress. But what actually happened? Was it just a children ’s game or something much more serious? Who should we believe? And what exactly is the nature of the relationship between the parents? Armand is a work of misdirection that has a strange elemental power\, with unforgetta ble sequences and a delicious sense of menace. It takes the logical next s tep beyond\, say\, Anatomy of a Fall\, and adds a dose of surrealism\, let ting the fabric of reality come undone. Just when you think Armand has pai nted itself into a corner\, and that the ratcheting debate at the center o f the film has reached an impasse\, the floor drops out and it mutates int o something else entirely. First-time writer-director Halfdan Ullmann Tøn del\, grandson of Liv Ullman and Ingmar Bergman\, won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes (Best First Film) for this slippery and maddening film\, an essenti al work of post-truth cinema\, where objective facts are debatable\, conse quences are negotiable\, and the combatant most adept at mind games wins. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Arm and_Still-1.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1691@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T154500 DTSTAMP:20241008T141730Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/who-do-i-belong-to-2/ SUMMARY:WHO DO I BELONG TO? DESCRIPTION:Aicha’s shattered family lives an isolated existence in the N orth African desert. Her two oldest sons have left home to fight for ISIS\ , breaking Aicha’s heart. Then one son returns\, suffering badly from PT SD and bringing with him a pregnant bride\, who remains covered and silent . Things get weird\, then go bad\, and Aicha is caught between her materna l love and her need for the truth. An answer comes\, but it’s not what a nyone expects. \n\nDirector Joobeur created her feature debut by expandin g the story from her Oscar-nominated short film of 2018\, Brotherhood. As first films go\, this one is remarkably assured\, as the Montreal-based Tu nisian filmmaker creates a visceral sense of place in her native Tunisia —you feel the heat around you\, the sand between your teeth\, the sun be ating down. But this isn’t realism—an atmosphere of narcotic dreamines s dissolves into a growing dread and fear that Joobeur amps up almost ruth lessly. She’s a visual director\, creating haunting\, surreal images tha t carry far metaphorical weight\, but ask more questions than they answer. \n\nJoobeur kept much of the same cast from her short film\, including the three brothers\, all non-professional actors\, who play the three brother s. But this is a film from a mother’s perspective\, and Salha Nasraoui i s remarkable as Aicha\, giving vent to the anguished woman’s full range of feelings\, her love for her sons in distinct contrast with her disgust at their cause\, and her moral certainty at odds with her dismay at how it all plays out. ~SM\n\nThere is no Sunday\, October 20th\, 7:15pm screenin g as noted in the printed guide.  There will be a film in the time slot w hich will be announced. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/who -do-I-belong-to.webp CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1688@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T141601Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vermiglio/ SUMMARY:VERMIGLIO DESCRIPTION:Romantic\, tragic\, and beautiful\, Maura Delpero's Vermiglio i s a captivating period piece with a wonderful feel for its place and time. Every scene is composed as a sonnet\, beautifully photographed in desatur ated\, painterly tones\, and filled with emotion. Toward the end of the Se cond World War\, in a high\, remote mountain village in the Italian Alps\, the arrival of a refugee soldier alters the dynamics of an isolated commu nity. Told in four chapters\, each set in a different season\, this affect ing\, quiet film is a masterful exercise in subtlety and absence. The wani ng war is far away but always felt\; each character is trying to conceal t heir personal shame and trauma\; letters with news from those who have lef t are never delivered. At the center is a large family\, headed by a stern \, conflicted patriarch who runs the village's school. When his eldest dau ghter\, Lucia\, falls for the young Sicilian soldier\, everything starts t o change for the family\, and Delpero tracks each family member with patie nce and a rare sensitivity as they are carried by forces beyond their cont rol. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ver miglio-catalogue-picture-3-WEB-©Cinedora.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1673@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T135921Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nocturnes-2/ SUMMARY:NOCTURNES DESCRIPTION:Nocturnes speaks to the lepidopterist in all of us. Through rem arkable patience\, keen observation\, and beautiful compositions\, directo rs Anupama Srinivasan and Anirban Dutta conjure a transportive\, deeply im mersive sensorial experience. Nocturnes' is a celebration of meticulous\, rigorous observation\, imploring us to look closer at the hidden interconn ectedness of the natural world. Following a research team deep in the East ern Himalaya mountains\, we watch as they set up illuminated canvases nigh t after night\, tracking and documenting countless species of moths at dif ferent elevations. The dynamic between the researchers—lead ecologist Ma nsi and her hired help from the Bugun community—is low-key\, collaborati ve\, and also revealing about the cultures and people from this region of the world\, a remote ecological “hot spot” on the border of India and Bhutan. Nocturnes is ultimately about uncovering the profound\, sometimes imperceptible ripple effects of climate change\, zeroing in on species we readily take for granted. The pulsing\, vibrating symphony of thousands of moths clustered together\, and the incredible\, colorful biodiversity on display\, is endlessly fascinating to behold\, and worth saving. ~OO\n\n\n \nAn initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre\, with major support from t he Alfred P. Sloan Foundation\n\nAlso screens on Sunday\, October 20 | 1 P M | Science on Screen event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Noc turnes_sub2-scaled-1.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1685@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T213000 DTSTAMP:20241022T204438Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat/ SUMMARY:SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT. WAIT LIST STARTS 1 HOUR IN PERSON AT THE BOX OFFICE.\ n\nGlobal politics\, jazz\, decolonization\, and assassination all play ke y parts in Johan Grimonprez’s absolutely thrilling Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat\, which takes a deep dive into a mostly forgotten dark chapter of world history—the murder of the Congo’s elected leader Patrice Lumumb a.\n\nThe film opens with a flurry\, as socially minded jazz musicians Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln crash the U.N. Security Council to protest the mu rder of Congo’s president\, Patrice Lumumba\, as Soviet premier Nikita K ruschev bangs his shoe on the table (an act which Dizzy Gillespie interpre ts charitably). What’s going on?\n\nGrimonprez goes on to explain\, in g lorious detail. In an attempt to win the hearts and minds of African citiz ens during the Cold War\, the State Department sent jazz musicians to perf orm in Africa\, starting with the most famous of all\, Louis Armstrong. Ja zz immortals like Duke Ellington\, Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone follow suit\, all grappling with the obvious contrast: why does the country these great artists represent still embrace segregation. And are they just bein g used as a smokescreen for some disturbing CIA covert actions?\n\nGrimonp rez paints the scene vividly with eyewitness accounts\, government memos\, CIA-backed mercenaries\, Lumumba’s own speeches\, and a near-endless ru n of jazz icons\, including John Coltrane\, Charles Mingus\, Melba Liston and Eric Dolphy. Incredibly researched—even longtime jazz aficionados wi ll be stunned by the wealth of material that director Johan Gimonprez has unearthed—this breathtaking film documents the moment when African histo ry and American jazz collided. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sou ndtracktoaCoupdEtat_photo3.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1677@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T210000 DTSTAMP:20241023T210554Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/one-night-at-babes-and-painting-the-dandelion -resurrection-2/ SUMMARY:ONE NIGHT AT BABES and PAINTING THE DANDELION RESURRECTION DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT. WAIT LIST STARTS 1 HOUR IN PERSON AT THE BOX OFFICE\n \nThis double feature of shorter films brings together two filmmakers livi ng in Vermont who made films about Vermonters in Vermont. \n\nAngelos Mad sen Minax’s lovely One Night at Babes is certainly a left-turn from Mads en’s more experimental work\, but it’s a fabulous cinematic snapshot o f a town feeling its way towards positive change. At a small-town dive bar called Babes\, cribbage tournaments overlap afternoons of karaoke and nig hts of raucous queer dance parties. When the aging conservative townsfolk of Bethel\, Vermont\, and the younger queer leftists begin sharing the sam e watering hole\, a delicate alliance flourishes.\n\nSusan Bettmann’s Pa inting the Dandelion Resurrection trains the camera on Vermont icon Peter Schumann\, co-founder and creative force of Bread and Puppet Theater. And basically he does what the title says—he paints. Schumann narrates in re al time as he begins and completes the painting over the course of the fil m’s half-hour\, offering us the rare opportunity to hang out with an art istic heavyweight. ~SM\n\n There is an in-person Q&\;A with both filmm akers at the 10/23 screening.\n\nAlso screens on Saturday\, October 26 | 1 2 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/One NightAtBabes_Still4.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1648@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T151500 DTSTAMP:20241008T141106Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-dog-thief-2/ SUMMARY:THE DOG THIEF DESCRIPTION:Set in the Bolivian capital of La Paz\, The Dog Thief is told t hrough the wild eyes of Martin\, a teenager scraping together a living as a shoeshiner. Martin is an orphan and a loner with few friends and fewer o pportunities\, but he hatches an ill-conceived scheme to take advantage of his best client\, the lonely\, fastidious tailor Mr. Novoa. Martin conspi res with another ruffian to steal Novoa's cherished German Shepherd compan ion\, intending to scam a reward from the well-off man. But there's a secr et buried in this uneasy relationship between the boy and his target that casts this melancholy\, tightly constructed narrative in a new light. As t hey grow closer\, and Martin draws out the endgame\, the nature of this pa rable takes on new and surprising dimensions. Alfredo Castro gives an asto unding lead performance\, portraying this troubled\, reticent adolescent a s convincingly damaged but also deeply sympathetic. Between Tomičić's as sured direction and Castro's soulful naturalism\, The Dog Thief transcends sentimentality\; instead it is urgent\, thematically rich\, but also enig matic. By turns tense and introspective\, with unmistakable shades of Ital ian Neorealism\, this beautifully shot film pierces your heart like prime De Sica. ~OO\n\nAlso screens on Sunday\, October 20 | 12:15 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/dog -thief-4.png CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1641@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T154500 DTSTAMP:20241024T171649Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/black-box-diaries-fh/ SUMMARY:BLACK BOX DIARIES DESCRIPTION:NOTE: THIS SCREENING\, OCTOBER 24TH\, IS IN THE FILM HOUSE\, NO T IN THE BLACK BOX\, AS INDICATED ON YOUR TICKET.\n\nIt's a story that is depressingly familiar\, especially over the last few years: a powerful man (and sexual predator) drugs and assaults a young ambitious woman trying t o build her career. What makes Black Box Diaries stand out? First and fore most it is the remarkable courage and winning personality of journalist Sh iori Itō\, the woman at the center of this story\, who turns her trauma i nto strength before our eyes. Using her investigative skills\, she painsta kingly builds a case against her attacker\, Noriyuki Yamaguchi—a well-kn own journalist and close personal friend\, and biographer\, of former Japa nese prime minister Shinzo Abe—as well as to decry the outdated consent laws on the books in Japan. Also remarkable is Itō taking the helm as dir ector of her own story\, confidently stepping into the role of filmmaker\, adapting her memoir Black Box\, and weaving a compelling and sophisticate d story of survival. Itō\, who became the face of Japan’s #MeToo moveme nt and was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People\, has crafted a n emotional\, candid\, and timely rallying cry for victims around the worl d. ~OO\n\nAlso screens on Saturday\, October 19 | 7:15 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/bla ckboxdiaries_still_50a.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1663@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T135306Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/girls-will-be-girls-2/ SUMMARY:GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS DESCRIPTION:Set in a strict\, well-to-do boarding school in India in the '9 0s\, Girls Will Be Girls has all the hallmarks of your standard coming-of- age gauntlet: hormonal teens crushing hard\; dirty tricks from clashing cl iques\; overachievers and ne'er do wells\; and a self-contained setting wh ere uniforms are mandatory\, decorum is unimpeachable\, and tradition is s acrosanct. But\, somehow\, Girls Will Be Girls makes these elements fresh\ , new\, and alive. That starts with our protagonist\, Mira (Preeti Panigra hi)\, who is head of the class and resented by her peers. In any other fil m she'd be the antagonist\; here she is deeply relatable—as studious as she is conflicted. Add to that an emotionally sophisticated\, carefully cr afted narrative where Mira and her mother vie for the attention of a hands ome\, suspiciously mature new student\, Sri. Anchored by a trio of excepti onal performances—including scene-stealing work from Kani Kusruti\, in a breakout year for the veteran actress—Girls Will Be Girls is a beautifu lly rendered film in every respect\, a strikingly assured debut from Shuch i Talati that is overflowing with empathy. ~OO\n\nAlso screens Monday\, Oc tober 21 | 7 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/gir ls-will-be-girls.jpeg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1635@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T132939Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/amal/ SUMMARY:AMAL DESCRIPTION:Amal\, the latest from Moroccan-Belgian director Jawad Rhalib\, works as both an urgent philosophical dilemma and a tightly-wound thrille r. It drops us in the middle of a secondary school class body that is star kly divided and introduces a catalyst that inflames this volatile setting. Set in Brussels\, the school where idealistic\, progressive teacher Amal works is an oasis in a conservative Muslim community. When one student is accused of homosexuality\, dangerous views and violent rhetoric breach the neutral territory of the school grounds. Amal finds herself on the front lines\, trying to instill both compassion and logic in students who are be ing indoctrinated and radicalized by a hard-line religion teacher. Lubna A zabal (Incendies\, The Blue Caftan) holds the center as the eponymous char acter\, a defiant educator willing and sometimes eager to provoke. Intelle ctually curious but also righteously humane\, Amal is a sharp\, tense trea tise that comes to a fine point. ~OO\n\nAlso screens on Monday\, October 2 1 | 7:15 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AMA L_Bendita_Film_Sales_05.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1693@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T193000 DTSTAMP:20241003T203449Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/family-matters-a-tour-of-vermont-short-films/ SUMMARY:FAMILY MATTERS: A TOUR OF VERMONT SHORT FILMS DESCRIPTION:All films in The Screening Room @ VTIFF go on sale the day they occur\, at 9 AM. \n\nA group of four award-winning Vermont filmmakers exp lore what it means to be a family in Vermont. The program features four sh ort fiction films ranging from horror to drama. All films offer a uniquely Vermont perspective on the pains and joys of being a family. Lukas Huffma n’s Bloodroot is a tender relationship portrait of two brothers\, told o ver the course of their lives. In Molly Longwell’s Bad Mother\, a mother copes with her husband's confession of infidelity on the eve of a funeral . Eddie Shore’s I Guess It Might Be Selfish is a poetic reflection on th e clash between individual and family needs. Sarah Wisner and Sean Temple ’s The Thaw is a beautifully rendered 19th century Vermont horror story. \n\nFollowing both screenings\, there is an in-person Q&\;A with the fi lmmakers.\n\nAlso screens at 8:00 pm ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/BLO ODROOT-short-film.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1684@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T203000 DTSTAMP:20241008T140733Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shahid-2/ SUMMARY:SHAHID DESCRIPTION:North American premiere\n\nA wildly clever and frequently hilar ious film in which an actress plays a film director named Narges Shahid Ka lhor (whom we often see in conversation with the director Narges Kalhor)\, and directs her in a film…which we watch. It’s called Shahid. Basical ly\, Kalhor has decided that she no longer wants the “Shahid” part of her name. It is an honorific that reflects religious martyrdom in the fami ly history but Kalhor doesn’t really buy into it. At all. However\, chan ging her name isn’t as easy as it sounds. As if the bureaucratic problem s weren’t enough—born in Iran\, she lives in Germany—it gets even wo rse when her long-dead great grandfather\, the heroic martyr who bestowed this name on the family\, shows up to talk her out of it. And while he’s at it\, he and his friends bust some serious dance moves.\n\nSimultaneous ly silly and profound\, heady and nutty\, Shahid is a deft piece of meta-f ilmmaking in which everything falls into place. The structure allows for a lot of playfulness\, but at its heart the film deals with the heavy issue s of legacy and coming to terms with the past. ~SM\n\nAlso screens Sunday\ , October 20 | 4:30 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sha hid_Still_14.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1669@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T210000 DTSTAMP:20241021T214014Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mamifera/ SUMMARY:MAMIFERA DESCRIPTION:Mamifera is both a lovely\, well-observed character study and a thoroughly relatable portrait of a quarter-life crisis in slow-motion. Th e film focuses on Lola—a fabulous Maria Rodriguez Soto—a woman who has always been certain that being a mother is not for her. Of course\, this being a movie\, you can guess what happens next: Just when her comfortable domestic life with her partner\, Bruno\, and her work as an art teacher s pecializing in decoupage\, feels complete\, life throws a curve ball and s he finds out she's expecting. Her choice is clear to her but she has to pa use due to Spain's mandatory abortion waiting period. What follows is a pa rallel three-day existential journey for Lola and Bruno filled with amusin g familial interactions\, friends enduring their own personal crises\, a b unch of vivid dreams where Lola's cutouts and anxieties come to life\, and hard truths leading to life-changing decisions. Director-writer Liliana T orres clearly harbors a lot of affection for these characters and their ch osen family\, all of which pours out in a profound\, moving final gesture. ~OO\n\nAlso screens Sunday\, October 20 | 2:15 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/mam ifera.png CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1694@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T213000 DTSTAMP:20241003T203504Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/family-matters-a-tour-of-vermont-short-films- 2/ SUMMARY:FAMILY MATTERS: A TOUR OF VERMONT SHORT FILMS DESCRIPTION:All films in The Screening Room @ VTIFF go on sale the day they occur\, at 9 AM. \n\nA group of four award-winning Vermont filmmakers exp lore what it means to be a family in Vermont. The program features four sh ort fiction films ranging from horror to drama. All films offer a uniquely Vermont perspective on the pains and joys of being a family. Lukas Huffma n’s Bloodroot is a tender relationship portrait of two brothers\, told o ver the course of their lives. In Molly Longwell’s Bad Mother\, a mother copes with her husband's confession of infidelity on the eve of a funeral . Eddie Shore’s I Guess It Might Be Selfish is a poetic reflection on th e clash between individual and family needs. Sarah Wisner and Sean Temple ’s The Thaw is a beautifully rendered 19th century Vermont horror story. \n\nFollowing both screenings\, there is an in-person Q&\;A with the fi lmmakers.\n\nAlso screens at 6:00 pm ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/BLO ODROOT-short-film.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1638@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T224500 DTSTAMP:20241008T140834Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-balconettes/ SUMMARY:THE BALCONETTES (LES FEMMES AU BALCON) DESCRIPTION:This wildly irreverent comedy/horror provocation was written by director/actress Noemie Merlant and Celine Sciamma\, who last worked toge ther on the excellent Portrait of a Lady on Fire\, with Sciamma directing and Merlant starring. Be forewarned\, aside from a baseline theme of femal e self-reliance\, this film is nothing like that! Raunchy\, violent\, hila rious\, gory\, fun\, supernatural\, disturbing\, sexual\, and subversive a s hell\, The Balconettes is a genre mash-up that shifts tones so often and so wildly that you may suffer cinematic whiplash.\n\nMerlant’s film has the feel of early Almodóvar with its melodramatic plot\, intense female bonding\, wild plot shifts\, and a mission to provoke\, mostly for the fun of it. During a blistering Marseilles heatwave\, three women accept an in vitation from the cute guy on the balcony across the way. They go over for a drink. Utter mayhem ensues. There are ghosts\, corpses\, gynecological exams\, murder\, assault\, fart jokes\, and pretty much everything else. T he women must bond together to find a way through all this patriarchy-indu ced madness.\n\nAs one member of the VTIFF Programming Committee said\, “It isn’t so much that the film rejects the male gaze\; it refuses to acknowledge that it even exists.” ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/THE -BALCONETTES_2_c-2024-NORD-OUEST-FILMS-FRANCE-2-CINEMA.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1666@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T151500 DTSTAMP:20241008T173941Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/grand-tour/ SUMMARY:GRAND TOUR DESCRIPTION:Winner of Best Director at Cannes\, Miguel Gomes' latest period piece dramedy is the work of a filmmaker with a truly unique conception o f cinematic grammar. Split into two mirroring halves\, Grand Tour is sumpt uous and enchanting\, a cracked adventure yarn with its own fairy tale log ic. The first part follows Edward\, a haute British civil servant who is i ntent on fleeing his impending commitment to his fiancée\, Molly\, hoppin g through a number of colonized Asian countries and cultures. Then we doub le back and join Molly's journey as she is hot on his heels\, undeterred a nd tracking his movements every step of the way\, with a gumption that sta nds in stark contrast to Edward's cowardice. There’s plenty of tragicomi c potential in that set up alone\, but Gomes has much more on his mind\, w hich comes out in the many modern-day scenes that break up the dueling nar ratives. As fun as it is to watch this functionary and his betrothed caree n through Asia\, the long shadow of European colonialism looms over their madcap misadventures. Grand Tour is whimsical\, boldly stylized\, thematic ally ambitious\, and like nothing else you'll see this year. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Gra ndTour_Stills_7_300dpi.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1658@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T144500 DTSTAMP:20241008T134825Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/far-out-life-on-and-after-the-commune-2/ SUMMARY:FAR OUT: LIFE ON AND AFTER THE COMMUNE DESCRIPTION:It all sounds blissful and idyllic and totally of a different e ra: in 1968 a group of radical journalists leave New York City for the cou ntry\, landing in Western Massachusetts and Southern Vermont\, where they set up a commune and become pioneers in back-to-the-land organic farming. But what happens next? Where do the lives of these young idealists lead? F ar Out follows the long strange trip of the collective as they wage dramat ic battles over atomic power\; team up with Jackson Browne\, Bonnie Raitt\ , and Graham Nash to produce sold out concerts at Madison Square Garden\; and band together to take up left-wing causes of the moment. Tracing 50 ye ars in the lives of the members\, Far Out is lively\, humorous\, inspiring \, and irreverent. Blending contemporary interviews and a remarkable trove of original archival footage\, you meet a variety of colorful individuals who share curiosity about politics\, spirituality\, and civic engagement\ , as well as hope for a better life and a more compassionate world. ~OO\n\ nAfter the 10/19 showing of the film\, there is a Q&\;A with director C harles Light and participant Verandah Porche.\n\nAlso screens on Saturday\ , October 19 | 1:45 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Far -Out_Still-3.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1689@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T155648Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/who-by-fire-comme-le-feu/ SUMMARY:WHO BY FIRE (COMME LE FEU) DESCRIPTION:Cabin fever is rarely as mesmerizing as it is in Who By Fire\, the latest from respected Québécois writer-director Philippe Lesage. Alb ert and Blake were once successful filmmaking partners—the former as wri ter and the latter as director—before creative and philosophical differe nces drove them apart and set them on different career paths. After years of estrangement\, Albert plus three teenage guests—Albert's son\, daught er\, and son's best friend—are invited for an extended getaway at Blake' s grand cabin in the woods. As the wine flows freely\, and long-simmering resentments rise to the surface\, the mood frequently shifts on a dime. Wh ether that leads to a deeply personal shouting match or a cathartic free-f or-all dance party to the B-52’s’ "Rock Lobster" is always unpredictab le. Isolated in the lush beauty of the French wilderness with a stockpile of hunting rifles\, surging adolescent hormones\, oversized egos\, plentif ul alcohol\, unexpected guests\, and bottomless animosity\, what could go wrong? ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/who -by-fire_still_1.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1668@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T173109Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/made-in-ethiopia/ SUMMARY:MADE IN ETHIOPIA DESCRIPTION:A large-canvas story told on a basic human scale\, Made In Ethi opia is a textbook example of how to take an overwhelming topic and make i t engrossing\, informative\, and cinematic.\n\nThe topic is China’s inve stment in Africa\, specifically a mind-bogglingly gigantic factory complex that China is building in Ethiopia. The film follows the progress of this plan through the eyes of three women: Chinese factory manager Motto Ma\; the young Ethiopian factory worker Beti\; and Workinesh\, an Ethiopian far mer whose family is displaced by the project.\n\nThese three strong person alities anchor the film\, showing how different people can believe wildly different things. Motto thinks her factory is the only path that will lead to modernization in Ethiopia and that her factory workers are all gratefu l for it\, yet Beti’s experience of thwarted expectations is 180 degrees apart from Motto’s beliefs. These divergent dreams and desires form a c omplex reality\, both for the individuals involved and the country in whic h they live. ~SM\n\nAfter the film\, there is an in-person Q&\;A with d irector Xinyan Yu. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/mad e-in-ethiopia.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1643@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T210000 DTSTAMP:20241008T155505Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-conversation/ SUMMARY:THE CONVERSATION DESCRIPTION:The 1970s was the Golden Age of the paranoid thriller\, and Fra ncis Coppola’s The Conversation was the most paranoid and most thrilling of them all. Sometimes referred to as “the movie Coppola made between t he two Godfather films”—which is true\, and mind-blowing—it is also an absolute masterpiece that more than stands on its own. We’re delighte d to be screening this 50th-anniversary 4K restoration.\n\nHarry Caul (Gen e Hackman) is a surveillance guy\, the best in the biz. But when a job goe s wrong\, suddenly Harry finds himself on the other side of that equation\ , which is not a good place to be. Beautifully written and directed by Cop pola\, The Conversation oozes both menace and style\, building a tension t hat is almost nerve-shattering by film’s end.\n\nFeaturing one of Gene H ackman’s finest performances\, with stellar support from a loaded cast t hat includes John Cazale\, Teri Garr\, Frederic Forrest\, Harrison Ford\, and Robert Duvall\, The Conversation is a towering achievement from one of America’s finest filmmakers. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/The -Conversation_Still-2.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1671@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T204500 DTSTAMP:20241023T203456Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-other-land-2/ SUMMARY:NO OTHER LAND DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT. WAIT LIST STARTS 1 HOUR IN PERSON AT THE BOX OFFICE\n \nIn 2019\, 1\,000 Palestinian homes were selected for demolition in the v illage of Masafer Yatta\, the largest mass expulsion order in the West Ban k since the Israeli occupation began. Local resident Basel Adra and Israel i journalist Yuval Abraham document this destruction house by house over f our years in No Other Land\, winner of this year's Berlinale Documentary F ilm Award. This heartbreaking documentary captures the trauma and confusio n of the families who are displaced as soldiers enter their remote village and bulldoze their homes. Water manes are busted\, tools are confiscated\ , cars are seized\, residents are forced into caves\, and dissent is met w ith violence. No Other Land is a potent reminder of the importance and pow er of ground-level journalism in the face of injustice. At the center of t he story is a poignant friendship that we see deepen and fray over time as Basel and Yuval shoulder the responsibility of telling the stories of the dispossessed. ~TW\n\nAlso screens Tuesday\, October 22 | 2 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/No- Other-Land_Still_courtesy-Antipode-films.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1654@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T134500 DTSTAMP:20241023T204155Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eternal-you-2/ SUMMARY:ETERNAL YOU DESCRIPTION:“If you had the chance to talk to a loved one who died\, woul d you take it?” That's the pitch of Eternal You\, the thought-provoking documentary about AI technology from German filmmakers Hans Block and Mori tz Riesewieck. But that question doesn't quite get to the heart of the mat ter. What the technology on display here is really offering is an algorith mic approximation of your loved one\, and what Eternal You is investigatin g is the uncanny valley between our memories and the increasingly life-lik e technological representations of those who have passed away—ghosts in the machine who are monetized by hungry startups. In this documentary\, we see any number of concerning and confusing moments in the interactions be tween grieving humans and imperfect tech: using a VR simulation\, a mother reunites with the young daughter she lost for the viewing pleasure millio ns on national TV\; a company creates a vocal filter that can say anything you want in the voice of the deceased\; the avatar in a subscription-base d AI chat program tells the user that they are stuck in hell. Eternal You is scratching at the surface of the infinite ethical quandaries of the AI Wild West we are all now living in. ~OO\n\nAlso screens Saturday\, October 19 | 4:30 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ete rnalYou1.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1678@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T130000 DTSTAMP:20241008T140305Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/one-night-at-babes-and-painting-the-dandelion -resurrection/ SUMMARY:ONE NIGHT AT BABES and PAINTING THE DANDELION RESURRECTION DESCRIPTION:This double feature of shorter films brings together two filmma kers living in Vermont who made films about Vermonters in Vermont. \n\nAn gelos Madsen Minax’s lovely One Night at Babes is certainly a left-turn from Madsen’s more experimental work\, but it’s a fabulous cinematic s napshot of a town feeling its way towards positive change. At a small-town dive bar called Babes\, cribbage tournaments overlap afternoons of karaok e and nights of raucous queer dance parties. When the aging conservative t ownsfolk of Bethel\, Vermont\, and the younger queer leftists begin sharin g the same watering hole\, a delicate alliance flourishes.\n\nSusan Bettma nn’s Painting the Dandelion Resurrection trains the camera on Vermont ic on Peter Schumann\, co-founder and creative force of Bread and Puppet Thea ter. And basically he does what the title says—he paints. Schumann narra tes in real time as he begins and completes the painting over the course o f the film’s half-hour\, offering us the rare opportunity to hang out wi th an artistic heavyweight. ~SM\n\nThere is an in-person Q&\;A with bot h filmmakers at the 10/23 screening. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/One NightAtBabes_Still4.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1681@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T153000 DTSTAMP:20241008T140613Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sabbath-queen/ SUMMARY:SABBATH QUEEN DESCRIPTION:Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is one of the most compelling character s you'll meet in a theater this year\, a lifelong seeker who is intelligen t\, compassionate\, courageous\, and rebellious. His journey to self-actua lization across many years and many diverse life chapters is truly remarka ble and affecting to witness\, and is a testament to being open-minded and compassionate above all else. This feature documentary\, filmed over 21 y ears\, follows Rabbi Lau-Lavie's tumultuous\, conflicted path as he comes to terms with his family's 38-generation Rabbi dynasty. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and birthright while also exploring h is sexuality and identity. He may be an ordained orthodox rabbi but he's a lso a drag-queen\, a Radical Fairy\, a queer bio-dad\, and the founder of an everybody-friendly\, God-optional experimental congregation. This thoug htful and heartwarming portrait of Amichai is also a timely meditation on what Jewish survival means in a rapidly changing 21st century. ~OO\n\nTher e is an in-person Q&\;A with the director following the screening. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/sab bathqueen_still_01.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1655@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T154500 DTSTAMP:20241023T204314Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/every-little-thing-bb/ SUMMARY:EVERY LITTLE THING DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT. WAIT LIST STARTS 1 HOUR IN PERSON AT THE BOX OFFICE\n \nAmidst the glitz and glamor of Hollywood\, hummingbirds fit right in. Zi ppy and sequined\, they are gorgeous\, vibrant creatures that are gone in a flash. A heartwarming film of joy and wonder\, Every Little Thing tells the deceptively simple story of a woman in Los Angeles\, Terry Masear\, wh o nurtures wounded hummingbirds back to health. Brought into sharp focus t hrough breathtaking super slow-motion photography\, Every Little Thing int roduces us to many of Masear's diminutive patients\, all with individual s tories\, characteristics\, and personalities. This documentary is a sweet and intimate love letter to these marvelous\, fragile animals\, allowing u s to see them as we never have before. The compassion that Masear shows he r Lilliputian charges serves as a lesson to us all\, a reminder that in th e smallest of acts\, and in the tiniest beings\, we might find grace. ~OO\ n\nAlso screens Saturday\, October 19 | 2 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/eve ry-little-thing.png CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1695@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T164500 DTSTAMP:20241025T211324Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pomp-circumstance/ SUMMARY:POMP & CIRCUMSTANCE DESCRIPTION:All films in The Screening Room @ VTIFF go on sale the day they occur\, at 9 AM. \n\nFilmed in Burlington—you will absolutely recognize some of the settings if you’re a local—Pomp &\; Circumstance is a freewheeling\, episodic lo-fi comedy\, following three soon-to-be college graduates getting involved in an absurd plot involving their adjunct profe ssor running for mayor. Directed by former Burlingtonian Adrian Anderson a nd Patrick Gray\, it’s both a loving tribute and sarcastic send-up of ’60s underground filmmaking. It stars Ben Loftus\, Noah Brockman\, Isabe l Zaia\, and Pat Malone. Shot on 16mm\, it premiered and won the audience prize last summer at the Tallahassee Film Festival and has been on the fes tival circuit ever since to positive reception.\n\nFollowing both screenin gs\, there is an in-person Q&\;A with the filmmakers.\n\nAlso screens a t 6:00 pm\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/PC- STILL-3.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1675@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T140058Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/oceans-are-the-real-continents-2/ SUMMARY:OCEANS ARE THE REAL CONTINENTS (LOS OCÉANOS SON LOS VERDADEROS CON TINENTES) DESCRIPTION:Tommaso Santambrogio’s debut feature is a stunningly photogra phed black-and-white portrait of Cuba. A tryptic of gently intersecting st ories\, set in San Antonio de los Baños\, the film follows the romance of a young artistic couple as their creative passions pull them in different directions\, an elderly woman reliving her past through letters from a lo ng lost love\, and two street kids who dream of playing for the Yankees. S trikingly lensed by Lorenzo Casadio Vannucci\, with a cast of non-professi onal actors\, Oceans Are the Real Continents has the texture and resonance of social realism\, with unmistakable echoes of Mikhail Kalatozov's I Am Cuba\, but a wonderful sense of style that is poetic\, emotional\, and int oxicating. Santambrogio captures the essence of a country that is unstuck in time\, haunted by ghosts of past\, present\, and an uncertain future. A rtful and patient\, these carefully woven stories portray a people in exil e\, with deep roots in their homeland but a yearning for all there is to e xperience outside this isolated island. ~OO\n\nAlso screens Tuesday\, Octo ber 22 | 7 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Oce ans_7.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1644@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T174118Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dahomey/ SUMMARY:DAHOMEY DESCRIPTION:It’s no secret that the world’s colonial powers frequently looted the artistic treasures of other countries\, and that those treasure s often wound up in very reputable museums. So…what to do with them?\n\n Mati Diop’s Dahomey\, winner of the Golden Bear (top prize) at this year ’s Berlin Film Festival\, has a few things to say about that. The film i s a creative and thought-provoking exploration of the return of 26 artifac ts from the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris to their home country of Benin (formerly the kingdom of Dahomey)\, with special attention paid to the fin al repatriated work\, a statue of King Ghezo.\n\nThe film deftly blends fa ct and fiction\, presenting the surprisingly fraught case for the repatria tion of these artworks\, and the sometimes delicate dance involved in righ ting the wrongs of colonialism. Diop\, in only her second feature (her fir st was the acclaimed Atlantics in 2019)\, makes it clear that the treasure s belong in Benin\, but shows that the path to getting them there is not a lways a straight line. ~SM\n\nAfter the film\, there is a discussion with Richard Saunders\, Director of the Middlebury College Museum\, and Alex Bo rtolot\, Deputy Director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dah omey_Still_2.jpeg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1696@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T194500 DTSTAMP:20241025T211229Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pomp-circumstance-2/ SUMMARY:POMP & CIRCUMSTANCE DESCRIPTION:All films in The Screening Room @ VTIFF go on sale the day they occur\, at 9 AM. \n\nFilmed in Burlington—you will absolutely recognize some of the settings if you’re a local—Pomp &\; Circumstance is a freewheeling\, episodic lo-fi comedy\, following three soon-to-be college graduates getting involved in an absurd plot involving their adjunct profe ssor running for mayor. Directed by former Burlingtonian Adrian Anderson a nd Patrick Gray\, it’s both a loving tribute and sarcastic send-up of ’60s underground filmmaking. It stars Ben Loftus\, Noah Brockman\, Isabe l Zaia\, and Pat Malone. Shot on 16mm\, it premiered and won the audience prize last summer at the Tallahassee Film Festival and has been on the fes tival circuit ever since to positive reception.\n\nFollowing both screenin gs\, there is an in-person Q&\;A with the filmmakers.\n\nAlso screens a t 3:00 pm\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/PC- STILL-3.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1682@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T220000 DTSTAMP:20241026T203512Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig/ SUMMARY:THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT. WAIT LIST STARTS 1 HOUR BEFORE THE SCREENING\, IN PER SON AT THE BOX OFFICE.\n\nMaster filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has made many films (and VTIFF has shown a number of them)\, but none has caused quite the stir of The Seed of the Sacred Fig\, which earned him an eight-year pr ison sentence from Iranian authorities. Rasoulof was able to leave Iran be fore his arrest\, and now lives in exile in Europe.\n\nA story like that c an tend to overshadow a film\, which would be a shame\, because The Seed o f the Sacred Fig is a strong entry in the Rasoulof catalog. Shot entirely in secret\, it tells the story of an investigating judge during a period o f turmoil in Iran\, who succumbs to paranoia when his gun goes missing\, l eading him to enact draconian measures against his own family.\n\nIn The N ew Yorker\, Justin Chang called it\, “a thriller of propulsive skill and blunt emotional force\, marrying the muscularity of an action film to the psychological intensity of a chamber drama.”\n\nAs always\, VTIFF is th rilled to present another film by this bold\, fearless filmmaker. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/01_ THE-SEED-OF-THE-SACRED-FIG_Courtesy-of-NEON.png CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1660@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T211500 DTSTAMP:20241008T134931Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ganja-and-hess/ SUMMARY:GANJA & HESS DESCRIPTION:Blacula this is not. Bill Gunn's Ganja &\; Hess is one of th e best bad trips of the '70s\, a heady and sweaty vampire flick like no ot her. Duane Jones—who starred in just two films\, both masterpieces\, the other being Night of the Living Dead—plays wealthy anthropologist Dr. H ess Green who is stabbed by a ceremonial African dagger\, turning him into an immortal supernatural being. His sudden bloodlust soon awakens other c arnal hungers\, and he lures Ganja\, the estranged wife of his attacker\, into his hedonistic lifestyle. Mishandled and all but buried at the time o f its release\, critics and distributors reacted with hostility to this ra w\, sexually charged art film—inspiring Gunn to pen a powerful\, damning open letter in The New York Times titled "To Be a Black Artist"—but Gan ja &\; Hess is now regarded as an ahead-of-its-time independent horror milestone\, a key influence on a generation of boundary-pushing Black film makers (including one Spike Lee\, who fought to remake it as Da Sweet Bloo d of Jesus). Hallucinatory\, enigmatic\, and deeply political\, this vivid monster movie has only grown more potent over the last fifty years. Consi der this an early Halloween present from VTIFF. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GAN JA-still.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1676@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T133000 DTSTAMP:20241008T140141Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/on-becoming-a-guinea-fowl/ SUMMARY:ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL DESCRIPTION:Proving that her startling debut\, I Am Not a Witch\, was no fl uke\, writer/director Rungano Nyoni’s offers us On Becoming a Guinea Fow l\, a brilliant and provocative film that examines how community and tradi tion can clash with right and wrong.\n\nIn the middle of the night\, Shula \, apparently driving home from a costume party where she has dressed like Missy Elliott\, stumbles across the dead body of her uncle. As funeral pr oceedings begin and deeply embedded rituals are enacted\, they become incr easingly at odds with revelations about the character of the deceased.\n\n While there’s a quirky\, off-center storytelling sensibility here that ’s quite exciting\, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl has serious subjects on it s mind. Ultimately\, Nyoni’s film is about how cruelty and injustice are woven into social systems\, and for many people the perpetuation of those systems is far more important than those who suffer within them. \n\nBea utifully written\, photographed\, and acted\, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a big step forward for a major young African filmmaker. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/on- becoming-a-guinea.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1659@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T134500 DTSTAMP:20241022T204251Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/flow-straume/ SUMMARY:FLOW (STRAUME) DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT. WAIT LIST STARTS 1 HOUR IN PERSON AT THE BOX OFFICE.\ n\nThis swashbuckling tale of a cat who befriends a capybara\, a lemur\, a stork\, and a golden retriever is not your average kids’ movie. For one thing\, filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis lets these animals be animals. That is \, they don't speak to each other\, at least not in any human language\, a nd their movements and motivations are true to their respective species: t he cat struts and scurries\, the capybara waddles and thumps\, the stork p reens and stalks\, and the lemur leaps about and loots. The world seems to have come to an end and there are no humans to be found. Flood waters rec ede then return and this ragtag group of animal pals scramble aboard a pas sing boat and head out into the unknown. Sailing through mystical landscap es\, they navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new worl d\, with Zilbalodis adding more than a touch of Zemeckis to their perilous episodes. Flow\, which has been chosen as the Latvian entry for Best Inte rnational Feature Film at the Academy Awards\, is a wonderful animated adv enture about chosen families and cross-species friendships that transcend language. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FLO W_Still2.jpeg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1633@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T160000 DTSTAMP:20241027T152938Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/agent-of-happiness-fh/ SUMMARY:AGENT OF HAPPINESS DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT. WAIT LIST STARTS 1 HOUR IN PERSON AT THE BOX OFFICE\n \nHow do we quantify happiness? In Bhutan\, the self-proclaimed happiest c ountry in the world\, they have a mathematical formula for it. In the love ly and fascinating Agent of Happiness\, directors Arun Bhattari and Dorott ya Zurbo follow two government Happiness Agents as they trek through the H imalayas\, assessing people’s contentment\, even as their own could use a boost.\n\nAgent of Happiness has no axe to grind with the current system \, though it does suggest that there may be nuance to our feelings that ca n’t quite be harnessed by a 1-10 scale. Instead\, it focuses on people\, mostly our agents\, Amber and Guna\, but also the many other people along their staggeringly beautiful Himalayan route. Gorgeously shot\, quirky\, and full of heart. Agent of Happiness is a thoroughly winning film. ~SM\n\ nA Science on Screen presentation\, this film also features a talk from UV M professor Dr. Chris Danforth\, who has developed a real-time remote sens or for global happiness using online interactions. He’ll talk about his team’s work with happiness\, and compare it with what we’ve seen in th e film.\n\n\n\nAn initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre\, with major s upport from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation\n\nThis film also screens Monda y\, October 21 | 4:15 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Age nt_of_Happiness_-Still-1.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1665@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T154500 DTSTAMP:20241008T155851Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-great-yawn-of-history-2/ SUMMARY:THE GREAT YAWN OF HISTORY (KHAMYAZEYE BOZORG) DESCRIPTION:Mysterious and elusive\, Aliyar Rasti’s excellent two-hander conceals a great reservoir of emotional and spiritual turmoil under a pati ent\, placid surface. Recruited for a cryptic treasure hunt\, damaged youn g agnostic Shoja accompanies Beitollah on a journey to Northern Iran in se arch of a cave that may or may not exist with a cache of gold coins. An ol der man of deep but wavering faith\, Beitollah is in search of far more th an riches\, and his reasons for needing a companion are equally uncertain. As they travel from cave to cave\, they meet a variety of people of noble and nefarious intent. Rasti\, in his feature debut\, brings a photographe r's eye to every frame\, crafting a movie with an intuitive visual sensibi lity and letting the power of its images convey profound ambiguity. The Gr eat Yawn of History harnesses the tremendous dramatic storytelling that is central to Iranian filmmaking\, inverting The Treasure of the Sierra Madr e on a beguiling\, soulful metaphorical journey into the desert. ~OO\n\nAl so screens Tuesday\, October 22 | 4:30 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/The -Great-Yawn-of-History.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1646@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T174500 DTSTAMP:20241008T173322Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/darkest-miriam-bb/ SUMMARY:DARKEST MIRIAM DESCRIPTION:Toronto librarian Miriam is reserved\, almost to a fault. She s eems to enjoy her job at the library—except for those weird letters she keeps finding\, apparently addressed to the world at large\, though someho w connecting with her personally—but she seems to be at a remove from li fe. That changes when she meets a cab driver named Janko.\n\nA quiet marve l of a movie\, Naomi Jaye’s second feature probes Miriam’s inner life\ , watching her at work for long stretches as she deals with library regula rs…and those weird letters. As Miriam\, Britt Lower is a revelation\, su ggesting layers of depth and feeling while playing it cool on the surface. That could serve as a metaphor for the movie\, in which even the most mun dane scenes seem to carry hidden weight and meaning.\n\nWith Charlie Kaufm an serving as executive producer\, Darkest Miriam is a calling card for bo th Jaye and Lower\, who have created an odd and wonderful misfit of a movi e. ~SM\n\nAlso screens on Monday\, October 21 | 1 PM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dar kest-Miriam_Still-010.png CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1680@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T180000 DTSTAMP:20241008T140527Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/run-lola-run/ SUMMARY:RUN LOLA RUN (LOLA RENNT) DESCRIPTION:Let's do the time warp again. We're celebrating the 25th annive rsary of the banner movie year of 1999 with the eye-popping restoration of this sensational film with style for days. Underrated journeyman Tom Tykw er—soon after a close confidant of simpatico cyberpunk visionaries the W achowskis—races through a triptych of chaos theory in this German-langua ge stunner\, one of cinema's greatest adrenaline rushes. Run Lola Run is a s propulsive a movie as you'll ever see\, a pulse-pounding hypercapitalist techno fairy tale. When Lola's partner\, Manni\, leaves a bag with 100\,0 00 Deutsche Marks on the U-Bahn\, she's tasked with coming up with the cas h in 20 minutes to save his life. Tykwer tells then retells then retells a gain this real-time dilemma as our rebel hero hustles across the city tryi ng and trying and trying for a big score until she gets it right. Franka P otente sprinting through the streets of Berlin with her Kool-Aid red hair and powder blue tank top is one of the the signature images of the ’90s —an instant punk icon is born. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/3.j pg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1652@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T203000 DTSTAMP:20241027T150746Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eno/ SUMMARY:ENO DESCRIPTION:Brian Eno has stuffed several careers into his own—band membe r\, solo artist\, studio innovator\, producer to both oddballs and superst ars—so it’s only fitting that a biopic bearing his name would be just a little…different.\n\nCompiling hundreds of hours of archival footage a nd new interviews\, director Gary Hustwit uses an AI program to rearrange and re-edit the film for each screening\, creating a unique viewing experi ence every time\, with millions of variations. In other words\, the Eno th at you see on the closing night of VTIFF is the one and only time that par ticular version of the film will be seen. Ever. Crazy\, right?\n\nIt suits the subject. Eno got his start in Roxy Music\, but quit pretty early to m ake a series of highly influential solo albums. He actually coined the ter m “ambient music” with his seminal Ambient 1: Music for Airports. His work with overlapping tape loops had a huge impact in the world of experim ental music. As a producer\, he’s put his indelible mark on the best wor k by Devo\, Talking Heads\, Ultravox\, U2\, David Bowie\, and many others. \n\nThis one-of-a-kind experience closes out this year’s festival. ~SM\n \n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Eno _still2.jpg CATEGORIES:2024 VT International Film Festival,Film Festival,Pass/10Pack LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1698@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241108T190000 DTSTAMP:20241030T185358Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/surprise-me-1/ SUMMARY:“SURPRISE ME!” #1 with RYAN MILLER DESCRIPTION:A different kind of series\, in which we give the keys to Vermo nt’s own Ryan Miller\, then come back to watch the show.\n\nMiller\, pro bably best known for his work in the band Guster\, is a theater\, film and television composer\, writer\, columnist and even an occasional talk-show host. Aside from the films he’s scored – Kings of Summer\, In a World \, Safety Not Guaranteed\, and Babes\, among them – we don’t really kn ow what kind of movies he’s into (assuming it’s a movie he’ll show)\ , so…it’s anybody’s guess. We’re excited as can be.\n\nCome be sur prised. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/sur prise-me-crop.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1710@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T210000 DTSTAMP:20241028T190123Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/phantom-of-the-opera/ SUMMARY:The Phantom of the Opera (1925) DESCRIPTION:Few things off the cinematic thrill of a silent movie with live music. \n\nVTIFF and Main Street Landing offer this salute to silent mov ies\, featuring an immortal performance by the great Lon Chaney\, who anch ors this fright-fest about a horribly deformed man who lives in the sewers of Paris and makes plans to wreak vengeance on those who have wronged him . Filmed with opulence and great attention to detail by Rupert Julian\, Ph antom is a pleasure on many levels\, but Chaney dominates the proceedings\ , humanizing his character without ever detracting from his menace. His no w-iconic makeup was kept secret until the movie's release to maximize the scare quotient.\n\nThis film is accompanied by a brand-new score to be per formed live by composer Randall Pierce\, along with percussion by Colin He nkel. Pierce has previously created new scores for the silent films Metrop olis\, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City\, Nosferatu\, and a program of sho rt films by Georges Méliès. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/the phantomoftheopera1925.86596-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1699@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241110T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241110T170000 DTSTAMP:20241030T185431Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/surprise-me-2/ SUMMARY:“SURPRISE ME!” #2 with RYAN MILLER DESCRIPTION:A different kind of series\, in which we give the keys to Vermo nt’s own Ryan Miller\, then come back to watch the show.\n\nMiller\, pro bably best known for his work in the band Guster\, is a theater\, film and television composer\, writer\, columnist and even an occasional talk-show host. Aside from the films he’s scored – Kings of Summer\, In a World \, Safety Not Guaranteed\, and Babes\, among them – we don’t really kn ow what kind of movies he’s into (assuming it’s a movie he’ll show)\ , so…it’s anybody’s guess. We’re excited as can be.\n\nCome be sur prised. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/sur prise-me-crop.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1709@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241114T210000 DTSTAMP:20241029T131619Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/paris-texas/ SUMMARY:Paris\, Texas (1984) DESCRIPTION:One of the most visually ravishing movies of the 1980s gets the big-screen treatment with this 40th anniversary 4K restoration of Wim Wen ders’ masterpiece Paris\, Texas. \n\nThe film follows the mysterious\, nearly mute drifter Travis (a magnificent Harry Dean Stanton\, whose face is a landscape all its own) as he tries to reconnect with his young son an d his missing wife (Nastassja Kinski). From this simple setup\, director W enders and screenwriter Sam Shepard produce a powerful statement on codes of masculinity and the myth of the American family\, as well as an exquisi te visual exploration of a vast\, crumbling world of canyons and neon. \n \nThe movie abounds with A-list talent doing career-best work: \n\n —  German director Wim Wenders has a sizeable handful of masterpieces to hi s credit\, and this is definitely one of them.\n — Playwright Sam Shep ard wrote the film on a hot streak\, following his hugely successful stage plays True West and Fool For Love.\n — The always-excellent Harry Dea n Stanton was never better than in this rare starring role\, which was his favorite among his own films.\n — Ry Cooder’s deeply atmospheric\, highly influential slide-guitar soundtrack jump-started his career as a fi lm composer\, and remains his best.\n — The great cinematographer Robb y Muller (Down By Law\, Breaking the Waves) took a familiar landscape and created something entirely new and compelling.\n — Nastassja Kinski’ s final monologue may be her very best moment on film.\n\n \;\n\nHere ’s your chance to see a visually incomparable film presented in a newly restored version on a big screen. Why wouldn’t you come see it? ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/150 2id__0002_PTX03©WWS_w1600.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1700@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241115T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241115T204500 DTSTAMP:20241115T150821Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cronos-1992/ SUMMARY:CRONOS (1992) DESCRIPTION:Frightful First Films! CRONOS (1992)\nPresented by Eric Ford\n\ nThough just 29 when this debut feature arrived\, Guillermo Del Toro’s t alent was already evident. A stylish\, gory and surprisingly touching stor y about family and bloodlust\, Cronos delivers the goods in a big way\, ha rking back to the Hammer horror films of old\, while foregrounding Del Tor o’s own stylish\, wholly contemporary approach. \n\nSays series host Er ic Ford: “Guillermo del Toro's first film breathes fresh air into the va mpire genre\, even though it's over 30 years old. It's a surprisingly touc hing family-centered story\, and criminally underrated.”\n\nDel Toro cal led the film\, “An exploded version of my brain.” The plot centers aro und a scarab\, an incredibly sophisticated device built by a Mexican alche mist during the Inquisition. The device grants eternal life\, but\, of cou rse\, it comes with a price. In this case\, insatiable bloodlust. Nothing ’s free. In the present day\, one man has found the device – he’s th e one licking blood off the floor – while another man really wants it. S omething’s gotta give. \n\nThe movie overflows with wit\, style\, blood and heart. It also kickstarts two of Del Toro’s ongoing creative relati onships\, as both Federico Lippi and Ron Perlman would go on to make sever al films with Del Toro.\n\nAnd from these modest yet audacious beginnings\ , Del Toro’s done alright\, releasing such fabulous films as Pan’s Lab yrinth and The Devil’s Backbone\, and even winning a Best Director Oscar for The Shape of Water. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CRO NOS-image.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1701@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241116T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241116T124500 DTSTAMP:20241008T194529Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/labyrinth-1986/ SUMMARY:LABYRINTH (1986) DESCRIPTION:Family Fun Matinee!\nLABYRINTH (1986)\n\nSarah isn’t the best babysitter. One Saturday night\, frustrated by her gig\, she summons gobl ins to hijack her charge…and is quite surprised when that’s exactly wh at happens. And so Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) must journey to the land of t he Goblin King (David Bowie) and find her way through the labyrinth that g uards his castle.\n\nThis wildly imaginative adventure was directed by Mup pet-master and puppet-genius Jim Henson as his follow-up to The Dark Cryst al. While not a success on its original release\, it has become a re-appre ciated cult favorite\, a testament to the imagination and world-making abi lities of a true American creative genius. Plus…David Bowie!\n\nThe scri pting of the film is a story in itself. While Monty Python’s Terry Jones is the sole credited scriptwriter\, it went through many hands over a fou r-year development period\, including George Lucas and Elaine May. Maurice Sendak threatened to sue over similarities between the film and his Outsi de Over There (they worked it out). In all 25 different scripts and treatm ents were completed between 1983-86.\n\nFor all that\, the film holds toge ther beautifully. The imagined universe is bursting at the seams with crea tivity and creatures. The creation of a world using animatronics and puppe ts – no CGI\, of course\; it’s 1986! – still measures up today. It ’s an exciting\, absorbing movie with very little violence…a perfect ‘80s family vehicle.\n\nAnd all some of us need is David Bowie in a craz y wig\, hamming it up deliriously. Worth the price of admission\, for sure . ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lab -movie.jpeg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1711@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241117T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241117T150000 DTSTAMP:20241107T174218Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bitter-cane/ SUMMARY:Bitter Cane (1983) DESCRIPTION:An award-winning documentary about the colonial exploitation of the Haitian people\, Bitter Cane was filmed secretly by a collective of Haitian and American filmmakers—many part of the Mouvement Haitien de L ibération\, an underground revolutionary organization—during the dictat orship of Jean-Claude (“Baby Doc”) Duvalier. The film’s deep insight s into the exploitation and foreign domination of the Haitian people remai n all too relevant today. Bitter Cane is presented in a new 4K restorat ion by IndieCollect.\n\nMedia activist Deedee Halleck who did the archive research for the film\, will join us in person and journalist Kim Ives\, c ommentator on Haiti’s progressive movements\, will be present on Zoom fo r a discussion on Haiti’s past and present opportunities for social chan ge. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/bit tercane.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1702@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T203000 DTSTAMP:20241008T194427Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lake-mungo-2008/ SUMMARY:LAKE MUNGO (2008) DESCRIPTION:Frightful First Films! \nLAKE MUNGO (2008)\nPresented by Eric F ord\n\nTold in the now-pervasive “found-footage” format\, Lake Mungo i s as much a psychological thriller as a horror movie. \n\nThe film has a strong reputation among those in the know. It’s a favorite of horror-mov ie maven and series presenter Eric Ford\, who says “Unlike other found f ootage horror films like Blair Witch or Paranormal Activity\, Lake Mungo d oesn't rely on jump scares\, it creeps ever so slowly under your skin\, st aying there long after the credits roll.”\n\nA remarkably assured debut from Aussie Joel Anderson\, the film deals with grief and the harrowing 12 months that follow the accidental death of 16-year-old Alice Palmer. Afte r her family buries Alice\, a series of inexplicable\, strange and possibl y supernatural events lead them to seek the help of a parapsychologist … many surprises ensue. Lake Mungo is a supernatural mystery and ghost stor y told as a documentary that explores just how the dead can forever haunt the living. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lak e.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1704@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241123T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241123T210000 DTSTAMP:20241008T194409Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ceddo-1977/ SUMMARY:CEDDO (1977) DESCRIPTION:The great Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene has made more th an his share of classics – films like Black Girl and Guelwaar – and Ce ddo is right near the top of the list. \n\nIn precolonial Senegal\, membe rs of the Ceddo (or “outsiders”) kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata N diaye) after her father (Makhourédia Guèye)\, the king\, pledges loyalty to an ascendant Islamic faction that plans to convert the entire clan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her fail\, provoking further division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims\, with Christian missionaries and slave traders from Europe caught in the m iddle. Yet when the victor prevails\, conflict still doesn’t end—and t he return of the princess and her still-revered power may very well topple the new order. \n\nBanned in Sembène’s native Senegal upon its origin al release\, Ceddo is an ambitious\, multilayered epic that explores the c ombustible interstices among ancient tradition\, religious colonization\, political opportunism\, and individual freedom. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ced do.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1712@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T190000 DTSTAMP:20241121T181653Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/black-dog/ SUMMARY:Black Dog (2024) DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes (as well as the Palm Dog Award for best performance by a canine)\, Guan Hu's neorealist f ilm tells the story of ordinary people left behind by the rapid economic d evelopment in China. Former stunt motorcyclist Lang returns to his hometow n on the outskirts of the Gobi Desert\, where he was a local celebrity pri or to his imprisonment. Now residing with his father\, Lang must avoid the spiteful local gangster "Butcher Hu"\, who aims to exact revenge on Lang for his role in his nephew's death. Lang decides to seek the bounty placed on a wild dog as part of a larger program to remove unwanted animals in p reparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing\, and eventually strike s up an unlikely friendship with the canine.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Bla ck-Dog-1.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1707@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241206T203000 DTSTAMP:20241008T194350Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rare-exports-2010/ SUMMARY:RARE EXPORTS (2010) DESCRIPTION:“Who doesn't love a Christmas horror movie?” offers our hos t Eric Ford\, asking a question we’d never actually pondered before. “ This Norwegian Krampus tale is totally unique\, off the wall\, and over th e top\, but built around great story and characters. It's funny and has a bloody heart.”\n\nJalmari Helander’s first feature is an expansion of his comedic Rare Exports shorts\, which were hilarious faux-infomercials o n how wild Santas are trapped in Scandinavia and domesticated before being exported to Christmas markets worldwide. Amazingly\, the longform version is even better. \n\nWe’ll keep it short so as not to give away the fun stuff: during an archaelogical dig in Finland\, the real Santa Claus is u nearthed. And you better hope he’s not coming to town\, because he is ba d\, bad news. Lots of terrible (yet quite funny) things start happening\, and then its time for some local reindeer hunters to take matters into the ir own hands.  What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare – a fantastic ally bizarre polemic on modern-day morality.\n\nIt’s definitely the Chri stmas movie you didn’t know you needed. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RAR E-exports.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1703@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241207T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241207T121500 DTSTAMP:20241203T194705Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-adventures-of-prince-achmed-1926/ SUMMARY:THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926) DESCRIPTION:Family Fun Matinee!\n\nTHE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926)\n \nAs visually staggering today as it must have been on its release 98 year s ago (!!!)\, Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed is the ol dest surviving animated feature film…and it’s a doozy\, sure to stagge r all newcomers\, adults and children alike. \n\nVisionary in oh-so-many ways\, Reiniger’s film is based on several tales from Hanna Diyab’s On e Thousand and One Nights\, featuring all sorts of visual conjuring\, such as flying horses\, magical transformations\, demons\, witches\, hydras an d so much more. \n\nReiniger invented a silhouette animation technique th at involved manipulated cutouts made from cardboard and thin sheets of lea d under a camera. She also used the first multiplane camera\, one of the m ost important devices in pre digital animation.\n\nThe film also offers a very\, very early cinematic gay relationship between the Emperor of China and his companion Ping Pong. Much of this content was removed by governmen t censors at the time\, but the implication is quite clear\, and Reiniger liked it that way. \n\n"I knew lots of homosexual men and women from the film and theater world in Berlin\, and saw how they suffered from stigmati zation\,” Reiniger said in an interview. “I suspect that when the Empe ror kisses Ping Pong\, that must have been the first happy kiss between tw o men in the cinema and I wanted it to happen quite calmly in the middle o f Prince Achmed so children — some who would be homosexual and some who would not — could see it as a natural occurrence\, and not be shocked or ashamed." ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/the -adventures-of-prince-achmed-1.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1705@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241213T210000 DTSTAMP:20241118T152148Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/viva-2007/ SUMMARY:VIVA (2007) DESCRIPTION:In the cult favorite Viva\, Anna Biller takes the ‘auteur’ concept to the next level. \n\nIn addition to starring\, writing\, direct ing\, editing and producing the film\, she also wrote the music\, painted the paintings\, designed and made the costumes\, and created the productio n design\, down to sewing the pillows for the sofas. \n\nShe puts these e fforts into a high-concept\, evisceration/satire of the sexual revolution of the ‘70s – or\, at least\, the male-gaze version of it. And she doe s it by dropping us right in the middle of it. She plays Barbi\, who is ab andoned by her husband\, then dragged into trouble by her girlfriend\, who spouts women's lib as she gets Barbi to discard her bra and go out on the town. Barbi becomes a Red Riding Hood in a sea of wolves\, and quickly le arns a lot more than she wanted to about the different kinds of scenes goi ng on in the wild '70s\, including nudist camps\, the hippie scene\, orgie s\, bisexuality\, sadism\, drugs\, and bohemia. Barbi succumbs to all of i t\, yet (hilariously\, we’d say) doesn’t seem to enjoy a second of it.  \n\nViva is a highly stylized film that draws on classic exploitation ci nema and vintage Playboy magazines for its look and characters. Saturated to the hilt with vibrant color\, and exquisitely detailed in its depiction of the period\, Viva looks like a lost film from 1972\, even down to the campy and self-assured performances\, the big lighting\, the plethora of n egligées\, and the delirious assortment of Salvation Army ashtrays\, lamp s\, fabrics\, and bric-a-brac (again\, most of it created by hand by Bille r). \n\nWhether you're looking for naked people dancing\, alcoholic swing ers\, stylish yet painfully awkward sex scenes\, a sea of polyester\, Hamm ond organ jams\, glitzy show numbers\, white horses\, blondes in the batht ub\, gay hairdressers\, or psychedelic animation\, Viva has it all. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Viv a_39.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1706@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241214T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241214T204500 DTSTAMP:20241008T194247Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/in-the-mood-for-love-2000/ SUMMARY:IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) DESCRIPTION:Hong Kong\, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-zhen (Magg ie Cheung) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encount ers are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. \n\nAt once delicately mannered and visual ly extravagant\, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evoc ation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee \, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema\, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career. \n\nIt’s the best-looking movie with the best soundtrack and the best cinematograp hy and the best actors with the best director…and it’s still more than the sum of its parts. \n\nThe New Yorker explained\, “Wong created a c ocktail of French New Wave filmmaking\, American hardboiled mystery\, Chin ese modernist literature\, and the geopolitics of his own Hong Kong-via-Sh anghai upbringing\, then chaneled those disparate influences into the mund ane\, domestic story of two not-quite-lovers. The combination is both unpr ecedented and somehow familiar upon watching\, like a forgotten memory. Th e clarity of vision leaves an indelible mark on the viewer.”\n\nModerate ly acclaimed upon its release\, the film’s reputation has soared in the intervening decades as its influence becomes ever-more pervasive (such as the use of the film’s set as one of the dimensional stops in the Oscar-w inning Everything Everywhere All at Once). The most recent Sight &\; So und poll ranked it as the 5th best film of all time\, while the aggregate cinephile website They Shoot Pictures Don’t They declared it the #1 film of the 21st century (so far). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/in- the-mood-for-love.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1713@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250109T190000 DTSTAMP:20250108T202806Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/oh-canada/ SUMMARY:Oh\, Canada (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nPaul Schrader’s amazing late-career renaissance continues. Bes t known as the legendary screenwriter behind Taxi Driver and Raging Bull\, as well as the writer/director of 27 feature films\, including Blue Colla r (1978)\, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapter (1985)\, Light Sleeper (1992)\, and Affliction (1997)\, Schrader has been on a roll this past decade\, un corking thoughtful\, powerful films such as First Reformed\, The Card Coun ter\, and Master Gardener. That hot streak continues with Oh\, Canada\, wh ich reunites him with Richard Gere some 40+ years after their initial coll aboration on American Gigolo (1980). \n\nBased on a novel by Russell Bank s (Foregone)\, the film tells the story of legendary filmmaker Leonard Fif e (Gere)\, still a force to be reckoned with despite his age and declining health. He wants to tell his life story\, unfiltered\, before it’s too late. As the director of acclaimed documentaries\, he is a political hero to many\, but his past harbors dark secrets and thorny truths. Leonard agr ees to sit for an extended interview with his former student Malcolm (Mich ael Imperioli)\, relating candid stories about his younger self (Jacob Elo rdi\, Saltburn). At Leonard’s insistence\, his wife and artistic partner \, Emma (Uma Thurman)\, bears witness to it all. His successes are held up against his failings and\, as the man is cleansed of the myth\, Leonard m ust confront what is left. \n\nAccording to Richard Brody in The New York er\, this is a film in which “one of the most accomplished and acclaimed contemporary movie directors…realizes a tale of immense complexity with bold ease.”\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/OhC anada_2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1716@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250110T190000 DTSTAMP:20250108T202910Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cleo-from-5-to-7/ SUMMARY:Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nAgnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this landmark of the French New Wave. A real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand\, riveting) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy\, the film chronicles the minutes of one woman’s life. Cléo f rom 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama\, featuring a score by Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-L uc Godard and Anna Karina. It’s the most popular and arguably finest fil m from one of the century’s great cinema artists\, and also one of the m ost compelling cinematic love letters to a time and place. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Mix tape_CleoFrom5to7_01-1-1600x900-c-default.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1717@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250111T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250111T140000 DTSTAMP:20241220T172101Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shanghai-express/ SUMMARY:Shanghai Express (1932) DESCRIPTION:Note this matinee screening is at 2 pm.\n\nAn intoxicating mix of adventure\, romance\, and pre-Code salaciousness\, Shanghai Express mar ks the commercial (and\, some would argue\, artistic) peak of the iconic c ollaboration between the great Marlene Dietrich and director Josef von Ste rnberg. Dietrich is at her absolute best as Shanghai Lily\, a courtesan wh ose reputation brings a hint of scandal to a three-day train ride through war-torn China. On board\, she is surrounded by a motley crew of foreigner s and lowlifes\, including a fellow fallen woman (Anna May Wong\, every bi t as compelling as La Dietrich\, no easy feat)\, an old flame (Clive Brook )\, and a rebel leader (Warner Oland). As tensions come to a boil\, direct or Josef von Sternberg delivers one breathtaking image after another\, env eloping his star in a decadent profusion of feathers\, furs\, and cigarett e smoke. Cinematographer Lee Garmes won a deserved Oscar for his brilliant work. The result is a triumph of studio filmmaking and a testament to the mythic power of Hollywood glamour.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/sha nghai-express1.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1715@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250117T203000 DTSTAMP:20250117T161154Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rope/ SUMMARY:Rope (1948) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\n\nOne-Shot Wonders! \n\nIn this charged thriller inspired by th e notorious case of Leopold and Loeb\, two Manhattan college friends (John Dall and Farley Granger) strangle a classmate for intellectual kicks and then proceed to invite his family and friends for dinner—with the body s tuffed inside the trunk they use for a buffet table. It was a film of firs ts for Hitchcock\, including his first collaboration with Jimmy Stewart\, who co-stars as a former teacher who slowly becomes aware that something s trange is going on. This macabre chamber piece is more darkly funny than u sual for Hitchcock (which is saying something). Rope is striking for both its daring queer subtext and its experimental visual style\, in which a se ries of elaborately choreographed long takes are carefully edited to creat e the illusion of one continuous shot (which is what Hitchcock would have done had the technology been available at the time). In another first\, th is is Hitchcock’s initial outing with color film\, which he mastered qui ckly\, creating a handful of the most sumptuous Technicolor flicks ever ma de during the 1950s.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Rop e-Featured-Image.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1718@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250118T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250118T190000 DTSTAMP:20250117T161223Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/russian-ark/ SUMMARY:Russian Ark (2002) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\n\nOne-Shot Wonders!\n\nSimply one of the most astonishing feats of filmmaking ever\, Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark is a gobsmacking te chnical marvel\, a feature film shot in a single take\, encompassing 300 y ears of Russian history and scenes that vary from single actors to massive formal balls and military exercises. Given the grounds of the Winter Pala ce in St. Petersburg’s famed Hermitage museum for a single day\, Sokurov and his team worked for a year to map out and create this film\, which wa s captured on the third take. The plot\, such as it is\, follows an unname d narrator\, who may or may not be a ghost\, as he wanders through various rooms\, each one representing an era of Russian history (nothing is spell ed out\, so some of it may be mystifying\, but…stay with it). He encount ers various people – some famous\, most not – and witnesses scenes bot h mundane and incredible\, leading to a final scene in which you just migh t think you’re flying. An overwhelming and joyous cinematic experience. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rus sian-ark.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1714@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250123T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250123T190000 DTSTAMP:20250116T203702Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/anora/ SUMMARY:Anora (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nSean Baker's Palme d'Or winner Anora is an audacious\, thrilling \, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey Madison ( Once Upon a Time in Hollywood…) captivates as Ani\, a young sex worker f rom Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impuls ively marries Vanya\, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. However\ , when Vanya's parents catch wind of the union\, they send their henchmen to annul the marriage\, setting off a wild chase through the streets of Ne w York.\n\nBaker continues to impress as one of the film world’s brighte st young filmmakers\, following his acclaimed features The Florida Project and Red Rocket\, both fabulous. The film also boasts a breakout performan ce from Madison\, who is absolutely electric in the title role. Our VTIFF screening comes on the day that Oscar nominations are announced\, and Anor a is expected to get plenty of attention.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Ano rabackground-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1719@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250124T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250124T190000 DTSTAMP:20241220T171853Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/coffy/ SUMMARY:Coffy (1973) DESCRIPTION:In the world of cinematic badass-ery\, few are as prominent as Pam Grier\, and Coffy offers her signature performance. Grier plays Flower Child Coffin (seriously)\, better known as Coffy\, a nurse by day who\, b y night\, wreaks vengeance on the criminal scumbags responsible for her yo ung sister’s heroin addiction. Frequently violent\, occasionally a bit l ess than tasteful\, but never less than compelling\, the movie is a showca se for Grier’s uniquely intense screen presence and she makes the most o f it. A defining moment in the so-called Blaxploitation movement of the ‘70s (we prefer the term ‘Black Action Movies’)\, Coffy hits all its spots – killer pimps\, corrupt cops\, a phenomenal score (from jazzman Roy Ayers)\, sex\, drugs\, but mostly…Pam Grier\, an icon in action. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cof fy3-1600x900-c-default.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1724@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250125T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250125T150000 DTSTAMP:20250122T142842Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wild-at-heart-1990/ SUMMARY:Wild at Heart (1990) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nDavid Lynch’s deeply nutso lovers-on-the-run opus Wild at Hear t has aged well. Nicholas Cage (in a truly Nicholas-Cage-y performance) an d Laura Dern (in a breakout role) star as Sailor Ripley and Lula Fortune\, two lovers who just can’t stay out of trouble. Hounded by Lula’s veng eful mom Marietta (an oscar-nominated Diane Ladd\, Dern’s real-life mom) and psycho criminal Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe)\, Sailor and Lula bolt Nort h Carolina with California on their minds\, but the journey will be a hard one. Replete with graphic violence\, lots of sexual content\, a Wizard of Oz theme\, and piles of plain old weirdness\, this is prime Lynch. \n\nW ildly polarizing upon release – Roger Ebert really hated it – Wild at Heart won the Palme d’Or in 1990\, made money at the box office\, and ha s come to be recognized as a great film of its time. It was going to be sl apped with an X rating before Lynch added some some smoke to obscure the e ffects of a shotgun on a human head. Voila … R-rated!\n\nAs Peter Traver s said in a rare rave review upon the film’s release: "Imagine The Wizar d of Oz with an oversexed witch\, gun-toting Munchkins and love ballads fr om Elvis Presley\, and you'll get some idea of this erotic hellzapoppin fr om writer-director David Lynch. Lynch's kinky fairy tale is a triumph of s tartling images and comic invention… a movie that confirms his reputatio n as the most exciting and innovative filmmaker of his generation." \n\n& nbsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CIN _WildAtHeart_1600x900-a_57518.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1720@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250125T190000 DTSTAMP:20250122T142800Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wild-at-heart/ SUMMARY:Wild at Heart (1990) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nHosted by Dave King \n\nDavid Lynch’s deeply nutso lovers-on- the-run opus Wild at Heart has aged well. Nicholas Cage (in a truly Nichol as-Cage-y performance) and Laura Dern (in a breakout role) star as Sailor Ripley and Lula Fortune\, two lovers who just can’t stay out of trouble. Hounded by Lula’s vengeful mom Marietta (an oscar-nominated Diane Ladd\ , Dern’s real-life mom) and psycho criminal Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe)\, Sailor and Lula bolt North Carolina with California on their minds\, but t he journey will be a hard one. Replete with graphic violence\, lots of sex ual content\, a Wizard of Oz theme\, and piles of plain old weirdness\, th is is prime Lynch. \n\nWildly polarizing upon release – Roger Ebert rea lly hated it – Wild at Heart won the Palme d’Or in 1990\, made money a t the box office\, and has come to be recognized as a great film of its ti me. It was going to be slapped with an X rating before Lynch added some so me smoke to obscure the effects of a shotgun on a human head. Voila … R- rated!\n\nAs Peter Travers said in a rare rave review upon the film’s re lease: "Imagine The Wizard of Oz with an oversexed witch\, gun-toting Munc hkins and love ballads from Elvis Presley\, and you'll get some idea of th is erotic hellzapoppin from writer-director David Lynch. Lynch's kinky fai ry tale is a triumph of startling images and comic invention… a movie th at confirms his reputation as the most exciting and innovative filmmaker o f his generation." \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CIN _WildAtHeart_1600x900-a_57518.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1723@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250126T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250126T150000 DTSTAMP:20250108T140718Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-yorkie-werewolf/ SUMMARY:The Yorkie Werewolf DESCRIPTION:Directed by Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas\, this entirely Vermont-ma de feature has already made waves\, winning best feature at the 2024 Under ground Horror Film and Screenplay Festival\, and screening at the 2024 Mad e Here Festival\, the 2024 Big Apple Film Festival\, and the inaugural Ver mont Film and Folklore Festival. Equal parts campy and thrilling\, The Yor kie Werewolf flips the werewolf mythos on its head and delivers a comedic bite to audiences everywhere.\n\nIn a span of two days\, teen witch Jenny buries both matriarchs of her family\, her powerful grandmother and her mo ther Sandra\, who has long been hiding a secret about Jenny’s birth. Mat ters are made worse when Jenny is turned into a tiny Yorkie werewolf\, and drawn into a bloody war between her town’s creatures of the night and t he local mafia—as headed by her own warlock/mobster father\, Papa Nick. After joining forces with clingy and bumbling vampire Chris (with his own vendetta against the mob)\, Jenny embarks on a reluctant quest to fulfill her destiny as the one who will finally bring peace to her community—thr ough various hijinx and much bloodshed!\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The YorkieWerewolf_KeyArt_11_16x9-VTIFF.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1721@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250131T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250131T190000 DTSTAMP:20250130T140336Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/head-stretchers-society/ SUMMARY:Head Stretchers Society DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nHead Stretchers Society is an ideology based on curiosity\, and inspired by a quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes: “One’s mind\, once str etched by a new idea\, never regains its original dimensions.” To that e nd\, the Society presents seven uniquely human short-form films\, each fil m exploring individuals who stretch our perceptions and imaginations. Thes e include artist Clark Russell\, dumpling virtuoso Hong Yu\, Lake Champlai n Lakekeeper Julie Silverman\, and many more. These short films reflect th e creativity and diversity at work in Vermont. Several of the subjects – and nearly all of the film’s creators – will be on hand for this spec ial event. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/hss 2.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1725@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250201T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250201T150000 DTSTAMP:20250128T164632Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lost-highway/ SUMMARY:Lost Highway (1997) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\n“We’ve met before\, haven’t we?” \n\nA lesser-loved ent ry in the Lynch canon (its canny marketing wore Siskel and Ebert's emphati c "Two Thumbs Down" as a badge of honor)\, Lost Highway is a mesmerizing m editation on the mysterious nature of identity and rage\, as well as one o f the filmmaker’s most potent cinematic dreamscapes. Starring Patricia A rquette and Bill Pullman\, the film expands the horizons of the medium\, t aking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction\, it becom es apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/los t_highway1-copy.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1726@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250201T190000 DTSTAMP:20250128T164722Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/blue-velvet/ SUMMARY:Blue Velvet (1986) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nLike the great filmmaker Guy Maddin said\, there’s cinema befo re Blue Velvet and cinema after Blue Velvet.\n\n"The last real earthquake to hit cinema was David Lynch's Blue Velvet\,” Maddin said. “I'm sure directors throughout the film world felt the earth move beneath their feet and couldn't sleep the night of their first encounter with it back in 198 6... But no one could quite match the traumatizing combination of horrific \, comedic\, aural\, and subliminal effects Lynch rumbled out in this mast erpiece.”\n\nAgreed. After a brilliant opening scene that puts you right in the heart of a town called Lumberton\, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachl an) returns from college and quickly discovers a severed human ear lying i n a field. From there\, along with fellow amateur sleuth and budding love interest Sandy (Laura Dern)\, Jeffrey falls into the orbit of lounge singe r Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) and the demonic Frank Booth (Denni s Hopper). Nearly 40 years after its release\, Blue Velvet remains an unfo rgettable vision of innocence lost\, and one of the most influential Ameri can films of the late 20th century.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/blu e-velvet-lynch-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1727@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250202T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250202T150000 DTSTAMP:20250130T145029Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mulholland-drive/ SUMMARY:Mulholland Drive (2001) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nFrom the ashes of a failed TV pilot\, David Lynch fashioned one of the greatest films of 21st century. \n\nFrom the absurd midnight autom obile accident on the Los Angeles road that opens the movie\, and gives it its title\, Mulholland Drive makes perfect (irrational) sense. Lynch’s outlandish noir feels familiar\, and yet it’s continually surprising\, a s when a bungled assassination turns into a Rube Goldberg mechanism involv ing two additional victims\, a vacuum cleaner\, and a smoke detector\, or a scene begins with an abrupt eruption of pink and turquoise and a studio rendition of the Connie Stevens chestnut “Sixteen Reasons (Why I Love Yo u).” And let’s not forget Rebekah Del Rio’s staggering performance o f “Llorando” in an empty theater. \n\nThe plot\, such as it is: Blond e Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harrin g). Meanwhile\, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity\ , filmmaker Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) runs into ominous trouble while c asting his latest project. David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of L os Angeles’ dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new mil lennium\, a tale of love\, jealousy\, and revenge like no other.\n\nMulhol land Drive has been called the greatest film of the 21st century by Film C omment\, Indiewire\, Village Voice\, Cahiers du Cinema\, Los Angeles Film Critics Association\, and the BBC. \n\nOh\, and Billy Ray Cyrus is in the re\, too. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Mul holland-Drive.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1728@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250208T190000 DTSTAMP:20250207T143804Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mississippi-masala/ SUMMARY:Mississippi Masala (1991) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nYoung Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury practically burn a hole in the screen in this tale of cross-cultural romance\, as the vibrant cultures of India\, Uganda\, and the American South are blended and simme red into a rich and fragrant fusion feast in Mira Nair’s luminous look a t the complexities of love. \n\nYears after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin\, twentysomet hing Mina (Choudhury) finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It’s there that a passionate romance with the charm ing Black carpet cleaner Demetrius (Washington) challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region’ s Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racis m\, colorism\, culture clash\, and displacement with big-hearted humor and keen insight\, Nair serves up a sweet and radical celebration of love’s power to break down the barriers between us. \n\nIn what will be a surpr ise to absolutely no one\, young Denzel has smoldering charisma to spare —he’s fresh off his first Oscar for Glory and clearly in ascendance as a major star—and Choudhury is right there with him. The blistering chem istry between the two makes this one of the sexier arthouse movies of the '90s.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Pgt i7vjSfSKocD8i5yvUa83yWcJi4hzuyUi4kvrH.jpeg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1722@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T190000 DTSTAMP:20250212T192502Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/queer/ SUMMARY:Queer (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nIt’s been quite a 2024 for director Luca Guadagnino\, whose se xed-up tennis drama Challengers made it to several critics’ year-end bes t-of lists. Now comes the much different Queer\, based on the novel by the Beatnik high priest William S. Burroughs (“He’s up there with the pop e\,” says punk songstress Patti Smith). \n\nA thinly veiled autobiograp hical account of the author’s travels in Mexico and Latin America in the early ‘50s\, the film features a startling about-face for its leading m an\, Daniel Craig…do we actually have to say that he’s the most recent James Bond? Actually\, if you’re familiar with Craig’s pre-Bond work (he originated the role of closeted lawyer Stephen Dillane in the British premier of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America\, for instance)\, it’s not a stretch at all\, but more of a return to form. It’s a fabulous perfor mance—“played with sensitivity and predatory heat\,” according to Ma nhola Dargis in The New York Times—that has lots of Oscar buzz about it.  \n\nThe film focuses on Lee’s relationship with Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey)\, and their growing infatuation. An Allen Ginsburg stand-in\, pla yed by Jason Schwartzman\, pops up briefly\, as well. There’s plenty of sex and drug use in the film—it’s based on a book William S. Burroughs \, in case you missed that part—but it actually recalls Guadagnino’s e arlier work more than\, say\, David Cronenberg’s wacked-out (fabulous\, yes\, but…wacked-out) take on Burroughs’ Naked Lunch.\n\nAs Dargis exp lains: “By virtue of its source material\, Queer is an outwardly heavier \, more overtly serious and formally complicated movie than Challengers. E ven so and unsurprisingly\, the two are—along with Call Me By Your Name (Guadagnino’s breakthrough success with Timothée Chalamet)—of a piece in their romanticism\, hermeticism and smooth visual patina.”\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/QUE ER_06-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1730@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250214T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250214T190000 DTSTAMP:20250127T200703Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/queendom/ SUMMARY:Queendom (2024) DESCRIPTION:In defiance of Russia’s anti-LGBTQ laws\, a queer 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes made of junk and tap e throughout Moscow. Jenna Marvin’s radical public performances blend ar tistry and activism in this SXSW documentary. Born and raised on the harsh streets of Magadan\, a frigid outpost of the Soviet gulag\, Jenna stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism. By doing that\, she seeks to change people’s perception of beauty and q ueerness and bring attention to the harassment of the LGBTQ+ community. Th e performances—often dark\, strange\, evocative\, and queer at their cor e—are a manifestation of Jenna’s subconscious. But they come with a pr ice…\n\nQueendom was shortlisted for the Best Documentary Feature for th e 2025 Oscars. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/que endom-edit.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1731@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T140000 DTSTAMP:20250122T144722Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/union/ SUMMARY:Union (2024) DESCRIPTION:Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet\, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize t heir warehouse in Staten Island\, New York. Through intimate cinema vérit é\, Union chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of wa rehouse workers as they launch the grassroots union campaign. Led by the c harismatic but underestimated Chris Smalls\, the diverse band of workers s tart the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) and embark on a journey against one of t he largest and most powerful companies in the world. The odds are stacked against them\, as the group finds itself up against a tech industry giant with unlimited resources\, without major support from national unions or p oliticians\, and while navigating internal divisions within their own rank s. Filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing document the struggle from day one\, offering a gripping human drama about the fight for power and digni ty in today's globalized economic landscape.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/66c 8b07a4d6f4f2c1b7fafdb_UNION_still1-1-p-1600.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1732@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T190000 DTSTAMP:20250206T170607Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/from-ground-zero/ SUMMARY:From Ground Zero (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nFrom Executive Producer Michael Moore\, and Palestine's official submission for the 2025 Academy Awards\, From Ground Zero is a collection of revealing stories from 22 Palestinian filmmakers living through war\, who capture their lives in Gaza amidst the conflict. \n\nUsing a blend of animation\, documentary\, and fiction\, they create a powerful testament to the steadfastness of the human spirit. This film serves as a remarkable reflection of how art can thrive even in the darkest times\, showcasing t he enduring spirit and creativity that emerge amid ongoing devastation.\n\ n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/26g roundzero-review-jktf-videoSixteenByNine3000-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1729@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250221T190000 DTSTAMP:20250221T213525Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/touki-bouki/ SUMMARY:Touki Bouki (1973) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nWith a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic\, Djibri l Diop Mambéty paints a fractured portrait of the disenchantment of post- independence Senegal in the early 1970s. In this picaresque fantasy-drama\ , the disaffected young lovers Anta and Mory\, fed up with Dakar\, long to escape to the glamour and comforts they imagine France has to offer\, but their plan is confounded by obstacles both practical and mystical. Altern ately manic and meditative\, Touki Bouki has an avant-garde sensibility ch aracterized by vivid imagery\, bleak humor\, unconventional editing\, and jagged soundscapes\, and it demonstrates Mambéty’s commitment to tellin g African stories in new ways.\n\nNote: Some animals were harmed during th e making of this film. Brief early scenes depicting the inside of a slaugh terhouse and the butchering of a goat can be unsettling for some.\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2d3 c06e8-06a9-48cd-aa2a-fc23c8e8ad3e_1600x900.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1733@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T190000 DTSTAMP:20250221T161824Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/trainspotting/ SUMMARY:Trainspotting (1996) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nChoose life. Choose a job. Choose a starter home. Choose dental insurance\, leisure wear\, and matching luggage. Choose your future. But w ho would want to do a thing like that? Certainly not the lads in Trainspot ting…\n\nDanny Boyle’s hilariously raucous\, raunchy take on Irvine We lsh’s bestselling book is a wild\, freeform\, Rabelaisian trip through t he darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life\, focusing on Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his attempt to give up his heroin habit\, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Si ck Boy\, dimbulb Spud\, psycho Begbie\, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane\, and clean-cut athlete Tommy\, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them. Highlights include a fabulous soundtrack (you won’t hear Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” quite the same way again) and one of t he strangest babies you’ll ever see.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/tra inspotting.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1736@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T190000 DTSTAMP:20250122T195704Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/santosh/ SUMMARY:Santosh (2024) DESCRIPTION:When her police constable husband is killed on the job\, young housewife Santosh (Shahana Goswami) is\, due to a government initiative\, trained to take his place on the force in rural Northern India. She’s ev entually paired with a savvy\, charismatic female inspector\, Sharma (Suni ta Rajwar)\, who’s arrived from outside the department to investigate th e murder of a low-caste girl. A gripping neorealist procedural and a patie ntly observed\, complex character study of women working in the pressure c ooker environment of a corrupt\, machismo-plagued workplace\, Sandhya Suri ’s narrative feature debut—which premiered in the Un Certain Regard se ction of the Cannes Film Festival—combines cool-headed directorial contr ol and a palpable sense of fiery outrage. Suri’s past work in documentar ies clearly contributed to her eye for realistic detail.\n\nBecause of the way movies are made these days\, Santosh was the UK’s submission for co nsideration as the Oscar for Best International Film\, but this is an Indi an film and an Indian story through and through.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ima ge-w1280.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1734@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T190000 DTSTAMP:20250122T144917Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/moonlight/ SUMMARY:Moonlight (2016) DESCRIPTION:As we close out Black History Month and head into Oscar weekend (an almost ironic juxtaposition)\, it seems like the perfect time to cele brate Moonlight\, Barry Jenkins’ “brilliant\, achingly alive work abou t black queerness” (The New Yorker). \n\nWinner of a surprising Best Pi cture Oscar\, as well as a Best Adapted Screenplay Award (for Jenkins) and Best Supporting Actor for a fully deserving Mahershala Ali (don’t get u s started on how Barry Jenkins could possibly have been passed over as Bes t Director\, which would have made him the first—and still only!—Afric an American to win that award)\, Moonlight is a modern masterpiece. The fi lm follows the life of Chiron\, a young Black man in Miami\, Florida\, as he struggles with his sexuality and identity. The film is told in three pa rts\, or segments\, that cover Chiron's childhood\, adolescence\, and adul thood. \n\nDirected with sublime sensitivity and observation by Jenkins\, the film benefits immeasurably from remarkable performances by Ali\, Jane lle Monáe\, Naomie Harris\, and all three Chirons—Alex R. Hibbert\, Ash ton Sanders\, and Trevante Rhodes. A fully realized\, deeply moving experi ence\, Moonlight is one of the great films of the past decade.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Ale x-Hibbert-Moonlight-Mahershala-Ali-Barry-Jenkins.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1735@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250301T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250301T190000 DTSTAMP:20250226T191539Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-gold-rush-sherlock-jr/ SUMMARY:The Gold Rush (1925) & Sherlock Jr. (1924) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nVTIFF celebrates the first anniversary of The Screening Room wit h a double-feature of two of the finest films by America’s greatest comi c geniuses\, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. \n\nThe Gold Rush\, one o f Chaplin’s great masterpieces\, forever cemented the iconic status of C haplin and his Little Tramp character. The film\, shot partly on location in the Sierra Nevadas\,  charts a prospector’s search for fortune in th e Klondike and his discovery of romance (with the beautiful Georgia Hale). Featuring such timeless gags as the dance of the dinner rolls and the mea l of boiled shoe leather\, The Gold Rush is an indelible work of heartwarm ing hilarity. \n\nIn the mere 45 minutes of Sherlock Jr.\, the incomparabl e Buster Keaton manages to pack in more gags\, laughs\, and moments of cin ematic awe than other directors manage in their careers. Arguably Keaton ’s masterpiece\, Sherlock Jr. is not just funny as hell\, it’s also an early exploration in the alternate reality of cinema. Buster plays a proj ectionist who daydreams himself into life as a daring onscreen detective\, and in an astonishing sequence\, actually forces his way onto the screen and into the movie he is projecting.\n\nCome celebrate these silent heroes —and The Screening Room’s first year—with movies. And cake\, of cour se. Did we mention the cake? ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/smm -The-Gold-Rush-2024-Showpage.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1741@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250307T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250307T190000 DTSTAMP:20250303T164522Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/persepolis/ SUMMARY:Persepolis (2007) DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Orly Yadin\n\nMarjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars in 2008 and it ran right into the Pixar machine at the end of their imperial phase . Looking back\, this striking and personal film\, with its stark black-an d-white\, hand-drawn style and affecting intimacy\, is a wonderful counter point to where popular animation was at that time. It remains a singular a nd indelible work and one of the best animated films of the century.\n\nAd apted from Satrapi's own autobiographical graphic novel\, Persepolis is a coming of age story set against the decades-long fallout of the Iranian Re volution. Told through the eyes of the outspoken Marjane\, we follow her s tory from age nine to twenty-four. In the aftermath of fundamentalists sei zing power in Iran\, Marjane nurtures her identity and blossoming tastes u nder the hardline regime\; she outsmarts the "social guardians" and embrac es punk\, ABBA and Iron Maiden while developing her artistic pursuits. Ove r the ensuing years\, she navigates her complicated relationship with her homeland\, leaving for school in Austria\, returning and settling down wit h her family\, and leaving again for new opportunities and freedoms in Fra nce.\n\nWith lasting geopolitical resonance beyond the ongoing wars in the Middle East\, Persepolis is a remarkable feat of diaristic storytelling t hat is positively bursting with creativity.\n\nNote: We are screening the English version of Persepolis\, which was created with the oversight of au thor and director Marjane Satrapi and features Iggy Pop\, Gena Rowlands\, Sean Penn\, and Catherine Deneuve. \n\n\n\nThe film is the first of a two -film series in animated histories presented by Orly Yadin\, who wears sev eral hats—award-winning filmmaker\, film curator\, educator. Before runn ing VTIFF for 12 years\, she taught documentary cinema\, had her own produ ction company that specialized in documentary animation\, and also headed an archival footage company in London. She is now in production on a new d ocumentary film. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Per sepolis.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1742@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T190000 DTSTAMP:20250304T155126Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/waltz-with-bashir/ SUMMARY:Waltz with Bashir (2008) DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Orly Yadin\n\nSingularly blending animation with docu mentary\, Waltz with Bashir is a mind-bending odyssey through painful memo ries\, with an ending that will leave you speechless. One night\, a friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare. They conclude that there ’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the 1982 Lebanon War.\n \nSFGate wrote that “The whole movie seems like an acid trip—an Alice in Wonderland-ish dream for a post-9/11 world where war is a constant—an d that's the beauty of Waltz With Bashir. Folman's work... allows the audi ence to enter a kind of forbidden zone where the characters' fantasies see m as realistic as the deadly bullets they faced.”\n\n\n\nThe film is the second of a two-film series in animated histories presented by Orly Yadin \, who wears several hats—award-winning filmmaker\, film curator\, educa tor. Before running VTIFF for 12 years\, she taught documentary cinema\, h ad her own production company that specialized in documentary animation\, and also headed an archival footage company in London. She is now in produ ction on a new documentary film.\n\nAs to the description of the film in p aragraph one\, Orly has one alteration: "It’s not a ‘blending’ of do cumentary and animation\; the animation IS the documentary."\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/wal tzwithbashir.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1737@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T190000 DTSTAMP:20250204T164738Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-room-next-door/ SUMMARY:The Room Next Door (2024) DESCRIPTION:Pedro Almodóvar\, one of cinema's most sensitive dramatists an d vivacious stylists\, returns with his first English-language film\, Gold en Lion-winner The Room Next Door\, featuring incandescent performances fr om beloved A-listers Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.\n\nIngrid (Moore)\, a famously death-obsessed best-selling writer\, rekindles her relationshi p with her friend Martha (Swinton)\, a war journalist with whom she has lo st touch for a number of years. The two women immerse themselves in their pasts\, sharing memories\, anecdotes\, art\, movies\; yet Martha has a req uest that will test their newly strengthened bond.\n\nAlmodóvar’s finel y sculpted drama is the unmistakable work of a master filmmaker\, a hushed and humane portrayal of the beauty of life and the inevitability of death . Adapting Sigrid Nunez’s treasure of a novel\, What Are You Going Throu gh\, Almodóvar has exquisitely reframed his career-long fascination with the lives of women for an American vernacular\, capturing Manhattan and up state New York with enraptured affection.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/001 _STILLS-SD.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1743@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T190000 DTSTAMP:20250311T183856Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/la-dolce-vita/ SUMMARY:La Dolce Vita (1960) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nFellini is a bit like Bergman or Lynch… we all have our favori tes. Well\, this is ours.\nThe biggest hit from the most popular Italian f ilmmaker of all time\, La Dolce Vita rocketed Federico Fellini to interna tional mainstream success—ironically\, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive life styles of Rome’s rich and glamorous\, the film follows a notorious celeb rity journalist (a sublimely cool Marcello Mastroianni\, never better) dur ing a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.\nFilled with any number of fabulous scenes—Christ and the helicopter\, the mass at da wn\, the final orgy\, and of course Anita Ekberg wading in Trevi Fountain —juggling the sacred and profane with awesome dexterity\, this mordant p icture was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of contempora ry Europe.\nFellini saw it coming: the film provides a prescient glimpse o f just how gossip and fame-obsessed our society would become\, though the new version is so much less cool than Fellini’s.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/lad olcevita.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1744@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250315T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250315T140000 DTSTAMP:20250219T193229Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jeanne-dielman/ SUMMARY:Jeanne Dielman\, 23 quai du Commerce\, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) DESCRIPTION:You’ll never again make a meatloaf without thinking of this m ovie.\n\nThe surprise (and semi-controversial) big winner of the 2022 Sigh t &\; Sound poll of the greatest films of all time\, pushing aside pere nnial top-spot denizens Citizen Kane and Vertigo\, Chantal Akerman’s Jea nne Dielman is a flat-out masterpiece\, whether you think it’s the best movie ever made or not (fwiw\, here at VTIFF\, we have no objection).\n\nA nchored by Delphine Seyrig’s remarkable title performance\, the film is a minutely detailed chronicle of three days in the life of a Brussels hous ewife. Her routine is highly detailed and meticulously presented (the film ’s 3.5-hour run time is integral to the experience). When little cracks start to appear in the final third of the film… it’s seismic.\n\nCrite rion calls the film “Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece\, a mesmerizing stu dy of stasis and containment\, time and domestic anxiety. Stretching its t itle character’s daily household routine in long\, stark takes\, Akerman ’s film simultaneously allows viewers to experience the materiality of c inema\, its literal duration\, and gives concrete meaning to a woman’s w ork. We watch\, for three hours and twenty-one minutes\, as Jeanne cooks\, takes a bath\, has dinner with her adolescent son\, shops for groceries\, and looks for a missing button.”\n\nSo Die Hard\, it ain’t\, but it ’s a completely masterful film and a welcome addition to the upper rungs of the film canon.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Win ter-Jeanne-Dielman.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1745@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250315T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250315T190000 DTSTAMP:20250219T194012Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tokyo-story/ SUMMARY:Tokyo Story (1953) DESCRIPTION:“Isn’t life disappointing?” Quite a question\, and it get s a profound answer in Ozu’s highly influential mega-masterpiece\, Tokyo Story\, which has long been considered one of the greatest films of all t ime for a simple reason… it is.\n\nThe plot is simplicity itself: an agi ng couple come to the big city to see their grown children\, maybe for the last time. The connection just isn’t there. The miracle of Ozu—in thi s film\, certainly\, but also in so many others—is to take stillness and find depth\, to create empathy and understanding for the characters and o urselves. His camera rarely moves\, yet it is always searching.\n\nThe fil m benefits immensely from some seriously deep performances by Chishû Ryû and Chieko Higashiyama as the elderly parents\, and ever-radiant Ozu regu lar Setsuko Hara\, one of the great screen presences of the 20th century\, as their widowed daughter-in-law.\n\nAs Roger Ebert said\, “Tokyo Story lacks sentimental triggers and contrived emotion\; it looks away from mom ents a lesser movie would have exploited. It doesn't want to force our emo tions\, but to share its understanding… It ennobles the cinema. It says\ , yes\, a movie can help us make small steps against our imperfections.” \n\nTokyo Story was named the 4th-greatest film of all time by Sight &\ ; Sound in its 2022 poll\, behind Jeanne Dielman (playing earlier the same day in The Screening Room)\, Citizen Kane\, and Vertigo. Pretty solid com pany.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/af8 4a1e6612c6d06abbcd482ae32a50d.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1739@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T160000 DTSTAMP:20250218T032403Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/im-still-here/ SUMMARY:I'm Still Here (2024) DESCRIPTION:The surprise Oscar contender of the year. A phenomenon in Brazi l\, director Walter Salles' (The Motorcycle Diaries\, On the Road) first f ilm in 12 years seemingly came out of nowhere to score nominations for Bes t Picture\, Best Actress\, and Best International Feature.\n\nThis powerfu l\, poignant historical drama about Brazil’s military dictatorship in th e early 1970s follows the story of Eunice Paiva (a captivating Fernanda To rres)\, the wife of a civil engineer and politician Rubens Paiva (Selton M ello)\, who was disappeared by the regime. This intimate drama\, based on the book of the same name by Marcelo Rubens Paiva\, Rubens’ son\, unfold s thrillingly as we see one family's tragedy reflect the political strife of an entire country and lost generation.\n\nFernanda Torres became only t he second Brazilian actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress\, after her mother\, Fernanda Montenegro\, was nominated for Sall es breakout film Central Station in 1998.\n\nThis film is as playing at 7 pm on Friday\, March 21. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Im2 0Still20Here.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1740@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T190000 DTSTAMP:20250321T184529Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/im-still-here-2024/ SUMMARY:I'm Still Here (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nThe surprise Oscar contender of the year. A phenomenon in Brazil \, director Walter Salles' (The Motorcycle Diaries\, On the Road) first fi lm in 12 years seemingly came out of nowhere to score nominations for Best Picture\, Best Actress\, and Best International Feature.\n\nThis powerful \, poignant historical drama about Brazil’s military dictatorship in the early 1970s follows the story of Eunice Paiva (a captivating Fernanda Tor res)\, the wife of a civil engineer and politician Rubens Paiva (Selton Me llo)\, who was disappeared by the regime. This intimate drama\, based on t he book of the same name by Marcelo Rubens Paiva\, Rubens’ son\, unfolds thrillingly as we see one family's tragedy reflect the political strife o f an entire country and lost generation.\n\nFernanda Torres became only th e second Brazilian actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress\, after her mother\, Fernanda Montenegro\, was nominated for Salle s breakout film Central Station in 1998.\n\nThis film is as playing at 4 p m on Friday\, March 21. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Im2 0Still20Here.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1746@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T150000 DTSTAMP:20250221T145251Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dune/ SUMMARY:Dune (1984) DESCRIPTION:David Lynch's Dune is a maddening failure. But what a failure!\ n\nAfter Eraserhead set midnight audiences' brains on fire\, and Mel Brook s shepherded The Elephant Man into an art house hit\, Lynch was offered th e chance to move up to the Big Leagues and helm Return of the Jedi. He opt ed to adapt Frank Herbert's epic and unwieldy space opera instead\, and th e rest is history. It bombed and Lynch settled back into his art house aut eur wheelhouse\, burrowing into the darkest recesses of his subconscious w ith his masterpiece Blue Velvet.\n\nBut in our current era of anonymous an d focus-grouped-to-death blockbusters—including\, arguably\, Denis Ville neuve's adventures on Arrakis—it's a trip to revisit Dune because\, fias co that it is\, there's a lot of Lynch in there. Many of his favorite play ers crop up—Kyle MacLachlan in his film debut as our hero Paul Atreides\ , Brad Dourif\, Jack Nance\, and Dean Stockwell—plus you get grotesque g loopy practical FX\, spice-induced nightmare visions\, a score by Toto fea turing Brian Eno\, and the immortal image of Sting in a huge cod piece.\n\ nAs it buckles under the weight\, Dune descends into glorious kitschy fun\ , the kind that only the decadent 1980s and an in-over-his-head visionary filmmaker could produce.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/322 3.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1747@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T190000 DTSTAMP:20250321T184439Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eraserhead/ SUMMARY:Eraserhead (1977) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nDavid Lynch's debut feature started as a student project in 1970 and ended up being one of the defining midnight movies during the heyday of that subculture in the late-'70s. Under its thick layer of industrial g rime and nightmare-fuel imagery\, it's also simply one of the best ever mo vies about becoming a parent\, tapping into that fugue state of sleep depr ivation and crippling anxiety like no other movie before or since.\n\nThis surrealist body horror classic follows Henry Spencer (Lynch favorite Jack Nance) as he and his girlfriend\, Mary\, and their newborn baby (a discon certing and alarmingly fragile mutant-rabbit chimera thing) move into an a partment in an industrial cityscape. Henry is tasked with the child's care and soon after starts experiencing visions\, hallucinations\, nightmares\ , and various distractions\, most memorably a chipmunk-cheeked performer i n his radiator who sings a show-stopping rendition of "In Heaven" complete with stomped fetuses.\n\nLooking at it now\, you can see that this haunte d nocturnal odyssey is a deeply personal film for Lynch\, drawing on the c omplications surrounding his daughter Jennifer's birth as well as the viol ent neighborhood of Philadelphia where he lived. With its mesmerizing blac k-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell\, evocativ e sound design\, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Nance\, Eraser head is essentially the American cult movie.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ima ge-w1280-1.webp CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1738@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250327T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250327T190000 DTSTAMP:20250204T170631Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hard-truths/ SUMMARY:Hard Truths (2024) DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed filmmaker and playwright Mike Leigh returns to the co ntemporary world—after his prickly biopic Mr. Turner and his uprising ep ic Peterloo—with a fierce\, compassionate\, and often darkly humorous st udy of family and the frayed ties that bind us.\n\nReunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies\, the asto nishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy\, a woman wracked by fear\, tor mented by afflictions\, and prone to raging tirades against her husband\, son\, and anyone who looks her way—recalling the hair-trigger main chara cter of Leigh’s masterpiece Naked but with a more relatable twist. Meanw hile\, her warm\, easygoing\, preternaturally patient younger sister (Mich ele Austin\, Another Year)\, is a single mother with a life as different f rom Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments.\n\nThis intimate film is ful l of the rich character work that distinguishes Leigh's filmography\, burr owing into the intensities of kinship\, duty\, and the most enduring of hu man mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship\, we still find ways to love those we call family. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Har d-Truths-Marianne-Jean-Baptiste-in-HARD-TRUTHS-Courtesy-of-Simon-Mein_5lFL avSPeZ9zNfp_SI-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1760@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T190000 DTSTAMP:20250331T143228Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-other-land-screening-room-6/ SUMMARY:No Other Land (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\n*This film has multiple showtimes\, please take care to select t he correct one*\n\nAcademy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature\n\nA collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists/filmmakers chronicle the I sraeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Ma safer Yatta—home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages—in this tightly fo cused\, urgent documentary. \n\nOver a period of five years (2019–23)\, Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra shot video o f home\, school\, water well\, and road demolitions (legalized by the area ’s conversion to an IDF training zone) and their consequent protests by displaced residents. \n\nIsraeli journalist Yuval Abraham—free to move about while Adra’s movements are constricted—takes this nonviolent fig ht to a wider platform. The two form a complicated friendship and hopeful partnership in their efforts to resist a government-sanctioned mass evicti on.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/NO- OTHER-LAND-Yuval-Abraham-courtesy-Antipode-Films-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1756@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T173000 DTSTAMP:20250325T153413Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-other-land-screening-room-4/ SUMMARY:No Other Land (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\n*This film has multiple showtimes\, please take care to select t he correct one*\n\nAcademy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature\n\nA collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists/filmmakers chronicle the I sraeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Ma safer Yatta—home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages—in this tightly fo cused\, urgent documentary. \n\nOver a period of five years (2019–23)\, Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra shot video o f home\, school\, water well\, and road demolitions (legalized by the area ’s conversion to an IDF training zone) and their consequent protests by displaced residents. \n\nIsraeli journalist Yuval Abraham—free to move about while Adra’s movements are constricted—takes this nonviolent fig ht to a wider platform. The two form a complicated friendship and hopeful partnership in their efforts to resist a government-sanctioned mass evicti on.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/NO- OTHER-LAND-Yuval-Abraham-courtesy-Antipode-Films-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1751@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T190000 DTSTAMP:20250324T141346Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-other-land-screening-room/ SUMMARY:No Other Land (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\n*This film has multiple showtimes\, please take care to select t he correct one*\n\nAcademy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature\n\nA collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists/filmmakers chronicle the I sraeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Ma safer Yatta—home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages—in this tightly fo cused\, urgent documentary. \n\nOver a period of five years (2019–23)\, Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra shot video o f home\, school\, water well\, and road demolitions (legalized by the area ’s conversion to an IDF training zone) and their consequent protests by displaced residents. \n\nIsraeli journalist Yuval Abraham—free to move about while Adra’s movements are constricted—takes this nonviolent fig ht to a wider platform. The two form a complicated friendship and hopeful partnership in their efforts to resist a government-sanctioned mass evicti on.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/NO- OTHER-LAND-Yuval-Abraham-courtesy-Antipode-Films-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1757@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T130000 DTSTAMP:20250327T193948Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-other-land-screening-room-5/ SUMMARY:No Other Land (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\n*This film has multiple showtimes\, please take care to select t he correct one*\n\nAcademy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature\n\nA collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists/filmmakers chronicle the I sraeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Ma safer Yatta—home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages—in this tightly fo cused\, urgent documentary. \n\nOver a period of five years (2019–23)\, Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra shot video o f home\, school\, water well\, and road demolitions (legalized by the area ’s conversion to an IDF training zone) and their consequent protests by displaced residents. \n\nIsraeli journalist Yuval Abraham—free to move about while Adra’s movements are constricted—takes this nonviolent fig ht to a wider platform. The two form a complicated friendship and hopeful partnership in their efforts to resist a government-sanctioned mass evicti on.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/NO- OTHER-LAND-Yuval-Abraham-courtesy-Antipode-Films-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1752@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T150000 DTSTAMP:20250325T154758Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-other-land-screening-room-2/ SUMMARY:No Other Land (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\n*This film has multiple showtimes\, please take care to select t he correct one*\n\nAcademy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature\n\nA collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists/filmmakers chronicle the I sraeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Ma safer Yatta—home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages—in this tightly fo cused\, urgent documentary. \n\nOver a period of five years (2019–23)\, Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra shot video o f home\, school\, water well\, and road demolitions (legalized by the area ’s conversion to an IDF training zone) and their consequent protests by displaced residents. \n\nIsraeli journalist Yuval Abraham—free to move about while Adra’s movements are constricted—takes this nonviolent fig ht to a wider platform. The two form a complicated friendship and hopeful partnership in their efforts to resist a government-sanctioned mass evicti on.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/NO- OTHER-LAND-Yuval-Abraham-courtesy-Antipode-Films-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1753@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T190000 DTSTAMP:20250324T141435Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-other-land-screening-room-3/ SUMMARY:No Other Land (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\n*This film has multiple showtimes\, please take care to select t he correct one*\n\nAcademy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature\n\nA collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists/filmmakers chronicle the I sraeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Ma safer Yatta—home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages—in this tightly fo cused\, urgent documentary. \n\nOver a period of five years (2019–23)\, Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra shot video o f home\, school\, water well\, and road demolitions (legalized by the area ’s conversion to an IDF training zone) and their consequent protests by displaced residents. \n\nIsraeli journalist Yuval Abraham—free to move about while Adra’s movements are constricted—takes this nonviolent fig ht to a wider platform. The two form a complicated friendship and hopeful partnership in their efforts to resist a government-sanctioned mass evicti on.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/NO- OTHER-LAND-Yuval-Abraham-courtesy-Antipode-Films-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1748@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T160000 DTSTAMP:20250313T123732Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nickel-boys/ SUMMARY:Nickel Boys (2024) DESCRIPTION:“A stunning achievement” —New York Times\n\nDirected by R aMell Ross\, Nickel Boys is one of the most acclaimed films of the past ye ar\, earning best picture nods from critics circles in Chicago\, Boston\, L.A.\, Toronto\, and New York\, as well as numerous accolades for Ross’ direction and Jomo Fray’s astounding cinematography. The film earned Osc ar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.\n\nThis remar kably assured adaptation follows Ross’ acclaimed directorial debut\, Hal e County This Morning\, This Evening\, from 2018\, which earned him a Peab ody Award\, an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature\, and a Primetime Emmy. He injects his unique non-fiction sensibilities into th is take on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.\n\nNickel Bo ys tells the harrowing story of two boys\, Elwood and Turner\, who are sen t to a reform school in Florida during the 1960s. The Nickel Academy is su pposed to be a place where troubled youths can be rehabilitated\, but inst ead\, it is a place of abuse and corruption\, where the boys can only lean on each other to survive. \n\nThe film’s stylistic gambit is shooting the entire film from the first-person perspective of the boys\; the viewer sees the film as if looking through the boys’ eyes. It’s a rare trick in film—only Robert Montgomery’s Lady in the Lake and Julian Schnabel ’s Diving Bell and the Butterfly come to mind—and it’s never been be tter\, or more artfully\, executed. \n\nNickel Boys is also screening at 7 pm on the same day.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/nic kelboysplanocritico.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1749@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T190000 DTSTAMP:20250313T124010Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nickel-boys-2024/ SUMMARY:Nickel Boys (2024) DESCRIPTION:“A stunning achievement” —New York Times\n\nDirected by R aMell Ross\, Nickel Boys is one of the most acclaimed films of the past ye ar\, earning best picture nods from critics circles in Chicago\, Boston\, L.A.\, Toronto\, and New York\, as well as numerous accolades for Ross’ direction and Jomo Fray’s astounding cinematography. The film earned Osc ar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.\n\nThis remar kably assured adaptation follows Ross’ acclaimed directorial debut\, Hal e County This Morning\, This Evening\, from 2018\, which earned him a Peab ody Award\, an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature\, and a Primetime Emmy. He injects his unique non-fiction sensibilities into th is take on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.\n\nNickel Bo ys tells the harrowing story of two boys\, Elwood and Turner\, who are sen t to a reform school in Florida during the 1960s. The Nickel Academy is su pposed to be a place where troubled youths can be rehabilitated\, but inst ead\, it is a place of abuse and corruption\, where the boys can only lean on each other to survive. \n\nThe film’s stylistic gambit is shooting the entire film from the first-person perspective of the boys\; the viewer sees the film as if looking through the boys’ eyes. It’s a rare trick in film—only Robert Montgomery’s Lady in the Lake and Julian Schnabel ’s Diving Bell and the Butterfly come to mind—and it’s never been be tter\, or more artfully\, executed. \n\nNickel Boys is also screening at 4 pm on the same day.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/nic kelboysplanocritico.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1754@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T190000 DTSTAMP:20250324T131930Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/scarecrow/ SUMMARY:Scarecrow (1973) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nGene Hackman Weekend\n\nThe great Gene Hackman—a consummate ac tor by any standard—passed away recently at age 95. We’re taking a wee kend to say thanks by showing a couple of his most interesting films: a le sser-known early gem from his ‘70s golden age\, and his last great perfo rmance in 2001. \n\nHackman’s favorite of his considerable body of work\ , this underseen\, early-’70s gem\, a downbeat buddies-on-the-road adven ture\, stars Hackman (Max) and Al Pacino (Lion) as two drifters slowly mak ing their way to Pittsburgh with the dream of opening a car wash. This bei ng the ‘70s\, things don’t go particularly well.\n\nBoth of these phen omenal\, breathtaking\, Oscar-winning actors are at the top of their game and the chemistry is a joy to behold. Both were coming off huge money-maki ng successes—Hackman in his Oscar-winning turn for The French Connection \, Pacino in a little family drama called The Godfather—but this film ha s a deeply indie\, '70s vibe that allows both actors to dig deep for some really rich emotional payoffs. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/sca recrow1973.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1755@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T190000 DTSTAMP:20250407T144451Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-royal-tenenbaums/ SUMMARY:The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nGene Hackman Weekend\n\nThe great Gene Hackman—a consummate ac tor by any standard—passed away recently at age 95. We’re taking a wee kend to say thanks by showing a couple of his most interesting films: a le sser-known early gem from his ‘70s golden age\, and his last great perfo rmance in 2001. \n\nThis wasn’t Hackman’s last film\, and it was far f rom his own favorite\, but it was his last great film. And for all the tal es of on-set frustration and culture clash with director Wes Anderson\, it ’s a remarkably seamless work\, anchored by yet another sensational Hack man performance as Royal Tenenbaum\, the utterly untrustworthy—in fact\, downright dishonest—scion of the troubled Tenenbaums. Some 20 years on\ , it remains one of Wes Anderson’s finest films. \n\nThe rich cast of c haracters includes Royal’s ex-wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston) and her ne w suitor Henry (Danny Glover)\, and the three adult children\, all so prom ising as youngsters\, but all so calamitously unhappy as adults—Chas (Be n Stiller)\, the angry real-estate whiz\; Margot (Gwenyth Paltrow)\, the p recocious playwright and chain-smoker\; and Richie (Luke Wilson)\, a tenni s champion who threw it all away to live in a tent in his family’s livin g room. This being a Wes Anderson movie\, Bill Murray’s there. So is Owe n Wilson. \n\nBut Hackman’s huge presence dominates the movie in the be st way and keeps it from being too precious. The whole affair is a hilario us\, touching\, brilliantly stylized\, studiously soundtracked study of me lancholy and redemption—a fitting send-off for Hackman\, even if he didn ’t enjoy making it much.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/26S deGr9Bja3PFCOfvcu0yOcpYEhua_large.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1750@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250418T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250418T190000 DTSTAMP:20250328T124956Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/misericordia/ SUMMARY:Misericordia (2024) DESCRIPTION:Named the best film of the year by the storied French film maga zine Cahiers du Cinéma\, Alain Guiraudie's (Stranger by the Lake) kinky n eo-noir is also a delectably tart Coen-esque comedy of manners.\n\nSet in an autumnal\, woodsy village\, in Guiraudie's native region of Occitanie\, Misericordia follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl)\ , an out-of-work baker who drifts back to his hometown after the death of his beloved former boss. Jérémie extends his stay well after the funeral and methodically insinuates himself among the eccentric townsfolk—inclu ding his boss' amenable widow\, her suspicious son\, a scruffy former acqu aintance\, and a nosy priest who skulks around the margins. Jérémie's un certain\, and possibly unscrupulous\, motives throw the sleepy town for a loop\, and eventually warrant investigation by the local constable...\n\nG uiraudie is one of France's most distinctive working filmmakers and he is at the top of his game in this deliciously twisted\, quietly carnal film. With a sustained erotic charge\, Guiraudie confounds genre expectations an d basks in his signature brand of pastoral mysticism.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/mis ericordia-alain-Guiraudie-e1741801645169.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1758@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250419T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250419T150000 DTSTAMP:20250325T194406Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/take-out/ SUMMARY:Take Out (2004) DESCRIPTION:Now that Sean Baker is the toast of Hollywood\, hot off his arm ful of Oscars for Anora\, we're taking a look back at an early\, lo-fi fil m from the days before he was even an indie darling. The American dream ha s rarely seemed so far away as in Take Out\, which Baker co-wrote\, co-dir ected\, and co-edited with Shih-Ching Tsou in 2004\, an early foray into t ales of people scraping by on the margins.\n\nShot in a raw\, vérité sty le\, with Baker also handling cinematography\, Take Out is an immersive sl ice-of-life about of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggling to get b y in post-9/11 New York City. Facing violent retaliation from a loan shark \, restaurant deliveryman Ming Ding has until nightfall to pay back the mo ney he owes. As he frantically races against the clock\, he encounters bot h crushing setbacks and moments of unexpected humanity. From this simple s etup\, Baker and Tsou fashion a kind of neorealist survival thriller of th e everyday\, shedding compassionate light on the too often overlooked live s and labor that keep New York ticking.\n\nEven in his second feature\, Ba ker's intuitive feel for propulsive stories and the pressure-cooker of the urban gauntlet—which reached astounding new heights in Anora—was alre ady clearly taking shape.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/805 ab9d8-9700-40d2-8b57-80548984558b.jpg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1759@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250419T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250419T190000 DTSTAMP:20250417T163534Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/memories-of-murder/ SUMMARY:Memories of Murder (2003) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nFive years after Parasite fever swept across the globe—culmina ting in Bong Joon Ho and company winning the Oscar for Best Picture\, the first and only non-English-language film do so—Bong is back in theaters with his carte blanche followup\, the rangy sci-fi satire Mickey 17. So wh at better time to jump back and revisit his first masterpiece\, the highly influential crime procedural Memories of Murder?\n\nIn his breakthrough s econd feature\, Bong explodes the conventions of the policier with thrilli ngly subversive\, genre-defying results. Based on the true story of a stri ng of serial killings that rocked a rural community in the 1980s\, Memorie s of Murder stars New Korean Cinema icon Song Kang Ho as the local officer who reluctantly joins forces with a seasoned Seoul detective (Kim Sang Ky ung) to investigate the crimes. What starts as a gripping mystery unravels into a wrenching\, years-long odyssey of failure and frustration for both men\, driving them to the existential edge.\n\nBong's brilliant skill for social critique comes through here early as he uses the building blocks o f a procedural to expose the everyday absurdity of life under military rul e. But as biting as the film is\, Bong is just as attuned to the emotional fallout and the lasting ripple effects these enigmatic acts of violence h ave on a community.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/cf5 d0da950023509bc8959f385a3a6d8.jpeg CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1761@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T153000 DTSTAMP:20250408T164824Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff2025-outsiders/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2025: Outsiders DESCRIPTION:VISITANT\nNatalie Jones | 8 | VT\nTwo deer notice an unfamiliar presence in the forest.\n\nLOVE IN THE DESERT (L’Amour dans le désert) \nAubert Sénéchal | 19 | QC\nOn a beach on the south shore of Quebec\, J eff films a western with his son Loïc and his daughter Marion.\n\nKINTSUG I ANGEL\nLukas Huffman\, Erika Senft Miller | 10 | VT\nA haunting visual p oem inspired by the ancient Japanese art of repair\, set in a sprawling sc rap yard.\n\nLANA\nLaetitia Angba\, Julie R. Lissouba | 16 | QC\nLana\, in her chaotic teenage years\, lives everyday with the fear of a sudden fami ly separation.\n\nCREATE\; SURVIVE (Créer\; survivre)\nAlex Anna | 20 | Q C\nAlex presents their film at a sunlit festival\, but behind their appare nt success is a ceaseless fight with their own mind. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/340 039262_1202150020505538_7861171352128502538_n.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1762@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T193000 DTSTAMP:20250408T165053Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff2025-opening-night/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2025: Opening Night DESCRIPTION:M. L’ESPÉRANCE\nChantale Boulianne | 9 | QC\nMr. L'espéranc e hopes to bring a little sweetness into his depressed neighbor's life by making her a gift.\n\nINTRODUCING MIMI \nEmai Lai | 15 | MA\nA young Chine se American woman meets her tutor at the library to relearn a language she once knew as a child.\n\nTHE VERMONTER\nAynsley Floyd | 15 | VT\nA sheep farmer reflects on decades spent in pursuit of her passion.\n\nSUMMER LOVE \nVirgile Ratelle | 14 | QC\nOn the banks of an abandoned quarry\, couple s confront their love before taking a dip.\n\nÀ TOI LES OREILLES\nAlexand re Isabelle | 13 | QC\nWhile his fellow townsfolk celebrate the village an niversary with a grand parade\, Étienne attempts the impossible. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Cap ture_decran_le_2023-05-09_a_15.40.54.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1763@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T130000 DTSTAMP:20250408T165214Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff2025-feature-short/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2025: Feature + Short DESCRIPTION:A SCHOOL OF TROUT\nRonan Furuta | 15 | VT\nEarth's next generat ion of stewards release baby trout from their public school into the river .\n\nSAVING WALDEN'S WORLD\nJames S. Merkel\, Deborah Shaffer | 89 | ME\nA young arms dealer has an ethical awakening and begins a decades-long jour ney to redeem himself. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Sin dhu_CU4.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1764@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T153000 DTSTAMP:20250408T165522Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff2025-song-dance/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2025: Song & Dance DESCRIPTION:SOMBER TIDES (Marée Noire)\nChantal Caron | 12 | QC\nA cry fro m the species\, startled into survival against the elements. A battle wage d against winds and tides.\n\nDON’T JUDGE ME\nRobert Tokanel | 27 | MA\n What’s it like to go to jail at age 16 and then return home 12 years lat er?\n\nPANES TAKING\nJohn Schlag | 5 | VT\nSee and feel what you will in t his reflected\, refracted world.\n\nAN EXTRAORDINARY PLACE\nTom Bell | 35 | ME\nThe story of a quirky local radio station in Maine and the eccentric DJs behind the microphones.\n\nUNNATURAL HEARTS\nGraydon Hanson | 13 | VT \nAn experimental dance film about two people finding each other. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WMP G_HISTORIC3king.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1765@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T190000 DTSTAMP:20250408T170221Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff2025-conflict-management/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2025: Conflict Management DESCRIPTION:BLITZMUSIK\nMartin Amiot | 9 | QC\nShort on ammunition\, two en emy combatants fight with the first thing they can get their hands on: mus ical instruments.\n\nCORONATION DAY\nCharlie Laud | 6 | VT\nToday the boss announces his successor. Will it be the ambitious young mafioso or his un likely rival?\n\nFUCK LES WHITES\nJeremy Peter Allen | 22 | QC\nFormer ski nhead Max joins a group that provides help to the homeless. But their soci al activities hide a dark agenda.\n\nLEASE ME ALONE! (Bail bail)\nSandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers | 13 | QC\nTwo longtime roommates kung-fu fight their landlord to keep their home during the holiday season.\n\nISLAND LIFE\nGav in Michael Booth | 22 | QC\nA one-shot thriller about a gang leader who re fuses to confront the neighbor blasting music at six in the morning. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Mai n_16_Coro_FestCut.00_01_34_15.Still004.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1766@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T120000 DTSTAMP:20250408T170409Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff2025-journeys/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2025: Journeys DESCRIPTION:THE CELEBRATION\nDuane Peterson III | 30 | VT\nA dedicated grou p of paddlers embark on a seven-day journey along Vermont’s Upper Missis quoi and Trout Rivers.\n\nNEVER ANYWHERE (Jamais nulle part)\nSophie Valco urt | 20 | QC\nThree friends from the small town of Sept-Îles share a des ire to reconnect with the region where they grew up.\n\nLA LIGA\nMacPherso n Christopher\, Paul Rosenfeld | 17 | VT\nIn rural Vermont\, migrant dairy farm workers endure hardships while forging solidarity through soccer. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/202 40606_UMATR_Missisquoi_river_westfield_Vermont_summer_patrick-mccormack_4Q 0A3804.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1767@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T140000 DTSTAMP:20250408T170546Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff2025-water-water-everywhere/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2025: Water Water Everywhere DESCRIPTION:WAVES\nEmma Lowery | 10 | MA\nA day at the beach turns tense wh en two brother snails get swept away by the ocean.\n\nWASHED AWAY (Naufrag e)\nAucéane Roux | 17 | QC\nAs a village disappears due to heavy flooding \, memories are revived.\n\nTHE POWER OF WATER\nMatthew Boulton | 27 | NH\ nAn entrepreneur based in New Hampshire rehabilitates old\, abandoned dams to produce clean energy.\n\nHARRY’S\nSeth Grant | 19 | VT\nIn the heart of Cabot\, Harry's Hardware is at the center of community efforts after a devastating flood. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/vlc snap-2023-09-21-14h24m11s949.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1768@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T160000 DTSTAMP:20250408T171048Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff2025-odd-jobs/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2025: Odd Jobs DESCRIPTION:SOFT LOCK\nSarah Foulkes | 11 | QC\nLaura is a dancer who works as a bike courier. Over the course of one shift\, her patience and fortit ude are tested.\n\nTHE PUPPET MASTER\nBob Krist | 18 | ME\nAustin Phillips of Portland\, Maine\, is one of the world's finest makers of ventriloquis t puppets.\n\nLA COMTESSE DE SAINTE-CÉCILE\nJean Boileau | 10 | QC\nWhen her grandmother bequeaths her tarot cards\, Cécile inherits a great respo nsibility.\n\nWE COULD BE NEMESES\nSamuel LaPointe | 16 | VT\nA lovelorn s upervillain falls for a headstrong superhero\, setting out on a crime spre e to capture his heart.\n\nTHE SPARKLE (L'ARTIFICE)\nIsabelle Grignon-Fran cke | 17 | QC\nKim and Billy work at carnivals over the summer. Kim longs to leave it all behind and search for precious stones. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1.2 3.1_1.23.1.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1769@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T193000 DTSTAMP:20250408T171315Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff2025-feature-short-2/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2025: Feature + Short DESCRIPTION:COCOTTE COULOMBE\, FILMMAKER (Cocotte Coulombe\, cinéaste)\nCh arles-François Asselin | 11 | QC\nA young filmmaker discovers 100 Super 8 reels in his great-aunt's basement.\n\nREENTRY\nBrendan Choisnet | 95 | C T\nElenor's husband disappears during a scientific expedition\, then sudde nly returns a year later. But is it really him? ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Sur impression.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1770@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T121500 DTSTAMP:20250408T171621Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff2025-body-mind/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2025: Body & Mind DESCRIPTION:LIGHT IN MY EYES\nChristopher Wiersema | 16 | VT\nA personal an d poetic walk through light\, love\, and memories of a blind grandfather.\ n\nFADE OUT IN COLOR\nNeil Ira Needleman | 4 | ME\nLife = Color. Color = L ife.\n\nNEUTRAL BUOYANCY\nFaith Vera Wood | 16 | VT\nA wannabe astronaut t rains to escape his oppressive planet\, but his class crush prompts a chan ge of course.\n\nPERSEIDS (Perséides)\nLaurence Lévesque | 22 | QC\nJuli e knows that she will lose her sight. She doesn't know when it will happen \; but it is imminent.\n\nDANCE OF THE PAINTERLY GESTURE\nNeil Ira Needlem an | 4 | ME\nInspired by James Linehan's installation of abstract painting s at the Zillman Museum of Art in Bangor\, Maine.\n\nTHREE SCREAMING VAGIN AS (Trois vagins qui crient)\nAlexia Roc | 15 | QC\nA triptych of candid s hort stories reveal the challenges and splendors of the vaginal experience . ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Scr eenshot_2023-11-02_at_5.10.29_PM_copy.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1771@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T141500 DTSTAMP:20250408T171635Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff2025-the-great-outdoors/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2025: The Great Outdoors DESCRIPTION:BROTHER BIRD\nMeredith Holch | 9 | VT\nReal-life stories of lov ed ones who visit from the afterlife\, told through tissue paper animation .\n\nCOYWOLF\nGaelen Llewel Kilburn | 32 | VT\nA documentary film investig ates the eastern coyote hunting controversy in Vermont.\n\nBETWEEN THE LIN ES\nLiz McGregor | 15 | ME\nWhile working as a raft guide in southern Chil e\, Alex discovers his love of fly fishing.\n\nMATAPERRA\nRachel Trudeau | 22 | QC\nYelda aspires to make history as the first Cuban to conquer thre e legendary ascents. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pra ying_mantis_stands.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1772@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T161500 DTSTAMP:20250408T171753Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff2025-home-sweet-home/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2025: Home Sweet Home DESCRIPTION:LOSING YOUR HOME\nEmmanuel Rioux | 19 | QC\nJeannette and Franc es struggle against a phenomenon that is becoming more and more pronounced .\n\nTHE LITTLE ANCESTOR (La Petite Ancêtre)\nAlexa Tremblay-Francoeur | 11 | QC\nOn a windswept hill\, an ancestral house builds itself. It lives many lives over the course of 150 years.\n\nGOOD-BYE TO A HOUSE\nChris Har dee | 22 | NH\nA lyrical account of an ordinary New England farm caught in the currents of history.\n\nBRAIDING A NEW LIFE\nWillow O'Feral\, Brad He ck | 30 | VT\nSarah\, a Ghanaian woman\, navigates her new life in Brattle boro\, VT. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/LaP etiteAncetre_Still_089.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1775@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250509T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250509T190000 DTSTAMP:20250506T185337Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-great-dictator/ SUMMARY:The Great Dictator (1940) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.Fun with Fascist Dictators\n\nReleased when the U.S. was still at peace with Germany and neutral in the early days of WWII\, The Great Dicta tor is an early blast of anti-Hitler sentiment from the great Chaplin.\n\n Set in the fictional country of Tomainia\, the film tells the story a Jewi sh barber (Chaplin\, either playing a variation of his famous Tramp charac ter… or not\, your choice) whose fate becomes entwined with fascist dict ator Adenoid Hynkel (also Chaplin). When Hynkel orders a purge of the Jews \, the barber and his love\, Hannah (Paulette Godard)\, must make tough ch oices. Meanwhile\, Hynkel plans an invasion with his buffoonish ally\, Ben zino Napoloni of Bacteria. \n\nHeavy stuff for a comedy in 1940\, but the movie was a big hit\, Chaplin’s biggest-ever\, in fact. It was nominate d for five Oscars\, while being banned in Germany and Italy and every Axis -occupied country—Mussolini\, in particular\, did not care for his caric ature. It ranks 37th on the American Film Institute’s funniest films eve r\, one of four Chaplin movies in Top 50. \n\nThe Great Dictator features two of Chaplin’s (i.e. cinema’s) most memorable moments: the breathta king globe-balloon dance with Hynkel playfully holding the world in his ha nds\; and the impassioned final speech\, showcasing Chaplin in full anti-f ascist flower.\n\nThe British-born Chaplin had been prepping the movie for two years\, well before the war even started\, during the UK’s ill-advi sed “Appeasement” phase with Hitler’s Germany. The U.S.\, of course\ , would not enter the war until the year after The Great Dictator was rele ased. Chaplin said that he encountered some static from the powers that be when they heard of his plans. \n\n“I began receiving alarming messages from United Artists\,” he wrote in his autobiography. “The English of fice was very concerned about an anti-Hitler picture and doubted whether i t could be shown in Britain. More worrying letters came from the New York office imploring me not to make the film\, declaring it would never be sho wn in England or America.”\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/the -great-dictator_1280x720.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1776@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T150000 DTSTAMP:20250509T144217Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-death-of-stalin-2017/ SUMMARY:The Death of Stalin (2017) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nFun with Fascist Dictators\n\nThe idea of a comedy sprouting fro m the cutthroat power vacuum left by the death of Josef Stalin seems a bit … odd. But Armando Iannucci—the brilliant funnyman behind Alan Partrid ge\, The Thick of It\, In the Loop\, and Veep—excels at finding hilarity in the heartless (and frequently foul-mouthed) people who inhabit self-de vouring bureaucracies\, so it’s a perfect match.  \n\n“The comedy of cruelty is rarely funnier or more brutal than when it comes from Armando Iannucci\, a virtuoso of political evisceration\,” said Manhola Dargis i n The New York Times. “The laughs come in jolts and waves in The Death o f Stalin\, delivered in a brilliantly arranged mix of savage one-liners\, lacerating dialogue and perfectly timed slapstick ”\n\nAdapted from a gr aphic novel\, the film starts with the title action\, then details the aft ermath\, as a group of Soviet insiders jostle for the big job—Kruschev ( Steve Buscemi\, fabulous)\, who has the inside track\; Malenkov (Jeffrey T ambor)\, Stalin’s vain doofus of a deputy\; Beria (Simon Russell Beale\, especially good)\, the terrifying head of the NKVD Security Forces\; and Molotov (Michael Palin)\, the vapid foreign affairs minister. \n\nPalin ’s presence is perfect\, since the movie has more than a passing similar ity to something Monty Python might have attempted. It’s also worth noti ng that\, thankfully\, none of these actors put on a heavy\, fake-Russian accent. \n\n“From start to finish\, director/co-writer Iannucci deliver s an audacious and insightful and ridiculous and hilarious send-up.” — The Chicago Sun-Times\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/AAA ABURzuKpXEh3lk2YvWv54FRnbtSatn-B5U_9si3d_lJW9uOxsJdVs0nhoujTB3A-9FLrNKVM6z XUrFaHk-iuEV45buFb-ZtirSJrU.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1784@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T190000 DTSTAMP:20250509T134144Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/duck-soup/ SUMMARY:Duck Soup (1933) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nFun with Fascist Dictators\n\n“Arguably the funniest movie eve r made… only Dr. Strangelove matches its audacity in sending up the foll ies of nationalism and conflict.” —Scott Tobias\, AV Club\n\nHail\, Fr edonia! \n\nThe world’s greatest comic anarchists—Groucho\, Harpo\, C hico\, and yes\, even Zeppo\, in his final appearance—lay waste to dicta torship\, religion\, warfare and any other number of sacred cows in this u tterly audacious\, eternally hilarious masterpiece.\n\nThe plot—mostly a platform for the absurdity that follows—takes us to the bankrupt state of Freedonia\, forever teetering on the edge of war with its bellicose nei ghbour Sylvania. The country accepts a multi-million dollar loan from a we althy American widow (Margaret Dumont\, of course) on the condition that t hey install as president her friend\, the wildly eccentric Rufus T. Firefl y (Groucho)\, who\, being Groucho\, instantly creates chaos. Meanwhile\, t wo Sylvanian spies—Harpo and Chico—seek to infiltrate the new regime.\ n\nFor a movie that’s barely an hour long\, it’s stuffed with classic set pieces\, including the oft-imitated but never-bettered mirror scene wi th Harpo and Groucho\, the final battle scene\, and Chico and Harpo’s to rmenting of a street vendor.\n\nThe film was produced by Herman Mankiewicz \, who would later write (and win an Oscar for) Citizen Kane\, and directe d by the comic master Leo McCarey\, who would win two Oscars for directing films that aren’t this funny. Coolly received by both audiences and cri tics upon its release\, Duck Soup’s reputation has grown by leaps and bo unds. Benito Mussolini banned the film in Italy\, a sure sign of on-target satire. \n\nAs for the title\, well\, “duck soup” is archaic America n slang for an easily completed task\, but Groucho had a different explana tion: “Take two turkeys\, one goose\, four cabbages\, but no duck\, and mix them together. After one taste\, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life.”\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/duc ksoup1933.73717-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1773@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T160000 DTSTAMP:20250423T130549Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-nice-indian-boy/ SUMMARY:A Nice Indian Boy (2025) DESCRIPTION:We’ve had quite a run of great films during our multi-monthly screenings in the Main Street Landing Film House this year. But after 11 screenings of nine pretty heavy movies\, we’ve heard many of our members asking if\, say\, a comedy might be a possibility. \n\nGood news. That c omedy is here! \n\nA Nice Indian Boy is a warm-hearted romantic comedy ce ntered on young doctor Naveen (Karan Soni) and his search for love. He fin ds it with Jay (Broadway star Jonathan Groff)\, a very charming white man who was adopted and raised by Indian parents. But finding love is just hal f the battle\; the other half comes when Naveen brings Jay home to meet hi s traditional Indian family\, and they must contend with accepting his whi te-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of the ir dreams.\n\nWritten by Eric Randall (and based on Madhuri Shekar’s pla y)\, A Nice Indian Boy “is all about subverting stereotypes about Indian culture\, both within and outside of the community” (IndieWire).  \n\ nThe very real chemistry between Soni (“whose wit and vulnerability make him a natural rom-com lead\,” according to the New York Times) and Grof f anchors the film\, but the supporting cast offers a lot of the laughs\, particularly the scene-stealing comedian Zarna Garg as Naveen’s hilariou s mother\, who dominates every scene she’s in. Hindi film veteran Harish Patel offers gravitas and quiet surprises as Naveen’s father.\n\nThe Ne w York Times said\, “In this vibrant addition to cinema’s romantic lan dscape\, love isn’t the only winner: cultural understanding and the free dom to choose your own path triumph as well.”\n\nA Nice Indian Boy is al so playing on May 15 at 7 pm in the Film House.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ANI B_1Sht_FM1_LR-edit.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1774@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T190000 DTSTAMP:20250423T130625Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-nice-indian-boy-2025/ SUMMARY:A Nice Indian Boy (2025) DESCRIPTION:We’ve had quite a run of great films during our multi-monthly screenings in the Main Street Landing Film House this year. But after 11 screenings of nine pretty heavy movies\, we’ve heard many of our members asking if\, say\, a comedy might be a possibility. \n\nGood news. That c omedy is here! \n\nA Nice Indian Boy is a warm-hearted romantic comedy ce ntered on young doctor Naveen (Karan Soni) and his search for love. He fin ds it with Jay (Broadway star Jonathan Groff)\, a very charming white man who was adopted and raised by Indian parents. But finding love is just hal f the battle\; the other half comes when Naveen brings Jay home to meet hi s traditional Indian family\, and they must contend with accepting his whi te-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of the ir dreams.\n\nWritten by Eric Randall (and based on Madhuri Shekar’s pla y)\, A Nice Indian Boy “is all about subverting stereotypes about Indian culture\, both within and outside of the community” (IndieWire).  \n\ nThe very real chemistry between Soni (“whose wit and vulnerability make him a natural rom-com lead\,” according to the New York Times) and Grof f anchors the film\, but the supporting cast offers a lot of the laughs\, particularly the scene-stealing comedian Zarna Garg as Naveen’s hilariou s mother\, who dominates every scene she’s in. Hindi film veteran Harish Patel offers gravitas and quiet surprises as Naveen’s father.\n\nThe Ne w York Times said\, “In this vibrant addition to cinema’s romantic lan dscape\, love isn’t the only winner: cultural understanding and the free dom to choose your own path triumph as well.”\n\nA Nice Indian Boy is al so playing on May 15 at 4 pm in the Film House.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ANI B_1Sht_FM1_LR-edit.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1783@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T190000 DTSTAMP:20250417T174659Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me/ SUMMARY:Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) DESCRIPTION:The Ongoing Complete-Films-of-David-Lynch Project\n\nFor this i nstallment in our ongoing presentation of the complete filmography of Davi d Lynch\, we tackle two of Lynch’s less-appreciated efforts\, both of wh ich did poorly on their release and received critical dismissals\, but whi ch\, over time\, have come to be seen as essential pieces of the Lynch cat alog. After this installment\, we will have screened eight of Lynch’s 10 feature films\, with the final pair coming soon.\n\nIn the town of Twin P eaks\, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. \ n\nIn this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series\, David L ynch resurrects the teenager wrapped in plastic\, following her through th e last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murd er. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night\, Lau ra leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing he r for years.\n\nNightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unf athomable forces\, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is nevertheless one of Ly nch’s most humane films\, aching with compassion for its tortured heroin e—a character as enthralling in life as she was in death. Please note\, though: the depiction of sexual assault in this film can be unnerving. \n \nMuch darker in tone than the TV series\, Fire Walk With Me did its best to confound expectations. It refused to address any of TV shows loose ends \, and minimized many longtime characters\, including even Agent Dale Coop er (Kyle MacLachlan)\, though it did make room for a confusing but strikin g cameo from David Bowie.\n\nThe film was allegedly booed at Cannes and pr oceeded to bomb spectacularly in America. Critics savaged it—Roger Ebert called it “shockingly bad\,” while The New York Times’ Vincent Canb y raged that the film “induced a state of simulated brain death.” \n\ nAs happens with the work of genius filmmakers\, time has been kind\, and the film is now seen as one of Lynch’s best. Sight &\; Sound’s 2022 Poll ranks the film as the 211th best of all time\, tied with Raiders of the Lost Ark and Brief Encounter. The British Film Institute ranked it as the fourth-best film of the 1990s\, while NME (another British publication ) dubbed Angelo Badalamenti’s score “The Greatest Soundtrack Ever.” Its reappraisal cleared the way for Lynch to complete his 18-episode show\ , Twin Peaks: The Return\, which tied the story up (sorta… but not reall y).\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ebd 2aae31702809088dc357ed2318ce2.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1782@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T190000 DTSTAMP:20250417T174724Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/inland-empire/ SUMMARY:Inland Empire (2006) DESCRIPTION:The Ongoing Complete-Films-of-David-Lynch Project\n\nFor this i nstallment in our ongoing presentation of the complete filmography of Davi d Lynch\, we tackle two of Lynch’s less-appreciated efforts\, both of wh ich did poorly on their release and received critical dismissals\, but whi ch\, over time\, have come to be seen as essential pieces of the Lynch cat alog. After this installment\, we will have screened eight of Lynch’s 10 feature films\, with the final pair coming soon.\n\n“A work of genius …I think” —BBC\n\n“My advice\, in the face of such hallucinatory b rilliance\, is that you hang on” —Peter Travers\, Rolling Stone\n\nThe role of a lifetime\, a Hollywood mystery\, a woman in trouble… David Ly nch’s first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditation on the enigmas of time\, identity\, and cinema its elf. Featuring a tour de force performance from Laura Dern as an actor on the edge\, this labyrinthine Dream Factory nightmare tumbles down an endle ss series of unfathomably interconnected rabbit holes (one including actua l rabbits) as it takes viewers on a hallucinatory odyssey into the deepest realms of the unconscious mind.\n\nPerhaps the least-appreciated film in the Lynch oeuvre\, the film marked several firsts for Lynch: the film was shot without a finished screenplay\, instead being largely developed on a scene-by-scene basis\; and it was shot entirely in low-resolution digital video by Lynch himself\, using a handheld Sony camcorder rather than tradi tional film stock. The film's cinematography\, editing\, score\, and sound design were by Lynch\, with pieces by a variety of other musicians also f eatured\, including Beck\, Nina Simone\, Kroke\, Dave Brubeck\, and Krzysz tof Penderecki.\n\nAn international co-production between the United State s\, France\, and Poland\, the film’s expansive cast features Lynch regul ars Laura Dern\, Justin Theroux\, Harry Dean Stanton\, and Grace Zabriskie \, as well as brief appearances by a host of additional actors\, including Nastassja Kinski\, Laura Harring\, Terry Crews\, Mary Steenburgen\, Diane Ladd\, and William H. Macy.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Inl and-Empire-01.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1778@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250523T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250523T190000 DTSTAMP:20250522T135248Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/to-be-or-not-to-be/ SUMMARY:To Be or Not to Be (1942) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nFun with Fascist Dictators II: Shakespearean Edition\n\nOn paper it shouldn’t work. A comedy about the Nazi occupation of Poland set whi le the occupation was still happening? Jokes with references to concentrat ion camps? Jack Benny versus Nazis? \n\nAnd yet\, To Be Or Not To Be is o ne of the funniest comedies of its era\, and certainly one of the most aud acious. The great Ernst Lubitsch walks an incredibly fine line\, yet alway s makes the right choices\, creating an unlikely hybrid: the anti-fascist screwball sex comedy. \n\nStarring Jack Benny as a vain Shakespearean act or and Carole Lombard as his actress wife\, To Be Or Not To Be is one of t he most elegantly scripted films imaginable\; there are simply no throwawa y lines. As critic Geoffrey O’Brien notes\, “Almost no line of dialogu e is without a barbed secondary impli­cation\; jokes comment knowingly on the jokes that preceded them\, adding elements of ironic awareness too di screetly and rapidly for a single viewing to suffice.” \n\nThe plot fin ds a Warsaw theater company drawn into conflict when the Nazis invade Pola nd. Brought into the resistance thanks to Lombard’s infatuation with a h andsome soldier (Robert Stack) who joins her backstage every time her husb and starts Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy\, the actors put their stash of Nazi uniforms to good use by impersonating Nazi officers— and even Hitler himself—to uncover a spy in their midst. \n\nThe brilli ant film remains a high-water mark of American comedy\, propelled by the r adiant Lombard. Sadly\, this was her last film\; she died in a plane crash prior to its release. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/50d fb926e9c50ffdcc32681359a9609cffe091b4.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1777@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250524T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250524T150000 DTSTAMP:20250522T135318Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/richard-iii/ SUMMARY:Richard III (1995) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nFun with Fascist Dictators II: Shakespearean Edition\n\nThe wint er of our discontent has rarely been so fun. Okay\, maybe calling this mov ie “fun” might seem odd\, given the expansive body count and extremely high quotient of pure eee-vil that goes on\, but… it is a blast to watc h the great Ian McKellen devour this role\, and nearly as much fun to watc h his stellar supporting cast strive to meet his level.\n\nMcKellen himsel f updated Shakespeare’s play\, setting it in an alternate England of the 1930s\, where civil war and rising fascism are all around. Richard wants the throne very badly and lacks any moral compass at all\, so he starts re moving the obstacles to his goal—that would be his brother\, his brother ’s children\, and his brother’s wife. It gets pretty nasty.  \n\nWit h McKellen setting the bar so high\, his inspired co-stars go for broke\, as well. And what a cast! The crazy-great players include Annette Bening\, Jim Broadbent\, Robert Downey Jr.\, Nigel Hawthorne\, Kristin Scott Thoma s\, and Maggie Smith. That’s a cast that includes four Oscar winners and three Oscar nominees.\n\nBut it’s McKellen’s show\, for sure. In what the Washington Post calls “a shamelessly entertaining display of acting brilliance\,” he brings us in on the joke\, so that we are nearly compl icit as we share the joy he takes in his relentlessly evil actions. \n\nI f you’re going to spend a couple hours with a fascist dictator\, it migh t as well be fun. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Cop y_of_RICHARDIII_24820895_type13168.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1785@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T190000 DTSTAMP:20250514T130859Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ran/ SUMMARY:Ran (1985) DESCRIPTION:40th anniversary 4K restoration\n\nAt age 75\, the great Akira Kurosawa made the samurai epic to end all samurai epics. That's saying som ething considering he already made Seven Samurai\, Yojimbo\, and Kagemusha . Kurosawa's take on Shakespeare's King Lear—spliced with the legend of the daimyō Mōri Motonari—is the Japanese master's most impressionistic and experimental film\, filled with swathes of clashing colors\, clouds o f arrows\, buildings engulfed in flames\, and oceans of soldiers doing bat tle. Ran translates roughly to "chaos\," a fitting summation of this histo rical epic about a feudal kingdom riven by power struggle and descending i nto epic bloodshed. But amidst the colossal upheaval\, Kurosawa wields inc redible control of every aspect of these gorgeous widescreen canvases—fr om the intimacy of the family dynamics to the maneuvers of armies to the m ajesty of the natural world around them. He spent 10 years painting storyb oards of every frame of the film and the result is one of cinema's greates t visual feasts.\n\nRan was Kurosawa's last historical epic—and his fina l adaptation of the Bard after Throne of Blood (1957) and The Bad Sleep We ll (1960)—and by far his most expensive film. In fact\, it was the most expensive Japanese movie ever made at the time of its release. Kurosawa hi mself called it an allegory for nuclear warfare\, so it makes sense that G odzilla director Ishirō Honda was one of his main collaborators\, no doub t contributing to the film's unparalleled sense of scale. Emi Wada won an Academy Award for her brilliant color-coded costume designs (a wardrobe th at included over 1\,400 uniforms and suits of armor for the legions of ext ras). And Kurosawa received his only career Oscar nomination for Best Dire ctor\, thanks to a campaign boost from Sidney Lumet. The triumphant capsto ne of Kurosawa's tumultuous "third period\," Ran is one of those rarified movies that demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible to appreciat e the scope of its artistry.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Ran -1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1779@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250530T190000 DTSTAMP:20250530T162114Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/singin-in-the-rain/ SUMMARY:Singin' in the Rain (1952) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nA Weekend of Rainy Musicals\n\nFor those who’ve been telling u s that the movies have been a little heavy lately\, here’s a huge\, heap ing dose of cinematic joy and optimism. \n\nSingin’ in the Rain was bor n of modest circumstances. It’s a jukebox musical filled with 20-year-ol d tunes that were never hits\, most of which had been featured in numerous other musicals. But sometimes\, magic happens\, and Singin’ in the Rain is undeniably magical.\n\nThere are a million stories connected with the making of the film—Debbie Reynolds’ dancing (and much of her singing) was dubbed in\, Gene Kelly danced the legendary title song with a 103-degr ee fever\, Donald O’Connor had to be hospitalized for exhaustion after h is ultra-manic take on “Make ‘Em Laugh\,” the movie itself was just a modest hit and nowhere near the sensation of Kelly’s previous film\, t he Oscar-winning An American in Paris—but the fact is that Singin’ in the Rain has a very strong case as the greatest musical ever created withi n the Hollywood system. Everything about it just works.\n\nRoger Ebert: “A transcendent experience and no one who loves movies can afford to mis s it.”\nPauline Kael: “The most enjoyable of all American movie musica ls.”\nAmerican Film Institute: The #1 musical of all time.\n\nAnd yes\, Kelly and O’Connor and Reynolds are all fabulous\, but Jean Hagen—as t he vain and vicious Lena Lamont—gives perhaps the greatest comedic suppo rting performance ever in a musical. And that’s just one more great thin g about Singin’ in the Rain.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Sin gin-In-The-Rain-web.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1780@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T150000 DTSTAMP:20250531T173053Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-umbrellas-of-cherbourg/ SUMMARY:The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nA Weekend of Rainy Musicals\n\nThere’s really nothing else lik e The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. A melancholy\, sung-through musical with ast onishing candy-color design and staggeringly gorgeous lead actors\, it’s a singular achievement in musical cinema. \n\nNot surprisingly\, the ang elically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this film. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter\, glowing with fir st love for a handsome garage mechanic\, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria\, the two lovers must grow up q uickly. Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope of colors\, and told entire ly through lilting songs by the great composer Michel Legrand\, The Umbrel las of Cherbourg is one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time.\n\nAs film historian Jim Ridley says\, “In Umbrellas\, Demy found an ingenious way to extend the form of the screen musical\, restori ng its effervescence in part by reducing its scale to something recognizab ly human. Rather than surge and lunge in elephantine production numbers\, the entire movie would flow on an uninterrupted current of music. The sing ing and color would evoke the piercing immediacy of first love\, even as t he abstraction granted a very contemporary distancing effect.”\n\nIn rec ent cinema\, the film served as a major influence for Damien Chazelle’s La La Land\, as well as Greta Gerwig’s Barbie\, but there’s only one T he Umbrellas of Cherbourg.\n\nThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg is also playing o n May 31 at 7 pm in The Screening Room.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Umb rellas-Of-Cherbourg_The-web.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1781@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T190000 DTSTAMP:20250531T173125Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-umbrellas-of-cherbourg-1964/ SUMMARY:The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nA Weekend of Rainy Musicals\n\nThere’s really nothing else lik e The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. A melancholy\, sung-through musical with ast onishing candy-color design and staggeringly gorgeous lead actors\, it’s a singular achievement in musical cinema. \n\nNot surprisingly\, the ang elically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this film. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter\, glowing with fir st love for a handsome garage mechanic\, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria\, the two lovers must grow up q uickly. Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope of colors\, and told entire ly through lilting songs by the great composer Michel Legrand\, The Umbrel las of Cherbourg is one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time.\n\nAs film historian Jim Ridley says\, “In Umbrellas\, Demy found an ingenious way to extend the form of the screen musical\, restori ng its effervescence in part by reducing its scale to something recognizab ly human. Rather than surge and lunge in elephantine production numbers\, the entire movie would flow on an uninterrupted current of music. The sing ing and color would evoke the piercing immediacy of first love\, even as t he abstraction granted a very contemporary distancing effect.”\n\nIn rec ent cinema\, the film served as a major influence for Damien Chazelle’s La La Land\, as well as Greta Gerwig’s Barbie\, but there’s only one T he Umbrellas of Cherbourg.\n\nThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg is also playing o n May 31 at 3 pm in The Screening Room.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Umb rellas-Of-Cherbourg_The-web.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1797@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250605T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250605T190000 DTSTAMP:20250514T131556Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/caught-by-the-tides/ SUMMARY:Caught by the Tides (2024) DESCRIPTION:The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation\, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with his marvelous Caught by the Tides. Assembled from foot age shot over a span of 23 years—a beguiling mix of fiction and document ary\, featuring a cascade of images taken from previous movies\, unused sc enes\, and newly shot dramatic sequences—Caught by the Tides is a free-f lowing work of unspoken longing\, carried along more by music than dialogu e as it looms around the edges of a poignant love story. \n\nThe film mos tly adheres to the perspective of Qiaoqiao (Jia’s immortal muse Zhao Tao ) as she wanders an increasingly unrecognizable country in search of long- lost lover Bin (Li Zhubin)\, who left their home city of Datong seeking ne w financial prospects. The always captivating Zhao carries the film with h er delicate expressiveness\, while Jia constantly evokes cinema’s abilit y to capture the passage of time and the persistence of change: of people\ , landscapes\, cities\, politics\, and ideas.\n\n“As emotionally effecti ve as it is formally brilliant. A tour de force that is at once an affecti ng portrait of a people in flux and a soulful\, generous-hearted autobiogr aphic testament from one of our greatest living filmmakers.” —Manohla Dargis\, The New York Times (Critic's Pick)\n\n“Monumental. The best fil m of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.” — Justin Chang\, The New Yorker\n \n“Carefully crafted to break your heart. Simply stunning.” —David F ear\, Rolling Stone\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cau ghtbytheTides_fg_04.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1786@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250613T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250613T190000 DTSTAMP:20250609T140317Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cold-war/ SUMMARY:Cold War (2018) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nGuest curator Natalie Neuert\n\nThis sweeping\, delirious romanc e by Paweł Pawlikowski begins in the Soviet-ruled Polish countryside of l ate 1940s\, where Wiktor (Tomasz Kot)\, a musician on a state-sponsored mi ssion to collect folk songs\, discovers a captivating young singer named Z ula (Joanna Kulig\, in a performance for the ages). Over the next fifteen years\, their turbulent relationship plays out in stolen moments between t he jazz clubs of decadent bohemian Paris\, to which he escapes\, and the c orrupt\, repressive Communist Bloc\, where she remains—universes bridged by their passion for music and for each other. Photographed in luscious m onochrome and suffused with the melancholy of the simple folk song that pr ovides a motif for the couple’s fateful affair\, Pawlikowski’s timeles s story—inspired by that of his own parents—is a heart-stoppingly gran d vision of star-crossed love caught up in the tide of history. The film e arned a Best Director Oscar nomination for Pawlikowsi\, which followed his Best International Film Oscar for 2013’s Ida.\n\n\n\nNatalie Neuert has spent her entire working life within the realm of the performing arts. Cu rrently she is the Director of the UVM Lane Series\, a position she has h eld since 2012. Prior to being named Director\, she managed the series for 16 years. As Director\, her focus is on programming over 25 shows a year from folk music\, jazz\, world music\, classical\, and more.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/col dwar-anatomy2-superJumbo.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1787@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250614T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250614T150000 DTSTAMP:20250613T130928Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/holy-cow/ SUMMARY:Holy Cow (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nNew Release\n\nReveling in his youth in the gorgeous rural Jura region of Eastern France\, Totone has few worries and is content to party with his friends as the family dairy business hums along. But when calamit y strikes\, the undisciplined 18-year-old finds himself in charge of the f arm and his seven-year-old sister. A sun-drenched coming-of-age story cast with non-professionals from Jura (filmmaker Courvoisier’s home)\, Holy Cow follows Totone’s determination to win a local Comté cheesemaking co mpetition (cash prize: €30\,000)\, while he romantically pursues a compe ting farmer—whose bullying brothers are none-too-pleased—and clumsily steps up to adult responsibilities.\n\nFrench director Louise Courvoisier ’s debut feature won the Youth Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes 2024\, and the César Award (the French Oscars) for Best First Fil m. \n\n“A likeable coming-of-age tale that reeks of dung\, grilled saus ages\, sweat and diesel oil. Lovingly shot in warm natural light\, and acc ompanied by a gentle\, lilting soundtrack\, Holy Cow is shot through with compassion for its rascally yet vulnerable protagonist. —Lee Marshall\, Screen Daily\n\nHoly Cow is also screening at 7 pm on Saturday\, June 14 i n The Screening Room.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/045 93c7a-5fd5-4b5e-9feb-c2c680afbc4f_3000x2000-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1788@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250614T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250614T190000 DTSTAMP:20250611T212018Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/holy-cow-2024/ SUMMARY:Holy Cow (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nNew Release\n\nReveling in his youth in the gorgeous rural Jura region of Eastern France\, Totone has few worries and is content to party with his friends as the family dairy business hums along. But when calamit y strikes\, the undisciplined 18-year-old finds himself in charge of the f arm and his seven-year-old sister. A sun-drenched coming-of-age story cast with non-professionals from Jura (filmmaker Courvoisier’s home)\, Holy Cow follows Totone’s determination to win a local Comté cheesemaking co mpetition (cash prize: €30\,000)\, while he romantically pursues a compe ting farmer—whose bullying brothers are none-too-pleased—and clumsily steps up to adult responsibilities.\n\nFrench director Louise Courvoisier ’s debut feature won the Youth Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes 2024\, and the César Award (the French Oscars) for Best First Fil m. \n\n“A likeable coming-of-age tale that reeks of dung\, grilled saus ages\, sweat and diesel oil. Lovingly shot in warm natural light\, and acc ompanied by a gentle\, lilting soundtrack\, Holy Cow is shot through with compassion for its rascally yet vulnerable protagonist. —Lee Marshall\, Screen Daily\n\nHoly Cow is also screening at 3 pm on Saturday\, June 14 i n The Screening Room.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/045 93c7a-5fd5-4b5e-9feb-c2c680afbc4f_3000x2000-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1798@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250619T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250619T190000 DTSTAMP:20250514T183151Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/food-and-country/ SUMMARY:Food and Country (2023) + Climate Kitchen Conversation DESCRIPTION:As part of the nationwide Science on Screen initiative\, VTIFF presents Food and Country\, an investigation of American food systems by a cclaimed food writer Ruth Reichl. The film is paired with a lecture/conver sation by UVM’s Climate Kitchen (housed in UVM’s College of Agricultur e and Life Sciences)\, which brings together researchers\, students\, and communities at UVM and beyond to develop more sustainable practices—from sourcing to cooking to eating—using the kitchen environment as a living laboratory.\n\n[caption id="attachment_23289" align="alignnone" width="35 4"] Dr. Amy Trubek\, director of Climate Kitchen[/caption]\n\nIn the film\ , Reichl—trailblazing NY Times food critic\, groundbreaking Gourmet Maga zine editor\, best-selling memoirist\, and\, for decades\, one of the most influential figures shaping American food culture—grows concerned about the fate of small farmers\, ranchers\, and chefs as they wrestle with bot h immediate and systemic challenges as the pandemic takes hold. She follow s the unfolding stories of ranchers in Kansas and Georgia\; farmers in Neb raska\, Ohio\, and the Bronx\; a New England fisherman\; and maverick chef s on both coasts. Through her eyes\, we get to know the humanity and strug gle behind the food we eat. As Reichl says\, “How we grow and make our f ood shows us our values—as a nation and as human beings.”\n\nFood and Country is a movie that offers food for thought (pun intended)\, so afterw ard\, the audience is invited to join Dr. Amy Trubek\, director of Climate Kitchen\, and her colleagues for a conversation focused on designing futu re food systems and advocating for sustainable practices\, from soil to pl ate.\n\n\n\nScience on Screen is an initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEA TRE\, with major support from the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CHE FSGARDEN-GREENHOUSESSUNSET.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1789@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250620T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250620T190000 DTSTAMP:20250512T202956Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/will/ SUMMARY:Will (1981) DESCRIPTION:4K Restoration\n\n“Wryly funny\, well acted and extremely mov ing."\n—Sight &\; Sound\n\n"A blunt cinematic instrument of immense p ower."\n—The New Yorker\n\nIn 1981\, Jessie Maple became the first Afric an American woman to direct an independent film with this raw\, unflinchin g portrait of heroin addiction and recovery. Shot on location in Harlem\, Will stars Obaka Adedunyo as the title character\, a former all-American b asketball star who has fallen from grace because of his dependence on junk . Soon after Will promises his wife\, Jean (Loretta Devine\, in her screen debut)\, that he’ll go straight\, he becomes a father figure to Little Brother (Robert Dean)\, a street-tough teen who appears to be following in Will’s footsteps. By wising Little Brother up to the needle’s harsh r ealities\, and by coaching a girls’ basketball team\, Will renews his se nse of purpose and begins to come out from under the influence—though da ngerous temptations loom for both him and his young charge. A landmark of African American cinema\, Will resonates with Maple’s determination to t ell the stories of her community with anger\, sadness\, and\, ultimately\, hope.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ima ge-w1280-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1790@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T150000 DTSTAMP:20250514T183710Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/escape-from-new-york/ SUMMARY:Escape from New York (1981) DESCRIPTION:Guest hosts Tyler Sonic &\; Lisa Macaroni\n\n"Proudly wears its affection for crusty Sergio Leone archetypes and countdown-clock suspe nse sequences\; Carpenter was Tarantino long before Tarantino was." —Tim e Out New York\n\nWelcome to the movie that transformed Kurt Russell’s c areer\, taking him from clean-cut Disney heartthrob to seriously grizzled action hero. Escape From New York is John Carpenter’s 1981 vision of a d ystopian 1997\, in which Manhattan has been turned into an anarchic maximu m-security prison fenced-off from the rest of the United States and ruled with an iron fist by Isaac Hayes’s diabolical arch-criminal potentate\, the Duke. When an Air Force One crash strands the U.S. president (Donald P leasence\, inexplicably British) on the lawless isle of Manhattan\, mercil ess mercenary Snake Plissken (a resplendently eye-patched Russell) is the only man who can get the Chief Executive out alive… never mind that Snak e’s a convicted criminal himself. What follows encompasses hang-gliding into the World Trade Center\, vicious death match gladiatorial combat\, an d Harry Dean Stanton—which is to say\, pure cinema. \n\n\n\nTyler and Li sa moved to Vermont in 2024 from Central Michigan\, where they produced an d hosted the monthly screening series VHS Night at the Broadway. They also publish Horror Macaroni\, a zine on horror\, kitsch\, and dead formats\, whose fifth issue will be out this summer.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/MV5 BMjY3ODE0ODA2Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzg4NTU5MTE@._V1_-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1791@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T190000 DTSTAMP:20250620T134012Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/they-live/ SUMMARY:They Live (1988) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nGuest hosts Tyler Sonic &\; Lisa Macaroni\n\nThe greatest mov ie ever made starring a professional wrestler\, and—yeah\, we’ll say i t—one of the best political movies of the 1980s\, They Live is\, like a handful of other Carpenter films\, a masterpiece disguised as kitschy ’8 0s sci-fi. The late\, lamented “Rowdy” Roddy Piper stars as a homeless construction worker who’s blown into Los Angeles looking for work\, and stumbles across a secret stash of sunglasses that\, when worn\, reveal to him a hidden world—one in which ghoulish extraterrestrial overlords wal k the streets undetected in human guise\, buffeting us\, their clueless hu man serfs\, into sheeplike consumer capitalist thralldom with all-caps com mands: CONSUME! OBEY!\n\nGreat lines abound. Favorites might include: “I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum… and I’m all out of bubble gum” and “Either put on these glasses… or start eatin’ that trash can.”\n\nThe film’s premise\, according to Carpenter\, is discovering that the me-first\, ’80s Reagan Revolution is run by aliens from another galaxy\, bent on total domination. But one of the angriest pop movies of the 1980s is also one of the most relentlessly entertaining\, with the int erminable alleyway donnybrook between Piper and Keith David a particular h igh point. \n\nAny similarities to the current political climate are eith er completely non-existent\, totally coincidental\, or utterly prescient\, depending on your POV.\n\n\n\nTyler and Lisa moved to Vermont in 2024 fro m Central Michigan\, where they produced and hosted the monthly screening series VHS Night at the Broadway. They also publish Horror Macaroni\, a zi ne on horror\, kitsch\, and dead formats\, whose fifth issue will be out t his summer.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/the ylive_1280x720.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1792@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250627T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250627T190000 DTSTAMP:20250627T140037Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/viet-and-nam/ SUMMARY:Việt and Nam (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nCelebrate Pride Month\n\nBanned in Vietnam for being "too dark\, " that dismissive description is bound to give you the wrong impression of Việt and Nam. Trương Minh Quý's brilliant film is actually an aching ly tender romance and a mysterious\, deeply felt portrait of his homeland. It's also one of the year's most overlooked gems\, a hit at Cannes that h as quietly made a strong impression on in-the-know critics.\n\nStunningly shot on 16mm\, this beautiful\, understated love story is fascinatingly en tangled with the ghost story of a nation\, drawing influences from both Ho llywood imports and Vietnamese propaganda films. Our lovers\, Nam and Vi ệt\, toil away deep below the earth as coal miners\, taking regular brea ks for passionate trysts in the pitch-black depths. But Nam is determined to leave this land behind and flee the country for a better life. Before h e leaves—illicitly smuggled in a journey that is beyond dangerous—he a grees to help Việt's mother find her husband's body\, one of thousands n ever recovered after the war. She claims his spirit calls out to her in he r dreams\, leaving clues to where he can be exhumed.\n\nWith the Vietnam W ar 50 years in the rearview\, the aftereffects are all over the lush but s carred landscape. Each family has a distant connection to the war and a tr agedy to tell. The playful title perfectly reflects a country that\, in th e historical memory\, is perpetually\, irrevocably divided against itself. But the complex\, wordless intimacy between the two men challenges that v iew\, weaving a tragic romance told in subtle gestures and profound silenc es.\n\n“Việt and Nam is a series of excavations\, and\, for all its ge ntle cadences—a shot of jungle leaves rustling in the wind about approxi mates the story’s rhythm—it seems to unearth new mysteries and paradox es by the minute.” —Justin Chang\, The New Yorker\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Un- Certain-Regard-Viet-and-Nam-171269-H-2024.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1793@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250628T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250628T150000 DTSTAMP:20250606T152019Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pariah/ SUMMARY:Pariah (2011) DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Pride Month\n\nThe path to living as one’s authenti c self is paved with trials and tribulations in this revelatory\, assured feature debut by Dee Rees (Mudbound\, Bessie)—the all-too-rare coming-of -age tale to honestly represent the experiences of queer Black women. Grou nded in the fine-grained specificity and deft characterizations of Rees’ s script\, and built around a beautifully layered performance from Adepero Oduye\, Pariah follows Brooklyn teenager Alike\, who is navigating the em otional minefields of first love and heartache and the disapproval of her family as she expresses her gender and sexual identities within a system t hat does not make space for them. Achieving an aching intimacy with its su bject through the expressive cinematography of Bradford Young (Arrival\, W hen they See Us)\, this deeply felt portrait finds strength in vulnerabili ty and liberation in letting go.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/lik buoy1w3v5D60SP9Me2LoWNBye0S_original.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1794@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250628T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250628T190000 DTSTAMP:20250606T152126Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/poison/ SUMMARY:Poison (1991) DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Pride Month\n\nEssentially the starting gun for the N ew Queer Cinema of the 1990s\, Todd Haynes’ debut feature was a surprise hit that made all kinds of headlines. This groundbreaking American indie was the most fervently debated film of the 1990s and a trailblazing landma rk of queer cinema. As a work of immense visual invention\, it’s also au dacious\, disturbing\, and thrillingly cinematic.\n\nIn addition to being the surprise Grand Prize winner at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival\, Hayne s’ film (and Haynes himself) was publicly attacked and berated by right- wing figures including Dick Armey\, Ralph Reed\, Jesse Helms\, and ministe r Donald Wildmon. It’s a safe bet that none of them saw the film\, and\, really\, is there any better press for an LGBTQ ’90s movie? \n\nInspir ed by the writings of Jean Genet\, Haynes deftly interweaves three transgr essive tales that build toward a devastating climax. “Hero\,” shot in mock TV-documentary style\, tells a bizarre story of suburban patricide an d a miraculous flight from justice. “Horror\,” filmed like a delirious ’50s B-movie melodrama\, is a gothic tale of a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague. And “Homo” explores the obsessive sex ual relationship between two prison inmates.\n\nHaynes has gone on to stak e a claim as one of America’s finest filmmakers—Superstar: The Karen C arpenter Story\, Safe\, Far From Heaven\, Carol\, and May/December would a ll be submitted as evidence—but Poison remains a signature work. \n\n&nb sp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RZQ CGQHnxHxy8uiV1xKACBsThPcmW8_original.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1795@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T130000 DTSTAMP:20250606T152354Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kid-flicks-pride/ SUMMARY:Kid Flicks: Pride DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Pride Month\n\nKid Flicks: Pride is a celebration of self-expression\, community\, legacy\, and love. Curated specifically for ages nine and up\, these shorts from around the world feature a wide range of LGBTQ+ identities and experiences in as many unique styles. Schoolyard matchmakers\, a Belgian teen\, a group of indigenous Hawaiian māhū\, an d more highlight the power that comes from embracing who you are. \n\nThe se eight shorts encompass narrative and documentary\, live-action and anim ation. VTIFF is proud to present two shows of Kid Flicks: Pride on Nationa l Pride Day\, marking the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.\n\nKid Flicks: Pride is also playing on June 29 at 3 pm in The Screening Room\n\n Recommended for ages 9+\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/dra gfox.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1796@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T150000 DTSTAMP:20250606T152433Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kid-flicks-pride-2025/ SUMMARY:Kid Flicks: Pride DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Pride Month\n\nKid Flicks: Pride is a celebration of self-expression\, community\, legacy\, and love. Curated specifically for ages nine and up\, these shorts from around the world feature a wide range of LGBTQ+ identities and experiences in as many unique styles. Schoolyard matchmakers\, a Belgian teen\, a group of indigenous Hawaiian māhū\, an d more highlight the power that comes from embracing who you are. \n\nThe se eight shorts encompass narrative and documentary\, live-action and anim ation. VTIFF is proud to present two shows of Kid Flicks: Pride on Nationa l Pride Day\, marking the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.\n\nKid Flicks: Pride is also playing on June 29 at 1 pm in The Screening Room\n\n Recommended for ages 9+\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/dra gfox.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1799@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250710T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250710T190000 DTSTAMP:20250625T184713Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jane-austen-wrecked-my-life/ SUMMARY:Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) DESCRIPTION:Agathe (Camille Rutherford) is a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman who works in the legendary Shakespeare &\; Co. bookshop in Paris. While she dreams of being a successful writer\, and of experiencin g love akin to a Jane Austen novel\, she finds herself desperately single and plagued by writer's block. When she’s invited to the Jane Austen Wri ters' Residency in England\, she finally has her Jane Austen moment… and is caught in a very unexpected romantic triangle. \n\nThe film marks the feature debut of writer/director Laura Piani and offers a star-making tur n from Rutherford (you may recognize her as the journalist from Anatomy of a Fall). She’s the perfect centerpiece for this cinematic treat\, which manages to be a full-on rom-com\, a Jane Austen appreciation session\, an d a love-letter to the very idea of books and letters. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Jan eAustenWreckedMyLife_1600x900_1-1200x675-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1801@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250711T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250711T190000 DTSTAMP:20250625T185637Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/master-of-the-flying-guillotine/ SUMMARY:Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976) DESCRIPTION:Host Jason Gonzales\n\nAt last\, kung fu has arrived at The Scr eening Room\, where barista extraordinaire and wuxia scholar Jason Gonzale s hosts a weekend of two golden-age martial arts classics. \n\nMaster of the Flying Guillotine (what a title!) is a classic martial-arts death matc h that pits two wuxia icons against each other—the famed One-Armed Boxer (Hong Kong superstar Jimmy Wang Yu) versus a blind assassin (veteran char acter actor Kam Kong) and his legendary Flying Guillotine. Set in 1730\, d uring the early part of the Ching dynasty\, ethnic Chinese Hans formed ban ds of rebels to fight their Manchurian oppressors. After the One-Armed Box er\, a stoic kung fu expert and Han revolutionary\, disposes of two would- be assassins\, their master\, a formidable blind emissary of the Ching pos ing as a Buddhist monk\, swears revenge\, searching out every one-armed ma rtial artist and snatching their heads with his tethered decapitation devi ce called the Flying Guillotine.\n\nArguably the most famous Hong Kong mar tial arts film of the post-Bruce Lee\, pre-Jackie Chan period\, this indep endently-produced classic is more popular than ever\, with a legacy extend ing to films like Kill Bill and video games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. With its wild\, fantasy face-offs and its cosmic Krautrock soundt rack\, Master of the Flying Guillotine is undoubtedly a film worthy of los ing your head over!\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/mas teroftheflyingguillotine.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1802@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250712T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250712T190000 DTSTAMP:20250625T190058Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/five-fingers-of-death/ SUMMARY:Five Fingers of Death (1972) DESCRIPTION:Host Jason Gonzales\n\nAt last\, kung fu has arrived at The Scr eening Room\, where barista extraordinaire and wuxia scholar Jason Gonzale s hosts a weekend of two golden-age martial arts classics. \n\nThis is th e film that started the kung fu movie craze in the U.S. Originally release d as King Boxer\, then retitled Five Fingers of Death (a much better title \, right?)\, the film became a surprise hit and started the kung fu onslau ght of 1973\, which saw 13 different Hong Kong action movies top the weekl y box office. \n\nA young boxer joins a martial arts school to increase h is skill so he can enter a martial arts competition. He leaves the school when he hears that a local gangster is terrorizing the town. He comes to t he aid of a young singer and brings on the wrath of the local gang. He eve ntually enters the martial arts competition after learning iron palm techn ique and takes out all competition.\n\nPlot is one thing\, but it’s real ly all about the action\, and director Jeong Chang-hwa and lead actor Lo L ieh deliver an all-time\, revolutionary classic. You can’t claim to be k nowledgeable in the field of Hong Kong action and kung fu movies if you ha ven’t seen Five Fingers of Death. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Get AttachmentThumbnail.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1803@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250718T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250718T190000 DTSTAMP:20250710T131031Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/phoenix/ SUMMARY:Phoenix (2014) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nThe Best Films of the 21st Century\n\nWe’re borrowing a page f rom The New York Times and it’s suddenly-everywhere list of the 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century\, we’ll be sharing pairs of our favorites th roughout the rest of the century\, starting with these two\, which are bot h in the Top 50. \n\nA wild riff on Hitchcock’s Vertigo\, Christian Pet zold’s Phoenix is like no other film about post–World War II Jewish-Ge rman identity. Set in a devastated\, ruined\, post-WWII Berlin\, the film hones in on Nelly\, a former cabaret singer who has somehow survived Ausch witz and now\, with her disfigured face reconstructed\, has returned to Be rlin to seek out her gentile husband\, who may or may not have betrayed he r to the Nazis. And then it gets pretty crazy. Are we watching a revenge f ilm or a tale of romantic reconciliation? One doesn’t know until the sup erb closing scene of this marvel from Christian Petzold\, one of the most important figures in contemporary German cinema.\n\nAs Nelly\, Nina Hoss g ives one of the great performances of the young century\, and her final sc ene is one you’ll probably revisit on Youtube\, over and over\, like we do. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/MV5 BMTkwMzgwNDU0N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTY3NTMzMjE@._V1_-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1804@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250719T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250719T190000 DTSTAMP:20250719T223028Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/la-cienaga/ SUMMARY:La Ciénaga (2001) DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT WAIT-LIST AT 6pm\n\nThe Best Films of the 21st Century \n\nWe’re borrowing a page from The New York Times and it’s suddenly-e verywhere list of the 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century\, we’ll be sha ring pairs of our favorites throughout the rest of the century\, starting with these two\, which are both in the Top 50. \n\nThe release of Lucreci a Martel’s La Ciénaga heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital a nd original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical and disturbing take on narrative\, beautiful cinematography\, and a highly sophisticated use o f on and offscreen sound\, Martel turns her tale of a dissolute bourgeois extended family\, whiling away the hours of one sweaty\, sticky summer\, i nto a cinematic marvel. \n\n"Notwithstanding the sweltering Argentinean h eat and a herd of noisy children\, teenagers\, and half-wild dogs\, Lucrec ia Martel's La Ciénaga is a veritable Chekhov tragicomedy of provincial life. Making a brilliant debut\, Martel constructs her narrative from quot idian incidents\, myriad comings and goings\, and a cacophony of voices co mpeting for attention” —Amy Taubin\, The Village Voice\n\nThis viscera l take on class\, nature\, sexuality\, and the ways that political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of e xtraordinary tactility\, and one of the great contemporary film debuts.\n\ nThe incredible opening scene is something of a gauntlet. If you love it ( we do!)\, then you’re in. If not\, well…\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/d17 eceab8ff62ba4114515fce44c7fa4.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1800@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250724T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250724T190000 DTSTAMP:20250714T174428Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/familiar-touch/ SUMMARY:Familiar Touch (2024) DESCRIPTION:“A gorgeous drama with an aching\, open heart” —Jourdain Searles\, RogerEbert.com\n\nFamiliar Touch is the feature debut of directo r Sarah Friedland\, who earned Best First Feature honors at the Venice Fil m Festival. It tells the story of Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant)\, a retired coo k\, who must come to terms with life in an assisted living facility. Among her fellow memory care residents\, Ruth feels lost and adrift\, certain s he has found herself somewhere she does not belong. As she slowly begins t o accept the warmth and support of care workers Vanessa (Carolyn Michelle) and Brian (Andy McQueen)\, she finds new ways to ground herself in her bo dy\, even as her mind embarks on a journey all its own.\n\nChalfant anchor s the film with a titanic performance that should be in the conversation c ome Oscar time\, “radiating a magnetic yet dubious sense of poise that u ndergirds the film’s careful balance of tragedy and hope” (New York Ti mes\, Critic’s Pick).\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/im- 99001333.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1805@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250725T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250725T190000 DTSTAMP:20250724T135740Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/everybody-loves-touda/ SUMMARY:Everybody Loves Touda (2024) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nTwo new films from African you can't see anywhere else.\n\nVTIFF is committed to bringing the best international films to Vermont\, and so metimes that means bringing in films that don’t have an American distrib utor\, which means they can’t be streamed or seen anywhere else… only at VTIFF. These two films fit that bill.\n\nA character study\, a social d rama\, a musical\, a tale of overcoming obstacles… Everybody Loves Touda packs a lot into its running time. \n\nIn the latest film from Nabil Ayo uch (Horses of God)\, co-written with his wife\, director Maryam Touzani ( The Blue Caftan)\, Touda dreams of being a sheikha\, or traditional Morocc an folk singer. A single mother with a young son\, her opportunities are l imited and fraught with risk—as the harrowing and violent conclusion to the film’s opening scene makes clear—so she sets her sights on Casabla nca. Leaving her son with her parents\, she sets about to master the aita\ , a Moroccan musical genre rooted in poetry about the many struggles of li fe\, from the personal to the political. But in a culture where female per formers are as often eroticized and stigmatized as venerated\, what does i t really mean to succeed?\n\nTouda features several astonishing musical pe rformances\, but also shows us the not-so-glamorous goings-on behind the s cenes\, especially for Touda as a woman in a very macho world. \n\nAs Tou da\, Nisrin Erradi’s incendiary performance fuels the film. Not a singer by trade\, she trained with professional Sheikhats for a year\, learning voice\, dance\, and percussion. She turned down several roles during her p reparation because she wanted nothing to interfere with her performance. W hatever she did\, it was the right choice. She—and Touda—are magnifice nt.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/MV5 BZDRlZjI1OTMtZTUzMy00NTkwLWE2NTEtNzM2MzkzYWVmYTM2XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_-scaled. jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1806@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250726T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250726T190000 DTSTAMP:20250625T191609Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/era-oculta/ SUMMARY:Era Oculta (2024) DESCRIPTION:Two new films from African you can't see anywhere else.\n\nVTIF F is committed to bringing the best international films to Vermont\, and s ometimes that means bringing in films that don’t have an American distri butor\, which means they can’t be streamed or seen anywhere else… only at VTIFF. These two films fit that bill.\n\nSet in the vibrant city of Ma puto\, Mozambique\, Era Oculta (Hidden Era) centers on Rastafari artist Ph ambi (Isaac Tivane). Struggling financially\, though not artistically\, Ph ambi is like any other parent who wants a better life for their child—he wants the best education possible for his son\, Ixon. But Phambi’s issu es making the school’s payments puts Ixon in perpetual peril of expulsio n. When his newest work\, a semi-nude portrait of Paula\, a feminist who b elieves in expressing herself through her body\, becomes a symbol of activ ism in the community\, Phambi sees a path forward to making a living.\n\nM uch of the joy in the film comes from driving through the streets of Maput o\, which becomes another character in the film. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/img _4859-2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1811@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250807T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250807T200000 DTSTAMP:20250721T172227Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/summer-of-soul/ SUMMARY:Summer of Soul (2021) DESCRIPTION:Flicks in the Park is presented by VTIFF and Burlington City Ar ts\nIn his acclaimed filmmaking debut\, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson pre sents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film\, part his torical record—based on an epic event that celebrated Black history\, cu lture\, and fashion. In the summer of 1969\, Mount Morris Park (just 100  miles south of Woodstock)\, some of the world’s greatest musicians gath ered for the Harlem Cultural Festival. Stevie Wonder\, Nina Simone\, Sly & amp\; the Family Stone\, B.B. King\, and Mavis Staples &\; Mahalia Jack son performed\, among others. Mixing electrifying performance footage with contemporary context\, Thompson creates a thrilling film\, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2021 Sundance Film Festiva l.\nFlicks in the Park is a program of Summer in the City\, a collaborati on between BCA and Love Burlington. Summer in the City 2025 is underwritt en by the WaterWheel Foundation and the Pomerleau Family Foundation. Pre senting Sponsors: East Rise Credit Union and AARP. Supporting Sponsors:  Lake Champlain Chocolates and City Market\, Onion River Co-op. Communi ty Sponsors: American Flatbread Burlington Hearth and Eyes of the World . Media sponsors: WCAX TV and Seven Days. In-Kind Support: Chocolate T hunder Security.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/sum merofsoul_16x9.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:City Hall Park\, Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 05401\, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 0540 1\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=City Hall Park:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1807@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250808T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250808T190000 DTSTAMP:20250710T191001Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dont-lets-go-to-the-dogs-tonight/ SUMMARY:Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (2024) DESCRIPTION:In this adaptation of Alexandra Fuller's memoir\, actor-directo r Embeth Davidtz examines the collapse of colonialism through the eyes of eight-year-old Bobo as Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) approaches its pivotal 1980 election\, marking the end of white rule.\n\nFrom Schindler’s List to  The Amazing Spider-Man\, Matilda to The Morning Show\, American actor Embeth Davidtz has earned a reputation as an engaging\, relatable on-scre en presence in some of Hollywood’s biggest films and series. But Davidtz ’s roots are in South Africa\, where she spent her youth. Just as that n ation and neighboring Zimbabwe were going through convulsive political cha nge driven by a rejection of previous racial hierarchies\, Davidtz was bec oming an actor.\n\nIn her first film as both actor and director\, she adap ts Alexandra Fuller’s memoir of life in a white farming family in the la st days of Rhodesia’s government. As the 1980 election that would create Zimbabwe approaches\, the brittle truce between white landowners and the Black majority workers fractures.\n\nDavidtz plays Nicola Fuller\, mother to young\, perceptive Bobo (Lexi Venter). Nicola sleeps with a machine gun \, ready to use it for “terrorists” or snakes\, whatever threatens her family. She’s taught her daughter that any African could be a terrorist .\n\nDon’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight shifts with admirable nuance from the coarse nihilism of the white adults who know their days of relati ve comfort are numbered\, to the magic seen through Bobo’s innocent eyes \, to the razor-sharp long view of Sarah (Zikhona Bali) and Jacob (Fumani N. Shilubana) who work for the Fuller family until they can reclaim land t hat was taken from them.\n\nNo one emerges as an unblemished hero in David tz’s film\, nor is anyone an absolute villain. Even in this harsh\, most intimate of conflicts\, people have their reasons.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Don t-Lets-Go-to-the-Dogs-Tonight-2.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1815@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250809T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250809T190000 DTSTAMP:20250729T194259Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/magnificent-obsession/ SUMMARY:Magnificent Obsession (1954) DESCRIPTION:Summer Camp\n\nHere’s a thumbnail of the plot for Douglas Sir k’s Magnificent Obsession: A good samaritan doctor dies due to the negli gence of a callous playboy\, who falls in love with the good doctor’s wi dow\, whom he then accidentally blinds\, before dedicating himself to beco ming a great doctor. Got it? \n\nYeah\, it’s utter lunacy\, with charac ters pinballing from one absurdity to the next\, never betraying that they are trapped in one of the most deliriously improbable tales in movies. Th e insanity of the plot is counterbalanced by the cinematic mastery at work —the detail of Sirk’s mise-en-scène\, the glorious costuming\, and th e rapturous Russell Metty photography. It’s quite a brew. And it’s a m asterpiece. \n\nSirk\, a German emigree with a serious theater background \, was well aware of it all\, saying\, “Magnificent Obsession is a combi nation of kitsch and craziness and trashiness. But craziness is very impor tant\, and it saves trashy stuff like Magnificent Obsession. This is the d ialectic—there is a very short distance between high art and trash\, and trash that contains the element of craziness is by this very quality near er to art.” \n\nAnd thus the high-concept Hollywood camp melodrama was born.\n\nThe film launched Rock Hudson\, who would spend a good part of th e next decade as Hollywood’s #1 box-office star. He and Jane Wyman have an undeniable chemistry\, which they reprised in Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows\, probably his greatest film. They’re joined in both films by the glorious Agnes Moorehead. \n\nMagnificent Obsession\, like all of Sirk ’s melodramas\, was a huge box-office hit\, but heavily slagged by criti cs. The French came around first\, of course\, offering rapturous reviews in Cahiers du Cinéma (Godard\, in particular\, was smitten). The critical re-evaluation of Sirk began in 1970\, and his films have been a major inf luence on such directors Rainer Werner Fassbender\, John Waters\, Pedro Al modovar\, and\, of course\, Todd Haynes\, whose Far From Heaven is an exte nded homage to All That Heaven Allows. \n\nSirk had other huge hits in th e same vein—Written on the Wind\, with Dorothy Malone’s over-the-top\, Oscar-winning\, oil-well-fondling performance\; and the lavish remake of Imitation of Life—but Magnificent Obsession came first\, and its melding of haywire plot with cinematic excellence make it The One for us at VTIFF .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ima ge-w856-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1812@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250814T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250814T200000 DTSTAMP:20250721T173523Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/flow/ SUMMARY:Flow (2024) DESCRIPTION:Flicks in the Park is presented by VTIFF and Burlington City Ar ts\nThe 2025 Oscar winner\, Best Animated Film! \nA wondrous journey thro ugh realms natural and mystical\, this wordless animated masterpiece foll ows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teamin g up with a capybara\, a lemur\, a bird\, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land\, they must rely on trust\, courage\, and wits to survi ve the perils of a newly aquatic planet. From the boundless imagination of the award-winning filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis (Away) comes a thrilling ani mated spectacle\, as well as a profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of community. Made on open-source animation so ftware\, the film is especially appealing to dogs and cats\; the internet is loaded with videos of household pets held rapt by the film.\nFlicks in the Park is a program of Summer in the City\, a collaboration between BC A and Love Burlington. Summer in the City 2025 is underwritten by the Wa terWheel Foundation and the Pomerleau Family Foundation. Presenting Spons ors: East Rise Credit Union and AARP. Supporting Sponsors: Lake Champl ain Chocolates and City Market\, Onion River Co-op. Community Sponsors:  American Flatbread Burlington Hearth and Eyes of the World. Media spon sors: WCAX TV and Seven Days. In-Kind Support: Chocolate Thunder Secur ity.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/wcx oz4v3mmnd1.png CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:City Hall Park\, Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 05401\, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 0540 1\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=City Hall Park:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1816@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250815T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250815T190000 DTSTAMP:20250814T185047Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-hard-days-night/ SUMMARY:A Hard Day's Night (1964) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nRock 'n' Roll!\n\nHaving already dominated radio and record sale s in 1964\, The Beatles did the improbable and took over the movies as wel l. A blast of wit\, energy\, enthusiasm\, and music that somehow hasn’t abated in the past 61 years\, A Hard Day’s Night remains an easy contend er for the greatest rock ‘n’ roll film of all time. \n\nFrom the very first scene\, in which the gleeful Beatles try to outrun their shrieking fans in a train station\, the movie soars. The Beatles were lucky enough t o connect with director Richard Lester (and he with them!). The American e xpat had worked on BBC radio’s The Goon Show (The Beatles’ favorite sh ow) with Peter Sellers\, so his sensibilities were right in line with the Fab Four. \n\nThe Beatles couldn’t be having more fun\, and it’s tota lly infectious. It’s an exhilarating romp\, one high point after the oth er (oh\, to have been at that party!)\, punctuated by scenes of music-maki ng that are still remarkable. \n\nIn his rave review\, Roger Ebert said\, “Even in a film with so many riches\, it’s easy to pick the best scen e: The concert footage as The Beatles sing ‘She Loves You’ (is) one of the most sustained orgasmic sequences in the movies.”\n\nIf you’ve ne ver seen this film\, it’s hard to explain the treat you’re in for. And be warned: we’ll be playing it LOUD!\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/zHu nfk5J6NNgpNY88m5BAAqwFbtnwGPlTX36Natc.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1817@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T190000 DTSTAMP:20250729T161011Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls/ SUMMARY:Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) DESCRIPTION:Summer Camp\n\nThe unlikely product of the partnership between cinematic breast-fetishist Russ Meyer and Pulitzer Prize-winning film crit ic Roger Ebert\, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls started life as a sequel t o Valley of the Dolls (1967)\, but ended up as one of the great camp films of all time\, bearing no relation to its source material.\n\nThe setup is simple: It’s 1969 and The Kelly Affair\, a rock band comprised of three wide-eyed young women from the midwest\, heads West with their manager to Los Angeles\, where drugs\, decadence\, sex\, and the record business all work to tear them apart.\n\nFrom that simple premise\, all hell breaks lo ose. There’s loud rock music\, sex\, wild parties\, nudity\, bad record deals\, unwanted pregnancies\, lesbianism\, more loud rock music\, more se x\, more nudity\, a crazy gender reveal\, another wild party\, etc. At the end\, a lesson is learned.\n\nPrior to this film\, Meyer had a reputation in Hollywood\, just not a very good one. An exploitation auteur\, his fil ms featured large-breasted women committing acts both violent and sexual i n films with titles like Faster\, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!\, Mondo Topless\, Wild Gals of the Naked West\, and Europe in the Raw. So he didn’t get a lot of meetings at the major studios\, at least until Vixen!\, the first f ilm given an X for sexual content\, made a bunch of money. Then Fox came a -calling\, hoping Meyer could save a languishing property\, crank it out c heap\, and "make an R film smashing against an X rating." That’s what he and Ebert did. \n\nAccording to Ebert\, Meyer pursued a young audience w ith a specific formula: “There had to be music\, mod clothes\, black cha racters\, violence\, romantic love\, soap opera situations\, behind-the-sc enes intrigue\, fantastic sets\, lesbians\, orgies\, drugs and (eventually ) an ending that tied everything together… [the film would] simultaneous ly be a satire\, a serious melodrama\, a rock musical\, a comedy\, a viole nt exploitation picture\, a skin flick\, and a moralistic expose.” \n\n The movie’s “curious tone” (Ebert’s words) come from Meyer’s ver y serious direction of the young unknown actors\, who were afraid to ask w hether or not they were making a comedy.  Wild characters abound\, but no one comes close to Ronnie “Z-Man” Bartell\, the wild-partying madman (supposedly based on Phil Spector) who\, in Paul LaZar’s astonishing per formance\, lights up every scene he’s in with a frenetic energy. What do they make Oscars for if this guy doesn’t get a nomination? \n\nCandy-c olored\, oversexed and loudly amplified\, with all sorts of contradictory messages lurking in its vision of decadence\, Beyond the Valley of the Dol ls is a masterpiece of its kind. No wonder Ebert never wrote another scrip t. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/99e e8677b6b2e03e591cf78a0ec43b81.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1821@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T163000 DTSTAMP:20250818T172504Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-last-class-2025/ SUMMARY:The Last Class (2025) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nJoin us for a moderated conversation following the screening.\n\ nFormer Secretary of Labor Robert Reich always considered teaching his tru e calling. As he faces his final class\, he wrestles with the dual realiti es of his own aging and his students inheriting a world out of balance. \ n\nThe Last Class is a nuanced and deeply personal portrait of master educ ator Robert Reich teaching his final course and reflecting on a period of immense transformation\, personally and globally. It is a love letter to e ducation. \n\nThe former Secretary of Labor might be famous for his publi c service\, best-selling books\, and viral social media posts\, but he alw ays considered teaching his true calling. Now\, after over 40 years and an extraordinary 40\,000 students\, Reich is preparing for his last class. O ver the course of the film\, Reich confronts the impending finality\, and his own aging\, with increasing candor\, introspection\, and\, ultimately\ , emotion. He displays a rawness of feeling he has never shared publicly b efore. Drawing on his lifetime in politics\, he uses his class\, “Wealth and Poverty\,” to offer us all a deeper look at why inequalities of inc ome and wealth have widened significantly since the late 1970s\, and why t his poses dangerous risks to our society.  \n\nOne thousand students fil l the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus\, the last class to r eceive Reich’s wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is.\n\nThe Last Class is also screening at 7 pm in the Film House on August 18.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/efa 903b6-6b25-4957-956d-22493d6d615f_2500x1500.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1820@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T190000 DTSTAMP:20250807T134810Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-last-class/ SUMMARY:The Last Class (2025) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nThe Last Class is also screening at 4:30 pm in the Film House on August 18.\n\nJoin us for a moderated conversation following the screenin g.\n\nFormer Secretary of Labor Robert Reich always considered teaching hi s true calling. As he faces his final class\, he wrestles with the dual re alities of his own aging and his students inheriting a world out of balanc e. \n\nThe Last Class is a nuanced and deeply personal portrait of master educator Robert Reich teaching his final course and reflecting on a perio d of immense transformation\, personally and globally. It is a love letter to education. \n\nThe former Secretary of Labor might be famous for his public service\, best-selling books\, and viral social media posts\, but h e always considered teaching his true calling. Now\, after over 40 years a nd an extraordinary 40\,000 students\, Reich is preparing for his last cla ss. Over the course of the film\, Reich confronts the impending finality\, and his own aging\, with increasing candor\, introspection\, and\, ultima tely\, emotion. He displays a rawness of feeling he has never shared publi cly before. Drawing on his lifetime in politics\, he uses his class\, “W ealth and Poverty\,” to offer us all a deeper look at why inequalities o f income and wealth have widened significantly since the late 1970s\, and why this poses dangerous risks to our society.  \n\nOne thousand student s fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus\, the last class to receive Reich’s wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/efa 903b6-6b25-4957-956d-22493d6d615f_2500x1500.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1813@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T200000 DTSTAMP:20250721T174824Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pee-wees-big-adventure/ SUMMARY:Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) DESCRIPTION:Flicks in the Park is presented by VTIFF and Burlington City Ar ts\nIs it overstating things to call Pee-wee’s Big Adventure one of the high-water marks of American comedic cinema? Well\, maybe\, but it’s ve ry\, very funny and has definitely achieved "comedy classic" status. When his beloved bicycle is stolen by his nemesis\, Francis Buxton (boo!)\, Pee -wee (Paul Rubens) goes on a cross-country trek to recover it\, taking in the usual sites (The Alamo\, the Cabazon Dinosaurs)\, and making new frien ds\, like Large Marge the trucker\, Simone the waitress\, and that mean-lo oking biker gang. This was the first film for both director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman.\nFlicks in the Park is a program of Summer in the City\, a collaboration between BCA and Love Burlington. Summer in the Ci ty 2025 is underwritten by the WaterWheel Foundation and the Pomerleau F amily Foundation. Presenting Sponsors: East Rise Credit Union and AARP. Supporting Sponsors: Lake Champlain Chocolates and City Market\, Onion River Co-op. Community Sponsors: American Flatbread Burlington Hearth a nd Eyes of the World. Media sponsors: WCAX TV and Seven Days. In-Kind Support: Chocolate Thunder Security.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pee wee.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:City Hall Park\, Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 05401\, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 0540 1\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=City Hall Park:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1809@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250822T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250822T160000 DTSTAMP:20250717T153603Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sorry-baby-2025/ SUMMARY:Sorry\, Baby (2025) DESCRIPTION:Writer-director Eva Victor's breakout Sundance sensation\, scoo ped up by the hip hitmakers at A24\, announces the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American independent cinema. The film follows Agnes (Eva Vict or)\, a young adjunct professor at their alma mater. Something bad happene d to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her\, at least.\n\nChr onicled in a handful of chapters\, we go backward and forward in time\, ex periencing their life as a grad student before it was shattered\, as well as their year's-long journey coming to terms with their trauma. All the wh ile\, they are navigating the uncertainty of life in academia and the circ le of friends and cohorts who drift apart as time passes.\n\nIf that all s ounds heavy\, you're right. But not so fast: Sorry\, Baby is far more upli fting\, offbeat\, and effortlessly laugh out loud funny than you would eve r expect. Its humor is both a natural extension of Victor's winning artist ic voice and a potent defense mechanism that deepens the themes of this se emingly auto-biographical journey. As Jacob Oller of The AV Club says\, "T hat a story about post-traumatic dissociation and recovery is this funny a nd charming is a minor miracle."\n\nSorry\, Baby is also playing at 7 pm i n the Film House on Friday\, August 22.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SOR RY-BABY_1.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1808@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250822T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250822T190000 DTSTAMP:20250717T153659Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sorry-baby/ SUMMARY:Sorry\, Baby (2025) DESCRIPTION:Writer-director Eva Victor's breakout Sundance sensation\, scoo ped up by the hip hitmakers at A24\, announces the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American independent cinema. The film follows Agnes (Eva Vict or)\, a young adjunct professor at their alma mater. Something bad happene d to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her\, at least.\n\nChr onicled in a handful of chapters\, we go backward and forward in time\, ex periencing their life as a grad student before it was shattered\, as well as their year's-long journey coming to terms with their trauma. All the wh ile\, they are navigating the uncertainty of life in academia and the circ le of friends and cohorts who drift apart as time passes.\n\nIf that all s ounds heavy\, you're right. But not so fast: Sorry\, Baby is far more upli fting\, offbeat\, and effortlessly laugh out loud funny than you would eve r expect. Its humor is both a natural extension of Victor's winning artist ic voice and a potent defense mechanism that deepens the themes of this se emingly auto-biographical journey. As Jacob Oller of The AV Club says\, "T hat a story about post-traumatic dissociation and recovery is this funny a nd charming is a minor miracle."\n\nSorry\, Baby is also playing at 4 pm i n the Film House on Friday\, August 22.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SOR RY-BABY_1.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1810@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250823T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250823T190000 DTSTAMP:20250715T160527Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/clips-conversations-madsen/ SUMMARY:Clips & Conversations: Angelo Madsen DESCRIPTION:Angelo Madsen\, an associate professor of Time-Based Media at t he University of Vermont\, is a multi-media artist whose films have been s creened around the world\, winning awards at many prestigious festivals. H is work has been recognized with both Guggenheim and United States Artist fellowships.\nMadsen describes his projects as spanning “documentary fil mmaking\, narrative cinema\, essay film\, media installation\, sound and m usic\, performance\, text\, and collective practices\,” discordantly jux taposing present-day footage with Super 8 home movies\, animation\, staged rituals\, and ethereal voice-overs.\nFor this event\, Madsen talks with J ohn Killacky about his career and shares clips from his work\, including N orth by Current\, broadcast on PBS’s POV series and screened with VTIFF\ , a new short on Babe’s Bar in Bethel\, and a preview of his newest docu mentary\, A Body to Live In\, about body modification maverick Fakir Musa far.\n\n\n[caption id="attachment_23388" align="alignnone" width="346"] An gelo Madsen\, associate professor of Time-Based Media at UVM[/caption]\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unn amed-3.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1814@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T200000 DTSTAMP:20250721T175655Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wonder-woman/ SUMMARY:Wonder Woman (2017) DESCRIPTION:Flicks in the Park is presented by VTIFF and Burlington City Ar ts\nBefore she was Wonder Woman\, she was Diana\, princess of the Amazons\ , trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island par adise\, she learns of a global conflict when an American pilot crashes on their shores. Diana leaves her home\, convinced she can stop the threat. F ighting alongside man in a war to end all wars\, Diana will discover her f ull powers… and her true destiny. A high-water mark of DC-Universe films \, this film made Gal Gadot a star.\nFlicks in the Park is a program of S ummer in the City\, a collaboration between BCA and Love Burlington. Summ er in the City 2025 is underwritten by the WaterWheel Foundation and the Pomerleau Family Foundation. Presenting Sponsors: East Rise Credit Union  and AARP. Supporting Sponsors: Lake Champlain Chocolates and City Ma rket\, Onion River Co-op. Community Sponsors: American Flatbread Burlingt on Hearth and Eyes of the World. Media sponsors: WCAX TV and Seven Da ys. In-Kind Support: Chocolate Thunder Security.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/won derwoman_16x9.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:City Hall Park\, Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 05401\, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Burlington\, VT\, VT\, 0540 1\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=City Hall Park:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1818@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250829T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250829T190000 DTSTAMP:20250825T211839Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown/ SUMMARY:Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nSummer Camp\n\nMelding the melodrama of Douglas Sirk (see: Augus t 9 screening) with the screwball farce of Bringing Up Baby\, Pedro Almod óvar’s eighth film was his international breakthrough\, the largest-gro ssing film in Spain ever at that point\, securing him a spot as one of the world’s great filmmakers.\n\nPepa (Carmen Maura) has a job doing voice- overs for Spanish-language versions of American films—she’s currently working on Johnny Guitar. When she gets news that her lover is leaving her \, she decides to end it all with a dosed batch of gazpacho. However\, eve nts—like\, all kinds of crazy\, insane\, chaotic events—conspire to pu sh her towards life. \n\nContinuing the auteur’s exploration of the fem ale psyche\, Women on the Verge found Almodóvar channeling Hollywood insp iration into his own unique vision\, arriving at the irreverent humor and vibrant visual sense that define his work today. As Pepa\, Carmen Maura (a frequent Almodóvar collaborator) delivers a performance for the ages. As one character admiringly says (and we echo)\, “That Pepa… she is real ly something!”\n\nColorfully conceived and photographed\, with an except ional ensemble cast that also includes Antonio Banderas and Rossy de Palma \, this film shows an artist in total control of his craft.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/WOM EN-ON-THE-VERGE._1-copy.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1819@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250830T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250830T190000 DTSTAMP:20250729T193328Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch/ SUMMARY:Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) DESCRIPTION:Rock 'n' Roll!\n\n"Don't you know me\, Kansas City? I'm the new Berlin Wall!"\n\nWith this trailblazing musical\, writer-director-star Jo hn Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their sign ature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its p rotagonist. \n\nRaised a boy in East Berlin\, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S.\, wh ere she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva\, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautif ul gender of one.” \n\nUnlike most high-concept rock films\, this one a ctually rocks. The film tells Hedwig’s story through her music\, an ecle ctic assortment of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask\, matc hing them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies\, animated interludes\, and moments of bracing emotional realism. \n\nThe f ilm was the hit of the 2001 Sundance Film Festival\, winning both Best Dir ector and the Audience Award for best film. Despite great reviews\, it far ed poorly at the box office (file under: Things America Just Wasn’t/Isn ’t Ready For)\, but has earned cult status as one of the great movies of the 21st century\, as well as high spots on lists for rock movies and LGB TQ+ films. \n\nA hard-charging song cycle and a tender character study\, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a tribute to the transcendent power of rock a nd roll.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2ad 82060feef56e2ef45603b22d74bab.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1832@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250903T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250903T160000 DTSTAMP:20250827T131658Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/highest-2-lowest-2025/ SUMMARY:Highest 2 Lowest (2025) DESCRIPTION:One of cinema's all-time actor-director collaborations\, Denzel Washington and Spike Lee\, reunite for the first time in nearly 20 years —and their fifth movie together overall—for an interpolation of the le gendary Akira Kurosawa's stone-cold classic noir kidnapping thriller High and Low (playing in The Screening Room on September 5)\, now transported t o the mean streets of modern day New York City. When a titan music mogul ( Denzel Washington)\, widely known as having the "best ears in the business \," is targeted with a ransom plot\, he is jammed up in a life-or-death mo ral dilemma.\n\nAs always\, Spike has his finger on the pulse\, setting th is crime story in the kinetic world of music industry movers and shakers a nd prominently featuring a number of high-profile pop-rap stars\, includin g A$AP Rocky\, Ice Spice\, and Princess Nokia\, alongside seasoned thespia ns like Jeffrey Wright and Wendell Pierce.\n\nJoin us for this special scr eening of Highest 2 Lowest in the Film House\, the only place playing Spik e's latest joint in our area.\n\nHighest 2 Lowest is also playing at 7 pm in the Film House on Wednesday\, September 3.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/H2L _Teaser_Thumb_YT_16x9_2_TXTLS.webp CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1831@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250903T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250903T190000 DTSTAMP:20250827T131554Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/highest-2-lowest/ SUMMARY:Highest 2 Lowest (2025) DESCRIPTION:One of cinema's all-time actor-director collaborations\, Denzel Washington and Spike Lee\, reunite for the first time in nearly 20 years —and their fifth movie together overall—for an interpolation of the le gendary Akira Kurosawa's stone-cold classic noir kidnapping thriller High and Low (playing in The Screening Room on September 5)\, now transported t o the mean streets of modern day New York City. When a titan music mogul ( Denzel Washington)\, widely known as having the "best ears in the business \," is targeted with a ransom plot\, he is jammed up in a life-or-death mo ral dilemma.\n\nAs always\, Spike has his finger on the pulse\, setting th is crime story in the kinetic world of music industry movers and shakers a nd prominently featuring a number of high-profile pop-rap stars\, includin g A$AP Rocky\, Ice Spice\, and Princess Nokia\, alongside seasoned thespia ns like Jeffrey Wright and Wendell Pierce.\n\nJoin us for this special scr eening of Highest 2 Lowest in the Film House\, the only place playing Spik e's latest joint in our area.\n\nHighest 2 Lowest is also playing at 4 pm in the Film House on Wednesday\, September 3.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/H2L _Teaser_Thumb_YT_16x9_2_TXTLS.webp CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1826@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250904T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250904T190000 DTSTAMP:20250822T174115Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/east-of-wall/ SUMMARY:East of Wall (2025) DESCRIPTION:Set in the Badlands of South Dakota\, East of Wall is an authen tic portrait of female resilience in the “New West\,” inspired and pla yed by the women and girls who live it. Tabatha\, a young\, rebellious ran cher\, who rescues and resells horses\, must make hard decisions to deal w ith her fractured family\, financial uncertainty of losing her ranch\, and unresolved grief\, all while providing refuge and the skills of the horse trade to a group of wayward neighborhood teens.\n\n“A stunning feature debut that captures the beauty and pain of the modern American West in int imate detail\,” said Harrison Richlin in IndieWire. “Tabatha Zimiga ma y be playing herself\, but she’s also giving an incredibly delicate\, nu anced performance that harkens to the work of the 1970s American cinema ic ons like Gena Rowlands\, Ellen Burstyn\, and Karen Black.”\n\nBeecroft t alked to NPR’s Scott Simon about the genesis of the project: “I was dr iving around the U.S.—this would have been maybe five and a half years a go at this point—and we were just trying to find stories\, faces we have n't really seen for maybe a short film… We were lost\, and we landed in a tiny town in South Dakota called Oelrichs and a woman there said\, if yo u want a really amazing story\, head east of Wall and find a woman named T abatha. And that's what I did. And I found Tabatha and her amazing group o f teenagers who live out there with her. And I lived with them for three y ears in order for me to learn everything I could about them before I even started filming this movie.”\n\nBrimming with authenticity\, Beecroft’ s auspicious docufiction debut immerses us in the triumphs and trials of t he Zimiga family while showcasing the beauty of the Badlands and the peopl e who call it home. Featuring star-making performances by Tabatha and daug hter Porshia Zimiga (already a TikTok star and rodeo queen)\, as well as a we-inspiring cinematography by Austin Shelton\, East of Wall is a revelato ry exploration of women who refuse to back down.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1-e 1755871340916.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1827@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T190000 DTSTAMP:20250905T193802Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/high-and-low/ SUMMARY:High and Low (1963) DESCRIPTION:In honor of Spike Lee’s latest effort\, Highest 2 Lowest\, we present the source material for that film: Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 master piece High &\; Low\, as well as Lee’s most iconic film\, Do the Right Thing.\n\nOne of Kurosawa’s greatest modern-dress tales\, High and Low (the literal translation of the Japanese title is “Heaven and Hell\,” but why quibble?)\, focuses on shoe company exec Toshirō Mifune (utterly magnificent\, as usual)\, who is in the midst of a high-stakes corporate t akeover when he gets word that his son has been kidnapped\, and a ransom i s expected. But all is not as it seems…\n\nAdapted from an Ed McBain 87t h Precinct novel—the only Kurosawa film to directly come from an America n source\, unless you count the uncredited Dashiell Hammett at the heart o f Yojimbo—Kurosawa gives us the ultimate kidnap movie\, replete with num erous classic set pieces (the money drop on the bullet train! The drug pas s in the dance hall!). \n\nThe first half of the film is confined to Mifu ne’s office\, packed with distraught family\, cynical advisers\, and sup er-cool detective Tatsuya Nakadai. Moral and ethical arguments rage until the second half\, which descends to street level\, as Mifune plays cat-and -mouse with the kidnapper. The New York Times calls it “One of the best detective thrillers ever filmed” and they’re not wrong. It’s also on e of Kurosawa’s greatest films and\, given that he’s The Best\, that ’s saying a lot.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/uX0 7AVP1vU6YCewFfSpTp8yzeUZYxSUfOdvr05bm.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1828@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250906T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250906T190000 DTSTAMP:20250822T145303Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/do-the-right-thing/ SUMMARY:Do the Right Thing (1989) DESCRIPTION:In honor of Spike Lee’s latest effort\, Highest 2 Lowest\, we present the source material for that film: Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 master piece High &\; Low\, as well as Lee’s most iconic film\, Do the Right Thing.\n\nJust in time for the end of summer\, we present one of the best summer movies ever. \n\nOne of the best American films of the past 50 ye ars\, Do the Right Thing confirmed Spike Lee as a filmmaker of peerless vi sion and passionate social engagement. Bolstered by Lee’s brilliant scri pt\, the dazzling cinematography of Ernest Dickerson\, and dynamic perform ances up and down the expansive cast\, Do the Right Thing remains a cultur al lightning rod and a landmark in American cinema. \n\nIt’s the hottes t day of the year in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood\, and pi zza delivery man Mookie (Spike Lee) is working for Sal (Danny Aiello)\, th e Italian-American owner of a pizzeria in the predominantly Black communit y. The residents of the neighborhood—including boombox-blasting Radio Ra heem (Bill Nunn)\, activist Buggin’ Out (Giancarlo Esposito)\, and Korea n shopkeeper Sonny (Steve Park)—coexist tenuously\, until a dispute over the pizzeria’s “Wall of Fame”—which showcases famous Italian-Amer icans\, but no Black celebrities—ignites a violent chain of events that ends in tragedy. \n\nFamously dissed by the Oscars\, Lee’s film got nom inations for its screenplay and Aiello’s supporting performance\, losing both\, but no nod for Best Picture or its searing cinematography. Even Pu blic Enemy’s rousing classic “Fight the Power\,” written specificall y for the film\, failed to get a Best Original Song nomination. And the bi ggest insult for Lee came when the Best Picture went to… Driving Miss Da isy. He was not a fan.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/dot herightthing.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1834@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T190000 DTSTAMP:20250910T125954Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/riefenstahl/ SUMMARY:Riefenstahl (2025) DESCRIPTION:"A damning and irrefutable portrait of the filmmaker... This i s a masterclass on how to reveal the truth about someone who spent their entire life denying it... Riefenstahl is a marvel." —The Daily Beast\n\n Filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century. Her films Triumph of the Wil l and Olympia are defined by their fascist aesthetics\, perfectly-staged b ody worship\, and the celebration of all that is “superior” and victor ious. But Riefenstahl—who first broke into the German film industry as a n actress—spent decades after the war denying her association with Nazi ideology\, and claiming ignorance of the Holocaust. How did she become the Reich's preeminent filmmaker if she was just a hired hand? \n\nRiefensta hl examines this question using never-before-seen documents from Leni Rief enstahl's estate\, including private films\, photos\, recordings\, and let ters\, uncovering fragments of her biography and placing them in an extend ed historical context. During her long life after the fall of Nazism\, she remained unapologetic\, managing to control and shape her legacy\; in per sonal documents\, she mourns her "murdered ideals." \n\nMeanwhile\, her w ork would experience a renaissance\, gaining esteem for its masterful tech nical skill. Today\, Riefenstahl's aesthetics are more present than ever. Is that also true for their message? In an era where fascism is on the ris e again\, fake news is prevalent\, and the meaning of political imagery is constantly dissected and debated\, Andres Veiel's mesmerizing new film sh ows that Leni Reifenstahl is more relevant than ever.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2_R iefenstahl_600-pix-max-widths-use-online_Riefenstahl_Hitler_Bayerische-Sta atsbibliothek_Bildarchiv.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1822@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T190000 DTSTAMP:20250919T200237Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/his-girl-friday/ SUMMARY:His Girl Friday (1940) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nMedia in the Movies: a journalism series presented by VTIFF and Seven Days in celebration of Seven Days' 30th anniversary\n\nIntroduced by Sasha Goldstein\, Seven Days deputy news editor\n\nDefinitely on the shor tlist for Funniest Movie to Ever Come out of Hollywood\, His Girl Friday r eached a pinnacle in screwball comedy that other films have approached but never bettered. Star reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosaldind Russell) is leavin g the news biz to get married\, but her ruthless editor (and ex-husband) W alter Burns (Cary Grant) isn’t having it. Hildy agrees to cover one more story—the execution of murderer Ear Williams—and the dominoes start f alling. \n\nIn a genre that put a premium on fast-paced\, wisecracking di alog\, no movie ever cracked wiser at a faster pace. The blistering dialog is both heavily stylized yet perfectly on point (clearly a huge influence on filmmakers like the Coen Brothers\, and\, well\, dozens of others). Sc riptwriter Charles Lederer ingeniously updated Ben Hecht’s 1928 play The Front Page\, recasting Hildy as a woman—originally written for a man\, film versions have seen Hildy played by Pat O’Brien and Jack Lemmon—wh ile the great Hawks pushes the pace like an out-of-control locomotive.\n\n Russell is fabulous as Hildy\, but Grant\, never funnier\, frequently stea ls the show as the conniving\, vicious\, amoral Burns.\n\nIn addition to b eing utterly hilarious\, His Girl Friday also has some things to say about the fourth estate. Balancing Hildy’s basic decency and quest for the tr uth with an otherwise pretty scandalous view of the newspaper world\, His Girl Friday manages to satirize journalistic practices while also upholdin g the institution.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/his girlfriday1940.206-scaled.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1829@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T190000 DTSTAMP:20250826T171603Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/withnail-and-i/ SUMMARY:Withnail and I (1987) DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Melo Grant\n\nProof that just because a movie is gloo my and bleak doesn’t mean it can’t be incredibly hilarious\, Withnail and I has earned its reputation as the ultimate cult British comedy. Bruce Robinson’s semi-autobiographical cinematic bender is a feast of delecta bly florid dialogue delivered with deadpan relish by stars Richard E. Gran t and Paul McGann as\, respectively\, Withnail and “I\,” a pair of per petually soused\, unemployed actors in 1960s London who\, desperate to esc ape their nightmarishly grimy flat\, embark on a hilariously misbegotten c ountry getaway beset by menacing locals\, bare cupboards\, and a randy unc le—all of which they may be able to withstand as long as they don’t ru n out of alcohol. \n\nRobinson’s dazzling script is one of cinema’s m ost eminently quotable—“I have of late\, but wherefore I know not\, lo st all mirth” pairs well with “I feel like a pig shat on my head”— but it’s the bittersweet evocation of a friendship gradually unraveling that gives this beloved end-of-youth tale its lasting poignancy.\n\nGrant\ , in particular\, shines as Withnail\, bringing hilarity to nearly every l ine he speaks and making the already-hilarious lines even funnier. Roger E bert dubbed Withnail “one of the iconic figures in modern films.” \n\ nMelo Grant (no relation to Richard E.) is widely known about town today a s the City Councilor for Burlington’s Central District\, but her VTIFF c onnection comes through being a major film buff who served as the film buy er for gone-and-much-lamented Waterfront Video. She’s been a fan of With nail since seeing it in its original release. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/aAO BZ6Pjb2DXjm3Itv8AAjWuN0Ymwls9BlDMZqsi.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1823@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T190000 DTSTAMP:20250926T190830Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/medium-cool/ SUMMARY:Medium Cool (1968) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nMedia in the Movies: a journalism series presented by VTIFF and Seven Days in celebration of Seven Days' 30th anniversary\n\nIntroduced by Cathy Resmer\, Seven Days deputy publisher\n\nIt’s 1968\, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval\, famed cinematograph er Haskell Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. Medium Cool\, his debut feature\, plunges us into the moment. \n\nWith i ts mix of fictional storytelling and documentary technique (cinema vérit é)\, this depiction of the working world and romantic life of a televisio n cameraman (Robert Forster) is a visceral cinematic snapshot of the era\, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. \n\nWith his background in documentaries\, Wexler was perfectly suited to the moment. A nd as a two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer who photographed such films as In the Heat of the Night\, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest\, and Mat ewan\, he clearly knows how to take a picture. \n\nAn inventive commentar y on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera\, Medium Cool is as pr escient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/aaa 64be1810da2fa17a79d2a2aed2cc6.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1830@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T190000 DTSTAMP:20250822T192535Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-boy-friend/ SUMMARY:The Boy Friend (1971) DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Syndi Zook\n\nKen Russell was having a tumultuous 197 1. His highly controversial film The Devils had been released to solid box office\, but met with critical brickbats and public protests over its exp licitly sexual content and anti-Catholic stance. He needed something simpl er\, so he took on the film version of Sandy Wilson’s 1953 feel-good mus ical\, The Boy Friend. \n\n“I did it to prove to people I'm not totally deranged\,” Russell said at the time. “I love the innocence and charm of musicals.”\n\nSyndi Zook\, the former longtime director of Lyric The ater\, believes that you too will love the innocence and charm of The Boy Friend. She’ll explain why when she introduces the film. \n\nA musical extravaganza set in the French Riviera\, the original London stage product ion of The Boy Friend was a huge hit\, running for more than 2\,000 perfor mances on the West End. A valentine to (and winking pastiche of) the early Rogers and Hart musicals\, it was a solid hit on Broadway\, too\, running for over a year (1954-55) and providing the Broadway debut for Julie Andr ews. \n\nRussell adds some meta to the formula\, creating the framing dev ice of a small-town theatrical company doing a show of The Boy Friend\, on ly to have the star (two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson) sprain her ankl e\, and being replaced by the assistant stage manager (supermodel Twiggy d oing fine work in her film debut)\, thereby giving us the show itself but also some backstage shenanigans. With Russell’s signature maximalism and spectacular costumes by Shirley Russell\, The Boy Friend creates a glorio usly over-the-top Art Deco extravaganza. Plus….Tommy Tune!\n\nThe film d oesn’t have a huge reputation in the U.S.\, in large part because the st udio heads at MGM lopped off 25 minutes of the film\, prompting Russell to state\, “A gorilla in boxing gloves wielding a pair of garden shears co uld have done a better job.” VTIFF will be showing the fully restored 13 7-minute version. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ima ge-w1280-3.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1835@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T180000 DTSTAMP:20250909T185519Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/silent-movie-day/ SUMMARY:Silent Movie Day: A Vermont Romance (1916) DESCRIPTION:Join us in Lumière Hall at Burlington Beer Company to celebrat e Silent Movie Day! Presenting A Vermont Romance\, the first film shot en tirely in Vermont\, recently restored by the Vermont Movie Archive Project and the Vermont Historical Society for its centennial.\n\nThis movie is a n extraordinary piece of Vermont folklore. It was commissioned by the Verm ont Progressive Party (affiliated with Theodore Roosevelt’s national Bul l Moose party) and its newspaper\, The Vermont Advance. Scenes were filmed in Burlington\, Grand Isle\, Newport\, St. Johnsbury\, White River Juncti on\, Rutland\, Chester and Bellows Falls. This fueled interest from theate r owners from all corners of the state to host screenings. The film is bot h a romance and a scenic tour of Vermont. It tells the tale of Dorothy\, a country girl who befriends a rich girl and two city gents who are out for a drive in the country. Upon the death of her father she loses the farm w here she lives and works. Almost penniless\, she moves to Burlington to fi nd work\, and her adventures begin.\n\nThe event also features a surprise silent shorts\, a talk about the history of the Lumière company’s facto ry by Hugo Martínez Cazón\, and live accompaniment from pianist Bob Merr ill. There will be light snacks and a cash bar.\n\nNo ticket required. Fir st come\, first served seating.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/mez zanine_424.webp CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1824@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T190000 DTSTAMP:20250819T184303Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/between-the-lines/ SUMMARY:Between the Lines (1977) DESCRIPTION:Media in the Movies: a journalism series presented by VTIFF and Seven Days in celebration of Seven Days' 30th anniversary\n\nIntroduced b y Dan Bolles\, Seven Days culture coeditor\n\nFrom director Joan Micklin S ilver\, featuring an all-star cast at the beginning of their careers\, Bet ween the Lines spotlights the offices of a Boston alternative newspaper\, The Back Bay Mainline\, where the staff members enjoy a positive and open- minded work environment. \n\nMusic critic Max (Jeff Goldblum) uses his in fluence to score dates\, while news reporter Harry (John Heard) is dating the lovely Abbie (Lindsay Crouse)\, the publication's lead photographer. H owever\, it seems as though their relatively carefree days are numbered wh en the owner of a major publishing company buys the paper.\n\nThe paper is supposedly based on Boston’s Phoenix\, where screenwriter Fred Barron w orked. Micklin Silver also did her time in the print world\, writing for T he Village Voice in New York. \n\nThis wasn’t Jeff Goldblum’s first r ole (it was\, in fact\, his ninth)\, but it was his first substantial part . The movie was the first gig for a number of actors\, including John Hear d (Cutter’s Way)\, Joe Morton (The Brother from Another Planet)\, and Ma rilu Henner (Perfect). \n\nThe Guardian called the film “a fond but not uncritical portrait of the disaffected staff at a formerly radical\, fict ional alt-weekly Boston newspaper\, from the street-corner hawker all the way up to accounts\, editorial and the much-despised incoming corporate bo ss...Silver’s sympathy for radicalism\, and her deft cutting between dif ferent pockets of action unfolding in the same space\, lend the film an Al tmanesque feel."\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ima ge-w1280-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1836@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T190000 DTSTAMP:20251003T191006Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/three-days-of-the-condor/ SUMMARY:Three Days of the Condor (1975) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nRemembering Robert Redford\n\nThe paranoid thriller was one of t he main cinematic themes of the 1970s\, so it only makes sense that the mo st iconic movie star of that era\, the late great Robert Redford\, took a crack at it. And the results are good. With frequent collaborator Sydney P ollack behind the camera\, Redford plays a bookish\, low-in-the-hierarchy CIA analyst who goes out for lunch one day and comes back to find everyone in his office murdered. So he goes on the run\, drawing bystander Faye Du naway into the conflict\, as well. Cliff Robertson and Max von Sydow join the fun. In addition to trimming three days off the source material—Jame s Grady’s bestseller Six Days of the Condor—the film changes location from Washington D.C. to a bustling New York City\, which is very much a ch aracter. This is the only move Redford made with Dunaway\, and the two ’ 70s icons are in excellent form. They’re in their primes\, too—the nex t year Dunaway would make Network\, while Redford would star in All the Pr esident’s Men. While those pictures might be better known\, Three Days o f the Condor is an outstanding example of a very ’70s brand of filmmakin g\, anchored by yet another fine performance from Redford.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Thr ee-Days-Of-The-Condor-web.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1911@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T183000 DTSTAMP:20250924T164206Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vtiff2025-sneak-preview/ SUMMARY:VTIFF 2025 Sneak Preview DESCRIPTION:VTIFF members get first access to tickets for this event. Becom e a member any time. \nThis year's Vermont International Film Festival— AKA the best 10 days of fall—is right around the corner. Join us on Octo ber 8 in the Film House at Main Street Landing for the unveiling of the 20 24 lineup\, our biggest yet\, with more buzzworthy cinema from around the world than ever before.\n\nWe'll host a reception in the Film House lobby beforehand with light bites courtesy of Santiago's Cuban Cuisine and a cas h bar from Foam/Deep City followed by the presentation of trailers and hig hlights for this year's festival films. You'll get the inside scoop regard ing special events\, visiting filmmakers\, VTIFF's 40th anniversary celebr ation\, and much more.\n\nIt's time to get excited for another amazing Ver mont International Film Festival. We can't wait to share what's in store.\ n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/VTI FF-2025-1920x1080-sneak-preview-scaled.png CATEGORIES:VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1825@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251010T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251010T190000 DTSTAMP:20250820T193350Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/black-box-diaries/ SUMMARY:Black Box Diaries (2024) DESCRIPTION:Media in the Movies: a journalism series presented by VTIFF and Seven Days in celebration of Seven Days' 30th anniversary\n\nIntroduced b y Derek Brouwer\, Seven Days news reporter\n\nIn this Oscar-nominated docu mentary\, Shiori Itō directs a film about her own sexual assault at the h ands of a politically connected friend of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\, and about the fallout from her very public accusation\, which rocked Japanese society and changed Japan’s antiquated sexual-assault laws. \n\nWithin days of going public\, Shiori was swept into the center of Japanese politi cs\, viewed by the right as a threat to the established order\, and hailed by the left for the same reason. Death threats\, cyberbullying\, and hate mail sent Shiori into a downward spiral. When she files a civil case\, th e accused rages all-out war against her. Determined not to set a bad examp le for other victims\, Shiori pushed forward with her case and published a book about her experience.\n\nDirected by herself with the most personal of material\, Black Box Diaries captures Shiori’s tumultuous\, heart-wre nching\, and ultimately triumphant journey\, going behind the headlines to reveal what it has been like to walk in her shoes. The documentary reveal s the personal toll of a society’s web of politics\, media\, and technol ogy on the humanity of its individuals. Being both victim and journalist i nvestigating her own case\, the documentary shows that what Shiori did was not only to create social change but ultimately to keep herself alive.\n\ n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/MV5 BM2Q0NzI1M2MtYzBhZi00ODBiLWJmZjUtOWI2NDJmOGE3ZGI1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXNvbG5vbXM@. _V1_.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1837@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T200000 DTSTAMP:20250923T133854Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jeremiah-johnson/ SUMMARY:Jeremiah Johnson (1972) DESCRIPTION:Remembering Robert Redford\n\nRobert Redford frequently mention ed this film as a favorite of his\, and it’s not hard to see why. Shot e ntirely on location in his adopted home state of Utah\, the film is a vale ntine to the rugged landscape and the people who try to live in concert wi th it. \n\nStarring Redford as the title character (but you knew that)\, the film follows him as he attempts to become a mountain man\, from neophy te to legend. Along the way he meets an eccentric trapper\, takes a wife a nd child\, deals with the U.S. Cavalry (boo)\, has encounters both good an d bad with Crow and Blackfeet warriors\, and learns to live as part of the land. \n\nOriginally intended as a Clint Eastwood movie directed by Sam Peckinpah (they did not get along\, which is not hard to imagine)\, Redfor d talked his frequent partner Sydney Pollack into directing\, and the movi e was a surprise hit\, earning great reviews and solid box office. \n\nEd iting took nearly eight months. Pollack explained in an interview: “It w as a film where you’d watch the dailies and everybody would fall asleep\ , because all you had were these big shots of a guy walking his horse thro ugh the snow… It’s a picture made out of rhythms and moods and wonderf ul performances.” \n\nWe agree with Sydney. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/jer emiah-johnson-1-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1881@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T190000 DTSTAMP:20251014T144822Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-fathers-shadow/ SUMMARY:MY FATHER’S SHADOW DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nAkinola Davies Jr.'s gorgeous debut shines a long-overdue spotli ght on Nollywood. My Father's Shadow is the first-ever Nigerian film offic ially selected at Cannes. Akinola wrote the film with his brother\, Wale\, and the two developed the story over more than a decade\, drawing inspira tion from memories of their father\, who died when they were young\, as we ll as their firsthand experience during the pivotal 1993 presidential elec tion. Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù gives a magnetic performance as Folarin\, an absent father who suddenly returns to his family’s remote home. Folarin takes his sons\, Aki and Remi (real-life siblings Godwin Chiemerie Egbo an d Chibuike Marvelous Egbo)\, to the city to collect overdue wages from his employer. On a single sweltering day in the heart of Lagos\, while the co untry nervously awaits the election results\, the two young boys try to ma ke sense of the whirlwind around them and the man they see before them. Du ring their long day in the city\, they reconnect with their father\, stop by his favorite haunts\, and get glimpses of the life he has built away fr om their rural home. But something is different about him\, and the dreaml ike imagery gives subtle clues about the movie’s mysteries. Davies cut h is teeth filming music videos and commercials and he injects a kinetic sen sibility into this magical realist tale\, bringing the bustling\, buzzing\ , anxious city from his childhood to life. "That’s Lagos in a nutshell\, ” says Davies. “It’s so chaotic\, but just magical at the same time. ” ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/my- fathers-shadow-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1906@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T120000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012245Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/walk-with-me/ SUMMARY:WALK WITH ME DESCRIPTION:The film also screens on Monday\, October 20 | 2 PM | SR\n\nThe October 18 screening is followed by a panel discussion about Alzheimer’ s resources in the Chittenden County area\, featuring representatives from the organizations as well as director Heidi Levitt.\n\nIn 2019\, art dire ctor Charlie Hess was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. In this te nder and clear-eyed film\, his wife\, acclaimed casting director Heidi Lev itt\, chronicles the metamorphosis of their marriage over the next four ye ars as she becomes his caretaker\, learning to adapt to an ever-changing r eality. The two have disparate reactions to the initial diagnosis—Charli e is accepting\; Heidi is full of questions—but they come together as th eir roles and priorities change\, and they try to learn the best way to li ve the lives they have. Lovingly crafted\, the film is a delicately put-to gether portrait of love and resilience\, as well as a reminder that life i s about the people around you. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/wal k-with-me.jpeg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1850@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T121500 DTSTAMP:20251014T180147Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/promised-sky/ SUMMARY:PROMISED SKY DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Wednesday\, October 22 | 4:30 PM | BB\n\nThree women\, three stories of flight from various corners of Africa. They find refuge in one building on the outskirts of Tunis\, where they form a fragi le alliance and a silent bond of solidarity. But when an abandoned migrant child who has survived a shipwreck appears in their lives\, it changes no t only the atmosphere in their home but also the inner balance of each of them… Shown in official selection at Un Certain Regard in Cannes\, direc tor Erige Sehiri’s film takes a sensitive look at the everyday lives of people united by loss\, uprootedness\, and the need to find their place an d their purpose in a new reality. Highly empathetic yet with a good dose o f realism\, it forces us to consider questions of community and personal r esponsibility and to ask ourselves when it is time to take one’s future into one’s own hands. ~SM\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/pro mised-sky-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1885@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T143000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012230Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/peter-hujars-day/ SUMMARY:PETER HUJAR’S DAY DESCRIPTION:What did you do yesterday? On December 19\, 1974\, writer Linda Rosenkrantz posed this question to her good friend Peter Hujar\, a since- celebrated photographer and noted New York personality. Working in the “ nonfiction fiction” mode she pioneered in her novel Talk\, this taped co nversation was meant to be just one sliver in an anthology of chats detail ing the daily routines of cutting-edge Downtown artists. Instead\, the len gthy transcript sat on the shelf and was published on its own some 40 year s later. Director Ira Sachs’ (Passages\, Love Is Strange) evocative rest aging of the day-long conversation takes the simple setup and makes it fee l marvelously romantic. Of course\, most of us don’t spend our days chas ing down checks from Vogue\, partying with Glenn O’Brien\, or hobnobbing with Allen Ginsberg. This chamber piece stars Ben Whishaw as the eponymou s artist\, and he gives a transformative performance\, making reams of mea ndering dialogue and all of Hujar’s musings and half-thoughts feel spont aneous and lived. And Rebecca Hall\, as Rosenkrantz\, plays off him beauti fully as a quietly receptive sounding board\, gently shaping the dialogue in real time. Sachs films this exchange with uncommon warmth and sensitivi ty\, always finding fresh angles on their conversation and making this dre am of New York immersive and surprisingly cinematic. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/pet er-hujars-day-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1839@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T144500 DTSTAMP:20251014T180712Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cutting-through-rocks/ SUMMARY:CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS DESCRIPTION:Also screens Thursday\, October 23 | 1:45 PM | BB\n\nSara Shahv erdi is a badass. In her remote Iranian village\, she sticks out like a so re thumb in her signature leather jacket and blue jeans. She lives on her own\, which is enough to raise eyebrows in the deeply conservative communi ty\, and she loves riding her motorcycle through town. As the first electe d councilwoman of her village\, Sara is a force of nature who aims to brea k long-held patriarchal traditions\, end child marriages\, and empower tee nage girls to make their own choices in life (while teaching them to ride) . Co-directors Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni tell Sara's saga cleverly: The first half seems to take place in an idyllic alternate reality where a fearless trailblazer assumes office in a landslide victory and has the m andate to make sweeping changes while spreading compassion\, self-determin ation\, and rah-rah feminism\, laying waste to the pathetic men in her way . All the while\, you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop. Many powerf ul cinematic stories\, both fiction and nonfiction\, have shown the appall ing status of women in Iran\, but Cutting Through Rocks is unique and hope ful: The documentary doesn’t focus on a rebel fighting against oppressio n from the outside\; incredibly\, it depicts an indomitable woman actually seizing power within a system designed to keep her down. ~OO\n\n\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cut ting-through-rocks.webp CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1880@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T163000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012625Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/miroirs-no-3/ SUMMARY:MIROIRS NO. 3 DESCRIPTION:Like a man possessed\, German filmmaker Christian Petzold—the auteur behind such immaculate movies as Phoenix\, Barbara\, and Transit —just keeps remaking Vertigo. He seems intent on reconfiguring Hitchcock 's puzzle-box until he solves the eternal mysteries of cinema. His latest cracked fairy tale\, Miroirs No. 3\, continues his fruitful partnership wi th his middle-period muse\, Paula Beer\, star of Afire and Undine\, who br illiantly inhabits his uncanny environments and breathes life into his bri ttle tableaux. On a weekend trip to the countryside\, a young woman miracu lously survives a freak car crash. Physically unhurt but strangely detache d\, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the wreck. As she exten ds her stay indefinitely\, she forms a mysterious bond with the woman\, as well as her husband and son\, as if to complete this fractured family. Wi th this bare-bones setup\, Petzold embraces his dueling appetites for high art and low\, creating a psychodrama that plays like pulp Robert Bresson. How thrilling it is to watch a master filmmaker pare back their style to its essential elements\, riff on past works (Yella is top of mind)\, and r uminate on the images that haunt them. Are there scenes of women riding bi cycles through the countryside? Absolutely. Is the film shot through with noirish intrigue? Certainly\, Preminger’s Laura being most pronounced. D oes the story turn on a tense\, revealing piano recital? Count on it. ~OO\ n\nUnder the motto “AMONG FRIENDS (UNTER FREUNDEN)\,” the Goethe-Insti tut USA is launching a campaign to strengthen transatlantic ties. The goal is to expand existing networks and create new hubs for sustainable exchan ge between German and American societies. You can find more information ab out the initiative on the AMONG FRIENDS website.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/mir oirs-no-3-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1864@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T164500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012549Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/four-mothers/ SUMMARY:FOUR MOTHERS DESCRIPTION:Also screens at Tuesday\, October 21 | 2:30 PM | SR\, and Satur day\, October 25 | 2 PM | BB\n\nAspiring YA author Edward\, an avatar for people-pleasers everywhere\, agrees to look after the ailing mothers of so me friends who are going on an unexpected vacation. Already caring for his own mother\, he finds himself stuck with four elderly women under his roo f. He is a writer who stays well within his comfort zone\, constantly usin g his mother as an excuse for not experiencing life. Forced to deal with t he demands and criticisms of three additional mother figures\, he navigate s his own anxieties about his rather unexciting life. Full of Irish charm\ , Four Mothers finds a nice balance between big laughs and poignant family drama. Though rather light and undemanding\, this film is funny and charm ing enough to justify simply sitting back to enjoy the bumbling efforts of Edward\, whose exasperation is played at a perfect pitch by James McArdle . ~AK ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/fou r-mothers-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1912@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T191500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013454Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/renoir/ SUMMARY:Renoir DESCRIPTION:Film also screens on Wednesday\, October 22 | 1:30 PM | BB\n\nI n her elegant and thoughtful sophomore feature\, Renoir\, director Chie Ha yakawa casts a glance backward to 1987 to tell the story of 11-year-old Fu ki (fabulous newcomer Yui Suzuki). An introverted student with a vibrant i nternal life\, Fuki has the usual stresses of a child her age\, compounded by her hospital-bound father’s serious illness.  Largely left to her o wn devices\, she engages in a series of odd adventures in and around Tokyo . Hayakawa does a masterful job of eliciting character through action rath er than dialogue\, and the film is a subtle visual feast. Hayakawa made th e film in order to return to her own childhood\, when her father was dying \, and his gift to her – a print of a Renoir painting – gives the film its appropriately poetic title.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ren oir.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1871@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T191500 DTSTAMP:20251014T145120Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/it-was-just-an-accident/ SUMMARY:IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nIn 2022\, filmmaker Jafar Panahi—one of Iran’s greatest livi ng artists—was arrested and detained for seven months. The arrest was co nnected to his prior conviction for “propaganda against the Islamic Repu blic\,” which resulted in a six-year prison sentence and a 20 year filmm aking ban. We all know that Panahi found ingenious ways to flout the ban o ver the years\, creating incredible works brimming with his indomitable pe rsonality (including two former VTIFF openers\, This Is Not a Film and Tax i). In It Was Just an Accident\, his Palme d’Or-winning triumph\, he’s as piercingly political as ever while also embracing white-knuckle genre filmmaking. Shot in secret without permits—often inside cars and without lights to avoid detection—Panahi’s economical filmmaking makes this t hriller all the more taut in its telling. In this morality play\, a group of former prisoners—a brilliant cross-section of Iranian society—think they have captured the intelligence officer who tortured them while incar cerated. But none of them is absolutely certain that it’s him\, so they try to prove their suspicions beyond a shadow of a doubt. It’s easy to s ee Panahi’s own experience and trauma reflected in this parable\, but wh at’s remarkable is that his revenge fantasy is animated not by rage but by the group’s enduring humanity. Panahi is even able to maintain his si gnature sense of humor as the temperature rises. Fellow filmmaker and agit ator Mohammad Rasoulof called Panahi’s Palme win a “powerful blow to t he machinery of repression in the Islamic Republic.” How often can you a scribe such weighty significance to those golden laurels? ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/it- was-just-an-accident.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1882@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T213000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012327Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/nirvanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie/ SUMMARY:NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE DESCRIPTION:It’s 2008 and BFFs Matt (Matt Johnson\, BlackBerry) and Jay ( Jay McCarrol) have only one goal: for their ludicrously-named band\, Nirva nna\, to play a gig at local venue the Rivoli in Toronto. Flash forward 17 years. It’s 2025 and BFFs Matt and Jay\, older but none the wiser\, hav e only one goal: for their ludicrously-named band\, still Nirvanna\, to pl ay a show at the Rivoli\, which is going strong. What started out as a cul t web series eventually became a Spike Jonze-produced TV series. Now\, as the duo level up to the silver screen\, they are raising the stakes. Addin g a good-natured Canadian spirit to the buddy comedy tradition of Abbott a nd Costello et al.\, Johnson and McCarrol go for broke in Nirvanna the Mov ie. It feels like every loonie they could scare up was put in service of a preposterous gag. In their undying pursuit of that coveted gig\, Matt hat ches his most ambitious publicity stunt yet. Let’s just say it involves the CN Tower and leave it at that. When it goes sideways\, he decides to t urn their RV into a time machine—à la Back to the Future—so they can return to 2008 and stack the deck in their favor. With a little help from the novelty beverage Orbitz\, it works! Like the crackerjack comedy it’s flagrantly infringing\, Nirvanna the Movie reflects a culture that is des perately trying to wind back the clock. But underneath its slacker satire is a sweet portrait of lifelong friends having a blast together. That’s the power of love. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/nir vanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1861@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T120000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012307Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dj-ahmet/ SUMMARY:DJ AHMET DESCRIPTION:Living in a remote North Macedonian village\, teenage Ahmet (Ar if Jakup) has issues: his mother has just died\, his father doesn’t unde rstand him\, he’s being pulled from school to tend the family’s sheep herd full-time\, his adorable young brother (Agush Agushev) refuses to spe ak\, and the girl he’s crushing on\, Aya (Dora Akan Zlatanova)\, is gett ing married to someone else. Thank god for music. When he accidentally stu mbles on a late-night rave with his herd\, Ahmet becomes a viral sensation . This good-hearted comedy-drama mines gold from the clash of conservative traditions and modern ways\, and watching Ahmet and Aya connect through d ance and techno is a beautiful reminder of the power of music. With utterl y winning performances from all involved\, a rousing but believable conclu sion\, a great soundtrack\, and a scene-stealing pink sheep\, DJ Ahmet pla ys the hits. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DJ- Ahmet-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1844@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T121500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012651Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/khartoum/ SUMMARY:KHARTOUM DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Wednesday\, October 22 | 7:15 PM | BB\n\nOrigin ally planned as a slice-of-life documentary about the everyday joys and st ruggles of five very different citizens of Sudan’s largest city\, Kharto um turned into a completely different film with the advent of civil war in 2023\, which decimated the city. It became a story of how you put your li fe back together after war tears it apart\, and how you mourn a beloved ci ty that can never be anything close to what it was before. The individual stories of these five Sudanese navigating a nightmarish “new normal” a re all deeply affecting\, and taken together\, they pack a real emotional wallop. The five directors—each director filmed a single story from begi nning to end—handle the material beautifully\, even incorporating AI to recreate parts of their old lives. (Surprisingly\, it works very well.) Ev en more surprisingly\, the film is not a downer. These five stories—with subjects ranging from a pair of 10-year-old brothers to an elderly man— have traumatic moments\, certainly\, but the overall message is one of res ilience and hope in the face of adversity. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/kha rtoum-2-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1856@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T140000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012633Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-body-to-live-in/ SUMMARY:A BODY TO LIVE IN DESCRIPTION:The screening is followed by a Q&\;A with director Angelo Ma dsen.\n\nA pioneer of the modern primitive movement and a “Gender Flex ” icon\, Fakir Musafar pioneered and redefined body modification through practices such as piercing\, branding\, corseting\, and suspension\, crea ting a radically self-expressive art that used the human body as its canva s. A photographer\, performance artist\, and ritualist\, Musafar mobilized an entire generation of queer BDSM and performance art communities. Some of his performances include walking while wearing a device that presses ma ny small skewers into his upper body\, or hanging in mid-air suspended by hooks in his chest. Filmmaker Angelo Madsen (North by Current\, One Night At Babes) weaves together archival material\, audio recordings of Musafar himself\, and reflections from figures like Annie Sprinkle and Ron Athey t o contextualize Musafar’s work as an exploration of expression\, resista nce\, and ritual. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/a-b ody-to-live-in-2.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1899@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T141500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012642Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-things-you-kill/ SUMMARY:THE THINGS YOU KILL DESCRIPTION:The film also screens on Thursday\, October 23 | 4 PM | BB\n\nA wild\, shape-shifting tale of how the quest for vengeance can fundamental ly mar our humanity\, Alireza Khatami’s The Things You Kill is a gritty\ , surprising\, and thoroughly entertaining look at a man who traps himself in a cycle of violence. That man is Ali (Ekin Koc)\, a college professor who can’t stop thinking that maybe his estranged father had something to do with his mother’s death. Unwisely\, he acts on that impulse\, enlist ing a gardener (Erkan Kolçak Köstendil) to assist him. In his third feat ure\, Khatami (Terrestrial Voices) orchestrates a gradual descent\, peelin g back long-held secrets to reveal horrors both personal and cultural. Win ner of the World Cinema Directing Award at this year’s Sundance Film Fes tival\, The Things You Kill is a bold\, confident story that uses thriller and horror conventions to disguise its social critique. Beautifully acted and set against often-empty landscapes\, it’s a cinematic thrill ride. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/the -things-you-kill.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1841@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T163000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012558Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/heads-or-fails/ SUMMARY:HEADS OR FAILS DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Friday\, October 24 | 4:30 PM | BB\n\nHeads or Fails is an ode to chaos theory and to gross-out comedy. The Guit brothers ’—Lenny and Harpo—sophomore effort\, after the cult Sundance hit Mot her Schmuckers\, is a wonderful sugar rush of a movie. Full of pizzazz and lo-fi visual wit—not to mention a dose of Run Lola Run\, maybe even a d ash of Uncut Gems\, too—this cubic zirconia gem is easy to underestimate but is low-key one of the year’s funniest and most kinetic comedies. Sh ot in the Guits’ gleefully garish digital style\, with an oversaturated color palette that tastes like melted Jolly Ranchers\, the film follows Ar mande Pigeon\, self-proclaimed Queen of Shenanigans. Love her or hate her (for what it's worth\, I find her impishness endlessly endearing)\, there' s no denying that she’s a brilliant comic creation from actress Maria Ca valier-Bazan. Armande doesn’t have a job and sleeps on a dirty fold-up c ot in the living room of an old woman. She owes months of back rent and is on the verge of getting kicked out of this squalid flat\, so she needs so me fast cash. After exhausting all the friends she can scam\, she teams up with recent hook-up Ronnie to get into a high-stakes card game. When dumb luck results in a huge windfall\, she sets her sights on bigger and bigge r scores\, trying to take this winning streak as far as it can possibly go . ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hea ds-or-fails-2-scaled.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1883@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T164500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012607Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/omaha/ SUMMARY:OMAHA DESCRIPTION:At the crack of dawn\, Ella and Charlie’s dad rouses them out of bed and tells them to pack their bags as quickly as possible. They has tily gather their most precious belongings\, and their dog\, Rex\, and loa d up their station wagon. A police officer stops them just before they lea ve and asks the dad a few concerning questions. They give their failing ve hicle a push start then the three of them set off for Omaha\, with no expl anation. Screenwriter Robert Machoian and first-time director Cole Webley tell their intimate story carefully and sensitively\, shifting between the perspectives of the kids\, who are trying to make sense of this sudden ro ad trip and have fun along the way\, and their father\, who is guarding hi s secrets while keeping things as normal as possible. Shaded by a delicate score from Christopher Bear of Grizzly Bear\, much of the drama is told i n the tight confines of the family station wagon\, and there are plenty of moments of joy—a detour to fly kites at the Bonneville Salt Flats is a highlight—en route to a devastating destination. Omaha is anchored by a stellar performance by John Magaro (Past Lives\, First Cow)\, an outstandi ng character actor in a rare lead performance. He’s utterly heartbreakin g as a man just barely keeping it together. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/oma ha-1.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1886@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T190000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012540Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-poet/ SUMMARY:A POET DESCRIPTION:Oscar Restrepo is an instantly indelible character\, a wonderfu lly pathetic creature prone to combustible fits of self-pity\, mouth-breat hing quasi-Napoleon Dynamite blankness\, rapid-fire soliloquies\, and genu ine pathos. Ubeimar Rios’ gloriously rumpled\, totally unselfconscious p erformance anchors this bitter-pill tragicomedy\, sneakily one of the year ’s funniest movies\, that could go toe-to-toe with prime Baumbach. Oscar ’s obsession with poetry has brought him no glory in life\, and what lit tle praise he received is far in the rearview. As a last resort\, he is be nt on indulging himself until he achieves notoriety as a tragic figure lik e his misanthrope idols. But when his family pushes him into an ill-fated substitute teaching gig\, he meets a young student with a raw talent for p rose and sees a way back into everyone’s good graces. A Poet turns the t ried-and-true prodigy-mentor tale on its ear\, veering away from sentiment ality at every turn. And if you’re worried that a movie about poetry wil l be a dry affair\, think again: with a soulful jazz score\, throwback fil m stock\, restless handheld camerawork\, and smash cuts galore\, A Poet ha s flash and wit to spare. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/a-p oet.jpeg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1838@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T191500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012616Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/battleship-potemkin/ SUMMARY:BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN DESCRIPTION:100th Anniversary Screening\n\nThis milestone birthday for Serg ei Eisenstein’s revolutionary action epic also celebrates the birth of o ne of the fundamental building blocks of cinema. With this silent masterpi ece\, which was commissioned to mark the 20th anniversary of the first Rus sian revolution\, Eisenstein innovated and perfected the art of montage. I n his\, and his Soviet compatriots’\, estimation—confirmed by a centur y of cinematic evidence thereafter—when you collide two contrasting shot s\, you generate a synthesis of meaning. String these shots together in a sequence\, and you have a symphony of ideological resonance. Potemkin feat ures at least one of the most famous scenes in all of movie history: the m assacre on the Odessa steps. The clash of motion and mayhem has inspired ( i.e.\, been stolen by) everyone from Francis Bacon to Terry Gilliam to Bri an De Palma. As one of the first films to show the scope of what cinema ca n achieve\, Battleship Potemkin has been a fixture in the upper reaches of Sight &\; Sound’s poll of the Greatest Films of All Time since it wa s first published in 1952. But beyond its academic significance\, the raw power of Eisenstein’s image-making (a baby carriage in peril! a woman st ruck in the eye during the melee!) still packs a punch. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/bat tleship-potemkin-1.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1868@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T130000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012941Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hedda/ SUMMARY:HEDDA DESCRIPTION:There are parties that you just know will end badly. But you wo uldn’t miss them for the world. Hedda\, a vibrant update/re-telling of I bsen’s classic Hedda Gabler by director Nia DaCosta (Candyman)\, uses su ch a party as its centerpiece. Newly wed and deeply dissatisfied\, thrill- seeking Hedda (Tessa Thompson) encourages her weak husband to throw a part y they can’t afford to help him get a professorship that will ease their financial problems. One of the attendees is none other than Hedda’s for mer flame\, Eileen Lovborg (VTIFF favorite Nina Hoss\; it may go without s aying that in Ibsen’s original play\, Lovborg was a man). Sparks fly\, t he orchestra plays\, guns are fired\, papers are burned\, tears are shed\, hearts are broken…it’s quite a party. DaCosta infuses Hedda with a ne w\, feminist energy\, transplanting Ibsen’s 19th-century Norwegian play to mid-20th-century England. The occasional winking anachronism—the orch estra’s spirited take on a Björk song\, for example—only adds to the giddy atmosphere. Thompson is quite fabulous in the difficult title role\, creating dimensionality and sympathy for a woman who is… pretty vicious \, really. With sets and costumes that are lavish to the point of near-abs urdity\, Hedda is opulent to behold. Filmed in glorious golden hues by Sea n Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave)\, the film looks bathed in soft candlelight\, even as its message is harsh and cutting. But lots of fun\, too. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hed da-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1901@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T131500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012923Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/timestamp/ SUMMARY:TIMESTAMP DESCRIPTION:The film also screens on Thursday\, October 23 | 7 PM | BB\n\nT he war in Ukraine has been well documented as an ongoing atrocity in a num ber of brilliant recent films (the Oscar-winning 20 Days in Mariupol\, Por celain War\, Viktor\, The Invasion\, etc.)\, but Kateryna Gornostai’s fi lm is something different. Using no narration or talking heads or any voic e-over commentary\, she looks at the everyday lives of teachers and studen ts from different corners of Ukraine in a time of war (i.e.\, now). The st udents sing patriotic songs about a war they’re too young to understand\ , and they attend classes in rooms that are little more than rubble. Rough ly over the course of a school year\, the students’ attitudes change—e arly air raids tend to produce panic\, but by year’s end they’re just another part of the day—in ways that are both inspiring and heartbreakin g. The teachers emerge as quiet heroes\, doing whatever they can to see th at these students are able to experience something like childhood. As crit ic Guy Lodge said\, “Gornostai has achieved something grand\, cutting th rough the noise and partisanship to put us in the shoes of a brave\, batte red populace.” ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/tim estamp-2.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1907@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T140000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012517Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/walk-with-me-2/ SUMMARY:WALK WITH ME DESCRIPTION:The film also screens on Saturday\, October 18 | 12 PM | FH\n\n The October 18 screening is followed by a panel discussion about Alzheimer ’s resources in the Chittenden County area\, featuring representatives f rom the organizations as well as director Heidi Levitt.\n\nIn 2019\, art d irector Charlie Hess was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. In this tender and clear-eyed film\, his wife\, acclaimed casting director Heidi Levitt\, chronicles the metamorphosis of their marriage over the next four years as she becomes his caretaker\, learning to adapt to an ever-changin g reality. The two have disparate reactions to the initial diagnosis—Cha rlie is accepting\; Heidi is full of questions—but they come together as their roles and priorities change\, and they try to learn the best way to live the lives they have. Lovingly crafted\, the film is a delicately put -together portrait of love and resilience\, as well as a reminder that lif e is about the people around you. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/wal k-with-me.jpeg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1898@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T153000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012507Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sound-of-falling/ SUMMARY:SOUND OF FALLING DESCRIPTION:Told in four braided stories\, each set in a different time per iod in the same residence in the Altmark region\, Sound of Falling traces a lineage of girls coming of age in Germany across a godforsaken century. Each character—Alma in the early 20th century\, Erika in the 1940s\, Ang elika in the 1980s\, and Lenka in the present—endures hardships specific to her historical moment\, but all their experiences echo through time\, reflected in the eyes of the women who came before them and those who come after. And each perseveres through small acts of rebellion while nurturin g secret desires. With a look inspired by photographer Francesca Woodman\, Sound of Falling’s baroque tableaux are rich with texture and cloaked i n deep shadows. Occasionally\, the characters catch us watching and meet o ur gaze\, complicating our presence and giving the film a potent hauntolog ical essence. Each chapter is poignant and beautifully conceived\, but it ’s the quantum entanglement between the timelines that makes the film re markable\, tapping into the psychic residue passed down through generation s that is so central to 20th-century German culture and cinema. After winn ing the Jury Prize at Cannes\, Sound of Falling announces Mascha Schilinsk i's arrival at the upper echelon of the European art house scene. ~OO\n\nU nder the motto “AMONG FRIENDS (UNTER FREUNDEN)\,” the Goethe-Institut USA is launching a campaign to strengthen transatlantic ties. The goal is to expand existing networks and create new hubs for sustainable exchange b etween German and American societies. You can find more information about the initiative on the AMONG FRIENDS website.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/sou nd-of-falling-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1846@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T160000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012933Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-librarians/ SUMMARY:THE LIBRARIANS DESCRIPTION:The film also screens on Friday\, October 24  |  1:45 PM  |   BB\n\nThe Friday\, October 24 screening is followed by a panel discussi on and Q&\;A featuring local and regional librarians.\n\nIn these divis ive times\, school librarians suddenly find themselves on the front lines of the culture wars. In some states\, they can face prison sentences for s helving certain books deemed "pornographic" by state legislatures—like\, say\, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. In Texas\, for instance\ , the Krause List has targeted 850 books focused on race and LGBTQIA+ stor ies\, and triggered sweeping book bans across the U.S. Rather than being t rusted arbiters of knowledge\, librarians are regularly demonized and cast as the enemy by a well-organized conservative resistance. In the film\, w e watch librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board m eetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of extremism fueling the censorship efforts\, and their own efforts to fight back. Despite facing h arassment\, threats\, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work\, they ke ep pushing for the freedom to read and learn. ~SM\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/the -librarians.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1874@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T190000 DTSTAMP:20251014T180821Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-little-sister/ SUMMARY:THE LITTLE SISTER DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Queer Palm and Best Actress awards at this year ’s Cannes Film Festival\, Hafsia Herzi’s The Little Sister is a tale a bout a young woman working to reconcile her identity and her family’s wo rldview. Fatima (Nadia Melitti) is the youngest of three adult children in a loving but conservative French-Algerian household. At home\, she’s a dutiful daughter\, but out in the social world of Paris\, another side of Fatima comes to the fore. Beautifully observed by writer-director Hafsia H erzi\, and anchored by the fantastic\, star-making\, and award-winning per formance from Melitti\, The Little Sister goes beyond the standard coming- of-age tropes to deliver a powerful story about self-discovery and its con flicts with family and religion—although\, in a refreshing twist here\, the film seems to suggest that it might just be possible to reconcile the two on occasion. The Little Sister also features one of the steamiest\, mo st collar-tugging kisses seen on film in recent years (in this reviewer’ s opinion\, at least). ~SM\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/lit tle-sister.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1842@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T191500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012527Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/home-is-the-ocean/ SUMMARY:HOME IS THE OCEAN DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Saturday\, October 25 | 4:15 PM | BB\n\nFilmmak er Livia Vonaesch spent seven years at sea with the ever-growing Swiss fam ily Schwörers\, but it’s hard to imagine how they made space for her on their crowded vessel. The parents\, Dario and Sabine\, set sail 25 years ago to conduct field research in the world’s most remote regions and ins pire young people around the globe to save our planet. Along the way\, the ir six children were born\, each in a different corner of the world. Vonae sch films this like the adventure tale that it is\, capturing the majesty and unpredictability of nature as well as the joys and thrills of life at sea. But what sets Home Is the Ocean apart is her eye for the contradictio ns at the heart of their little collective. For all the excitement of vent uring out into the infinity of the ocean\, and the wonderful intimacy of a loving family supporting each other on their journeys\, it can also be te nse\, isolating\, and claustrophobic when land disappears over the horizon . They spend 24 hours a day together in 20 square meters of living space. And their search for boundless freedom has its limits\; a damaging storm f orces them to reconsider their future excursions just as the children star t to discover that there are other ways to live outside their floating hom e. Though their lifestyle may be unconventional\, the challenges the famil y faces\, and the way they pull together in difficult times\, is deeply re latable and heartening. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hom e-is-the-ocean-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1888@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T131500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012456Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/resurrection/ SUMMARY:RESURRECTION DESCRIPTION:Who among us isn’t moved by a love letter to capital-C Cinema ? Told in six wildly different chapters—from a silent-era monster movie to a shadowy atomic-age noir to a supernatural parable to a story about an unlikely pair of schemers to a punk-rock vampire story\, plus a wraparoun d story with the great Shu Qi—the film is a feast for the senses. The ma in story is glorious gobbledygook: In a post-apocalyptic future\, a woman' s consciousness falls into an eternal time zone where she attempts to revi ve an android by telling endless stories. Making sense of its premise hard ly matters\, because it’s really just an excuse for Bi to have fantastic fun with our suspended disbelief. It’s impossible not to get caught up in the ecstasy of his filmmaking\, to marvel at his incredible mastery of so many styles and genres as he celebrates the miracle of movies over the span of a century. His ambition and daring continues to scale up with each new project. The highs of this omnibus are exceptionally high because of the sheer technical brilliance on display\, culminating in a staggering si ngle-shot finale that surpasses Bi’s audacious hour-long oner in Long Da y's Journey into Night. As New York Times critic Manohla Dargis succinctly summarized\, this is a “cinephile's delight.” ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/res urrection.jpeg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1852@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T134500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012847Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/put-your-soul-in-your-hand-and-walk/ SUMMARY:PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Sunday\, October 26 | 1:45 PM | BB\n\nScreenlif e movies are typically the terrain of low-budget horror\, but Sepideh Fars i’s heartbreaking documentary seizes on the style to do something entire ly different and far more rewarding. Over the course of a year\, she corre sponded regularly with 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hasso na\, who lived in Gaza\, via FaceTime. These two women\, separated by thou sands of miles\, collaborate to amplify the plight of a people living thro ugh war crimes every day. Fatma holds the center as a courageous young ide alist enduring an unfathomable situation. Over the course of the movie\, t he war takes a toll on her spirit\, but her hope\, resilience\, and ambiti ons never fade. With shades of Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie\, Farsi rec ords their phone calls using a separate mobile device\, so instead of stat ic talking heads\, she is constantly reframing the compositions\, catching glimpses of her home and various hotels\, and capturing the dust and stai ns on the screen with Fatma’s beaming face. The layers of mediation emph asize our physical and emotional detachment from the crisis\, as Farsi imb ues her own guilt and helplessness into the very format of the movie. But even through all the pixelation and hitchy connections\, Fatma’s megawat t smile and incandescent personality still light up the screen. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/put -your-soul-on-your-hand-and-walk-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1865@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T143000 DTSTAMP:20251014T160011Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/four-mothers-2/ SUMMARY:FOUR MOTHERS DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nAdditional screenings:\nSaturday\, October 19 | 4:45 PM | BB\nSa turday\, October 25 | 2 PM | BB\n\nAspiring YA author Edward\, an avatar f or people-pleasers everywhere\, agrees to look after the ailing mothers of some friends who are going on an unexpected vacation. Already caring for his own mother\, he finds himself stuck with four elderly women under his roof. He is a writer who stays well within his comfort zone\, constantly u sing his mother as an excuse for not experiencing life. Forced to deal wit h the demands and criticisms of three additional mother figures\, he navig ates his own anxieties about his rather unexciting life. Full of Irish cha rm\, Four Mothers finds a nice balance between big laughs and poignant fam ily drama. Though rather light and undemanding\, this film is funny and ch arming enough to justify simply sitting back to enjoy the bumbling efforts of Edward\, whose exasperation is played at a perfect pitch by James McAr dle. ~AK ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/fou r-mothers-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1897@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T160000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012834Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/so-long-a-letter/ SUMMARY:SO LONG A LETTER DESCRIPTION:Ramatoulaye\, headmistress of a primary school in Dakar and the mother of seven children\, has been married to Modou for 30 years and is shocked when he decides to take a second wife\, 20-year-old Binetou. A mer ciless battle between tradition and modernity ensues\, contrasting very di fferent views of women’s roles in contemporary African society\, as Rama toulaye struggles to maintain her identity and dignity in the face of this betrayal. The debut feature film by Senegalese screenwriter and documenta rian Angèle Diabang Brener is drawn from the acclaimed 1979 novel by Sene galese writer Mariama Bâ. “So Long a Letter explores the tensions betwe en Ramatoulaye’s feminist values and her religion\, which is often used to justify the mistreatment of women\,” director Brener said in an inter view. “There is a lot of misinterpretation and misappropriation of Islam ic scripture that blinds many to the inherent sexism that justifies polyga my. It’s up to a new generation of women to carry a different message fo rward.” ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/so- long-a-letter-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1895@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T163000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012857Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/snow-leopard-sisters/ SUMMARY:SNOW LEOPARD SISTERS DESCRIPTION:The film also screens on Saturday\, October 25 | 7:15 PM | BB\n \nThe Tuesday\, October 21 screening is followed by a Q&\;A with co-dir ector Ben Ayers via Zoom from Tibet.\n\nA story of nature and nurture set in the breathtaking Dolpo region of Nepal\, Snow Leopard Sisters offers a touching feminist perspective on wildlife preservation. The film follows t wo women\, Tshiring Lhamu Lama and Tenzin Bhuti Gurung\, as they work towa rd saving the dwindling population of snow leopards while navigating their own personal conflicts. Told entirely through the women’s narration\, t he film offers an honest insight into their experiences as women on a ques t traditionally reserved for men. For Tshiring\, it’s a calling to save these leopards. For Tenzin\, it’s more complicated—snow leopards decim ated her family’s goat herd\, and she has accepted the apprenticeship mo stly as a way to delay the fixed marriage her family seems intent on forci ng her into. Dazzlingly photographed\, the film brings the truly awe-inspi ring environs of the Himalayas to the screen in glorious fashion. The brea thtaking setting—and the cinematography that makes it feel so alive—mu st be seen to be believed. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/sno w-leopard-sisters-2.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1903@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T190000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012914Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-useful-ghost/ SUMMARY:A USEFUL GHOST DESCRIPTION:The film also screens on Sunday\, October 26 | 4 PM | BB\n\nTha i filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s debut feature has some serious issues on its mind: impersonal corporations\, opportunistic bureaucrats\, indifferent urban developers\, and atrocities swept under the rug. But he is having way too much fun indulging every flight of fancy to present any of this in a serious manner. Exhibit A: the main character\, Nat\, the epo nymous specter\, is styled to look exactly like Woody Woodpecker. But that ’s just the tip of the iceberg. Other choice gags include absurdist fact ory signs\, foul-mouthed monks\, a Slinky used as an electroshock device\, and one of the best action sequences of the year: an all-out brawl betwee n a vacuum cleaner and a refrigerator! A Useful Ghost is a cockeyed\, surp risingly touching romance told through high-concept comedy\, magical reali sm\, and lo-fi science fiction. When a man’s appliance starts behaving s trangely\, a mysterious repairman shows up at his apartment and informs hi m that this consumer product possession is not an isolated incident. He pr oceeds to recount the tragic love story of March and Nat\, whose spirit re turned as a vacuum cleaner to protect her husband from the dust particles that took her life. But as word of this phenomenon spreads\, a number of i nterested parties want to exploit the couple’s unique predicament. A Use ful Ghost is Thailand’s entry for Best International Feature Film at thi s year’s Academy Awards. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/a-u seful-ghost.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1894@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T191500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012904Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sirat/ SUMMARY:SIRĀT DESCRIPTION:Sometimes it’s best to go into a movie completely cold. So fe el free to stop reading now. Suffice it to say that Sirāt is an experienc e. The elevator pitch could be “The Wages of Fear meets Burning Man\,” but that hardly does justice to this heady journey into the heart of dark ness. Stunningly photographed on Super 16mm in the awe-inspiring Rambla de Barrachina in Spain\, the film has a sense of scale and a raw power that demands to be seen on a big screen while surrounded by an audience. Sirāt features not one but two of the most jaw-dropping moments in recent film memory that are sure to send shock waves through the theater. The film won the prestigious Jury Prize (and the Palm Dog for canines Pipa and Lupita) at Cannes this year. What starts out as the story of a man\, accompanied by his young son\, looking for his estranged and presumed missing daughter \, shifts gears at a decisive moment. They join a group of damaged ravers searching for the next party in the Moroccan desert. As they head for an u nknown destination somewhere along the border with Mauritania\, the convoy stays vigilant to avoid detection by local armed forces. Vague radio repo rts indicate that WWIII has started. Kangding Ray’s hypnotic ambient-tra nce soundtrack draws you deeper and deeper beyond the point of no return. And Laxe sustains and modulates the tension masterfully until it inevitabl y snaps. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/sir at.jpeg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1878@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T124500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012826Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/magellan/ SUMMARY:MAGELLAN DESCRIPTION:Filipino director Lav Diaz has made some of the longest-ever na rrative films. In the world of slow cinema aficionados\, he’s a god—a master minimalist-maximalist storyteller who uses extreme length to unrave l complex social issues tracing back to his archipelago homeland. Between this year’s restoration of his first epic\, the excellent Y2K Jersey Cit y crime drama Batang West Side\, and the Cannes premiere of this sumptuous \, instant classic historical drama\, Diaz’s crossover moment is finally here. Magellan is certainly the most accessible film he’s made\, but Di az’s artistry is undiminished. He has crafted an epic anti-epic for the ages. Gael García Bernal plays the doomed explorer and gives a brilliant performance in a film that refuses to showcase its marquee star. He is oft en silent and reactive\, obscured by shadows or shot at a distance\, but h is descent is as crystal clear as the Pacific waters. Diaz conjures a prof oundly sensorial experience akin to Terrence Malick\, eschewing a score in favor of the hypnotic rhythms of jungle canopies\, lapping waves\, and cr eaking galleons. This is a corrective\, yes—a Filipino artist taking sto ck of this epoch of brutal colonialism—but it’s also the work of a sup remely confident filmmaker equally capable of conjuring breathtaking beaut y and ugliness. Magellan takes its place in the lineage of psychedelic con quests from Aguirre to Zama. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/mag ellan-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1913@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T133000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013505Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/renoir-2/ SUMMARY:Renoir DESCRIPTION:Film also screens on Saturday\, October 18 | 7:15 PM | BB\n\nIn her elegant and thoughtful sophomore feature\, Renoir\, director Chie Hay akawa casts a glance backward to 1987 to tell the story of 11-year-old Fuk i (fabulous newcomer Yui Suzuki). An introverted student with a vibrant in ternal life\, Fuki has the usual stresses of a child her age\, compounded by her hospital-bound father’s serious illness.  Largely left to her ow n devices\, she engages in a series of odd adventures in and around Tokyo. Hayakawa does a masterful job of eliciting character through action rathe r than dialogue\, and the film is a subtle visual feast. Hayakawa made the film in order to return to her own childhood\, when her father was dying\ , and his gift to her – a print of a Renoir painting – gives the film its appropriately poetic title.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ren oir.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1884@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T160000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012741Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/orwell-225/ SUMMARY:ORWELL: 2+2=5 DESCRIPTION:Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck\ , the director behind the blockbuster James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Y our Negro\, takes on the life and philosophies of visionary author George Orwell in the expansive and alarming Orwell: 2+2=5. Peck does incredible w ork transporting Orwell’s words and ideas to our present moment\, where the spread of misinformation\, the “newspeak" Orwell foretold\, has acce lerated exponentially\, amplifying authoritarian talking points in the bli nk of an eye. Every day our surveillance state looks more and more like Ai rstrip One\, and Peck is sounding the alarm. Much of the film is drawn dir ectly from Orwell’s personal diary\, read in voice-over by actor Damian Lewis (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood\, Homeland)\, particularly entries from the period where he was diligently writing his final masterpiece\, N ineteen Eighty-Four\, as well as his final days in hospital. Peck zeroes i n on Orwell the man\, showing how his conflicted feelings about his homela nd\, and his various stations throughout his life\, informed a fiercely so cialist worldview. From that center\, Peck pulls in an incredible range of clips and reference points\, drawing widespread connections and unfurling a lineage of wannabe dictators\, up to and including Trump. All of it sho ws just how relevant Orwell’s words and ideas remain\, and how urgent ou r current situation is. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/orw ell-scaled.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1851@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T163000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012749Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/promised-sky-2/ SUMMARY:PROMISED SKY DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Saturday\, October 18 | 12:15 PM | BB\n\nThree women\, three stories of flight from various corners of Africa. They find refuge in one building on the outskirts of Tunis\, where they form a fragi le alliance and a silent bond of solidarity. But when an abandoned migrant child who has survived a shipwreck appears in their lives\, it changes no t only the atmosphere in their home but also the inner balance of each of them… Shown in official selection at Un Certain Regard in Cannes\, direc tor Erige Sehiri’s film takes a sensitive look at the everyday lives of people united by loss\, uprootedness\, and the need to find their place an d their purpose in a new reality. Highly empathetic yet with a good dose o f realism\, it forces us to consider questions of community and personal r esponsibility and to ask ourselves when it is time to take one’s future into one’s own hands. ~SM\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/pro mised-sky-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1833@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T190000 DTSTAMP:20251022T134939Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/female-trouble/ SUMMARY:"Female Trouble" with Director John Waters In Person with a Live Co mmentary DESCRIPTION:This event is sold out. Please check back closer to the event d ate in case more tickets become available.\nThe great John Waters is comin g to VTIFF! We’re thrilled to present his outrageous trash-classic Femal e Trouble\, which just happens to be the director’s favorite film starri ng his larger-than-life muse Divine. But this is no ordinary screening\; i t’s a one-night-only performance as well! John Waters joins us in person in the theater to provide live commentary throughout the film\, regaling the audience with his invaluable insights and tangy humor as he watches al ong.\nDedicated to Manson Family member Charles “Tex” Watson\, who Wat ers visited behind bars\, Female Trouble is one of the most outlandish Chr istmas movies ever committed to celluloid. Waters wrote\, directed\, produ ced\, and co-edited the film (he was also lyricist for the title song\, su ng by Divine over Cookie Thomas' “Black Velvet Soul”)\, reassembling h is Dreamlanders (including David Lochary in his final film role) to capita lize on the infamy of his all-time cult-provocation Pink Flamingos. Divine takes the button-pushing ethos “crime is beauty” as a personal challe nge\, raging through Female Trouble with unfathomable abandon. We first me et fame monster Dawn Davenport as a nightmarish teenager hell-bent on gett ing cha-cha heels for Christmas. When her parents drop the ball\, her fury knows no bounds\, leading her down a decades-long path of destruction and decadence that can only end in the electric chair. Glamor has never been more grotesque than it is in Waters’ oddly ambitious 16mm love letter to Hollywood melodramas. As The New Yorker’s Richard Brody said\, "Waters smashes the bowdlerizing codes of Hollywood morality… the movie’s theo retical import pales alongside its giddy\, gory\, grungy\, ludicrously exa lted delights."\nJohn Waters has written and directed sixteen movies\, inc luding Pink Flamingos\, Female Trouble\, Polyester\, Hairspray\, Cry Baby\ , Serial Mom\, and A Dirty Shame. Both Pink Flamingos and Hairspray have b een added to the U.S. Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. He is the author of ten books\, including Carsick\, a memoir about his cross-co untry adventures hitchhiking\, and his first novel\, Liarmouth: A Feel Bad Romance. One of pop-culture’s most beloved personalities\, he has appea red as himself in many movies and TV shows\, and has performed\, exhibited his photography\, and presented his annual Christmas show at colleges\, m useums\, film festivals\, galleries\, and comedy clubs around the world.\n Tickets for this event include the screening of Female Trouble with live c ommentary and post-screening remarks. A special VIP event\, John Waters’ Group Therapy\, with an exclusive Q&\;A and photo-op with the filmmake r\, is available as well by selecting the VIP ticket option at checkout.\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/jw- female-trouble-1.png CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1845@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T191500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013309Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/khartoum-2/ SUMMARY:KHARTOUM DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Sunday\, October 19 | 12:15 PM | BB\n\nOriginal ly planned as a slice-of-life documentary about the everyday joys and stru ggles of five very different citizens of Sudan’s largest city\, Khartoum turned into a completely different film with the advent of civil war in 2 023\, which decimated the city. It became a story of how you put your life back together after war tears it apart\, and how you mourn a beloved city that can never be anything close to what it was before. The individual st ories of these five Sudanese navigating a nightmarish “new normal” are all deeply affecting\, and taken together\, they pack a real emotional wa llop. The five directors—each director filmed a single story from beginn ing to end—handle the material beautifully\, even incorporating AI to re create parts of their old lives. (Surprisingly\, it works very well.) Even more surprisingly\, the film is not a downer. These five stories—with s ubjects ranging from a pair of 10-year-old brothers to an elderly man—ha ve traumatic moments\, certainly\, but the overall message is one of resil ience and hope in the face of adversity. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/kha rtoum-2-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1908@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T131500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013344Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/yes/ SUMMARY:YES! DESCRIPTION:Israeli enfant terrible Nadav Lapid mashes the world’s hottes t button with his latest agitprop satire. He was already headed in a more defeatist direction with his last film\, Cannes Jury Prize winner Ahed’s Knee\, but Yes! takes his cynicism even further. Lapid was in Europe deve loping the latest exploits of his avatar Y. (now embodied by Ariel Bronz) when the events of October 7 motivated him to furiously rework the film en tirely. The result is a paean to self-annihilation where Lapid wrestles wi th the sins of his homeland. Even though it’s drawing inspiration from P asolini\, Yes! refuses to be a somber screed\; instead\, it’s a demented bacchanalia. The film follows Y. and Yasmin\, partners in life and art\, as they give over their bodies and souls to the militaristic ruling class to make ends meet. “Submission is happiness\,” imparts Y. to his infan t son\, and sometimes that requires literal bootlicking. As the pair try t o find freedom and salvation in reckless hedonism—saying “yes” to ev ery opportunity for sex\, drugs\, and depravity—they sink deeper into su bjugation. When Y. is commissioned to compose a song of nationalist propag anda—an “anthem for the victory generation”—all he can do is compl y. So he sets off to the Hill of Freedom overlooking Gaza to find inspirat ion. As the whole world is trying to find nuanced ways to discuss the atro cities in Palestine\, Lapid is screaming into the wind. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/yes .jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1840@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T134500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012759Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cutting-through-rocks-2/ SUMMARY:CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS DESCRIPTION:Also screens Saturday\, October 18 | 2:45 PM | BB\n\nSara Shahv erdi is a badass. In her remote Iranian village\, she sticks out like a so re thumb in her signature leather jacket and blue jeans. She lives on her own\, which is enough to raise eyebrows in the deeply conservative communi ty\, and she loves riding her motorcycle through town. As the first electe d councilwoman of her village\, Sara is a force of nature who aims to brea k long-held patriarchal traditions\, end child marriages\, and empower tee nage girls to make their own choices in life (while teaching them to ride) . Co-directors Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni tell Sara's saga cleverly: The first half seems to take place in an idyllic alternate reality where a fearless trailblazer assumes office in a landslide victory and has the m andate to make sweeping changes while spreading compassion\, self-determin ation\, and rah-rah feminism\, laying waste to the pathetic men in her way . All the while\, you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop. Many powerf ul cinematic stories\, both fiction and nonfiction\, have shown the appall ing status of women in Iran\, but Cutting Through Rocks is unique and hope ful: The documentary doesn’t focus on a rebel fighting against oppressio n from the outside\; incredibly\, it depicts an indomitable woman actually seizing power within a system designed to keep her down. ~OO\n\n\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cut ting-through-rocks.webp CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1900@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T160000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013259Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-things-you-kill-2/ SUMMARY:THE THINGS YOU KILL DESCRIPTION:The film also screens on Sunday\, October 19 | 2:15 PM | BB\n\n A wild\, shape-shifting tale of how the quest for vengeance can fundamenta lly mar our humanity\, Alireza Khatami’s The Things You Kill is a gritty \, surprising\, and thoroughly entertaining look at a man who traps himsel f in a cycle of violence. That man is Ali (Ekin Koc)\, a college professor who can’t stop thinking that maybe his estranged father had something t o do with his mother’s death. Unwisely\, he acts on that impulse\, enlis ting a gardener (Erkan Kolçak Köstendil) to assist him. In his third fea ture\, Khatami (Terrestrial Voices) orchestrates a gradual descent\, peeli ng back long-held secrets to reveal horrors both personal and cultural. Wi nner of the World Cinema Directing Award at this year’s Sundance Film Fe stival\, The Things You Kill is a bold\, confident story that uses thrille r and horror conventions to disguise its social critique. Beautifully acte d and set against often-empty landscapes\, it’s a cinematic thrill ride. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/the -things-you-kill.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1909@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T161500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013328Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/young-mothers/ SUMMARY:YOUNG MOTHERS DESCRIPTION:Cannes darlings Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes (two-time Palme d ’Or winners for Rosetta and L’Enfant) picked up more accolades this ye ar with Young Mothers\, winning Best Screenplay at the festival. Their lat est deftly threads the needle between social realism and melodrama\, weavi ng together the stories of five girls living temporarily in a shelter for young and expecting mothers in Liège\, Belgium. At this refuge\, they rec eive counseling\, assistance with daily activities\, and the skills to car e for themselves and their infants independently from the patient women wh o staff the facility. From this center\, their stories branch out\, bringi ng in people and stories from their fragile support systems. All the young actors are astonishing\, each authentic and devastating in their own way\ , radiating interior lives that are both overactive and undeveloped. With a light touch\, the film draws out the ways in which their stories interse ct\, how the choices of their parents affected them\, how the life-changin g decisions they are making now might ripple into the next generation\, an d how disenfranchisement\, addiction\, abuse\, and poverty tear at the soc ial fabric. Young Mothers has a cumulative power that represents the Darde nnes’ filmmaking at its clearest and most empathetic. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/you ng-mothers-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1902@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T190000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012817Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/timestamp-2/ SUMMARY:TIMESTAMP DESCRIPTION:The film also screens on Monday\, October 20 | 1:15 PM | BB\n\n The war in Ukraine has been well documented as an ongoing atrocity in a nu mber of brilliant recent films (the Oscar-winning 20 Days in Mariupol\, Po rcelain War\, Viktor\, The Invasion\, etc.)\, but Kateryna Gornostai’s f ilm is something different. Using no narration or talking heads or any voi ce-over commentary\, she looks at the everyday lives of teachers and stude nts from different corners of Ukraine in a time of war (i.e.\, now). The s tudents sing patriotic songs about a war they’re too young to understand \, and they attend classes in rooms that are little more than rubble. Roug hly over the course of a school year\, the students’ attitudes change— early air raids tend to produce panic\, but by year’s end they’re just another part of the day—in ways that are both inspiring and heartbreaki ng. The teachers emerge as quiet heroes\, doing whatever they can to see t hat these students are able to experience something like childhood. As cri tic Guy Lodge said\, “Gornostai has achieved something grand\, cutting t hrough the noise and partisanship to put us in the shoes of a brave\, batt ered populace.” ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/tim estamp-2.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1855@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T191500 DTSTAMP:20251014T145039Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/blue-moon/ SUMMARY:BLUE MOON DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nIt’s the triumphant opening night of Rodgers and Hammerstein ’s Oklahoma!\, and in the bar next door\, Richard Rodgers’ old partner Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) is talking and drinking (not in that order)\, h is verbal wizardry just barely concealing his consuming desperation. Holdi ng court with a bartender (Bobby Cannavale) and a pianist\, Hart happily o ffers his withering assessment of the show he calls “Oklahoma\, exclamat ion point.” Once the after-party arrives\, Hart’s rapier wit and dubio us sincerity keep everyone uncomfortable\, including Rodgers (Andrew Scott ) and the current object of Hart’s affections\, the 18-year-old Elizabet h (Margaret Qualley). Directed by Richard Linklakter (Boyhood\, Dazed and Confused)\, this slice of chamber-cinema is elevated by Robert Kaplow’s witty\, literary script\, its creative use of the single set\, and most es pecially\, a bravura performance from Hawke\, who’s never been better. S cott goes toe-to-toe with a performance that earned him the Silver Bear fo r Best Supporting Performance at the Berlin Film Festival. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/blu e-moon.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1876@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T200000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013354Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/made-here-film-festival-2025-favorites/ SUMMARY:MADE HERE FILM FESTIVAL\, 2025 FAVORITES DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Saturday\, October 25 | 4:45 PM | SR\n\nVTIFF c elebrates its regional spring festival\, offering six favorite short films from our 2025 edition\, focusing on Vermont and Quebec\, presented in par tnership with Vermont Public. In Chantal Caron’s ravishing dance piece\, Somber Tides\, two avian creatures battle the elements. In Alexandre Isab elle’s À toi les oreilles\, townsfolk prepare to celebrate the village anniversary with a grand parade\, but our hero Étienne is attempting the impossible. Meredith Holch’s Brother Bird tells three tales of loved one s who visit from the afterlife\, told through tissue paper animation. Samu el LaPointe’s witty We Could Be Nemeses focuses on a lovelorn supervilla in who falls for a headstrong superhero\, then sets out on a crime spree t o capture his heart. Virgil Ratelle’s tender\, mildly voyeuristic Summer Love eavesdrops on various couples before they go for a swim. And Alexia Roc’s Three Screaming Vaginas offers a triptych of candid short stories that reveal the challenges and splendors of the vaginal experience. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Mad eHereFilmFreewaySquare.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1867@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T213000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013317Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fucktoys/ SUMMARY:FUCKTOYS DESCRIPTION:Annapurna Sriram grew up in Nashville but her Vermont connectio ns run deep. She was born in Burlington and spent much of her childhood he re. Sriram and some key crew members even hunkered down in Burlington duri ng the pandemic and hammered out much of the pre-production for Fucktoys r ight here. So Fucktoys may take place in the Deep South\, in the uncouth u nderbelly of the fictional Trashtown—all humid industrial landscapes and pastel cotton candy skies—but a piece of its heart lives in the Green M ountain State. In this reimagining of the Fool's journey from the Major Ar cana of the Tarot\, Sriram plays AP\, a sex-worker who finds out she is he xed. She and bruiser BFF Danni set out to cleanse her aura and hustle some quick cash along the way. Sriram valiantly throws herself into the middle of this crackling 16mm fever dream and looks fabulous in all her hats. Bo th in front of and behind the camera\, she’s a winning presence and a ga me comedienne\, and she makes the film kinetic and sticky. Fucktoys has ea rned instant comparisons to John Waters\, and this candy-coated melodrama also recalls early Pedro Almodóvar\, plus it owes a hell of a lot to the vibrant sauciness of Anna Biller. But this is Sriram’s show through and through\; her personality jumps off the screen\, and everything is of a pi ece with her glossy-seedy vision. From the moment Big Freedia shows up in the opening scene\, deep in the bowels of the bayou\, it’s clear that Fu cktoys is a cult classic in the making. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/fuc ktoys-scaled.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1872@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T120000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012806Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kontinental-25/ SUMMARY:KONTINENTAL ’25 DESCRIPTION:Radu Jude made two movies about vampires this year: his anarchi c Spirit Halloween epic Dracula\, where he reclaims and defiles a foundati onal myth of his homeland\, and Kontinental ’25\, a brilliant\, bone-dry satire in which a government functionary feeds on the sympathy of everyon e within earshot. Ostensibly inspired by Roberto Rossellini’s neorealist classic Europe ’51\, Jude’s film starts out following the last day of a man living on the margins who is about to be thrown out of the maintena nce room where he’s squatting. When the bailiff assigned to his case dis covers his body\, she is performatively horrified. In true Judian fashion\ , the movie shifts gears into a bold and biting comedy about the twisted p ower of delusion. The case worker\, Orsolya (Eszter Tompa)\, is intent on making the man’s death all about her as she repeats the events inconsist ently to a number of barely interested parties\, much to our cringy amusem ent. Jude’s ever-expanding repertory of fearless actors chomp into the s cenario with gusto (special shout-out to his newly-minted motormouthed mus e Adonis Tanța). Following on the heels of acclaimed provocations Bad Luc k Banging (or Loony Porn) and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the W orld\, Kontinental ’25 is another unsparing work of late-capitalism sati re from cinema’s premier absurdist. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/kon tinental-25-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1847@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T134500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013236Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-librarians-2/ SUMMARY:THE LIBRARIANS DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Monday\, October 20 | 4:00 PM | BB\n\nThe Frida y\, October 24 screening is followed by a panel discussion and Q&\;A fe aturing local and regional librarians.\n\nIn these divisive times\, school librarians suddenly find themselves on the front lines of the culture war s. In some states\, they can face prison sentences for shelving certain bo oks deemed "pornographic" by state legislatures—like\, say\, Margaret At wood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. In Texas\, for instance\, the Krause List has targeted 850 books focused on race and LGBTQIA+ stories\, and triggere d sweeping book bans across the U.S. Rather than being trusted arbiters of knowledge\, librarians are regularly demonized and cast as the enemy by a well-organized conservative resistance. In the film\, we watch librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of extremism fueling the censorship efforts \, and their own efforts to fight back. Despite facing harassment\, threat s\, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work\, they keep pushing for the freedom to read and learn. ~SM\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/the -librarians.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1857@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T141500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013246Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/by-design/ SUMMARY:BY DESIGN DESCRIPTION:A woman (Juliette Lewis) somehow sends her consciousness into a coveted vintage chair\, and is surprised to find that people like her bet ter as a chair. Meanwhile\, her friends tend to her now-inert body\, assum ing that she’s just just giving them the silent treatment.\n\nA highly u nconventional comedy from Amanda Kramer (Please Baby Please)\, By Design m ay not be for everyone\, but those who like their comedy a bit off-kilter and abstract will discover a treasure. Extravagantly unconcerned with real ism\, By Design is beautiful to look at\, with its highly stylized interio rs\, expensive clothes\, and oddly flat tones. Big kudos to production des igner Grace Surnow for the hyper-realistic/unrealistic look of it all\, ai ded and abetted by art director Angelica Vascuez. Kramer likes to cast wom en whom Hollywood seems to have left behind (Please Baby Please brought De mi Moore back into the fold prior to The Substance)\, and she scores big h ere\, getting great work from Lewis\, as well as from Melanie Griffith\, S amantha Mathis\, Robin Tunney\, Betty Buckley. Oh\, and Udo Kier’s here\ , too\, oddly enough. Ultimately\, By Design has a lot to say about the au thenticity of our daily interactions and the validity of an unexamined exi stence\, but… it really is a nice chair. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/by- design-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1887@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T161500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013337Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/reedland/ SUMMARY:REEDLAND DESCRIPTION:A movie that gets this far under your skin is a rare thing inde ed. In director Sven Bresser’s atmospheric debut\, a spectral thriller s et in Weerribben-Wieden\, deep in the Dutch countryside\, a solitary farme r (real-life reed cutter Gerrit Knobbe) discovers the lifeless body of a g irl on his land. Overcome by an ambiguous sense of guilt\, he takes it upo n himself to root out the killer and make sense of the evil encroaching ar ound him—and possibly within him. Reedland’s masterful sound design is hypnotic and surreal\, recalling the elemental menace and supernatural wh ispers of Kaneto Shindō’s folk-horror masterpiece Onibaba. The uncanny sensation created by wind passing through fields of dried-out reeds feels like sinking into an abyss. There are shots and scenes in the film that yo u can’t really account for or solve—including a middle school pageant that drifts into beguiling unreality. Latent violence and repressed desire s are sublimated into the air\, bringing to mind Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s cine ma of soul-stained contagion. Everything has a sinister charge that builds and builds without release. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ree dland.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1914@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T163000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012419Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/heads-or-fails-2/ SUMMARY:HEADS OR FAILS DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Sunday\, October 19 | 4:30 PM | BB\n\nHeads or Fails is an ode to chaos theory and to gross-out comedy. The Guit brothers ’—Lenny and Harpo—sophomore effort\, after the cult Sundance hit Mot her Schmuckers\, is a wonderful sugar rush of a movie. Full of pizzazz and lo-fi visual wit—not to mention a dose of Run Lola Run\, maybe even a d ash of Uncut Gems\, too—this cubic zirconia gem is easy to underestimate but is low-key one of the year’s funniest and most kinetic comedies. Sh ot in the Guits’ gleefully garish digital style\, with an oversaturated color palette that tastes like melted Jolly Ranchers\, the film follows Ar mande Pigeon\, self-proclaimed Queen of Shenanigans. Love her or hate her (for what it's worth\, I find her impishness endlessly endearing)\, there' s no denying that she’s a brilliant comic creation from actress Maria Ca valier-Bazan. Armande doesn’t have a job and sleeps on a dirty fold-up c ot in the living room of an old woman. She owes months of back rent and is on the verge of getting kicked out of this squalid flat\, so she needs so me fast cash. After exhausting all the friends she can scam\, she teams up with recent hook-up Ronnie to get into a high-stakes card game. When dumb luck results in a huge windfall\, she sets her sights on bigger and bigge r scores\, trying to take this winning streak as far as it can possibly go . ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hea ds-or-fails-2-scaled.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1862@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T190000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013403Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dogfight/ SUMMARY:DOGFIGHT DESCRIPTION:The screening is followed by a Q&\;A with director Nancy Sav oca and producer Richard Guay.\n\nIn Dogfight\, Nancy Savoca provides a sn apshot of innocence just before it is lost. The story takes place over the course of a single night in 1963\, when U.S. Marine Eddie (River Phoenix) encounters idealistic aspiring folksinger Rose (Lili Taylor). They meet u nder decidedly cruel circumstances\, but their night together finds them f alling in love despite the wide gap in how they view the oncoming war. The film is a showcase for River Phoenix who\, only two years before his own tragic death\, transforms beautifully from a cocky soldier into a scared k id being shipped to a war zone. The camerawork emphasizes the film’s tra gedy\, as a bustling San Francisco gives way to empty streets and lonely —but stunningly intimate—interiors (the music hall where Rose hopes to perform one day provides a particularly affecting backdrop.) A love lette r to folk music\, a tender romance\, and a powerful antiwar film all at on ce\, Dogfight is a quiet masterpiece with a nuanced understanding of love. ~AK ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/dog fight.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1848@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T191500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013220Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/living-the-land/ SUMMARY:LIVING THE LAND DESCRIPTION:In rural China\, a farming community hews to tradition even as it feels the intractable pull of industrialization. Gorgeously photographe d\, director Huo Meng’s film is so perfectly\, minutely observed that it often carries the feel of a documentary—or\, more specifically\, of rea l life—rather than a narrative film. That’s not to say there’s no ar tistry here\; quite the opposite\, in fact. In Meng’s carefully paced\, achingly precise story\, we see how these hardworking people react to the seasons\, to various calamities\, and to each other. The land is beautiful \, but life isn’t easy—Chuang\, our 10-year-old POV character\, sees h is share of hardship and funerals\, even as he pines to reunite with his f amily in the city (they left him behind because of one-child rules in Chin a in the ’90s.) The inevitable specter of modernity hovers over everyone \, though each generation sees it differently—some as a scourge\, others as a temptation. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/liv ing-the-land-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1890@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T200000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013206Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shorts-program-i/ SUMMARY:SHORTS\, PROGRAM I DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Sunday\, October 26 | 12:30 PM | SR\n\nVTIFF ce lebrates the international short film with five magical works. Jason Adam Maselle’s Punter is a South African tale of a wayward father and the son who’s trying in vain to steer him right. Chheangkea’s witty and knowi ng Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites\, set in Cambodia\, follows a young ma n coming clean to his potential fiancée\, thanks to support from his dead grandmother. Lucia G. Romero’s intense Cura Sana finds two young sister s using love as an antidote to a cycle of poverty and domestic violence. B ill Morrison’s Ghost of the Past adapts an incomplete 1924 short to crea te something new\, with the help of great music by guitarist Bill Frisell. And in Aditya Joshi’s A West Side Story Story (with Vermonters Luis &am p\; Cemi Guzman as co-producers)\, the opening of a production of that fam ous musical stirs some emotions for its young director. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/wes t-side-story-story-shorts-I.jpeg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1860@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T213000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013228Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dead-lover/ SUMMARY:DEAD LOVER DESCRIPTION:If you’re down for rampant silliness\, then you’ll have a b last with Dead Lover. Cheap fright wigs and accents that split the differe nce between Cockney and Elmer Fudd abound in Grace Glowicki’s sophomore feature. Her Bride of Frankenstein remix—where she’s both Dr. Frankens tein and the Bride—acquaints us with a lonely\, pungent gravedigger who just wants companionship. She finally finds the kinky love she longs for w hen she meets the grieving brother of a freshly buried woman. Much to her surprise and delight\, he’s not just able to tolerate her smell but is a ttracted to it! Alas\, their torrid affair is short-lived as he is soon af ter lost at sea\, with only one severed finger recovered. But perhaps that ’s enough to bring him back from the beyond… Photographed using a 16mm Bolex\, Dead Lover is charmingly handmade\; it’s shot on a shoestring a nd proud of it. Glowicki bottles some of the randy\, winking energy of Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein\, the inventive silent-era playfulness of Guy Maddin\, and the Looney Tunes zaniness of Hundreds of Beavers\, but this t heatrical take on the modern Prometheus is all hers\, a lovingly crafted L ovecraftian (zing!) DIY delight. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/dea d-lover.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1873@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T103000 DTSTAMP:20251001T192218Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/little-kid-flicks-2/ SUMMARY:LITTLE KID FLICKS DESCRIPTION:Let your little ones discover the magic of the big screen with Little Kid Flicks! This year's charming collection of animated and live-ac tion shorts features films from France\, Chile\, Uruguay\, Taiwan\, Japan\ , Slovakia\, Czech Republic\, UK\, U.S.\, and Canada. The stories include beach vacation mishaps (Hello Summer)\, forest kids craving pancakes (Moja ppi It's Mine!)\, fed-up capybaras (Capybaras)\, dancing in the rain (Danc ing in the Rain\, Splish\, Splash\, Splosh!)\, a girl glued to her phone w hile surrounded by fantastical creatures (The Girl with the Occupied Eyes) \, a pep-talk from Paralympic swimmer Lizzi Smith (Swimming with Butterfli es)\, and a frog filming a documentary about a crocodile (Ronny: A Crocume ntary). These shorts from around the world—all audience favorites from t he New York International Children’s Film Festival—are sure to enchant and delight audiences of all ages. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Lit tle-Kids-Flicks-tabbyMcTat.webp CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1849@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T120000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013142Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/next-life/ SUMMARY:NEXT LIFE DESCRIPTION:A slow-moving\, delicately paced gem of a film. A Buddhist fami ly\, long exiled to California\, must make preparations for the father’s journey to the next life as he slowly dies. The religious practices and c ustoms—and the visiting monks—provide both contrast and a strange harm ony for the very middle-class American lifestyle the family has come to in habit. The family’s desire to return to Tibet seems in many ways unachie vable\, so they root themselves in Buddhist teachings about death and rebi rth\, finding solace in the belief that in his next life he will be reborn as a bird in Tibet. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/nex t-life-3-edit-scaled.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1870@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T120000 DTSTAMP:20251010T130925Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/how-movies-go-missing/ SUMMARY:HOW MOVIES GO MISSING DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with Nancy Savoca and Richard Guay \n\nThis eve nt is free. Advanced registration is recommended.\n\n“Movie audiences ar e being told that streaming has made the entire history of cinema availabl e for a simple subscription fee... This is not true.” So reads the openi ng line of the Missing Movies manifesto. This invaluable organization seek s out modern films that have fallen through cracks in distribution\, are i n legal limbo of one sort or another\, or have been quickly lost to time. This sounds like an old phenomenon: you often hear that upwards of 90% of all films made before 1929 perished. But believe it or not\, it's still ha ppening today\, and Missing Movies is on the case. Started by a group of i ndependent filmmakers who experienced their own works getting buried\, Mis sing Movies is dedicated to digging up and restoring lost gems from the '8 0s\, '90s\, and into the 21st century\, making them available to audiences everywhere. Writer-director Nancy Savoca (Dogfight\, Household Saints) an d writer-producer Richard Guay (Household Saints\, Ghost Dog: The Way of t he Samurai) are two of the main driving forces behind Missing Movies. In t his special event\, they talk about how movies disappear and the detective work it takes to find them. ~OO CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1859@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T133000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013158Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cover-up/ SUMMARY:COVER UP DESCRIPTION:There’s reporting\, there’s investigative reporting\, and t here’s Seymour Hersch. In a career that has covered 60 years\, including famous scoops on the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam and the torture and abuse of prisoners by American military personnel at Abu Ghraib Prison\, Hersch has broken a lot of stories and generated at least an equal amount of con troversy. Cover Up looks at both. Renowned Oscar-winning documentarian Lau ra Poitras (All the Beauty and Bloodshed\, VTIFF 2023) had wanted to profi le Hersch for 20 years and finally got him to agree\, though his own ruefu l and amusing onscreen commentary makes you wonder if he’s re-thought th at decision. Poitras and co-director Mark Obenhaus hit Hersch’s high not es but didn’t shy away from controversy\, which has followed his career in equal measure with success. As newspapers and magazines fade\, and the concept of journalistic integrity is repeatedly battered\, Cover Up uses H ersch’s career to ask some very basic and deep contemporary questions: W hat is the truth? Who do we believe? Who can we trust? What’s next? ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/cov er-up.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1866@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T140000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013113Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/four-mothers-3/ SUMMARY:FOUR MOTHERS DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Saturday\, October 19 | 4:45 PM | BB\, and Tues day\, October 21 | 2:30 PM | SR\n\nAspiring YA author Edward\, an avatar f or people-pleasers everywhere\, agrees to look after the ailing mothers of some friends who are going on an unexpected vacation. Already caring for his own mother\, he finds himself stuck with four elderly women under his roof. He is a writer who stays well within his comfort zone\, constantly u sing his mother as an excuse for not experiencing life. Forced to deal wit h the demands and criticisms of three additional mother figures\, he navig ates his own anxieties about his rather unexciting life. Full of Irish cha rm\, Four Mothers finds a nice balance between big laughs and poignant fam ily drama. Though rather light and undemanding\, this film is funny and ch arming enough to justify simply sitting back to enjoy the bumbling efforts of Edward\, whose exasperation is played at a perfect pitch by James McAr dle. ~AK ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/fou r-mothers-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1879@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T143000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013046Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-many-miracles-of-household-saints/ SUMMARY:THE MANY MIRACLES OF "HOUSEHOLD SAINTS" DESCRIPTION:In keeping with the intergenerational magic of Household Saints \, filmmaker Martina Savoca-Guay has crafted a compelling documentary\, Th e Many Miracles of Household Saints\, revealing the improbable story behin d the making of the film. It’s a fitting work\, since director Nancy Sav oca was pregnant during the shoot and Savoca-Guay was the baby she carried . Combining behind-the-scenes footage from the set as well as contemporary interviews with Savoca\, author Francine Prose\, and producer Rich Guay ( her dad)\, Savoca-Guay has created an homage to a remarkable American inde pendent film and to her own filmmaking heritage. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hou sehold-saints-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1869@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T160000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013607Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/household-saints/ SUMMARY:HOUSEHOLD SAINTS DESCRIPTION:The screening is followed by a Q&\;A with director Nancy Sav oca and producer Richard Guay.\n\nA masterpiece of 1990s American independ ent cinema\, Nancy Savoca’s Household Saints is also really hard to summ arize\, as it packs a universe or two into its small section of New York C ity. It’s there that Italian-American butcher Joseph (Vincent D’Onofri o\, in one of his best roles) wins his wife Catherine (Tracey Ullman\, fab ulous) in a card game\, much to the chagrin of his ever-disapproving mothe r (Judith Malina). The movie gradually becomes about the couple’s deeply spiritual\, thoroughly Catholic daughter (Lili Taylor). Based on Francine Prose’s novel\, and written by Savoca with her producer (and husband) R ichard Guay\, the film’s expansive worldview takes in romantic love\, pa rental devotion\, religious commitment\, and community life\, always with a darkly comic undertow. Savoca and Taylor definitely connected on a filmm aking level\, creating this film and Dogfight back-to-back (along with Gua y who co-wrote and co-produced both films)\, two of the brightest gems of ’90s film. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hou sehold-saints-2.jpeg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1843@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T161500 DTSTAMP:20251015T012340Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/home-is-the-ocean-2/ SUMMARY:HOME IS THE OCEAN DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Monday\, October 20 | 7:15 PM | BB\n\nFilmmaker Livia Vonaesch spent seven years at sea with the ever-growing Swiss famil y Schwörers\, but it’s hard to imagine how they made space for her on t heir crowded vessel. The parents\, Dario and Sabine\, set sail 25 years ag o to conduct field research in the world’s most remote regions and inspi re young people around the globe to save our planet. Along the way\, their six children were born\, each in a different corner of the world. Vonaesc h films this like the adventure tale that it is\, capturing the majesty an d unpredictability of nature as well as the joys and thrills of life at se a. But what sets Home Is the Ocean apart is her eye for the contradictions at the heart of their little collective. For all the excitement of ventur ing out into the infinity of the ocean\, and the wonderful intimacy of a l oving family supporting each other on their journeys\, it can also be tens e\, isolating\, and claustrophobic when land disappears over the horizon. They spend 24 hours a day together in 20 square meters of living space. An d their search for boundless freedom has its limits\; a damaging storm for ces them to reconsider their future excursions just as the children start to discover that there are other ways to live outside their floating home. Though their lifestyle may be unconventional\, the challenges the family faces\, and the way they pull together in difficult times\, is deeply rela table and heartening. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hom e-is-the-ocean-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1877@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T164500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013103Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/made-here-film-festival-2025-favorites-2/ SUMMARY:MADE HERE FILM FESTIVAL\, 2025 FAVORITES DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Thursday\, October 23 | 8 PM | SR\n\nVTIFF cele brates its regional spring festival\, offering six favorite short films fr om our 2025 edition\, focusing on Vermont and Quebec\, presented in partne rship with Vermont Public. In Chantal Caron’s ravishing dance piece\, So mber Tides\, two avian creatures battle the elements. In Alexandre Isabell e’s À toi les oreilles\, townsfolk prepare to celebrate the village ann iversary with a grand parade\, but our hero Étienne is attempting the imp ossible. Meredith Holch’s Brother Bird tells three tales of loved ones w ho visit from the afterlife\, told through tissue paper animation. Samuel LaPointe’s witty We Could Be Nemeses focuses on a lovelorn supervillain who falls for a headstrong superhero\, then sets out on a crime spree to c apture his heart. Virgil Ratelle’s tender\, mildly voyeuristic Summer Lo ve eavesdrops on various couples before they go for a swim. And Alexia Roc ’s Three Screaming Vaginas offers a triptych of candid short stories tha t reveal the challenges and splendors of the vaginal experience. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Mad eHereFilmFreewaySquare.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1858@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T190000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013056Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/calle-malaga/ SUMMARY:CALLE MALAGA DESCRIPTION:Maria\, a 79-year-old woman\, has lived in a Spanish community in Tangier\, Morocco\, for her entire life\, and her sunny\, lovely apartm ent reflects her contentment. But when circumstances threaten to evict her from her space and end her independence\, she must make some big decision s. And in this lovely\, moving drama from director Maryam Touzani (The Blu e Caftan)\, Maria chooses to live her life more fully than ever before. Ca lle Malaga boasts an excellent script\, beautiful setting\, and fine suppo rting performances but what really drives this film is a monumental perfor mance from the great Carmen Maura\, the Spanish star of many early Almodó var films. Touzani loads the film onto Maura’s shoulders and she deliver s\, anchoring every scene and delivering a number of powerful emotional pa yoffs\, not to mention a fabulously sexy love scene. She’ll definitely b e in the conversation come awards season\, and it’s reason for celebrati on that an actress this fantastic has\, at this late stage in her career\, found a vehicle worthy of her talents. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cal le-malaga-scaled.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1896@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T191500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013124Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/snow-leopard-sisters-2/ SUMMARY:SNOW LEOPARD SISTERS DESCRIPTION:The film also screens on Tuesday\, October 21 | 4:30 PM | FH\n\ nThe Tuesday\, October 21 screening is followed by a Q&\;A with co-dire ctor Ben Ayers via Zoom from Tibet.\n\nA story of nature and nurture set i n the breathtaking Dolpo region of Nepal\, Snow Leopard Sisters offers a t ouching feminist perspective on wildlife preservation. The film follows tw o women\, Tshiring Lhamu Lama and Tenzin Bhuti Gurung\, as they work towar d saving the dwindling population of snow leopards while navigating their own personal conflicts. Told entirely through the women’s narration\, th e film offers an honest insight into their experiences as women on a quest traditionally reserved for men. For Tshiring\, it’s a calling to save t hese leopards. For Tenzin\, it’s more complicated—snow leopards decima ted her family’s goat herd\, and she has accepted the apprenticeship mos tly as a way to delay the fixed marriage her family seems intent on forcin g her into. Dazzlingly photographed\, the film brings the truly awe-inspir ing environs of the Himalayas to the screen in glorious fashion. The breat htaking setting—and the cinematography that makes it feel so alive—mus t be seen to be believed. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/sno w-leopard-sisters-2.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1892@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T200000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013150Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shorts-program-ii/ SUMMARY:SHORTS\, PROGRAM II DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Sunday\, October 26 | 2:30 PM | SR\n\nVTIFF’s second installment of international short films is equal to the first. In Fran Zayas’ Entre Tormentas (which boasts Spike Lee and Cory Fukunaga a s co-producers)\, a grieving man breaks into an off-limits cemetery after a hurricane to rescue the remains of his brother. Jan Saskia’s utterly h ilarious animated marvel\, Hurikan\, follows the only anthropomorphic pig in Prague as he tries to find a keg of beer for the barmaid of his dreams\ ; it doesn’t go well. Joan Iyiola’s Mango is a disquieting work that s ubverts body horror into social critique. Nelson Yeo’s Through Your Eyes takes you to the strangest disco in Singapore\, where four lives intertwi ne in a search for connection and meaning amid the pulsating beats\, And A isling Byrne’s touching Turnaround follows a struggling West Cork cleane r who faces both a tightly held secret and a crisis of conscience. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hur ikan-shorts-II--scaled.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1854@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T103000 DTSTAMP:20251001T192021Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/animation-workshop-woloshen/ SUMMARY:ANIMATION WORKSHOP WITH STEVE WOLOSHEN DESCRIPTION:Free event for all ages. Advance registration is recommended.\n \nInternationally renowned animator Steven Woloshen returns to VTIFF with his much-loved animation workshop! Woloshen is an award-winning Canadian f ilm animator and a pioneer of drawn-on-film animation techniques. Steve al so teaches at the National Film Board of Canada. In this workshop\, you’ ll be given a film strip\, and you can choose whatever tools and materials you’d like to decorate it and tell a mini-story. Join us as we explore multiple approaches to camera-less filmmaking and discover new ones along the way. Scratch\, paint\, or collage the surface of your leader\, which m ight be black\, clear\, or previously shot footage! The goal is simply to explore\, play\, and take risks with animation. After the workshop\, all o ur strips will be strung together and digitized so that we can present the full story of our adventures in animation during the festival! This activ ity is open to everyone and all ages ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Ani mation-Workshop.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Lake Lobby\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Lake Lobby:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1905@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T120000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013133Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/vignettes-of-veiled-light/ SUMMARY:VIGNETTES OF VEILED LIGHT DESCRIPTION:When the moon blocks the sun\, we see the world in a new light. This eerie and inspiring phenomenon challenges our perceptions—what is revealed when light and shadow shift so dramatically? These short video vi gnettes\, alongside music\, communal storytelling\, and reflection\, provi de space to revisit and celebrate the awe we all experienced on April 8th\ , 2024\, when Burlington was in the direct path of a once-in-a-lifetime so lar eclipse. Vignettes of Veiled Light is a love letter to Burlington\, ce lebrating how light and shadow shape our understanding of the world—and how a single natural phenomenon brought thousands of people together. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/vig nettes-of-veiled-light.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1910@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T121500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013514Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/zodiac-killer-project/ SUMMARY:ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT DESCRIPTION:The paradox of Charlie Shackleton’s film is that it exists bu t also doesn’t exist. The story sounds somewhat Charlie Kaufmanesque: Sh ackleton set out to adapt a fringe novel about the Zodiac Killer investiga tion—The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up\, highway patrolman Lyndon E. Lafferty's nakedly self-aggrandizing account of his decades-long pursuit of a red he rring—but he lost the rights to the book at the last minute. So instead of his intended by-the-numbers Zodiac Killer project\, we get Zodiac Kille r Project\, a curious hybrid documentary where Shackleton meditates on his passion project while defiantly navigating loopholes in copyright law to tell as much of Lyndon’s sordid tale as he is legally allowed\, and then some. What he has created is a revelation\, a brilliantly meta movie that collapses the distance between investigative procedural and experimental essay film\, canny adaptation and affectionate parody\, podcast and cinema . Beautifully shot on location in Villejo—with staged scenes that take t heir cues from classic Errol Morris as well as structuralist Michael Snow —charmingly chill\, and sometimes thrilling in spite of itself\, Shackle ton has snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and salvaged a truly orig inal Zodiac movie: a tragicomedy about obsession\, artistic persistence\, and escaping the true crime hall of mirrors. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/zod iac-killer-project-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1891@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T123000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013556Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shorts-program-i-2/ SUMMARY:SHORTS\, PROGRAM I DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Friday\, October 24 | 8:00 PM | SR\n\nVTIFF cel ebrates the international short film with five magical works. Jason Adam M aselle’s Punter is a South African tale of a wayward father and the son who’s trying in vain to steer him right. Chheangkea’s witty and knowin g Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites\, set in Cambodia\, follows a young man coming clean to his potential fiancée\, thanks to support from his dead grandmother. Lucia G. Romero’s intense Cura Sana finds two young sisters using love as an antidote to a cycle of poverty and domestic violence. Bi ll Morrison’s Ghost of the Past adapts an incomplete 1924 short to creat e something new\, with the help of great music by guitarist Bill Frisell. And in Aditya Joshi’s A West Side Story Story (with Vermonters Luis & \; Cemi Guzman as co-producers)\, the opening of a production of that famo us musical stirs some emotions for its young director. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/wes t-side-story-story-shorts-I.jpeg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1853@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T134500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013522Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/put-your-soul-in-your-hand-and-walk-2/ SUMMARY:PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Tuesday\, October 21 | 1:45 PM | BB\n\nScreenli fe movies are typically the terrain of low-budget horror\, but Sepideh Far si’s heartbreaking documentary seizes on the style to do something entir ely different and far more rewarding. Over the course of a year\, she corr esponded regularly with 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hass ona\, who lived in Gaza\, via FaceTime. These two women\, separated by tho usands of miles\, collaborate to amplify the plight of a people living thr ough war crimes every day. Fatma holds the center as a courageous young id ealist enduring an unfathomable situation. Over the course of the movie\, the war takes a toll on her spirit\, but her hope\, resilience\, and ambit ions never fade. With shades of Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie\, Farsi re cords their phone calls using a separate mobile device\, so instead of sta tic talking heads\, she is constantly reframing the compositions\, catchin g glimpses of her home and various hotels\, and capturing the dust and sta ins on the screen with Fatma’s beaming face. The layers of mediation emp hasize our physical and emotional detachment from the crisis\, as Farsi im bues her own guilt and helplessness into the very format of the movie. But even through all the pixelation and hitchy connections\, Fatma’s megawa tt smile and incandescent personality still light up the screen. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/put -your-soul-on-your-hand-and-walk-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1863@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T140000 DTSTAMP:20251015T012352Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dragonfly/ SUMMARY:DRAGONFLY DESCRIPTION:This nasty little number is a gift from the genre gods. Two Aca demy Award-nominated British actresses\, and veteran Mike Leigh collaborat ors\, sink their teeth into the scenery as they go toe-to-toe in this pulp y actors’ showcase. Dame Brenda Blethyn (Secrets &\; Lies\, Pride &am p\; Prejudice) and Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie\, The Death of Stalin) gi ve contrasting tour de force performances as neighbors who strike up an un likely friendship. Seeing the lack of care that her elderly neighbor Elsie is receiving from the nursing staff hired by her son\, Colleen insinuates herself into Elsie’s life and eventually takes over as her daily caregi ver. But Colleen’s motivations are murky at best and seem suspiciously l ess than altruistic. There’s also something undeniably unnerving about h er nature. She is introduced enthusiastically stabbing at a microwave dinn er and the motion seems to come quite naturally to her. You can probably g uess that this mystery thriller is headed for a jaw-dropping ending\, and the anticipation is as delicious as biscuits and tea. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/dra gonfly-scaled.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1893@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T143000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013547Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shorts-program-ii-2/ SUMMARY:SHORTS\, PROGRAM II DESCRIPTION:Also screens on Saturday\, October 25 | 8:00 PM | SR\n\nVTIFF ’s second installment of international short films is equal to the first . In Fran Zayas’ Entre Tormentas (which boasts Spike Lee and Cory Fukuna ga as co-producers)\, a grieving man breaks into an off-limits cemetery af ter a hurricane to rescue the remains of his brother. Jan Saskia’s utter ly hilarious animated marvel\, Hurikan\, follows the only anthropomorphic pig in Prague as he tries to find a keg of beer for the barmaid of his dre ams\; it doesn’t go well. Joan Iyiola’s Mango is a disquieting work th at subverts body horror into social critique. Nelson Yeo’s Through Your Eyes takes you to the strangest disco in Singapore\, where four lives inte rtwine in a search for connection and meaning amid the pulsating beats\, A nd Aisling Byrne’s touching Turnaround follows a struggling West Cork cl eaner who faces both a tightly held secret and a crisis of conscience. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hur ikan-shorts-II--scaled.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1904@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T160000 DTSTAMP:20251015T013538Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/a-useful-ghost-2/ SUMMARY:A USEFUL GHOST DESCRIPTION:The film also screens on Tuesday\, October 21 | 7 PM | BB\n\nTh ai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s debut feature has some serious issues on its mind: impersonal corporations\, opportunistic bureaucrats\, indifferent urban developers\, and atrocities swept under the rug. But he is having way too much fun indulging every flight of fancy to present any of this in a serious manner. Exhibit A: the main character\, Nat\, the ep onymous specter\, is styled to look exactly like Woody Woodpecker. But tha t’s just the tip of the iceberg. Other choice gags include absurdist fac tory signs\, foul-mouthed monks\, a Slinky used as an electroshock device\ , and one of the best action sequences of the year: an all-out brawl betwe en a vacuum cleaner and a refrigerator! A Useful Ghost is a cockeyed\, sur prisingly touching romance told through high-concept comedy\, magical real ism\, and lo-fi science fiction. When a man’s appliance starts behaving strangely\, a mysterious repairman shows up at his apartment and informs h im that this consumer product possession is not an isolated incident. He p roceeds to recount the tragic love story of March and Nat\, whose spirit r eturned as a vacuum cleaner to protect her husband from the dust particles that took her life. But as word of this phenomenon spreads\, a number of interested parties want to exploit the couple’s unique predicament. A Us eful Ghost is Thailand’s entry for Best International Feature Film at th is year’s Academy Awards. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/a-u seful-ghost.png CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1875@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T161500 DTSTAMP:20251015T013532Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-love-that-remains/ SUMMARY:THE LOVE THAT REMAINS DESCRIPTION:Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason returns to the present afte r his superb epic Godland. With The Love that Remains\, he crafts a smalle r\, more intimate story—one that suggests some still-tender autobiograph ical resonance—and he’s not afraid to get a little weird with it. The film is a snapshot of a year in the life of a married couple\, Anna and Ma gnús\, and their three precocious kids—played by Pálmason’s own broo d—as they navigate their separation. What could have easily been a bitte r domestic drama is instead playful and wryly funny\, full of surreal epis odes that puncture the coziness. Anna and Magnús are mostly convivial\, a nd free to embark on their separate lives\; he’s a commercial fisherman\ , often away on excursions at sea\, and she’s an artist who collaborates with the elements to create large-scale\, rust-covered canvases. And the domestic setting remains loving and enriching for all\, even with the fres h fracture down the middle. Instead of defaulting to testy recriminations\ , Pálmason lets his sight gags and whimsical asides—a giant vengeful ro oster\, a straw knight come to life\, an archery mishap\, a light aircraft plunging into the ocean—do the talking. In its own peculiar way\, the f ilm conveys the disorientation of a relationship’s end: the world keeps turning\, but it feels like it’s off its axis. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/the -love-that-remains.jpg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1889@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T190000 DTSTAMP:20251014T144947Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-secret-agent/ SUMMARY:THE SECRET AGENT DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nJaws turned 50 this summer\, and no one is celebrating harder th an Kleber Mendonça Filho. Spielberg’s classic is all over Filho’s Can nes-fêted smash-in-the-making. It’s 1977 in Recife\, Brazil\, and every one is whispering about the shark that was caught with a human leg in its stomach. The local theater\, the fulcrum around which this twisty story tu rns\, is even rerunning Jaws to capitalize on the frenzy. But beyond all t he allusions to hungry man-eaters\, Filho (who won Best Director at Cannes ) is also flexing his facility with large-scale entertainment\, telling a canny and expansive espionage potboiler through masterful restraint\, sust ained tension\, crackerjack set pieces\, and unabashed eccentricity\, whil e embracing and subverting the genre in all kinds of clever ways. And of c ourse\, at the heart of this grandiose thriller lies a heartfelt story abo ut broken families and the bond between a father and son viewed through th e prism of cinema. Wagner Moura smolders in the lead role as Marcelo (or i s it Armando?)\, an academic and technology expert on the run and in hidin g (Moura picked up Best Actor at Cannes this year\, the first performer fr om South America to do so.) He reunites with his son while trying to start a new life under the radar. But he soon realizes that the city is not the refuge he’d hoped for\, and apex predators are circling. ~OO ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/the -secret-agent.jpeg CATEGORIES:2025 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1915@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T190000 DTSTAMP:20251019T170326Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/evil-dead-ii/ SUMMARY:Evil Dead II (1987) DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Halloween at VTIFF. Costumes encouraged!\n\nSam Raimi has gone on to much bigger things\, playing an outsized role in setting o ff the superhero boom in the 21st century\, for better and worse\, and she pherding a misbegotten entry in the Doctor Strange series. but it's fair t o say that his biggest cinematic milestone is Evil Dead II\, quite possibl y the greatest horror-comedy ever. This sort-of sequel to his massively in fluential regional splatterfest\, The Evil Dead\, is bigger\, funnier\, za nier\, and scarier. With a leg up from Stephen King\, Raimi hooked up with producer Dino De Laurentis to secure a sizable enough budget to really pa int the town... er\, the cabin in the woods... red. Bruce Campbell gives a career defining performances as Ash Williams\, throwing himself into ever y cartoonish set piece with total conviction and unrivaled slapstick chops \, and emerging as a square-jawed\, chainsaw-wielding action stud for the ages. Join us for this wild ride as we crack open the Necronomicon on All Hallow's Eve.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Evi l-Dead-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1933@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T160000 DTSTAMP:20251019T193014Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-mastermind-3/ SUMMARY:The Mastermind (2025) DESCRIPTION:Celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow\, Showing Up) d irects an unforgettable Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind\, her latest Can nes triumph.\nIn a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970\, unemployed fam ily man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited\, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.\nA brilliant look at the folly of man\, The Mastermind also features Alana Haim\, Gaby Hoffmann\, John Magaro\, Hope Davis\, and Bill Camp. Rich in textured detail\, this sly depiction of an era subverts long -held illusions and confronts disillusionment. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/The -Mastermind_Still-04_©2025_Mastermind-Movie-Inc-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1934@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T190000 DTSTAMP:20251019T193049Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-mastermind-4/ SUMMARY:The Mastermind (2025) DESCRIPTION:Celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow\, Showing Up) d irects an unforgettable Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind\, her latest Can nes triumph.\nIn a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970\, unemployed fam ily man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited\, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.\nA brilliant look at the folly of man\, The Mastermind also features Alana Haim\, Gaby Hoffmann\, John Magaro\, Hope Davis\, and Bill Camp. Rich in textured detail\, this sly depiction of an era subverts long -held illusions and confronts disillusionment. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/The -Mastermind_Still-04_©2025_Mastermind-Movie-Inc-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1916@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T190000 DTSTAMP:20251105T193652Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/le-bonheur/ SUMMARY:Le Bonheur (1965) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nLe Bonheur—translation "Happiness"—is an underrated masterpi ece by Agnes Varda\, one of\, if not the\, greatest filmmaker of the Frenc h New Wave. Perhaps her most shocking film\, this subversive feminist stat ement\, set against the deceptive beauty of the French countryside\, vibra nt fields of sunflowers\, and the spirited music of Mozart\, concerns a yo ung husband and father François (Jean-Claude Drouot) who\, despite being married to the good-natured\, beautiful Thérèse (Claire Drouot)\, finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal w orker. Through this familiar\, swooning setup\, Le Bonheur examines the id eas of fidelity and happiness in a modern\, self-centered world. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/fbc f122f72d0acbe1a9e04011107a4dc.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1917@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T150000 DTSTAMP:20251019T172811Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wanda/ SUMMARY:Wanda (1970) DESCRIPTION:With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wr ote\, directed\, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema\, bringing to life a kind of characte r seldom seen on screen. Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape\, a nd shot in an intensely intimate vérité style\, the film takes up with d istant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loden)\, who has left her husband\, lost cus tody of her children\, and now finds herself alone\, drifting between ding y bars and motels\, where she falls prey to a series of callous men—incl uding a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. An until now difficult-to-see masterpiece that has nonetheless exerted an outsize i nfluence on generations of artists and filmmakers\, Wanda is a compassion ate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded on society’s margins. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/QTw VK1hO4lybkXankwKwdd9JpUMscw_original.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1918@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T190000 DTSTAMP:20251105T213543Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/stranger-than-paradise/ SUMMARY:Stranger Than Paradise (1984) DESCRIPTION:Jim Jarmusch’s breakout second feature is essential indie cin ema\, on a very short list of movies—alongside Eraserhead\; Reservoir Do gs\; sex\,lies\, and videotape\; and just a handful more—that basically set the template for what “indie” is today.\nYou can trace back the cl iché of recycled cultural ephemera to Paradise‘s obsession with Chester fields and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins\, as well as a whole lineage of irony-i nfused cinema to this tale of Brooklynites and small-time gamblers Willie and Eddie\, whose unhurried lifestyle is thrown off when Willie’s Hungar ian cousin Eva arrives for a 10-day visit. Eva’s presence eventually mot ivates the pair to shake up their rudderless routine\, hit the road\, and seek out the American Dream outside the confines of NYC. Starring John Lur ie (of The Lounge Lizards)\, Richard Edson (a former Sonic Youth drummer-t urned-actor)\, and violinist Eszter Balint\, the film unfolds over a succe ssion of long takes shot in washed-out black and white by Tom DiCillo.\nJa rmusch’s latest\, the anthology Father Mother Sister Brother\, just won top prize at Venice this year\, so it would seems that his brand of laconi c cool still resonates four decades on. With Stranger than Paradise\, Jarm usch’s hipster bona fides were already on full display.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/str anger1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1932@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T160000 DTSTAMP:20251104T220421Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-mastermind-2/ SUMMARY:The Mastermind (2025) DESCRIPTION:Please note: The Mastermind was originally set to screen on Nov ember 5-6 but was rescheduled for November 13. If you had tickets for the previous date\, please contact us to exchange or refund your tickets. Than k you and sorry for the inconvenience. \nCelebrated filmmaker Kelly Reich ardt (First Cow\, Showing Up) directs an unforgettable Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind\, her latest Cannes triumph.\nIn a sedate Massachusetts sub urb circa 1970\, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney se ts out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited \, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.\nA brilliant look at the foll y of man\, The Mastermind also features Alana Haim\, Gaby Hoffmann\, John Magaro\, Hope Davis\, and Bill Camp. Rich in textured detail\, this sly de piction of an era subverts long-held illusions and confronts disillusionme nt.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/The -Mastermind_Still-04_©2025_Mastermind-Movie-Inc-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1930@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T190000 DTSTAMP:20251104T220441Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-mastermind/ SUMMARY:The Mastermind (2025) DESCRIPTION:Please note: The Mastermind was originally set to screen on Nov ember 5-6 but was rescheduled for November 13. If you had tickets for the previous date\, please contact us to exchange or refund your tickets. Than k you and sorry for the inconvenience.\nCelebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichar dt (First Cow\, Showing Up) directs an unforgettable Josh O’Connor in Th e Mastermind\, her latest Cannes triumph.\nIn a sedate Massachusetts subur b circa 1970\, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited\, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.\nA brilliant look at the folly of man\, The Mastermind also features Alana Haim\, Gaby Hoffmann\, John Ma garo\, Hope Davis\, and Bill Camp. Rich in textured detail\, this sly depi ction of an era subverts long-held illusions and confronts disillusionment .\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/The -Mastermind_Still-04_©2025_Mastermind-Movie-Inc-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1919@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T190000 DTSTAMP:20251113T194348Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/monk-in-pieces/ SUMMARY:Monk in Pieces (2025) DESCRIPTION:"A perfect window into the singular genius of Meredith Monk." —David Ehrlich\, IndieWire\nThe boundary-breaking artist Meredith Monk o vercame a hostile critical establishment to become one of the great innova tors of her generation. In the midst of her latest creation\, Indra’s Ne t\, Monk faces mortality: can such singular work be performed without her? \nFeaturing interviews with Björk and David Byrne\, Monk in Pieces is a mosaic that illuminates Monk’s wildly original vocabulary of sound and i magery. The film was an official selection and Teddy Award nominee at the 2025 Berlinale. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/3_M onk-in-Pieces_Neutron_110th-Street-Films-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1920@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T190000 DTSTAMP:20251027T191454Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/how-dark-my-love/ SUMMARY:How Dark My Love (2025) DESCRIPTION:At the heart of this visceral and unexpectedly tender film is a love story like no other—between notorious outsider painter Joe Coleman and his wife and muse of 25 years\, Whitney Ward. Known for his intricate portraits of serial killers and outcasts\, Coleman turns his obsessive ga ze on Whitney in his most personal and ambitious work yet: a towering port rait that lays bare her entire life. As the masterpiece comes to light\, s o does the complexity of their relationship\, where love\, art\, and contr ol blur in a high-stakes act of intimacy.\n\nStylistically mirroring Colem an’s own layered\, non-linear work\, the film is a rich\, visceral exper ience that defies documentary biographical conventions. Directed by multip le Emmy Award winner Scott Gracheff\, and featuring Iggy Pop\, Dave Navarr o\, and Asia Argento\, How Dark My Love blends original and archival mater ial to create a hypnotic journey\, which has you teetering between wincing at the grotesque and adoring the beauty from the love story that unfolds. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/vid eoframe_10056.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1935@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T160000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174251Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-2/ SUMMARY:If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) DESCRIPTION:With her life crashing down around her\, Linda (Rose Byrne) att empts to navigate her child's mysterious illness\, her absent husband\, a missing person\, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapi st (Conan O'Brien).\n\nMary Bronstein's long-in-the-works follow up to her anxiety-ridden debut\, Yeast\, follows the stressful daily routine of Lin da as she navigates a variety of crises. She is a therapist stretched to h er limit who is taking solo responsibility for her daughter's care while h er cruise captain husband is away for months on end. Her daughter has a st range illness that causes a severe aversion to food and the round-the-cloc k treatments don't seem to be helping. And the family's situation takes a turn for the worse when the bedroom ceiling of their Montauk apartment col lapses and floods the house\, forcing her to relocate to a dingy hotel wit h a hostile clerk (Ivy Wolk) and her friend James (A$AP Rocky) who loiters around Linda's room. All signs indicate that a breaking point is imminent .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/LEG S01_Photo-by-Logan-White.-Courtesy-of-A24.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1931@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T190000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174121Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you/ SUMMARY:If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) DESCRIPTION:With her life crashing down around her\, Linda (Rose Byrne) att empts to navigate her child's mysterious illness\, her absent husband\, a missing person\, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapi st (Conan O'Brien).\n\nMary Bronstein's long-in-the-works follow up to her anxiety-ridden debut\, Yeast\, follows the stressful daily routine of Lin da as she navigates a variety of crises. She is a therapist stretched to h er limit who is taking solo responsibility for her daughter's care while h er cruise captain husband is away for months on end. Her daughter has a st range illness that causes a severe aversion to food and the round-the-cloc k treatments don't seem to be helping. And the family's situation takes a turn for the worse when the bedroom ceiling of their Montauk apartment col lapses and floods the house\, forcing her to relocate to a dingy hotel wit h a hostile clerk (Ivy Wolk) and her friend James (A$AP Rocky) who loiters around Linda's room. All signs indicate that a breaking point is imminent .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/LEG S01_Photo-by-Logan-White.-Courtesy-of-A24.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1936@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T160000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174207Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-3/ SUMMARY:If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) DESCRIPTION:With her life crashing down around her\, Linda (Rose Byrne) att empts to navigate her child's mysterious illness\, her absent husband\, a missing person\, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapi st (Conan O'Brien).\n\nMary Bronstein's long-in-the-works follow up to her anxiety-ridden debut\, Yeast\, follows the stressful daily routine of Lin da as she navigates a variety of crises. She is a therapist stretched to h er limit who is taking solo responsibility for her daughter's care while h er cruise captain husband is away for months on end. Her daughter has a st range illness that causes a severe aversion to food and the round-the-cloc k treatments don't seem to be helping. And the family's situation takes a turn for the worse when the bedroom ceiling of their Montauk apartment col lapses and floods the house\, forcing her to relocate to a dingy hotel wit h a hostile clerk (Ivy Wolk) and her friend James (A$AP Rocky) who loiters around Linda's room. All signs indicate that a breaking point is imminent .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/LEG S01_Photo-by-Logan-White.-Courtesy-of-A24.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1937@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T190000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174141Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-4/ SUMMARY:If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) DESCRIPTION:With her life crashing down around her\, Linda (Rose Byrne) att empts to navigate her child's mysterious illness\, her absent husband\, a missing person\, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapi st (Conan O'Brien).\n\nMary Bronstein's long-in-the-works follow up to her anxiety-ridden debut\, Yeast\, follows the stressful daily routine of Lin da as she navigates a variety of crises. She is a therapist stretched to h er limit who is taking solo responsibility for her daughter's care while h er cruise captain husband is away for months on end. Her daughter has a st range illness that causes a severe aversion to food and the round-the-cloc k treatments don't seem to be helping. And the family's situation takes a turn for the worse when the bedroom ceiling of their Montauk apartment col lapses and floods the house\, forcing her to relocate to a dingy hotel wit h a hostile clerk (Ivy Wolk) and her friend James (A$AP Rocky) who loiters around Linda's room. All signs indicate that a breaking point is imminent .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/LEG S01_Photo-by-Logan-White.-Courtesy-of-A24.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1921@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T190000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174448Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-ice-storm/ SUMMARY:The Ice Storm (1997) DESCRIPTION:In suburban Connecticut in 1973\, the Hood and Carver families try to navigate a Thanksgiving break simmering with unspoken resentment\, sexual tension\, and cultural confusion. A decade after JFK's assassinatio n\, which lit the fuse for the cultural upheaval of the '60s\, Richard Nix on’s “I am not a crook” speech drones from the TV\, signaling the re volution's bitter end. With clarity\, subtlety\, and a dose of wicked humo r\, Academy Award–winning director Ang Lee renders Rick Moody’s acclai med novel of yuppie American malaise as a trenchant\, tragic cinematic por trait of lost souls. It's also striking to see how Lee's masterpiece predi cts our own era of disaffection and regression\, its stature as a great Am erican film\, made by a Taiwanese immigrant\, growing with each passing Tu rkey Day. Featuring a tremendous cast of established actors (Kevin Kline\, Joan Allen\, Sigourney Weaver) and rising stars (Tobey Maguire\, Christin a Ricci\, Elijah Wood\, Katie Holmes)\, The Ice Storm is among the finest films of the '90s.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/d97 90f9d717d9a11b9ca5dcda6296367.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1942@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251129T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251129T160000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174501Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/koln-75-2025/ SUMMARY:Köln 75 (2025) DESCRIPTION:Keith Jarrett's 1975 live album\, The Köln Concert\, recorded at the Cologne Opera House in West Germany is one of the biggest blockbust er records in jazz. It is the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano album. But\, according to Ido Fluk's affectionate d ramatization of Jarrett’s legendary performance\, the show nearly didn't happen.\n\nKöln 75 tells the compelling\, entertaining\, and little-know n backstory of Jarrett’s improvised masterpiece. Based on a true story\, the film follows plucky teenage go-getter Vera Brandes (Mala Emde)\, an u p-and-coming concert promoter who improbably conceived and orchestrated on e of the towering achievements in the jazz canon. From organizing the conc ert venue to promoting the event to packing the house to appeasing the sta r\, everything had to go right to get the classic ECM record on tape. Acco rding to legend\, Jarrett\, a famously prickly and demanding performer\, n early pulled the plug at the last minute when the Bösendorfer Imperial Gr and piano he was promised was nowhere to be found.\n\nJohn Magaro plays Ja rrett with his own intensity\, a sublime counterpoint to Mala Emde’s joy ful portrayal of the enthusiastic and wide-eyed Vera. Between his devastat ing lead in Omaha\, his dopey supporting turn in Kelly Reichardt's The Mas termind\, and now his fully-inhabited performance as the piano virtuoso\, Magaro is having a quietly monumental year.\n\nKöln 75 is also playing on November 29 at 7 pm in The Screening Room\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kol n75_photo2_rev-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1941@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251129T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251129T190000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174513Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/koln-75/ SUMMARY:Köln 75 (2025) DESCRIPTION:Keith Jarrett's 1975 live album\, The Köln Concert\, recorded at the Cologne Opera House in West Germany is one of the biggest blockbust er records in jazz. It is the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano album. But\, according to Ido Fluk's affectionate d ramatization of Jarrett’s legendary performance\, the show nearly didn't happen.\n\nKöln 75 tells the compelling\, entertaining\, and little-know n backstory of Jarrett’s improvised masterpiece. Based on a true story\, the film follows plucky teenage go-getter Vera Brandes (Mala Emde)\, an u p-and-coming concert promoter who improbably conceived and orchestrated on e of the towering achievements in the jazz canon. From organizing the conc ert venue to promoting the event to packing the house to appeasing the sta r\, everything had to go right to get the classic ECM record on tape. Acco rding to legend\, Jarrett\, a famously prickly and demanding performer\, n early pulled the plug at the last minute when the Bösendorfer Imperial Gr and piano he was promised was nowhere to be found.\n\nJohn Magaro plays Ja rrett with his own intensity\, a sublime counterpoint to Mala Emde’s joy ful portrayal of the enthusiastic and wide-eyed Vera. Between his devastat ing lead in Omaha\, his dopey supporting turn in Kelly Reichardt's The Mas termind\, and now his fully-inhabited performance as the piano virtuoso\, Magaro is having a quietly monumental year.\n\nKöln 75 is also playing on November 29 at 4 pm in The Screening Room\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kol n75_photo2_rev-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1938@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T160000 DTSTAMP:20251203T202412Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sentimental-value-2/ SUMMARY:Sentimental Value (2025) DESCRIPTION:In Joachim Trier’s follow-up to the runaway art house hit The Worst Person in the World\, Renate Reinsve reunites with the director to burrows into the role of acclaimed stage actress Nora Borg. Following the death of her mother\, she descends into a personal crisis as she and her t herapist sister\, Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas)\, are suddenly forced to confront their estranged filmmaker father\, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård\, getting long-overdue accolades)\, who comes bearing a surprise script he's penned for Nora. Trier’s insightful and captivating dramedy\, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes\, furthers the writer-director’s ongoing explo ration of the frayed ties that bind us to one another and to our creative selves.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/MCD SEVA_EC019.webp CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1929@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T190000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174058Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sentimental-value/ SUMMARY:Sentimental Value (2025) DESCRIPTION:In Joachim Trier’s follow-up to the runaway art house hit The Worst Person in the World\, Renate Reinsve reunites with the director to burrows into the role of acclaimed stage actress Nora Borg. Following the death of her mother\, she descends into a personal crisis as she and her t herapist sister\, Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas)\, are suddenly forced to confront their estranged filmmaker father\, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård\, getting long-overdue accolades)\, who comes bearing a surprise script he's penned for Nora. Trier’s insightful and captivating dramedy\, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes\, furthers the writer-director’s ongoing explo ration of the frayed ties that bind us to one another and to our creative selves.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/MCD SEVA_EC019.webp CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1939@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T160000 DTSTAMP:20251118T173953Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sentimental-value-3/ SUMMARY:Sentimental Value (2025) DESCRIPTION:In Joachim Trier’s follow-up to the runaway art house hit The Worst Person in the World\, Renate Reinsve reunites with the director to burrows into the role of acclaimed stage actress Nora Borg. Following the death of her mother\, she descends into a personal crisis as she and her t herapist sister\, Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas)\, are suddenly forced to confront their estranged filmmaker father\, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård\, getting long-overdue accolades)\, who comes bearing a surprise script he's penned for Nora. Trier’s insightful and captivating dramedy\, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes\, furthers the writer-director’s ongoing explo ration of the frayed ties that bind us to one another and to our creative selves.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/MCD SEVA_EC019.webp CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1940@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T190000 DTSTAMP:20251118T173924Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sentimental-value-4/ SUMMARY:Sentimental Value (2025) DESCRIPTION:In Joachim Trier’s follow-up to the runaway art house hit The Worst Person in the World\, Renate Reinsve reunites with the director to burrows into the role of acclaimed stage actress Nora Borg. Following the death of her mother\, she descends into a personal crisis as she and her t herapist sister\, Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas)\, are suddenly forced to confront their estranged filmmaker father\, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård\, getting long-overdue accolades)\, who comes bearing a surprise script he's penned for Nora. Trier’s insightful and captivating dramedy\, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes\, furthers the writer-director’s ongoing explo ration of the frayed ties that bind us to one another and to our creative selves.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/MCD SEVA_EC019.webp CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1922@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T190000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174556Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/kiss-me-deadly/ SUMMARY:Kiss Me Deadly (1955) DESCRIPTION:Noir veers into apocalyptic sci-fi in Robert Aldrich’s 1955 m asterpiece Kiss Me Deadly. Brazen and bleak\, Kiss Me Deadly is an essenti al piece of Cold War paranoia\, with as nervy an ending as has ever been s een in American cinema. Fear of nuclear annihilation fuses with fear of th e femme fatale as multiple nefarious parties chase a mysterious\, and poss ibly apocalyptic\, "Great Whatsit." Aldrich and ace writer A. I. Bezzeride s adapt and mercilessly satirize Mickey Spillane's wildly popular pulp det ective novels—which made the author the most commercially successful Ame rican novelist during the Cold War. They transport this twisty tale from N ew York to a desolate L.A.\, downgrading Spillane's "cynical fascist" (Ald rich's words) antihero\, Mike Hammer (played straight and brutish by Ralph Meeker)\, from a private eye to a disgraced divorce dick while upping his brainless vigilantism. Banned in Britain\, and championed by the hip Fren chmen of Cahiers du Cinéma—who crowned Aldrich “the first director of the atomic age”—Kiss Me Deadly blows the good manners of the 1950s to smithereens.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/KIS S_ME_DEADLY_thumbnail.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1923@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T150000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174609Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-night-of-the-hunter/ SUMMARY:The Night of the Hunter (1955) DESCRIPTION:The Night of the Hunter is a permanent fixture in the pantheon of one-and-done cinematic masterpieces. Acclaimed actor Charles Laughton —best known for his Oscar-winning performance in The Private Life of Hen ry VIII—directed this "nightmarish Mother Goose story" and never helmed another movie after. Which is a shame because The Night of the Hunter is a labor of love and an astounding vision\, with an incredibly severe\, inte nsely expressionistic style that cloaks Robert Mitchum\, in his greatest v illainous performance\, in the deepest shadows ever captured on celluloid. In this Grimm fairytale\, a serial killer preacher tries to track down $1 0\,000 stashed by his former cellmate\; only the man's kids know the where abouts of the ill-gotten cash\, so he courts the man's widow (Shelley Wint ers) to get closer to the children and uncover the loot. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor\, this ethereal\, American cla ssic—also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish and writer James Agee—is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil.\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/NOT H-Mitchum.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1924@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T190000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174626Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/touch-of-evil/ SUMMARY:Touch of Evil (1958) DESCRIPTION:Orson Welles plays a beleaguered police captain\; Marlene Dietr ich is a fortune teller\; Janet Leigh is an out-of-her-depth honeymooner\; Zsa Zsa Gabor is a strip club owner\; and Charlton Heston plays... a Mexi can prosecutor. So\, yeah\, Touch of Evil is one of the most outlandish no ir films around\, and not without its unsavory aspects. It's also one of t he most thrillingly stylized films in the whole genre\, as well as in Well es' monumental but unstable filmography. Its sheer technical audacity even won over Pauline Kael\, who praised Welles' "marvelously garish thriller" as an expression of his abiding "love of the film medium." Touch of Evil reaches an early high-water mark with an incredibly intricate\, unbearably suspenseful one-take opening sequence\, setting off this convoluted story about a double-murder investigation with unparalleled panache. Like most of Welles' masterpieces\, Touch of Evil was torpedoed by studio meddling a nd underwent a decades-long process of reinstating the director's original ambitions (thanks to the heroic efforts of legendary editor Walter Murch) . Soon after his film was taken out of his hands and recut\, with Welles l iterally locked out of the editing room\, he travelled to Mexico City to b egin shooting his next misadventure\, Don Quixote\, which didn't exactly g o swimmingly either...\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tou ch-of-evil-1851-26-e1760387860112.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1943@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T190000 DTSTAMP:20251202T171032Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-tale-of-silyan/ SUMMARY:The Tale of Silyan (2025) DESCRIPTION:This special screening is exclusive to VTIFF members. This even t is free but advance registration is recommended. Before the show\, we wi ll hold a reception in the Lake Lobby with catering from Santiago's and a cash bar from Foam Brewers.\n\nFrom the Oscar-nominated director of Honeyl and comes a poignant and beautifully photographed story set in the heart o f rural Macedonia. Unfolding like a local fable\, this lyrical non-fiction film follows a farmer at a crossroads: Nikola and his wife grapple with t he harsh realities of new government policies\, suddenly finding themselve s unable to sell their land or crops. While others seek security elsewhere \, Nikola remains rooted in the fields he has long tended\, determined to preserve the only way of life he knows. At this uncertain moment in his li fe\, he discovers another local resident in need of help: a majestic stork with a broken wing. He begins tenderly nurturing this new companion back to health and an unlikely bond forms between them. With breathtaking cinem atography\, filmmaker Tamara Kotevskathe captures the stark beauty of her homeland and the strength of those who continue to work its land\, creatin g a deeply moving film that touches on climate change\, economic migration \, and the quiet power of connection. The Tale of Silyan was selected as t he North Macedonian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 9 8th Academy Awards.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The -Tale-Of-Silyan-Still-1-Primary-Image_WNAEuO2rEohO5J2_SI-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1925@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251212T190000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174642Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-virgin-suicides/ SUMMARY:The Virgin Suicides (1999) DESCRIPTION:Sofia Coppola's luminous debut feature situated the young write r-director as her generation's foremost chronicler of the interior lives o f young women\, and immediately erased (almost) all the ill-will from her presence in The Godfather Part III. Coppola's savvy and subtle adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s acclaimed novel uses the visual language of cinem a to weave a more sophisticated tapestry of the Lisbon sisters' ennui and inevitable tragedy. Led by eldest sister Lux (Coppola's muse Kirsten Dunst )\, the tight-knit clan navigate the trials of adolescence and the suffoca ting household created by their overprotective religious parents (Kathleen Turner and James Woods). Where Eugenides told their tale through the coll ective memory of the boys in the sisters' orbit\, Coppola's gossamer image s let us behind closed doors\, into the poisoned private lives that are be yond the boys' imaginings and fantasies. Evoking its 1970s suburban settin g through ethereal cinematography and one of the era's best scores\, by Fr ench touch band Air\, this coming-of-age touchstone secured Sofia's place as heir apparent in a sprawling filmmaking family\, as well as in the land scape of turn-of-the-century indie cinema.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/kbA i8pGVjC7VFJm8JedqrbRk4pJ2nOfqJDbl4Auo.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1926@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T150000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174658Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/yi-yi/ SUMMARY:Yi Yi (2000) DESCRIPTION:The late Taiwanese master Edward Yang's extraordinary Yi Yi is his final film and his best-known masterwork. The sprawling story follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year\, beginning wi th a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-aged fa ther NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young so n Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera\, th e filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with compassion and clarity . But no mere summary can truly capture the enormity of Yang's achievement here\, or his genius for creating a fully actualized urban environment po pulated by people with rich and complex inner lives\, desires\, and hearta che. Through his painterly eye\, character and environment are inseparable \, and Yi Yi is Yang's most exquisite city symphony—its subtitle\, fitti ngly\, A One and Two...—as well as the capstone of the Taiwanese New Wav e. With his final statement\, Yang's place as the spiritual descendent of Yasujiro Ozu crystallized\, and the late filmmaker's stature in cinephile circles seems to grow with each passing year. This dazzling intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the twenty-first century.\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/781 id_522_0005_781id_522_w1600.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1927@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T190000 DTSTAMP:20251118T174712Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/american-psycho/ SUMMARY:American Psycho (2000) DESCRIPTION:Bret Easton Ellis considered his controversial novel unfilmable but boy did writer-director Mary Harron prove him wrong. David Cronenberg \, Stuart Gordon\, and Oliver Stone\, among others\, were each separately eyeing the project before Harron stepped in and made it her own. And basic ally every hot young late-'90s leading man was considered for the titular psycho before the role fell to the lesser-known Christian Bale. And does h e ever rip into the material\, giving an instantly iconic performance as i nvestment banker Patrick Bateman. Chiseled from marble and just as cold an d dead inside\, Bale's Bateman is the grinning embodiment of Reagan-era ca pitalist avarice.\n\nBateman leads a double life\, meticulously maintainin g a polished social façade while harboring dark impulses. By day\, he din es at trendy restaurants\, obsesses over his physical appearance\, and nav igates a shallow circle of wealthy associates he secretly despises\; by ni ght\, he commits heinous acts of violence. But where does one masquerade e nd and the other begin? Bale went full method for the coveted role\, drawi ng inspiration from Nicolas Cage's performance in Vampire's Kiss\, for one \, as well as Tom Cruise interviews on Late Night with David Letterman. An d he never broke character on set.\n\nHarron was ahead of the curve in her use of the weaponized ironic pop song\, prominently featuring cuts from H uey Lewis and the News and Phil Collins\, which are undercut by a melancho ly score by Velvet Underground maestro John Cale. The stacked cast include s indie stalwarts—Willem Defoe\, Matt Ross—and up-and-coming A-listers —Bale\, Reese Witherspoon\, Chloë Sevigny\, Jared Leto\, Justin Theroux . But this is Harron's show and the film is nothing if not a feat of adapt ation\, taking cues from Mario Bava's giallo films and turning Ellis' repu gnant sort-of satire into something far more ambiguous\, farcical\, fright ening\, and enduring.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Ame rican-Psycho-040-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1947@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251219T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251219T160000 DTSTAMP:20251205T201843Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/in-the-mood-for-love-2/ SUMMARY:In the Mood for Love (2000) DESCRIPTION:VTIFF celebrates the holidays with this annual tradition: a fes tive screening of Wong Kar-wai's sumptuous yuletide masterpiece\, In the M ood for Love.  \n\nHong Kong\, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li- zhen (Maggie Cheung) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. The ir encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouse s creates an intimate bond between them.\n\nAt once delicately mannered an d visually extravagant\, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a mast erful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle an d Mark Lee\, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past tw o decades of cinema\, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.\n \nIt’s the best-looking movie with the best soundtrack and the best cine matography and the best actors with the best director…and it’s still m ore than the sum of its parts.\n\nThe New Yorker explained\, “Wong creat ed a cocktail of French New Wave filmmaking\, American hardboiled mystery\ , Chinese modernist literature\, and the geopolitics of his own Hong Kong- via-Shanghai upbringing\, then chaneled those disparate influences into th e mundane\, domestic story of two not-quite-lovers. The combination is bot h unprecedented and somehow familiar upon watching\, like a forgotten memo ry. The clarity of vision leaves an indelible mark on the viewer.”\n\nMo derately acclaimed upon its release\, the film’s reputation has soared i n the intervening decades as its influence becomes ever-more pervasive (su ch as the use of the film’s set as one of the dimensional stops in the O scar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once). The most recent Sight & amp\; Sound poll ranked it as the 5th best film of all time\, while the a ggregate cinephile website They Shoot Pictures Don’t They declared it the #1 film of the 21st century (so far).\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/MV5 BNmEyM2IwNzctMmJmMi00NDljLTlmM2UtNTYwMGFhMmE5ZTJhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzI1NzMxN zM@._V1_-e1760388978487.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1928@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251219T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251219T190000 DTSTAMP:20251218T153302Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/in-the-mood-for-love/ SUMMARY:In the Mood for Love (2000) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nVTIFF celebrates the holidays with this annual tradition: a fest ive screening of Wong Kar-wai's sumptuous yuletide masterpiece\, In the Mo od for Love.  \n\nHong Kong\, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-z hen (Maggie Cheung) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Thei r encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.\n\nAt once delicately mannered and visually extravagant\, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a maste rful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching s oundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee\, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema\, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.\n\ nIt’s the best-looking movie with the best soundtrack and the best cinem atography and the best actors with the best director…and it’s still mo re than the sum of its parts.\n\nThe New Yorker explained\, “Wong create d a cocktail of French New Wave filmmaking\, American hardboiled mystery\, Chinese modernist literature\, and the geopolitics of his own Hong Kong-v ia-Shanghai upbringing\, then chaneled those disparate influences into the mundane\, domestic story of two not-quite-lovers. The combination is both unprecedented and somehow familiar upon watching\, like a forgotten memor y. The clarity of vision leaves an indelible mark on the viewer.”\n\nMod erately acclaimed upon its release\, the film’s reputation has soared in the intervening decades as its influence becomes ever-more pervasive (suc h as the use of the film’s set as one of the dimensional stops in the Os car-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once). The most recent Sight &a mp\; Sound poll ranked it as the 5th best film of all time\, while the ag gregate cinephile website They Shoot Pictures Don’t They declared it t he #1 film of the 21st century (so far).\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/MV5 BNmEyM2IwNzctMmJmMi00NDljLTlmM2UtNTYwMGFhMmE5ZTJhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzI1NzMxN zM@._V1_-e1760388978487.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1956@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260102T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260102T190000 DTSTAMP:20251223T144620Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/citizen-kane/ SUMMARY:Citizen Kane (1941) DESCRIPTION:1. See Citizen Kane. \n2. Have you seen Citizen Kane yet? \n\ nSo should begin the list of New Year’s Resolutions for any so-called fi lm lover who has somehow escaped the transformative experience of Orson We lles’ 1941 masterpiece. So here’s a chance to make good on a resolutio n just two days into the new year\, and have fun doing it. \n\nIt’s no accident that Citizen Kane has been named the Greatest Movie of All Time b y numerous groups—the American Film Institute\, British Film Institute\, BBC\, New York Film Critics Circle\, National Board of Review\, internet aggregator They Shoot Pictures Don’t They\, and on and on. But in a way\ , the legend has become an albatross\, and the movie is now perceived by s ome as cinematic medicine\, something that must be endured on the way to s eeing the movies you actually like. Fact: that’s wrong.\n\nBecause here ’s the thing: Citizen Kane is a joy-ride\, an absolute delight\, about a s much fun as you can have watching a movie.  \n\nThe thrill of innovati on is everywhere. The dazzling\, multiple-perspective script by Welles and Herman Mankiewicz is kaleidoscopic storytelling at its best\, and earned the film its only Oscar. The still-unmatched deep-focus cinematography by the great Gregg Toland is forever-breathtaking\, the result of Toland actu ally inventing lenses and techniques that made it possible. The film also marked the debuts of a slew of great actors who would become Hollywood reg ulars over the years\, including Joseph Cotten\, Agnes Moorehead\, Ray Col lins\, Ruth Warrick\, and Paul Stewart. Oh\, and Kane is the debut first f ilm score by the legendary\, Oscar-winning Bernard Herrmann (Vertigo\, Psy cho\, Taxi Driver)! \n\nAnd you can’t talk about firsts without noting that this is Orson Welles’ first film (!!). He was 25 years old at the t ime\, and already the toast of the New York theater scene. He had complete creative control\, down to the final cut\, something he would never have again. \n\nAnother positive: Citizen Kane is a penetrating\, lacerating s tudy of malignant American megalomania\, a timely and pertinent tale\, for sure. The film greatly upset the person it was at-least-somewhat based on (publisher William Randolph Hearst)\, so it gets full points for ruffling the feathers of the 1%. \n\nSo when people (like me) go off about how gr eat this movie is\, remember: sometimes\, something just really is THAT go od\, and that’s the case with Citizen Kane. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cit izen-kane-fr-1654029371.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1957@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260103T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260103T190000 DTSTAMP:20251229T163238Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shaft/ SUMMARY:Shaft (1971) DESCRIPTION:A seminal moment in Black American cinema\, Gordon Parks’ Sha ft gave audiences something they hadn’t seen before: a strong Black acti on hero anchoring a mainstream Hollywood action movie. A huge financial su ccess\, Shaft proved that there was a large audience for (in Parks’ word s)\, “a Saturday night fun picture which people go to see because they w ant to see the Black guy winning.”\n\nRichard Roundtree beautifully embo dies John Shaft\, who is a variation on that longtime stock character\, th e jaded detective who works outside of the corrupt system to get results ( think Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe). Except in this case\, he’s Black. A nd he dominates every situation he’s in\, whether it involves white cops \, Black gangsters\, or beautiful women. Shaft’s sartorial splendor—th e well-trimmed moustache\, plaid suits\, turtlenecks and leather duster— are a reflection of the urbane Parks’ own wardrobe. \n\nParks was a lon g-established figure in the world of African-American arts and culture by the time he made Shaft. An eminent photographer\, he was most famous for h is diverse Life magazine assignments\, which included Harlem gangs\, Paris fashions\, the Black Panther Movement (they offered him a job as minister of information\; he declined)\, and New York high society. He had already made one film\, The Learning Tree\, and was excited at the prospect of ma king a movie that would appeal to Black culture\, but also cross over into the mainstream. \n\nShaft is Parks’ love letter to New York\, which is a grimy and glamorous co-star in the film. The fantastic opening scene of Shaft swaggering through the city—literally stopping traffic as he cros ses a busy street—accompanied by Isaac Hayes’ iconic\, wah-wah-infused score\, is one of Manhattan’s great onscreen moments of the ’70s. \n \nThat amazing score\, which accompanies Shaft throughout the film\, was O scar-nominated\, and the theme song\, still a soul classic more than 50 ye ars later\, won the Oscar for Best Song. It’s all well-deserved\; rarely have images and music meshed so seamlessly as they do here. \n\nAs one o f the two major films that started the Blaxploitation movement (Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song\, released a few months ear lier\, is the other)\, Shaft retains all of its original charms while stil l being distinctly of its time. \n\nLike Citizen Kane\, it’s art that ’s a lot of fun to watch.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CyV YwFlJ30AbYsXfG8tzP4lgN9WDyT6zYN30iK9p.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1948@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T160000 DTSTAMP:20251208T154041Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/father-mother-sister-brother/ SUMMARY:Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Film Festival\, Fa ther Mother Sister Brother is the eagerly-anticipated new film from Jim Ja rmusch (Stranger Than Paradise\, Only Lovers Left Alive). Funny\, tender\, and astutely observed\, with fresh wrinkles in his signature absurdist de adpan\, this is an intimate exploration of the intricacies that make famil y dynamics unique and universal. Told in the form of a triptych—reminisc ent of Jarmusch's globetrotting anthologies Mystery Train and Night on Ear th\, as well as the sketch comedy of Coffee and Cigarettes—Father Mother Sister Brother is divided into chapters set in New Jersey\, Dublin\, and Paris\, and each story concerns the relationships between adult children\, their somewhat distant parent (or parents)\, and each other.\nSiblings Je ff and Emily (Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik) check up on their hermetic fat her (Tom Waits) in rural New Jersey\; sisters Lilith and Timothea (Vicky K rieps and Cate Blanchett) reunite with their guarded novelist mother (Char lotte Rampling) in Dublin\; and twins Skye and Billy (Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat) return to their Paris apartment to address a family tragedy. Blen ding remarkable performances from its stacked ensemble cast with Jarmusch ’s wry and idiosyncratic observations of everyday life\, the iconic indi e director’s latest serves as a timely reminder that you can choose your friends and your lovers\, but you can’t choose your family.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/040 _FMSB_©-Vague-Notion-2024_Yorick-Le-Saux-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1949@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T190000 DTSTAMP:20251208T154003Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/father-mother-sister-brother-2/ SUMMARY:Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Film Festival\, Fa ther Mother Sister Brother is the eagerly-anticipated new film from Jim Ja rmusch (Stranger Than Paradise\, Only Lovers Left Alive). Funny\, tender\, and astutely observed\, with fresh wrinkles in his signature absurdist de adpan\, this is an intimate exploration of the intricacies that make famil y dynamics unique and universal. Told in the form of a triptych—reminisc ent of Jarmusch's globetrotting anthologies Mystery Train and Night on Ear th\, as well as the sketch comedy of Coffee and Cigarettes—Father Mother Sister Brother is divided into chapters set in New Jersey\, Dublin\, and Paris\, and each story concerns the relationships between adult children\, their somewhat distant parent (or parents)\, and each other.\nSiblings Je ff and Emily (Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik) check up on their hermetic fat her (Tom Waits) in rural New Jersey\; sisters Lilith and Timothea (Vicky K rieps and Cate Blanchett) reunite with their guarded novelist mother (Char lotte Rampling) in Dublin\; and twins Skye and Billy (Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat) return to their Paris apartment to address a family tragedy. Blen ding remarkable performances from its stacked ensemble cast with Jarmusch ’s wry and idiosyncratic observations of everyday life\, the iconic indi e director’s latest serves as a timely reminder that you can choose your friends and your lovers\, but you can’t choose your family.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/040 _FMSB_©-Vague-Notion-2024_Yorick-Le-Saux-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1950@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T160000 DTSTAMP:20251208T153928Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/father-mother-sister-brother-3/ SUMMARY:Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Film Festival\, Fa ther Mother Sister Brother is the eagerly-anticipated new film from Jim Ja rmusch (Stranger Than Paradise\, Only Lovers Left Alive). Funny\, tender\, and astutely observed\, with fresh wrinkles in his signature absurdist de adpan\, this is an intimate exploration of the intricacies that make famil y dynamics unique and universal. Told in the form of a triptych—reminisc ent of Jarmusch's globetrotting anthologies Mystery Train and Night on Ear th\, as well as the sketch comedy of Coffee and Cigarettes—Father Mother Sister Brother is divided into chapters set in New Jersey\, Dublin\, and Paris\, and each story concerns the relationships between adult children\, their somewhat distant parent (or parents)\, and each other.\nSiblings Je ff and Emily (Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik) check up on their hermetic fat her (Tom Waits) in rural New Jersey\; sisters Lilith and Timothea (Vicky K rieps and Cate Blanchett) reunite with their guarded novelist mother (Char lotte Rampling) in Dublin\; and twins Skye and Billy (Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat) return to their Paris apartment to address a family tragedy. Blen ding remarkable performances from its stacked ensemble cast with Jarmusch ’s wry and idiosyncratic observations of everyday life\, the iconic indi e director’s latest serves as a timely reminder that you can choose your friends and your lovers\, but you can’t choose your family.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/040 _FMSB_©-Vague-Notion-2024_Yorick-Le-Saux-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1951@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T190000 DTSTAMP:20251208T153834Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/father-mother-sister-brother-4/ SUMMARY:Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Film Festival\, Fa ther Mother Sister Brother is the eagerly-anticipated new film from Jim Ja rmusch (Stranger Than Paradise\, Only Lovers Left Alive). Funny\, tender\, and astutely observed\, with fresh wrinkles in his signature absurdist de adpan\, this is an intimate exploration of the intricacies that make famil y dynamics unique and universal. Told in the form of a triptych—reminisc ent of Jarmusch's globetrotting anthologies Mystery Train and Night on Ear th\, as well as the sketch comedy of Coffee and Cigarettes—Father Mother Sister Brother is divided into chapters set in New Jersey\, Dublin\, and Paris\, and each story concerns the relationships between adult children\, their somewhat distant parent (or parents)\, and each other.\nSiblings Je ff and Emily (Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik) check up on their hermetic fat her (Tom Waits) in rural New Jersey\; sisters Lilith and Timothea (Vicky K rieps and Cate Blanchett) reunite with their guarded novelist mother (Char lotte Rampling) in Dublin\; and twins Skye and Billy (Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat) return to their Paris apartment to address a family tragedy. Blen ding remarkable performances from its stacked ensemble cast with Jarmusch ’s wry and idiosyncratic observations of everyday life\, the iconic indi e director’s latest serves as a timely reminder that you can choose your friends and your lovers\, but you can’t choose your family.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/040 _FMSB_©-Vague-Notion-2024_Yorick-Le-Saux-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1945@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T160000 DTSTAMP:20251203T171422Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-other-choice-2025/ SUMMARY:No Other Choice (2025) DESCRIPTION:In his latest diabolical comedy-thriller\, Park Chan-wook (Deci sion to Leave\, The Handmaiden) crafts a precision-tooled fable about the cutthroat nature of contemporary work culture. When Man-soo (Lee Byung) is abruptly laid off by the paper manufacturing company where he has worked tirelessly for decades\, he grows increasingly desperate in his hunt for a new gig as his identity and self-worth unravel. After an extended and inc reasingly worrisome period of unemployment\, Man-soo begins to take mercil ess measures toward solidifying his standing with a potential new employer \, leading to wild—and ever more absurd—acts of violence\, orchestrate d by Park in his inimitable and extravagant pitch-black slapstick style. A dapting and updating Donald E. Westlake novel The Ax\, Park tests the tens ility of his signature hyperrealism\, bringing it to the brink. No Other C hoice—Korea's submission for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards—is a brilliant bitter pill full of twists you will never see coming\, that only Park could pull off with this level of delirious s howmanship.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/MV5 BZGY2NDBjNjYtYWVjNi00OTAwLWE5YzAtN2M3YjkyMzNkYzQ1XkEyXkFqcGdeQWFkcmllY2xh. _V1_-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1944@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T190000 DTSTAMP:20260116T143743Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-other-choice/ SUMMARY:No Other Choice (2025) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nIn his latest diabolical comedy-thriller\, Park Chan-wook (Decis ion to Leave\, The Handmaiden) crafts a precision-tooled fable about the c utthroat nature of contemporary work culture. When Man-soo (Lee Byung) is abruptly laid off by the paper manufacturing company where he has worked t irelessly for decades\, he grows increasingly desperate in his hunt for a new gig as his identity and self-worth unravel. After an extended and incr easingly worrisome period of unemployment\, Man-soo begins to take mercile ss measures toward solidifying his standing with a potential new employer\ , leading to wild—and ever more absurd—acts of violence\, orchestrated by Park in his inimitable and extravagant pitch-black slapstick style. Ad apting and updating Donald E. Westlake novel The Ax\, Park tests the tensi lity of his signature hyperrealism\, bringing it to the brink. No Other Ch oice—Korea's submission for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards—is a brilliant bitter pill full of twists you will never see coming\, that only Park could pull off with this level of delirious sh owmanship.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/MV5 BZGY2NDBjNjYtYWVjNi00OTAwLWE5YzAtN2M3YjkyMzNkYzQ1XkEyXkFqcGdeQWFkcmllY2xh. _V1_-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1958@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T150000 DTSTAMP:20260114T155839Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wages-of-fear/ SUMMARY:The Wages of Fear (1953) DESCRIPTION:Where would you rather be? On a truck full of nitroglycerine in the South American mountains or on a raft on the totally unexplored Amazo n with greedy religious fanatics in the 16th century?\n\nOne of the all-ti me white-knuckle tension-fests in cinema history\, Wages of Fear drops us into a very remote and mountainous region of Las Piedras\, where four men in two trucks must transport a load of nitroglycerine over extremely bumpy terrain at the behest of a monolithic oil company to earn $2\,000. \n\nM asterfully directed by Clouzot\, Wages of Fear wrings every drop of suspen se from its fraught premise. Critic Pauline Kael called it the “the most original and shocking French drama of the ’50s… the violence is not u sed simply for excitement—it’s used to force a vision of human experie nce.” Roger Ebert concurred\, saying “The film's extended suspense seq uences deserve a place among the great stretches of cinema.”\n\nThe film was beautifully remade as Sorcerer in 1977 by William Friedkin\, but\, ev en so\, there’s no topping the original. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/wag es.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1959@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T190000 DTSTAMP:20260114T160027Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/aguirre-the-wrath-of-god/ SUMMARY:Aguirre\, the Wrath of God (1972) DESCRIPTION:Where would you rather be? On a truck full of nitroglycerine in the South American mountains or on a raft on the totally unexplored Amazo n with greedy religious fanatics in the 16th century?\n\nWerner Herzog’s none-too-subtle but incredibly effective broadside against the hubris of colonialism\, Aguirre\, the Wrath of God is one of the German master’s f inest films. It’s also the first of his five collaborations with the fam ously unpleasant Klaus Kinski\, who is at his most effective and psychotic in the title role. \n\nOur plot: In 1560\, a group of 40 Spanish conquis tadors\, having done their part to conquer the Inca empire\, head down the uncharted Amazon River on four rafts\, in search of the golden city of El Dorado. It turns out to be a really bad idea.\n\nA notoriously troubled s hoot on some very inhospitable locations in the Peruvian rain forest\, Agu irre was shot in chronological order\, and\, from all accounts\, the disso lution off the screen seemed to feed into the sense of chaos and forebodin g on the screen. The result is utterly mesmerizing\, one of cinema’s fin est renderings of a descent into the heart of darkness. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ima ges-original-1.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1952@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T190000 DTSTAMP:20260123T150032Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-undesirable-friends/ SUMMARY:Friends My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2025) [Section I] DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nHere's the scoop: My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in M oscow\, the monumental new documentary from director Julia Loktev (The Lon eliest Planet)\, is\, as its title suggests\, a story that is still unfold ing. "Part I" is an acclaimed 5.5 hour movie now playing in select theater s\, including VTIFF. Loktev is currently filming and editing "Part II" as the stories of these courageous expat journalists continues to evolve. We are showing "Part I" across two sections\; the first section covers three chapters in this story and the second section covers chapters four and fiv e. We are selling each section as its own ticketed screening\, so you will need two tickets to see My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Mosc ow in full.\n\nHere is the schedule for My Undesirable Friends My Undesira ble Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow:\n\nFri.\, Jan. 23 | 7 pm | Secti on I\nSat.\, Jan. 24 | 3 pm | Section I\nSat.\, Jan. 24 | 7 pm | Section I I\nSun.\, Jan. 25 | 3 pm | Section II\n\n \;\n\n"A masterpiece." —Fi lm Comment\n\n"A staggering portrait of Russian journalists in dissent." —The New Yorker\n\nHow do you keep fighting for the truth when your coun try declares you an outlaw? Julia Loktev's kinetic documentary\, a brillia nt vérité paranoid thriller\, follows several journalists\, mostly young women\, during the fall and winter of 2021-2022. They and the outlet they work for\, TV Rain\, have been labeled "foreign agents" by Putin's regime \, which requires all their reporting to include a ludicrous and severely enforced disclaimer. While the staff meet the designation with gallows hum or\, it means that they are increasingly subject to government surveillanc e and harassment. Most of the journalists try to continue living relativel y normal lives\, reporting truthfully on Russian politics while jumping th rough Kafkaesque bureaucratic hoops. What begins as an intimate epic about young Russian independent journalists fighting Putin’s regime takes a d rastic turn when Russia invades Ukraine.  As the walls close in and the c rackdowns intensify\, they must choose whether or not to leave their homel and and flee into exile.\n\nMy Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow won Best Non-Fiction Film from the New York Film Critics Circle an d Best Documentary Film from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The film was also cited by NPR and The New Yorker critic Justin Chang and New York Times critic Manohla Dargis's as one of the top 10 movies of the yea r. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/My- Undesirable-Friends-Part-I_still-1_of-Ksenia-Mironova-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1953@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T150000 DTSTAMP:20260123T150048Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-undesirable-friends-2/ SUMMARY:Friends My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2025) [Section I] DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nHere's the scoop: My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in M oscow\, the monumental new documentary from director Julia Loktev (The Lon eliest Planet)\, is\, as its title suggests\, a story that is still unfold ing. "Part I" is an acclaimed 5.5 hour movie now playing in select theater s\, including VTIFF. Loktev is currently filming and editing "Part II" as the stories of these courageous expat journalists continues to evolve. We are showing "Part I" across two sections\; the first section covers three chapters in this story and the second section covers chapters four and fiv e. We are selling each section as its own ticketed screening\, so you will need two tickets to see My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Mosc ow in full.\n\nHere is the schedule for My Undesirable Friends My Undesira ble Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow:\n\nFri.\, Jan. 23 | 7 pm | Secti on I\nSat.\, Jan. 24 | 3 pm | Section I\nSat.\, Jan. 24 | 7 pm | Section I I\nSun.\, Jan. 25 | 3 pm | Section II\n\n \;\n\n"A masterpiece." —Fi lm Comment\n\n"A staggering portrait of Russian journalists in dissent." —The New Yorker\n\nHow do you keep fighting for the truth when your coun try declares you an outlaw? Julia Loktev's kinetic documentary\, a brillia nt vérité paranoid thriller\, follows several journalists\, mostly young women\, during the fall and winter of 2021-2022. They and the outlet they work for\, TV Rain\, have been labeled "foreign agents" by Putin's regime \, which requires all their reporting to include a ludicrous and severely enforced disclaimer. While the staff meet the designation with gallows hum or\, it means that they are increasingly subject to government surveillanc e and harassment. Most of the journalists try to continue living relativel y normal lives\, reporting truthfully on Russian politics while jumping th rough Kafkaesque bureaucratic hoops. What begins as an intimate epic about young Russian independent journalists fighting Putin’s regime takes a d rastic turn when Russia invades Ukraine.  As the walls close in and the c rackdowns intensify\, they must choose whether or not to leave their homel and and flee into exile.\n\nMy Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow won Best Non-Fiction Film from the New York Film Critics Circle an d Best Documentary Film from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The film was also cited by NPR and The New Yorker critic Justin Chang and New York Times critic Manohla Dargis's as one of the top 10 movies of the yea r. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/My- Undesirable-Friends-Part-I_still-1_of-Ksenia-Mironova-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1954@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T190000 DTSTAMP:20260123T150421Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-undesirable-friends-3/ SUMMARY:Friends My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2025) [Section II] DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nHere's the scoop: My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in M oscow\, the monumental new documentary from director Julia Loktev (The Lon eliest Planet)\, is\, as its title suggests\, a story that is still unfold ing. "Part I" is an acclaimed 5.5 hour movie now playing in select theater s\, including VTIFF. Loktev is currently filming and editing "Part II" as the stories of these courageous expat journalists continues to evolve. We are showing "Part I" across two sections\; the first section covers three chapters in this story and the second section covers chapters four and fiv e. We are selling each section as its own ticketed screening\, so you will need two tickets to see My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Mosc ow in full.\n\nHere is the schedule for My Undesirable Friends My Undesira ble Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow:\n\nFri.\, Jan. 23 | 7 pm | Secti on I\nSat.\, Jan. 24 | 3 pm | Section I\nSat.\, Jan. 24 | 7 pm | Section I I\nSun.\, Jan. 25 | 3 pm | Section II\n\n \;\n\n"A masterpiece." —Fi lm Comment\n\n"A staggering portrait of Russian journalists in dissent." —The New Yorker\n\nHow do you keep fighting for the truth when your coun try declares you an outlaw? Julia Loktev's kinetic documentary\, a brillia nt vérité paranoid thriller\, follows several journalists\, mostly young women\, during the fall and winter of 2021-2022. They and the outlet they work for\, TV Rain\, have been labeled "foreign agents" by Putin's regime \, which requires all their reporting to include a ludicrous and severely enforced disclaimer. While the staff meet the designation with gallows hum or\, it means that they are increasingly subject to government surveillanc e and harassment. Most of the journalists try to continue living relativel y normal lives\, reporting truthfully on Russian politics while jumping th rough Kafkaesque bureaucratic hoops. What begins as an intimate epic about young Russian independent journalists fighting Putin’s regime takes a d rastic turn when Russia invades Ukraine.  As the walls close in and the c rackdowns intensify\, they must choose whether or not to leave their homel and and flee into exile.\n\nMy Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow won Best Non-Fiction Film from the New York Film Critics Circle an d Best Documentary Film from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The film was also cited by NPR and The New Yorker critic Justin Chang and New York Times critic Manohla Dargis's as one of the top 10 movies of the yea r. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/My- Undesirable-Friends-Part-I_ALT-still-4_of-Olga-Churakova.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1955@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260125T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260125T150000 DTSTAMP:20260123T150441Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-undesirable-friends-4/ SUMMARY:Friends My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2025) [Section II] DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nHere's the scoop: My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in M oscow\, the monumental new documentary from director Julia Loktev (The Lon eliest Planet)\, is\, as its title suggests\, a story that is still unfold ing. "Part I" is an acclaimed 5.5 hour movie now playing in select theater s\, including VTIFF. Loktev is currently filming and editing "Part II" as the stories of these courageous expat journalists continues to evolve. We are showing "Part I" across two sections\; the first section covers three chapters in this story and the second section covers chapters four and fiv e. We are selling each section as its own ticketed screening\, so you will need two tickets to see My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Mosc ow in full.\n\nHere is the schedule for My Undesirable Friends My Undesira ble Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow:\n\nFri.\, Jan. 23 | 7 pm | Secti on I\nSat.\, Jan. 24 | 3 pm | Section I\nSat.\, Jan. 24 | 7 pm | Section I I\nSun.\, Jan. 25 | 3 pm | Section II\n\n \;\n\n"A masterpiece." —Fi lm Comment\n\n"A staggering portrait of Russian journalists in dissent." —The New Yorker\n\nHow do you keep fighting for the truth when your coun try declares you an outlaw? Julia Loktev's kinetic documentary\, a brillia nt vérité paranoid thriller\, follows several journalists\, mostly young women\, during the fall and winter of 2021-2022. They and the outlet they work for\, TV Rain\, have been labeled "foreign agents" by Putin's regime \, which requires all their reporting to include a ludicrous and severely enforced disclaimer. While the staff meet the designation with gallows hum or\, it means that they are increasingly subject to government surveillanc e and harassment. Most of the journalists try to continue living relativel y normal lives\, reporting truthfully on Russian politics while jumping th rough Kafkaesque bureaucratic hoops. What begins as an intimate epic about young Russian independent journalists fighting Putin’s regime takes a d rastic turn when Russia invades Ukraine.  As the walls close in and the c rackdowns intensify\, they must choose whether or not to leave their homel and and flee into exile.\n\nMy Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow won Best Non-Fiction Film from the New York Film Critics Circle an d Best Documentary Film from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The film was also cited by NPR and The New Yorker critic Justin Chang and New York Times critic Manohla Dargis's as one of the top 10 movies of the yea r. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/My- Undesirable-Friends-Part-I_ALT-still-4_of-Olga-Churakova.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1960@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T190000 DTSTAMP:20251222T211622Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wiz/ SUMMARY:The Wiz (1978) DESCRIPTION:Based on a fantastically successful\, Tony-winning 1975 Broadwa y hit\, with a cast that includes Richard Pryor\, Michael Jackson\, Lena H orne\, and Diana Ross\, and behind-the-scenes talent including Berry Gordy \, Quincy Jones\, and Sidney Lumet… what could go wrong?\n\nWell\, we wo uldn’t say things “went wrong\,” exactly. Let’s just say they “w ent weird.” An eccentric\, dazzling\, befuddling\, and often astonishing oddity\, The Wiz may be a bit of a mess\, but it’s a really fun mess\, with moments of absolute movie magic\, loads of star-power\, and a handful of knock-out production numbers. A real cinematic singularity… there’ s nothing else like The Wiz.\n\nThe story is basically an African-American inversion of The Wizard of Oz\, telling the tale of young Dorothy Gale (D iana Ross)\, who is magically transported from Harlem to the Land of Oz\, where she meets a scarecrow (Michael Jackson)\, a tin man (Nipsey Russell) \, and a cowardly lion (Ted Ross\, reprising his Tony-winning Broadway rol e)\, then heads down the yellow brick road to meet The Wiz himself (Richar d Pryor).\n\nRoss did some back-door dealing to get the part\, despite the general consensus that she’s too old for it. The script reflects Ross a nd screenwriter Joel Schumacher’s infatuation with Werner Erhard and the est movement\, which was big at the time\, though the results did not imp ress producer Rob Cohen (“I hated the script a lot\,” he said). Sidney Lumet was brought in to direct\, despite being a dramatic director\; of t he 43 films to his credit\, this is the only musical.  \n\nFor all that\ , the movie is a ton of fun\, thanks to the exuberance of the supporting c ast—no surprise\, both Pryor and Jackson are fantastic—and the big-bud get\, no-holds-barred production numbers that graft a Broadway sensibility onto a heavy late-’70s disco/dance-club vibe. The Emerald City sequence and “Everybody Rejoice” are visually explosive\, high-energy extravag anzas that leap off the screen. \n\n(Sidenote: It was on the set of The W iz that music supervisor Quincy Jones first met Michael Jackson\, and agre ed to produce his next album\, Off the Wall\, which led to Thriller\, whic h changed music history. But back to The Wiz…)\n\nA major box office dis appointment at the time of its release\, The Wiz has carved out a deserved reputation as a cult favorite. It was a little too different and a tad to o strange for a mass audience that just wasn’t ready for The Wiz in 1978 \; but we’re ready for it now.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cn6 CcguS4IVhSnI34ZUa4Yoru2iH3qQXXQSyad4k.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1961@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260131T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260131T190000 DTSTAMP:20251222T212158Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-harder-they-come/ SUMMARY:The Harder They Come (1972) DESCRIPTION:The film that made a star of Jimmy Cliff and brought reggae to the world\, Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come remains A-list cinema\, a swaggering cops-robbers-and-reggae epic fueled by one of the great soun dtracks in movie history. \n\nIvanhoe Martin (Cliff) leaves the rural lif e for the big city of Kingston\, Jamaica\, where he is repeatedly exploite d by cops\, priests\, and criminals. He records a song\, and has hope of b ecoming a singer\, but circumstances draw him into a life of crime\, from which there is seemingly no exit. Will he make it out alive\, or will he g o down with guns blazing? \n\nThe first feature film out of Jamaica\, Per ry Henzell’s high-energy debut is still electrifying\, thanks to its pot ent mix of Jamaican locations\, an unbeatable reggae score\, and the incan descent star power of Cliff\, who anchors the film as a wide-eyed country rube turned swaggering\, charismatic killer. Though it’s a crime story w ith plenty of gunplay and violence\, the pervasive musical score gives the film a celebratory vibe. Like Shaft (see January 3)\, it’s a soundtrack that stands alone from the film\, while also adding immeasurably to it.  \n\nWe’re screening The Harder They Come in honor of the great Jimmy Cli ff\, an unbeatable singer\, songwriter\, actor\, and emissary for reggae m usic. He passed away in November\, but through his great music and this fa ntastic film\, he lives on.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/01- HTC.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1979@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260201T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260201T110000 DTSTAMP:20260123T150010Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-undesirable-friends-5/ SUMMARY:Friends My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2025) DESCRIPTION:New Screening Added\nHere's the scoop: My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow\, the monumental new documentary from director Julia Loktev (The Loneliest Planet)\, is\, as its title suggests\, a stor y that is still unfolding. "Part I" is an acclaimed 5.5 hour movie now pla ying in select theaters\, including VTIFF. Loktev is currently filming and editing "Part II" as the stories of these courageous expat journalists co ntinues to evolve. This screening on Sunday\, February 1 presents My Undes irable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow in full with a half-hour inter mission.\n\n"A masterpiece." —Film Comment\n\n"A staggering portrait of Russian journalists in dissent." —The New Yorker\n\nHow do you keep figh ting for the truth when your country declares you an outlaw? Julia Loktev' s kinetic documentary\, a brilliant vérité paranoid thriller\, follows s everal journalists\, mostly young women\, during the fall and winter of 20 21-2022. They and the outlet they work for\, TV Rain\, have been labeled " foreign agents" by Putin's regime\, which requires all their reporting to include a ludicrous and severely enforced disclaimer. While the staff meet the designation with gallows humor\, it means that they are increasingly subject to government surveillance and harassment. Most of the journalists try to continue living relatively normal lives\, reporting truthfully on Russian politics while jumping through Kafkaesque bureaucratic hoops. What begins as an intimate epic about young Russian independent journalists fi ghting Putin’s regime takes a drastic turn when Russia invades Ukraine.   As the walls close in and the crackdowns intensify\, they must choose w hether or not to leave their homeland and flee into exile.\n\nMy Undesirab le Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow won Best Non-Fiction Film from t he New York Film Critics Circle and Best Documentary Film from the Los Ang eles Film Critics Association. The film was also cited by NPR and The New Yorker critic Justin Chang and New York Times critic Manohla Dargis's as o ne of the top 10 movies of the year.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/My- Undesirable-Friends-Part-I_still-2_of-Irina-Dolinina-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1962@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T160000 DTSTAMP:20260123T154829Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-chronology-of-water/ SUMMARY:The Chronology of Water (2025) DESCRIPTION:"There isn’t a single millisecond of this movie that doesn’ t bristle with the raw energy of an artist who’s found the permission sh e needed to put her whole being into every frame." —IndieWire\n\nBased o n the bracingly candid memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch and marking the director ial debut of Kristen Stewart\, The Chronology of Water is a raw and unflin ching portrait of survival\, sexuality\, and self-invention. The film—sh ot on rich and dreamy 16mm stock—traces Lidia’s life from her earliest memories in the Pacific Northwest\, as a promising swimmer\, through frac tured relationships\, near-motherhood\, addiction\, and encounters with ar tistic heroes. Told as a fluid memory wash\, the story transforms trauma i nto art\, embodying Yuknavitch’s defiant voice that made her work a mode rn cult classic. It is not only a chronicle of a woman becoming a writer\, but a visceral journey through the wreckage and resilience of a life live d against the grain. Starring Imogen Poots\, Thora Birch\, Kim Gordon\, an d Jim Belushi.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/TCO W_Still01_ImogenPoots_1920x1189_PhotoCreditCoreyCWaters_Copyright_CGCinema International_FormaProFilms_Nevermind_ScottFree.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1963@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T190000 DTSTAMP:20260123T154719Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-chronology-of-water-2/ SUMMARY:The Chronology of Water (2025) DESCRIPTION:"There isn’t a single millisecond of this movie that doesn’ t bristle with the raw energy of an artist who’s found the permission sh e needed to put her whole being into every frame." —IndieWire\n\nBased o n the bracingly candid memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch and marking the director ial debut of Kristen Stewart\, The Chronology of Water is a raw and unflin ching portrait of survival\, sexuality\, and self-invention. The film—sh ot on rich and dreamy 16mm stock—traces Lidia’s life from her earliest memories in the Pacific Northwest\, as a promising swimmer\, through frac tured relationships\, near-motherhood\, addiction\, and encounters with ar tistic heroes. Told as a fluid memory wash\, the story transforms trauma i nto art\, embodying Yuknavitch’s defiant voice that made her work a mode rn cult classic. It is not only a chronicle of a woman becoming a writer\, but a visceral journey through the wreckage and resilience of a life live d against the grain. Starring Imogen Poots\, Thora Birch\, Kim Gordon\, an d Jim Belushi.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/TCO W_Still01_ImogenPoots_1920x1189_PhotoCreditCoreyCWaters_Copyright_CGCinema International_FormaProFilms_Nevermind_ScottFree.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1966@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T190000 DTSTAMP:20260120T163639Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-battle-of-algiers/ SUMMARY:The Battle of Algiers (1966) DESCRIPTION:Fight the Power: Cinematic Tales of Resistance\n\nOne of the mo st influential political films in history\, The Battle of Algiers\, by Gil lo Pontecorvo\, vividly recreates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian st ruggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violenc e escalates on both sides\, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range\, women plant bombs in cafés\, and French soldiers resort to torture to br eak the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in document ary style\, the film is a case study in modern warfare\, with its terroris t attacks and the brutal techniques used to combat them. And no surprise —Pontecorvo’s tour de force has astonishing relevance today\, and stil l ranks as one of cinema’s great tales of resistance.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Bat tle-of-Algiers.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1967@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260207T190000 DTSTAMP:20260205T151909Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/i-am-cuba-1964/ SUMMARY:I Am Cuba (1964) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nFight the Power: Cinematic Tales of Resistance\n\nBoth a landmar k of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made\, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream of rebellion. The result of an extraordinarily ambitiou s collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries\, director Mi khail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba unfolds in four explosive vignettes that cap ture Cuban life on the brink of transformation\, as crushing economic expl oitation and inequality give way to a working-class uprising. Backed by Ca rlos Fariñas’s stirring score\, the dazzling camerawork by Sergei Uruse vsky—an inspiration for generations of filmmakers to follow\; the justly famous funeral procession scene features one of the greatest tracking sho ts ever filmed—gives flight to the movie’s message of liberation. \n\n The screening of I Am Cuba is followed by a post-show discussion with Greg and Megan Epler Wood about their recent experiences visiting Cuba.\n\n&nb sp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/I-A m-Cuba-1.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1968@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T190000 DTSTAMP:20260121T152751Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/werckmeister-harmonies/ SUMMARY:Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) DESCRIPTION:This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of tran scendent visual\, philosophical\, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a n ovel by László Krasznahorkai\, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unkn own time in an unnamed village\, where\, one day\, a mysterious circus—c omplete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy\, demagogue-like figu re known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness i n the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypn otic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white\, auteur Béla Tarr an d codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of drea mlike dread and fathomless beauty.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Ima ge1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1969@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260214T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260214T150000 DTSTAMP:20260120T190439Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/heaven/ SUMMARY:Heaven (1987) DESCRIPTION:We honor the great actress/filmmaker Diane Keaton with a new re storation of her first venture behind the camera (she’d direct four film s\, eventually\, and even an episode of Twin Peaks). \n\nHeaven is a talk ing-head documentary that probes humanity’s evolving relationship to the puzzle of what happens to us after we die. Keaton conducted wide-ranging conversations with an eclectic assortment of everyman interviewees (includ ing her own sister and grandmother)\, all filmed in expressionistic\, dram atically illuminated compositions against the backdrop of an otherworldly soundstage set. The metaphysical speculation and earnest philosophizing of Keaton’s subjects are complemented with an atmospheric score by compose r Howard Shore\, and thoughtfully illustrated with excerpts from televised religious programming and films as diverse as The Passion of Joan of Arc\ , Metropolis\, Night of the Demon\, and A Matter of Life and Death\, empha sizing how the familiar images served up to us by popular culture have nou rished\, and responded to\, our species’ enduring fascination with the q uestion of where we go from here.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/G-p EdhfWoAANaEN.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1970@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260214T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260214T190000 DTSTAMP:20260206T151741Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-princess-bride/ SUMMARY:The Princess Bride (1987) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nRob Reiner wasn’t an international or indie filmmaker\, but he sure did make some great films. Like\, a lot. We could go back and forth picking favorites all day\, but we picked one of those rare movies that ev eryone likes\, The Princess Bride.\n\nYou’ve probably seen it (but maybe not on a big-ish screen)\, but in case you haven’t: a kindly grandpa re ads his grandson a book called The Princess Bride\, about a farmhand and h is beloved\, a pirate ship\, an evil prince\, and an oath of revenge by a swordsman named Inigo Montoya. It’s all great fun—for both the audienc e and actors\, it would seem—and remains one of the most engaging all-ag es movies to come out of Hollywood… ever.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/5FJ JTH2SteOcIrQlJxdE0sJUrygpwQ_original.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1977@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T160000 DTSTAMP:20260123T153641Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dead-mans-wire/ SUMMARY:Dead Man's Wire (2025) DESCRIPTION:It's February\, 1977. Having fallen behind on his mortgage\, as piring Indianapolis entrepreneur Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) finds him self on the short end of a deal with his merciless lender\, edged out of a commercial property he’d dreamed of developing. And he is desperate for justice.\n\nWhat ensues is a tense and darkly comic hostage story—one t hat mirrors acclaimed director Gus Van Sant's own cult classic media frenz y crime movie To Die For—where Kiritsis takes Meridian Mortgage Company President Richard Hall Jr. (Dacre Montgomery) at shotgun point to his apar tment rigged with explosives and demands an apology from company owner Ric hard Hall Sr. (Al Pacino).\n\nFeaturing captivating\, scenery gnawing perf ormances from Skarsgård\, Montgomery\, Colman Domingo (as a fabulously su ave local DJ)\, and police procedural Grand Poobah Pacino (bringing the Do g Day Afternoon reference right to the surface)\, Van Sant’s latest dili gently recreates the strange\, fascinating true crime story that made an u nhinged nobody into an eccentric outlaw folk hero.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Dea d-Mans-Wire-Key-Still.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1978@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T190000 DTSTAMP:20260123T153737Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dead-mans-wire-2/ SUMMARY:Dead Man's Wire (2025) DESCRIPTION:It's February\, 1977. Having fallen behind on his mortgage\, as piring Indianapolis entrepreneur Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) finds him self on the short end of a deal with his merciless lender\, edged out of a commercial property he’d dreamed of developing. And he is desperate for justice.\n\nWhat ensues is a tense and darkly comic hostage story—one t hat mirrors acclaimed director Gus Van Sant's own cult classic media frenz y crime movie To Die For—where Kiritsis takes Meridian Mortgage Company President Richard Hall Jr. (Dacre Montgomery) at shotgun point to his apar tment rigged with explosives and demands an apology from company owner Ric hard Hall Sr. (Al Pacino).\n\nFeaturing captivating\, scenery gnawing perf ormances from Skarsgård\, Montgomery\, Colman Domingo (as a fabulously su ave local DJ)\, and police procedural Grand Poobah Pacino (bringing the Do g Day Afternoon reference right to the surface)\, Van Sant’s latest dili gently recreates the strange\, fascinating true crime story that made an u nhinged nobody into an eccentric outlaw folk hero.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Dea d-Mans-Wire-Key-Still.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1971@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T190000 DTSTAMP:20260120T193253Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-mysterious-gaze-of-the-flamingo/ SUMMARY:The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025) DESCRIPTION:Set in a rural\, remote Chilean mining town in 1982\, Diego Cé spedes’ dazzling debut feature follows young Lidia\, who grows up within a vibrant queer household led by drag performers and trans women. When a mysterious illness—rumored to spread through the gaze between men—sows fear and hysteria\, the community becomes the target of suspicion and vio lence. Through Lidia’s eyes\, Céspedes crafts a haunting allegory of lo ve\, myth\, and prejudice that reimagines the early AIDS era as a queer we stern with poetic intimacy and desert-dry surrealism.\n\nWinner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival\, The Mysterious Gaz e of the Flamingo recalls the emotional vibrancy of Almodóvar and continu es Chile’s proud legacy of queer cinema—marking Céspedes as one of th e most exciting new voices in world cinema.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/9cb 9aa_ebb5e853bee3498db6482a27c6ce2f6emv2.avif CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1972@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260221T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260221T150000 DTSTAMP:20260219T161215Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wisdom-of-happiness/ SUMMARY:Wisdom of Happiness (2025) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nIf you’ve ever dreamed of a personal visit with the Dalai Lama —who hasn’t?—this film is about to make your dream come true. Wisdom of Happiness shows us that happiness is still possible\, even in the mids t of chaos and uncertainty. This powerful message of hope is delivered as a personal audience with one of the greatest living thinkers\, Nobel Peace Prize winner Tenzin Gyatso\, known to billions around the world as the Da lai Lama. Speaking as a member of our single global community\, he shares practical wisdom for finding peace\, compassion\, and hope in the midst of chaos. With disarming clarity and deep humanity\, he invites us to imagin e—and help create—a world where compassion is activated as our stronge st force for change\, and happiness is within reach for everyone.\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unt itled-4_0008_02_WISDOMOFHAPPINESS_DALAILAMA_CopyrightDasKollektivGmbHKopie .webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1973@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260221T190000 DTSTAMP:20260220T225218Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wisdom-of-happiness-2/ SUMMARY:Wisdom of Happiness (2025) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nIf you’ve ever dreamed of a personal visit with the Dalai Lama —who hasn’t?—this film is about to make your dream come true. Wisdom of Happiness shows us that happiness is still possible\, even in the mids t of chaos and uncertainty. This powerful message of hope is delivered as a personal audience with one of the greatest living thinkers\, Nobel Peace Prize winner Tenzin Gyatso\, known to billions around the world as the Da lai Lama. Speaking as a member of our single global community\, he shares practical wisdom for finding peace\, compassion\, and hope in the midst of chaos. With disarming clarity and deep humanity\, he invites us to imagin e—and help create—a world where compassion is activated as our stronge st force for change\, and happiness is within reach for everyone.\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unt itled-4_0008_02_WISDOMOFHAPPINESS_DALAILAMA_CopyrightDasKollektivGmbHKopie .webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1974@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T190000 DTSTAMP:20260227T141435Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/night-of-the-juggler/ SUMMARY:Night of the Juggler (1980) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nHardly seen at all during its 1980 debut\, Night of the Juggler came and went with very little notice. But its restoration 45 years later has uncovered a hidden gem in the genre of Decaying 1970s New York\, with the New York Times dubbing it “the great gritty New York movie you’ve never seen.”\n\nThe grit and intensity of late-1970s New York City is de picted in stark detail in this relentlessly action-packed cult classic. Tw enty-four hours of nerve-jangling tension and suspense begin when a twiste d psychotic (Cliff Gorman) kidnaps a teenaged girl\, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy real estate developer. Her determined father (James Brolin)\, an ex-cop with a complicated relationship to the NYPD\, pursues them through New York’s seamy streets\, decaying\, burned-out Bronx ten ements\, and the grimy subterranean corridors beneath the city itself. Co- starring Richard S. Castellano\, Dan Hedaya\, and Mandy Patinkin\, Night o f the Juggler is a thrilling example of no-holds-barred\, pure adrenaline- fueled filmmaking. Please note that there’s some language that has not a ged well. Restored in 4K in 2025 by Kino Lorber.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Nig ht_of_the_Juggler_Still_1.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1992@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T130000 DTSTAMP:20260223T153243Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wisdom-of-happiness-4/ SUMMARY:Wisdom of Happiness (2025) DESCRIPTION:If you’ve ever dreamed of a personal visit with the Dalai Lam a—who hasn’t?—this film is about to make your dream come true. Wisdo m of Happiness shows us that happiness is still possible\, even in the mid st of chaos and uncertainty. This powerful message of hope is delivered as a personal audience with one of the greatest living thinkers\, Nobel Peac e Prize winner Tenzin Gyatso\, known to billions around the world as the D alai Lama. Speaking as a member of our single global community\, he shares practical wisdom for finding peace\, compassion\, and hope in the midst o f chaos. With disarming clarity and deep humanity\, he invites us to imagi ne—and help create—a world where compassion is activated as our strong est force for change\, and happiness is within reach for everyone.\n\n&nbs p\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unt itled-4_0008_02_WISDOMOFHAPPINESS_DALAILAMA_CopyrightDasKollektivGmbHKopie .webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1981@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T150000 DTSTAMP:20260223T144013Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wisdom-of-happiness-3/ SUMMARY:Wisdom of Happiness (2025) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nIf you’ve ever dreamed of a personal visit with the Dalai Lama —who hasn’t?—this film is about to make your dream come true. Wisdom of Happiness shows us that happiness is still possible\, even in the mids t of chaos and uncertainty. This powerful message of hope is delivered as a personal audience with one of the greatest living thinkers\, Nobel Peace Prize winner Tenzin Gyatso\, known to billions around the world as the Da lai Lama. Speaking as a member of our single global community\, he shares practical wisdom for finding peace\, compassion\, and hope in the midst of chaos. With disarming clarity and deep humanity\, he invites us to imagin e—and help create—a world where compassion is activated as our stronge st force for change\, and happiness is within reach for everyone.\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unt itled-4_0008_02_WISDOMOFHAPPINESS_DALAILAMA_CopyrightDasKollektivGmbHKopie .webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1976@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T150000 DTSTAMP:20260120T204320Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bitter-rice/ SUMMARY:Bitter Rice (1949) DESCRIPTION:Italian neo-realism meets film noir meets the exploitation pict ure in this fabulous post-war effort by Guiseppe De Santis. During plantin g season in Northern Italy’s Po Valley\, an earthy rice-field worker (Si lvana Mangano) falls in with a small-time criminal (Vittorio Gassman) who is planning a daring heist of the crop\, as well as his femme-fatale-ish g irlfriend\, played by the Hollywood star Doris Dowling. Both a socially co nscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a mel odrama tinged with sex and violence\, this early smash for producer extrao rdinaire Dino De Laurentiis and director De Santis was decried for its ove rt sexuality by some\, though it did not hurt at the box office. Restored in 2025 by Ciniteca di Bologna.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Bit terRice_image_02-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1975@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T190000 DTSTAMP:20260120T203516Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/queen-kelly/ SUMMARY:Queen Kelly (1929) DESCRIPTION:A decadent late-silent masterpiece\, Erich von Stroheim’s epi c unfinished swan song pulls no punches. His characters contend with whipp ings\, suicide\, a German East African bordello\, and more in this story o f a prince\, the orphan girl he falls in love with\, and the mad queen who se jealousy wreaks havoc on everyone involved. The great silent film star Gloria Swanson plays Patricia Kelly\, the convent orphan whose life is tur ned upside down when Prince “Wild” Wolfram (Walter Byron) becomes obse ssed with her\, angering his betrothed queen. \n\nThe making of the film was rife with controversy: Swanson’s then-lover Joseph P. Kennedy provid ed the financing that quickly spiraled out of control\, and a fed-up Swans on eventually fired von Stroheim. This vital new digital reconstruction br ings von Stroheim’s original script to life\, using new research and rec ently discovered materials. The result is Queen Kelly in its most complete and spectacular form to date\, belatedly closing the circle on von Strohe im’s legendary directing career. Featuring a new orchestral score by Eli Denson\, the film was restored and reconstructed in 2025 by Milestone Fil ms and Dennis Doros. \n\nIn The New Yorker\, Richard Brody said\, “The surviving version\, augmented with additional footage\, proves the film to be a spectacular\, fanatically ornamental\, yet harrowing masterwork of e rotic ecstasies and horrors."\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Que en-Kelly_NYFF63_2.avif CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1993@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260301T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260301T150000 DTSTAMP:20260223T154505Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wisdom-of-happiness-5/ SUMMARY:Wisdom of Happiness (2025) DESCRIPTION:If you’ve ever dreamed of a personal visit with the Dalai Lam a—who hasn’t?—this film is about to make your dream come true. Wisdo m of Happiness shows us that happiness is still possible\, even in the mid st of chaos and uncertainty. This powerful message of hope is delivered as a personal audience with one of the greatest living thinkers\, Nobel Peac e Prize winner Tenzin Gyatso\, known to billions around the world as the D alai Lama. Speaking as a member of our single global community\, he shares practical wisdom for finding peace\, compassion\, and hope in the midst o f chaos. With disarming clarity and deep humanity\, he invites us to imagi ne—and help create—a world where compassion is activated as our strong est force for change\, and happiness is within reach for everyone.\n\n&nbs p\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unt itled-4_0008_02_WISDOMOFHAPPINESS_DALAILAMA_CopyrightDasKollektivGmbHKopie .webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1980@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260301T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260301T180000 DTSTAMP:20260213T174054Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cradle-will-rock/ SUMMARY:Cradle Will Rock (1999) DESCRIPTION:Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films\n\nWeaving a tap estry of 1930s New York artists—Diego Rivera\, Frida Kahlo\, Orson Welle s\, and John Houseman among them—Cradle Will Rock is one of director Tim Robbins' most heartfelt lefty chronicles. At the height of the Great Depr ession\, the Federal Theatre Project brings low-cost theater to millions a cross America. All the while\, the threat of anti-communist crusaders loom s\, sowing dissent and paranoia among the community as they try to orchest rate a radical new play called The Cradle Will Rock\, penned by Marc Blitz stein\, produced by Houseman\, and directed by Welles.\n\nRobbins assemble d an unbelievable cast to bring this world to life\, including Bill Murray \, Hank Azaria\, Jack Black\, Rubén Blades\, Joan and John Cusack\, Cary Elwes\, Paul Giamatti\, Philip Baker Hall\, Vanessa Redgrave\, Susan Saran don\, John Turturro\, Emily Watson\, the list goes on. Oh\, plus John Carp enter as William Randolph Hearst.\n\nThis screening welcomes Cradle Will R ock executive producer and assistant director Allan Nicholls\, who will pa rticipate in a Q&\;A after the film.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MED IAM_0df41650-b994-4b99-9f3e-a0e52b9b4ad6_01.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1964@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260305T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260305T160000 DTSTAMP:20260123T215116Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-presidents-cake/ SUMMARY:The President's Cake (2025) DESCRIPTION:While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive\, 9-year old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the president’s birthday. In a landscape of fear and scarcity\, where basic ingredients ar e nearly impossible to find\, Lamia sets out on a determined journey throu ghout the big city in search of eggs\, flour\, and sugar. Accompanied by h er grandmother\, her loyal friend Saeed\, and her pet rooster Hindi\, she navigates vendors and police officers along the way. The President's Cake\ , winner of the Camera D’Or and Audience Award at this year’s Cannes F ilm Festival\, and Iraq's official entry for Best International Film at th e Academy Awards\, embodies innocence\, imagination\, and inner strength.\ n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1-1 -scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1965@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260305T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260305T190000 DTSTAMP:20260123T215145Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-presidents-cake-2/ SUMMARY:The President's Cake (2025) DESCRIPTION:While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive\, 9-year old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the president’s birthday. In a landscape of fear and scarcity\, where basic ingredients ar e nearly impossible to find\, Lamia sets out on a determined journey throu ghout the big city in search of eggs\, flour\, and sugar. Accompanied by h er grandmother\, her loyal friend Saeed\, and her pet rooster Hindi\, she navigates vendors and police officers along the way. The President's Cake\ , winner of the Camera D’Or and Audience Award at this year’s Cannes F ilm Festival\, and Iraq's official entry for Best International Film at th e Academy Awards\, embodies innocence\, imagination\, and inner strength.\ n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1-1 -scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1988@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T190000 DTSTAMP:20260306T175914Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/come-see-me-in-the-good-light/ SUMMARY:Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nWinner of Sundance’s Festival Favorite Award\, Come See Me in the Good Light is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy\, wit\, and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love\, they transform pain into purpose\, and mortality into a moving cel ebration of resilience.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/202 5mspiff_Come-See-Me-In-the-Good-Light_1920x1080-3936.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1989@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T150000 DTSTAMP:20260220T220420Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cutting-through-rocks-2025/ SUMMARY:Cutting Through Rocks (2025) DESCRIPTION:A big hit at the 2025 Vermont International Film Festival and w inner of the 2025 Sundance World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize\, Cut ting Through Rocks is a stirring portrait of courage and conviction. In a remote Iranian village\, Sara Shahverdi becomes the first elected councilw oman—with bold dreams of teaching teenage girls to ride motorcycles and halting child marriages. But when accusations question her motives\, Sara finds her identity under siege. With intimacy\, the film follows her fierc e resolve to reshape tradition and reclaim agency.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cut ting-through-rocks.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1990@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T190000 DTSTAMP:20260220T220914Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mr-nobody-against-putin/ SUMMARY:Mr Nobody Against Putin (2025) DESCRIPTION:Pasha Talankin is an unlikely hero—a beloved Russian primary school teacher\, known as a mentor and prankster who offers students a saf e haven in his office. After Russia invades Ukraine\, Pasha’s role in th e school changes dramatically as he is reluctantly drawn into Putin’s pr opaganda machine. Forced to promote state-sanctioned messages and horrifie d by the transformation of his school and community\, he struggles with gu ilt and a sense of powerlessness\, leading him to become an international whistleblower.\n\nAs the school’s videographer\, Pasha documents intimat e and revealing footage of Putin’s regime\, capturing the rise of milita rized children’s groups\, repressive laws\, fervent nationalism\, and th e recruitment of graduating students to fight in the war. When he learns h is own life may be at risk\, Pasha is forced to plan a dangerous escape fr om Russia.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Pic tureOfTheFilm_PavelTalankin_credit_Frantisek-Svatos-_LOW-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1982@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T160000 DTSTAMP:20260313T130432Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/oscar-shorts-animated/ SUMMARY:2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animated DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nBUTTERFLY\nFlorence Miailhe | 15 | France\nA poignant retelling of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache's life\, from his rise to fame to surviv ing Auschwitz.\n\nFOREVERGREEN\nNathan Engelhardt\, Jeremy Spears | 13 | U .S.\nAn orphaned bear cub is tempted by the allure of easy food.\n\nTHE GI RL WHO CRIED PEARLS\nChris Lavis\, Maciek Szczerbowski | 17 | Canada\nA ha unting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow and the boy who loves her. \n\nRETIREMENT PLAN\nJohn Kelly | 7 | Ireland\nRay (Domhnall Gleeson) fant asises about everything he’d love to do in retirement\, once he finally has the “time.”\n\nTHE THREE SISTERS\nKonstantin Bronzit | 14 | Israel \, Cyprus\nThree sisters live a lonely life on an isolated island\, each i n their own small house.\n\nÉIRU\nGiovanna Ferrari | 13 | Ireland\nWhen t he water mysteriously disappears from the well in a warrior clan’s villa ge\, an intrepid child descends into the belly of the earth to retrieve it .\n\n \;\nSome films in this program may not be suitable for very youn g children.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/osc ars-animated.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1986@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T190000 DTSTAMP:20260313T130514Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/oscar-shorts-live-action/ SUMMARY:2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nBUTCHER'S STAIN\nMeyer Levinson-Blount | 26 | Israel\nA Palestin ian butcher working at an Israeli supermarket is accused of tearing down t he Israeli hostage posters in the break room.\n\nA FRIEND OF DOROTHY\nLee Knight | 21 | UK\nWhen JJ accidentally kicks his football into Dorothy's ( BAFTA winner Miriam Margolyes) garden\, he upends her daily routine.\n\nJA NE AUSTEN'S PERIOD DRAMA\nSteve Pinder\, Julia Aks | 12 | U.S.\nA comedy s atire of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.\n\nTHE SINGERS\nSam A. Davis | 18 | U.S.\nDowntrodden patrons at a lowly pub connect unexpectedly thro ugh an impromptu sing-off.\n\nTWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA\nNatalie Mustea ta\, Alexandre Singh | 36 | France\, U.S.\nIn a society where kissing is p unishable by death\, an unhappy woman shops compulsively in a department s tore.\n\n \;\n\nSome films in this program contain adult language\, ad ult themes\, and sensual images. Recommended for persons 17 and up.\n\n&nb sp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/msp film-OscarShorts2026-liveaction_1920x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1987@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T150000 DTSTAMP:20260311T203234Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/oscar-shorts-live-action-2/ SUMMARY:2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nBUTCHER'S STAIN\nMeyer Levinson-Blount | 26 | Israel\nA Palestin ian butcher working at an Israeli supermarket is accused of tearing down t he Israeli hostage posters in the break room.\n\nA FRIEND OF DOROTHY\nLee Knight | 21 | UK\nWhen JJ accidentally kicks his football into Dorothy's ( BAFTA winner Miriam Margolyes) garden\, he upends her daily routine.\n\nJA NE AUSTEN'S PERIOD DRAMA\nSteve Pinder\, Julia Aks | 12 | U.S.\nA comedy s atire of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.\n\nTHE SINGERS\nSam A. Davis | 18 | U.S.\nDowntrodden patrons at a lowly pub connect unexpectedly thro ugh an impromptu sing-off.\n\nTWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA\nNatalie Mustea ta\, Alexandre Singh | 36 | France\, U.S.\nIn a society where kissing is p unishable by death\, an unhappy woman shops compulsively in a department s tore.\n\n \;\n\nSome films in this program contain adult language\, ad ult themes\, and sensual images. Recommended for persons 17 and up.\n\n&nb sp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/msp film-OscarShorts2026-liveaction_1920x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1984@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T190000 DTSTAMP:20260219T185808Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/oscar-shorts-documentary/ SUMMARY:2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary DESCRIPTION:ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS\nJoshua Seftel | 33 | U.S.\nA journalist an d a photographer memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed i n school shootings.\n\nARMED ONLY WITH A CAMERA: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BRE NT RENAUD\nCraig Renaud\, Brent Renaud | 38 | U.S.\nAn intimate chronicle about the first American journalist killed while reporting on the Russo-Uk rainian War.\n\nCHILDREN NO MORE: "WERE AND ARE GONE"\nHilla Medalia | 36 | Israel\nIn Tel Aviv\, activists gather weekly to demonstrate their oppos ition to the war in Gaza.\n\nTHE DEVIL IS BUSY\nChristalyn Hampton\, Geeta Gandbhir | 31 | U.S.\nA day on the frontlines in the battle for reproduct ive rights at a women's healthcare clinic.\n\nPERFECTLY A STRANGENESS\nAli son McAlpine | 15 | Canada\nIn an unknown desert\, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe.\n\n \;\n\nSome films in this program contain graphic war imagery\, adult themes and lang uage. Recommended for persons 17 and up.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/msp film-OscarShorts2026-documentary_1920x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1983@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260315T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260315T130000 DTSTAMP:20260311T203313Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/oscar-shorts-animated-2/ SUMMARY:2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animated DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nBUTTERFLY\nFlorence Miailhe | 15 | France\nA poignant retelling of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache's life\, from his rise to fame to surviv ing Auschwitz.\n\nFOREVERGREEN\nNathan Engelhardt\, Jeremy Spears | 13 | U .S.\nAn orphaned bear cub is tempted by the allure of easy food.\n\nTHE GI RL WHO CRIED PEARLS\nChris Lavis\, Maciek Szczerbowski | 17 | Canada\nA ha unting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow and the boy who loves her. \n\nRETIREMENT PLAN\nJohn Kelly | 7 | Ireland\nRay (Domhnall Gleeson) fant asises about everything he’d love to do in retirement\, once he finally has the “time.”\n\nTHE THREE SISTERS\nKonstantin Bronzit | 14 | Israel \, Cyprus\nThree sisters live a lonely life on an isolated island\, each i n their own small house.\n\nÉIRU\nGiovanna Ferrari | 13 | Ireland\nWhen t he water mysteriously disappears from the well in a warrior clan’s villa ge\, an intrepid child descends into the belly of the earth to retrieve it .\n\n \;\nSome films in this program may not be suitable for very youn g children.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/osc ars-animated.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1985@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260315T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260315T150000 DTSTAMP:20260219T185829Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/oscar-shorts-documentary-2/ SUMMARY:2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary DESCRIPTION:ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS\nJoshua Seftel | 33 | U.S.\nA journalist an d a photographer memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed i n school shootings.\n\nARMED ONLY WITH A CAMERA: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BRE NT RENAUD\nCraig Renaud\, Brent Renaud | 38 | U.S.\nAn intimate chronicle about the first American journalist killed while reporting on the Russo-Uk rainian War.\n\nCHILDREN NO MORE: "WERE AND ARE GONE"\nHilla Medalia | 36 | Israel\nIn Tel Aviv\, activists gather weekly to demonstrate their oppos ition to the war in Gaza.\n\nTHE DEVIL IS BUSY\nChristalyn Hampton\, Geeta Gandbhir | 31 | U.S.\nA day on the frontlines in the battle for reproduct ive rights at a women's healthcare clinic.\n\nPERFECTLY A STRANGENESS\nAli son McAlpine | 15 | Canada\nIn an unknown desert\, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe.\n\n \;\n\nSome films in this program contain graphic war imagery\, adult themes and lang uage. Recommended for persons 17 and up.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/msp film-OscarShorts2026-documentary_1920x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,Shorts,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1994@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T160000 DTSTAMP:20260224T164349Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-shepherd-and-the-bear/ SUMMARY:The Shepherd and the Bear (2024) DESCRIPTION:"Illuminates richly human connections with stirring observation al portraiture." —Filmmaker Magazine\n\nThe Shepherd and the Bear follow s an aging shepherd facing down a rapidly changing landscape. High in the majestic French Pyrenees\, where Yves and his family have eked out a livin g for generations\, he struggles to find a successor\, hoping to pass the torch to young ward Lisa\, who is obsessed with tracking and hunting bears . Complicating matters is a government program to repopulate bears in the region\, which ultimately threatens Yves' flock and his way of life. Filmm aker Max Keegan embedded with the local shepherd community in Ariège for years to get to the heart of the repopulation issue\, carefully observing the debate\, remaining sensitive to arguments for and against\, and resist ing easy answers. Through its breathtaking cinematography and immersive st orytelling\, The Shepherd and the Bear is a modern folktale about traditio n\, community\, and humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural wor ld.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/TSA TB-Film-Still-scaled.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1995@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T190000 DTSTAMP:20260224T164416Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-shepherd-and-the-bear-2/ SUMMARY:The Shepherd and the Bear (2024) DESCRIPTION:"Illuminates richly human connections with stirring observation al portraiture." —Filmmaker Magazine\n\nThe Shepherd and the Bear follow s an aging shepherd facing down a rapidly changing landscape. High in the majestic French Pyrenees\, where Yves and his family have eked out a livin g for generations\, he struggles to find a successor\, hoping to pass the torch to young ward Lisa\, who is obsessed with tracking and hunting bears . Complicating matters is a government program to repopulate bears in the region\, which ultimately threatens Yves' flock and his way of life. Filmm aker Max Keegan embedded with the local shepherd community in Ariège for years to get to the heart of the repopulation issue\, carefully observing the debate\, remaining sensitive to arguments for and against\, and resist ing easy answers. Through its breathtaking cinematography and immersive st orytelling\, The Shepherd and the Bear is a modern folktale about traditio n\, community\, and humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural wor ld.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/TSA TB-Film-Still-scaled.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2003@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260320T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260320T190000 DTSTAMP:20260311T164840Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/like-water-for-chocolate/ SUMMARY:Like Water for Chocolate (1992) DESCRIPTION:Winner of 10 Ariel Awards—the premier prize given out by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences—Like Water for Choc olate made inroads into U.S. cinema like few other films ever before\, sur passing the longstanding I Am Curious (Yellow) to become the highest gross ing foreign-language at the time. Americans certainly like their imports s exy.\n\nSet in a Mexican border town circa 1910\, we follow the tumultuous love of Tita and Pedro. When Tita's fearsome mother forbids their marriag e\, a heartbroken Tita discovers she has a unique talent for cooking. What 's more\, she has a magical ability to transfer her emotions to others thr ough the food she prepares.\n\n"Like Water for Chocolate creates its own i ntense world of passion and romance\, and adds a little comedy and a lot o f quail\, garlic\, honey\, chiles\, mole\, cilantro\, rose petals and corn meal\," said Roger Ebert is his rave. With ingredients from legend\, fair ytale\, fantasy\, and epic romance\, and emotive direction by famed actor Alfonso Arau (who you may know from The Wild Bunch\, El Topo\, or ¡Three Amigos!)\, Like Water for Chocolate is one of the most sensuous and belove d movies in Mexican cinema and a staple of the foodie canon.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LWF C-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2004@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T150000 DTSTAMP:20260311T165131Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-scent-of-green-papaya/ SUMMARY:The Scent of Green Papaya (1993) DESCRIPTION:Tran Anh Hung's (The Taste of Things) "luxuriant\, visually sed uctive debut" (New York Times) recreates antebellum Vietnam as seen throug h the wide eyes of childhood and the whirlwind of first love. In 1951 Saig on\, 10 year old Mui enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family. Despite her servile role\, Mui discovers beauty and ep iphany in the lush physical details that envelope her\, while earning the fragile affection of the household's grieving matriarch. As she comes of a ge\, Mui (Tran Nu Yen-Khe) finds her relationship with a handsome pianist\ , whose she has admired since childhood\, blossoming into something more.\ n\nThough steeped in writer-director Tran Anh Hung's southeast Asian herit age\, The Scent of Green Papaya was realized entirely within a Parisian so undstage. The film's heady\, scrupulously detailed depiction of a society in decline\, a family in quiet turmoil\, and lovers on the threshold of ro mance earned the Camera D'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MV5 BMTYzMDcyNzk4MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjI4Njc0NQ@@._V1_.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2005@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T190000 DTSTAMP:20260311T165409Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/tampopo/ SUMMARY:Tampopo (1985) DESCRIPTION:A lavishly inclusive paean to the sensual joys of nourishment\, Tampopo is one of the most mouthwatering food movies ever made. In this r apturous “ramen western\,” written and directed by Juzo Itami\, an ecc entric band of culinary ronin (including Kōji Yakusho and Ken Watanabe) g uide the widow of a noodle-shop owner (Nobuko Miyamoto) on her quest for t he perfect recipe. The resulting adventure is sweet\, sexy\, surreal\, and throughly entertaining\, a genre-bending picaresque underpinned by a deft satire about the ways social conventions distort our urges and appetites. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/tam popo_1985.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1991@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T190000 DTSTAMP:20260303T211903Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/man-with-a-movie-camera/ SUMMARY:Musical Silents: Man with a Movie Camera (1929) DESCRIPTION:Live improvised score by Matt Hagen plus Johnnie Day Durand\n\n One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era\, Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera utilizes rapid editing and innumerable other cinematic effects to create a work of amazing modernity and power. This dawn-to-dusk view of urban Soviet life shows people at work\, at play \, and at the machines that endlessly whirl to keep the metropolis alive. It was Vertov’s first full-length film\, and it employs all the cinemati c techniques at the director’s disposal—dissolves\, split-screens\, sl ow-motion\, and freeze-frames—to produce a work that is as exhilarating as it is intellectually brilliant.\n\nMatt Hagen is a Burlington\, Vermont -based musician whose sound is as layered and unhurried as the Green Mount ain seasons. His music varies from instrumental\, genre bending guitar to intimate storytelling\, with a voice that feels lived-in and genuine. A fi xture in Vermont's independent music scene\, Matt has earned recognition\, trust\, and respect as a standout voice in Burlington's vibrant creative community. Whether performing at premier clubs\, intimate local venues\, h eadlining events\, supporting main stage acts\, or tucked into a quiet cor ner of the city\, he brings a rare authenticity that resonates long after the last chord fades. A seasoned songwriter\, bandleader\, and eclectic co llaborator\, Hagen writes and performs in a palatable fashion while unafra id to wander into strange sonic territory. It's music made for people who listen closely.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/250 0.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2006@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T150000 DTSTAMP:20260313T153128Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/andre-is-an-idiot/ SUMMARY:André Is an Idiot (2026) DESCRIPTION:André Ricciardi is a self-proclaimed “idiot” for skipping the colonoscopy that could have saved him. When he learns he is dying\, he turns his final chapter into an experiment in radical honesty\, humor\, a nd curiosity.\n\nA lifelong iconoclast and ad-industry provocateur\, Andr é has never done anything the conventional way\, and confronting mortalit y proves no different: he picks up a camera\, cracks a joke\, and begins t o ask the biggest questions of his life with disarming candor. André’s inner world—his stories\, fears\, philosophies\, and absurdist imaginati on—is brought to life through fantastical stop-motion animation woven in to intimate vérité footage\, as he playfully processes both joy and drea d.\n\nIrreverent and defiantly heartfelt\, André Is an Idiot is wildly li fe-affirming\, a glimpse into the strange clarity that arrives when one's time suddenly becomes finite\, and a profound portrait of a man determined to face death as openly and ridiculously as he has lived.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/USE -AS-PRIMARY-slate_MWA-scaled.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2007@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T190000 DTSTAMP:20260313T153341Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/andre-is-an-idiot-2/ SUMMARY:André Is an Idiot (2026) DESCRIPTION:André Ricciardi is a self-proclaimed “idiot” for skipping the colonoscopy that could have saved him. When he learns he is dying\, he turns his final chapter into an experiment in radical honesty\, humor\, a nd curiosity.\n\nA lifelong iconoclast and ad-industry provocateur\, Andr é has never done anything the conventional way\, and confronting mortalit y proves no different: he picks up a camera\, cracks a joke\, and begins t o ask the biggest questions of his life with disarming candor. André’s inner world—his stories\, fears\, philosophies\, and absurdist imaginati on—is brought to life through fantastical stop-motion animation woven in to intimate vérité footage\, as he playfully processes both joy and drea d.\n\nIrreverent and defiantly heartfelt\, André Is an Idiot is wildly li fe-affirming\, a glimpse into the strange clarity that arrives when one's time suddenly becomes finite\, and a profound portrait of a man determined to face death as openly and ridiculously as he has lived.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/USE -AS-PRIMARY-slate_MWA-scaled.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2011@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T190000 DTSTAMP:20260330T182233Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pi/ SUMMARY:Pi (1998) DESCRIPTION:Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films\n\nDarren Aronof sky's brilliantly over-cranked debut is one of the defining cult films of the '90s\, setting the benchmark by which all his subsequent gauntlets—R equiem for a Dream\, Black Swan\, mother!—would be measured. This super low-budget guerrilla production remains singular and jarring\, a headtrip surrealist puzzle wherein a troubled mathematician (Sean Gullette) obsessi vely tries to finding a key number that will unlock the master pattern of the universe\, only to descend into paranoia as other interested parties\, real or imagined\, take an interest.\n\nPi also launched the careers of C lint Mansell\, who turned in a the first of many intense scores for Aronof sky\, as well as cinematographer Matthew José Libatique\, whose unstable high-contrast black and white reversal stock images still surprise\, prope lling him to high-profile work with Spike Lee\, Jon Favreau\, and Bradley Cooper.\n\nThis screening welcomes algorithmic visual artist James Merrill who will share his artwork and a short documentary about his approach.\n\ n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/PI_ 1998_1.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2012@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T190000 DTSTAMP:20260325T183748Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mccabe-mrs-miller/ SUMMARY:McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) DESCRIPTION:This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers to the raw Pacific North west mining town of Presbyterian Church\, who join forces to provide the m iners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of rep resentatives for a powerful mining company with interests of its own\, how ever\, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.\n\nWith its fascinating \, flawed characters\, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmo nd (Close Encounters of the Third Kind\, The Deer Hunter)\, innovative ove rlapping dialogue\, and haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs\, McCabe &\ ; Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American o f genres. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/McC abe-Mrs.-Miller-1971-Warren-Beatty.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2013@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T150000 DTSTAMP:20260325T193847Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/meeks-cutoff/ SUMMARY:Meek's Cutoff (2010) DESCRIPTION:During the 1840s\, six settlers and their guide are caught in a dangerous situation: They are lost\, food and water are running out\, and the surrounding desert threatens to claim them all. Meanwhile\, their gui de\, Stephen Meek (an unrecognizable Bruce Greenwood)\, refuses to acknowl edge that they may be several weeks off-course. When a Native American (Ro d Rondeaux) is captured\, Emily Tetherow (Michelle Williams)\, one of the settlers\, shields him from Meek's wrath.\n\nKelly Reichardt's survival fi lm offers a radically modest take on the Western. It's here that she fully mastered her unparalleled sense of proportion\, where one minor decision leads to a constellation of consequences. She also inverts the genre brill iantly\, telling this story mostly through the eyes of the women in the ca ravan\, whose limited power serves to amplify the tension and stakes of an increasingly dire circumstance. Williams work here is as strong as anythi ng in her lengthy body of work\, alternately resilient and devastatingly v ulnerable. She and Reichardt met at a Yo La Tengo concert\, naturally\, an d it's here\, in the second of their four films together so far\, that the ir collaboration really blossomed.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ojA rc42x8Ve0zBYdrcz0Sf57uG1.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2014@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T190000 DTSTAMP:20260325T190412Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lone-star/ SUMMARY:Lone Star (1996) DESCRIPTION:Sayles’s masterful film—novelistic in its intricacy and fea turing a brilliant ensemble cast\, including Joe Morton\, Elizabeth Peña\ , Matthew McConaughey\, and Kris Kristofferson—quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border. A keen ob server of America’s social fabric\, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawli ng neowestern mystery.\n\nWhen a skeleton is discovered in the desert\, la wman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper)\, son of a legendary local sheriff\, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him persona lly and for all of Rio County\, a place still reckoning with its history o f racial violence.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/lon e-star-4.avif CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2002@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T190000 DTSTAMP:20260318T164049Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/fault-lines/ SUMMARY:Fault Lines (2025) DESCRIPTION:Let's Build Homes is pleased to present a special screening of  Fault Lines: Inside America's Housing Crisis with VTIFF at Main Street L anding Film House in Burlington.\n\nFrom directors Nate Houghteling (Ameri can Pathogen\, State of Pride) and Yoav Attias (Brick City\, Chicagoland) comes a new film that dives headfirst into the epicenter of the housing cr isis\, to explain how we got here and predict where we might be headed. Th is acclaimed documentary follows a single father searching for stable hous ing\, a pro-housing activist fighting for legislative change\, and a neigh borhood group pushing back against new development. Across these parallel stories\, the film asks a question that defines our moment: we know how to build more homes\, so what's stopping us? Featuring interviews with housi ng policy leaders\, including The Atlantic's Jerusalem Demsas and Californ ia State Senator Scott Wiener\, Fault Lines is an urgent\, humanizing loo k at the forces driving America's housing system—and threatening to beco me a national emergency.\n\nFault Lines takes a street level approach to t he intersecting issues of affordability\, homelessness\, and legislation\, using human stories to illuminate the impact of decades of policies. The film focuses on the Bay Area\, but Vermont is in the middle of this story. Join us for a panel discussion after the film about what it all means for our state.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/463 3ebb5c43dc3e111ab6f5088d4fb8d2d35c9ff70c6140c6fa15c53868e0f8b.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2008@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T160000 DTSTAMP:20260320T185445Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/two-prosecutors/ SUMMARY:Two Prosecutors (2025) DESCRIPTION:Set in 1937\, at the peak of Stalin’s Great Purge\, acclaimed Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa's Two Prosecutors is a bleak comic pa rable of tyranny. Against all odds\, a complaint letter written in blood\, alleging torture by the secret police\, escapes incineration at Bryansk P rison and reaches young\, idealistic state prosecutor Kornyev (Aleksandr K uznetsov). With an overdetermined sense of righteousness and an utter lack of self-preservation\, the woefully misguided Kornyev resolves to make Ch airman Stalin aware of the injustices being carried out in his name. Thus begins a descent into the Kafkaesque bureaucratic madness of the totalitar ian state.\n\nBased on a novella by the Soviet dissident writer and scient ist Georgy Demidov\, who was imprisoned for nearly 20 years\, including 14 years in Siberia\, Loznitsa presents a relentlessly colorless world\, bri lliantly composed by cinematographer Oleg Mutu\, where state-sanctioned te rror is barely concealed behind imposing granite facades and stoic profess ionalism.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Two -Prosecutors_NYFF63_4.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2009@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T190000 DTSTAMP:20260320T185513Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/two-prosecutors-2/ SUMMARY:Two Prosecutors (2025) DESCRIPTION:Set in 1937\, at the peak of Stalin’s Great Purge\, acclaimed Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa's Two Prosecutors is a bleak comic pa rable of tyranny. Against all odds\, a complaint letter written in blood\, alleging torture by the secret police\, escapes incineration at Bryansk P rison and reaches young\, idealistic state prosecutor Kornyev (Aleksandr K uznetsov). With an overdetermined sense of righteousness and an utter lack of self-preservation\, the woefully misguided Kornyev resolves to make Ch airman Stalin aware of the injustices being carried out in his name. Thus begins a descent into the Kafkaesque bureaucratic madness of the totalitar ian state.\n\nBased on a novella by the Soviet dissident writer and scient ist Georgy Demidov\, who was imprisoned for nearly 20 years\, including 14 years in Siberia\, Loznitsa presents a relentlessly colorless world\, bri lliantly composed by cinematographer Oleg Mutu\, where state-sanctioned te rror is barely concealed behind imposing granite facades and stoic profess ionalism.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Two -Prosecutors_NYFF63_4.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2015@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T150000 DTSTAMP:20260325T195917Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/my-dinner-with-andre/ SUMMARY:My Dinner with Andre (1981) DESCRIPTION:In this captivating and philosophical film directed by Louis Ma lle\, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with his friend the the ater director André Gregory at a restaurant on New York’s Upper West Si de. The pair proceed through an alternately whimsical and despairing confe ssional about love\, death\, money\, and all the superstition in between\, playing variations on their own New York–honed personas. Shawn and Greg ory cowrote the screenplay and they serve up and chew on dialogue more sav ory than anything on the restaurant's menu. They dive in with introspectiv e intellectual gusto\, and Malle captures it all with a delicate\, artful detachment\, a fascinating freeze-frame of cosmopolitan culture and bleedi ng-edge theater at this moment in time in NYC.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/e55 2c9855e86e60acffe2a7adf3f58a1.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2016@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T190000 DTSTAMP:20260325T201600Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/black-girl/ SUMMARY:Black Girl (1966) DESCRIPTION:Ousmane Sembène\, often called "the father of African film\," was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived\ , as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century —and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the w orld.\n\nBlack Girl\, Sembène's debut and one of several masterpieces to his name\, and his best known film\, was the highest finishing African fil m in Sight and Sound's most recent poll of the greatest films of all time. This beautiful and stirring film transforms a deceptively simple plot int o a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. A young Senegalese woman moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartm ent becomes a prison\, both physically and psychologically.\n\nFeaturing a moving central performance by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop\, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement\, and one of the essential films of the 1960s.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/8f5 b3545e083999efbf130a4ec028d77.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2017@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T150000 DTSTAMP:20260407T161125Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/branded-to-kill/ SUMMARY:Branded to Kill (1967) DESCRIPTION:When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this bru tal\, hilarious\, and visually bonkers masterpiece to the executives at hi s studio\, he was promptly fired. This was probably inevitable for a too-c ool renegade artist who gleefully embraced and sent up his "B-movie hack" rep within a ruthlessly efficient assembly-line studio system. Suzuki's ge nre ambivalence and stylistic panache in his glorious '60s spree burnished his legend for the rest of his lengthy\, winding career.\n\nWhat a way to flame out! Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin with a fetish for sniffing steamed rice (the chipmunk-cheeked ico n Joe Shishido) who botches a job and ends up a target himself. This is Su zuki at his most extreme\, the flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop- art aesthetic.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bra ndedtokillff.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1996@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T190000 DTSTAMP:20260309T164654Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-wildcat/ SUMMARY:Musical Silents: The Wildcat (1921) DESCRIPTION:Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + Mike Fried\n\nErnst Lubit sch directed some of Hollywood’s greatest comedies—Trouble in Paradise (1932)\, Ninotchka (1939)\, and To Be or Not to Be (1942) among them—bu t made some of his best films early in his career in his native Germany. T ake\, for instance\, The Wildcat (Die Bergkatze)\, a madcap farce about a charming lieutenant (Paul Heidemann) who is captured in the mountains by b andits\, including our title character (silent superstar Pola Negri). Pete r Bogdanovich said it was one of the five funniest films ever made\, descr ibing it as “an uproarious\, hard-edged antimilitary spoof.” \n\nVisu ally\, the film is a feast\, particularly in its 21st-century restoration. The set of Fort Tossenstein was built on location in the Bavarian Alps\, while the décor is something out of a German fairy tale. Both exteriors a nd interiors look as if they’re made out of vanilla frosting. Many shots are framed by all manner of mattes to alter the image size: slashing diag onals\, ovals\, keyholes\, scalloped edges\, and more.  \n\nAmazingly\, the film bombed in Germany and was never distributed in the U.S.\, despite the filmmaker’s high regard for it: “This picture had more inventiven ess and satirical pictorial wit than many of my other pictures\,” Lubits ch said. “But I found the German audiences in no mood to accept a pictur e which satirized militarism and war.”\n\nMatt Hagen is a Burlington\, V ermont-based musician whose sound is as layered and unhurried as the Green Mountain seasons. His music varies from instrumental\, genre bending guit ar to intimate storytelling\, with a voice that feels lived-in and genuine . A fixture in Vermont's independent music scene\, Matt has earned recogni tion\, trust\, and respect as a standout voice in Burlington's vibrant cre ative community. Whether performing at premier clubs\, intimate local venu es\, headlining events\, supporting main stage acts\, or tucked into a qui et corner of the city\, he brings a rare authenticity that resonates long after the last chord fades. A seasoned songwriter\, bandleader\, and eclec tic collaborator\, Hagen writes and performs in a palatable fashion while unafraid to wander into strange sonic territory. It's music made for peopl e who listen closely.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MV5 BNmMwMmVjNzAtMjNkYS00MmQ4LWIxNjUtYjU3Y2E5Y2ZiN2Q3XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2010@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T160000 DTSTAMP:20260326T185340Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hamlet/ SUMMARY:Hamlet (2025) DESCRIPTION:Riz Ahmed is electrifying in this bold reinvention of the Bard' s immortal tragedy. Set in present-day London’s South Asian community\, director Aneil Karia’s fierce\, full-blooded approach brings kinetic vis ual energy and focus to every frame while retaining Shakespeare’s origin al text. This is the first cinematic adaptation of Hamlet with a predomina ntly non-white cast.\n\nElsinore is transplanted to an estate in the Engli sh countryside eroding from paranoia and patriarchal dominance. Morfydd Cl ark\, as Ophelia\; Art Malik\, as Claudius\; and Sheeba Chaddha\, as a dee ply conflicted Gertrude all bring nuance and vibrancy to their striking re interpretations. But it’s Ahmed’s riveting lead turn that captivates: cerebral\, wounded\, and strikingly modern. His long-standing dream to tak e on this role\, in partnership with Karia (the two won an Oscar together for Best Live Action Short for The Long Goodbye)\, results in a performanc e that feels both thoroughly classical and bracingly new.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ham let.webp CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2018@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T190000 DTSTAMP:20260326T185401Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hamlet-2/ SUMMARY:Hamlet (2025) DESCRIPTION:Riz Ahmed is electrifying in this bold reinvention of the Bard' s immortal tragedy. Set in present-day London’s South Asian community\, director Aneil Karia’s fierce\, full-blooded approach brings kinetic vis ual energy and focus to every frame while retaining Shakespeare’s origin al text. This is the first cinematic adaptation of Hamlet with a predomina ntly non-white cast.\n\nElsinore is transplanted to an estate in the Engli sh countryside eroding from paranoia and patriarchal dominance. Morfydd Cl ark\, as Ophelia\; Art Malik\, as Claudius\; and Sheeba Chaddha\, as a dee ply conflicted Gertrude all bring nuance and vibrancy to their striking re interpretations. But it’s Ahmed’s riveting lead turn that captivates: cerebral\, wounded\, and strikingly modern. His long-standing dream to tak e on this role\, in partnership with Karia (the two won an Oscar together for Best Live Action Short for The Long Goodbye)\, results in a performanc e that feels both thoroughly classical and bracingly new.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ham let.webp CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2019@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T150000 DTSTAMP:20260326T134950Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/salaam-bombay/ SUMMARY:Salaam Bombay! (1988) DESCRIPTION:Mira Nair’s first narrative feature\, the Oscar-nominated Sal aam Bombay!\, is a kaleidoscopic portrait of India's most populous city\, now called Mumbai. Teeming street life is captured with documentary-like s ense of place\, coupled with Nair's compassionate neo-realism as she explo res tales of everyday resilience on the margins.\n\nAfter the young Krishn a (Shafiq Syed) is cast out by his family\, he makes his way to the city\, where he encounters love\, friendship\, and tragedy in the face of extrem e poverty. Drawing compellingly naturalistic performances from a cast cons isting largely of children she met on the streets\, Nair weaves an intimat e human drama that is by turns heartbreaking and life-affirming\, an ode t o childhood that overflows with colorful urban chaos.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/182 7.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2020@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T190000 DTSTAMP:20260326T141742Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/monsoon-wedding/ SUMMARY:Monsoon Wedding (2001) DESCRIPTION:Mira Nair’s exuberant Monsoon Wedding\, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival\, mixes comedy and chaotic melodrama in the maelstrom of an upscale wedding in New Delhi. Aditi\, the only daughter in a traditional upper-middle-class Indian family\, is gett ing married. Of course there are hitches: Aditi has been having an affair with a married TV host\; she’s never met her husband to be\, who lives i n Houston\; and the wedding has worsened her father’s hidden financial t roubles.\n\nAs with all of Nair’s movies\, the drama of the film is igni ted by the friction between the old and the new—of a contemporary India divided between the possibilities of a global world and the time-honored t raditions of its past. At the center of Monsoon Wedding is a bride caught between duty and passion\, torn between her illicit affair with a married man and the marriage others have planned for her.\n\nMade for only $1.5 mi llion—shot in 40 locations over 30 days\, according to the joyous button of the end credits—Monsoon Wedding quickly became one of the top ten hi ghest-grossing foreign films in U.S. history\, and has been beloved for it s warmth\, its familial bustle\, and its radiant colors ever since. It's a lso lifted by an out of this world soundtrack\, featuring the likes of Nus rat Fateh Ali Khan\, Farida Khanum\, Sukhwinder Singh\, and Farida Khanum. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/14- copy_custom-a5da8cd5be7f388bdeaf9a526926a09a2f89c1b0-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2026@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T123000 DTSTAMP:20260406T161914Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-lets-get-this-party-started/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Let's Get This Party Started DESCRIPTION:SOMETHING GREATER THAN YOU\nGordon LePage | 9 | ME\nA pair of f euding raccoons receive an unexpected guest.\n\nCLAIM THE LANE: BECOMING R OXY\nJesse Huffman | 69 | VT\nAn Iraq-veteran cyclist transitions at age 5 1. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Pho to-7-Roxy-Purple-Dress-Bike-Portrait.Still001.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2027@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T141500 DTSTAMP:20260406T162045Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-ties-that-bind/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Ties that Bind DESCRIPTION:ANYWAY\, I PISS SITTING DOWN\nZak Slattery | 13 | QC\nThree fri ends embark on a journey back to their hometown.\n\nAFTER THE SILENCE\nJea n-François Cameron | 6 | QC\nGrieving mother Isabelle confronts her son's former partner.\n\nBROTHERS IN ARMS\nFrancois Lalonde | 11 | QC\nBuried t ensions rise to the surface at Édouard's 18th birthday party.\n\nAVENTURE FM\nMartin C. Pariseau | 19 | QC\nA young neurodivergent music lover gets ready for a date and catches a ride with his brother.\n\nEVELYN’S HERE\ nSean Temple\, Sarah Wisner | 10 | VT\nAlice gets lost in a haunting dream when she tries to check on her sister.\n\nHYPERLINK\nJuliette Poitras | 1 2 | QC\nA delicate\, desktop documentary about a fractured blended family. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Pho to-2-TDC_LOCK_240708.10_14_10_03.Still034-e1775500750431.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2028@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T162125Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-the-sporting-life/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: The Sporting Life DESCRIPTION:SIREN\nMarilou Caravecchia-Pelletier | 15 | QC\nMathilde is dro wning in glitter and pressure on the eve of a synchronized swimming compet ition.\n\nROAD 138\nSarah Warren | 19 | QC\nA man runs 138 kilometers in o ne day to honor his sister’s resilience in fighting cancer.\n\nBEST DAY EVER\nBen Knight\, Berne Broudy | 48 | VT\nAdaptive mountain bikers naviga te the challenges of their disabilities to embrace friendship and joy. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Pho to-4-sirene_stills_709_flat_jpg_34.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2029@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T191500 DTSTAMP:20260406T162226Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-architectonics/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Architectonics DESCRIPTION:LEGOMAN\nDavid Dufresne-Denis | 4 | QC\nA father finds comfort in watching his children play with the Lego bricks he once cherished.\n\nO N THE SECOND FLOOR\nNeil Ira Needleman | 5 | ME\nSeveral old\, forlorn cha irs occupy a dull liminal space\, but dream of being something more.\n\nPR ICKLY MOUNTAIN AND MY DESIGN/BUILD LIFE\nAllie Macrae Rood | 97 | VT\nIn t he ’60s and ’70s\, a cohort of architects landed in Vermont with stran ge ideas about designing homes. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/fra me_legoman1.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2030@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T123000 DTSTAMP:20260406T162400Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-lets-eat/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Let's Eat DESCRIPTION:THE DAWNLAND KITCHEN\nScott Cherhoniak | 14 | VT\nA Missisquoi Abenaki chef in Vermont explores ancestral food traditions.\n\nA CULINARY UPRISING: THE STORY OF BLOODROOT\nAnnie Laurie Medonis | 82 | MA\nThe stor y of the longest lasting feminist\, queer\, vegan restaurant in the U.S. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Pho to-3-371066530_269216799388573_4057352843149998133_n.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2031@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T144500 DTSTAMP:20260406T162432Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-acceptance/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Acceptance DESCRIPTION:ARS ANIMALIS FOR TROUBLED TIMES\nAnne Ciecko | 4 | MA\nThe anim al kingdom reveals artful resourcefulness amidst tumult.\n\nSTILL MOVING\n Rui Ting Ji | 11 | QC\nAfter her divorce\, a mother drives a rented moving truck with her daughter.\n\nDEEP IN THE SWIRL\nMélanie Saint-Germain | 2 4 | QC\nErika navigates the turbulence of her father's addiction.\n\nNOT L OSING YOU\nJames Lantz | 2 | VT\nFollowing an argument\, a farmer makes a life-changing decision about his trans daughter.\n\nSUGARHOUSE\nJesse Krei tzer | 29 | VT\nIn rural Vermont\, aging syrup makers honor a centuries-ol d tradition. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Pho to-1-Sugarhouse_8.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2032@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T191500 DTSTAMP:20260406T162502Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-dance-music-poetry/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Dance! Music! Poetry! DESCRIPTION:HELL\nParker Croft | 5 | VT\nThe patriarch of a dying farm is m ethodically ground down by the machinery of despair.\n\nEVERYONE IS A BIRD \nChristopher Wiersema | 7 | VT\nDaydreaming about the afterlife of loved ones via found footage collage.\n\nPIPPA AND LEO\nAbeille Tard | 19 | QC\n For one night\, Pippa breaks curfew and leaves the supervised home with he r baby.\n\nTHE MAGICIAN\nMathieu Gauvreau | 18 | QC\nA magician must save the struggling venue he works in.\n\nMUSES\nSimon Vermeulen | 8 | QC\nA da ncer struggles to break free from the hold of his choreographer.\n\nJAZZ I NFERNAL\nWill Niava | 16 | QC\nA young Ivorian trumpeter arrives in Montre al with nothing but the legacy of his father to guide him. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Pho to-2-Muses_4-e1775500508112.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2033@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T113000 DTSTAMP:20260406T162536Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-did-someone-say-america/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Did Someone Say "America?" DESCRIPTION:HAPPY BIRTHDAY\, AMERICA!\nNeil Ira Needleman | 3 | ME\nIndepen dence Day brings to mind the story of a man who decided to self-deport for fear of ICE stormtroopers.\n\nWHO MOVES AMERICA\nYael Bridge | 87 | RI\nT he Teamsters mount a pressure campaign on UPS to improve working condition s. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Pho to-1-still_3.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2034@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T144500 DTSTAMP:20260406T162615Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-learning/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Learning DESCRIPTION:M@CY'S HIGH\nZoe Boray | 20 | VT\nA former student documents th e final year of high school held in the defunct Burlington mall.\n\nTO YOU R HANDS\nAna Mouyis | 11 | MA\nOn the divided island of Cyprus\, the quiet motion of hands shaping lace and making cheese shed new light on decades of conflict.\n\nGONE GUYS\nChad Ervin | 46 | VT\nOver the past fifty years \, young men have steadily disengaged from school\, work\, and broader soc iety. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Pho to-4-TYH_still_07.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2035@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T162702Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-four-walls/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Four Walls DESCRIPTION:THE JOURNEY HOME\nCole Whitaker | 7 | MA\nA man reckons with hi s feelings of ineptitude as a routine trip turns into a more significant j ourney.\n\nGHISLAINE'S PLACE\nFranie-Éléonore Bernier | 18 | QC\nGhislai ne runs a smuggling network of stolen food\, which she sells at low prices to the community.\n\nYOU’RE OUT\nMarie-Louise Gariépy | 10 | QC\nMaxim e returns home and finds his belongings stuffed into a box on the balcony and the lock changed.\n\nFAN\nPhilippe Berthelet | 9 | QC\nFollowing a hea twave\, Camille decides to replace her loyal fan with an air conditioner.\ n\nPEOPLE LIVE HERE\nGabrielle Côté | 12 | QC\nMontrealers enjoy parks\, balconies\, cafés\, and biking\, sharing in a rich cultural diversity.\n \nTOMORROW’S SHAME\nAlexandre Lefebvre | 20 | QC\nPierre makes a heart-w renching decision to evict his tenant and friend who’s unable to pay ren t. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Pho to-3-Untitled_8.8.1.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2036@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T193000 DTSTAMP:20260406T162730Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-artists-at-work/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Artists at Work DESCRIPTION:A SUSPENDED TIDE\nFélix Caraballo | 13 | QC\nStrange auditory anomalies blur the line between reality and imagination.\n\nMY MEMORY WALL S\nAxel Robin | 13 | QC\nAn almost-nonagenarian artist paints the story of her life on her house's walls.\n\nGLORIOUS OBSCURITY\nRonan Furuta | 10 | VT\nA glimpse into the unique world of Clare\, the creator\, curator\, an d caretaker of the Museum of Everyday Life.\n\nMARGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS (DI RT: PART TWO)\nDavid Finkelstein | 22 | VT\nAn incantatory exploration of the American relationship to space\, the soil\, and ownership.\n\nSALT MAR SH\nTom Bell | 15 | ME\nExplores art\, climate\, and solitude through the reflections of Maine artist Mitchell Rasor. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Pho to-2-banner-11.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2037@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T133000 DTSTAMP:20260406T162829Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-echoes/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Echoes DESCRIPTION:RADIO\nSalma AlaaEldeen Badra | 16 | VT\nThe constant presence of the radio captures the rhythm of life in an Egyptian home.\n\nPETTICOAT S\nGaëlle Graton | 18 | QC\nIn 19th-century Quebec\, a kitchen hand dream s of learning the men's trade.\n\nIT WILL ALWAYS END IN THE END\nNancy Pet tinicchio | 16 | QC\nAn HIV-positive queer fashion designer takes us into their artistic world.\n\nSOUR GRAPES\nLorena Santana\, Evan Hunt | 6 | VT\ nA young man is determined to break free from the burdens of his family's legacy.\n\nSUPERHOST\nA.P. Bergeron\, Sophie Edell | 12 | QC\nA couple see king a restful getaway comes face to face with dark supernatural forces.\n \nON THIS LAND\nSalma AlaaEldeen Badra | 4 | VT\nCollages the poetry of Ma hmoud Darwish into a meditation on memory and identity. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Pho to-4-Summer_SAP_1.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2038@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T151500 DTSTAMP:20260406T205439Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-bodies-bears-suns-daughters/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Bodies\, Bears\, Suns & Daughters DESCRIPTION:CORPUS\nJohn R. Killacky | 7 | VT\nA meditative reflection of o ur bodies that have been demonized\, weaponized\, and politicized.\n\nTHE DOWNTOWN BURLINGTON BEAR\nDillon Tanner | 7 | VT\nDillon met Chris while h e was smoking in a bear suit outside of City Hall and said “what's up. ”\n\nLITTLE VICTORIES\nRafaël Beauchamp | 16 | QC\nA father works to ac cumulate the money needed to buy go-kart tires for his daughter.\n\nVEILED LIGHT\nMyles David Jewell\, Alexandra Rose Jewell | 40 | VT\nA love lette r to the total solar eclipse on April 8\, 2024. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Pho to-1-Screenshot_2025-02-17_at_6.32.07_AM-1-e1775500893268.jpg CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2039@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T162949Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mhff-2026-definitely-gangster/ SUMMARY:MHFF 2026: Definitely Gangster DESCRIPTION:DEFINITELY GANGSTER\n*U.S Premiere*\nJeremy Lee MacKenzie | 70 | VT\nTerminally ill eight-year-old Zander and his best friend embark on a quest to fulfill his dream of being like his idol\, Edward G. Robinson. T his screening also includes a short documentary about the making of Defini tely Gangster and a Q&\;A with the filmmakers. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/e0a f34_4dbca98aa11447b1afc9b05767db9215mv2.png CATEGORIES:Made Here Film Festival,VTIFF LOCATION:Burlington Beer Company\, 180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\ , United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=180 Flynn Ave\, Burlington\ , VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Burlington Beer Co mpany:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2040@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T160000 DTSTAMP:20260414T185430Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/exit-8/ SUMMARY:Exit 8 (2025) DESCRIPTION:After exiting a subway train\, a man (Kazunari Ninomiya\, credi ted simply as The Lost Man) finds himself suddenly trapped in a Möbius: h e turns a corner and discovers that the nondescript subway passageway loop s back on itself endlessly\, with signs indicating he must seek out the el usive exit number eight. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overloo k anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly\, turn back imm ediately. If you don’t\, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a si ngle oversight sends you back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goa l and escape this infinite corridor? Based on the global hit video game of the same name\, Genki Kawamura savvily translates the game's recursive lo gic to the big screen\, injecting this bleeding-edge liminal horror tale w ith a scrappy visual wit and a delirious sense of fun.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Exi t-8-Still-Credit-to-Goodfellas-scaled.webp CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2041@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T190000 DTSTAMP:20260414T185514Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/exit-8-2/ SUMMARY:Exit 8 (2025) DESCRIPTION:After exiting a subway train\, a man (Kazunari Ninomiya\, credi ted simply as The Lost Man) finds himself suddenly trapped in a Möbius: h e turns a corner and discovers that the nondescript subway passageway loop s back on itself endlessly\, with signs indicating he must seek out the el usive exit number eight. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overloo k anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly\, turn back imm ediately. If you don’t\, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a si ngle oversight sends you back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goa l and escape this infinite corridor? Based on the global hit video game of the same name\, Genki Kawamura savvily translates the game's recursive lo gic to the big screen\, injecting this bleeding-edge liminal horror tale w ith a scrappy visual wit and a delirious sense of fun.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Exi t-8-Still-Credit-to-Goodfellas-scaled.webp CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2042@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T190000 DTSTAMP:20260416T173525Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/eating-raoul/ SUMMARY:Eating Raoul (1982) DESCRIPTION:Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films\n\nTalk about a movie whose time has come: Eating Raoul is a comedy about fed-up working-c lass people who kill awful rich people and steal their money to fund their own dreams. Bring it on! A cannibalistic caper that doubles as a razor-sh arp social satire about income inequality and the end of the sexual revolu tion\, Eating Raoul is something else.\n\nGonzo-satirist Paul Bartel grew up in the bizarro-land of Roger Corman’s New World Pictures\, where he q uickly landed a job directing the hilarious Death Race 2000\, starring Dav id Carradine\, Sylvester Stallone\, and\, most notably\, former Warhol Fac tory superstar Mary Woronov. The chemistry between Bartel and Woronov is f abulous. Good friends and a creative team from 1975’s fabulous Death Rac e 2000 until Bartel’s death in 2000\, Woronov and Bartel made 17 films t ogether. Eating Raoul\, their seventh collaboration\, is clearly the gem o f their shared filmography. \n\nA bawdy\, gleefully amoral tale of conspi cuous consumption\, Raoul casts Bartel and Woronov as a prudish married co uple who feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building. One night\, by accident\, they discover a way to simultaneously rid thems elves of the “perverts” down the hall and realize their dream of openi ng a restaurant. A mix of hilarious\, anything-goes slapstick and biting s atire of me-generation self-indulgence\, Eating Raoul is comedy with a sub stantial body count. \n\nMade for $230\,000 (much of it from the sale of his parents’ house)\, the film was an art-house hit\, grossing $2 millio n. As a director\, Bartel made many films\, including great ones (Death Ra ce 2000)\, good ones (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills)\, a nd bad ones (the Tim Conway vehicle Longshot). Like an oddball Cassavetes\ , he funded his pictures through an eccentric acting career that included credits in Eat My Dust!\, Piranha\, The Hustler of Muscle Beach\, the fant astic Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (featuring the Ramones)\, Samuel Fulle r’s White Dog\, Chopping Mall\, Amazon Women of the Moon\, Caddyshack II \, The Pope Must Diet\, Gregg Araki’s The Living End\, The Usual Suspect s\, and many\, many more.\n\nFeaturing a post-screening Q&\;A with the producer Anne Kimmel\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/max resdefault.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2023@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T145333Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/frank-af-animation-fascination/ SUMMARY:Frank: AF | Animation Fascination DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. We hope to reschedule for later t his year so stay tuned. We're sorry for any inconvenience.\nJoin VTIFF and  Frank: for Frank: AF | Animation Fascination\, an afternoon and evenin g dedicated to animation\, creativity\, and the art of bringing motion to life.\nThis half-day event gathers animators\, artists\, students\, and cr eative technologists for an exploration of the animated form\, spanning ex perimental film\, storytelling\, and digital practice. The program begins with artist talks and workshops led by accomplished creators\, offering in sight into how animated worlds are imagined and realized. Attendees will e ngage with both process and technique. The evening concludes with a curate d screening of animated works from featured artists.\nWe’re grateful to partner with Frank: in bringing this program to the Burlington community! ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1_F rank-AF-Social-Posts.jpg CATEGORIES:Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1997@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T190000 DTSTAMP:20260304T142513Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-unknown/ SUMMARY:Musical Silents: The Unknown (1927) DESCRIPTION:Live improvised score by Wren Kitz &\; John Flanagan\n\nSome movies you have to see to believe\; count The Unknown among them. The mos t celebrated and exquisitely perverse of the many collaborations between d irector Tod Browning (Freaks) and his legendary leading man Lon Chaney\, T he Unknown features a wrenchingly physical performance from “the Man of a Thousand Faces” as the armless Spanish knife thrower Alonzo (he flings daggers with his feet… for real!)\, whose infatuation with his beautifu l assistant (very young Joan Crawford)—a woman\, it just so happens\, wh o cannot bear to be touched by the hands of any man—drives him to unspea kable extremes. Sadomasochistic obsession\, deception\, murder\, disfigure ment\, and a spectacular Grand Guignol climax—Browning wrings every last frisson from the lurid premise.\n\n26.95 (Wren Kitz &\; John Flanagan) is an improvisational collaboration between Vermont musicians Wren Kitz a nd John Flanagan. Wren is a songwriter and field recordist who blends trad itional guitar-and-voice songwriting with field recording and tape collage experimentation. In his attempt to develop a ghostly and contemplative fo rm of musical expression\, Wren considers ways to break down walls between genre categorizations. John plays guitar in the surf power trio The Wet O nes! and has participated in many bands and projects including Heavy Plain s\, Friends Below the Gangway\, Spirit Animal/Wolvings\, In Memory of Plut o\, and Reorder Narcotic.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/sP3 u2W8sYvXNPweCU9G3JABS1skC5cldJpwyp5wS.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2021@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161246Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/blue-heron/ SUMMARY:Blue Heron (2025) DESCRIPTION:Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut confi rms her status as one of Canada’s most exceptional emerging filmmakers. Blue Heron is formally inventive and acutely personal\, a re-creation of c hildhood joys embedded in a more troubling story of a family’s growing c risis.\n\nIn the late 1990s\, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island\, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son\, Jeremy. At wit’ s end\, their parents are presented with a shattering choice. Blue Heron i s a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us\, master fully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2.B lue-Heron_Still-min-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2022@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161329Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/blue-heron-2/ SUMMARY:Blue Heron (2025) DESCRIPTION:Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut confi rms her status as one of Canada’s most exceptional emerging filmmakers. Blue Heron is formally inventive and acutely personal\, a re-creation of c hildhood joys embedded in a more troubling story of a family’s growing c risis.\n\nIn the late 1990s\, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island\, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son\, Jeremy. At wit’ s end\, their parents are presented with a shattering choice. Blue Heron i s a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us\, master fully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2.B lue-Heron_Still-min-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2043@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T190000 DTSTAMP:20260417T164044Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-piano/ SUMMARY:The Piano (1993) DESCRIPTION:Director of the Month: Jane Campion\n\nOne of the great films o f the 1990s\, this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity earne d Jane Campion the Palme d’Or at Cannes\, the first woman so honored. Ho lly Hunter is achingly eloquent through silence in her Academy Award-winni ng performance as Ada\, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses he r innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter (Anna Paquin\, in her Oscar-winning d ebut) to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand\, she finds herself lo cked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband (Sam Neill) an d a rugged frontiersman (Harvey Keitel)\, to whom she develops a forbidden attraction. With its sensuously moody cinematography\, dramatic coastal l andscapes\, sweeping score\, and Oscar-winning Campion screenplay\, this u niquely timeless evocation of a woman’s awakening is an intoxicating sen sory experience that burns with the twin fires of music and erotic passion .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/5Wj Znv6tYaMO1JLSMJ0VGxFPc0chuYqb5rW7pjbY.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2047@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T190000 DTSTAMP:20260420T175820Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/double-indemnity/ SUMMARY:Double Indemnity (1944) DESCRIPTION: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? Working with co-writer Raym ond Chandler\, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A -list with this epitome of film noir fatalism\, adapted from James M. Cain ’s pulp novel. When slick salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) walks in to the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck\ , whose entrance via anklet is still breathtaking)\, he intends to sell in surance\, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinist er way. Featuring scene-stealing supporting work from Edward G. Robinson a nd the chiaroscuro of cinematographer John F. Seitz\, Double Indemnity is one of the most entertainingly perverse stories ever told and the standard by which all noir must be measured. Double Indemnity was nominated for se ven Oscars\, though it won none (all due respect to Ingrid Bergman’s wor k in Gaslight\, but Stanwyck got robbed!). \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/rXY 3pffPzsA6gTG9U5X7Vh29ble2STmzm21azlFp.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2044@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T190000 DTSTAMP:20260417T164321Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sweetie/ SUMMARY:Sweetie (1989) DESCRIPTION:Director of the Month: Jane Campion\n\nThough she went on to cr eate a string of brilliant films\, Jane Campion will always be remembered for her stunning debut feature\, Sweetie\, which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down\, superstitious Kay and her rampagi ng\, devil-may-care sister\, Sweetie—and on their family's profoundly ro tten roots. A feast of colorful photography and captivating\, idiosyncrati c characters\, the tough and tender Sweetie heralded the emergence of a st artlingly gifted filmmaker\, and people took notice: Roger Ebert offered\, “Sweetie is a story with a realistic origin\, told with a fresh and bol d eye… Most movies slide right through our minds without hitting anythin g. This one screams and shouts every step of the way.”  The film also h eralded an international renaissance of Australian cinema\, which would ta ke the film world by storm in the nineties.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/61a 9962359ac1e2dc76bdbb95603f016.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2051@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T150000 DTSTAMP:20260420T155113Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/billy-preston/ SUMMARY:Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It (2024) DESCRIPTION:Featuring never-before-seen archival footage\, studio outtakes\ , and rare photos\, Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It is an e xhilarating documentary about the legendary musician whose signature sound shaped the work of The Beatles\, The Rolling Stones\, Ray Charles\, Sly S tone\, Aretha Franklin\, Barbra Streisand\, Eric Clapton\, and countless o thers. On his own\, he generated a venerable catalog of music\, including such Top 10 classics as “Outa-Space\,” “Will It Go Round in Circles\ ,” “Nothing from Nothing\,” and “You Are So Beautiful.” In the 1 970s\, he was basically The Coolest Person on Earth\, a riveting stage pre sence and explosive performer with talent pouring out of him. But Billy ha d quietly held secrets about his sexuality and early sexual abuse\, known to very few in his life\, which tormented him\, affecting not only his wel l-being and relationships\, but also negatively influencing his career cho ices. While this doc shows the end-game of his struggles\, it focuses on t he genius and artistic triumphs that precede the downfall.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Bil ly-Recording-Courtesy-of-Apple-Corps.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2052@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T190000 DTSTAMP:20260420T155145Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/billy-preston-thats-the-way-god-planned-it-2/ SUMMARY:Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It (2024) DESCRIPTION:Featuring never-before-seen archival footage\, studio outtakes\ , and rare photos\, Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It is an e xhilarating documentary about the legendary musician whose signature sound shaped the work of The Beatles\, The Rolling Stones\, Ray Charles\, Sly S tone\, Aretha Franklin\, Barbra Streisand\, Eric Clapton\, and countless o thers. On his own\, he generated a venerable catalog of music\, including such Top 10 classics as “Outa-Space\,” “Will It Go Round in Circles\ ,” “Nothing from Nothing\,” and “You Are So Beautiful.” In the 1 970s\, he was basically The Coolest Person on Earth\, a riveting stage pre sence and explosive performer with talent pouring out of him. But Billy ha d quietly held secrets about his sexuality and early sexual abuse\, known to very few in his life\, which tormented him\, affecting not only his wel l-being and relationships\, but also negatively influencing his career cho ices. While this doc shows the end-game of his struggles\, it focuses on t he genius and artistic triumphs that precede the downfall.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Bil ly-Recording-Courtesy-of-Apple-Corps.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2048@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T150000 DTSTAMP:20260420T151050Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-big-heat/ SUMMARY:The Big Heat (1953) DESCRIPTION:Noir doesn’t get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tal e of vice and retribution\, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style—stripped to the bone\, simmering with outrage\, and fatalistic to the core. Featuring two of the most shocking scenes in all of noir\, The Big Heat stars a tightly-wound\, never-better Glenn Ford as a homicide detective whose investigation into a sprawling cr ime syndicate becomes a shockingly personal\, hate-fueled quest for reveng e. The outrageously colorful support cast includes an iconic Gloria Graham e as the mink-coated gangster’s moll with her own axe to grind\, and a s ensationally sleazy and dangerous Lee Marvin. The Big Heat packs a lot of wallop into a mere 89 minutes.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ima ge-w1280.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2024@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T174158Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/silent-friend/ SUMMARY:Silent Friend (2025) DESCRIPTION:At the heart of a German university grows a majestic ginkgo tre e\, its lifespan measured in centuries. As the years pass\, the distinguis hed plant bears witness to the private lives of those who seek shade under its boundless branches\, forming a nexus that connects three generations of students and teachers across time and space. In 2020\, a visiting neuro scientist conducts a series of experiments into the possibilities of botan ical consciousness. In 1972\, a young student is profoundly changed by stu dying the behavior of a simple geranium. And in 1908\, the university’s first female student’s photographic inquiries reveal sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants. Over time\, each is tra nsformed by the quiet\, enduring\, and mysterious power of nature.\nFrom I ldikó Enyedi\, the director of Academy Award-nominated On Body and Soul\, comes Silent Friend\, an epic\, awe-inspiring exploration of the natural world. Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Tony Leung (in only his se cond film outside Asian\, and his first in Europe)\, Léa Seydoux\, and Ve nice Prize-winning newcomer Luna Wedler\, Enyedi crafts a thoughtful medit ation on the essential question of what it means to be human.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1-C opyright-Lenke-Szilagyi-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2025@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T174226Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/silent-friend-2/ SUMMARY:Silent Friend (2025) DESCRIPTION:At the heart of a German university grows a majestic ginkgo tre e\, its lifespan measured in centuries. As the years pass\, the distinguis hed plant bears witness to the private lives of those who seek shade under its boundless branches\, forming a nexus that connects three generations of students and teachers across time and space. In 2020\, a visiting neuro scientist conducts a series of experiments into the possibilities of botan ical consciousness. In 1972\, a young student is profoundly changed by stu dying the behavior of a simple geranium. And in 1908\, the university’s first female student’s photographic inquiries reveal sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants. Over time\, each is tra nsformed by the quiet\, enduring\, and mysterious power of nature.\nFrom I ldikó Enyedi\, the director of Academy Award-nominated On Body and Soul\, comes Silent Friend\, an epic\, awe-inspiring exploration of the natural world. Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Tony Leung (in only his se cond film outside Asian\, and his first in Europe)\, Léa Seydoux\, and Ve nice Prize-winning newcomer Luna Wedler\, Enyedi crafts a thoughtful medit ation on the essential question of what it means to be human.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1-C opyright-Lenke-Szilagyi-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2049@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T190000 DTSTAMP:20260420T151444Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/force-of-evil/ SUMMARY:Force of Evil (1948) DESCRIPTION:This gritty\, quintessential\, eternally underrated noir is dre nched in greed\, cynicism\, and corruption of the soul\, as embodied by th e great John Garfield (The Postman Always Rings Twice). He plays Joe Morse \, a lawyer whose connection to a ruthless racketeer has destroyed his sen se of morality. His participation in a rigged numbers racket will probably ruin his high-strung brother (Thomas Gomez\, superb)\, whose small-time p olicy bank stands to be wiped out by the scheme. The supporting cast is un iformly outstanding\, but special mention must be made of noir queen Marie Windsor (The Killing).\n\nThe film is renowned for its unique\, poetic sc ript—co-written by first-time director Abraham Polonsky and Ira Wolfert —which utilizes stylized dialogue and narration frequently described as blank verse. This rhythmic\, often iambic\, language creates a heightened\ , lyrical atmosphere that contrasts with the harsh\, criminal underworld s etting\, elevating the noir genre into a form of modern\, urban poetry. \ n\nForce of Evil did middling business on its release\, but has seen its r eputation grow over the years. Influential critic Andrew Sarris called it “one of the great films of modern American cinema\,” while Martin Scor sese dubbed it “the gem of neglected 1940s art cinema and a major influe nce on my own work.” \n\nPolonsky was swept up in the HUAC Hollywood bl acklist\, despite being a WWII veteran. Dubbed “a very dangerous citizen ” by a committee member\, Polonsky was barred from directing from 1951 u ntil 1969\, when he returned to direct the Robert Redford vehicle Tell The m Willie Boy Is Here.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/for ce-of-evil-slide-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2045@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T150000 DTSTAMP:20260417T164629Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/an-angel-at-my-table/ SUMMARY:An Angel at My Table (1990) DESCRIPTION:Director of the Month: Jane Campion\n\nWith An Angel at My Tabl e\, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Jane Campion brought to the screen t he harrowing autobiography of Janet Frame\, New Zealand’s most distingui shed author. Three actors in turn take on the lead role (including Kerry F ox in a marvelous performance as the adult Frame)\, as the film describes a journey from an impoverished childhood marked by tragedy to a misdiagnos is of schizophrenia resulting in electroshock therapy and a narrowly escap ed lobotomy to\, finally\, international literary fame. Unobtrusively capt uring the beauty and power of the New Zealand landscape while maintaining the film’s focus on the figure at its center\, Campion broke new ground for female filmmakers everywhere and earned a sweep of her country’s fil m awards\, along with the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.\ n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ae0 ab0e6c3e783a93a012363eea418d1.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2053@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T190000 DTSTAMP:20260420T160713Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/agathas-almanac/ SUMMARY:Agatha's Almanac (2025) DESCRIPTION:Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges\, she resolutely tends to her l and\, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Employin g antiquated techniques\, Agatha plants and harvests her expansive field o f watermelons\, beans\, flowers\, herbs\, and vegetables entirely by hand. Without a car\, cell phone\, running water\, or even a functioning landli ne\, Agatha’s meditative processes and daily rituals form a vivid counte rpoint to the rapid pace of contemporary life.\n\nShot by an all-female cr ew\, including director Amalie Atkins and cinematographer Rhayne Vermette\ , over six years on 16mm film\, using a windup Bolex and an ArriSR2 studio camera\, the project captures the handmade materiality of film and Agatha ’s tactile world. Her century-old farmhouse\, with its grey exterior\, c ontrasts with the bursts of vibrant color and texture inside. Unchanged si nce the 1950s\, her home serves as a living archive of a vanishing era\, r ooted in her esoteric practices that predate modern conveniences. Agatha ’s Almanac offers a window into the experiences of a nearly lost generat ion\, whose values and ways of living are at risk of fading as the world r apidly changes.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Aga thas-Almanac-05_Agatha-with-pink-shirt-and-flowered-apron._Photo-by-Amalie -Atkins_Courtesy-Icarus-Films-scaled-e1776700378777.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2054@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260524T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260524T150000 DTSTAMP:20260420T160743Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/agathas-almanac-2/ SUMMARY:Agatha's Almanac (2025) DESCRIPTION:Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges\, she resolutely tends to her l and\, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Employin g antiquated techniques\, Agatha plants and harvests her expansive field o f watermelons\, beans\, flowers\, herbs\, and vegetables entirely by hand. Without a car\, cell phone\, running water\, or even a functioning landli ne\, Agatha’s meditative processes and daily rituals form a vivid counte rpoint to the rapid pace of contemporary life.\n\nShot by an all-female cr ew\, including director Amalie Atkins and cinematographer Rhayne Vermette\ , over six years on 16mm film\, using a windup Bolex and an ArriSR2 studio camera\, the project captures the handmade materiality of film and Agatha ’s tactile world. Her century-old farmhouse\, with its grey exterior\, c ontrasts with the bursts of vibrant color and texture inside. Unchanged si nce the 1950s\, her home serves as a living archive of a vanishing era\, r ooted in her esoteric practices that predate modern conveniences. Agatha ’s Almanac offers a window into the experiences of a nearly lost generat ion\, whose values and ways of living are at risk of fading as the world r apidly changes.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Aga thas-Almanac-05_Agatha-with-pink-shirt-and-flowered-apron._Photo-by-Amalie -Atkins_Courtesy-Icarus-Films-scaled-e1776700378777.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2046@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260529T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260529T190000 DTSTAMP:20260417T164905Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-power-of-the-dog/ SUMMARY:The Power of the Dog (2021) DESCRIPTION:Director of the Month: Jane Campion\n\nJane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape—pulsating with both freedom and me nace—that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the ma sculine psyche in The Power of the Dog\, set against the desolate plains o f 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage’s novel. After a sensitive widow (Kirsten Dunst) and her enigmatic\, fiercely lovi ng son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) move in with her gentle new husband (Jesse Plemo ns)\, a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish broth er (Benedict Cumberbatch)\, whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment\, and whose capacity for tenderness\, once reawakened\, may offer him redemption or spell his destruction. Campion\, who won an Academy Awa rd for her direction here\, charts the repressed desire and psychic violen ce coursing among these characters with the mesmerizing control of a maste r at the height of her powers. This film had an extremely limited theatric al release\, so it’s rare to see it on the big screen… take advantage! \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/N8H MvRixKycp2PrauJBQlvyjV4t7JdMYmpSP0jDN.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2050@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T190000 DTSTAMP:20260420T151805Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/out-of-the-past/ SUMMARY:Out of the Past (1947) DESCRIPTION: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 c rosses\, fall guys\, shadowy rooms\, and bleak souls. Mitchum plays Jeff B ailey\, a one-time private investigator walking the straight and narrow of small-town life… until an acquaintance from his past pulls him back int o the troubles he’d left behind.\n\nGod knows we all love Bogart (who pa ssed on this role\, as did John Garfield and Dick Powell)\, but nobody has ever done the laconic\, world-weary ex-private-dick who is immune to surp rise as well as Mitchum does here. He’s utter perfection\, and this role —along with those in The Night of the Hunter and The Friends of Eddie Co yle—comprise the Robert Mitchum Hall of Fame. \n\nGreer just about matc hes him as Kathy\, one of the most alluringly toxic femme fatales to hit t he screen. And Kirk Douglas shines in an early role\, offering charm and s lime in equal parts.\n\nCynical\, bitter and fatalistic\, bathed in shadow s\, suffused with cigarette smoke\, Out of the Past is among the most gorg eous noirs ever shot\, thanks to director Jacques Tourneur’s mastery of light and shadow. Sunlight never seemed so hostile\, darkness never felt s o treacherous. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Out -of-the-Past-HERO.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2069@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T190000 DTSTAMP:20260601T183943Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/lost-in-america/ SUMMARY:Lost in America (1985) DESCRIPTION:Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films\n\nIt's a Julie Hagerty double bill! First\, Make Up\, a short film written and directed b y local filmmaker Scott Tuft\, who will participate in a Q&\;A after th e show. Then we'll show Albert Brooks' Lost in America.\n\nIn this hysteri cal road comedy\, an acerbic send up of Reagan-era values\, a successful L os Angeles advertising executive (Brooks) and his wife (Julie Hagerty) dec ide to quit their jobs\, buy a Winnebago\, and hit the open road—you kno w\, "like in Easy Rider." Chasing fantasies of freedom\, they encounter no thing but setbacks—especially a disastrous detour to Las Vegas—the dep ths of their own delusions\, and the limits of the American Dream. Brooks ’s barbed wit and confident direction—plus the comedy chops of co-writ er Monica Johnson\, a scribe on such pioneering TV institutions as The Mar y Tyler Moore Show\, Laverne &\; Shirley\, and It's Garry Shandling's S how—drive Lost in America\, an iconic example of his trademark comedies about insecure characters searching for satisfaction in an implacable mode rn world.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/dc4 d11cd447bd1c01f1b9657bc634f0c.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2055@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T150000 DTSTAMP:20260605T194011Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sun-ra-a-joyful-noise/ SUMMARY:Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (1980) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nVTIFF is excited to present this special screening as part of th e 2026 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. After the movie\, we're thrilled to welcome filmmaker Robert Mugge for a Q&\;A.\n\n"One of the most sat isfying portraits I’ve ever seen. An extraordinary documentary. Revelato ry." —Richard Brody\, The New Yorker\n\nAcclaimed musicologist and docum entarian Robert Mugge—the filmmaker behind definitive\, clear-eyed chron icles of Sonny Rollins (Saxophone Colossus)\, Al Green (Gospel According t o Al Green)\, Gil Scott-Heron (Black Wax)\, and many more—presents his m ost celebrated portrait\, Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise. The film captures the vi sionary artist-philosopher-Afrofuturist and his avant-garde jazz Arkestra in Philadelphia\, Baltimore\, and Washington\, D.C. between 1978 (circa La nquidity) and 1980\, featuring interviews\, behind-the-scenes rehearsals\, extended improvisations\, and poetry readings\, as well as out-of-this-wo rld performances at Danny's Hollywood Palace\, the rooftop of the Philadel phia International Center\, and Baltimore's Famous Ballroom. Sun Ra: A Joy ful Noise was selected by Time Out London as one of the 50 Greatest Music Films Ever.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Sun -Ra-2000x1415-1.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2074@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T170000 DTSTAMP:20260605T162902Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/sun-ra-a-joyful-noise-2/ SUMMARY:Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (1980) DESCRIPTION:VTIFF is excited to present this special screening as part of t he 2026 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. After the movie\, we're thrille d to welcome filmmaker Robert Mugge for a Q&\;A.\n\n"One of the most sa tisfying portraits I’ve ever seen. An extraordinary documentary. Revelat ory." —Richard Brody\, The New Yorker\n\nAcclaimed musicologist and docu mentarian Robert Mugge—the filmmaker behind definitive\, clear-eyed chro nicles of Sonny Rollins (Saxophone Colossus)\, Al Green (Gospel According to Al Green)\, Gil Scott-Heron (Black Wax)\, and many more—presents his most celebrated portrait\, Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise. The film captures the v isionary artist-philosopher-Afrofuturist and his avant-garde jazz Arkestra in Philadelphia\, Baltimore\, and Washington\, D.C. between 1978 (circa L anquidity) and 1980\, featuring interviews\, behind-the-scenes rehearsals\ , extended improvisations\, and poetry readings\, as well as out-of-this-w orld performances at Danny's Hollywood Palace\, the rooftop of the Philade lphia International Center\, and Baltimore's Famous Ballroom. Sun Ra: A Jo yful Noise was selected by Time Out London as one of the 50 Greatest Music Films Ever.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Sun -Ra-2000x1415-1.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1998@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T190000 DTSTAMP:20260303T211951Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/that-nights-wife/ SUMMARY:Musical Silents: That Night's Wife (1930) DESCRIPTION:Live improvised score by Matt Hagen plus special guest\n\nIn no irish darkness\, a man commits a shocking robbery. But\, as we soon learn\ , this seeming criminal mastermind is actually a sensitive everyman driven to desperation by the need to provide for his family. Unfolding over the course of one night\, Yasujiro Ozu’s That Night’s Wife combines suspen se with the emotional domestic drama one associates with the filmmaker’s later masterpieces\, and employs beautifully evocative camera work.\n\nMa tt Hagen is a Burlington\, Vermont-based musician whose sound is as layere d and unhurried as the Green Mountain seasons. His music varies from instr umental\, genre bending guitar to intimate storytelling\, with a voice tha t feels lived-in and genuine. A fixture in Vermont's independent music sce ne\, Matt has earned recognition\, trust\, and respect as a standout voice in Burlington's vibrant creative community. Whether performing at premier clubs\, intimate local venues\, headlining events\, supporting main stage acts\, or tucked into a quiet corner of the city\, he brings a rare authe nticity that resonates long after the last chord fades. A seasoned songwri ter\, bandleader\, and eclectic collaborator\, Hagen writes and performs i n a palatable fashion while unafraid to wander into strange sonic territor y. It's music made for people who listen closely.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/221 173f17574878ddacde0406fddc9b5.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2056@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T190000 DTSTAMP:20260608T145428Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/horseshoe/ SUMMARY:Horseshoe (2025) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nWhen Colm\, the head of the Canavan family\, dies suddenly\, the re are few who mourn his passing\, not even his four adult children\, all of them estranged from the patriarch. But the legalities of his will must be observed\, the estate must be allocated\, and more than one Canavan sib ling is harboring secrets. As the Canavans return to the family home\, the fate of the family unit\, their sanity\, and the Canavan fortune all hang in the balance. Horseshoe is a prickly dramedy with a twist\, set in the wild west of Ireland\, where roots run deep and all families are more than a little mad... not least the Canavans.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hor seshoe-img-scaled-1.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2057@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T160000 DTSTAMP:20260505T131006Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/horseshoe-2/ SUMMARY:Horseshoe (2025) DESCRIPTION:When Colm\, the head of the Canavan family\, dies suddenly\, th ere are few who mourn his passing\, not even his four adult children\, all of them estranged from the patriarch. But the legalities of his will must be observed\, the estate must be allocated\, and more than one Canavan si bling is harboring secrets. As the Canavans return to the family home\, th e fate of the family unit\, their sanity\, and the Canavan fortune all han g in the balance. Horseshoe is a prickly dramedy with a twist\, set in the wild west of Ireland\, where roots run deep and all families are more tha n a little mad... not least the Canavans.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hor seshoe-img-scaled-1.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2058@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T190000 DTSTAMP:20260505T152153Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-picnic/ SUMMARY:No Picnic (1986) DESCRIPTION:New 4K Restoration\n\nFeaturing very early parts for Steve Busc emi and Luis Guzmán (not to mention a prominent turn from Richard Hell)\, Philip Hartman’s No Picnic is an invaluable artifact of New York’s pr e-gentrification East Village. No Picnic premiered at the 1986 Sundance Fi lm Festival\, where Peter Hutton won the Best Cinematography prize for his gorgeously grainy black-and-white photography\, then the film promptly va nished and was forgotten.\n\nThis shaggy picaresque follows down-and-out j ukebox operator Macabee Cohn (played with deadpan melancholy by David Bris bin) who wanders the borough's cheap tenements\, dive bars\, and derelict streets in search of a mysterious woman in a striped dress.\n\nHartman co- owned the NoHo landmark the Great Jones Cafe\, often credited with introdu cing Cajun cooking to downtown NYC\, and a magnet for indie film and music communities for decades. He rolled his gumbo money into the production of No Picnic and subsequently started the beloved Two Boots Pizzeria on Aven ue A to scare up enough money for post-production expenses. This 4K restor ation unearths a brilliant\, eccentric relic of a gritty NYC now long gone .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/NO_ PICNIC_thumbnail.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2059@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260614T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260614T140000 DTSTAMP:20260505T152327Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/no-picnic-2/ SUMMARY:No Picnic (1986) DESCRIPTION:New 4K Restoration\n\nFeaturing very early parts for Steve Busc emi and Luis Guzmán (not to mention a prominent turn from Richard Hell)\, Philip Hartman’s No Picnic is an invaluable artifact of New York’s pr e-gentrification East Village. No Picnic premiered at the 1986 Sundance Fi lm Festival\, where Peter Hutton won the Best Cinematography prize for his gorgeously grainy black-and-white photography\, then the film promptly va nished and was forgotten.\n\nThis shaggy picaresque follows down-and-out j ukebox operator Macabee Cohn (played with deadpan melancholy by David Bris bin) who wanders the borough's cheap tenements\, dive bars\, and derelict streets in search of a mysterious woman in a striped dress.\n\nHartman co- owned the NoHo landmark the Great Jones Cafe\, often credited with introdu cing Cajun cooking to downtown NYC\, and a magnet for indie film and music communities for decades. He rolled his gumbo money into the production of No Picnic and subsequently started the beloved Two Boots Pizzeria on Aven ue A to scare up enough money for post-production expenses. This 4K restor ation unearths a brilliant\, eccentric relic of a gritty NYC now long gone .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/NO_ PICNIC_thumbnail.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2070@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260614T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260614T190000 DTSTAMP:20260520T212947Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/some-like-it-hot/ SUMMARY:Some Like It Hot (1959) DESCRIPTION:This sizzling masterpiece by Billy Wilder set a new standard fo r Hollywood comedy on its way to becoming one of the most beloved films of all time. After witnessing a mob hit\, Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry (T ony Curtis and Jack Lemmon\, in landmark performances) skip town by donnin g drag and joining an all-female band en route to Miami. The charm of the group’s singer\, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe\, at the height of her bombs hell powers)\, leads them ever further into extravagant lies\, as Joe assu mes the persona of a millionaire to woo her and Jerry’s female alter ego winds up engaged to a tycoon. With a whip-smart script by Wilder and I.A. L. Diamond\, and sparking chemistry among its finely tuned cast\, Some Lik e It Hot is as deliriously funny and fresh today as it was when it first k nocked audiences out in the fifties.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/rlN uN2DqHFr0ItzHFMhnURkgugTRDShR1Yxllmie.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2064@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T160000 DTSTAMP:20260605T194142Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/steal-this-story-please/ SUMMARY:Steal This Story\, Please (2025) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nThis special screening of Steal This Story\, Please! includes a Q&\;A with journalist Amy Goodman moderated by David Goodman\, host of VTDigger’s Vermont Conversation\, and Ken Ellingwood\, consulting editor at Seven Days.\n\nUndeterred by armed soldiers\, smooth-talking politicia ns\, and riot police\, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the mos t consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story\, Please! is a gripp ing portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telli ng spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!\, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial med ia.\n\nOscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Wa ter\, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm\, wisecracking gr anddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi—raised in a tradition of asking hard qu estions—as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology\, corpo rate consolidation\, and political assaults on truth itself. Urgent\, prov ocative\, and unexpectedly funny\, Steal This Story\, Please! is both a ca ll to action and a celebration of resistance\, posing the question: what h appens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?\n\nPresented in pa rtnership with Seven Days.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/msp film-stealthisstoryplease_1920x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2065@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T190000 DTSTAMP:20260605T194217Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/steal-this-story-please-2/ SUMMARY:Steal This Story\, Please (2025) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nThis special screening of Steal This Story\, Please! includes a Q&\;A with journalist Amy Goodman moderated by David Goodman\, host of VTDigger’s Vermont Conversation\, and Ken Ellingwood\, consulting editor at Seven Days.\n\nUndeterred by armed soldiers\, smooth-talking politicia ns\, and riot police\, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the mos t consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story\, Please! is a gripp ing portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telli ng spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!\, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial med ia.\n\nOscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Wa ter\, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm\, wisecracking gr anddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi—raised in a tradition of asking hard qu estions—as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology\, corpo rate consolidation\, and political assaults on truth itself. Urgent\, prov ocative\, and unexpectedly funny\, Steal This Story\, Please! is both a ca ll to action and a celebration of resistance\, posing the question: what h appens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?\n\nPresented in pa rtnership with Seven Days.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/msp film-stealthisstoryplease_1920x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2066@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260620T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260620T130000 DTSTAMP:20260528T134916Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/steal-this-story-please-3/ SUMMARY:Steal This Story\, Please (2025) DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Seven Days. \n\nUndeterred by ar med soldiers\, smooth-talking politicians\, and riot police\, journalist A my Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time . Steal This Story\, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer who se unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos o f her daily news show Democracy Now!\, Goodman broadcasts stories and voic es routinely silenced by commercial media.\n\nOscar-nominated filmmakers C arl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water\, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm\, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi— raised in a tradition of asking hard questions—as she navigates a news l andscape reshaped by technology\, corporate consolidation\, and political assaults on truth itself. Urgent\, provocative\, and unexpectedly funny\, Steal This Story\, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of r esistance\, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/msp film-stealthisstoryplease_1920x1080.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2067@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260620T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260620T160000 DTSTAMP:20260514T161437Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/devil-in-a-blue-dress/ SUMMARY:Devil In a Blue Dress (1995) DESCRIPTION:Presented by guest programmer and VTIFF member Ravi Venkatarama n\n\nPostwar film noir becomes a powerful vehicle to explore America’s r acial injustices in Carl Franklin’s tense\, atmospheric debut. Adapted f rom the hard-boiled best-seller by Walter Mosley—the first in a series o f mystery novels following gumshoe Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins—Devil in a Blu e Dress is told through the eyes of people whose perspectives are usually ignored\, turning noir's propensity for delving into tales from the margin s on its head.\n\nDenzel Washington has charisma to burn as Rawlins\, an e x-GI prowling Central Avenue\, the social epicenter of Black Los Angeles\, who sees a chance to make some quick cash when he’s recruited to find t he missing lover of a wealthy mayoral candidate\, only to find himself emb roiled in murder\, political intrigue\, and a scandal that crosses the tre acherous color lines of a segregated society.\n\nFeaturing combustible wor k from Jennifer Beals\, Tom Sizemore\, and especially Don Cheadle\, in his breakout role as Rawlins’ cheerfully trigger-happy sidekick\, dynamic d irection from Franklin\, and humid photography by Tak Fujimoto (Badlands\, The Silence of the Lambs)\, this stylish mystery both channels and subver ts classic noir tropes as it exposes the bitter disillusionment underlying the American dream.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Rhi LX1wX5WFkiBWc64IMkJPToIhxQghUzGkD3wsM.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2068@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260620T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260620T190000 DTSTAMP:20260514T162527Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hard-boiled/ SUMMARY:Hard Boiled (1992) DESCRIPTION:Presented by guest programmer and VTIFF member Ravi Venkatarama n\n\nWhen John Woo’s Hard Boiled dropped in 1992\, his days in Hong Kong were numbered. Hard Boiled capped a run of classic bullet operas—The Ki ller\, A Better Tomorrow\, Bullet in the Head—that rendered violence as poetry and blasted Woo into the Hollywood system. A year later\, Woo would helm the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target\, widely regarded as t he first major Hollywood studio production directed by a Chinese filmmaker .\n\nHard Boiled remains a crown jewel of the heroic bloodshed genre—ful l of elaborate gunfight choreography\, long takes\, kinetic visuals\, and lavish slow-motion photography—and arguably the pinnacle of Woo's legend ary collaboration with star and muse Chow Yun-fat. In this tender-hearted Dirty Harry riff\, Chow embodies the controlled fury of jaded detective “Tequila” Yuen who undergoes a dizzying odyssey through the world of H ong Kong Triads\, undercover agents\, and frenzied police raids. More than a cops-and-bad-guys story\, Hard Boiled continually stuns with its origin ality and dark humor. And it all crescendos unforgettably in the breathles s hospital climax\, certainly one of the best action sequences ever commit ted to film. Decades after going out of print on home media\, Hard Boiled has finally been revived and restored in 4K.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ima ge-w1280.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2060@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260627T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260627T160000 DTSTAMP:20260505T160047Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mad-bills-to-pay/ SUMMARY:Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny\, dile que no soy malo) (2025) DESCRIPTION:Shot guerilla-style in 14 days in the Bronx\, Joel Alfonso Varg as' debut feature is a one of the most visually striking movies of the yea r. A rough-and-tumble\, sun-dappled stateside kin to the life-on-the-margi ns tales of Andrea Arnold\, Mad Bills to Pay is seen through the bleary ey es of Rico\, a 19-year-old Dominican-American hustler who's content to coa st on life's simple pleasures: video games\, smoking weed\, and chasing gi rls\, ad infinitum. He lives with his mother\, who works nights as a nurse \, and bankrolls his lifestyle by illegally shilling homemade "nutties" (c olorful cocktails of rum\, vodka\, and juice) on the beach. But when Desti ny\, his teenage girlfriend\, crashes at his place with his family\, it’ s only a matter of time before his rowdy\, carefree days come spiraling do wn\, and he's forced to take on responsibilities he's not equipped to hand le. Mad Bills to Pay won the Sundance NEXT Special Jury Award for its grea t ensemble cast of mostly first-time actors.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mad -bills-to-play-review.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2062@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260627T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260627T190000 DTSTAMP:20260505T162842Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/manas/ SUMMARY:Manas (2024) DESCRIPTION:Island of Marajó\, Amazon rainforest. 13-year-old Marcielle (T ielle) lives by the riverbanks with her father\, mother\, and three siblin gs. Prompted by her mother's words\, she idolizes her older sister\, who s upposedly escaped their poverty by "finding a good man" on the barges that ply the region. As Tielle matures\, her idealized visions shatter\, leavi ng her trapped between two abusive environments. Increasingly worried abou t her younger sister and the bleak future they face\, she decides to confr ont the oppressive system that controls her family and the women in their community. Stemming from documentary research in remote Amazon villages\, Manas is an immersive and sensitive portrait of a painfully familiar issue set deep in an unfamiliar environment. Says director Marianna Brennand\, "Through Manas\, I want to give voice to these women and girls who would n ever be heard otherwise\, honoring the stories they shared with me."\n\n&n bsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MAN AS_03-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2063@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260628T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260628T130000 DTSTAMP:20260505T162923Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/manas-2/ SUMMARY:Manas (2024) DESCRIPTION:Island of Marajó\, Amazon rainforest. 13-year-old Marcielle (T ielle) lives by the riverbanks with her father\, mother\, and three siblin gs. Prompted by her mother's words\, she idolizes her older sister\, who s upposedly escaped their poverty by "finding a good man" on the barges that ply the region. As Tielle matures\, her idealized visions shatter\, leavi ng her trapped between two abusive environments. Increasingly worried abou t her younger sister and the bleak future they face\, she decides to confr ont the oppressive system that controls her family and the women in their community. Stemming from documentary research in remote Amazon villages\, Manas is an immersive and sensitive portrait of a painfully familiar issue set deep in an unfamiliar environment. Says director Marianna Brennand\, "Through Manas\, I want to give voice to these women and girls who would n ever be heard otherwise\, honoring the stories they shared with me."\n\n&n bsp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MAN AS_03-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2061@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260628T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260628T153000 DTSTAMP:20260505T160020Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mad-bills-to-pay-2/ SUMMARY:Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny\, dile que no soy malo) (2025) DESCRIPTION:Shot guerilla-style in 14 days in the Bronx\, Joel Alfonso Varg as' debut feature is a one of the most visually striking movies of the yea r. A rough-and-tumble\, sun-dappled stateside kin to the life-on-the-margi ns tales of Andrea Arnold\, Mad Bills to Pay is seen through the bleary ey es of Rico\, a 19-year-old Dominican-American hustler who's content to coa st on life's simple pleasures: video games\, smoking weed\, and chasing gi rls\, ad infinitum. He lives with his mother\, who works nights as a nurse \, and bankrolls his lifestyle by illegally shilling homemade "nutties" (c olorful cocktails of rum\, vodka\, and juice) on the beach. But when Desti ny\, his teenage girlfriend\, crashes at his place with his family\, it’ s only a matter of time before his rowdy\, carefree days come spiraling do wn\, and he's forced to take on responsibilities he's not equipped to hand le. Mad Bills to Pay won the Sundance NEXT Special Jury Award for its grea t ensemble cast of mostly first-time actors.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mad -bills-to-play-review.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2078@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T190000 DTSTAMP:20260622T012015Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/five-easy-pieces/ SUMMARY:Five Easy Pieces (1970) DESCRIPTION:Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films\n\nWe're pleased to welcome filmmaker Brian Brightly for this screening. He will share his film La Boheme\, a short inspired by the Puccini opera\, and participate in a discussion about his work after the show.\n\nBob Rafelson and his pro ducing partner Bert Schneider first made their mark in Hollywood with the absurdist rock ’n’ roll sitcom The Monkees\, then decided to make good parlay their clout into projects with more grandiose ambitions. First the y made Head\, a wild surrealist big screen musical adventure for the Monke es that upended their more or less squeaky-clean reputations. Then they go t serious and made one of the landmark films of the emerging New Hollywood era\, Five Easy Pieces.\n\nFollowing Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporti ng turn in Easy Rider\, director Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star. In this searing character study\, one of the best Americ an cinema has every produced\, Nicholson plays iconic cad Bobby Dupea\, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to an y sense of responsibility\, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhoo d home\, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black\, in an Oscar-nominated turn) in tow\, to see his estranged\, ailing father.\n\nMoving in its simplicit y and gritty in its textures\, Five Easy Pieces is a lasting example of ea rly-1970s American alienation.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/mYe mWkfklPDUtfjPT1XBZxyj00IgJICweVSuN2NJ.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1999@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T190000 DTSTAMP:20260309T164728Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-golem/ SUMMARY:Musical Silents: The Golem (1920) DESCRIPTION:Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + Will Andrews (aka Willver ine)\n\nWidely recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth\, the anc ient Hebrew legend of the Golem provided actor/director Paul Wegener with the substance for one of the most adventurous films of the German silent c inema.\n\nSuffering under the tyrannical rule of Rudolf II in 16th-century Prague\, a Talmudic rabbi (Albert Steinruck) creates a giant warrior (Pau l Wegener) to protect the safety of his people. Sculpted of clay and anima ted by the mysterious secrets of the Kabbalah\, the Golem is a seemingly i ndestructible juggernaut\, performing acts of great heroism\, yet equally capable of dreadful violence. When the rabbi's assistant (Ernst Deutsch) t akes control of the Golem and attempts to use him for selfish gain\, bad t hings happen. \n\nWith its remarkable creation sequence—a dazzling blen d of religion\, sorcery and special effects—and the grand-scale destruct ion of its climax\, The Golem is one of the great achievements of the lege ndary UFA Studios\, and remains an undeniable landmark in the evolution of the horror film.\n\nMatt Hagen is a Burlington\, Vermont-based musician w hose sound is as layered and unhurried as the Green Mountain seasons. His music varies from instrumental\, genre bending guitar to intimate storytel ling\, with a voice that feels lived-in and genuine. A fixture in Vermont' s independent music scene\, Matt has earned recognition\, trust\, and resp ect as a standout voice in Burlington's vibrant creative community. Whethe r performing at premier clubs\, intimate local venues\, headlining events\ , supporting main stage acts\, or tucked into a quiet corner of the city\, he brings a rare authenticity that resonates long after the last chord fa des. A seasoned songwriter\, bandleader\, and eclectic collaborator\, Hage n writes and performs in a palatable fashion while unafraid to wander into strange sonic territory. It's music made for people who listen closely.\n \n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MV5 BMTJiOWY1OWItMTliMC00ZGFiLWE3NWUtNGJlNzU4NTE3MzQ5XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2079@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T190000 DTSTAMP:20260622T233915Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/rashomon/ SUMMARY:Rashomon (1950) DESCRIPTION:Director of the Month: Akira Kurosawa\n\nWithout a doubt one of the 20th century's most influential pieces of storytelling\, movie or oth erwise\, Akira Kurosawa's breakout international sensation\, Rashomon\, re presents a clear inflection point in the history of cinema.\n\nIn this riv eting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice\, four people give different accounts of a man’s mur der and the rape of his wife. Presented by Kurosawa with striking imagery and an ingenious use of flashbacks\, this eloquent masterwork revolutioniz ed film language and introduced Japanese cinema—and a commanding new sta r by the name of Toshiro Mifune—to the Western world.\n\nAs Stephen Prin ce wrote for Criterion\, "Rashomon is that rare film that has transcended its own status as film\, influencing not just the moving image but the cul ture at large. Its very name has entered the common parlance to symbolize general notions about the relativity of truth and the unreliability\, the inevitable subjectivity\, of memory."\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/e4b b298b338db5989bc868ef576f7933.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2075@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T150000 DTSTAMP:20260703T033213Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/land-orly-yadin-2/ SUMMARY:LAND (2026) DESCRIPTION:Born into a family of influential Zionist thinkers and archaeol ogists whose work helped shape the ideology of early Israel\, filmmaker Or ly Yadin sets out to examine the foundations of the worldview that defined her upbringing. The film unfolds as a metaphorical archaeological excavat ion: digging through layers of family history\, ideology\, and memory\, an d exploring how national identity is constructed—and how it changes whe n the stories we inherit are questioned. Archival home movies\, photograph s\, and newsreels intersect with present-day conversations with Israelis a nd Palestinians. Animated sequences bring imagined encounters with the fil mmaker’s ancestors to life\, allowing the past to speak directly to the present. As the excavation deepens\, the film reveals the blind spots embe dded in the national narrative that shaped an entire generation. LAND ulti mately becomes both a personal reckoning and a broader reflection on how i dentities—personal and national—are formed\, sustained\, and transform ed.\n\nLand is also showing on July 10 at 7 pm in the Film House at Main S treet Landing.\n\nDirector’s Statement\n\nI was born in Israel soon afte r the state was established\, into a family deeply embedded in the intelle ctual and ideological foundations of the Zionist project. My ancestors wer e archaeologists\, scholars\, and public figures whose work helped shape t he narrative through which my generation came to understand the land\, his tory\, and ourselves. Growing up\, that narrative felt natural and unquest ionable. It defined our sense of belonging\, purpose\, and identity.\n\nOn ly later did I begin to recognize that the story I inherited was incomplet e and often false. Certain voices\, experiences\, and perspectives—parti cularly Palestinian ones—were largely absent from the worldview in which I was raised. This realization prompted a long process of questioning and reflection: how had my identity been formed\, and what had I been unable to see?\n\nLAND emerges from that process. The film approaches these quest ions through a deeply personal lens\, using my family’s history as an en try point into a larger exploration of national identity. I think of the f ilm as an archaeological excavation. Just as archaeologists dig through la yers of earth to uncover traces of earlier civilizations\, I dig through l ayers of memory\, ideology\, and family legacy to better understand how my generation’s worldview was constructed.\n\nBy bringing together archiva l materials\, personal narrative\, animated encounters with my ancestors\, and conversations with both Israelis and Palestinians today\, the film at tempts to open a space for reflection rather than judgment. My hope is tha t LAND invites audiences to consider how the stories we inherit shape our perceptions—and how confronting those stories can allow us to see our hi stories\, and each other\, more clearly.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Yig ael-YadinOrli-copy-e1780069784440.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2073@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T190000 DTSTAMP:20260708T161501Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/land-orly-yadin/ SUMMARY:LAND (2026) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nBorn into a family of influential Zionist thinkers and archaeolo gists whose work helped shape the ideology of early Israel\, filmmaker Orl y Yadin sets out to examine the foundations of the worldview that defined her upbringing. The film unfolds as a metaphorical archaeological excavati on: digging through layers of family history\, ideology\, and memory\, and exploring how national identity is constructed—and how it changes when the stories we inherit are questioned. Archival home movies\, photographs \, and newsreels intersect with present-day conversations with Israelis an d Palestinians. Animated sequences bring imagined encounters with the film maker’s ancestors to life\, allowing the past to speak directly to the p resent. As the excavation deepens\, the film reveals the blind spots embed ded in the national narrative that shaped an entire generation. LAND ultim ately becomes both a personal reckoning and a broader reflection on how id entities—personal and national—are formed\, sustained\, and transforme d.\n\nLand is also showing on July 10 at 3 pm in the Film House at Main St reet Landing.\n\nDirector’s Statement\n\nI was born in Israel soon after the state was established\, into a family deeply embedded in the intellec tual and ideological foundations of the Zionist project. My ancestors were archaeologists\, scholars\, and public figures whose work helped shape th e narrative through which my generation came to understand the land\, hist ory\, and ourselves. Growing up\, that narrative felt natural and unquesti onable. It defined our sense of belonging\, purpose\, and identity.\n\nOnl y later did I begin to recognize that the story I inherited was incomplete and often false. Certain voices\, experiences\, and perspectives—partic ularly Palestinian ones—were largely absent from the worldview in which I was raised. This realization prompted a long process of questioning and reflection: how had my identity been formed\, and what had I been unable t o see?\n\nLAND emerges from that process. The film approaches these questi ons through a deeply personal lens\, using my family’s history as an ent ry point into a larger exploration of national identity. I think of the fi lm as an archaeological excavation. Just as archaeologists dig through lay ers of earth to uncover traces of earlier civilizations\, I dig through la yers of memory\, ideology\, and family legacy to better understand how my generation’s worldview was constructed.\n\nBy bringing together archival materials\, personal narrative\, animated encounters with my ancestors\, and conversations with both Israelis and Palestinians today\, the film att empts to open a space for reflection rather than judgment. My hope is that LAND invites audiences to consider how the stories we inherit shape our p erceptions—and how confronting those stories can allow us to see our his tories\, and each other\, more clearly.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Yig ael-YadinOrli-copy-e1780069784440.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2082@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260711T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260711T160000 DTSTAMP:20260624T045732Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pompei-below-the-clouds/ SUMMARY:Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) DESCRIPTION:Distinguished Italian documentarian Gianfranco Rosi specializes in kaleidoscopic portraits of people living amid anxiety and uncertainty. His latest\, Pompei: Below the Clouds\, which caps a a conceptual trilogy about the intersection of everyday life and spiritual life in Italy\, is among his most striking and monumental works. Shot in beautiful black and white\, the film details with pointillist precision and unnerving beauty a region in Naples living under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and above the simmering Campi Flegrei volcanic caldera\, which has in recent years exper ienced increasingly frequent and alarming tremors. In this volatile enviro nment\, Rosi finds archeologists reckoning with both uncovered ancient art ifacts and the wreckage of tomb raiders\, squads of diggers descending int o long abandoned tunnels\, emergency centers already at breaking points\, and a populace experiencing a generalized daily disquietude\, fearful of a n eruption like the one that buried Pompeii in 79 A.D.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Bel ow-the-Clouds_NYFF63_1-1-scaled-1.avif CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2083@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260711T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260711T190000 DTSTAMP:20260624T045833Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pompei-below-the-clouds-2/ SUMMARY:Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) DESCRIPTION:Distinguished Italian documentarian Gianfranco Rosi specializes in kaleidoscopic portraits of people living amid anxiety and uncertainty. His latest\, Pompei: Below the Clouds\, which caps a a conceptual trilogy about the intersection of everyday life and spiritual life in Italy\, is among his most striking and monumental works. Shot in beautiful black and white\, the film details with pointillist precision and unnerving beauty a region in Naples living under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and above the simmering Campi Flegrei volcanic caldera\, which has in recent years exper ienced increasingly frequent and alarming tremors. In this volatile enviro nment\, Rosi finds archeologists reckoning with both uncovered ancient art ifacts and the wreckage of tomb raiders\, squads of diggers descending int o long abandoned tunnels\, emergency centers already at breaking points\, and a populace experiencing a generalized daily disquietude\, fearful of a n eruption like the one that buried Pompeii in 79 A.D.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Bel ow-the-Clouds_NYFF63_1-1-scaled-1.avif CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2084@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T155036Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/pee-wees-big-adventure-1985/ SUMMARY:Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) DESCRIPTION:Is it overstating things to call Pee-wee’s Big Adventure 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 . When his beloved bicycle is stolen by his nemesis\, Francis Buxton (boo! )\, Pee-wee (Paul Rubens) goes on a cross-country trek to recover it\, tak ing in the usual sites (The Alamo\, the Cabazon Dinosaurs)\, and making ne w friends\, like Large Marge the trucker\, Simone the waitress\, and that mean-looking biker gang. This was the first film for both director Tim Bur ton and composer Danny Elfman.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pee wee.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2080@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260716T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260716T190000 DTSTAMP:20260622T020242Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/throne-of-blood/ SUMMARY:Throne of Blood (1957) DESCRIPTION:Director of the Month: Akira Kurosawa\n\nHands down the best Sh akespeare adaptation in cinema history (for us at VTIFF\, anyway\; sorry\, Olivier). A vivid\, visceral take on Macbeth\, Kurosawa's Throne of Blood sets Shakespeare’s immortal tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly \, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. As a hardened warrior who ris es savagely to power\, Toshiro Mifune gives a remarkable\, animalistic per formance\, as does Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife. Throne of Blood fuse s classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh theater an d still harnesses the spirit of the Bard's epic tragedy.\n\nAs summarized by The Guardian\, "Little remains of Shakespeare’s script\, but in Akira Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of Macbeth the poetry is all visual. .. Kurosawa pares the tragedy down to its essentials and turns it into a t hrilling cinematic experience."\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/491 f44a130ee767664fe9f549ee668d6.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2091@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T160000 DTSTAMP:20260706T155858Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ask-e-jean/ SUMMARY:Ask E. Jean (2025) DESCRIPTION:Ask E. Jean is the thrilling story of E. Jean Carroll’s life\ , from her early days as Miss Cheerleader USA to her rise as a trailblazin g journalist\, author\, and beloved advice columnist. Carroll broke barrie rs as the first female editor at Esquire\, Playboy\, and Outside\, helpin g to redefine women’s roles in media with her sharp wit and fearless vo ice.\n\nIn recent years\, she reignited public discourse by standing up to power\, becoming the only woman to beat Donald Trump twice in court—a j ury found Trump liable for defamation and sexual abuse against Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages\; he was later found liable for defamat ion against Carroll\, regarding his remarks after the first verdict\, and she was awarded an additional $83 million in damages—and sparking a nati onal conversation about truth\, accountability\, and resilience.\n\nThis f ilm is a portrait of an indomitable woman who proved it’s never too late to reclaim your voice\, rewrite your story\, and change the world.\n\n&nb sp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/789 2c5a8-30f0-46df-9135-de1b4b1a4f45.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2092@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T190000 DTSTAMP:20260706T155200Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ask-e-jean-2/ SUMMARY:Ask E. Jean (2025) DESCRIPTION:Ask E. Jean is the thrilling story of E. Jean Carroll’s life\ , from her early days as Miss Cheerleader USA to her rise as a trailblazin g journalist\, author\, and beloved advice columnist. Carroll broke barrie rs as the first female editor at Esquire\, Playboy\, and Outside\, helpin g to redefine women’s roles in media with her sharp wit and fearless vo ice.\n\nIn recent years\, she reignited public discourse by standing up to power\, becoming the only woman to beat Donald Trump twice in court—a j ury found Trump liable for defamation and sexual abuse against Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages\; he was later found liable for defamat ion against Carroll\, regarding his remarks after the first verdict\, and she was awarded an additional $83 million in damages—and sparking a nati onal conversation about truth\, accountability\, and resilience.\n\nThis f ilm is a portrait of an indomitable woman who proved it’s never too late to reclaim your voice\, rewrite your story\, and change the world.\n\n&nb sp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/789 2c5a8-30f0-46df-9135-de1b4b1a4f45.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2085@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260718T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260718T160000 DTSTAMP:20260629T154945Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/underland/ SUMMARY:Underland (2025) DESCRIPTION:New Release\nWe know so little of the world beneath our feet. T o most it is a place only of fear and darkness\, though to a brave few it is one of knowledge and wonder to be found nowhere else. Based on the best selling book by Robert Macfarlane\, Underland is a cinematic documentary t hat ventures into worlds rarely glimpsed by human eyes. Beginning in the s hallow soils beneath an old ash tree\, the film follows several "astronaut s of the underworld" as they travel into ancient sacred caves\, flooded st orm drains\, melting glaciers\, underwater burial chambers\, and a deep un derground laboratory built to solve the mysteries of the universe. Narrate d by Oscar-nominee Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall)\, and with a uniquel y poetic approach\, Underland is a deep dive into the Earth that ultimatel y presents a groundbreaking vision for rethinking our lives on its fragile surface.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/1.J eronimoskull.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2086@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260718T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260718T190000 DTSTAMP:20260629T155258Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/underland-2/ SUMMARY:Underland (2025) DESCRIPTION:New Release\nWe know so little of the world beneath our feet. T o most it is a place only of fear and darkness\, though to a brave few it is one of knowledge and wonder to be found nowhere else. Based on the best selling book by Robert Macfarlane\, Underland is a cinematic documentary t hat ventures into worlds rarely glimpsed by human eyes. Beginning in the s hallow soils beneath an old ash tree\, the film follows several "astronaut s of the underworld" as they travel into ancient sacred caves\, flooded st orm drains\, melting glaciers\, underwater burial chambers\, and a deep un derground laboratory built to solve the mysteries of the universe. Narrate d by Oscar-nominee Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall)\, and with a uniquel y poetic approach\, Underland is a deep dive into the Earth that ultimatel y presents a groundbreaking vision for rethinking our lives on its fragile surface.\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/1.J eronimoskull.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2087@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260719T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260719T150000 DTSTAMP:20260629T171640Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/life-of-brian/ SUMMARY:Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) DESCRIPTION:Shortly after the release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail\, Eric Idle flippantly floated the title of the next Python feature to the i mpatient press: Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory. But the idea took root and t his offhand joke soon spawned the group's most ambitious film. Monty Pytho n's Life of Brian is the story of an ordinary Judean\, Brian (Graham Chapm an)\, who goes on to live an extraordinary life\, becoming entangled in a plot to overthrow the Roman empire and being mistaken for the Messiah\, am ong other unlikely events.\n\nShot on location in Monastir\, Tunisia\, whi ch allowed the scrappy production to reuse sets from Franco Zeffirelli's J esus of Nazareth\, the irreverent British comedy legends orchestrated an i nspired and sprawling send-up of the blockbuster biblical epic\, featuring ribald Roman puns\, sharp political commentary\, and\, of course\, an aud acious singalong crucifixion-themed musical number. Life of Brian remains the famously anarchic troupe's most controversial work\, a brazen satire o f religion where you can read in as much heresy or compassion as you'd lik e.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/J9d 9c9Yv5iHvOeNJrQwwmAcfq9PoTkydbRoNGY1W.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2081@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260723T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260723T190000 DTSTAMP:20260622T021827Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hidden-fortress/ SUMMARY:The Hidden Fortress (1958) DESCRIPTION:Director of the Month: Akira Kurosawa\n\nA grand-scale adventur e as only Akira Kurosawa could create\, The Hidden Fortress delivers Kuros awa’s trademark deft blend of wry humor\, breathtaking action\, and comp assionate humanity. The master's invaluable collaborator and muse\, the in imitable Toshiro Mifune\, stars as a general charged with guarding his def eated clan’s princess (a fierce Misa Uehara) as the two smuggle royal tr easure across hostile territory (sound familiar... ?). Accompanying them a re a pair of bumbling\, conniving peasants (...nudge nudge...) who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride\, among Kurosawa's most be loved films\, was a primary influence on... wait for it... George Lucas’ s Star Wars.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/hvV hc8RmiyI3OFGevJVkFa1K2cqB3x.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2076@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T160000 DTSTAMP:20260702T233725Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/honeyjoon/ SUMMARY:Honeyjoon (2025) DESCRIPTION:A surprisingly sexy\, darkly funny emotional rollercoaster. In this layered dark comedy\, June and her Persian-British mom Lela travel to the romantic Azores islands for a grief anniversary\, with contrasting wa ys of coping. A hot philosophical surfer takes them on a tour as we surf t he waves of life\, loss\, flirting... an unforgettable ride. In her award- winning debut feature\, director Lilian T. Mehrel brilliantly transforms g rief\, desire\, and human connection into something electric\, introducing a visionary new voice.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/HJ- still-6-scaled.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2077@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T190000 DTSTAMP:20260724T155635Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/honeyjoon-2/ SUMMARY:Honeyjoon (2025) DESCRIPTION:We're pleased to welcome writer-director Lilian T. Mehrel for a Zoom Q&\;A after this screening of Honeyjoon.\n\nA surprisingly sexy\, darkly funny emotional rollercoaster. In this layered dark comedy\, June and her Persian-British mom Lela travel to the romantic Azores islands for a grief anniversary\, with contrasting ways of coping. A hot philosophica l surfer takes them on a tour as we surf the waves of life\, loss\, flirti ng... an unforgettable ride. In her award-winning debut feature\, director Lilian T. Mehrel brilliantly transforms grief\, desire\, and human connec tion into something electric\, introducing a visionary new voice.\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/HJ- still-6-scaled.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Special Event,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2089@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260725T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260725T160000 DTSTAMP:20260629T191224Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/forastera/ SUMMARY:Forastera (2025) DESCRIPTION:New Release\n\nCritic’s Pick. “Enchanting... an exquisitely deconstructed ghost story\, a muted mystery that beguiles while remaining deeply grounded in its evocative setting.” –The New York Times\n\n⭐ ⭐⭐⭐ “Luminous\, spellbinding... If ghosts exist\, Aleñar Iglesias has learned the cinematic sorcery to house them.” –RogerEbert.com\n\n Teenager Cata (Zoe Stein) is summering at her grandparents’ house on the Spanish island of Mallorca\, swimming in the turquoise Mediterranean wate rs\, teasing her younger sister\, and flirting with a Swedish boy. But thi s vacation idyll is cut short when her beloved grandmother Catalina (Marta Angelat) abruptly dies\, hurling each member of Cata’s family into mour ning. One day\, she slips into her grandmother’s dress and feels an unex pected pull toward her abuela’s clothes and belongings. As the boundary between the living and the departed begins to blur\, Forastera (Spanish fo r “stranger”) becomes a quietly suspenseful meditation on memory\, gri ef\, and the unseen forces that continue to influence our lives.\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FOR ASTERA-image-1.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2090@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260725T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260725T190000 DTSTAMP:20260629T191255Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/forastera-2/ SUMMARY:Forastera (2025) DESCRIPTION:New Release\n\nCritic’s Pick. “Enchanting... an exquisitely deconstructed ghost story\, a muted mystery that beguiles while remaining deeply grounded in its evocative setting.” –The New York Times\n\n⭐ ⭐⭐⭐ “Luminous\, spellbinding... If ghosts exist\, Aleñar Iglesias has learned the cinematic sorcery to house them.” –RogerEbert.com\n\n Teenager Cata (Zoe Stein) is summering at her grandparents’ house on the Spanish island of Mallorca\, swimming in the turquoise Mediterranean wate rs\, teasing her younger sister\, and flirting with a Swedish boy. But thi s vacation idyll is cut short when her beloved grandmother Catalina (Marta Angelat) abruptly dies\, hurling each member of Cata’s family into mour ning. One day\, she slips into her grandmother’s dress and feels an unex pected pull toward her abuela’s clothes and belongings. As the boundary between the living and the departed begins to blur\, Forastera (Spanish fo r “stranger”) becomes a quietly suspenseful meditation on memory\, gri ef\, and the unseen forces that continue to influence our lives.\n\n \ ; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FOR ASTERA-image-1.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2088@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260726T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260726T150000 DTSTAMP:20260629T183621Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/playtime/ SUMMARY:Playtime (1967) DESCRIPTION:We're calling it now: Jacques Tati’s modernist comedy masterp iece will crack the top-10 in the next Sight and Sound poll of the Greates t Films of All Time in 2032. Right now\, it's poised tantalizingly at #23\ , but anecdotally\, it feels like more and more artists namecheck this imm aculately choreographed\, mind-bogglingly detailed\, eminently graceful fi lm with each passing year.\n\nTati’s brand of nearly-wordless comedy rea ched its apotheosis here. Doubly out of time by the late-'60s\, he success fully updates the stylings of Chaplin\, Lloyd\, and their ilk for the era of high-technology and automation. For this monumental achievement\, a nea rly three-year-long\, bank-breaking production\, Tati again thrust the lov ably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot\, along with a host of other lost souls\ , into a baffling modern Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame cra mmed with hilarity and inventiveness—keen to the the dehumanization of t his brave new world but retaining an abiding optimism and curiosity—Play time is a lasting record of a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/5qs ng0pTjcKyLBrSOXuQhbV40vyVCDPt9Ayw7fNg.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2095@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T150000 DTSTAMP:20260724T120401Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/latcho-drom/ SUMMARY:Latcho Drom (1993) DESCRIPTION:Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films\n\nWe're pleased to welcome filmmaker Tommy Hyde\, who will share a sneak peek at his late st project before our screening of Tony Gatlif's Latcho Drom. It will be a rocking\, musically-inspired double bill. Dancing encouraged!\n\n"A diffi cult-to-categorize masterpiece... The pulse is so infectious that you may feel like dancing." —Jonathan Rosenbaum\, Chicago Reader\n\nShot in the glorious widescreen panoramas\, Latcho Drom (translation: "safe journey") follows the thousand-year migration of the nomadic Romani people. Beginnin g in Northern India\, they trek through Egypt\, Turkey\, Romania\, Hungary \, Slovakia\, France\, and Spain. At each location\, they connect with the local Romani communities and celebrate their journey and their kinship ov er incredible\, energetic music. Capturing both continuity and diversity f rom region to region\, almost entirely wordlessly expressed through their music and dance\, the film highlights their joy in the face of struggles. Great Algerian-born French Romani filmmaker Tony Gatlif said about Latcho Drom\, “I wanted to make a film that the Roms could be proud of\, a film that wouldn’t make a slideshow of their misery. I wanted to write a son g of praise to these people I love.” Long out a print and only passed ar ound on poor-quality bootlegs\, Latcho Drom has been recently been revived and rediscovered as a lost treasure.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fv_ web_globalmusicals_latcho_drom_header_1920x847.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2000@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T190000 DTSTAMP:20260309T164800Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/hells-hinges/ SUMMARY:Musical Silents: Hell's Hinges (1916) DESCRIPTION:Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + Avery Cooper\n\nThis viol ent\, morally shocking early feature-length Western features America’s f irst cinematic cowboy hero\, William S. Hart\, who starred in producer Tho mas Ince’s run of Westerns in the 1910s and became one of silent cinema ’s most famous actors. \n\nHell’s Hinges\, Hart’s sixth feature for Ince\, bears very little resemblance to later Hollywood formulas\, in whi ch a lone hero would tame a town through law and order. Not here. It takes a while for the hour-long film to work up a head of steam\, but from its measured start\, Hell’s Hinges builds to a nightmarish intensity.\n\nHar t plays a bad man in a bad town who is converted by the Bible and a good w oman (not in that order). When things go awry\, and quite violent\, Hart p asses his final judgement and the town earns its name. In its intensity\, harsh moral outlook\, and violent conclusion\, Hell’s Hinges anticipates Clint Eastwood’s merciless Westerns\, such as High Plains Drifter and U nforgiven.\n\nMatt Hagen is a Burlington\, Vermont-based musician whose so und is as layered and unhurried as the Green Mountain seasons. His music v aries from instrumental\, genre bending guitar to intimate storytelling\, with a voice that feels lived-in and genuine. A fixture in Vermont's indep endent music scene\, Matt has earned recognition\, trust\, and respect as a standout voice in Burlington's vibrant creative community. Whether perfo rming at premier clubs\, intimate local venues\, headlining events\, suppo rting main stage acts\, or tucked into a quiet corner of the city\, he bri ngs a rare authenticity that resonates long after the last chord fades. A seasoned songwriter\, bandleader\, and eclectic collaborator\, Hagen write s and performs in a palatable fashion while unafraid to wander into strang e sonic territory. It's music made for people who listen closely. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/wil liam_hart_hells_hinges.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2096@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260806T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260806T190000 DTSTAMP:20260728T162558Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/shes-gotta-have-it/ SUMMARY:She's Gotta Have It (1986) DESCRIPTION:Director of the Month: Spike Lee\n\nShot over 12 days in July o f 1985 at a total cost of $175\,000\, Spike Lee’s She's Gotta Have It ex ploded onto American movie screens\, redefining American independent cinem a in the 1980s (along with filmmakers like Wayne Wang\, John Sayles\, and Jim Jarmusch). Having earned a Student Academy Award for his NYU thesis fi lm\, Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop\, Lee was surprised to find Hollywood’s doors closed to him. So he decided to do it himself.\n\nLee applied for a rts grants\, sought donations from friends and family\, and approached Bla ck professionals and artists. With such a tight budget\, Lee saved an acto r’s fee by playing the iconic role of Mars Blackmon himself. His sister Jolie took a small role\, and his father\, jazz bassist Bill Lee\, compose d and performed the score. This was Lee’s first collaboration with the g reat cinematographer Ernest Dickerson (Lee’s NYU classmate)\, who would photograph all of Lee’s movies through Malcolm X\, before he became a di rector himself.\n\nThe plot focuses on Nola Darling\, a strong 20-somethin g Black woman artist\, and the three men in her life\, who are frustrated by her independence. Lee wanted a lot of sex in the film\, but he also wan ted to be respectful of the woman whose story he was telling: "Nola Darlin g is my heroine\,” he wrote in 1986. "I love and respect her\, and I mus t show that love and respect in my treatment of her in the script. That's the way it's gotta be."\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/d17 d02c2-da7a-43b6-bb77-32a2f23fab1d_1516x835.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2093@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T160000 DTSTAMP:20260804T152834Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mary-oliver/ SUMMARY:Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026) DESCRIPTION:If poetry had a pop icon\, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet\, Pulitzer Prize-winner\, lover of dogs and long walks i n the woods\, openly queer but intensely private\, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic\, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself—and her readers—to the known and unknowable world. From a lonely childhood to literary fame\, Ol iver’s life was shaped by devotion to nature\, paying attention\, and th e long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives\, atheists and believers\, naturalists and urba nites\, speaking directly to contemporary anxieties about attention\, pres ence\, and the human relationship with the natural world—issues that fee l especially pressing in an era of climate crisis\, digital distraction\, and social fragmentation.\n\nFeaturing interviews with her close friends\, including John Waters\, never-before-seen personal photos\, notebooks\, a nd correspondence from her archive\, and recitations of her work by Stephe n Colbert\, Lucy Dacus\, Steve Buscemi\, and Oprah Winfrey\, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World considers the poet’s long lifetime of w ork in context\, capturing the uniqueness of her world and the natural bea uty that inspired her.\n\nMary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World is also showing on August 7 at 7 pm in the Film House at Main Street Landing .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/17_ Young_Mary_color_dog-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2094@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T190000 DTSTAMP:20260804T152920Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/mary-oliver-2/ SUMMARY:Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026) DESCRIPTION:If poetry had a pop icon\, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet\, Pulitzer Prize-winner\, lover of dogs and long walks i n the woods\, openly queer but intensely private\, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic\, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself—and her readers—to the known and unknowable world. From a lonely childhood to literary fame\, Ol iver’s life was shaped by devotion to nature\, paying attention\, and th e long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives\, atheists and believers\, naturalists and urba nites\, speaking directly to contemporary anxieties about attention\, pres ence\, and the human relationship with the natural world—issues that fee l especially pressing in an era of climate crisis\, digital distraction\, and social fragmentation.\n\nFeaturing interviews with her close friends\, including John Waters\, never-before-seen personal photos\, notebooks\, a nd correspondence from her archive\, and recitations of her work by Stephe n Colbert\, Lucy Dacus\, Steve Buscemi\, and Oprah Winfrey\, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World considers the poet’s long lifetime of w ork in context\, capturing the uniqueness of her world and the natural bea uty that inspired her.\n\nMary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World is also showing on August 7 at 4 pm in the Film House at Main Street Landing .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/17_ Young_Mary_color_dog-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2100@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T190000 DTSTAMP:20260728T163012Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/possession/ SUMMARY:Possession (1981) DESCRIPTION:Remembering Sam Neill\n\nThe fabulous New Zealand actor Sam Nei ll passed away last month at the age of 78. He made many films\, including Jurassic Park\, The Piano\, The Hunt for Red October\, but we’ve chosen to remember him with the 1981 psycho-thriller Possession. We’re not alo ne in loving this deeply twisted film. Sam loved it\, too.\n\n“Possessio n is one of the best films I was lucky to be in\,” he recalled in his me moir. “This is by no means a universal view. Not many people have ever s een it and\, of those who have\, it is true that many loathe it. I myself regard it as a masterpiece\, albeit a very flawed masterpiece. I am not al one in that view."\n\nRecalling Polanski’s Repulsion and Cronenberg’s The Brood (yep\, that’s the ballpark we’re in)\, Possession details th e collapsing marriage of Mark and Anna. There’s also a son\, a lover or two\, some supernatural goings-on\, a weird creature\, lots of murder\, an d a crazy body count. In this film\, breaking up really is hard to do. Adj ani won Best Actress at both Cannes and the Cesar Awards\, and her intensi ty in this role must be seen to be believed. It’s the kind of performanc e that hums with electricity\, and actually feels a little dangerous. Litt le wonder that Adjani suffered a breakdown in its aftermath.\n\nNeill said of Possession\, “I call it the most extreme film I’ve ever made\, in every possible respect\, and (Zulawski) asked of us things I wouldn’t an d couldn’t go to now. And I think I only just escaped that film with my sanity barely intact.”\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ima ge-w1280-1.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2101@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260813T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260813T190000 DTSTAMP:20260728T163406Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/notorious/ SUMMARY:Notorious (1946) DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday\, Alfred Hitchcock\n\nSir Alfred Hitchcock turns 127 on August 13 so we’ll sing a few rounds of "Happy Birthday" and wat ch one of his many\, many masterpieces: Notorious.\n\nCary Grant and Ingri d Bergman show what movie stars can do\, as they burn a hole in the screen with their off-the-chart chemistry. To say the camera loves them is a woe ful understatement. The plot has U.S. government agent Devlin (Grant) pres suring the guilt-ridden alcoholic Alicia (Bergman) into sleeping with a Na zi (Claude Rains) to learn secrets about plutonium. There are set pieces g alore—That three-minute kiss! That tracking shot to the key! The journey down the staircase!—and the supporting players are a delight\, but the real focus is Bergman and Grant. The witty\, literate script by Ben Hecht (co-scripted by an uncredited Hitch)\, the fine score by Roy Webb (Bernard Herrmann was unavailable)\, and beautiful B&\;W photography by Ted Tet zlaff are all top-notch\, a real testament to Hollywood filmmaking at its finest.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/6a4 67665639cc24d96f85824c15ce5b9.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2097@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T150000 DTSTAMP:20260728T164020Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/malcolm-x-1992/ SUMMARY:Malcolm X (1992) DESCRIPTION:Director of the Month: Spike Lee\n\nOne of the most electrifyin g heroes of the twentieth century receives an appropriately sweeping scree n biopic\, rich in both historical insight and propulsive cinematic style\ , courtesy of visionary director Spike Lee. Built around a truly extraordi nary performance from Denzel Washington\, Malcolm X draws on the iconic ci vil rights leader’s autobiography to trace his journey of empowerment\, from a childhood riven by white-supremacist violence to a life of petty cr ime to his conversion to Islam and rebirth as a fearless fighter for Black liberation\, whose courage and eloquence inspired oppressed communities t he world over. Impeccably crafted by Lee and his closest creative collabor ators\, such as cinematographer Ernest Dickerson\, and buoyed by commandin g performances from Angela Bassett\, Delroy Lindo\, Al Freeman Jr.\, and o thers\, this is a passionate monument to a man whose life continues to ser ve as a model of principled resistance.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/EdH xEEiiAePbgS7wjbmSn9lxMqPLIO04Prz983LZ.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2106@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T190000 DTSTAMP:20260814T125413Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/once/ SUMMARY:Once (2007) DESCRIPTION:Glen Hansard died in a motorcycle accident on July 29\, returni ng from a gig outside of Dublin. He was known to the general public as the proudly Irish founder of the bands The Frame and The Swell Season\, as we ll as a solo artist\, and most famously as the star and co-composer of the film Once.\n\nIn honor of Hansard\, VTIFF is screening Once\, the surpris e hit of 2007. Shot by director John Carney in three weeks in Dublin on tw o Steadicams at a cost of $125\,000\, the film became an art-house sensati on\, earning $23.5 million at the box office and earning Hansard and his c o-composer/co-star Markéta Irglová a well-deserved Oscar for Best Song ( “Falling Slowly”).\n\nOnce tells the story of a busking Irish street m usician (Hansard)\, who meets a Czech immigrant\, also a musician. The two strike up a musical connection that fuels the film. Tender\, sweet\, hila rious\, and always very real\, Once is a remarkable feat of low-budget fil mmaking\, though there’s little doubt that its success rests in the stre ngth of Hansard’s songs\, and the palpable chemistry between him and Irg lová. To the surprise of no one who saw the film\, Hansard and Irglova be came a couple in real life from 2007-09.\n\nWhile the whole film is thorou ghly engaging\, its most classic moment stands as one of the greatest musi cal moments in cinema. At a music store\, Hansard starts to teach her one of his songs\, and the two magically segue into a gorgeous duet performanc e of the entrancing “Falling Slowly.” Essentially\, you watch the two begin to fall in love in real time during the song. Unforgettable.\n\n&nbs p\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/gle n-hansard-and-marke-ta-irglova-in-once-scene.avif CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2098@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T190000 DTSTAMP:20260820T195426Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/25th-hour/ SUMMARY:25th Hour (2002) DESCRIPTION:This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets.\nDirector of the Month: Spike Lee\n\nThe great Spike Lee’s most underrated film\, 25th Hour finds Academy Award-nominee Edward Norton lea ding an amazing all-star cast in this critically acclaimed film\, recogniz ed for its compassionate view of post-9/11 New York City. In 24 short hour s\, Monty Brogan (Norton) goes to prison for a seven-year bid. Once a king of Manhattan\, Monty is about to say goodbye to the life he knew\, a life that opened doors to New York's swankiest clubs but also alienated him fr om the people closest to him. In his last day on the outside\, Monty tries to reconnect with his father (Brian Cox)\, and gets together with two old friends\, Jacob (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Slaughtery (Barry Pepper). A nd then there's his girlfriend\, Naturelle (Rosario Dawson)\, who might (o r might not) have been the one who tipped off the cops. Monty's not sure o f much these days\, but with time running out\, there are choices to be ma de as he struggles to redeem himself in the 25th hour. Every actor listed here does top-notch work. David Benioff (Game of Thrones) wrote the script \, adapted from his novel.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/25t h-hour-ed-norton-911.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2104@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260821T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260821T150000 DTSTAMP:20260804T152443Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-samurai-and-the-prisoner/ SUMMARY:The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026) DESCRIPTION:"Kurosawa has made one of his best films\, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie\, a bit like Shakespeare\, and even a bit like Sa murai Columbo." —Brian Tallarico\, rogerebert.com\n\nWhen Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) rises up against the tyrannical Oda (Bando Shingo)\, he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. Isolated\, he is confronted with a series of mysterious crimes that shatter the fragile order of his court\, plunging the fortress into fear and suspicion. With O da’s army closing in and a traitor hiding among his ranks\, Murashige is forced into an uneasy alliance with Kanbei Kuroda (Masaki Suda)\, a brill iant yet dangerous strategist held prisoner in the dungeon. Helped by his wife Chiyoho (Yuriko Yoshitaka) and his most loyal generals\, Murashige mu st uncover the truth before the castle falls.\n\nThe Samurai and the Priso ner is also showing on August 21 at 7 pm in the Film House at Main Street Landing.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/357 98id_016_0000_35798id_001_w1600.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2105@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260821T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260821T190000 DTSTAMP:20260804T152515Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-samurai-and-the-prisoner-2/ SUMMARY:The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026) DESCRIPTION:"Kurosawa has made one of his best films\, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie\, a bit like Shakespeare\, and even a bit like Sa murai Columbo." —Brian Tallarico\, rogerebert.com\n\nWhen Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) rises up against the tyrannical Oda (Bando Shingo)\, he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. Isolated\, he is confronted with a series of mysterious crimes that shatter the fragile order of his court\, plunging the fortress into fear and suspicion. With O da’s army closing in and a traitor hiding among his ranks\, Murashige is forced into an uneasy alliance with Kanbei Kuroda (Masaki Suda)\, a brill iant yet dangerous strategist held prisoner in the dungeon. Helped by his wife Chiyoho (Yuriko Yoshitaka) and his most loyal generals\, Murashige mu st uncover the truth before the castle falls.\n\nThe Samurai and the Priso ner is also showing on August 21 at 3 pm in the Film House at Main Street Landing.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/357 98id_016_0000_35798id_001_w1600.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2102@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260822T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260822T150000 DTSTAMP:20260728T165120Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/jason-and-the-argonauts/ SUMMARY:Jason and the Argonauts (1963) DESCRIPTION:Before there was Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey...\n\n“Some say Citizen Kane is the greatest motion picture of all time. Other say it ’s Casablanca. For me\, the greatest picture of all time is Jason and th e Argonauts.” —Tom Hanks\, presenting Ray Harryhausen with an honorary Oscar in 1992.\n\nA brave man and his shipload of followers heedlessly th row themselves into one dangerous adventure after another\, as vengeful go ds mark their progress. Nah\, forget Christopher Nolan\, we’re talking a bout Don Chaffey’s 1963 masterpiece\, Jason and the Argonauts. If Films- Made-From-Ancient-Greek-Texts Fever has you in its sway\, you need to see this. The basics of the story are pretty well-known: Jason and his backing band\, the Argonauts\, seek the Golden Fleece. His lover\, Medea\, is qui te a handful. Zeus is unhappy\, Hera digs our hero\, and Hercules shows up \, too. But who are we kidding—the star of this show is Ray Harryhausen\ , the undisputed master of stop-motion effects in motion pictures. Many co nsider this film to be his masterwork.\n\nThe great man’s inimitable eff ects appear in one epic scene after another here: the towering bronze gian t Talos\, the vulturous harpies\, the seven-headed serpent Hydra\, and\, m ost famously\, that terrifying army of skeletons! Given the painstaking wo rk necessary for stop-motion effects\, the battle between the four humans and seven skeleton creatures took four months to execute. The film\, which managed to escape right-wing furor on its release 1963— surprising cons idering its lack of fealty to the original third-century Greek poem (unles s\, maybe\, "featly to the original text" isn’t what the furor is really about)—was a major hit upon its release\, and its reputation has only g rown since.\n\nFor all the special-effects mayhem\, the movie was rated G\ , so by all means bring the kids. It’s a Saturday matinee\, after all!\n \n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Tod d-Armstrong-Jason-and-the-Argonauts-Don.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2099@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T190000 DTSTAMP:20260824T184630Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bamboozled/ SUMMARY:Bamboozled (2000) DESCRIPTION:Director of the Month: Spike Lee\n\nWith this blisteringly funn y\, unapologetically confrontational satire\, writer-director Spike Lee ex amined the past\, present\, and future of racism in American popular cultu re\, issuing a daring provocation to creators and consumers alike—so on- point that it’s sometimes hard to watch.\n\nBamboozled might be a bit hi t-and-miss\, but the hits are devastating. Using its Producers-ish premise to horrifying effect\, Bamboozled tells the story of academic television writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans)\, who’s been assigned with rescui ng his network’s flagging ratings. His explosively offensive solution? B ring back blackface. To his horror\, the white network executives love it\ , and so do audiences: The New Millennium Minstrel Show is a hit\, forcing Pierre and his collaborators to confront their public’s insatiable appe tite for dehumanizing stereotypes. Featuring Savion Glover\, Jada Pinkett Smith\, Tommy Davidson\, Mos Def\, and Paul Mooney\, Bamboozled is a sting ing indictment of mass entertainment at the turn of the 21st century that looks more damning with each passing year.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/f88 6644fd0da2bfa7d7d9b023973ae6e.jpeg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2103@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260829T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260829T150000 DTSTAMP:20260728T171125Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/dilwale-dulhania-le-jayenge/ SUMMARY:Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) DESCRIPTION:On what could very well be a long hot summer day\, why not step into the air-condition and pass the afternoon enjoying one of the great B ollywood musicals of all time.\n\nThe longest-running film in the history of Indian cinema\, still screening at Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir cinema 30 years after its release\, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge—popularly referred to as "DDLJ"—stars Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol as Raj and Simran\, two Lon doners who fall in love on a European backpacking holiday. But then—as f ilm lovers often are—they are separated when Simran’s disapproving fat her ships the family off to Punjab\, but then reunited when headstrong Raj comes storming after her.\n\nEvery inch of the ’Scope frame gets used i n the riotously colorful musical numbers\, including the infectious\, blis sed-out “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge\,” in a film that fairly overflow s with the exuberance\, charisma\, and showmanship that Bollywood at its b est can offer. The film was rapturously received on its release\, becoming one of the highest-grossing Hindi films ever\, and winning a then-record 10 Filmfare Awards (for excellence in Hindi cinema). If anything\, its leg end has only grown since then.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Mar 29_DILWALE_DULHANIA_India1YashRajFilms.png CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2113@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T190000 DTSTAMP:20260821T153937Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/black-swan/ SUMMARY:Black Swan (2010) DESCRIPTION:Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films\n\nWe are please d to welcome local artist KeruBo\, who will share her latest music video f or the song "You Are Enough\," and participate in a conversation following the film. Of "You Are Enough\," KeruBo writes\, "The message is not that we are perfect\, nor that we have arrived. Rather\, it is that our value p recedes our accomplishments. We are human beings before we are human doing s."\n\nThe Wrestler whet director Darren Aronofsky's appetite for sagas of obsessive performers who put their body on the line in the name of show b usiness\, but Black Swan takes this idea further and deeper\, into more ar tful\, abstract\, and terrifying territory. Natalie Portman trained for mo nths to sculpt herself into a believable ballerina and her incredible comm itment was duly rewarded with an Oscar win for Best Actress. Mila Kunis\, Vincent Cassel\, Barbara Hershey\, and Winona Ryder match her intensity in this hallucinatory meta-adaptation of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake\, filtered through the backstage melodrama of All About Eve and Powell and Pressburg er's The Red Shoes\, with a dose of Polanski's Repulsion\, to boot\, leani ng into the inherent body horror of ballet.\n\nThe story follows Nina (Por tman)\, a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life is comple tely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Eric a (Hershey) who zealously supports her daughter’s professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel\, playing up the George Balan chine lechery) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) f or the opening production of their new season\, Nina is his first choice. As she sinks deeper into the duality of the central role\, and is drawn i nto the web of doppelgänger Lily (Kunis)\, her identity rapidly\, and evo catively\, unravels.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/MV5 BMTU1MDY0NzYwMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDg3ODIxNA@@._V1_.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2107@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T160000 DTSTAMP:20260810T134020Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/how-to-divorce-during-the-war/ SUMMARY:How to Divorce During the War (2026) DESCRIPTION:"A stinging satire... Prepare to relate in a way that will almo st assuredly be too close for comfort." —Rolling Stone\n\nVilnius\, 2022 . High-flying executive Marija (Zygimante Elena Jakstaite) chooses the wor st possible moment to inform her husband Vytas (Marius Repsys) she wants a divorce: just one day before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Suddenly the couple must navigate the process of separation as it collides with a refu gee and mid-life crisis. A struggling film director\, Vytas is put into a tight spot by having to move in with his Russophile parents\, while Marija struggles to find her footing as the war affects both her business and ho me life. As the reason for the divorce gradually becomes clear\, the disso lution of Marija and Vytas’ marriage creates conflicts and opportunities for both of them\, while also affecting their ever-observant young daught er\, Dovile. Packed with surprises along with much heartache and soul sear ching\, Andrius Blaževičius’ nuanced and timely family drama skillfull y depicts the fallout of a marriage against the backdrop of extraordinary events with humor and compassion. Winner Best Director World Cinema Dramat ic at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.\n\nHow to Divorce During the War is also showing on September 3 at 7 pm in the Film House at Main Street Land ing.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/How toDivorce_still_04.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2108@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T190000 DTSTAMP:20260810T134140Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/how-to-divorce-during-the-war-2/ SUMMARY:How to Divorce During the War (2026) DESCRIPTION:"A stinging satire... Prepare to relate in a way that will almo st assuredly be too close for comfort." —Rolling Stone\n\nVilnius\, 2022 . High-flying executive Marija (Zygimante Elena Jakstaite) chooses the wor st possible moment to inform her husband Vytas (Marius Repsys) she wants a divorce: just one day before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Suddenly the couple must navigate the process of separation as it collides with a refu gee and mid-life crisis. A struggling film director\, Vytas is put into a tight spot by having to move in with his Russophile parents\, while Marija struggles to find her footing as the war affects both her business and ho me life. As the reason for the divorce gradually becomes clear\, the disso lution of Marija and Vytas’ marriage creates conflicts and opportunities for both of them\, while also affecting their ever-observant young daught er\, Dovile. Packed with surprises along with much heartache and soul sear ching\, Andrius Blaževičius’ nuanced and timely family drama skillfull y depicts the fallout of a marriage against the backdrop of extraordinary events with humor and compassion. Winner Best Director World Cinema Dramat ic at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.\n\nHow to Divorce During the War is also showing on September 3 at 4 pm in the Film House at Main Street Land ing.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/How toDivorce_still_04.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2109@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260905T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260905T130000 DTSTAMP:20260825T171553Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wild-inside/ SUMMARY:Wild Inside (2026) DESCRIPTION:Wild Inside is also showing on Saturday\, September 5 at 3 pm i n The Screening Room.\n\nWhat would happen if a captive-born owl with no s urvival skills tried to make it on his own in New York City? In Wild Insid e\, we discover the answer is more incredible\, and more consequential\, t han we could have ever imagined.\n\nIn February 2023\, a Eurasian Eagle-Ow l named Flaco escapes from the Central Park Zoo and sets off on a magical odyssey through the island of Manhattan. Flaco answers the call of the wil d\, and discovers he was wild inside all along. Wild Inside is an underdog story of resilience and self-determination as Flaco the Owl beats the odd s and accomplishes the impossible. Flaco busts out of his cage barely able to fly\, but he adapts\, he explores\, and eventually\, it seems\, he goe s far beyond mere survival\, becoming an internationally known icon of fre edom\, hooting from the highest water towers. He claims all of New York Ci ty as his wild kingdom.\n\nThe remarkable story of Flaco raises some quest ions: Is it right to keep a bird in a cage? Is there any real distinction between “zoo animals” and “wild animals”? How can we be better to our nonhuman neighbors?\n\nThis one-of-a-kind owl’s epic song is sung in Wild Inside by a chorus of besotted New Yorkers—young and old\, bird ne rds and civilians\, many of them immigrants themselves—all of them reach ing for a glimpse of the wild\, a glimmer of magic\, or even just someone to believe in. Everywhere Flaco goes\, he leaves that place and its people forever enchanted.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Wil d-Inside1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2110@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260905T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260905T150000 DTSTAMP:20260825T171400Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/wild-inside-2/ SUMMARY:Wild Inside (2026) DESCRIPTION:Wild Inside is also showing on Saturday\, September 5 at 1 pm i n The Screening Room.\n\nWhat would happen if a captive-born owl with no s urvival skills tried to make it on his own in New York City? In Wild Insid e\, we discover the answer is more incredible\, and more consequential\, t han we could have ever imagined.\n\nIn February 2023\, a Eurasian Eagle-Ow l named Flaco escapes from the Central Park Zoo and sets off on a magical odyssey through the island of Manhattan. Flaco answers the call of the wil d\, and discovers he was wild inside all along. Wild Inside is an underdog story of resilience and self-determination as Flaco the Owl beats the odd s and accomplishes the impossible. Flaco busts out of his cage barely able to fly\, but he adapts\, he explores\, and eventually\, it seems\, he goe s far beyond mere survival\, becoming an internationally known icon of fre edom\, hooting from the highest water towers. He claims all of New York Ci ty as his wild kingdom.\n\nThe remarkable story of Flaco raises some quest ions: Is it right to keep a bird in a cage? Is there any real distinction between “zoo animals” and “wild animals”? How can we be better to our nonhuman neighbors?\n\nThis one-of-a-kind owl’s epic song is sung in Wild Inside by a chorus of besotted New Yorkers—young and old\, bird ne rds and civilians\, many of them immigrants themselves—all of them reach ing for a glimpse of the wild\, a glimmer of magic\, or even just someone to believe in. Everywhere Flaco goes\, he leaves that place and its people forever enchanted.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Wil d-Inside1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2001@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T190000 DTSTAMP:20260311T200210Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-passion-of-joan-of-arc/ SUMMARY:Musical Silents: The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) DESCRIPTION:Live improvised score by Freeway Clyde\n\nSpiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark\, vivid life in one of the most tra nscendent masterpieces of the silent era. Chronicling the trial of Joan of Arc in the hours leading up to her execution\, Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer depicts her torment with startling immediacy\, employing an array of techniques—expressionistic lighting\, interconnected sets\, painfully intimate close-ups—to immerse viewers in her subjective experience. Anc horing Dreyer’s audacious formal experimentation is a legendary performa nce by Renée Falconetti\, whose haunted face channels both the agony and the ecstasy of martyrdom. Nothing about this movie has aged in the 98 year s since it was released.\n\nA Tony Award-winning composer and arranger\, M ichael Chorney is one of Vermont’s most prolific and collaborative artis ts. After working for years on the score for the Broadway hit Hadestown\, he longed to develop a collective\, ensemble approach to music making. He found it back in Vermont and put together a group of the region's most int uitive players to form Freeway Clyde. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/d50 c5db5f4ed7167038c5da57e8cae15.jpeg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2111@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T190000 DTSTAMP:20260825T173404Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/barbara-forever/ SUMMARY:Barbara Forever (2026) DESCRIPTION:Barbara Forever is also showing on Saturday\, September 26 at 1 pm in The Screening Room.\n\nIf we're experimenting with our lives and th e way we're going to live\, our film and our art should also be experiment al. It breaks tradition\, and makes you think in a broader way. It's the w ay I experience the world. —Barbara Hammer\n\nBarbara Forever explores t he films\, archive\, and ongoing cultural impact of experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer\, revealing her ingenious lifelong artistic effort to crea te and record lesbian histories\, personal and societal. Through her own i mages and words\, the film centers Hammer as a prism of the cultural ecosy stems around her: the feminist and queer movements in 1970s San Francisco\ , the male-dominated New York art world of the 1980s\, the New Queer Cinem a movement of the 1990s\, and expanded LGBTQIA+ representation in art and culture in the 2000s.\n\nDriven by her canon of over eighty films\, a vast collection of unreleased archival materials—hundreds of hours of footag e\, personal photographs and ephemera\, and extensive audio interviews—B arbara Forever tells Barbara Hammer’s story through her own voice and vi sual perspective\, making her the expert on her life\, vision\, and motiva tions. Barbara Hammer’s films break taboos around female sexuality\, agi ng\, illness\, and queer love\, often using her own body as a site of expl oration and political power. Through the course of the film\, she shows us that the personal is not only political\, the personal is historical. Loo king to Barbara Hammer as one of the first filmmakers to put a full lesbia n life on screen that wasn’t there before\, her work becomes a blueprint for a new generation of queer and radical artists to write their own hist ories into existence. This exploration of both Barbara Hammer’s life\, w ork\, archive\, and her ongoing legacy provides an urgent\, necessary stor y of queer life\, feminist history\, and American experimental filmmaking. \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bar bara-Forever-Still-2-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2112@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T130000 DTSTAMP:20260825T173449Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/barbara-forever-2/ SUMMARY:Barbara Forever (2026) DESCRIPTION:Barbara Forever is also showing on Friday\, September 25 at 7 p m in The Screening Room.\n\nIf we're experimenting with our lives and the way we're going to live\, our film and our art should also be experimental . It breaks tradition\, and makes you think in a broader way. It's the way I experience the world. —Barbara Hammer\n\nBarbara Forever explores the films\, archive\, and ongoing cultural impact of experimental filmmaker B arbara Hammer\, revealing her ingenious lifelong artistic effort to create and record lesbian histories\, personal and societal. Through her own ima ges and words\, the film centers Hammer as a prism of the cultural ecosyst ems around her: the feminist and queer movements in 1970s San Francisco\, the male-dominated New York art world of the 1980s\, the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s\, and expanded LGBTQIA+ representation in art and cu lture in the 2000s.\n\nDriven by her canon of over eighty films\, a vast c ollection of unreleased archival materials—hundreds of hours of footage\ , personal photographs and ephemera\, and extensive audio interviews—Bar bara Forever tells Barbara Hammer’s story through her own voice and visu al perspective\, making her the expert on her life\, vision\, and motivati ons. Barbara Hammer’s films break taboos around female sexuality\, aging \, illness\, and queer love\, often using her own body as a site of explor ation and political power. Through the course of the film\, she shows us t hat the personal is not only political\, the personal is historical. Looki ng to Barbara Hammer as one of the first filmmakers to put a full lesbian life on screen that wasn’t there before\, her work becomes a blueprint f or a new generation of queer and radical artists to write their own histor ies into existence. This exploration of both Barbara Hammer’s life\, wor k\, archive\, and her ongoing legacy provides an urgent\, necessary story of queer life\, feminist history\, and American experimental filmmaking.\n \n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bar bara-Forever-Still-2-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2202@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261001T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261001T190000 DTSTAMP:20260922T203811Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/bagdad-cafe/ SUMMARY:Bagdad Cafe (1987) DESCRIPTION:Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films\n\nWe are please d to welcome multidisciplinary artist Erika Senft Miller to share two of h er recent short film projects and participate in a Q&\;A after the feat ured screening.\n\nStranded after another squabble with her husband while driving across the Mojave Desert\, lonely German tourist Jasmin Münchgste ttner (Marianne Sagebrecht) stumbles on the rundown Bagdad Cafe\, the most desolate motel on Earth. This low-down watering hole is inhabited by a nu mber of salty characters\, including shipwrecked Hollywood set painter Rud i (Jack Palance). Appalled by the state of the cafe\, and not finding it u p to the demanding standards of German cleanliness\, she gets to work revi talizing this place seemingly forgotten by the world\, much to the chagrin of no-nonsense proprietor Brenda (CCH Pounder) and her trusty rifle. But the longer she stays\, the more she finds herself changed by her newfound surroundings\, and the more she bonds with the makeshift family she's disc overed in the unlikeliest of locations.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/540 8247.webp CATEGORIES:Screening Room @VTIFF,VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2116@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T160000 DTSTAMP:20260825T181608Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-work-in-progress/ SUMMARY:The Work in Progress (2026) DESCRIPTION:Robert Reich follows up his acclaimed hit film The Last Class\, which documented his last inspiring final lecture at UC Berkeley\, with a timely and poignant snapshot of a sharply divided America.\n\nA team of f ilmmakers\, inspired by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich\, decided t o invite 30 and 80-year-olds to gather in conversation about the country. The Work in Progress invites strangers from across generations and geograp hies to engage in candid discussions about America’s ever-evolving democ racy\, identity\, and definitions of community\, and where the heck we go from here. Their idea is to visit six states in six months\, convening a w ide variety of Americans to play a simple game: Ask each other questions\, and take the time to listen.\n\nWhat emerges in The Work in Progress is a n unusual and provocative glimpse of America in its 250th year\, and an in vitation to all Americans to pull up a chair\, invite a stranger\, and len d an ear.\n\nThe Work in Progress is also showing on Friday\, October 2 at 7 pm in the Film House at Main Street Landing.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bob 1-scaled-e1787679729712.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2117@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T190000 DTSTAMP:20260825T181553Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-work-in-progress-2/ SUMMARY:The Work in Progress (2026) DESCRIPTION:Robert Reich follows up his acclaimed hit film The Last Class\, which documented his last inspiring final lecture at UC Berkeley\, with a timely and poignant snapshot of a sharply divided America.\n\nA team of f ilmmakers\, inspired by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich\, decided t o invite 30 and 80-year-olds to gather in conversation about the country. The Work in Progress invites strangers from across generations and geograp hies to engage in candid discussions about America’s ever-evolving democ racy\, identity\, and definitions of community\, and where the heck we go from here. Their idea is to visit six states in six months\, convening a w ide variety of Americans to play a simple game: Ask each other questions\, and take the time to listen.\n\nWhat emerges in The Work in Progress is a n unusual and provocative glimpse of America in its 250th year\, and an in vitation to all Americans to pull up a chair\, invite a stranger\, and len d an ear.\n\nThe Work in Progress is also showing on Friday\, October 2 at 4 pm in the Film House at Main Street Landing.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bob 1-scaled-e1787679729712.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2118@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T200000 DTSTAMP:20260917T191957Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/2026-festival-preview/ SUMMARY:2026 Festival Preview DESCRIPTION:VTIFF members get first access to tickets for this event. Becom e a member any time. \n\n*This event is free\, but we recommend reserving your tickets in advance to guarantee a seat!*\n\nThis year’s Vermont Int ernational Film Festival—AKA the best 10 days of fall—is right around the corner. Join us on Wednesday\, October 7 in the Film House at Main Str eet Landing for the unveiling of the lineup of buzzworthy cinema from arou nd the world. We’ll host a reception in the Film House lobby beforehand with light bites from Bramble and a cash bar from Foam/Deep City followed by the presentation of trailers and highlights for this year’s festival films. It’s time to get excited for another Vermont International Film F estival! We can’t wait to share what’s in store.\n\n6:30-7 pm: Light b ites and cash bar\n7-7:45 pm: VTIFF’s Executive Director\, Steve MacQuee n\, presents highlights of the 2026 Vermont International Film Festival in the Film House\n\nThank you to Deep City &\; Foam Brewers for providin g bar services\, Bramble for providing light bites\, and to Host Sponsor M ain Street Landing.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG _8290-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,Special Event LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2114@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T130000 DTSTAMP:20260820T142045Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cookie-queens/ SUMMARY:Cookie Queens (2026) DESCRIPTION:It’s Girl Scout cookie season and Ara\, Olive\, Nikki\, and S hannon Elizabeth are vying for the coveted title bestowed to the top-selli ng scout: Cookie Queen.\n\nThese four tenacious adolescents have big perso nalities and big ambitions and their entrepreneurial spirit hints at brigh t futures ahead. It isn’t just fun and games\, though\; the girls and th eir families make real sacrifices to hit their goals\, devoting countless hours to slinging cookies wherever and however they can. In following thei r beats\, Cookie Queens provides a an engaging window into the $800 millio n industry in which childhood and commerce collide. It’s a joyous\, hear twarming\, utterly sweet ride that cheers on the girls’ grit and ingenui ty. Whether you're into Thin Mints\, Samoas\, or Tagalongs\, you'll enjoy this sweet and sincere celebration of girl power.\n\nCookie Queens is also showing on October 10 at 3:30 pm in the Film House at Main Street Landing .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Coo kie-Queens_Olive-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2115@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T153000 DTSTAMP:20260820T142109Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/cookie-queens-2/ SUMMARY:Cookie Queens (2026) DESCRIPTION:It’s Girl Scout cookie season and Ara\, Olive\, Nikki\, and S hannon Elizabeth are vying for the coveted title bestowed to the top-selli ng scout: Cookie Queen.\n\nThese four tenacious adolescents have big perso nalities and big ambitions and their entrepreneurial spirit hints at brigh t futures ahead. It isn’t just fun and games\, though\; the girls and th eir families make real sacrifices to hit their goals\, devoting countless hours to slinging cookies wherever and however they can. In following thei r beats\, Cookie Queens provides a an engaging window into the $800 millio n industry in which childhood and commerce collide. It’s a joyous\, hear twarming\, utterly sweet ride that cheers on the girls’ grit and ingenui ty. Whether you're into Thin Mints\, Samoas\, or Tagalongs\, you'll enjoy this sweet and sincere celebration of girl power.\n\nCookie Queens is also showing on October 10 at 1 pm in the Film House at Main Street Landing.\n \n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Coo kie-Queens_Olive-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2179@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T133000 DTSTAMP:20260921T051413Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-red-hangar-2/ SUMMARY:THE RED HANGAR DESCRIPTION:In South American history\, the date September 10\, 1973\, is q uite ominous. It’s the day before the military coup that topples the dem ocratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile\, and it’s t he day this film begins. Captain Jorge Silva (Nicolás Zárate)\, who runs a sleepy Air Force Academy\, receives an order to transform his outpost i nto a center for detention of dissidents\, immediately. The hooded\, bound prisoners start flooding in. Silva finds himself in a dire moral quandary —disobedience followed by severe punishment\, or acquiescence in violati on of all that is right—and no time to make up his mind. Zárate is magn ificent as a principled military man whose poker face belies a maelstrom o f emotion as he tries to figure out how a soldier deals with a military th at has betrayed its duty and ideals. ~SM ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/The -Red-Hangar.jpg CATEGORIES:2026 VT International Film Festival LOCATION:Main Street Landing Black Box\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burli ngton\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, Vermont\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Main Street Landing Black Box:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2119@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261030T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261030T190000 DTSTAMP:20260917T213556Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/the-house-of-the-devil/ SUMMARY:The House of the Devil DESCRIPTION:Ti West is now best known for his X Trilogy—X\, Pearl\, and M aXXXine-and\, bizarrely\, this Thanksgiving he'll drop his Gothic take on A Christmas Carol\, Ebenezer. But his breakout was The House of the Devil\ , and it still rips nearly two decades on. Sometimes lumped into the so-ca lled "mumblegore" microgenre\, alongside up-and-comers like Adam Wingard ( You're Next\, Godzilla Vs. Kong)\, David Bruckner (The Ritual)\, and Joe S wanberg (V/H/S)\, what sets this satanic panic revival film apart is its f ully realized throwback swagger (in name it even references arguably the f irst ever horror film\, Georges Méliès' three-minute magic show from 189 6).\n\nWest channels the hysteria he enjoyed as a kid and makes it his own . Plus he assembles a killer cast with Jocelin Donahue as a co-ed in need of quick cash to pay the rent who accepts a dubious babysitting gig well o ut of town\, on the night of a full moon no less\, from none other than To m Noonan and Mary Woronov. What initially sounds too good to be true—one mildly creepy night in a big house with plenty of pizza and TV for more c ash that was advertised—absolutely is\, and West savors both the slow bu rn and the inevitable frenzy. Oh and Greta Gerwig pops up\, too\, in an ea rly role as the tagalong sidekick. The House of the Devil is a wickedly fu n\, stylish\, and twisted ride\, a young brash kid-in-a-candy-store filmma ker flexing his influences and having a blast.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG _8292.jpeg CATEGORIES:Feature,Screening Room @VTIFF END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2120@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261031T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261031T190000 DTSTAMP:20260917T213118Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/ghostwatch/ SUMMARY:Ghostwatch (1992) DESCRIPTION:Well before audiences were accustomed to found-footage movies —thanks in large part to The Blair Witch Project giving away the game— Ghostwatch set the template for how to catch viewers completely unawares\, and it worked smashingly. Featuring real BBC personalities and reporters investigating “the most haunted house in Britain\,” Ghostwatch adopted the format of a genuine live broadcast\, War of the Worlds-style—taking place in more or less real time\, expert parapsychologists on hand to unp ack the goings on\, and operators standing by to take your calls. But what starts out as a cheeky Halloween edition of the similarly titled Crimewat ch goes terribly wrong\, leaving shocked BBC viewers wondering what to bel ieve.\n\nThe program concerns the haunting of the Early family (based loos ely on the Enfield Poltergeist\, which was also the basis for The Conjurin g 2)\, whose two young girls and their mother claim they are being harasse d by a presence they call “Pipes.” A camera crew descends on the home to document what\, if anything\, will happen. Over the course of the eveni ng\, they get their answer\, and as the communication starts to break down between studio and reporters on the scene\, it becomes increasingly diffi cult for the buttoned-up hosts to make sense of what they are witness and keep their wits about them. What came after has become the stuff of legend : reports of widespread panic in the wake of the broadcast led to the film being buried in the years after\, helping the TV movie gain a sizable cul t following as an ahead-of-its-time psychological experiment. Now it's con sidered a right proper Halloween night classic.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG _8291.jpeg CATEGORIES:Feature,Screening Room @VTIFF LOCATION:The Screening Room @VTIFF\, 60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\, Burlingto n\, VT\, 05401\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 1st Floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The S creening Room @VTIFF:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2198@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T163000 DTSTAMP:20260923T165255Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/naza/ SUMMARY:NAZA (2026) DESCRIPTION:"As a work of cinema\, it is exemplary. As a work of journalism \, it is inarguable. As a document\, it is an indictment." —Time Out\n\n Shot covertly at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv\, NAZA focuses on conve rsations with the people involved in the calculated mass killing of Palest inian civilians. In these secret encounters\, the filmmakers cut through t he propaganda to confront a series of operatives with devastating facts as reported by independent outlets. The film builds on revelations published between 2023 and 2025—in the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magaz ine\, Hebrew-language outlet Local Call\, and The Guardian—to reveal the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza. The title refers to a military acronym euphemistically used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the numb er of civilians that it expects will be killed in an airstrike. Directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor\, two of the filmmakers behind the 2024 Osca r-winning documentary No Other Land\, were awarded the Special Jury Prize at this year's Venice Film Festival.\n\nNAZA is also showing on:\nFriday\, November 6 at 7 pm\nSaturday\, November 7 at 4:30 pm\nSaturday\, November 7 at 7 pm ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/NAZ A-The-Guardian-scaled.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2199@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T190000 DTSTAMP:20260923T165454Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/naza-2/ SUMMARY:NAZA (2026) DESCRIPTION:"As a work of cinema\, it is exemplary. As a work of journalism \, it is inarguable. As a document\, it is an indictment." —Time Out\n\n Shot covertly at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv\, NAZA focuses on conve rsations with the people involved in the calculated mass killing of Palest inian civilians. In these secret encounters\, the filmmakers cut through t he propaganda to confront a series of operatives with devastating facts as reported by independent outlets. The film builds on revelations published between 2023 and 2025—in the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magaz ine\, Hebrew-language outlet Local Call\, and The Guardian—to reveal the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza. The title refers to a military acronym euphemistically used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the numb er of civilians that it expects will be killed in an airstrike. Directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor\, two of the filmmakers behind the 2024 Osca r-winning documentary No Other Land\, were awarded the Special Jury Prize at this year's Venice Film Festival.\n\nNAZA is also showing on:\nFriday\, November 6 at 4:30 pm\nSaturday\, November 7 at 4:30 pm\nSaturday\, Novem ber 7 at 7 pm ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/NAZ A-The-Guardian-scaled.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2200@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261107T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261107T163000 DTSTAMP:20260923T165520Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/naza-3/ SUMMARY:NAZA (2026) DESCRIPTION:"As a work of cinema\, it is exemplary. As a work of journalism \, it is inarguable. As a document\, it is an indictment." —Time Out\n\n Shot covertly at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv\, NAZA focuses on conve rsations with the people involved in the calculated mass killing of Palest inian civilians. In these secret encounters\, the filmmakers cut through t he propaganda to confront a series of operatives with devastating facts as reported by independent outlets. The film builds on revelations published between 2023 and 2025—in the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magaz ine\, Hebrew-language outlet Local Call\, and The Guardian—to reveal the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza. The title refers to a military acronym euphemistically used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the numb er of civilians that it expects will be killed in an airstrike. Directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor\, two of the filmmakers behind the 2024 Osca r-winning documentary No Other Land\, were awarded the Special Jury Prize at this year's Venice Film Festival.\n\nNAZA is also showing on:\nFriday\, November 6 at 4:30 pm\nFriday\, November 6 at 7 pm\nSaturday\, November 7 at 7 pm ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vtiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/NAZ A-The-Guardian-scaled.png CATEGORIES:Monthly Screenings,VTIFF LOCATION:Main Street Landing Film House\, 60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\, Burl ington\, VT\, 05401\, United States GEO:44.4777072;-73.21972829999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=60 Lake Street\, 3rd floor\ , Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Main Street Landing Film House:geo:44.4777072,-73.21972829999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2201@vtiff.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261107T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261107T190000 DTSTAMP:20260923T165434Z URL:https://vtiff.org/events/naza-4/ SUMMARY:NAZA (2026) DESCRIPTION:"As a work of cinema\, it is exemplary. As a work of journalism \, it is inarguable. As a document\, it is an indictment." —Time Out\n\n Shot covertly at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv\, NAZA focuses on conve rsations with the people involved in the calculated mass killing of Palest inian civilians. In these secret encounters\, the filmmakers cut through t he propaganda to confront a series of operatives with devastating facts as reported by independent outlets. The film builds on revelations published between 2023 and 2025—in the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magaz ine\, Hebrew-language outlet Local Call\, and The Guardian—to reveal the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza. The title refers to a military acronym euphemistically used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the numb er of civilians that it expects will be killed in an airstrike. 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