Directed by Alice Rohrwacher | Italy/Switzerland | Italian/French/German w/ English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 110 mins Winner Grand Prix Cannes Film Festival Film Source: Oscilloscope The mysteries of adolescence have seldom been as lyrically rendered as in Alice Rohrwacher’s gentle coming-of-age tale The Wonders. The central character is a 12-year-old girl named Gelsomina […]
Directed by Ian Cheney | USA | 2014 | Documentary | 73 mins Sponsor: A Single Pebble Film Source: IFC Films Introduced by Chiuho Duval, Single Pebble. Screening preceded by a General Tso tasting reception by A Single Pebble Scan the menu of any Chinese restaurant in America and you’ll likely find some variation of […]
Directed by Peter Greenaway | Netherlands/Mexico/Finland/Belgium/France | English & Spanish w/ English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 106 mins Film Source: Strand Releasing In 1931 the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein travels to Guanajuato to direct his film Que viva México. There he encounters a new culture and its dealings with death; he also discovers another […]
Directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | France | French w/ English subtitles | 2014 | Fiction | 105 mins Sponsored by Frank & Ducky Donath Film Source: Menemsha Films Post-screening discussion led by UVM Associate Professor of French Meaghan Emery VTIFF FOR SCHOOLS is sponsored by the John M Bissell Foundation and by Jane Kramer For […]
Lunchtime Shorts Are Sponsored By Middlebury College Presented daily, Monday through Friday at BCA Center, 12pm – 1pm. Ticket includes lunch courtesy of Kountry Kart Deli. This screening is also sponsored by Green Valley Media Longtime artists and lovers of Bread and Puppet will discuss their favorite moments and images from the 50 year history […]
Directed by Claus Drexel | France | French w/English subtitles | 2014 | Documentary | 98 mins Sponsored by Duncan Wisniewski Architecture and by Allan Nicholls, Nancy Bercaw and David Nicholls Film Source: Daisy Day Films 25% of ticket sales will be donated to COTS The best way to describe this most exquisite, haunting and […]
Directed by Pablo Larraín | 2015 | Chile | Fiction | 98 mins Grand Jury Prize, Berlinale Film Source: Musicbox The Club, Chile’s official submission to this year’s Oscars, finds director Pablo Larraín (Post Mortem; No) at his most masterful, steering the picture through complex tonal shifts without letting it capsize into hysteria, even when […]
Reception for Very Semi-Semi Serious Cash bar and snacks. Meet Cartoonists Ed Koren and Harry Bliss and the filmmakers.
Directed by Leah Wolchok | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 93 mins Sponsor: Bobbie Lanahan Film Source: Producers Followed by a discussion with Executive Producer Deborah Shaffer & cartoonists Ed Koren & Harry Bliss Go behind the drawing board with this affable portrait of cartooning at The New Yorker magazine. Featuring interviews and art […]
Terry Gilliam | UK | 1985 | 114 min This 30th Anniversary screening of Gilliam’s classic will screen as part of the Movies at MSL series during the 30th Anniversary VTIFF film festival. FREE – Donations welcome Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam’s enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment […]
In association with the Green Mountain Gore Society Directed by Corin Hardy | 2015, 97 min | Ireland | unrated Starring: Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton Film Source: IFC Films Dripping with dread and steeped in dark folklore, this Irish creature feature from director Corin Hardy delivers a visceral experience in horror. New parents Adam […]
Lunchtime Shorts Are Sponsored By Middlebury College Presented daily, Monday through Friday at BCA Center, 12pm – 1pm. Ticket includes lunch courtesy of Kountry Kart Deli. A documentary film about the nature of play, risk and hazard set in The Land, a Welsh “adventure” playground. At The Land children climb trees, light fires and use […]
Directed by Nasib Farah & Søren Steen Jespersen | Denmark | Danish w/English subtitles | 2015 | Documentary | 58 mins US Premiere Film Source: Made in Copenhagen Winner of the Best Mid-Length Award at the prestigious Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, Warriors from the North offers an intimate look at Danish jihadists joining the ranks […]
Directed by Ben Patterson | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 89 mins Film Source: Filmmakers Many years of civil unrest, bloody conflict, and turbulent politics laid the groundwork for one of the more unpredictable and astonishing presidential campaigns in recent history. In the wake of destruction left by the 2010 earthquake, Pras Michel of […]
Directed by Rebecca Parrish | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 77 mins Best of Fest, AFI Docs Sponsored by The Caroline Baird Crichfield Fund Film Source: Producers At a time when the Pope is the focus of the world’s attention and portrayed as speaking up for the poor and for the environment, we get […]
Cash bar and snacks. We’re hoping Chad Gracia, director of Russian Woodpecker will be present at the reception and to introduce his film.
Directed by Chad Gracia | Ukraine/UK/USA | English & Russian w/ English subtitles | 2015 | Documentary | 80 mins Grand Jury Prize World Documentary, Sundance Sponsor: Duncan Wisniewski Architecture Film Source: Roast Beef Productions “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, […]
Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan/China/Hong Kong/France Mandarin w/English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 107 mins Best Director at Cannes Film Festival 2015 Film Source: Well Go USA Taiwan’s official submission for this year’s Oscars is a stunning masterwork by renowned director Hou Hsiao-hsien (A Time to Live, A Time to Die; Café Lumière). […]
Directed by François Ozon | France | French w/English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 109 mins Film Source: Cohen Media While Ozon’s work has gone in countless directions since the enfant terrible days of Sea the Sea and Sitcom, the filmmaker has always retained his provocateur’s spirit. Here, adapting mystery writer Ruth Rendell’s short […]
Michael Almereyda | USA | Fiction | 2015 | 98 mins Film Source: Magnolia Maverick director Michael Almereyda (Nadja; Hamlet with Ethan Hawke) here tackles the famed and infamous Milgram Experiments, wherein ordinary folks found themselves willing to administer potentially lethal electric shocks to others simply because they were told to do so. The initial […]