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 Vermont Art Supply & Dostie Bros. Frame Shop No Gender is a beautiful multi media project by internationally renowned artist Sylvain Tremblay and […]
Directed by 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. […]
Directed by Ivano De Matteo | Italy | Italian w/ English subtitles | 2014 | Fiction | 93 mins Sponsored by the Vermont Italian Club AKAI International Film Fest Award, Venice; Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 2015 Silver Ribbon; FICE – Federazione Italiana Cinema d’Essai 2014 Award Film Source: Film Movement Based on Herman […]
Directed by Camilla Nielssen | Denmark | Shona w/ English subtitles | 2014 | Documentary | 99 mins Best Doc Feature, Tribeca Film Source: Upfront Films Camilla Nielssen’s astutely observed, darkly humorous, rousingly energetic chronicle of the drafting of the new Zimbabwean constitution has been rightly dubbed “one of the year’s most invaluable documentaries” by […]
Cash bar and snack. Meet Film Society members and find out more about the BFS program.
Directed by Holly Morris & Anne Bogart | 2015 | Ukraine/USA | Documentary | 72 mins Special Jury Award for Directing at the Los Angeles Film Festival Sponsors: Vermont Council on World Affairs Film Source: Filmmakers Holly Morris attending screening for Q&A Twenty-nine years ago, on April, 26 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor No. […]
György Pálfi | Hungary | English/German/Hungarian/French/Cantonese | Fiction/Experimental | 2012 | 84 mins Official selection Cannes Film FestivalFilm Source: HVD Productions New England Premiere. A Burlington Film Society Presentation This “recycled movie” plays as the supreme montage, the ultimate supercut, and a great piece of renegade filmmaking. Pálfi, the unpredictable director of Hukkle and Taxidermia, […]
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, […]
In association with The Green Mountain Gore Society Directed by Jason Krawczyk |2015| USA| 99 min | unrated Starring: Henry Rollins, Booboo Stewart, Steven Ogg Film Source: Vertical Entertainment In He Never Died, actor, activist, poet and punk rock legend Henry Rollins delivers a deadpan, understated performance as Jack, a social outcast and reluctant cannibal. […]
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. In the macho world of Cuban culture, Margot and Roxana stand out – they are two of the country’s best-known drag queens. Both share insights into the art of […]
Directed by Holly Morris & Anne Bogart | 2015 | Ukraine/USA | Documentary | 72 mins Special Jury Award for Directing at the Los Angeles Film Festival Sponsors: Vermont Council on World Affairs Film Source: Filmmakers Twenty-nine years ago, on April, 26 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor No. 4 blew up after a […]
Directed by Britni West | USA | 2014 | Fiction/Documentary | 76 mins Jury Award for Narrative Feature; New Directors/New Films Film Source: Filmmaker Every town has a post office, lovers, guns, switchblades and beer. You just have to know where to look and when to look the other way. West’s inspired directorial debut discovers homespun poetry among the […]
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 […]
Directed by Shannon Sun-Higginson | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 76 mins Sponsor: Champlain College Film Source: Filmmaker Filmmaker in attendance at screening and for post screening panel The 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 […]
Sponsored by Champlain College The screening of GTFO will be followed by a panel discussion about women and gaming, moderated by Katheryn Wright. The panel will include Jonathan Ferguson, Squinky, and filmmaker Shannon Sun-Higginson.
Reception sponsored by Champlain College, following the screening of GTFO and panel about women and gaming. Food and cash bar.
Directed by John Pirozzi | USA/Cambodia | French/Khmer w/ English Subtitles | 2015 | Documentary | 106 mins Sponsor: Judy Gerber Film Source: Argot Pictures This moving and informative documentary by John Pirozzi, takes its name from a hit song of the 1960s which, like most of the music on the soundtrack, was part of […]
Directed by Pegi Vail | USA | 2014 | Documentary | 79 mins Special Jury Award, Visions of Nature Environmental Film Festival Sponsor: SSG Advisors, Inc Film Source: Filmmaker Filmmaker attending screening for post-screening discussion with Megan Epler Wood Gringo Trails raises urgent questions about one of the most powerful global industries of our time: […]
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 […]
Directed by Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson | Canada | 2015 | Fiction | 130 mins Winner of Bildrausch Ring of Film Award, 2015 Film Source: Kino Lorber Guy Maddin is a singular figure in today’s cinematic landscape. For 30 years he has been creating distinctive, wildly inventive films that feel as much discovered as […]