VTIFF Presents: Tokyo Idols Sponsored by Main Street Landing Directed by Kyoko Miyake UK – Canada | 2017 | 88 min | Japanese w/English subtitles “This isn’t a fad, it’s a religion”, says one of the men in the film. “An eye-opening delve into the uniquely Japanese phenomenon of ‘idols’, the thousands of teenage Japanese […]
Ticketing for this event is now closed Please join us on Thursday, October 5th at 7:00pm at Penny Cluse Cafe for a Special Benefit Dinner to support the 2017 Vermont International Film Festival. Local chefs Charles Reeves and Maura O’Sullivan of Penny Cluse Cafe will delight gourmets and film buffs alike with a delicious multi-course […]
Directed by Dorothy Tod USA | 1974 | 16mm | 30 min * Senator and Mrs Leahy will attend. Introduced by Senator Philip Baruth (Senator Leahy: A Life in Scenes) and director Tod * Note: Vermont Films are FREE with a recommended donation of $5.00. They cannot be booked in advance and seats will be available […]
The filmmakers’ will attend the screenings. Q&As moderated by Michael Fisher. Click on the title links for dates and times. Burned: Are Trees the Next Coal? Directed by Alan Dater & Lisa Merton Burned tells the little-known story of the accelerating destruction of our forests for fuel, and probes the policy loopholes, huge subsidies, and […]
Hidden Blueprints: The Story of Mikey Directed by Jeremy Lee MacKenzie Documentary | 2017 | 15 min World Premiere * The filmmakers will be in attendance * Note: This Showcase also includes the film Looking Back at Me Vermont Films are FREE with a recommended donation of $5.00. They cannot be booked in advance and […]
Directed by Alex Escaja Documentary | 2017 | 26 Min Awards: 2nd Place Winner Freedom & Unity Film Festival – High School Category, Personal Narratives Vermont Folklife Center Ethnographic Award – Freedom & Unity Film Festival Audience Choice Award – Phillips Academy Interscholastic Film Festival * The filmmakers will be in attendance * Note: This […]
VAMP (Vermont Archive Movie Project) VTIFF and Vermont PBS proudly present the launch of a joint effort – the VAMP online database – a searchable website of Vermont films past and present. The program includes Vermont films remastered and digitized by VTIFF and by VT PBS as well as a short film about the ephemeral […]
Faces Places (Visages, villages) Directed by Agnès Varda & JR France | 2017 | Hybrid Doc | 89 min | French w/English subtitles Film Source: Cohen Media Group Awards/premier festivals: Cannes Sponsors: Todd Lockwood * Opening Night film * Agnès Varda has been making movies for more than 60 years. Faces Places is among the […]
Waking the Sleeping Giant: the Making of a Political Revolution Directed by Jon Erickson & Jacob Smith Produced by Jacob Smith, Jon D. Erickson and Kathryn Goldman Documentary | 2017 | 92 min * The filmmakers will attend the screening * Vermont Films are FREE with a recommended donation of $5.00. They cannot be booked […]
The Summer is Gone (Ba Yue) Directed by Dalei Zhang China | 106 min | Fiction | Mandarin w/English subtitles Film Source: Pad International Sponsor: A Single Pebble Also showing Thursday, October 26 at 2:00PM Beautifully shot in widescreen black and white, The Summer Is Gone is set in Inner Mongolia in the early 1990s, […]
Burned: Are Trees the New Coal? Directed by Alan Dater & Lisa Merton Documentary | 2017 | 76 min *The filmmakers will be in attendance* Vermont 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. Burned tells the […]
The Force Directed by Peter Nicks USA | 2017 | Documentary | 93 min Film Source: Kino Lorber Awards/premier festivals: Sundance – Directing Award / U.S. Documentary “Sprawling, immediate, and complex, Peter Nicks’s vérité documentary moves like a pulsing, timely thriller. In 2014, after over a decade of federal monitoring for misconduct and civil rights […]
It’s Criminal Directed by Signe Taylor Documentary | 2017 | 78 Min * The filmmakers will attend the screening * Vermont 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. It’s Criminal is a potent critique of the […]
Tales of an Immoral Couple (La vida inmoral de la pareja ideal) Directed by Manolo Caro Mexico | 2017 | Fiction | 95 min | Spanish w/English subtitles Film Source: Hola Mexico Film Festival New England premiere Sponsor: Eyes of the World and Anna Blackmer Director Manolo Caro, who also wrote the script for Tales […]
Kairos Dirt and the Errant Vacuum Directed by Madsen Minax Experimental | 2017 | 90 Min Awards: Indie Memphis Film Festival – Best Feature * Q&A with filmmaker post screening * Vermont 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 […]
Spettacolo Directed by Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen USA | 2017 | Documentary | 91 min | Italian w/English subtitles Film Source: Grasshopper Awards / premier festivals: Hot Docs; SXSW Sponsors: 05401 / 05401PLUS *Post screening Q&A with directors Malmberg and Shellen – Sat screening* Also showing Wednesday, October 25 at 2:30PM Villagers in the […]
The Crest Directed by Mark Covino Documentary | 2017 | 82 min Vermont Premiere * The producers will be in attendance * Vermont 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. Two cousins who live on opposite […]
Thelma Directed by Joachim Trier Norway | 2016 | Fiction | 116 min | Norwegian w/English subtitles Film Source: The Orchard Director Joachim Trier’s (Oslo; August 31st; Louder Than Bombs) latest film is ostensibly a science fiction tale, but it also serves as a nuanced story of both coming of age and coming to terms […]
Jasper Jones Directed by Rachel Perkins Australia | 2017 | Fiction | 102 min Film Source: Film Movement Sponsor: Nokian Tyres Also showing Wednesday, October 24 at 7:00PM Centered on a 14-year-old boy caught up in a murder mystery involving a part-Aboriginal suspect, this outstanding adaptation of Craig Silvey’s novel of the same name speaks […]
The Wound (Inxeba) Directed by John Trengove South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France | 2017 | Fiction | 88 min | Xhoas/Afrikaans/English w/English subtitles Film Source: Kino Lorber Awards and major festivals: Berlin, Sundance Also showing Sunday, October 29 at 1:00PM Using a coming-of-age ritual as its setting (a Xhosa rite involving circumcision and an eight-day fast), The Wound […]