Defiant Lives Host sponsor – Main Street Landing Directed by Sarah Barton Australia/UK ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Documentary ⎮ 90 mins ⎮ Open Captions | Audio description available upon request – please notify us 10 days in advance. Film source: Filmmaker Sponsors: Anne Barbano & Michael George *** Followed by Q&A with filmmaker Sarah Barton*** Documenting the […]
Living and Other Fictions Host sponsor – Main Street Landing Directed by Jo Sol Spain ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 81 min ⎮ Spanish w/ English Subtitles Film Source: Producers Awards: Audience Choice at the Buenos Aires International Human Rights Film Festival. This taboo-breaking film follows Antonio, a tetraplegic writer who engages a prostitute for clients with […]
Directed by Mira Niagolova 65 minutes Mira will attend the film and facilitate discussion following the screening. Welcome to Vermont was awarded VTIFF’s Ben & Jerry Award in 2014. a 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 […]
VTIFF Presents: The Song of Sway Lake Host sponsor – Main Street Landing Directed by Ari Gold USA | 2017 | Fiction | 94 min | English | Cast: Rory Culkin, Robert Sheehan, Mary Beth Peil, Isabelle McNally, Elizabeth Peña, Jack Falahee, Brian Dennehy Shot on location at Blue Mountain Lake *** Ari Gold will attend the screening and be there for a post-screening Q&A *** It’s summer on Sway […]
VTIFF Presents: Foxtrot Host sponsor – Main Street Landing Directed by Samuel Maoz Israel ⎮ 2017 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 113 min ⎮ Hebrew ⎮Venice Film Festival 2017 (Grand Jury Prize Award – Silver Lion) Michael and Dafna are devastated when army officials show up at their home to announce the death of their son Jonathan. While his sedated wife rests, […]
Annual event to benefit the Vermont International Film Festival and to honor a VTIFF Community Champion. The 2018 honoree is Robin Lloyd. Robin is probably well-known to many in the community, local filmmakers, peace activists or have an interest in Haiti, among other topics. Robin has for several decades not only made films that have opened […]
VTIFF Presents: This Is Our Land (Chez nous) Host sponsor – Main Street Landing Directed by Lucas Belvaux France/Belgium | 2017 | Fiction | 114 min | French w/English subtitles A working-class single mother in the North of France naively agrees to run for mayor, representing the Patriotic Bloc. A drama that seeks to analyze the dangerous appeal […]
VTIFF Presents: Let the Sunshine In (Un beau soleil intérieur) Host sponsor – Main Street Landing Directed by Claire Denis France | 2018 | Fiction | 94 min | French w/English subtitles To read an interview with Claire Denis about the making of the film click HERE Juliette Binoche delivers a luminous performance in the deliciously witty, […]
Join us for a Vermont Lake Monsters Game on Friday, August 3rd at 7pm! Doors open at 6pm. Tickets are just $7 with a portion of the proceeds going directly back to the Vermont International Film Festival! Click HERE to buy tickets.
VTIFF Presents Satan & Adam Host Venue: Main Street Landing Directed by Scott Balcerek USA | Documentary | 80 mins One day in 1986, Adam Gussow, a white, Ivy League-educated harmonica player, found himself nursing a broken heart and walking down the street in Harlem. There, he came upon a one-man blues band: Sterling Magee. […]
Please join us for a Membership Party! As a thanks for your commitment to VTIFF, we want to celebrate YOU! Wednesday, September 12 5:30 – 7:30pm ~ Burlington City Arts (BCA) 135 Church St Burlington, VT Appetizers by Dedalus ~ Film Festival Previews ~ Cash Bar* Not a member? Join at the party! Lapsed member? […]
VTIFF & Kingdom County Present: Wetware Host Venue: Main Street Landing Directed by Jay Craven USA | Fiction | 100 mins Note: There is also a second screening at 7:30 if you prefer – Clicking on BUY TICKETS button will take you to either. We look forward to greeting you at either of the screenings […]
VTIFF & Kingdom County Present: Wetware Host Venue: Main Street Landing Directed by Jay Craven USA | Fiction | 100 mins Note: There is also an earlier screening at 4:30 if you prefer – Clicking on BUY TICKETS button will take you to either. We look forward to greeting you at either of the screenings […]
VTIFF Presents No Date No Signature Host Venue: Main Street Landing Directed by Vahid Jalilvand Iran | Fiction | 104 mins | Farsi w/English subtitles A forensic pathologist has a car accident and injures the 8-year old son of the motorcycle driver. He offers to take the child to a clinic nearby but the father […]
Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul Directed by Huey Maine | 2017 | Documentary | 114 min Filmmaker in attendance Thoreau said 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 Walden Pond. This film tells the story […]
Filmmakers in attendance Estrellita (Little Star) Directed by Daniel Houghton Vermont | 2018 | Animation, Fiction | 8 min A girl growing up on a Vermont dairy farm discovers a tragic reality about her family. Showing with Raghead Directed by Nora Jacobson Vermont | 2018 | Fiction | 14 min A blind date, a veiled […]
Filmmakers in attendance Estrellita (Little Star) Directed by Daniel Houghton Vermont | 2018 | Animation, Fiction | 8 min A girl growing up on a Vermont dairy farm discovers a tragic reality about her family. Raghead Directed by Nora Jacobson Vermont | 2018 | Fiction | 14 min A blind date, a […]
Filmmakers in attendance Estrellita (Little Star) Directed by Daniel Houghton Vermont | 2018 | Animation, Fiction | 8 min A girl growing up on a Vermont dairy farm discovers a tragic reality about her family. Showing with Raghead Directed by Nora Jacobson Vermont | 2018 | Fiction | 14 min A […]
Life After Life Directed by Tamara Perkins Vermont | 2017 | Documentary | 72 min Filmmaker in attendance via Skype After decades behind bars, three men set out to prove success can lie on the other side of tragedy. As their stories unfold over weeks, months, and years, the precarious nature of freedom after incarceration […]
Filmmakers in attendance Lil’ Hybrids Directed by Mike Wirkkala New Hampshire | 2018 | Animation, Fiction | 5 min When three alien hybrids abduct a cow, and one hybrid gets disgruntled, mayhem ensues. It Will Be the Past Directed by Ali Salem* Vermont | 2018 | Fiction […]