I Am Not a Witch Directed by Rungano Nyoni Zambia/UK/Wales and more | 2018 | Fiction | 91 min | Nyanja w/English subtitles Film Source: Film Movement Sponsor: The Caroline Baird Crichfield Fund For Women in Need; Co-sponsor: Middlebury College Also showing Thursday, October 25 at 7:15PM This marvelous magic-realist feminist film is both an […]
Bisbee ’17 Directed by Robert Greene USA | 2018 | Hybrid Doc | 112 min Film Source: 4th Row Films Awards / premier festivals: Sundance Sponsor: Lisa Schamberg The title of Bisbee ’17 is twofold. In 1917, in the copper-mining town of Bisbee, Arizona, more than 1,000 striking miners — mostly migrant workers from Mexico […]
Beauty and the Dogs (Aala Kaf Ifrit) Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania Tunisia | 2017 | Fiction | 100 min | Arabic w/English subtitles Film Source: Oscilloscope Awards / premier festivals: Cannes – Un Certain Regard Sponsor: Peace & Justice Center Also showing Tuesday, October 23 at 2:00PM Kaouther Ben Hania (The Challat of Tunis, […]
Join us at today’s daily reception. Hors d’oeuvres and Zero Gravity cash bar. Reception sponsors:
Naila and the Uprising Directed by Julia Bacha USA/Palestine | 2018 | Animation, Documentary | 76 min | Arabic w/English subtitles Film Source: Just Vision Sponsor: Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program | Co-sponsor: Peace & Justice Center *Screening will be followed by Q&A with producer Rebekah Wingert-Jabi When a nationwide uprising breaks out in 1987, a […]
The Guilty Directed by Gustav Möller Denmark | Fiction | 2018 | 85 min | Danish w/English Subtitles Film Source: Magnolia Awards / premier festivals: Sundance – Audience Award; Rotterdam – Audience Award Also showing Tuesday, October 23 at 2:30PM A masterly exercise in close-up suspense, set entirely in a police call center, The Guilty concerns […]
Border (Gräns) Directed by Ali Abbasi Sweden | 2018 | Fiction | 109 min | Swedish w/English subtitles Film Source: Neon Awards / premier festivals: Sweden’s submission to the Academy Awards; Cannes – Un Certain Regard Sponsor: Middlebury College Border follows a border guard (the astounding Eva Melander) who has the unerring ability to smell […]
The King Directed by Eugene Jarecki USA | 2018 | Documentary | 100 min Film Source: Filmmaker Awards / premier festivals: Cannes, Sundance ***Followed by Q&A with filmmaker Eugene Jarecki*** Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki’s new film takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip […]
Supa Modo Directed by Likarion Wainaina Germany/Kenya | 2018 | Fiction | 74 min | English/Kikuyu/Swahili w/English subtitles Film Source: Juno Awards / premier festivals: Berlin – Youth Jury Award Sponsor: Patricia Fontaine * Recommended as family viewing for ages 11+ A superhero film like no other, Supa Modo follows a 9-year-old Kenyan girl named Jo […]
Survivors Directed by Arthur Pratt Co-directed by Banker White, Anna Fitch, & Barmmy Boy Sierra Leone | Documentary | 2018 | 82 min Film Source: WeOwnTV *Followed by Q&A with filmmakers Through the eyes of Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt, Survivors presents a portrait of his country during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the […]
Custody (Jusqu’à la garde) Directed by Xavier Legrand France | 2018 | Fiction | 93 min | French w/English subtitles Film Source: Kino Lorber Awards / premier festivals: Venice – Silver Lion Sponsor: Alliance française of the Lake Champlain Region Also showing Tuesday, October 23 at 4:30PM This is a directorial debut of longtime actor […]
The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden) Directed by H. K. Breslauer Austria | 1924 | Fiction | 74 min | Silent w/English intertitles Film Source: Austrian Film Archive Sponsor: UVM Hillel *Screening will be followed by Q&A with Raye Farr, former Director of the Film Archive and Special Exhibits at the US Holocaust […]
The Cleaners Directed by Moritz Riesewieck & Hans Block Germany/Brazil | 2018 | Documentary | 88 min | Filipino/English w/English subtitles Film Source: Gebrueder Beetz Also showing Monday, October 22 at 2:15PM “If you commit one mistake, it could trigger war.” One might assume that quote is attributable to a government official or a high-ranking […]
Join us at today’s daily reception. Catering by Esperanza Restaurante, and Zero Gravity cash bar. Reception sponsors:
3 Faces Directed by Jafar Panahi Iran | 2018 | Fiction | 100 min | Farsi w/English subtitles Film Source: Kino Lorber Awards / premier festivals: TIFF, Cannes – Best Screenplay Sponsor: 05401 Also showing Friday, October 26 at 2:15PM Eight years after receiving a two-decade filmmaking ban by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi, a […]
The Rest I Make Up Directed by Michelle Memran USA | 2018 | Documentary | 75 min Film Source: Women Make Movies Sponsor: Barbara Zucker *Followed by Q&A with the director Also showing Sunday, October 28 at 2:00PM This documentary about María Irene Fornés, the groundbreaking playwright, director and teacher, is both a biography and […]
North American Indie Fiction I’M OK Directed by Elizabeth Hobbs Animation | 6 min | Film courtesy of National Film Board of Canada Inspired by the life and art of Oskar Kokoschka (1886 – 1980), Handmade ink and paint drawings. LILY ‘N’ ROSE Directed by Sheryl Glubok Fiction | 12 min Imagine […]
The Cleaners Directed by Moritz Riesewieck & Hans Block Germany/Brazil | 2018 | Documentary | 88 min | Filipino/English w/English subtitles Film Source: Gebrueder Beetz Also showing Sunday, October 21 at 4:30PM “If you commit one mistake, it could trigger war.” One might assume that quote is attributable to a government official or a high-ranking […]
América Directed by Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside USA | 2018 | Documentary | 76 min | Spanish w/English subtitles Film Source: Dogwoof Sponsor: Andrea Rogers Also showing Saturday, October 27 at 2:15PM Filmed in Colima, Mexico, this warm and charming documentary evokes both laughter and tears in its story of three mismatched brothers whose […]
Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Jeune femme) Directed by Léonor Serraille France | 2018 | Fiction | 97 min | French w/English subtitles Film Source: Be For Films Awards / premier festivals: Cannes – Un Certain Regard prize Co-Sponsors: A Single Pebble and Alliance française of the Lake Champlain Region Also showing Wednesday, October 24 at […]