Support the Girls Directed by Andrew Bujalski USA | 2018 | Fiction | 90 min Film Source: Magnolia Sponsor: Bridget Downey Meyer Also showing Wednesday, October 24 at 7:15PM Support the Girls is a feminist comedy set in the unlikeliest of locales: a Hooters-like Texan bar whose marketing mantra is “boobs, brews and big […]
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Madeline’s Madeline Directed by Josephine Decker USA | 2018 | Fiction | 93 min Film Source: Oscilloscope Sponsor: Judy Gerber Also showing Saturday, October 20 at 12:15PM “You are not the cat — you are inside the cat.” So begins Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline, an ecstatically disorienting experience that defines its terms right from the start and then […]
Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages) Directed by Pascal Plante Canada/Québec | 2017 | Fiction | 85 min | French w/English subtitles Film Source: Les Films de Séville Awards / premier festivals: Best Canadian Film Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Berlinale Generation Sponsor: Alliance française of the Lake Champlain Region *Followed by Q&A with Director Plante* Also showing […]
Best Animation from National Film & TV School TRIPTYCH Directed by Katia Lom – 8 min A reflection on the nature of time and memory as a daughter empties her late father’s home of his belongings. FISHBOY Directed by Anita Bruvere – 9 min Fish Boy lives in darkness, […]
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 Saturday, October 20 at 4:15PM Kaouther Ben Hania (The Challat of Tunis, VTIFF […]
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 Saturday, October 20 at 7:15PM A masterly exercise in close-up suspense, set entirely in a police call center, The Guilty concerns […]
Searching for Ingmar Bergman Directed by Margarethe von Trotta Germany | 2018 | Documentary | 109 min Film Source: Oscilloscope Acclaimed filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta celebrates what would have been Ingmar Bergman’s 100th birthday this year with a documentary that provides insight into the Swedish master’s work and delves into his complex relationships with family […]
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 Sunday, October 21 at 2:00PM This is a directorial debut of longtime actor […]
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Directed by Abel Ferrara USA | 1981 | Fiction | Showtime: Tuesday, Oct 23 | 7:00 pm | 80 mins | FH Ms. 45 is American independent film icon Abel Ferrara’s 1981 revenge thriller classic. The movie follows a mute seamstress (played by the late musician, model, actress, author, producer, political activist and screenwriter Zoë […]
Makala Directed by Emmanuel Gras France | 2017 | Documentary | 96 min | Swahili/French w/English subtitles Film Source: Kino Lorber Awards / premier festivals: Critic’s Week Grand Prize at Cannes Sponsor: Alliance française of the Lake Champlain Region Who knew the process of making charcoal could be so fascinating? Makala documents the […]
Directed by Amy Holden Jones USA | 1982 | Fiction | 82 mins Showtime: 9 PM | FH Originally the writer, well-known feminist novelist Rita Mae Brown wanted the film to critique the rampant sexualization of women in early ‘80s slasher films. Although Roger Corman shelved Brown’s screenplay, New World editor-turned director Holden Jones rescued […]
All Filmmakers in attendance Art and Politics RESPONSE: A PORTRAIT OF FOUR ENVIRONMENTAL ARTISTS IN VERMONT Directed by Peter vanderWilden Documentary | 19 min A look into the lives of four Vermont artists who seek to engage with the environmental awareness of their viewers. In-depth interviews with Nancy Millikin, Cami Davis, Anne Cumming, and Brian […]
Tehran Taboo Directed by Ali Soozandeh Germany/Austria | 2017 | Animation, Fiction | 96 min | Farsi w/English subtitles Film Source: Kino Lorber Sponsor: Bobbie Lanahan Also showing Saturday, October 27 at 7:00PM In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal how sex, drugs […]
The Other Side of Everything (Druga strana svega) Directed by Mira Turajilic Serbia | 2018 | Documentary | 100 min | Serbian w/English subtitles Film Source: Icarus Awards / premier festivals: Grand Prize at IDFA Sponsor: Jane Pincus *Followed by Skype Q&A with the director Also showing Thursday, October 25 at 7:00PM A Belgrade apartment divided […]
Rodents of Unusual Size Directed by Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer, & Quinn Costello USA | 2017 | Documentary | 71 min Film Source: Tilapia Films Awards / premier festivals: Wild & Scenic Fest – Best in Fest The film is preceded by the short Yochi, by Ilana Lapid This documentary examines the effect nutria — an […]
Yochi Directed by Ilana Lapid USA/Belize | 2018 | Fiction | 24 min In partnership with Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital Playing with Rodents of Unusual Size A young boy, Yochi (Kerry Johan Landero), guards a nest of endangered yellow-headed parrots in Belize. When Yochi learns that his older brother (Evan Martinez) […]
Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages) Directed by Pascal Plante Canada/Québec | 2017 | Fiction | 85 min | French w/English subtitles Film Source: Les Films de Séville Awards / premier festivals: Best Canadian Film Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Berlinale Generation Sponsor: Alliance française of the Lake Champlain Region Also showing Monday, October 22 at 7:15 PM […]
Directed by Jonathan Miller USA | 2018 | Documentary | 78 min A Partnership with Vermont Comedy Club Three unlikely aspiring comedians risk everything to find their voices on the cutthroat New York stand-up scene. David Finklestein is an ultra-Orthodox Jew from a secluded Brooklyn sect. Although he risks expulsion from his community with every […]