Reception
October 24, 2018
Join us at today’s daily reception. Catering by Let’s Pretend, and Zero Gravity cash bar. Reception sponsors: PCC
Hope on the Hudson Trilogy
October 24, 2018
Hope on the Hudson Trilogy Directed by Jon Bowermaster USA | 2017 | Documentary | 65 min Film Source: Filmmaker Sponsor: ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain In partnership with Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital *Screening will be preceded by a reception for ticket holders at 5:30PM at ECHO, and followed by Q&A with […]
Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Jeune femme)
October 24, 2018
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 Co-Sponsors: A Single Pebble and Alliance française of the Lake Champlain Region * Followed by discussion with Champlain College film viewing […]
Support the Girls
October 24, 2018
Support the Girls Directed by Andrew Bujalski USA | 2018 | Fiction | 90 min Film Source: Magnolia Sponsor: Bridget Downey Meyer Also showing Monday, October 22 at 4:30PM 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 […]
Lunchtime Shorts 10/25
October 25, 2018
Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour MAUDE Directed by Anna Margaret Hollyman Fiction | USA | 10 min Teeny thought it was just another routine babysitting job – until she’s shocked to meet the client. As the day goes on, Teeny decides to become the woman she had no idea she always wanted to be. […]
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
October 25, 2018
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts Directed by Mouly Surya Indonesia | 2018 | Fiction | 93 min | Indonesian w/English subtitles Film Source: Kimstim Awards / premier festivals: Indonesia’s official submission to the 2019 Academy Awards Sponsor: A Single Pebble Also showing Friday, October 26 at 7:15PM Ravishing landscapes, a powerful soundtrack and beautiful cinematography […]
1945
October 25, 2018
1945 Directed by Ferenc Török Hungary | 2017 | Fiction | 91 min | Hungarian w/English subtitles Film Source: Menemsha Sponsor: Barbara McGrew Also showing Saturday, October 27 at 7:00PM In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a village in Hungary grapples with its collective conscience when two Orthodox Jewish men arrive on the […]
Crime + Punishment
October 25, 2018
Crime + Punishment Directed by Steven Maing USA | 2018 | Documentary | 112 min Film Source: The Film Collaborative Awards / premier festivals: Sundance – Special Jury Prize for Social Impact Sponsor: ACLU of Vermont *Followed by Q&A with James Duff Lyall, Executive Director of the ACLU of Vermont* Winner of the Special Jury […]
The Third Murder
October 25, 2018
The Third Murder Directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda Japan | 2017 | Fiction | 125 min | Japanese w/English subtitles Film Source: Film Movement Also showing Sunday, October 28 at 4:00PM A courtroom drama of rare philosophical inquiry, The Third Murder stars Masaharu Fukuyama (Like Father, Like Son) as an elite attorney tasked with defending a […]
Reception
October 25, 2018
Join us at today’s daily reception. Catering by Skinny Pancake, and Zero Gravity cash bar. Reception sponsors:
Anote’s Ark
October 25, 2018
Anote’s Ark Directed by Matthieu Rytz Canada/Quebec | 2018 | Documentary | 77 min Film Source: Eyesteel Films Awards / premier festivals: Sundance Sponsor: Seventh Generation In partnership with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital *Producer/Editor Mila Aung-Thwin will be in attendance* The Pacific Islands nation of […]
The Other Side of Everything (Druga strana svega)
October 25, 2018
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 Also showing Wednesday, October 24 at 2:15PM A Belgrade apartment divided in two with a locked door that […]
I Am Not a Witch
October 25, 2018
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 Saturday, October 20 at 2:15PM This marvelous magic-realist feminist film is both an […]
Lunchtime Shorts 10/26
October 26, 2018
Nature and Communication THE ROCK Directed by Hamid Jafari – 25 min | New Orleans FF (best Short Doc); Visons Du Reel (Best Short Doc) Swathed from head to toe in black, a woman is breaking stones out of a rock wall using a crowbar and her bare hands. The stony, reddish moonlike landscape of […]
Bird of Prey
October 26, 2018
Bird of Prey Directed by Eric Liner USA | 2017 | Documentary | 95 min Film Source: Filmmaker Sponsors: Sandy and Muffie Milens Also showing Sunday, October 28 at 12:15PM The Philippine Eagle is a bird of extremes. It’s the world’s largest and rarest eagle, found only in the Philippines. Fewer than 700 remain today, […]
3 Faces
October 26, 2018
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 Sunday, October 21 at 7:00PM Eight years after receiving a two-decade filmmaking ban by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi, a […]
The New Fire
October 26, 2018
The New Fire Directed by David Schumacher USA | 2017 | Documentary | 85 min Film Source: Filmmaker In partnership with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital *Followed by Q&A with Director Schumacher Nuclear power has been vilified in popular culture and much of the environmental community. Yet some believe that the […]
Home + Away
October 26, 2018
Home + Away Directed by Matthew Ogens USA | 2018 | Documentary | 83 min | Spanish/English w/English subtitles Film Source: Cinetic Media Awards / premier festivals: Tribeca Sponsors: Frank and Ducky Donath Also showing Saturday, October 27 at 4:15PM The complexities of U.S.-Mexico border relations are distilled into the daily routines of high school […]
Reception
October 26, 2018
Join us at today’s daily reception. Catering by Penny Cluse, and Zero Gravity cash bar. Reception sponsors:
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
October 26, 2018
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts Directed by Mouly Surya Indonesia | 2018 | Fiction | 93 min | Indonesian w/English subtitles Film Source: Kimstim Awards / premier festivals: Indonesia’s official submission to the 2019 Academy Awards Sponsor: A Single Pebble Also showing Thursday, October 25 at 1:45PM Ravishing landscapes, a powerful soundtrack and beautiful cinematography […]