Love & Bananas Directed by Ashley Bell USA | 2018 | Documentary | 77 min Film Source: Abramorama Sponsor: Jane Kramer In partnership with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital *Followed by Q&A with Director Bell According to the director, the film is suitable for, and of interest to, ages 11+ Also […]
Love & Bananas Directed by Ashley Bell USA | 2018 | Documentary | 77 min Film Source: Abramorama Sponsor: Jane Kramer In partnership with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital *Followed by Q&A with Director Bell According to the director, the film is suitable for, and of interest to, ages 11+ Also […]
The Biggest Little Farm Directed by John Chester USA | 2018 | Documentary | 91 min Film Source: Neon Awards / premier festivals: Telluride, TIFF * Spotlight on the Environment* The successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature […]
Zama Directed by Lucrecia Martel Argentina | 2017 | Fiction | 115 min | Spanish w/English subtitles Film Source: Strand Releasing Awards / premier festivals: Venice, Toronto, New York Visually and dramatically powerful, with an epic grandeur evocative of Werner Herzog and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, acclaimed Argentine director Lucretia Martel creates a surreal, […]
América Directed by Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside USA | 2018 | Documentary | 76 min | Spanish w/English subtitles Film Source: Dogwoof Sponsor: Andrea Rogers Also showing Monday, October 22 at 4:45PM Filmed in Colima, Mexico, this warm and charming documentary evokes both laughter and tears in its story of three mismatched brothers whose […]
The Atomic Cafe Directed by Pierce Rafferty, Kevin Rafferty, & Jayne Loader USA | 1982 | Documentary | 88 min Film Source: Kino Lorber Sponsor: John Douglas *Screening will be followed by Q&A with director Pierce Rafferty Hilarious and horrifying, often at the same time, this blackly comic documentary about the dawn of the Atomic […]
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 Friday, October 26 at 4:30PM The complexities of U.S.-Mexico border relations are distilled into the daily routines of high school […]
Join us at today’s daily reception. Catering by American Flatbread, and Zero Gravity cash bar. Reception sponsors:
1945 Directed by Ferenc Török Hungary | 2017 | Fiction | 91 min | Hungarian w/English subtitles Film Source: Menemsha Sponsor: Barbara McGrew Also showing Thursday, October 25 at 2:00PM 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 […]
Tehran Taboo Directed by Ali Soozandeh Germany/Austria | 2017 | Animation, Fiction | 96 min | Farsi w/English subtitles Film Source: Kino Lorber Sponsors: Bobbie Lanahan Also showing Wednesday, October 24 at 1:30PM In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal how sex, drugs […]
The Night Eats the World ( La nuit a dévoré le monde) Directed by Dominique Rocher France | 2018 | Fiction | 94 min | French w/English subtitles Film Source: Blue Fox Entertainment Sponsor: Alliance française of the Lake Champlain Region This French zombocalypse, does an excellent job of generating tension, suspense, pathos, terror […]
Scratchatopia Animation Workshop with Steve Woloshen Festival favorite and internationally renowned animator Woloshen returns to VTIFF with a special animation workshop for the whole family! Learn the secrets of painting directly on film, make your own short and see it directly on the screen! The goal of this exceptional workshop is to explore, play and […]
Scratchatopia Animation Workshop with Steve Woloshen Festival favorite and internationally renowned animator Woloshen returns to VTIFF with a special animation workshop for the whole family! Learn the secrets of painting directly on film, make your own short and see it directly on the screen! The goal of this exceptional workshop is to explore, play and […]
The Desert Bride (La Novia del Desierto) Directed by Cecuikua Atán & Valeria Pivato Chile | 2017 | Fiction | 78 min | Spanish w/English subtitles Film Source: Strand Releasing A tender and subtly funny road movie about a middle-aged woman and man. The main actress, Paulina Garcia (who won a Silver Bear in 2013 […]
Bird of Prey Directed by Eric Liner USA | 2017 | Documentary | 95 min Film Source: Filmmaker Sponsors: Sandy and Muffie Milens *Followed by Skype Q&A with Director Liner* Also showing Friday, October 26 at 2:00PM The Philippine Eagle is a bird of extremes. It’s the world’s largest and rarest eagle, found only in […]
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 21 at 7:15PM This documentary about María Irene Fornés, the groundbreaking playwright, director and teacher, is both a biography and […]
White Right: Meeting the Enemy Directed by Deeyah Khan UK/USA | 2017 | Documentary | 60 min Film Source: Women Make Movies Awards / Winner: 2018 International Current Affairs Emmy Awards Sponsor: Patricia Fontaine | Co-sponsor: Peace & Justice Center *Followed by Skype Q&A with Director Khan “I am the daughter of immigrants. I am […]
The Third Murder Directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda Japan | 2017 | Fiction | 125 min | Japanese w/English subtitles Film Source: Film Movement Also showing Thursday, October 25 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 […]
Dead Women Walking Directed by Hagar Ben-Asher USA | 2018 | Fiction | 100 min Film Source: Les Films de Séville Sponsor: Lorna-Kay Peal | Co-sponsor: Peace & Justice Center This is not a documentary and perhaps, therefore, it’s all the more powerful in its depiction of individual women on death row facing their final […]
Join us at today’s daily reception, preceding the Closing Night film. Hors d’oeuvres and Zero Gravity cash bar. Reception sponsors: