Silent Comedies for Kids Led by Neil Brand Host Venue: Main Street Landing This event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Why Sing, Why Dance? Festival Passes are available HERE. It is highly recommended to purchase a Pass although individual tickets are also available. If you purchase a Pass you need not book individual […]
Pyaasa Directed by Guru Dutt ⎮ Music by S. D. Burman India ⎮ 1957 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 146 mins ⎮ Hindi and Urdu w/English subtitles Host Venue: Main Street Landing This event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Why Sing, Why Dance? Festival Passes are available HERE. It is highly recommended to purchase a […]
West Side Story Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins | Music by Leonard Bernstein | Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim USA ⎮ 1961 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 153 mins Winner of 10 Academy awards including Best Picture Host Venue: Main Street Landing This event is part of Global Roots Film Festival: Why Sing, Why Dance? Festival […]
Princess Raccoon (Operetta tanuki goten) Directed by Seijun Suzuki | Music by Michiru Oshima Japan ⎮ 2005 ⎮ Fiction ⎮ 111 mins ⎮ Japanese w/English subtitles Host Venue: Main Street Landing *** Closing Night film Sponsored by: Disco Phantom will DJ at the 6pm reception preceding the screening. This event is part of Global Roots […]
Presented by VTIFF Venue Host: Main Street Landing Directed by Wolfgang Fischer Germany/Austria | 2019 | Fiction | 94 mins | English & German w/English subtitles Film Source: Film Movement A self-assured doctor (Susanne Wolff) goes on a solo yachting trip in the Atlantic and discovers the limits of her resourcefulness upon encountering a refugee-packed […]
Presented by VTIFF Directed by Franco Rosso UK | 1980 w/2019 restoration | Fiction | English & Jamaican patois w/English subtitles | 95 mins An incendiary portrait of racial tension and police brutality set in Brixton, London, the late Franco Rosso’s Babylon has never been released in the United States—until now. Rated X […]
Presented by VTIFF & Vermont PBS Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing Directed by Nancy Schwartzman USA | 2019 | Documentary | 80 mins This event is a collaboration with POV, PBS’ award-winning nonfiction series POV air date: 6/17 at 10 PM Introduction by Eric Ford, Director of Programs at VPBS, followed by post-screening […]
This screening replaces the Sunday 5/5 event in Winooski which due to unforeseen circumstances did not take place. Free with suggested donation of $5 at the door. Presented by VTIFF and Waking Windows Directed by Franco Rosso UK | 1980 w/2019 restoration | Fiction | English & Jamaican patois w/English subtitles | 95 […]
Directed by Sam Mayfield Host venue: Main Street Landing “Sam Mayfield’s Wisconsin Rising is up-close and personal…and political. This slice of life, a moment in movement history, captures the struggles of the American Middle Class confronting the corrupting power of money over democracy. Don’t miss it.” – Amy Goodman, Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now! Free […]
Presented by VTIFF Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing Directed by Matteo Garonne Italy/France | 2019 | Fiction | 102 mins | Italian w/English subtitles | Cannes Film Festival 2019 Film Source: Magnolia Pictures Synopsis: In a seaside village on the outskirts of an Italian city, where the only law seems to be survival of the […]
Presented by VTIFF & Vermont PBS Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing Directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher USA | 2019 | Documentary | 75 mins This event is a collaboration with POV, PBS’ award-winning nonfiction series POV air date: 6/24 at 10 PM Introduction by Eric Ford, Director of Programs at VPBS, […]
Presented by VTIFF and Mt. Philo Inn Watch the film in the same house that the film takes place and in which the commune lived! The event will include appetizers, wine (from Village Wine and Coffee) and beer (from Zero Gravity Brewery), with an opportunity to meet and greet the people involved with the films […]
Annual event to benefit the Vermont International Film Festival and to honor a VTIFF Community Champion. The 2019 honoree is Bess O’Brien. Bess O’Brien is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and theater producer with a knack for getting people to talk about uncomfortable subjects. She has been alternately called “Vermont’s truth teller”, “exemplary”, and someone who […]
Presented by VTIFF Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing Directed by Penny Lane USA | 2019 | Documentary| 94 mins | Sundance, Rotterdam, CPH:Docs Film Festivals 2019 Film Source: Magnolia Pictures Chronicling the extraordinary rise of one of the most colorful and controversial religious movements in American history, Hail Satan? is an inspiring and entertaining new […]
Directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont Documentary | Denmark/Ukraine | Ukrainian w/English subtitles | International version | 55 mins Presented by VTIFF & Vermont PBS Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing Introduced by Eric Ford, Director of Programming at VTPBS and followed by Q&A with Adrian Ivakhiv. Adrian is Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture at the […]
Presented by VTIFF Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing Directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra Colombia | 2018 | Fiction | 125 mins | Cannes, TIFF, Sundance Film Source: Passion Pictures From the Oscar-nominated team of Embrace of the Serpent (shown at VTIFF in 2016) and described by critics as the Colombian “Godfather”, but a […]
Directed by Shaena Mallett Presented by VTIFF & Vermont PBS Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing Introduced by Eric Ford, Director of Programming at VTPBS and followed by Q&A with Nicole Dehne, the Certification Director for Vermont Organic Farmers LLC (VOF). *** Sunday Best screenings are FREE with a suggested donation of $5, but […]
Presented by VTIFF Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing Directed by Norah Shapiro USA | 2018 | Documentary | 89 mins | Hot Docs, Tribeca and many more Film Source: The Film Sales Co. On November 8, 2016, a young, hijab-wearing mother-of-three named Ilhan Omar made history, becoming the first Somali Muslim woman to be elected […]
Presented by VTIFF & Vermont PBS Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing Director by Dan Habib | Produced by Academy Award Winning Actor Chris Cooper 70 mins | Documentary Followed by Q&A moderated by Eric Ford, Director of Programming at VT PBS, with Habib, Cooper and Marianne Leone Stars three pioneering young American adults […]
Members and friends special preview party Showing trailers of films from the festival line-up. Hors d’oevres and cash bar. The event is free but it is essential to RSVP as seating is limited. Please RSVP to HERE by Sept. 6