Presented by VTIFF & Vermont PBS Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing Directed by Sergio Rapu and Elena Rapu 60 mins | Documentary Followed by Q&A Megan Epler Wood, founder of eplerwoodinternational.com and consultant on sustainable tourism, preserving invaluable social and environmental capital for the well being of local people worldwide; moderated by Eric Ford, Director of Programming […]
Directed by Brett Story Canada | 2019 | 94 mins | Source: Grasshopper Films TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE MAY 12 A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, The Hottest August gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The film’s point of departure is one city over one month: New […]
Directed by Li Cheng, Produced by George Roberson Guatemala | 2019 | 85 mins | Spanish w/English subtitles Winner Queer Lion from the 75th Annual Venice Film Festival and many others Source: Outsider Pictures José is a story about one working class young man’s struggle to find himself. Made in the neorealist filmmaking tradition, the film is […]
Written and Directed by Josephine Mackerras Australia/France | 2020 | 103 mins | French w/English subtitles Winner Grand Jury Prize Narrative Feature at SXSW Source: Monument Releasing After discovering that her husband’s addiction to escorts has left their family penniless, Alice finds herself drawn into the world of high-end prostitution as a means of caring […]
Directed by Alana DeJoseph USA | 2019 | 107 mins | Documentary Narrated by Annette Bening Film Source: Grasshopper Film The remarkable story of the Peace Corps and what it means to be a global citizen. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave young Americans the opportunity to serve their country in a new way […]
Directed by Benjamin Ree USA | 2020 | 102 mins | Film Source: Neon * With our unique link, your virtual ticket to the film is just $3.99, and proceeds from each – the film will be available for 14 days. * You may also select to watch the film on Opening Night (May […]
Directed by Dan Sallitt USA | 2019 | 94 mins Film Source: Grasshopper Film A fine-grained portrait of friendship, and a spiky female one at that. A thoughtful, incisive film that articulates the feeling of an intense companionship fading imperceptibly in a series of scenes over the course of a decade. Fourteen is the elliptical […]
Directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña Chile | 2018 | 72 mins Source: Kim Stim Produced painstakingly over the course of several years, and filmed piecemeal within art galleries across several countries, in full view of the gallery-going public, The Wolf House masquerades as an animated fairy tale produced by the leader of the […]
Directed, edited and produced by Angela Pinaglia USA | 2020 | Documentary Presented by the Film Festival Alliance for Film Festival Day #2 Awards: Best of Fest, the Audience Award, at the DC Independent Film Festival. In the world of synchronized ice skating, Pinaglia’s Life in Synchro follows a skating season alongside the stars of […]
Directed by Hong Sang-soo South Korea | 2016 | 86 mins | Korean w/English subtitles Source: Cinemaguild First in our retrospective series of South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo. Read intro to Hong Sang-soo below trailer. Ticket link coming soon. “For those who haven’t yet been introduced to this singularly idiosyncratic Korean auteur, Yourself and Yours […]
Abel Ferrara’s first dramatic feature since 2014’s Pasolini reteams the filmmaker and his frequent lead Willem Dafoe, who plays the title character, an older American expat living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter. Disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent, unexpected blows to his self-esteem, Tommaso wades through this late chapter of […]
Ticket link coming very soon. Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg play horror author Shirley Jackson and her professor husband in Josephine Decker’s biographical portrait. The place is Bennington, VT; the time is the early 1960s; and the subject, as so often happens, is infidelity. The spiders at the center of it all are a real-life […]
Directed by Josephine Decker USA | 2020 | 107 mins | Film Source: Neon Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg play horror author Shirley Jackson and her professor husband in Josephine Decker’s biographical portrait. The place is Bennington, VT; the time is the early 1960s; and the subject, as so often happens, is infidelity. The spiders […]
Directed by Hong Sangsoo South Korea | 2014 | 67 mins | English (mostly) and Korean w/English subtitles Source: Grasshopper Films Second in our retrospective series of South Korean filmmaker Hong. Read intro to series below trailer. Ticket link coming soon. Shot in the narrow alleys, petite cafes and beautiful hanok inns of Seoul’s historic Jong-ro […]
Directed by Daniel Karslake USA | 2019 | 91 mins Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Audience Awards at Atlanta, Seattle, Ft. Lauderdale, Rochester, Phoenix & Warsaw Film Festivals. Film Source: First Run Features This screening is scheduled to coincide with Pride Month Ticket link coming soon From the director of the acclaimed For the Bible […]
Directed by Boaz Yaqin USA | 2019 | 72 mins Source: Outsider Pictures Aviva is an impressionistic take on a movie romance, set in a New York world of gender-fluid and frequently fully unclothed bodies, choreographed by former member of the Israeli dance company Batsheva Dance Company. Featuring a pair of principal characters played by four […]
Directed by Hong Sang-soo South Korea | 2006 | 127 mins | Korean w/English subtitles Source: Grasshopper Films A new 4K restoration completed by the Korean Film Archive from the original 35mm negative. Third in our retrospective series of South Korean filmmaker Hong. Read intro to series below trailer. Ticket link coming soon. Filmmaker Joong-rae, […]
Directed by Leslie Woodhead UK | 2020 | 72 mins Source: MTuckmanMedia Ticket links coming soon Ella Fitzgerald ‘Just One of Those Things’ follows Ella’s extraordinary journey over six decades as her sublime voice transforms the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy. The film uses “never-before-seen images” and […]
Directed by Shola Amoo 2019 | UK, | English | 98 mins Winner – British Independent Film Awards 2019 Film Source: ArtMattan The semi-autobiographical story Femi, a British boy of Nigerian descent who, after a happy childhood in rural Lincolnshire with his white fostermother, moves to inner London to live with his Nigerian mum. Struggling […]
Directed by Bruno Barreto Brazil | Fiction | 1976 | New restoration | Portuguese w/ English subtitles Film Source: Film Movement Based on the novel by Jorge Amado, this Brazilian comedy follows the strange events that befall Doña Flor (Sonia Braga) after she is left a widow by the death of her wild, irresponsible husband. […]