Directed by Bert Stern USA | 1959/2020 | 85 mins | Film Source: Kino Lorber In partnership with: Free and open to the public. Bring your chair or blanket, grab delicious food from A Single Pebble food truck followed by Lake Champlain Chocolates special ice cream, and settle down to enjoy the […]
Directed by Robert Kramer USA | 2020 | 255 mins- shown in two parts | Source: Icarus Films We recommend watching the film and then watching the Q&A with Paul McIsaac (Doc) and John Douglas – watch it HERE Named for the old interstate that runs along the East Coast, Route One is an oblique, […]
The Hole – aka The Last Dance Awards: Fipresci Prize “for its daring combination of realism and apocalyptic vision, desperation and joy, austerity and glamour.” Gold Hugo Award for Best Feature at the 1998 Chicago International Film Festival Set just before the turn of the new millennium, a strange disease hits Taiwan that causes people […]
Moroni Benally is running for the presidency of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American nation in the US. Young, gay, Mormon, and highly educated, he sets out to confront the political establishment in a homecoming that challenges what he imagined home, and himself, to be. Simultaneously a behind-the-scenes look into a political campaign within […]
A sly, sultry character study from filmmaker Justine Triet, Sibyl follows a psychotherapist (Virginie Efira) who decides to quit her practice and return to writing instead. As Sibyl starts dropping patients, she begins to struggle with excess time and a lack of inspiration–until she gets a call from Margot (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a young actress wrapped […]
Grand Jury Prize Winner Documentary World Cinema – Sundance Film Festival 2020 Epicentro is an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, “utopian” Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time and place, […]
A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding […]
Anat (Naama Preis, winner of the Jerusalem Film Festival award for Best Actress) has never been able to reach her father’s exacting musical standards, and now her family’s hope of producing a musical prodigy rests on her unborn son. When the baby is born deaf, she cannot accept it and resorts to extreme measures to […]
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, which was co-founded by Justice Ginsburg in 1972. Ticket price will also include include an interview with Betsy West and Julie Cohen, the film’s directors. At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy […]
New 4K Restoration by IndieCollect! A lost-and-found revelation from indie film and TV maverick Jan Oxenberg is a docu-fantasy narrative focused on the filmmaker’s hilarious, messy, Jewish family as they prepare to say goodbye to someone they love. Narrated by a cardboard cutout of Oxenberg’s scowling child self, Thank You and Good Night takes us […]
“A human triumph. Sublime, soulful art. Jia is among the most strikingly gifted filmmakers working today.” ~ Manohla Dargis, The New York Times In Still Life, great changes have come to the town of Fengjie due to the construction of the Three Gorges hydro project: Countless families that had lived there for many generations have […]
Can be viewed streaming on PC, Smart TV, Apple TV, Roku, Smart Devices and through “Casting” to a TV plug-in, but please note that this film will not be streaming from the VTIFF site, so do not try to use the VTIFF apps. Aggie explores the nexus of art, race, and justice through the story […]
Directed by Pietro Marcello Italy | 2019 | 129 mins | Fiction Film Source: Kino Marquee Please note: the distributor has asked us to limit viewing to anyone logging in from Vermont. Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate […]
A competitive showcase of short films made while sheltering in place in Vermont. A special screening of the selected films will take place as part of the events celebrating the renewed City Hall Park in downtown Burlington. Note: this event was postponed from October 16 to October 17 because of the rain.
Co-sponsored by Olivia Milens; Andrea Rogers The live stream Q&A for this film, in conjunction with The Front Page, will take place Sat, Oct 24 at 8pm. Available for Pass holders. Individual ticket purchasers will be able to view the recorded discussion the following day. Festival Passes are available now and may be purchased HERE. […]
Sponsored by Arnie Malina The Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation restored the film in 2016 . Restoration funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation. Elements for this restoration provided by The Howard Hughes Corporation, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas College of Fine Arts, Department of Film and its Howard Hughes Collection […]
The Vermont International Film Festival is VTIFF’s flagship event. It takes place during the last 10 days in October on Burlington, Vermont’s waterfront. The festival is curated by a programming committee and the Executive Director and does not accept submissions. The purpose of the festival is to present a wide panorama of international and national […]
Sponsored by Frank and Ducky Donath The live stream Q&A for this film, in conjunction with Park Row, took place Sun, Oct 25 at 8pm. Available for Pass holders. The recorded discussion can be viewed HERE Festival Passes are available now and may be purchased HERE. Individual ticket go on sale Friday, October 16 at […]
The live stream Q&A for this film, in conjunction with Park Row, took place Sun, Oct 25 at 8pm. Available for Pass holders. The recorded discussion can be viewed HERE Festival Passes are available now and may be purchased HERE. Individual ticket go on sale Friday, October 16 at 9am. Directed by Sam Fuller | […]
Panelists: Yung Chang, Jake Bernstein, Alissa Rubin Moderator: Fran Stoddard *** Only festival Pass holders can join the livestream discussion. Watch the recorded discussion below