Split/Screen is an eight-month curatorial collaboration between VTIFF and MNFF. Beginning November 2020 and ending June 2021 we are jointly presenting a monthly series of films, each lasting 10 days. Monthly pass $40, individual tickets at $12.50. Free for VTIFF All Access Members, 20% discount for Patron members. VTIFF months – December, February, April and […]
A special program for the holidays of inspiring short films for ages 8+! Presented in partnership with New York International Children’s Film Festival. This film can be viewed on the VTIFF online portal (watch.vtiff.org) or through the VTIFF apps on Apple TV 4K, Roku, and Amazon’s Fire TV Stick. You can also use Google Chromecast, […]
A special program for the holidays of inspiring short films for ages 5+! Presented in partnership with New York International Children’s Film Festival. This film can be viewed on the VTIFF online portal (watch.vtiff.org) or through the VTIFF apps on Apple TV 4K, Roku, and Amazon’s Fire TV Stick. You can also use Google Chromecast, […]
With Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. The film was shot on a Hollywood sound stage, the plot takes place in a mental asylum in the green mountains of Vermont. Spellbound was adapted by Hitchcock and Ben Hecht from the British novel by Francis Beeding, “The House of Dr. Edwardes”, in which the asylum was […]
With Fredric March and Carole Lombard Set in Warsaw, VT. An unscrupulous reporter takes advantage of a tragic story to sell papers and manipulate the world—sound familiar? This is a common tale, but it was seldom told with such comic, satirical flair as here. The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht (who had […]
With Martin Landau and Jane Alexander. Set in Charles, VT. One of the first films to focus on returning Vietnam veterans. Johnny Bristol (Landau) is a Vietnam veteran who, as a prisoner, kept his sanity by remembering his home town of Charles, Vermont. He recalls a happy town with picnics and band concerts […]
With Diane Keaton and Sam Shepard. Set in Peru, VT. Charles Shyer (Father of the Bride) creates a sophisticated and screwballish comedy in the best ‘30s tradition. American journalist, writer, and university professor Caryn James (Keaton) abandons a high-powered Manhattan career for the joys of life in Vermont with a baby and Sam […]
At 88 years-old, Audrey Flack holds a unique place in the history of contemporary art in America. Feminist, rebel, mother, painter, sculptor and teacher, Audrey’s often controversial 40-year career evolved from abstract expressionism in the 1950s to photorealism in the 1970s. One of the first women ever included in the famed Janson’s History of Art, […]
This new 4K digital restoration by the Cinemateca Portuguesa premiered at the 76th Venice Film Festival in 2019. A sinister, absorbing portrait of a mutually destructive love affair, Manoel de Oliveira’s Francisca is based on a novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís, whose work he’d later adapt twice more. The book’s re-telling of a troubled passage in […]
Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner – World Cinema The lights and cameras are all in position. The moderator takes a last quick look at his notes. The final seconds of the intro ad roll by, and then the show goes live. Tonight’s guest is Maryam, a young woman condemned to death for murdering her husband. […]
Critics Pick, New York Times. Romania’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards After an explosive fire claims the lives of 27 people at Bucharest nightclub, Colectiv, officials reassure the public that surviving victims will receive care in facilities that are “better than in Germany.” Weeks later, a rising causality count leads intrepid reporters at the […]
Winner – NEXT:WAVE Award – CPH:DOX Winner- Grand Jury Award – Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Winner – Honorable Mention – Philadelphia Film Festival Sponsored by the Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program Mayor is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. His immediate goals: repave […]
Sarmiento explores the tumultuous lives of Laura (Lou de Laâge), a peasant maid, and Sebastian (Vasco Varela da Silva), the young orphan in her charge, against a backdrop of overflowing passion and revolutionary intrigue in Europe at the twilight of the 18th century. An unlikely adventure yarn that strides the continent, from Rome and Venice […]
Sponsored by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi Madá (Regina Casé) is the fifty-something caretaker for a cluster of luxury beachside condos owned by a wealthy Rio de Janeiro family. Unfolding over the course of three consecutive summers — 2015 to 2017 — the film follows her as she invests in a roadside snack kiosk while tending to […]
Sponsored by Bridget Downey Meyer Director Alex Winter and his team have crafted a documentary from over a thousand hours from Zappa’s personal vault. Made with the approval and cooperation of the Zappa estate and narrated by Zappa’s own words, Zappa is an expansive and intimate portrait of an extraordinary and genuinely maverick musician/artist […]
For more than a half-century, Fred Wiseman has been telling the story of the United States, one film at a time, documenting institutions, their social structure and the people who are part of them or who use them. Wiseman’s film tiles are deceptively simple: Welfare, Central Park, Public Housing. The names suggest a universality, and […]
Sponsored by Lisa Schamberg and Pat Robins Modern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it mean when artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biased against? When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that most facial-recognition software does […]
Documentary | 119 mins Coup 53 presents the story of the 1953 Anglo-American coup in Iran that overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and reinstalled the Shah. While making this stirring documentary, Iranian director Taghi Amirani and renowned editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The English Patient) discover extraordinary, never before seen […]
Fiction | 82 mins An intense and utterly suspenseful adventure thriller, Breaking Surface tells the story of half-sisters Ida and Tuva who set out on a winter dive in a remote part of the Norwegian coastline a few days after Christmas. When a rockslide traps Tuva under water, Ida surfaces to call for help and […]
Fiction | 104 mins From acclaimed writer/director Miranda July comes Kajillionaire, a profoundly moving and wildly original comedy feature film. Con artists Theresa and Robert have spent 26 years training their only daughter, Old Dolio, to swindle, scam, and steal at every opportunity. During a desperate, hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining […]