Documentary | 104 mins From 1968 to 1973, the late night PBS variety show SOUL!, guided by its cerebral producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered and uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics—presenting remarkable individuals whose voices had few other options for national exposure, and, as a result, found the program […]
Ukraine’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards – Best International Feature Film Winner of Grand Prize at Venice’s Orrizonti “Filmed almost entirely of long takes and still camera work, this hypnotic drama follows soldiers and scientists through a hellish near future in post war Ukraine. Not a casual watch, the lengthy sequences that make […]
This film is geo-blocked and only available to viewers in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film: Czech Republic’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards Sponsored by Arnie Malina, VTIFF Board In this richly drawn portrait, celebrated Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa, Spoor) manifests the riveting life and work […]
This film is geo-blocked and only available to viewers in Vermont Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film: Norway’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards Hope is a private and fragile story evolving across seven days: a life-threatening event reveals the feelings of a couple who were previously in denial, forcing them to face their […]
Switzerland’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards – Best International Feature Film With Nina Hoss NY Time’s Critic’s Pick Lisa, once a brilliant playwright, no longer writes. She lives with her family in Switzerland, but her heart remains in Berlin, beating in time with that of her twin brother Sven, the famous theater actor. […]
Venezuela’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards – Best International Feature Film When filmmaker Anabel Rodríguez Ríos visits a remote floating village in Venezuela to see its eternal lightning storms, she discovers another ongoing and alarming situation taking place… Congo Mirador was once a magical, thriving fishing community, built on stilts near Latin American’s […]
This film is geo-blocked and only available to viewers in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine Saudi Arabia’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards – Best International Feature Film A visually stunning feminist parable set in a dystopian landscape. SCALES is a timeless magical realist fable with a contemporary feminist message. Drawing on Arabic poetry […]
This film is geo-blocked and available only to viewers in USA Sudan’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards – Best International Feature Film Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival A visually sumptuous “coming-of-death” fable. During her son’s naming ceremony, a Sheikh predicts that […]
Portugal’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards – Best International Feature Film Sponsored by Andrea Rogers Vitalina Varela, a 55-year-old woman from Cape Verde, arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband’s funeral. She’s been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years. A film of deeply concentrated beauty, Vitalina Varela stars […]
Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film: Denmark’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards “A breath of fresh air for anyone who has been starving for intelligent entertainment.” ~ Leonard Maltin With Mads Mikkelsen Four friends, all teachers at various stages of middle age, are stuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at […]
Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film: France’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards With Barbara Sukowa and Nina Chevallier. “An entirely unique and uniquely vital lesbian love story. The tale of two older women whose decades-long secret relationship is threatened after tragedy strikes covers emotional and thematic ground that transcends the sexual preferences of […]
Series Pass available HERE We apologize to Fire TV app users – the app is temporarily down, we hope to have it fixed very soon. Roku and Apple TV are working fine. Closed captions available when viewing online, but not yet through your VTIFF apps Co-Sponsors: ACLU of Vermont and the Reporting & […]
Series Pass available HERE We apologize to Fire TV app users – the app is temporarily down, we hope to have it fixed very soon. Roku and Apple TV are working fine. A program of three short films Illusions | Julie Dash | 1982 | 34 mins “Now I am an illusion, just like the […]
Series Pass available HERE We apologize to Fire TV app users – the app is temporarily down, we hope to have it fixed very soon. Roku and Apple TV are working fine. Closed captions available when viewing online, but not yet through your VTIFF apps Farewell Amor is an intimate and deeply personal look […]
Series Pass available HERE We apologize to Fire TV app users – the app is temporarily down, we hope to have it fixed very soon. Roku and Apple TV are working fine. Sponsored by Kevin Meehan, VTIFF Board One of the first American features directed by a Black woman, Kathleen Collins’s 1982 film wasn’t […]
Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film: France’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards With Barbara Sukowa and Nina Chevallier. “An entirely unique and uniquely vital lesbian love story. The tale of two older women whose decades-long secret relationship is threatened after tragedy strikes covers emotional and thematic ground that transcends the sexual preferences of […]
We apologize but there are no Closed Captions available for this title Subtitles are available when viewing online, but not yet through your VTIFF apps. Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. Among them are the Binghams, a dynasty of Kentucky pastors, and their Evangelical congregants in an impoverished coalmining […]
Venezuela’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards – Best International Feature Film When filmmaker Anabel Rodríguez Ríos visits a remote floating village in Venezuela to see its eternal lightning storms, she discovers another ongoing and alarming situation taking place… Congo Mirador was once a magical, thriving fishing community, built on stilts near Latin American’s […]
Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film: Denmark’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards “A breath of fresh air for anyone who has been starving for intelligent entertainment.” ~ Leonard Maltin With Mads Mikkelsen Four friends, all teachers at various stages of middle age, are stuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at […]
Portugal’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards – Best International Feature Film Sponsored by Andrea Rogers Vitalina Varela, a 55-year-old woman from Cape Verde, arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband’s funeral. She’s been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years. A film of deeply concentrated beauty, Vitalina Varela stars […]