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 […]
You may buy an individual ticket or a Series Pass HERE Sponsored by VTIFF Board members Ryan Chartier and Lorna-Kay Peal Special Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival The film tells the story of an 80-year-old woman, Mantoa (Mary Twala Mlongo), who discovers on Christmas Day that her […]
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 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
PLEASE NOTE: At the distributor’s request, this film will be limited to Vermont and New Hampshire-based audiences only. Experience the incredible true story of Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, Freddy and Walter, two young Slovak Jews who were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942, in the remarkable and stunning drama, The Auschwitz Report. On […]
Kyle and Mike are best friends who share a close bond – until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée and then tells him about it amidst a rigorous bicycle ride in the French Alps. The Climb is about a tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laughter, heartbreak and rage. It is also the […]
Some Kind of Heaven, directed by Lance Oppenheim, goes behind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland to follow four residents of America’s largest retirement community, The Villages in central Florida, as they strive to find solace and meaning March Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes […]
Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was critical of his beloved Saudi Arabia and of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s repressive policies. On October 2, 2018, Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, simply seeking marriage-related documents, and never came out. The world subsequently learned that he had been brutally murdered that very same day. […]
Back by popular demand 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. “Fascinating and timely look at the curious (and some might say insidious) ties binding American evangelical Christians to Israeli politics, and the corrosive impact […]
Back by popular demand Nominated 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 […]
Closed Captions available for this film through your device A young adopted woman tracks down her birth mother only to be confronted by revelations that draw her into the dark world of her father. This is a film about digging up the past in more ways than one. “The tale taps into primal urges—for […]
After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora — and his own place within it — Ephraim Asili makes his feature-length debut with The Inheritance, an astonishing ensemble work set almost entirely within a West Philadelphia house where a community of young, Black artists and activists form a collective. A scripted drama […]
“It would be nice if there were more movies like this, but few have the talent to make them this well — to take a human-scale story and make it feel, not bigger than life, but as grand scale as life actually is.” ~ Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle Inspired by true experiences of […]
A Shape of Things to Come is a provocative portrait of a loner named Sundog who lives on the border in the Sonoran desert. The film creates a world that stretches from the distant past, to the ecological movements of the 1960’s, to a possible apocalyptic future. Sundog has a zen/rock n roll sensibility —everything […]
Official Entry, 93rd Academy Awards® Best International Feature Film – Ivory Coast A young man is sent to “La Maca”, a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new “Roman” and […]
Buy a ticket for this film. Series Pass available HERE Ten-year-old Asalif and his mother have been displaced from their Ethiopian farmland by the construction of a condominium. Now living on the divide between a new and ancient world, they are reminded that their country’s big dream of “progress” is not for them. Land […]
Buy a ticket for this film or purchase a pass for the whole Split/Screen series HERE ***Closed captions available when viewing online, but not yet through your VTIFF apps Filmed over five years by director Robbie Leppzer, Power Struggle portrays the heated political battle to shut down the problem-plagued Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on […]