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 […]
Closed Captions available through your device Sponsored by VTIFF member John Douglas This film is preceded by a new introduction by Jane Fonda! “The Show the Pentagon Couldn’t Stop!” In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland toured an anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia. It was […]
Back by popular demand Winner! Best International Feature Film – 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stray explores what it means to live as a being without status or security, following three stray dogs as they embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society. Zeytin, fiercely independent, embarks on adventures through the city at night; Nazar, nurturing and protective, easily befriends the humans around her; while Kartal, a shy puppy living on the […]
The Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today, the world over, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant controls weeds in farming, forestry, parks, playground. It wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing deformed births and deadly cancers. After decades of struggle and tragic personal losses, two heroic women are leading […]
Swan Song, a lovely drama based on the true story of its main character, introduces us to retired hairdresser and local iconic bar performer Pat Pitsenbarger, played wonderfully by Udo Kier, who has given up on life from the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home. But when Pat gets word that a former […]
Ted Ngoy’s story is one of fate, love, survival, hard knocks and redemption. It’s the rags to riches story of a refugee escaping Cambodia, arriving in America in 1975 and building an unlikely multi-million dollar empire baking America’s favorite pastry, the donut. Ted sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming refugees and helped them get on […]
Closed Captions available for this film through your device This film is sponsored by Frank and Ducky Donath Two Cuban-born brothers, both virtuoso musicians – Aldo and Ilmar López-Gavilán – live on opposite sides of the geopolitical chasm that separates the U.S. and Cuba. But although they lead very different existences, the brothers […]
Note: At the filmmakers’ request, this film is geo-blocked to viewing from Vermont only. *** Ticket to the film includes an exclusive Q&A with co-director Katherine Gorringe conducted by Alex Lavin, VTIFF programmer. In preparation for the first human mission to Mars, six volunteers take part in the ultimate dress rehearsal, living inside […]
Closed Captions available. Sponsored by The RODEOS Including: John Lithgow, Lily Tomlin, Leonard Nimoy, Richard Lewis, Matt Groening & more. Emily @ the Edge of Chaos interweaves Emily Levine’s live performance with animation, appearances by scientists, and animated characters (John Lithgow as Sir Isaac Newton, Lily Tomlin as Ayn Rand, Leonard Nimoy […]
Winner – Golden Bear at Berlin Int’l Film Festival; NY Times Critics Pick. Do not be put off by the length of the film – it is worth your time, and can also, because of its structure, be viewed over two sessions – 2 parts each session. Shot in secret and smuggled out of […]
Closed Captions available. June 24 – Q&A with the director and actors. Link to join: https://filmforum.org/events/event/virtual-qa-with-truman-tennessee-lisa-immordino-vreeland-and-jim-parsons The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland masterfully collages a wealth of archival material, […]
How far do you have to travel to find yourself? And what sacrifices are you willing to make to get there? Veiga Grétarsdóttir is the first person in the world to attempt to kayak over 2,000 kilometers around Iceland, counter-clockwise and “against the current.” This achievement has been said to be comparable to climbing the mountain […]
Winner, Best Narrative Feature at the Santa Fe Film Festival. Magalie is a popular blonde 13-year old in the small town of Sainte-Adeline, Québec, is keeping a shocking secret: she’s pregnant. But when she refuses to identify the real father, suspicions among the townsfolk come to a boiling point and the layers of a […]
Sponsored by Green Tara Space On a gray, foggy morning outside a large Polish city, a masseur from the East named Zhenia (Alec Utgoff, Stranger Things) enters the lives of the wealthy residents of a gated community. With his hypnotic presence and quasi-magical abilities, he is able to get a residence permit and starts […]
Platform explores the unique and extraordinary tale of three sisters rejecting the assumptions placed upon them to become masters of Wushu, a Chinese martial art. They are not free from the conservatism of their country – they are forced to cover themselves entirely, unlike their opponents – but they do not shy from these problems, […]
This film opens July 29th Closed captions available Though her life generated voluminous literature, most people ignore the fact that iconic deaf-blind author Helen Keller (1880–1968) was one of the most passionate socialist advocates of her time. Continuing his work of patient and insightful political filmmaking, director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind) […]
In partnership with Burlington City Arts and the Women’s International League for Peace and Justice – Burlington Chapter If you’ve seen – it’s worth watching again, if you’ve only heard of it – you’re in for a treat. Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of […]