Note: This film was made in 2019. It probably would not be possible today, or tomorrow, especially with a female lead singer. *** The distributor has asked us to geo-block the film to Vermont viewers only. Synopsis: During the day, they are laborers and do what most Afghan refugees do in Iran, which is carpentry […]
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters brings to life the creative process that culminated in choreographer-dancer-director Bill T. Jones’s tour de force ballet D-Man in the Waters, one of the most important works of art to come out of the AIDS crisis. In 1989, D-Man in the Waters gave […]
In partnership with With support from “An electrifying study of musical heroines […] an enchanting and superb documentary” ~ The Guardian The remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. Narrated by Laurie Anderson, the […]
In partnership with With support from *** Sneak Preview! *** How They Got Over tells the story of how Black gospel quartet music became a primary source of what would be known as rock and roll, and in the process helped to break down racial walls in mid-twentieth century America. Beginning in the 1920s, […]
In 2021 the festival is both in-person and virtual, October 8-17. The program is now live and passes and tickets on sale for members and Festival Pass holders. Buy your Pass HERE Individual tickets on sale to General Public ticket purchasers 9/29. Proof of vaccination required. The print version of the full program guide will […]
Also showing: Thu, Oct 14 | 4:15 pm | FH Not available on Virtual Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. This debut film from writer-director-editor Alex Camilleri takes its title from the small wooden boats used by […]
Tickets are now on sale for this Opening Night Screening. Exception: Festival Passes do not include Opening Night Screening Also showing: Sun, Oct 10 | 10:00 am- 11:59 pm | Virtual | Geoblocked to VT *Opening Night Film* *** Filmmaker in attendance (Opening Night only) Screening followed by Opening Night party in the Atrium Sweet […]
Also showing: Fri, Oct 15 | 1:00 pm | BB Not available on Virtual Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. Winner of People’s Choice – Best Documentary at TIFF 2021. The Rescue chronicles the dramatic 2018 rescue […]
Also showing: Mon, Oct 11 | 10:00 am – 11:59 pm | Virtual | Geoblocked to VT *This is one of three films selected by the Film and Media Culture Department at Middlebury College in partnership with VTIFF to screen in the Hirschfield International Film Series. Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers […]
Also showing: Sun, Oct 10 | 7:00 pm | FH Not available on Virtual Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. Winner, Best Documentary, Tribeca FF A riveting observational documentary, at times amusing and always enlightening, Ascension is […]
Also showing: Mon, Oct 11 | 10:00 AM – 11:59 PM | Virtual *Followed by Q&A with Seyran Ates and the director – in person screening only Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. The exemplary humanitarian […]
Also showing: Fri, Oct 15 | 4:30 pm | FH Not available on Virtual Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. Winner of Audience & Special Jury awards at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Reporting from a social […]
Also showing: Mon, Oct 11 | 10:00 am – 11:59 pm | Virtual Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. Laughter, Martin Laroche’s slightly surreal and at times very funny film, is fourth in a line of features […]
Also showing: Sun, Oct 17 | 2:45 pm | FH Tue, Oct 19 | 10:00 am – 11:59 pm | Virtual | Geoblocked to VT Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. Cristi is a member of the Bucharest […]
Not available on Virtual Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. Mia Hansen-Løve’s films don’t flinch from tackling big ideas. Whether it be the romance of architecture in Goodbye, First Love (2011) or the western canon of philosophical […]
Not available on Virtual Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. Undine begins at an ending. The titular character, played with ferocious vulnerability by Paula Beer, tells the man sitting across from her that if he leaves her, […]
Also showing: Wed, Oct 13 | 7:00 pm | FH Fri, Oct 15, | 10:00 am – 11:59 pm | Virtual | Geoblocked to Vt Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. This Danish crime drama comes from […]
Also showing: Mon, Oct 11 | 10:00 am – 11:59 pm | Virtual Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. “The streets of N.Y. might be temporarily silent, but in downtown Manhattan in the early 90’s, they were […]
Tickets will go on sale Monday, October 4th at 10 am for Opening Night Screening Tickets to all other screenings are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. Virtual | Geoblocked to VT Also showing: Fri, Oct 8 | 7:00 […]
Not available on Virtual Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29. Andrea Arnold’s fiercely independent filmmaking has taken her from arthouse darling, with low-budget critical successes such as Fish Tank (2009) and American Honey (2016), to helming the […]