Also screening virtually May 6th – 8th on VTIFF’s Virtual Cinema Winner: Best Film – BFI London Film Festival “Critic’s Pick! From the first jokey moments of Hit the Road until its heartbreaking end you will not want to be anywhere else.” – The New York Times Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled Iranian […]
Filmmaker Jay Craven will attend the screening and Q&A. Jack London’s Martin Eden is based on the celebrated writer’s autobiographical novel. Set in 1909, it tells the story of a poor and unschooled sailor who unexpectedly meets Ruth Morse, a magnetic young woman of means and education. Their unconventional attraction upends both lives and propels […]
Also screening in-theater, Thursday, May 6 at 4pm Winner: Best Film – BFI London Film Festival “Critic’s Pick! From the first jokey moments of Hit the Road until its heartbreaking end you will not want to be anywhere else.” – The New York Times Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled Iranian master Jafar Panahi, […]
Filmmaker Jay Craven will attend the Q&A of the in-theater screening, Thursday, May 5, at 7pm. Jack London’s Martin Eden is based on the celebrated writer’s autobiographical novel. Set in 1909, it tells the story of a poor and unschooled sailor who unexpectedly meets Ruth Morse, a magnetic young woman of means and education. Their […]
“The mastery of tone and style explains why Loznitsa won the best director’s prize for Donbass in the Cannes Festival’s Un Certain Regard section… Powerful and immediate, and made with such a lucid artistic vision.” ~ BBC “Unnerving in a way that’s hard to put into words… The images of what was happening then provide […]
Note: this film is only offered in-person. Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Co-directed with the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, […]
Annual event to benefit the Vermont International Film Festival and to honor a VTIFF Community Champion whose work supports the community through film. The 2022 honoree is Vermont filmmaker Nora Jacobson. Nora Jacobson is a film director, film producer, screenwriter, and a film editor. She has a particular interest in films about place, ethnicity, gender […]
Note: this film is only offered in-person. This film is suitable for the whole family. Adults with no children – we guarantee you will enjoy this as well. We’re also thrilled that Nick Paley, who co-wrote and produced the film, and is a Vermont native – will zoom in at the end of the screening […]
Note: this film is only offered in-person. The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. Cane Fire critically examines […]
Note: this film is only offered in-person. Winner of seven César Awards, including Best Film! Xavier Giannoli’s headlong modern and cinematic adaptation of a Balzac novel paints a timely picture of literary ambition and media corruption in 19th-century France, a ravishing vision of the birth of modern media. In some ways it is a very […]
Note: this film is only offered in-person. Multi-award winning film – Sundance, SXSW, NY Times Critic’s Pick “The subjects of Sara Dosa’s new documentary “Fire of Love” are Maurice and Katia Krafft, married French scientists who devoted their lives to the study of volcanoes. Really, though, it might be more accurate to describe the couple, […]
Join us in City Hall Park to enjoy a selection of MHFF22 favorite short films. Some of the filmmakers will be there too, to talk with you about their work. The Made Here Film Festival is a partnership with Vermont Public and is sponsored in part by Maine Public. The next MHFF will take place […]
Come join us at the Art Hop to get a sneak peek of this year’s festival line up. Watch film trailers, grab a snack and meet the festival programmers and staff. New to VTIFF? Come to the party, sign up, and get a complimentary ticket to the festival!\ Thank you to our host sponsor Class […]
Enjoy an evening full of illuminating and convention-breaking films, preceded by a selection of trailers from the 2022 Vermont International Film Festival! Featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, anarchic slapstick mayhem, and evocative gender play. The women included are indeed very “nasty”—they organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of the […]
***Opening Night Film*** Exception: Festival Passes/10 Packs do not include Opening Night Screening. You may purchase individual tickets for the film, or an individual combo for film + reception. Acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, whom most audiences know from his 2018 Palme d’Or-winning film Shoplifters, understands that circumstances sometimes have more to do with creating […]
A 91 minute program of 6 films directed by Indigenous filmmakers, featuring titles from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival shorts program and from alumni of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program. The Headhunter’s Daughter Director and Screenwriter: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan – Ífugão, Visayan | Philippines | Leaving her family behind, Lynn traverses the harrowing roads of […]
Also showing Oct 28 Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu’s first feature since Graduation (screened at VTIFF 2017) is set in a Transylvanian village during the 2019 holiday season. At the center of the drama are short-fused laborer Matthias and his erstwhile lover Csilla, a bakery manager whose hiring of Sri Lankan immigrants exposes deep-seated nativism among […]
Also playing Oct 26 *Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic competition at Sundance and Bolivia’s Official Submission to the 2023 Academy Awards* Home is where the water is. In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple (played by actual couple José Calcina and Luisa Quispe–authentic, nonprofessional actors whom Loayza Grisi had to convince […]
After a life-changing epiphany, the CEO of a global public company embarks on a high- stakes quest to eliminate all negative environmental impacts by 2020. To succeed, the company must overcome deep skepticism, abandon the status quo. and ignite a new industrial revolution. Beyond Zero chronicles the story of visionary leader Ray Anderson and his […]
Also showing Oct 26 In Il Buco (“The Hole”), director Michelangelo Frammartino re-stages the 1961 discovery of the Bifurto Abyss, one of the deepest caves in the world, located in Italy’s Calabrian plateau. Luxuriating in the sights and sounds of the unspoiled Italian countryside, Frammartino transports the viewer to another time and place with an […]