Scrambled, pixelated images emerge like memories struggling to come into focus. The source is an old MiniDV camcorder brought along to document the joys of a sun-soaked father-daughter vacation between 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) and 30-year-old Callum (Paul Mescal). Sophie’s parents aren’t together, and she lives with her mother, so the novel excitement in her […]

VTIFF is proud to bring you another of Mohammad Rasoulof’s films. Manuscripts Don’t Burn, in 2014, and There is no Evil, in 2021, were both festival hits. Now in an Iranian jail, like his fellow filmmaker and compatriot Jaafar Panahi, Rasoulof has been making scathing social commentary films aimed at the Iranian regime for over […]

Also showing Oct 27 A superb exercise in everyday suspense, Full Time is based on the simple premise of a divorced mother trying to get to work on time while raising two kids and attempting to squeeze in the exhausting and dehumanizing ordeal of the corporate interview process. And though there’s not a mask in […]

Rodeo takes viewers inside the cacophonous, adrenaline-fueled world of France’s underground motocross scene. Hot-tempered Julia (Julie Ledrue) steals everything she has, including the high-end dirt bikes that gain her entry into the B-Mores, an exclusive gang of riders who specialize in full-throttle acrobatics. Julia’s welcome is fraught. She constantly has to prove herself to the […]

Also playing virtually all day Oct 26-28 Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and changed the course of American history. This compelling documentary of the IWW (or “The Wobblies” as they were known) tells the story of workers in factories, […]

***2nd screening added on Friday, Oct 28 at 1pm (replacing the scheduled screening of Burning Days*** Austria’s submission to the Oscars in Best International Feature category. Vicky Krieps – Winner – Best Actor – Un Certain Regard– Cannes 2022 Winner Best Film at 2022 BFI London Film Festival. The Empress Elisabeth of Corsage is an […]

Also showing Oct 30 Tickets are on sale at 10am, Fri, Oct 7 for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wed, Oct 12. This loose re-imagining of a traditional medieval epic, in which contemporary African migrants take the place of Serbian national heroes, succeeds where other […]

Also playing Oct 22 *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 […]

Belgium’s submission to the 2023 Academy Awards. Two thirteen-year-old boys, Léo (Eden Dambrine) and Rémi (Gustav De Waele), share an intimate friendship. They lean on each other physically just as much as they do emotionally. As they enter high school, though, classmates begin to question their closeness and their sexuality. The judgment of others drives […]

Director of Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab Lucien Castaing-Taylor and his colleague Véréna Paravel recognize the integral role of image-making in modern medical science. With their unparalleled feel for immersive editing, which they first exhibited in the 2012 fishing industry documentary Leviathan, Castaing-Taylor and Paravel stitch together fragments of footage from a handful of hospitals […]

Also showing Oct 22 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 […]

Also showing October 23 In this bleakly funny debut feature, Egyptian filmmaker Omar El Zohairy eviscerates the three-pronged stupidity of capitalism, patriarchy, and bureaucracy. An embattled wife and mother (Demyana Nassar) must fend for herself and her children when her husband (Samy Bassouny) disappears under bizarre and surreal circumstances. Poverty plagues her every turn, and […]

More than a landmark in independent filmmaking, Killer of Sheep is one of the finest films ever made about finding meaning in the hardships of everyday living. Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles—a predominantly Black neighborhood still showing the scars of the 1965 racial justice riots—Charles Burnett’s episodic first feature centers on a […]

Winner, Silver Bear Jury Prize, Berlin 2022 Disappearance is at the heart of Robe of Gems. A wealthy, white divorcee, Isabel (Nailea Norvind), moves into her mother’s old rural Mexican villa with her two adolescent children. Their housekeeper, Mari (Antonia Olivares), has a sister who has been missing for over a year. As police reports […]

VTIFF’s spotlight on the films of independent trailblazer Charles Burnett continues with To Sleep with Anger, a potent comedic drama about a middle-class African-American household in South Central Los Angeles facing a generational clash between the traditional rural values of the family’s Southern-born elders and the next generation’s urban mindset. Precipitating the conflict is Harry […]

Also showing Oct 29 Winner, Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice film festival. France, 1963. Audrey Diwan’s film captures the panic of an unwanted pregnancy before the legalization of abortion in provincial France. Adapted from Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel Happening recounts the journey of a young woman’s physical and emotional battle to access illegal abortion […]

Also showing virtually all day Oct 28-30:  Please note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in Vermont. One of the first films produced, written, and directed by an African-American woman, this landmark achievement in ‘90s Black cinema has been restored by the Academy Film Archive, the Film Foundation, and Milestone Films. Dr. […]

Also showing Oct 25 A superb exercise in everyday suspense, Full Time is based on the simple premise of a divorced mother trying to get to work on time while raising two kids and attempting to squeeze in the exhausting and dehumanizing ordeal of the corporate interview process. And though there’s not a mask in […]