Also showing in-theater Oct 27 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. Ayoka Chenzira is a pioneer of cinematic storytelling, working consistently since the 1970s as an […]
We are very sad to announce that because of insurmountable technical issues we are unable to screen this film. The screening slot has been replaced by a second screening of Corsage.
***Also Showing Tuesday, Oct 25*** 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 irreverent, often immature, first lady with an insatiable desire to determine […]
Also showing Oct 23 A timely, lucid, and galvanizing film, this reportage from across the Texas landscape finds its hero in an unusually relatable politician, while keeping everything framed within the larger history of this reproductive rights struggle. In 2013, women shared real stories to help Texas State Senator Wendy Davis filibuster in defense of […]
Also showing Oct 22 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 […]
A film for the whole family. Come on over to the South Burlington Public Library, grab an Italian snack, and watch this wonderful movie. A great way to spend Friday afternoon! Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s Luca is a coming-of-age story about a young boy experiencing an unforgettable […]
Also playing Monday, Oct 24, and virtually all day Oct 29-31 Best Environmental Feature at BendFilm and a Special Jury Prize at Cinema on the Bayou. Rodney Stotts is one of just a few certified African-American falconers in the US. In this surprising and incisive portrait of a remarkable man, we see Rodney overcome his […]
The environment in New Delhi is inhospitable to people and animals alike. The air over India’s capital is so thick with pollution, every day birds drop from the sky. At the same time, failing infrastructure and widespread violence plague those living at street level. Still, two brothers, Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, make it their […]
Also showing in-theater Oct 23 (with director Q&A), and virtually all day Oct 29-31. Are crows ever white? Of course not. Crows Are White borrows its title from a story about a Buddhist monk who was taught never to question his teachers, even when they said things that were objectively wrong. Ahmed Nahseen, a fresh […]
The film opens on a gang of leather-clad street toughs posing and swaying to discordant jazz. The overt West Side Story reference invites the viewer into the glossy, pastiche-fueled world of Please Baby Please, a title like a 1950’s pop-ballad refrain, saturated in neon, studded with vintage cars, bobby socks, and ascots, and dripping in […]
Also showing in-theater Oct 23 (with director Q&A) and Oct 28 Please note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in Vermont. Are crows ever white? Of course not. Crows Are White borrows its title from a story about a Buddhist monk who was taught never to question his teachers, even when they […]
Also playing in-theater Monday, Oct 24 and Friday, Oct 28 Please note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in New England. Best Environmental Feature at BendFilm and a Special Jury Prize at Cinema on the Bayou. Rodney Stotts is one of just a few certified African-American falconers in the US. In this […]
QUEUE Directed by Walter Ungerer USA | 2021 | Experimental | 12 min | Walter Ungerer: “Though birds and people appear to have some similar qualities: affection, caring, tolerance, aggressiveness, belligerence, combativeness; in the scheme of things, we are all waiting our turn – in the queue.” TREE Directed by Walter Ungerer USA| 2022 | […]
Also showing Oct 24 in-theater, and virtually all day Oct 30-Nov 1 Lebanon’s submission to the 2023 Academy Awards. Soraya (Nadine Labaki) and Walid (Saleh Bakri) put their political activism in the rear-view mirror a long time ago. They escaped the insalubrious air of Beirut for a green mountainside where they can farm and raise […]
Also showing virtually all day Oct 30 – Nov 1 There are few films as unabashedly gorgeous as The Velvet Queen, yet the film is less about the spectacle before our eyes and more about the act of looking itself and appreciating what appears. The documentary follows celebrated wildlife photographer Vincent Munier and adventurer Sylvain […]
Also showing virtually all day Oct 30 – Nov 1 Despite its heavily connotative title, Luzifer is not a horror film, at least not in the usual way of jump scares and gore. But a sense of menace does pervade the story from beginning to end. A mother and her neurodivergent adult son, embodied with […]
A talk by Joel Sartore followed by Q&A (in person and remotely). If you cannot make it in person, you may register to join the webinar remotely HERE. Registration for in person will open October 7. Heather Furman, The Nature Conservancy, Vermont’s Executive Director, will be at the Film House in person to moderate the […]
Also showing Oct 27 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 […]
Poland’s submission to the Oscars in Best International Feature category. EO isn’t the type of film one would expect from an 84-year-old director—even a director of Jerzy Skolimowski’s distinction and pedigree. Jettisoning anything that may be regarded as conventional cinematic technique, Skolimowski harnesses the vast and varied capabilities of digital filmmaking to construct an inventive, […]
After Blue (Dirty Paradise) aspires for instant cult status. On a post-Earth planet pocked with crystals and smeared with goop, a mother and daughter (Elina Löwensohn and Paula-Luna Breitenfelder) are on a mission to find and kill a criminal named Kate Bush (Agata Buzek). This future alternative world is devoid of men and machines, but […]