Also showing Oct 24 and 29 in-theater Please note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in the U.S & Canada. 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 […]
Also showing in-theater Oct 29 Please note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in the U.S. 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. […]
Also showing in-theater Oct 29 Please note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in the U.S & Canada. 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. […]
Special tribute to Jean-Luc Godard: The film, a 4K restoration, will be introduced by film critic, author, and scholar David Sterritt. Sterritt is chair of the National Society of Film Critics, editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and a contributing writer at Cineaste. He is the author of The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: […]
The Quarry Project was a site-specific dance/theater piece created for the Wells Lamson quarry, one of the oldest, deepest granite quarries in the country, now flooded and in “reserve.” 14 sold-out shows took place in August 2022 and a film of the performance is forthcoming. Created and directed by Hannah Dennison, The Quarry Project was […]
Also showing Oct 25 This loose re-imagining of a traditional medieval epic, in which contemporary African migrants take the place of Serbian national heroes, succeeds where other films have failed. Oscar-nominated Stefan Arsenijević has created an utterly compelling love story between two Ghanaian refugees. He actively subverts some of the most commonly held beliefs around […]
Also showing virtually all day – Oct 31-Nov 2 Three-minutes’ worth of 16mm film on the verge of ruin is what Glenn Kurtz found in his parent’s Florida home shortly after their passing. Shot by Kurtz’s grandfather on a European tour in 1938, the amateur footage captures the Jewish community of Nasielsk, Poland, just one […]
Last minute addition to the festival, so it does not appear in the printed guide!! In her essential, urgent, and arrestingly structured new documentary, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) weaves two narratives: the fabled life and career of era-defining artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty Goldin personally […]
Also showing in Film House on Sunday, Oct 23 and virtually all day Oct 24-30 This Sunday screening has now been replaced by ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED by Laura Poitras.
Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes 2022. NYT Critic’s Pick. Apichatpong Weerasethakul is the director who brought us the mesmerizing Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives and Tropical Malady, but with Memoria we move from the Southeast Asian jungles to the lush Andean mountains, zones of magic, where the modern distinction between myth […]
VTIFF closing night mixer, hosted by The Vermont Production Collective. Come by, say hi and meet filmmaking professionals from around the region. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and cash bar.
**Please note this film is SOLD OUT. We will start a waitlist at 6:00PM at the box office at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center.** *Closing Night Film* We’re honored to be bringing you one of the rarest films we’ve ever presented. Allan Nicholls’ Dead Ringer has only been shown once or twice in the […]
Also showing: Sat, Oct 22 | BB Please note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in the U.S & Canada. Three-minutes’ worth of 16mm film on the verge of ruin is what Glenn Kurtz found in his parent’s Florida home shortly after their passing. Shot by Kurtz’s grandfather on a European tour […]
This may be the first block-buster VTIFF has ever presented! We’re delighted to offer RRR on the big screen (by far the best way to watch) in its original Telugu language version. “Rajamouli unfolds the many twists and turns of [the] story with such confidently rampaging energy that, by comparison, most Hollywood blockbusters feel anemic.” […]
Deeply moving and laugh-out-loud funny, Mission: JOY is a documentary with unprecedented access to the unlikely friendship of two international icons who transcend religion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu. In their final joint mission, these self-described mischievous brothers give a master class in how to create joy in a world that was […]
In Mussolini’s Italy, repressed Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant), trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode – and murder – joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in, flashing back to a dance party for the blind; an insane asylum in a stadium; and wife Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli) and lover Anna (Dominique Sanda) […]
All proceeds from this screening will be shared between VTIFF and Big Heavy World. We’re honored to be bringing you one of the rarest films we’ve ever presented. Allan Nicholls’ Dead Ringer has only been shown two or three times in the almost 40 years since Nicholls and his crew completed it, despite its undeniable […]
This year’s Global Roots Film Festival took a look at a selection of International Submissions to the 2023 Academy Awards. We focused on why countries select one film over another to represent them, not on which films will please the Academy members. The films are listed below in alphabetical order, but you may browse (or […]
Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes will go on sale at 10am February 3rd, and tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am February 7th. Nominated for the Academy Awards A fascinating historical re-enactment of a major historical moment in Argentinian history. The film succeeds in balancing the pathos of the David-vs-Goliath […]
Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes will go on sale at 10am February 3rd, and tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am February 7th. Shortlisted for the Academy Awards Zar Amir Ebrahimi – winner of Best Actress in Cannes Film Festival Set in Iran but shot in Jordan, this is Ali […]