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. *Introduced by Antonello Borra, Italian Professor of Italian cinema at UVM* After decades abroad, a man returns to his neighborhood in Naples for closure. Based on Neapolitan […]
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. A mesmerizing, and at the same time controversial, animated documentary. In 2002, members of the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong hijacked a state TV station in China. […]
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 The first Irish-language film to win the Irish Academy Award for best film. This beautiful and compassionate jewel of a film, which […]
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. Winner, Best Screenplay in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. Palestinian-Israeli writer-director Haj’s serio-comic Mediterranean Fever explores a complicated friendship-enmity between two middle-aged neighbors. The film builds up with […]
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 Winner Queer Palme and the Jury Prize in Cannes. “Discouraged identities and taboo desires emerge tentatively into the open in Joyland. Tartly […]
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. In the history of the Oscars, only nine African films have ever been nominated for the best international feature prize. Tembele, directed and produced by actor-turned-director Mugisha […]
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 Winner: Jury Prize at the Marrakech International Film Festival A beautiful, sensuous, patiently crafted story of Mina and Halim (her closeted gay […]
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. Winner of the Silver Lion and the Lion of the Future at the Venice Film Festival. New York Times Critics Pick Documentarian […]
Tickets for VTIFF Members and Passes are now on sale. Tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am February 7th. Winner of the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival Three young girls at the cusp of womanhood try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland by trying to draw their own […]
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 […]
A tight thriller simultaneously works as a sensitive portrait of rural Quebec, not far from the border with USA. Meet the Arsenaults, a small-time tight-knit poach family who have ruled for generations in the back-country district of Témiscouata, Quebec. Arsenault & Sons is the name of their family auto repair shop that serves as cover […]
Winner: AICEF Prize for Cross-Cultural Filmmaking Screening is followed by a Q&A with the producer. Moderated by Jay Craven This is the remarkable story of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the indigenous trailblazer who battled racism, gender discrimination, and political opposition in her quest to become the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest. Her courageous, tragic […]
Followed by Q&A in person with the director Lisa Hurwitz WINNER: Clio Visualizing History Prize for the Advancement of Women in Film The Automat recounts the lost history of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, which served affordable-priced quality food to millions of New Yorkers and Philadelphians for more than a century. The chain […]
Cahiers du Cinéma No. 1 Film of the Year 2022 On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller (Benoît Magimel) is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the high end ’establishment’ as well […]
Based on London’s autobiographical novel. A poor and unschooled sailor (Martin Eden), unexpectedly meets Ruth Morse, a magnetic young woman of means and education. Their unconventional attraction upends both lives and propels timely themes of impossible love, dogged individualism in pursuit of the American Dream and more. *Filmmaker in attendance* *Read or download the director […]
Join us for the inaugural event of the presentation of the Douglas-Lanahan Award, given to a group or an individual for their outstanding contribution to the community through film. This $1,000 cash award is in the name of John Douglas and Eleanor (Bobbie) Lanahan, Vermont media artists who have been involved in Vermont’s community of […]
Co-Winner of the Vermont Public Award for Best Documentary, sponsored by Vermont Public; Winner of the Audience Favorite Award sponsored by Media Factory An abandoned apple orchard, rescued by chance, thrives under the caring hands of the people driven to rejuvenate this Vermont hillside, who encourage the trees to flourish where once they stood bent […]
CHICAS AL AGUA | Liz McGregor | 17:58 | ME | Spanish w/ subtitles You can count the number of female paddlers in Futaleufú, Chile on one hand… but all this is changing with the creation of a kayak course for teenage girls. *Filmmaker in attendance* FIRE & ASH | Andreas John | 12:21 […]
The film explores the lovingly contentious relationship behind legendary Vermont towing company Roland’s Wrecker Service. Set to the stark backdrop of a Vermont winter, Dillon rides along on calls with his camera (Which was multiple times kindly suggested for Dillon to shove somewhere) as Roland and Mary take an honest look back on the trials […]
LATE FOR CHURCH | Kevin Harkey | 3:02 | VT A family races to get to church on time. *Filmmaker in attendance* SOLITAIRE | Amy Neswald | 19 | ME A small town minister who presides over marriages doomed to fail finds solace in the game solitaire as the rest of his life crumbles. […]