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 […]
Backlash plunges us into the vortex of online misogyny and documents hatred towards women. The film, reminiscent of a psychological thriller, follows four women across two continents: former President of the Italian parliament Laura Boldrini, former Democratic representative Kiah Morris, French actor and YouTuber Marion Séclin, and Donna Zuckerberg, a specialist in online violence against […]
LATE FOR CHURCH | Kevin Harkey | 3:02 | VT A family races to get to church on time. 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. DREPPER, THE […]
A SHORE AWAY (L’AUTRE RIVE) | Gaëlle Graton | 17:33 | QC | French w/ subtitles Newly employed in an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness, Genevieve is shocked to meet again with Camille. QUEEN CITY BLUES | Ethan WL | 38 | MA Jury Special Mention Three friends search for a missing man […]
Justine, 12, firmly believes that she will be happier once her parents are divorced. The catch? They have no plans to do so. *Jury Special Mention*
COINCIDENCES | Neil Ira Needleman | 3:50 | ME “This is a true story. All these decades later, I still have a hard time believing that this actually happened in 1997.” PUERTO RICO | John Rasmussen | 8:57 | VT The Burlington Police found Paul O’Toole unresponsive on a heat grate on the coldest […]
Jérémie, a bicycle courier, crisscrosses the city at full speed delivering anonymous backpacks. Lonely, he records a podcast in which he shares his conspiratorial view of the world. The film was shot entirely on a cellphone.
EYE FOR AN EYE (OEIL POUR OEIL) | Anthony Coveney | 9:11 | QC | French w/ subtitles As the planet dies, the adults are making out. In a stroke of good luck, Mathieu discovers a contraceptive far more effective than condoms. SENTINELS | Matthew Luhrman | 14:58 | ME Determined to save her […]
A political thriller with a classic rock band at the heart of the action, What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? involves the U.S. State Department, the Nixon White House, the governments of Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland and documentary footage that has been suppressed for over 50 years by one or all of […]
Click on the Get Ticket link for this film, or click HERE for a day pass valid for all three films. One of three films at the Italian Cinema Day hosted by VTIFF and VICA, Host sponsor Main Street Landing See also Big Night and L’immensità “Set amid the hilly woodlands of the Piedmont region […]
Ticket link on this page is for a day pass. If you wish to purchase individual tickets to specific films, click on your preferred titles below We are celebrating Italian films and food in partnership with the Vermont Italian Cultural Association. There will be a bar and snack between the screenings. Check out each film […]
Click on the Get Ticket link for this film, or click HERE for a day pass valid for all three films. One of three films at the Italian Cinema Day hosted by VTIFF and VICA, Host sponsor Main Street Landing See also The Truffle Hunters and L’immensità Big Night focuses on the volatile relationship between […]
Click on the Get Ticket link for this film, or click HERE for a day pass valid for all three films. One of three films at the Italian Cinema Day hosted by VTIFF and VICA, Host sponsor Main Street Landing See also The Truffle Hunters and Big Night Crialese’s largely autobiographical work (he came out […]
Watch out for Frederic Weisman cameo appearance! New Directors New Films 2023. Winner Best First Feature – London FF, Jerusalem FF, Best Director Athens FF A superb Virginie Efira plays Rachel, a dedicated high school teacher who begins a bittersweet romance with a single dad. Deftly written, directed with a light hand, the film captures […]
Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, Chile ‘76 builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman’s precarious flirtation with political engagement. Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) leads a sheltered upper middle class existence. She heads to her summer house in the off-season to supervise its renovation, while also […]
Tomas (Franz Rogowski) and Martin (Ben Wishaw) are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe (Adéle Exarchopoulos). But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with. “Sachs […]
A visually exuberant documentary that dissects the history of image-making, using a mind-boggling array of archival footage. From the birth of the camera obscura to the screening of the first moving picture and from the invention of the webcam to the first viral video, this witty and thought-provoking documentary chases the rise of image culture […]
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Please join us for a special event to celebrate former VTIFF Executive Director Orly Yadin. First, we’ll highlight Orly the filmmaker, screening a selection of her own short films in the Film House. She’ll provide the introductions. Then we’ll step downstairs to our new space (!!!) at 60 Lake Street, right next to Skinny Pancake, […]
This is quite the evening we have planned! Partnering for the first time with UVM’s Lane Series, we’ll open VTIFF with an exciting event celebrating the sounds and images of film noir. We begin with a screening of the seldom-seen 1945 noir film, Hangover Square, starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, and George Saunders and featuring […]