Shere Hite’s 1976 book, The Hite Report was a huge best-seller that challenged the basic cultural conceptions of female sexuality and sex itself, particularly as it related to female pleasure. According to Newsweek, it has sold 50 million copies and is the 30th-best-selling book (and 3rd-best-selling non-fiction book) of all time. Today, few remember her. […]

Also showing: MONDAY, OCT 23 |  7:15 PM | BB *Winner -Special Jury Award Encounters Section, Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film, Special Jury Mention Documentary Award – 2023 Berlin International Film Festival.  Writer, philosopher, and now filmmaker, Paul B. Preciado’s newest work is poetic in form and function. Hybridizing literary adaptation with modes of […]

Also showing: TUESDAY, OCT 24 | 7:15 PM | BB How do you find meaning and purpose when you’re serving life without parole? For a group of lifers in San Quentin Prison, you just keep running. In Christine Yoo’s award-winning documentary 26.2 To Life, we meet the men of the 1000 Mile Club, the prison’s […]

Delight in Quentin Dupieux’s madcap infidelity to genre expectations in this bloody, fun, French superhero spoof. Tangling with low-budget, rubber-suited villains, the Tobacco Force dispels adversaries with the explosive, cancer-causing effects of cigarette smoke. But when a streak of individualism threatens the Tobacco Force’s group cohesion, their boss sends them away on a team-building retreat. […]

Director Miryam Charles’ dreamlike, haunting first feature begins with a real-life personal tragedy – the hanging of her 14-year-old cousin, Tessa, in her bedroom, an act originally ruled suicide but later determined to be homicide, still unsolved – and uses that to explore events real and unimagined, as well as futures unlived. Shot in 16mm, […]

Also showing: MONDAY, OCT 23 | 1:45 PM | BB Showing us the human toll of an inhumane system, Tori and Lokita is another social-realist gem from the masters of the form, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Full of heart and indignant fury, the film follows 11-year-old Tori (Pablo Schils) and 16-year-old Lokita (Joely Mbundu), undocumented […]

Yes, the plot is lifted from Dr. No. Sure, the dialogue is a bit stilted. But as it celebrates its 50th year, Enter the Dragon remains one of the most influential, profitable and, thanks to Bruce Lee, purely enjoyable films ever made. Fifty years have done nothing to diminish Lee’s sheer magnetism and star power. […]

Congolese rapper-turned-filmmaker Baloji creates a mind-melting tale of displacement and belonging, told through the interconnecting stories of four people in modern-day Kinshasa accused of witchcraft. Seamlessly weaving multiple narrative threads through a magical-realist lens, the film uses a wildly eclectic musical score, elaborate and offbeat costuming (a gang of street kids in pink tutus, for […]

For many Ukrainians, their first act of defiance was not to leave. This documentary follows artists on the ground during the Russian invasion who are continuing their work even as the world crumbles around them. Urgent, visceral, and poetic, Rule of Two Walls does not avert its eyes from the horrible realities of life during […]

You cannot go far wrong with a star performance by Anne Hathaway, cinematography by Ari Wegner, a score by Richard Reed Parry and direction by William Oldroyd. Eileen is an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel of the same name. This 1960s Massachusetts-set film, could be interpreted as a tale of personal liberation of sly, socially […]

Also showing: MONDAY | OCT 23 | 3:45 PM | BB Winner of the Freedom Prize at Cannes’ un Certain Regard, this striking debut feature from Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani deftly balances the personal and political, keeping the characters front and center while illuminating how political strife can make enemies from friends. Taking place just […]

A deeply moving meditation on grief and loss, Rachel Hendrix is the first new film in a decade from indie-film icon Victor Nuñez, who once again sets the tale in his own vividly evoked North Florida, a cinematic landscape he has made his own over 7 features in a 44-year career. Nuñez has a knack […]

*SATURDAY, OCT 28 SOLD OUT, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office, 3pm,  one hour before screening.* Also showing: SATURDAY, OCT 21 | 3:30 PM | FH Set in Basque country, this is a most wonderful, sensitive, delicate film, portraying in a complex way relationships among a multigenerational extended family.  20,000 Species of […]

*SOLD OUT, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office, 6pm,  one hour before screening.* Winner, Palme d’Or, 2023 Cannes Film Festival Director Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is an explosive family drama disguised as a courtroom procedural. In a snowy, isolated cabin in the Alps, a couple – husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) […]

*SATURDAY, OCT 28 SOLD OUT, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office, 6:15pm,  one hour before screening.* Also showing: WEDNESDAY, OCT 25 | 1:45 PM | FH Even if you’re a fan of Joan Baez and have been following her career for decades, there are plenty of surprises in the new doc from […]

This screening has been cancelled because of technical issues. In its place we are showing a second screening of The Future. If you have already booked tickets for Like a Fish, you may use those for The Future. Writer-Director Hajiha’s taut family drama of parents grappling with the sudden mutism of their young son is […]

This second screening of The Future, replaces the second screening of Like a Fish on the Moon. If you already booked a ticket for the latter, you may use this ticket for The Future. When Israel’s Minister of Space and Tourism is murdered in the lead-up to the country’s first mission to the moon, Yaffa […]