*SOLD OUT, Join the waiting list at the VTIFF Box Office, 1:45pm, one hour before screening.* Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, Victor Nuñez’s magical Ruby in Paradise is a simple story of a young working-class woman fleeing a bad situation to find herself in Nuñez’s familiar cinematic realm, […]
Also showing: WEDNESDAY, OCT 25 | 4:15 PM | FH In this gritty, downbeat, Outback noir, detective Travis Hurley (Simon Baker of The Mentalist, unrecognizable) arrives in the town of Limbo to investigate the cold-case murder of a local Indigenous girl 20 years earlier. The murder investigation moves slowly, since director Ivan Sen is focusing […]
*SOLD OUT* No additional sales at the door. Humming with the over-the-top energy of its loquacious frontman, Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story tells the dizzying, picaresque tale of Eugene Hütz, a Ukrainian raconteur turned globe-trotting rock star (rock friends like Steve Albini and Iggy Pop show up to say good things). It’s […]
The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, in collaboration with the Vermont International Film Festival, presents two great musical documentaries — Little Richard: I Am Everything and Dusty & Stones — as part of MNFF’s 2023 tour of the state. Attendees of both films are invited to a reception in the Main Street Landing Film House Lobby […]
The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, in collaboration with the Vermont International Film Festival, presents two great musical documentaries — Little Richard: I Am Everything and Dusty & Stones — as part of MNFF’s 2023 tour of the state. Attendees of both films are invited to a reception in the Main Street Landing Film House Lobby […]
A political thriller based on a true story, Jean-Paul Salome’s La Syndicaliste is powered by a towering performance from one of the world’s great actors, Isabelle Huppert. Set in the world of nuclear power and corrupt politics, La Syndicaliste follows the true story of Maureen Kearney (Huppert), an experienced union rep who turns whistleblower when […]
“Who’s the monster?” It’s a question that comes up frequently in the latest film from the great Kore-eda Hirokazu (Shoplifters, Broker) though the answers are far from definitive. Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes, Monster is a masterpiece of shifting perspectives that surprises from beginning to end. Scripted by Sakamoto Yuji, the film […]
Winner: Best Documentary, Cannes; Best Documentary, Gotham Independent Film Awards; Best Documentary, Toronto International Film Festival; many more. This riveting exploration of rebellion, memory, and sisterhood reconstructs the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters, unpacking a complex family history to examine how the Tunisian woman’s two eldest were radicalized by Islamic extremists. Casting […]
The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what caused the earthquake, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing…Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming to Hwang Gung Apartments to escape the […]
Winner: Silver Lion (best director), Venice Film Festival Two Senegalese teenagers, Seydou and Moussa, travel from Dakar to Europe in the hope of becoming pop stars in Europe, finding danger, heartbreak, and unexpected joy along the way. An Italian-made film in which none of the settings, none of the actors, and very little of the […]
Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. Longing for a home of their own, they have decided to live apart from their families, outside of the village. When Adama informs the village that he won’t accept his blood duty as future chief, the community is disrupted, quickly followed by nature itself. The rains don’t come. […]
Winner: Best Documentary, London Film Festival Thirty years ago, Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass (best-known for Succession, as well as films like Lemon Tree and Paradise Now) left her village in Galilee to follow her dreams of acting in France. In this poignant portrait, both deeply personal and inescapably political, filmmaker Lina Soualem — who is […]
Winner: Chicago International Film Festival, Best Performance (Ilinca Manolache) In this blistering satire of a corporate world that prizes profits over humanity, radical Romanian provocateur Radu Jude takes us on a wild ride as he follows Angela, an overworked production assistant tasked with filming the victims of a workplace accident. Stuffed with ideas, the film […]
Winner: Outstanding Feature Film, German Film Awards Carla Nowak (Leonie Benesch, fabulous) is a dedicated, idealistic young teacher in her first job at a German middle school. Her relaxed rapport with her seventh-grade students is put under stress when a series of thefts occur at the school, and a staff investigation leads to accusations and […]
*SOLD OUT* Winner: Director’s Prize for International Documentary, Sundance Film Festival In the darkness of the smoke sauna, a revered Estonian tradition, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength. Named one of the year’s best films […]
Eva is a strong-willed, restless 16-year-old girl who lives with her mother, her younger sister, and their cat, but desperately wants to move in with her estranged father, despite (or because of) the sense of brooding danger he gives off. Clinging onto him as he careens recklessly through a second adolescence, she balances between the […]
Winner: Critics Week Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival Precocious and quick-witted, 12-year-old Zaffan spends her days rebelling against her strict Islamic religious school and swimming in the lake with her best friends. It’s all pretty idyllic – until she gets her first period before anyone else in her class. Soon, other parts of her body […]
Winner: Best Actor (Mikkelsen), European Film Awards In “the kind of ravishing, rousing epic we don’t really get much of anymore” (New York Magazine), the fabulous Mads Mikkelsen offers one of his finest performances as Captain Ludvig Kahlen, a proud, ambitious, but impoverished 18th-century war hero who sets out to tame a vast uninhabitable stretch […]
*SOLD OUT* A Moroccan woman’s search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history in this highly creative docu-drama. Using a scale-model of her old Moroccan neighborhood, populated by handmade figurines (sculpted by the director’s father, dressed by her mother), filmmaker Asmae ElMoudir fuses personal and national history as she reflects […]
The Screening Room @VTIFF officially opens with Top Hat, the fourth and finest pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and indisputably one of the greatest musicals ever made. In fact, we’d even say that the “Cheek to Cheek” sequence is one of the pinnacles of American artistic achievement in the 20th century, as sublime […]