Directed by Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas, this entirely Vermont-made feature has already made waves, winning best feature at the 2024 Underground Horror Film and Screenplay Festival, and screening at the 2024 Made Here Festival, the 2024 Big Apple Film Festival, and the inaugural Vermont Film and Folklore Festival. Equal parts campy and thrilling, The Yorkie Werewolf flips […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Head Stretchers Society is an ideology based on curiosity, and inspired by a quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes: “One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. “We’ve met before, haven’t we?”  A lesser-loved entry in the Lynch canon (its canny marketing wore Siskel and Ebert’s emphatic “Two Thumbs Down” as a badge of honor), Lost Highway […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Like the great filmmaker Guy Maddin said, there’s cinema before Blue Velvet and cinema after Blue Velvet. “The last real earthquake to hit cinema was David Lynch’s Blue Velvet,” Maddin […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. From the ashes of a failed TV pilot, David Lynch fashioned one of the greatest films of 21st century.  From the absurd midnight automobile accident on the Los Angeles road […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Young Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury practically burn a hole in the screen in this tale of cross-cultural romance, as the vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. It’s been quite a 2024 for director Luca Guadagnino, whose sexed-up tennis drama Challengers made it to several critics’ year-end best-of lists. Now comes the much different Queer, based on […]

In defiance of Russia’s anti-LGBTQ laws, a queer 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes made of junk and tape throughout Moscow. Jenna Marvin’s radical public performances blend artistry and activism in this SXSW documentary. Born and raised on the harsh streets of Magadan, a frigid outpost of the Soviet gulag, Jenna stages […]

Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York. Through intimate cinema vérité, Union chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch the grassroots union campaign. Led by […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. From Executive Producer Michael Moore, and Palestine’s official submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero is a collection of revealing stories from 22 Palestinian filmmakers living through war, […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a fractured portrait of the disenchantment of post-independence Senegal in the early 1970s. In this picaresque […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a starter home. Choose dental insurance, leisure wear, and matching luggage. Choose your future. But who would want to do a thing like that? […]

When her police constable husband is killed on the job, young housewife Santosh (Shahana Goswami) is, due to a government initiative, trained to take his place on the force in rural Northern India. She’s eventually paired with a savvy, charismatic female inspector, Sharma (Sunita Rajwar), who’s arrived from outside the department to investigate the murder […]

As we close out Black History Month and head into Oscar weekend (an almost ironic juxtaposition), it seems like the perfect time to celebrate Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ “brilliant, achingly alive work about black queerness” (The New Yorker).  Winner of a surprising Best Picture Oscar, as well as a Best Adapted Screenplay Award (for Jenkins) and […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. VTIFF celebrates the first anniversary of The Screening Room with a double-feature of two of the finest films by America’s greatest comic geniuses, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.  The Gold […]

Hosted by Orly Yadin Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars in 2008 and it ran right into the Pixar machine at the end of their imperial phase. Looking back, this striking and personal film, with its stark black-and-white, hand-drawn style and affecting intimacy, is a wonderful […]

Hosted by Orly Yadin Singularly blending animation with documentary, Waltz with Bashir is a mind-bending odyssey through painful memories, with an ending that will leave you speechless. One night, a friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare. They conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the 1982 Lebanon War. SFGate […]

Pedro Almodóvar, one of cinema’s most sensitive dramatists and vivacious stylists, returns with his first English-language film, Golden Lion-winner The Room Next Door, featuring incandescent performances from beloved A-listers Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. Ingrid (Moore), a famously death-obsessed best-selling writer, rekindles her relationship with her friend Martha (Swinton), a war journalist with whom she […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Fellini is a bit like Bergman or Lynch… we all have our favorites. Well, this is ours. The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La Dolce […]

You’ll never again make a meatloaf without thinking of this movie. The surprise (and semi-controversial) big winner of the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films of all time, pushing aside perennial top-spot denizens Citizen Kane and Vertigo, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman is a flat-out masterpiece, whether you think it’s the best movie […]