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MHFF 2025: Opening Night

April 24, 2025

M. L’ESPÉRANCE Chantale Boulianne | 9 | QC Mr. L’espérance hopes to bring a little sweetness into his depressed neighbor’s life by making her a gift. INTRODUCING MIMI Emai Lai | 15 | MA A young Chinese American woman meets her tutor at the library to relearn a language she once knew as a child. […]

MHFF 2025: Feature + Short

April 25, 2025

A SCHOOL OF TROUT Ronan Furuta | 15 | VT Earth’s next generation of stewards release baby trout from their public school into the river. SAVING WALDEN’S WORLD James S. Merkel, Deborah Shaffer | 89 | ME A young arms dealer has an ethical awakening and begins a decades-long journey to redeem himself.

MHFF 2025: Song & Dance

April 25, 2025

SOMBER TIDES (Marée Noire) Chantal Caron | 12 | QC A cry from the species, startled into survival against the elements. A battle waged against winds and tides. DON’T JUDGE ME Robert Tokanel | 27 | MA What’s it like to go to jail at age 16 and then return home 12 years later? PANES […]

MHFF 2025: Conflict Management

April 25, 2025

BLITZMUSIK Martin Amiot | 9 | QC Short on ammunition, two enemy combatants fight with the first thing they can get their hands on: musical instruments. CORONATION DAY Charlie Laud | 6 | VT Today the boss announces his successor. Will it be the ambitious young mafioso or his unlikely rival? FUCK LES WHITES Jeremy […]

MHFF 2025: Journeys

April 26, 2025

THE CELEBRATION Duane Peterson III | 30 | VT A dedicated group of paddlers embark on a seven-day journey along Vermont’s Upper Missisquoi and Trout Rivers. NEVER ANYWHERE (Jamais nulle part) Sophie Valcourt | 20 | QC Three friends from the small town of Sept-Îles share a desire to reconnect with the region where they […]

MHFF 2025: Water Water Everywhere

April 26, 2025

WAVES Emma Lowery | 10 | MA A day at the beach turns tense when two brother snails get swept away by the ocean. WASHED AWAY (Naufrage) Aucéane Roux | 17 | QC As a village disappears due to heavy flooding, memories are revived. THE POWER OF WATER Matthew Boulton | 27 | NH An […]

MHFF 2025: Odd Jobs

April 26, 2025

SOFT LOCK Sarah Foulkes | 11 | QC Laura is a dancer who works as a bike courier. Over the course of one shift, her patience and fortitude are tested. THE PUPPET MASTER Bob Krist | 18 | ME Austin Phillips of Portland, Maine, is one of the world’s finest makers of ventriloquist puppets. LA […]

MHFF 2025: Feature + Short

April 26, 2025

COCOTTE COULOMBE, FILMMAKER (Cocotte Coulombe, cinéaste) Charles-François Asselin | 11 | QC A young filmmaker discovers 100 Super 8 reels in his great-aunt’s basement. REENTRY Brendan Choisnet | 95 | CT Elenor’s husband disappears during a scientific expedition, then suddenly returns a year later. But is it really him?

MHFF 2025: Body & Mind

April 27, 2025

LIGHT IN MY EYES Christopher Wiersema | 16 | VT A personal and poetic walk through light, love, and memories of a blind grandfather. FADE OUT IN COLOR Neil Ira Needleman | 4 | ME Life = Color. Color = Life. NEUTRAL BUOYANCY Faith Vera Wood | 16 | VT A wannabe astronaut trains to […]

MHFF 2025: The Great Outdoors

April 27, 2025

BROTHER BIRD Meredith Holch | 9 | VT Real-life stories of loved ones who visit from the afterlife, told through tissue paper animation. COYWOLF Gaelen Llewel Kilburn | 32 | VT A documentary film investigates the eastern coyote hunting controversy in Vermont. BETWEEN THE LINES Liz McGregor | 15 | ME While working as a […]

MHFF 2025: Home Sweet Home

April 27, 2025

LOSING YOUR HOME Emmanuel Rioux | 19 | QC Jeannette and Frances struggle against a phenomenon that is becoming more and more pronounced. THE LITTLE ANCESTOR (La Petite Ancêtre) Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur | 11 | QC On a windswept hill, an ancestral house builds itself. It lives many lives over the course of 150 years. GOOD-BYE […]

The Great Dictator (1940)

May 9, 2025

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. Fun with Fascist Dictators Released when the U.S. was still at peace with Germany and neutral in the early days of WWII, The Great Dictator is an early blast of […]

The Death of Stalin (2017)

May 10, 2025

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. Fun with Fascist Dictators The idea of a comedy sprouting from the cutthroat power vacuum left by the death of Josef Stalin seems a bit… odd. But Armando Iannucci—the brilliant […]

Duck Soup (1933)

May 10, 2025

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. Fun with Fascist Dictators “Arguably the funniest movie ever made… only Dr. Strangelove matches its audacity in sending up the follies of nationalism and conflict.” —Scott Tobias, AV Club Hail, […]

A Nice Indian Boy (2025)

May 15, 2025

We’ve had quite a run of great films during our multi-monthly screenings in the Main Street Landing Film House this year. But after 11 screenings of nine pretty heavy movies, we’ve heard many of our members asking if, say, a comedy might be a possibility.  Good news. That comedy is here!  A Nice Indian Boy […]

A Nice Indian Boy (2025)

May 15, 2025

We’ve had quite a run of great films during our multi-monthly screenings in the Main Street Landing Film House this year. But after 11 screenings of nine pretty heavy movies, we’ve heard many of our members asking if, say, a comedy might be a possibility.  Good news. That comedy is here!  A Nice Indian Boy […]

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

May 16, 2025

The Ongoing Complete-Films-of-David-Lynch Project For this installment in our ongoing presentation of the complete filmography of David Lynch, we tackle two of Lynch’s less-appreciated efforts, both of which did poorly on their release and received critical dismissals, but which, over time, have come to be seen as essential pieces of the Lynch catalog. After this […]

Inland Empire (2006)

May 17, 2025

The Ongoing Complete-Films-of-David-Lynch Project For this installment in our ongoing presentation of the complete filmography of David Lynch, we tackle two of Lynch’s less-appreciated efforts, both of which did poorly on their release and received critical dismissals, but which, over time, have come to be seen as essential pieces of the Lynch catalog. After this […]

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

May 23, 2025

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. Fun with Fascist Dictators II: Shakespearean Edition On paper it shouldn’t work. A comedy about the Nazi occupation of Poland set while the occupation was still happening? Jokes with references […]

Richard III (1995)

May 24, 2025

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. Fun with Fascist Dictators II: Shakespearean Edition The winter of our discontent has rarely been so fun. Okay, maybe calling this movie “fun” might seem odd, given the expansive body […]

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