Maria, a 79-year-old woman, has lived in a Spanish community in Tangier, Morocco, for her entire life, and her sunny, lovely apartment reflects her contentment. But when circumstances threaten to evict her from her space and end her independence, she must make some big decisions. And in this lovely, moving drama from director Maryam Touzani […]
The film also screens on Tuesday, October 21 | 4:30 PM | FH The Tuesday, October 21 screening is followed by a Q&A with co-director Ben Ayers via Zoom from Tibet. A story of nature and nurture set in the breathtaking Dolpo region of Nepal, Snow Leopard Sisters offers a touching feminist perspective on wildlife […]
Also screens on Sunday, October 26 | 2:30 PM | SR VTIFF’s second installment of international short films is equal to the first. In Fran Zayas’ Entre Tormentas (which boasts Spike Lee and Cory Fukunaga as co-producers), a grieving man breaks into an off-limits cemetery after a hurricane to rescue the remains of his brother. […]
Free event for all ages. Advance registration is recommended. Internationally renowned animator Steven Woloshen returns to VTIFF with his much-loved animation workshop! Woloshen is an award-winning Canadian film animator and a pioneer of drawn-on-film animation techniques. Steve also teaches at the National Film Board of Canada. In this workshop, you’ll be given a film strip, […]
When the moon blocks the sun, we see the world in a new light. This eerie and inspiring phenomenon challenges our perceptions—what is revealed when light and shadow shift so dramatically? These short video vignettes, alongside music, communal storytelling, and reflection, provide space to revisit and celebrate the awe we all experienced on April 8th, […]
The paradox of Charlie Shackleton’s film is that it exists but also doesn’t exist. The story sounds somewhat Charlie Kaufmanesque: Shackleton set out to adapt a fringe novel about the Zodiac Killer investigation—The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up, highway patrolman Lyndon E. Lafferty’s nakedly self-aggrandizing account of his decades-long pursuit of a red herring—but he lost the […]
Also screens on Friday, October 24 | 8:00 PM | SR VTIFF celebrates the international short film with five magical works. Jason Adam Maselle’s Punter is a South African tale of a wayward father and the son who’s trying in vain to steer him right. Chheangkea’s witty and knowing Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites, set […]
Also screens on Tuesday, October 21 | 1:45 PM | BB Screenlife movies are typically the terrain of low-budget horror, but Sepideh Farsi’s heartbreaking documentary seizes on the style to do something entirely different and far more rewarding. Over the course of a year, she corresponded regularly with 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona, who lived […]
This nasty little number is a gift from the genre gods. Two Academy Award-nominated British actresses, and veteran Mike Leigh collaborators, sink their teeth into the scenery as they go toe-to-toe in this pulpy actors’ showcase. Dame Brenda Blethyn (Secrets & Lies, Pride & Prejudice) and Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie, The Death of Stalin) give […]
Also screens on Saturday, October 25 | 8:00 PM | SR VTIFF’s second installment of international short films is equal to the first. In Fran Zayas’ Entre Tormentas (which boasts Spike Lee and Cory Fukunaga as co-producers), a grieving man breaks into an off-limits cemetery after a hurricane to rescue the remains of his brother. […]
The film also screens on Tuesday, October 21 | 7 PM | BB Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s debut feature has some serious issues on its mind: impersonal corporations, opportunistic bureaucrats, indifferent urban developers, and atrocities swept under the rug. But he is having way too much fun indulging every flight of fancy to present any […]
Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason returns to the present after his superb epic Godland. With The Love that Remains, he crafts a smaller, more intimate story—one that suggests some still-tender autobiographical resonance—and he’s not afraid to get a little weird with it. The film is a snapshot of a year in the life of a married […]
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. Jaws turned 50 this summer, and no one is celebrating harder than Kleber Mendonça Filho. Spielberg’s classic is all over Filho’s Cannes-fêted smash-in-the-making. It’s 1977 in Recife, Brazil, and everyone […]
Celebrate Halloween at VTIFF. Costumes encouraged! Sam Raimi has gone on to much bigger things, playing an outsized role in setting off the superhero boom in the 21st century, for better and worse, and shepherding a misbegotten entry in the Doctor Strange series. but it’s fair to say that his biggest cinematic milestone is Evil […]
Celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Showing Up) directs an unforgettable Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind, her latest Cannes triumph. In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or […]
Celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Showing Up) directs an unforgettable Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind, her latest Cannes triumph. In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or […]
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. Le Bonheur—translation “Happiness”—is an underrated masterpiece by Agnes Varda, one of, if not the, greatest filmmaker of the French New Wave. Perhaps her most shocking film, this subversive feminist statement, […]
With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on screen. Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with […]
Jim Jarmusch’s breakout second feature is essential indie cinema, on a very short list of movies—alongside Eraserhead; Reservoir Dogs; sex,lies, and videotape; and just a handful more—that basically set the template for what “indie” is today. You can trace back the cliché of recycled cultural ephemera to Paradise‘s obsession with Chesterfields and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, […]
Please note: The Mastermind was originally set to screen on November 5-6 but was rescheduled for November 13. If you had tickets for the previous date, please contact us to exchange or refund your tickets. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience. Celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Showing Up) directs an unforgettable Josh O’Connor […]