Directed by Eran Riklis | 2014 | Israel | Arabic/Hebrew w/English subtitles | Fiction | 105 mins Sponsors: The Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program Film Source: Strand Releasing Preceded by a reception for Sister Miriam Ward at 5:00 pm in the Lake Lobby. Humus and baklava served. Cash bar. This is arguably the most compelling film […]
Directed by Stanley Nelson | 2015 | USA | Documentary | 113 mins Grand Jury Prize, Berlin; Sundance; Audience Choice Award, River Run International Film Festival Co-sponsors: John Douglas & the Peace & Justice Center Film Source: Longshot The first feature-length documentary about the revolutionary Black Panther Party is an intensely compelling survey of the […]
Directed by Tom DiCillo | USA | 1995 | Fiction | 92 mins Sponsor: Todd Lockwood & Shout Factory Film Source: Shout Factory Filmmaker in attendance for post-screening Q&A and signing of the newly mastered Blu-Rays of the film for its 20th anniversary Whatever can go wrong does go wrong in Tom DiCillo’s hilarious send-up […]
Directed by Brian Schmidt & Ann-Marie Plastino | USA | 2014 | Fiction | 79 mins Film Source: Filmmakers Family-Friendly film, 5 and up In this humorous, slapstick adventure tale, Jojo and his younger sister Avila are left alone after a car accident injures their mother on the way to grandma’s house. The two travelers […]
Double Bill with Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 Directed by Michael Nyman | UK | 2015 | Doc/experimental |65 mins US Premiere Film Source: Filmmakers VTIFF is proud to present the North American premiere of this powerful new work. Internationally renowned composer Michael Nyman (whose scores for films include Jane Campion’s The Piano and multiple collaborations with Peter […]
Double Bill Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 Directed by Bill Morrison | USA | 2015 | Doc/Experimental | 39 mins Film source: Icarus Films A work for quartet with film. Utilizing only original 35 mm nitrate film shot during World War I, director Bill Morrison (Decasia) creates a unique, mesmerizing cinematic experience that is both historical document […]
Directed by Tom DiCillo | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 70 mins Sponsor: Todd Lockwood Film Source: filmmaker Filmmaker in attendance to introducer and for Q&A DiCillo (Living in Oblivion, also showing at this year’s festival) descends into the subterranean world of the NYC subway and records humanity passing by in a highly stylized, poetic […]
Directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | France | French w/ English subtitles | 2014 | Fiction | 105 mins Sponsored by Frank and Ducky Donath Film Source: Menemsha Films Based on a true story and co-written by one of its teenage stars, Once in a Lifetime tells the story of an unruly and antagonistic group of […]
Directed by Miguel Llansó | Spain/Finland/Ethiopia | Afrikaans/Amharic w/English subtitles | 2014 | Fiction | 68 mins Sponsors: Indiepix Film Source: Indiepix A hunchback dwarf. A derelict spacecraft. A frightening Santa Claus. A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle orbiting a planet. All par for the course in this outlandish and captivating post-apocalyptic sci-fi oddity from Ethiopia. […]
Vermont Italian Club reception preceding the screening of The Dinner. Pasta tastings prepared by Little Market Garden and cash bar. Sponsored by VIC, Little Market Garden and Rana Pasta.
Directed by Sanna Lenken | Sweden/Germany | Swedish w/English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 92 mins Best Screenplay Award, Special Fipresci Award, Special Audience Award (Festival del Cinema Europeo); Crystal Bear Award for Best Film & Special Mention from the international jury (Berlinale Generation Section); Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film (Goteborg Film Festival) […]
Directed by Ivano De Matteo | Italy | Italian w/ English subtitles | 2014 | Fiction | 93 mins Sponsored by the Vermont Italian Club AKAI International Film Fest Award, Venice; Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 2015 Silver Ribbon; FICE – Federazione Italiana Cinema d’Essai 2014 Award Film Source: Film Movement Intro and Q&A […]
Directed by Peter Greenaway | Netherlands/Mexico/Finland/Belgium/France | English & Spanish w/ English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 106 mins Film Source: Strand Releasing In 1931 the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein travels to Guanajuato to direct his film Que viva México. There he encounters a new culture and its dealings with death; he also discovers another […]
Directed by Stéphane Lafleur | Canada/Québec | French w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 93 mins Sponsored by Allan Nicholls & Nancy Bercaw Filmmaker in attendance for Q&A Listed as “Canada’s Top Ten” feature films of 2014, Tu Dors Nicole is the third film from the Quebec filmmaker, Stéphane Lafleur, who is probably best known as the […]
Directed by RKSS (Roadkill Superstar [aka François Simard], Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell)| 2015, 93 min | Canada/New Zealand | Unrated Starring: Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside In association with The Green Mountain Gore Society Film Source: Epic Pictures Turbo Kid creates a decidedly throwback post-apocalyptic future that seems imagined in the early 1980s. It’s […]
Directed by Luke Meyer | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 92 mins Film Source: SeeThink Films Sponsored by Lorna-Kay Peel Post-screening discussion led by director Luke Meyer via skype VTIFF FOR SCHOOLS is sponsored by the John M Bissell Foundation and by Jane Kramer For information about bringing student groups to the festival or […]
Lunchtime Shorts Are Sponsored By Middlebury College Presented daily, Monday through Friday at BCA Center, 12pm – 1pm. Ticket includes lunch courtesy of Kountry Kart Deli. Showcasing a wide variety of story and style, the 2015 Sundance Short Film Tour is a theatrical program of six award-winning short films from the 2015 edition of the […]
Directed by Luke Meyer | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 92 mins Film Source: SeeThink Films Sponsor: Lorna-Kay Peal Filmmaker attending screening for Q&A A few years ago, videos of three young African-American boys from Brooklyn performing raucous heavy metal music in Times Square went viral, with some clips garnering over a million views, […]
Directed by Anna Muylaert | Brazil | Portuguese w/English subtitles | 2015 | Fiction | 105 mins Sponsor: Barbara McGrew Film Source: Oscilloscope Brazil’s official submission to this year’s Oscars is an acutely well-observed and engaging comedy-drama about the unspoken class barriers that exist within a household, especially once they come crashing down after the live-in […]
A Single Pebble reception of General Tso dishes, cash bar. Preceding the screening of In Search of General Tso. Sponsored by A Single Pebble.