HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA! Neil Ira Needleman | 3 | ME Independence Day brings to mind the story of a man who decided to self-deport for fear of ICE stormtroopers. WHO MOVES AMERICA Yael Bridge | 87 | RI The Teamsters mount a pressure campaign on UPS to improve working conditions.
M@CY’S HIGH Zoe Boray | 20 | VT A former student documents the final year of high school held in the defunct Burlington mall. TO YOUR HANDS Ana Mouyis | 11 | MA On the divided island of Cyprus, the quiet motion of hands shaping lace and making cheese shed new light on decades of […]
THE JOURNEY HOME Cole Whitaker | 7 | MA A man reckons with his feelings of ineptitude as a routine trip turns into a more significant journey. GHISLAINE’S PLACE Franie-Éléonore Bernier | 18 | QC Ghislaine runs a smuggling network of stolen food, which she sells at low prices to the community. YOU’RE OUT Marie-Louise […]
A SUSPENDED TIDE Félix Caraballo | 13 | QC Strange auditory anomalies blur the line between reality and imagination. MY MEMORY WALLS Axel Robin | 13 | QC An almost-nonagenarian artist paints the story of her life on her house’s walls. GLORIOUS OBSCURITY Ronan Furuta | 10 | VT A glimpse into the unique world […]
RADIO Salma AlaaEldeen Badra | 16 | VT The constant presence of the radio captures the rhythm of life in an Egyptian home. PETTICOATS Gaëlle Graton | 18 | QC In 19th-century Quebec, a kitchen hand dreams of learning the men’s trade. IT WILL ALWAYS END IN THE END Nancy Pettinicchio | 16 | QC […]
CORPUS John R. Killacky | 7 | VT A meditative reflection of our bodies that have been demonized, weaponized, and politicized. THE DOWNTOWN BURLINGTON BEAR Dillon Tanner | 7 | VT Dillon met Chris while he was smoking in a bear suit outside of City Hall and said “what’s up.” LITTLE VICTORIES Rafaël Beauchamp | […]
DEFINITELY GANGSTER *U.S Premiere* Jeremy Lee MacKenzie | 70 | VT Terminally ill eight-year-old Zander and his best friend embark on a quest to fulfill his dream of being like his idol, Edward G. Robinson. This screening also includes a short documentary about the making of Definitely Gangster and a Q&A with the filmmakers.
After exiting a subway train, a man (Kazunari Ninomiya, credited simply as The Lost Man) finds himself suddenly trapped in a Möbius: he turns a corner and discovers that the nondescript subway passageway loops back on itself endlessly, with signs indicating he must seek out the elusive exit number eight. The rules of his quest […]
After exiting a subway train, a man (Kazunari Ninomiya, credited simply as The Lost Man) finds himself suddenly trapped in a Möbius: he turns a corner and discovers that the nondescript subway passageway loops back on itself endlessly, with signs indicating he must seek out the elusive exit number eight. The rules of his quest […]
Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films Talk about a movie whose time has come: Eating Raoul is a comedy about fed-up working-class people who kill awful rich people and steal their money to fund their own dreams. Bring it on! A cannibalistic caper that doubles as a razor-sharp social satire about income inequality […]
This event has been canceled. We hope to reschedule for later this year so stay tuned. We’re sorry for any inconvenience. Join VTIFF and Frank: for Frank: AF | Animation Fascination, an afternoon and evening dedicated to animation, creativity, and the art of bringing motion to life. This half-day event gathers animators, artists, students, and creative technologists for […]
Live improvised score by Wren Kitz & John Flanagan Some movies you have to see to believe; count The Unknown among them. The most celebrated and exquisitely perverse of the many collaborations between director Tod Browning (Freaks) and his legendary leading man Lon Chaney, The Unknown features a wrenchingly physical performance from “the Man of […]
Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut confirms her status as one of Canada’s most exceptional emerging filmmakers. Blue Heron is formally inventive and acutely personal, a re-creation of childhood joys embedded in a more troubling story of a family’s growing crisis. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new […]
Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut confirms her status as one of Canada’s most exceptional emerging filmmakers. Blue Heron is formally inventive and acutely personal, a re-creation of childhood joys embedded in a more troubling story of a family’s growing crisis. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new […]
Director of the Month: Jane Campion One of the great films of the 1990s, this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity earned Jane Campion the Palme d’Or at Cannes, the first woman so honored. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who […]
Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously wicked as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Working with co-writer Raymond Chandler, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A-list with this epitome of film noir fatalism, adapted from James M. Cain’s […]
Director of the Month: Jane Campion Though she went on to create a string of brilliant films, Jane Campion will always be remembered for her stunning debut feature, Sweetie, which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, Sweetie—and on their family’s profoundly rotten roots. A feast of […]
Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It is an exhilarating documentary about the legendary musician whose signature sound shaped the work of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Eric Clapton, and countless others. On his own, he generated […]
Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It is an exhilarating documentary about the legendary musician whose signature sound shaped the work of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Eric Clapton, and countless others. On his own, he generated […]
Noir doesn’t get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style—stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. Featuring two of the most shocking scenes in all of noir, The Big Heat stars […]