Movies
VTIFF presents films throughout the year.
- Weekly at The Screening Room, 60 Lake Street, 1st floor
- Curated movies and special series presented in our micro-cinema.
- $12 general admission | $6 student | member benefits apply
- Monthly at the Film House at Main Street Landing, 3rd floor
- International and independent cinema presented on the big screen.
- $12 general admission | $6 student | member benefits apply
- Host sponsor: Main Street Landing | Corporate sponsor: Northfield Saving Bank
Upcoming films
Friday, March 13 @ 4 pm
2026 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: ANIMATED
The Screening Room
A program collecting all the Oscar-nominated animated short films at the 98th Academy Awards.
Friday, March 13 @ 7 pm
2026 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: LIVE ACTION
The Screening Room
A program collecting all the Oscar-nominated live action short films at the 98th Academy Awards.
Saturday, March 14 @ 3 pm
2026 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: LIVE ACTION
The Screening Room
A program collecting all the Oscar-nominated live action short films at the 98th Academy Awards.
Saturday, March 14 @ 7 pm
2026 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: DOCUMENTARY
The Screening Room
A program collecting all the Oscar-nominated documentary short films at the 98th Academy Awards.
Sunday, March 15 @ 1 pm
2026 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: ANIMATED
The Screening Room
A program collecting all the Oscar-nominated animated short films at the 98th Academy Awards.
Sunday, March 15 @ 3 pm
2026 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: DOCUMENTARY
The Screening Room
A program collecting all the Oscar-nominated documentary short films at the 98th Academy Awards.
Thursday, March 19 @ 4 pm
THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR (2024)
The Film House
Set high in the majestic French Pyrenees, filmmaker Max Keegan embedded with the local shepherd community for years to get to the heart of the conflict over the reintroduction of brown bears to the region, and observe the ripple effects.
Thursday, March 19 @ 7 pm
THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR (2024)
The Film House
Set high in the majestic French Pyrenees, filmmaker Max Keegan embedded with the local shepherd community for years to get to the heart of the conflict over the reintroduction of brown bears to the region, and observe the ripple effects.
Friday, March 20 @ 7 pm
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (1992)
The Screening Room
In a Mexican border town circa 1910, heartbroken Tita discovers she has a unique talent for cooking, and the magical ability to transfer her emotions to others through the food she prepares.
Saturday, March 21 @ 3 pm
THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA (1993)
The Screening Room
In Tran Anh Hung’s (The Taste of Things) seductive debut, set in 1951 Saigon, 10 year old Mui enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family. As she comes of age, she finds her relationship with a handsome pianist blossoming into something more.
Saturday, March 21 @ 7 pm
TAMPOPO (1985)
The Screening Room
A lavishly inclusive paean to the sensual joys of nourishment, Juzo Itami’s “ramen western” is one of the most mouthwatering food movies ever made.
Wednesday, March 25 @ 7 pm
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929)
The Screening Room
Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + Johnnie Day Durand. One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era, Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera utilizes rapid editing and innumerable other cinematic effects to create a work of amazing modernity and power.
Wednesday, April 8 @ 7 pm
FAULT LINES (2025)
The Film House
Presented by Let’s Build Homes. Fault Lines takes a street level approach to the ongoing housing crisis, tackling the intersecting issues of affordability, homelessness, and legislation, and asking a key question that defines our moment: we know how to build more homes, so what’s stopping us?
Wednesday, April 15 @ 7 pm
THE WILDCAT (1921)
The Screening Room
Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + Mike Fried. Ernst Lubitsch directed some of Hollywood’s greatest comedies but some of his best came early in his career in his native Germany, like The Wildcat, a madcap anti-war farce and visual feast.
Wednesday, May 6 @ 7 pm
THE UNKNOWN (1927)
The Screening Room
Live improvised score by Wren Kitz + John Flanagan. The most celebrated and exquisitely perverse of the many collaborations between director Tod Browning and his legendary leading man Lon Chaney, The Unknown features a wrenchingly physical performance from “the Man of a Thousand Faces.”
Wednesday, June 10 @ 7 pm
THAT NIGHT’S WIFE (1930)
The Screening Room
Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + a special guest. Unfolding over the course of one night, Yasujiro Ozu’s That Night’s Wife combines suspense with the emotional domestic drama one associates with the filmmaker’s later masterpieces.
Wednesday, July 8 @ 7 pm
THE GOLEM (1920)
The Screening Room
Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + Will Andrews (aka Willverine). Widely recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, the ancient Hebrew legend of the Golem provided actor/director Paul Wegener with the substance for one of the most adventurous films of the German silent cinema.
Wednesday, August 5 @ 7 pm
HELL’S HINGES (1916)
The Screening Room
Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + Avery Cooper. This violent, morally shocking early feature-length Western features America’s first cinematic cowboy hero, William S. Hart, who became one of silent cinema’s most famous actors.
Thursday, September 17 @ 7 pm
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928)
The Film House
Live improvised score by Freeway Clyde. Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era.