Movies

April 23-26
MADE HERE FILM FESTIVAL 2026
@ Burlington Beer Company

VTIFF, in partnership with Vermont Public, presents the sixth annual Made Here Film Festival! Join us for four days celebrating filmmaking from New England and Quebec. We’re presenting over 50 films, welcoming dozens of filmmakers, and hosting a number of workshops throughout the weekend. All tickets are pay what you can.

Tuesday, April 28 @ 4 pm
EXIT 8 (2025)
The Film House

After exiting a subway train, a man finds himself suddenly trapped in a Möbius: he turns a corner and discovers that the nondescript passageway loops back on itself endlessly. Director Genki Kawamura savvily translates the hit video game’s recursive logic to the big screen, with scrappy visual wit and a delirious sense of fun.

Tuesday, April 28 @ 7 pm
EXIT 8 (2025)
The Film House

After exiting a subway train, a man finds himself suddenly trapped in a Möbius: he turns a corner and discovers that the nondescript passageway loops back on itself endlessly. Director Genki Kawamura savvily translates the hit video game’s recursive logic to the big screen, with scrappy visual wit and a delirious sense of fun.

Friday, May 1 @ 7 pm
EATING RAOUL (1982)
The Screening Room

Starring writer-director Paul Bartel and his invaluable collaborator Mary Woronov, Eating Raoul is a mix of hilarious, anything-goes slapstick and biting satire of me-generation self-indulgence—a comedy with a substantial body count.

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.”

Thursday, May 7 @ 4 pm
BLUE HERON (2025)
The Film House

Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut, the story of childhood joy embedded in the confusion of a family’s growing crisis, confirms her status as one of Canada’s most exceptional emerging filmmakers.

Thursday, May 7 @ 7 pm
BLUE HERON (2025)
The Film House

Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut, the story of childhood joy embedded in the confusion of a family’s growing crisis, confirms her status as one of Canada’s most exceptional emerging filmmakers.

Friday, May 8 @ 7 pm
THE PIANO (1993)
The Screening Room

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, and Holly Hunter an Oscar for her achingly eloquent silent performance.

Saturday, May 9 @ 7 pm
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
The Screening Room

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?

Friday, May 15 @ 7 pm
SWEETIE (1989)
The Screening Room

A feast of colorful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, Jane Campion’s tough and tender debut heralded the emergence of a startlingly gifted filmmaker, and ignited an international renaissance of Australian cinema.

Saturday, May 16 @ 3 pm
BILLY PRESTON: THAT’S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT (2024)
The Screening Room

Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, this 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.

Saturday, May 16 @ 7 pm
BILLY PRESTON: THAT’S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT (2024)
The Screening Room

Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, this 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.

Sunday, May 17 @ 3 pm
THE BIG HEAT (1953)
The Screening Room

This scorching tale of vice and retribution finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style—stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, fatalistic to the core—and features two of the most shocking scenes in all of noir.

Thursday, May 21 @ 4 pm
SILENT FRIEND (2025)
The Film House

At the heart of a German university grows a majestic ginkgo tree, its lifespan measured in centuries. The distinguished plant bears witness to the private lives of those who seek shade under its boundless branches (Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux), forming a nexus across time and space.

Thursday, May 21 @ 7 pm
SILENT FRIEND (2025)
The Film House

At the heart of a German university grows a majestic ginkgo tree, its lifespan measured in centuries. The distinguished plant bears witness to the private lives of those who seek shade under its boundless branches (Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux), forming a nexus across time and space.

Friday, May 22 @ 7 pm
FORCE OF EVIL (1948)
The Screening Room

This gritty, quintessential, eternally underrated noir is drenched in greed, cynicism, and corruption of the soul, as embodied by the great John Garfield. Renowned for its unique, poetic script, first-time director Abraham Polonsky creates a heightened, lyrical atmosphere that contrasts with the harsh, criminal underworld.

Saturday, May 23 @ 3 pm
AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (1990)
The Screening Room

With An Angel at My Table, Jane Campion brought to the screen the harrowing autobiography of Janet Frame, New Zealand’s most distinguished author, breaking new ground for female filmmakers everywhere and earning a sweep of her country’s film awards.

Saturday, May 23 @ 7 pm
AGATHA’S ALMANAC (2025)
The Screening Room

Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she resolutely tends to her land, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Shot by an all-female crew over six years on 16mm film, the project’s handmade materiality beautifully mirrors Agatha’s tactile world.

Sunday, May 24 @ 3 pm
AGATHA’S ALMANAC (2025)
The Screening Room

Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she resolutely tends to her land, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Shot by an all-female crew over six years on 16mm film, the project’s handmade materiality beautifully mirrors Agatha’s tactile world.

Friday, May 29 @ 7 pm
THE POWER OF THE DOG (2021)
The Screening Room

Jane Campion returned to the mythic frontier landscape to plumb the masculine psyche, becoming only the third woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. She charts this story’s repressed desires and psychic violence with the control of a master at the height of her powers.

Saturday, May 30 @ 7 pm
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
The Screening Room

A high-water mark in the genre, Out of the Past has everything you want in a film noir: a tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good, a drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good, and a moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark’s grin, plus double crosses, fall guys, shadowy rooms, and bleak souls.

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.