Movies

October 16-25, 2026
VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Main Street Landing

It’s that time again, the most exciting season of the year! 2026 Vermont International Film Festival returns at the peak of autumn, screening 60+ films from around the world. VTIFF 2026 presents the most buzzed about movies of the year, welcoming many guest filmmakers, hosting special events and happy hours, while celebrating incredible international and independent film. Join us at Main Street Landing in Downtown Burlington—in the Film House, the Black Box theater, and The Screening Room—from October 16 through 25. See you at the movies!

Friday, October 30 @ 7 pm
THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (2009)
The Screening Room

On the night before Halloween, come see the breakout indie hit from Ti West, director of the X trilogy. The House of the Devil is a wickedly fun, stylish, and twisted Satanic Panic revival, a young brash kid-in-a-candy-store filmmaker flexing his influences and having a blast.

Saturday, October 31 @ 7 pm
GHOSTWATCH (1992)
The Screening Room

The perfect film for Halloween night, the hauntingly enthralling Ghostwatch set the template for how to catch viewers completely unawares, and it worked smashingly. 

Sunday, November 1 @ 7 pm
ROADS TO OLYMPIA (2019)
The Screening Room

Three young athletes—a closeted Russian decathlete, a Saudi woman struggling against the patriarchy, and a Brazilian wrestler escaping crime—face cultural oppression, intolerance, and poverty as they pursue a shared dream to compete in the Olympic Games.

Thursday, November 5 @ 7 pm
ALL THAT JAZZ (1979)
The Screening Room

The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece, starring Roy Scheider in the performance of his career.

Friday, November 6
NAZA (2026)
The Film House

Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the filmmakers behind the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, NAZA was shot secretly at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv and focuses on conversations with people involved in the calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians.

Saturday, November 7
NAZA (2026)
The Film House

Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the filmmakers behind the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, NAZA was shot secretly at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv and focuses on conversations with people involved in the calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians.

Wednesday, November 11 @ 7 pm
A TRIP TO MARS (1918)
The Screening Room

In Holger-Madsen’s groundbreaking silent space adventure, a group of Danish astronauts land on Mars and discover a utopian, vegetarian society populated by people who look like… attractive Danes headed to a toga party.

Friday, November 13 @ 7 pm
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II—EXILE (2026) [SECTION I]
The Screening Room

In the expansive and equally intimate second chapter of her monumental procedural tracking a group of Russian dissidents, Julia Loktev picks up precisely where she left off, following the journalists branded as “foreign agents” as the disperse across Europe and beyond.

Saturday, November 14 @ 2 pm
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II—EXILE (2026) [SECTION I]
The Screening Room

In the expansive and equally intimate second chapter of her monumental procedural tracking a group of Russian dissidents, Julia Loktev picks up precisely where she left off, following the journalists branded as “foreign agents” as the disperse across Europe and beyond.

Saturday, November 14 @ 7 pm
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II—EXILE (2026) [SECTION II]
The Screening Room

In the expansive and equally intimate second chapter of her monumental procedural tracking a group of Russian dissidents, Julia Loktev picks up precisely where she left off, following the journalists branded as “foreign agents” as the disperse across Europe and beyond.

Sunday, November 15 @ 2 pm
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II—EXILE (2026) [SECTION II]
The Screening Room

In the expansive and equally intimate second chapter of her monumental procedural tracking a group of Russian dissidents, Julia Loktev picks up precisely where she left off, following the journalists branded as “foreign agents” as the disperse across Europe and beyond.

Friday, November 20 @ 7 pm
DOWN BY LAW (1986)
The Screening Room

Jim Jarmusch followed up his breakout film Stranger Than Paradise with this equally beloved portrait of three hapless misfits on the run in Louisiana: an unemployed disc jockey (Tom Waits), a small-time pimp (John Lurie), and an Italian tourist (Roberto Benigni).

Saturday, November 21 @ 4 pm
THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939)
The Screening Room

One of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners, as a weekend of goings-on at a country château riles a group of haut-bourgeois acquaintances.

Saturday, November 21 @ 7 pm
THE KILLING (1956)
The Screening Room

Stanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest, twistiest noirs. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony, it’s Kubrick to the core.

Saturday, November 28 @ 4 pm
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (2021)
The Screening Room

Renate Reinsve won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for the revelatory, complex performance that anchors this sprawlingly novelistic film by Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier.

Saturday, November 28 @ 7 pm
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019)
The Screening Room

Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until together they create a space in which it can briefly flourish, in this sumptuous 18th-century romance from Céline Sciamma, one of contemporary French cinema’s most acclaimed auteurs.