The Screening Room @VTIFF
A weekly movie series at our micro-cinema at VTIFF’s office, 60 Lake Street, 1st floor.
Our 32-seat cinema provides an intimate–but powerful–viewing experience with top-quality projection and sound.
All tickets are $5 (unless otherwise noted).
Screenings have been selling out. Order your tickets online in advance to guarantee your seat.
April Screenings
Ray Vega presents…‘Round Midnight – SOLD OUT
Friday, April 26 | 7:00 pm
The Screening Room @VTIFF
For the third installment in his Jazz Soundtracks series, local jazzman Ray Vega offers up this classic from 1986. Propelled by jazz immortal Dexter Gordon’s singular, phenomenal lead performance and Herbie Hancock’s dazzling soundtrack, Bertrand Tavernier’s ‘Round Midnight is one of the very best movies about jazz, the music and the people who make it.
Menu-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
Saturday, May 4 | 3:00 pm
The Screening Room @VTIFF
Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest film, Menus-Plaisirs– Les Troisgros, is a film about the Troisgros family and their three restaurants: Troisgros, Le Central and Colline, located in three neighboring locations in bucolic central France.
Bushman
Friday, May 10 | 7:00 pm
The Screening Room @VTIFF
Using a docu-fictional style reminiscent of Cassavetes’ Shadows, the film observes the foibles of late 1960s African-American culture with an outsider’s incisive eye.
Chameleon Street
Saturday, May 11 | 7:00 pm
The Screening Room @VTIFF
Wendell B. Harris wrote, directed and starred in this edgy, hilarious deep-dive into the mind of a brilliant African-American, William Douglas Street, a man who seeks to adopt any identity – baseball player, journalist, Harvard grad student, even surgeon – other than his own.