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
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.
Thursday, November 12 @ 4 pm
A TALENT FOR MURDER (2026)
The Film House
This smoldering chamber thriller from Anton Corbijn (Control) stars Academy Award winner Helen Mirren, playing the “poet of apprehension” Patricia Highsmith, and Alden Ehrenreich as opponents in a strange confrontation between a youthful literary agent and The Talented Mr. Ripley author.
Thursday, November 12 @ 7 pm
A TALENT FOR MURDER (2026)
The Film House
This smoldering chamber thriller from Anton Corbijn (Control) stars Academy Award winner Helen Mirren, playing the “poet of apprehension” Patricia Highsmith, and Alden Ehrenreich as opponents in a strange confrontation between a youthful literary agent and The Talented Mr. Ripley author.
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.
Friday, December 11 @ 7 pm
CLUE (1985)
The Screening Room
VTIFF remembers the great Tim Curry (1946-2026), who walks away with this ’80s whodunit board game adaptation among a stacked cast that also includes Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Lesley Ann Warren, and Martin Mull.
Saturday, December 12 @ 3 pm
THE TURIN HORSE (2011)
The Screening Room
The Hungarian genius Béla Tarr’s (1955-2026) final film is one of his best, composed in his signature long takes and immaculately photographed in stark black and white, an epic invocation of a famous anecdote about Friedrich Nietzsche.
Saturday, December 12 @ 7 pm
9 TO 5 (1980)
The Screening Room
If you’re going to honor Dolly cinematically, only 9 to 5 will do. The plot is basic: three female employees (Dolly, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda) working for a horrible, sexist boss come up with an elaborate plan to turn the tables.
Friday, December 18 @ 7 pm
FANNY AND ALEXANDER (THEATRICAL CUT) (1982)
The Screening Room
In Ingmar Bergman’s warmest and most autobiographical film, we witness the delights and conflicts of a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-20th-century Sweden through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander.
Saturday, December 19 @ 4 pm
THE SILENT PARTNER (1978)
The Screening Room
Don’t let your kid sit on this Santa’s knee! One of the great unheralded movies of the ’70s, The Silent Partner is a taut thriller with great performances, featuring one of the nastiest Santas to ever grace the screen. Starring Elliot Gould and Christopher Plummer.
Saturday, December 19 @ 7 pm
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000)
The Screening Room
Okay, so Wong Kar-wai’s modern classic itself has nothing to do with Christmas, but it’s a perfect film, and it’s a VTIFF tradition to spend some part of the holiday with Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk in Hong Kong, 1962.