Virginia Film Festival

Mama Boy

Xiao-hong, a painfully shy, almost thirty-year-old fish store employee, lives alongside his control-freak mother, Meiling, who…

Karaoke

Karaoke follows Meir and Tova, a middle-class couple in their 60s who are getting tired of…

Huesera

Best New Narrative and Nora Ephron Prize Winner, 2022 Tribeca Film Festival After years of trying…

The Hole in the Fence

A group of boys from a prestigious Mexican private school attends an exclusive summer camp designed…

Hard Shell, Soft Shell

Az is a hopelessly romantic (or just hopeless?) twenty-something oyster farmer, plying his trade in the…

Godland

San Sebastian Film Festival Winner, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Jury Award Upon arrival to the Danish colony of Iceland…

From Sudan to Argentina

World Premiere When the construction of the Aswan High Dam threatened to destroy the Ancient Egyptian…

EO

Official Oscar© Selection—Poland At age 84, legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski (The Deep End, Moonlighting) has directed…

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into The Future

Following the disappearance of thousands of fish in a river in southern Chile, a several decades-deceased…

Concerned Citizen

Things are going well for Ben and Raz, a well-to-do gay couple from Tel Aviv. After…

Beautiful Beings

2023 Oscar® Selection, Iceland Addi, a teenage boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, is the nominal…

Neighbours

In a little village on the Syrian-Turkish border in the early 80s, six-year-old Sero experiences his…

The Noise of Engines

Placed on compulsory leave from a Canadian customs college, Alexandre takes the opportunity to make a…

The Worst Person in the World

Preceded by the short film The Wind and the Kite. The newest film from acclaimed director…

Sudanese Film Group Shorts

During the 1970s and 1980s, as a myriad religious and political factions waged an endless civil…

All My Friends Hate Me

Preceded by the short film The Acolyte. All Pete (Tom Stourton) wants is to spend his birthday…

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Shot on solar powered batteries on location at the world’s most remote school, director Pawo Choyning…

I Don’t Fire Myself

Jeong-eun, a tenacious young woman, refuses to submit to her company’s blatant attempts to have her…

In Front of Your Face

The newest film from Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo, In Front of Your Face follows an actress…

Hive

In her first feature film, writer-director Blerta Basholli delves into the true story of Fahrije Hoti,…

The Hand of God

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, comes the story of Fabietto Schisa, a boy growing up…

The Girl and the Spider

After living with her friends Mara and Markus for years, Lisa is finally moving into her…

Flee

Preceded by the short film There Was Nobody Here We Knew. This animated documentary from Executive…

Fighter

Fighter follows Jin-ah, a North Korean refugee who is struggling to earn enough money to bring…

Dachra

Tunisia’s first horror movie, Dachra follows three young journalism students who venture to an isolated village…

Nudo Mixteco

Preceded by the short film La Utopia de la Mariposa. Three stories intertwine during a celebration in…

Parallel Mothers

Described as “a little bundle of joy” by critics, Parallel Mothers is the story of two…

Persian Lessons

An unconventional friendship grows between the German chef of a concentration camp kitchen and a young…

Petite Maman

After the death of her grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly joins her parents in taking stock of her…

The Raft

Four teenage die-hard soccer fans, construct a raft to sail from Israel to Cyprus to watch…

Aloners

Preceded by the short film BJ's Mobile Gift Shop. Jin-ah prefers to be on her own. She…

The Speech

This comedic film d’auteur directed by Laurent Tirard follows 35-year-old Adrien at a disastrous family dinner…

And Then We Danced

A passionate tale of love and liberation set amidst the conservative confines of modern Georgian society, And…

First Love

Takashi Miike, the prolific Japanese director of over 100 films, returns with a hysterically absurd crime…

Cowboy Joe

Screens before the feature film Driveways. Set in New York City, Cowboy Joe is a punchy…

Oh Mercy!

Roubaix police chief Daoud and newcomer Louis grapple with a peculiar case of murder, deceit, and…

Forman vs. Forman

Through a collection of archival footage, early interviews, and material from private archives, this nostalgic documentary…

Those Who Remained

In post-World War II Budapest, 16-year old Klara reluctantly lives with her great-aunt, desperately hoping her…

Default

Default turns the fallout of the 1997 Asian financial crisis in Korea into riveting entertainment. The film follows three storylines: Si-hyun’s shows…

Sibyl

Tired of mundane sessions with her clientele, therapist Sibyl drops multiple patients and pursues her dream…

Zombi Child

Beginning in 1962, this film focuses on the true story of Haitian man Clairvius Narcisse, who…

I Lost My Body

In a desperate attempt to get back to its body, an amputated hand escapes from its…

The Humorist

Set in the waning days of the Soviet Union, The Humorist is a portrait of a…

Grass

A young woman, Areum (Kim Min-hee, The Handmaiden) sits in the corner of a small café…

Ghost Town Anthology

The frigid, small Québécois village of Irénée-les-Neiges is ominously disrupted by the unexpected death of local…

Beanpole

In 1924 two women, Iya, a nurse, and Masha, a recently returned soldier, struggle to reassemble…

Atlantics

In a suburb of Dakar, Senegal, many souls have been lost to the sea in an…

The Wild Goose Lake

Mob boss Zhou Zenong desperately tries to stay alive after he mistakenly kills a cop and…

The Traitor

The Traitor tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, a man who brought down La Cosa…

Varda by Agnès

Photographer, installation artist, and pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague Agnès Varda returns with a characteristically bittersweet…

Tehran: City of Love

Three downhearted individuals— an ex-champion bodybuilder, an overweight beauty clinic secretary, and a dispirited religious singer—long…

Synonyms

When Israeli twenty-something Yoav moves to Paris, France,he intends to rid himself of his nationality and…

The Sower

Preceded by the short film Copan En Espera. Amongst the mountains of Chiapas in Mexico,a rural multi-grade…

Sea of Shadows

When Mexican drug cartels and Chinese traffickers join forces to poach the rare totoaba fish in…

Parasite

The Park Family is the picture of aspirational wealth. The Kim family is rich in nothing…

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

In eighteenth century France, the elusive Héloïse has rejected her mother’s previous attempts to commission a…

Parwareshgah (The Orphanage)

In Soviet-era Afghanistan during the late 1980s, 15-year-old Qodrat makes his living on the streets of…

Pain and Glory

Renowned director Salvador Mallo is facing the decline of his career. As he looks back on…

Nichimal Son (Blooming Music)

Screens before the feature film Artemio Evlia relocates to Zinacantán out of love for her husband and…

Midnight Family

In one of Mexico City’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family operates a for-profit ambulance, competing with…

Kelebekler (Butterflies)

After a traumatic event in childhood, siblings Cemal, Kenan, and Suzan left their village of Hasanlar…

Jaddoland

Director Nadia Shihab returns to her home in Lubbock, Texas,to visit her mother, an artist from…

I’ve Got Issues

Self-loathing, loneliness, death, discrimination, injustice, oppression, and the atom bomb, I’ve Got Issues is a unique comic…

The Golden Harvest

In this “6,000-year-old love story,” director Alia Yunis explores the complicated relationship between the people of…

Fig Tree

Set in 1989, director Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian’s feature debut follows 16-year-old Mina as she navigates coming of…

The Father

Valentina’s death takes quite a toll on her husband, Vassil. When it’s discovered that a neighbor…

Family Romance, LLC

Preceded by the short film Pilgrim Werner Herzog’s latest narrative focuses on Japan’s bizarre rent-a-family business, a…

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (How I Felt When I Saw That Girl)

Sweety Chaudhary, a young Punjabi woman, is constantly badgered by her overbearing family about her love…

Dolce Fine Giornata

Maria Linde, a renowned poet and Nobel Prize winner, lives in her glorious Tuscan villa surrounded…

Deerskin

At the start, Georges is seemingly just a middle-aged, bearded loner living in a small-town motel.…

Coming Home

In October of 2014, director Ricardo Preve led a diving expedition on the shore of Barra…

Coapan En Espera

Screens before the feature film The Sower.  An experimental documentary from director Federico Cuatlacuatl, Copan En Espera…

The Cave

For the past eight years, the war in Syria has brought death and destruction to millions.…

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

In anticipation of the historic film's 100th-anniversary premiere in Berlin, Feb 26th, 1920, this repertory screening…

Bacurau

Teresa returns to her village of Bacurau, located in Brazil’s semi-arid sertão, following the death of…

Artemio

Preceded by the short film Nichmal Son: Musica Que Florece Artemio was born in the United…

Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

While under house arrest in Beijing at the hands of Chinese authorities, artist and activist Ai…

Diamantino

Diamantino, the world’s premiere soccer star (Carloto Cotta), loses his special touch and ends his career in…

Sunset

On the brink of World War I, Irisz Leiter arrives in Budapest desperately looking for work…

The Third Wife

In late 19th century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May is chosen to be the third wife of…