Schedule

Day:

Venue:

Series & Themes:

Genre & Topic:

Type:

Accessibility:

ASL-English Interpretation
Closed Captions
Open Captions
Q&A
Subtitles

Wednesday, October 25

5:00 PM
Black Barbie: a Documentary

Wednesday, 5:00 PM
Violet Crown 5
Black Excellence
5:30 PM
About Dry Grasses

Wednesday, 5:30 PM
Violet Crown 6 & 7
International Oscar Contenders, Middle Eastern & South Asian Cinema
6:00 PM
The Gullspång Miracle

Wednesday, 6:00 PM
Violet Crown 1 & 2
Women in Film
7:00 PM
Maestro

Wednesday, 7:00 PM
The Paramount Theater
Critical Conversations, Gala Screenings, Jewish, LGBTQIA+, Music on Film
8:15 PM

Booger

Wednesday, 8:15 PM

Violet Crown 5
9:30 PM

2023 Opening Night Gala

Wednesday, 9:30 PM

The Jefferson Theater

Thursday, October 26

4:30 PM

Joan Baez I Am a Noise

Thursday, 4:30 PM

Violet Crown 1 & 2
Music on Film
5:00 PM

Light House Studio Shorts

Thursday, 5:00 PM

Violet Crown 5
Shorts Programs
5:00 PM
Rustin

Thursday, 5:00 PM
Culbreth Theatre
Black Excellence, Critical Conversations, Gala Screenings, LGBTQIA+
5:30 PM
King Coal

Thursday, 5:30 PM
Violet Crown 6 & 7
Nature & Environment
7:00 PM

Short Films: Fantastical Escape

Thursday, 7:00 PM

Violet Crown 3
Shorts Programs
7:30 PM
The Goldman Case

Thursday, 7:30 PM
Violet Crown 1 & 2
Jewish
8:00 PM
Anselm

Thursday, 8:00 PM
Violet Crown 5
Jewish
8:00 PM
American Fiction

Thursday, 8:00 PM
The Paramount Theater
Black Excellence, Critical Conversations, From Page to Screen, Gala Screenings, LGBTQIA+
8:00 PM
All of Us Strangers

Thursday, 8:00 PM
Culbreth Theatre
From Page to Screen, LGBTQIA+
8:30 PM
Cobweb

Thursday, 8:30 PM
Violet Crown 6 & 7
Korean Cinema

Friday, October 27

2:15 PM
A Suite of Short Films by Kevin Jerome Everson

Friday, 2:15 PM
Violet Crown 5
Black Excellence, Critical Conversations, Shorts Programs
2:30 PM

They Shot the Piano Player

Friday, 2:30 PM

Violet Crown 6 & 7
Music on Film
3:00 PM
I Could Have Been a Tree Instead

Friday, 3:00 PM
Violet Crown 4
Critical Conversations, Virginia Filmmaking
4:45 PM
Sleep

Friday, 4:45 PM
Violet Crown 4
Korean Cinema
5:00 PM

The Persian Version

Friday, 5:00 PM

Culbreth Theatre
LGBTQIA+, Middle Eastern & South Asian Cinema, Music on Film, Women in Film
5:00 PM
The Space Race

Friday, 5:00 PM
Violet Crown 5
Black Excellence, Critical Conversations
5:15 PM

Fingernails

Friday, 5:15 PM

Violet Crown 1 & 2
5:30 PM

The Mission

Friday, 5:30 PM

Violet Crown 6 & 7
5:45 PM

This World Is Not My Own

Friday, 5:45 PM

Violet Crown 3
Black Excellence, Jewish
7:00 PM
Origin

Friday, 7:00 PM
The Paramount Theater
Black Excellence, Critical Conversations, From Page to Screen, Gala Screenings, Jewish, Women in Film
8:00 PM
Short Films: Best of Fests

Friday, 8:00 PM
Violet Crown 4
Shorts Programs
8:15 PM

Dream Scenario

Friday, 8:15 PM

Culbreth Theatre
Gala Screenings
8:15 PM
Breakwater

Friday, 8:15 PM
Violet Crown 5
Critical Conversations, Virginia Filmmaking
8:30 PM
Evil Does Not Exist

Friday, 8:30 PM
Violet Crown 6 & 7
Nature & Environment
8:30 PM

Frybread Face and Me

Friday, 8:30 PM

Violet Crown 1 & 2
Indigenous Cinema of the Americas
9:00 PM
Immediate Family

Friday, 9:00 PM
Violet Crown 3
Critical Conversations, Music on Film

Saturday, October 28

10:30 AM

Next Generation Storytellers’ High School Short Films

Saturday, 10:30 AM

Violet Crown 3
Shorts Programs
11:15 AM

Robot Dreams

Saturday, 11:15 AM

Violet Crown 1 & 2
From Page to Screen
11:45 AM
20 Days in Mariupol

Saturday, 11:45 AM
Violet Crown 6 & 7
International Oscar Contenders
11:45 AM
Perfect Days

Saturday, 11:45 AM
Culbreth Theatre
International Oscar Contenders
12:00 PM
War Pony

Saturday, 12:00 PM
The Paramount Theater
Critical Conversations, Gala Screenings, Indigenous Cinema of the Americas, Women in Film
12:00 PM
Stamped From the Beginning

Saturday, 12:00 PM
Violet Crown 5
Black Excellence, Critical Conversations, From Page to Screen
12:45 PM
Pay or Die

Saturday, 12:45 PM
Violet Crown 4
Critical Conversations, Women in Film
1:45 PM
Time Bomb Y2k

Saturday, 1:45 PM
Violet Crown 3
Critical Conversations
2:15 PM
Terrestrial Verses

Saturday, 2:15 PM
Violet Crown 1 & 2
Middle Eastern & South Asian Cinema
2:30 PM
From You

Saturday, 2:30 PM
Violet Crown 6 & 7
Korean Cinema
3:00 PM
Sometime, Somewhere

Saturday, 3:00 PM
Culbreth Theatre
Critical Conversations, Latinidades, Nature & Environment, Virginia Filmmaking
3:15 PM
Onboard

Saturday, 3:15 PM
Violet Crown 5
Black Excellence, Critical Conversations, Women in Film
4:00 PM
Impossible Town

Saturday, 4:00 PM
Violet Crown 4
Critical Conversations, Nature & Environment
4:15 PM
Going to Mars: the Nikki Giovanni Project

Saturday, 4:15 PM
The Paramount Theater
Black Excellence, Critical Conversations, Gala Screenings, LGBTQIA+, Women in Film
5:00 PM
Going Varsity in Mariachi

Saturday, 5:00 PM
Violet Crown 3
Critical Conversations, Latinidades, LGBTQIA+, Music on Film, Women in Film
5:15 PM
Four Daughters

Saturday, 5:15 PM
Violet Crown 1 & 2
International Oscar Contenders, Middle Eastern & South Asian Cinema, Women in Film
5:30 PM
The Settlers

Saturday, 5:30 PM
Violet Crown 6 & 7
International Oscar Contenders, Latinidades
6:00 PM
The Gilded Age: Season 2 Sneak Preview

Saturday, 6:00 PM
Violet Crown 5
Critical Conversations
6:00 PM
Fallen Leaves

Saturday, 6:00 PM
Culbreth Theatre
International Oscar Contenders
7:00 PM
Café Daughter

Saturday, 7:00 PM
Violet Crown 4
Critical Conversations, Indigenous Cinema of the Americas, Women in Film
8:00 PM
Tótem

Saturday, 8:00 PM
Violet Crown 6 & 7
International Oscar Contenders, Latinidades, Women in Film
8:15 PM
La Chimera

Saturday, 8:15 PM
Violet Crown 1 & 2
Women in Film
8:30 PM
The Holdovers

Saturday, 8:30 PM
The Paramount Theater
Critical Conversations, Gala Screenings
8:30 PM
Dusty & Stones

Saturday, 8:30 PM
Violet Crown 3
Critical Conversations, Music on Film
8:30 PM

Eileen

Saturday, 8:30 PM

Culbreth Theatre
From Page to Screen, LGBTQIA+
9:00 PM
Tapawingo

Saturday, 9:00 PM
Violet Crown 5
Critical Conversations, Virginia Filmmaking
9:30 PM

2023 Late Night Wrap Party

Saturday, 9:30 PM

Three Notch'd Craft Kitchen & Brewery

Sunday, October 29

12:00 PM
The Taste of Things

Sunday, 12:00 PM
The Paramount Theater
International Oscar Contenders
12:45 PM
The Disappearance of Shere Hite

Sunday, 12:45 PM
Violet Crown 5
Critical Conversations, Women in Film
1:15 PM
Monster

Sunday, 1:15 PM
Violet Crown 6 & 7
LGBTQIA+
2:00 PM
No Ordinary Campaign

Sunday, 2:00 PM
Culbreth Theatre
Critical Conversations
2:00 PM
Animalia

Sunday, 2:00 PM
Violet Crown 1 & 2
Middle Eastern & South Asian Cinema, Women in Film
2:15 PM

Hummingbirds

Sunday, 2:15 PM

Violet Crown 3
Latinidades, LGBTQIA+, Women in Film
2:45 PM

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Sunday, 2:45 PM

Violet Crown 4
Black Excellence, Women in Film
4:00 PM

May December

Sunday, 4:00 PM

The Paramount Theater
Gala Screenings
4:30 PM
Breaking the News

Sunday, 4:30 PM
Violet Crown 6 & 7
Black Excellence, Indigenous Cinema of the Americas, Latinidades, LGBTQIA+, Women in Film
4:45 PM
Radical

Sunday, 4:45 PM
Violet Crown 1 & 2
Latinidades
4:45 PM
For the Taking

Sunday, 4:45 PM
Culbreth Theatre
Critical Conversations, Virginia Filmmaking
4:45 PM
Faulkner: the Past Is Never Dead

Sunday, 4:45 PM
Violet Crown 5
Critical Conversations, From Page to Screen
5:00 PM
We Start With the Things We Find

Sunday, 5:00 PM
Violet Crown 3
Critical Conversations, Nature & Environment
5:45 PM

Short Films: Heroes You Should Know

Sunday, 5:45 PM

Violet Crown 4
Critical Conversations, Shorts Programs
7:30 PM
American Symphony

Sunday, 7:30 PM
The Paramount Theater
Black Excellence, Critical Conversations, Gala Screenings, Music on Film
7:45 PM
The Teachers’ Lounge

Sunday, 7:45 PM
Culbreth Theatre
International Oscar Contenders
8:00 PM
On the Adamant

Sunday, 8:00 PM
Violet Crown 6 & 7
8:15 PM

Gumbo Coalition

Sunday, 8:15 PM

Violet Crown 3
Black Excellence, Latinidades, Women in Film
8:30 PM
Fancy Dance

Sunday, 8:30 PM
Violet Crown 1 & 2
Indigenous Cinema of the Americas
8:45 PM
Asog

Sunday, 8:45 PM
Violet Crown 4
LGBTQIA+