Virginia Film Festival

Life, Animated

Preceded by the short film Titanic Boy (8 min.) Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams’ new…

A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet

Larry Levis, one of the most influential and decorated poets of his time, suffered a fatal…

Contemporary Color

This performance event, conceived by Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne, honors the artistry and athleticism…

The Love Witch

Preceded by the short film Roadside Assistance (8 min.) This highly stylized and impeccably crafted drama-thriller…

Driftwood

In this intricately layered, dialogue-free exploration of isolation and captivity, a young woman washes ashore and…

Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse, one of America’s foremost post-war artists, pioneered the formation of sculptures using latex, fiberglass,…

Waking Sleeping Beauty

In 1984, Walt Disney Animation Studios experienced a box office slump. Director Don Hahn offers a…

Exile

A film about abandonment, Exile is an abstract telling of director Rithy Panh’s (The Missing Picture)…

Good Work: Masters of the Building Arts

Directors Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner reunite for the first time since winning the Academy Award…

Into the Inferno

Iconic German director Werner Herzog and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer travel to the world’s most treacherous volcanoes…

Kevin Everson Short Films

From internationally renowned filmmaker Kevin Everson comes a selection of short films that combines historical observations…

Macbeth Unhinged

Macbeth Unhinged is a modern interpretation of the classic Shakespeare play, set in the claustrophobic confines…

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

The first feature-length documentary focusing on Maya Angelou, this film peers into her many lives as…

Mifune: The Last Samurai

Toshiro Mifune was the most prominent actor of Japan’s Golden Age of Cinema in the 1950s…

SPLit

Inanna, a young woman working as an actress by day and a stripper by night, enters…

The Red Turtle

Preceded by the short film The Magic Motley (7 min.) A man has been thrown overboard…

Boone

Three young goat farmers come to terms with the physical and emotional grit required to live…

Tower

On August 1, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the iconic…

Dead Slow Ahead

Dead Slow Ahead follows the journey of an enormous shipping freighter, Fair Lady, transporting wheat across…

Joseph Cornell: Boxes and Films

This collection will offer an overview of Joseph Cornell’s work and screen both his first film…

Lydia Moyer: Experimental Short Films

The personal and the political are interwoven with the magical and the traumatic in this program…

Liv & Ingmar

This documentary tells the story of the 42 year- and 12 films-long relationship between legendary actress…