Virginia Film Festival

Las maestras de la República

Education was one of the greatest social tenets of Spain's Second Republic, with the objective of…

Wetlands

Adventuresome eighteen year-old Helen Memel (Juri) expresses strange attitudes towards hygiene, vegetables, and sexuality. Struggling with…

What We Do in the Shadows

Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and Taika Waititi, breathe new life, and laughs, into the…

Landscapes of Longevity

What qualities of our everyday places help us live long, healthy lives?  The Landscapes of Longevity…

Wild

Director Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club), Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line), and Academy…

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

A depressed outsider who doesn’t fit in at her office job in Japan, Kumiko struggles to…

Wildlike

Mackenzie, a daring but troubled teenager, must go live with her uncle in Alaska, but her…

The Winding Stream

The heart of country music can be found in the hills of Virginia, nestled in the…

Karate Tango

preceded by the short film In Confidence (10 min.) A feature adaptation of Charlottesville native Peter Ryan’s off-Broadway…

Wings of Desire

The sky over war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle, trenchcoated angels who listen to the tortured…

I’m Obsessed With You

Four collegiate comedians and one magnetic movie star venture to live their lives according to the…

Wish You Well

In the wake of the tragedy of the loss of their father, young Lou Cardinal and…

The Humbling

Barry Levinson’s film adaptation of Philip Roth’s penultimate novel lays bare the dwindling acting career of…

The Wizard of Oz

Celebrate the 75th anniversary of one of the most beloved films of all time with a…

How I Got Over

Before taking the stage for a groundbreaking one-night-only performance at The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts,…

A Year in Champagne

The exploding cork, endless tiny bubbles floating up and up in the glass, the indulgence, the…

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

Since first walking onto stage in 1954, Hal Holbrook has performed his award-winning one-man show as…

The Hip-Hop Fellow

Patrick Douthit, better known as the artist 9th Wonder, is a Grammy Award winning producer, record…

The Heroes of Arvine Place

Recently widowed Kevin Hedges juggles a lot in his life: two kids, overdrawn credit cards, a…

Hellion

Under the loose supervision of his depressed father Hollis, 13-year-old Jacob Wilson has begun to raise…

Halt and Catch Fire

Halt and Catch Fire captures the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, during…

Gray Matters

Through her unique vision, imagination, and sensibility, 20th century architect Eileen Gray changed the way we…

Goodish

Jack and Beth have known each other for a while now, but after having a night…

Goodbye to Language 3D

Centered on the relationship between a married woman and a single man, the film follows the…

Girlhood

Oppressed by her family at home, dead-end school prospects, and a boys’ law that rules the…

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness from the…

Futuro Beach

Working as a lifeguard at the spectacular but treacherous Praia do Futuro beach in Brazil, Donato…

Frost/Nixon

Based on a series of 1977 interviews between television personality David Frost (Sheen) and former President…

Freedom Summer

In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation’s eyes were riveted on Mississippi. Despite…

Foxcatcher

Olympic Gold Medal winning wrestler Mark Schultz (Tatum) is summoned by wealthy John du Pont’s (Carell)…

Fishing Without Nets

preceded by the short film The Exhibitor (8 min.) Abdi, a principled but struggling young Somali fisherman,…

Fed Up

Upending the conventional wisdom of why we gain weight and how to lose it, Fed Up…

Famous Nathan

Photo by Daniel Farrell / Courtesy Loquat Films Thirty years in the making, Famous Nathan chronicles…

Drunktown’s Finest

Three young Native Americans -- a college-bound student, a father-to-be, and a promiscuous transsexual -- struggle…

Dead Poets Society

Twenty-five years ago, Robin Williams surprised audiences with an unconventionally restrained and dramatic performance as Professor…

Chaplin: 100th Anniversary of The Tramp

One hundred years ago, a slender man in a black bowler hat and ill-fitting suit (somehow…

Buzzard

Marty Jackitansky, a bored temp at a mortgage office, is out to get what he feels…

Big Significant Things

At 26, Craig Harrison is a week away from moving across the country and becoming a…

Alive Inside

Winner of the 2014 Sundance Documentary Audience Award, this film chronicles the astonishing journey of individuals…

Actress

Brandy Burre had a recurring role on HBOʼs iconic drama The Wire when she got pregnant…

Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign that Changed it All

Looking back a half-century to the 1964 White House contest between President Lyndon Johnson and Senator…

Big Stone Gap

Based on her best-selling novel of the same name, writer/director Adriana Trigiani presents the story of…

Big Moccasin

Deep in the Appalachian Valley, filmmakers Chelsea and Andrew Moynehan capture the ethos of life along…

The Babadook

preceded by the short film Optimist, Pessimist, Solipsist (8 min.) Six years after the violent death of her…

Art and Craft

One of the most prolific art forgers in U.S. history, Mark Landis has duped the art…

Animals

Jude (Dastmalchian) and Bobbie (Shaw) try to maintain an outward appearance of normalcy, disguising their homelessness…

An Afternoon with Rita Dove & Julian Bond

Focusing on these two celebrated figures, director Eduardo Montes-Bradley creates comprehensive biographical sketches, steeped in historical…

All Fall Down

In Baltimore 1972, a senseless murder rocked the Selhorst family, leaving thirteen children without a father.…

Adrenaline Film Project

The 11th annual Adrenaline Film Project has arrived! The AFP is a competition where teams write,…

41on41

41 storytellers weave a multidimensional profile of President George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of…

5 to 7

preceded by the short film Fifth Street (13 min.) Aspiring young writer Brian (Yelchin) first encounters the…

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Political satire abounds in this Cold War era, Oscar-nominated black comedy. Chaos ensues in the War…

The Imitation Game

Winner of the Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award, this Alan Turing (Cumberbatch) biopic explores the…

Opening Night Gala

Celebrate the start of the 2014 Virginia Film Festival at this dazzling fete! Inspired by this…