Virginia Film Festival

1945 (Reprise Screening)

In August 1945, a rural town in Hungary is preparing for the wedding of the town…

20 Days in Mariupol

Official Oscar© Selection—Ukraine Amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian journalists from the Associated…

3 Faces

Aspiring actress Marziyeh is distraught when her father forbids her from studying at the prestigious Tehran…

About Dry Grasses

Official Oscar© Selection—Turkey 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Winner: Best Actress, Merve Dizdar A bored, prideful art teacher…

After Coal

Preceded by the short film Through (5 min.) What happens after fossil fuels run out? After…

After Spring

With the Syrian conflict now in its sixth year, millions of people have been displaced from…

After the Storm

Ryota, a struggling novelist, spends too much time dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning…

Alcarràs

Official Oscar© Selection—Spain | Golden Bear Winner, 2022 Berlin Film Festival For as long as the…

Aleksi

After returning home from college to live with her parents, 28-year-old Aleksi struggles to fight off…

All that Breathes

As masses of birds fall from the smog-filled skies of New Delhi amid environmental distress and…

Aloners

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

Animalia

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award, Sundance Heavily pregnant Itto enjoys new affluence following her marriage…

Anselm

A triumphant follow up to his 2011 tour-de-force Pina, Wim Wenders’ latest 3D documentary is another…

Apprentice

Aiman, a 28-year-old Malay correctional officer, is a recent transfer to the territory's top prison. At…

Army of Lovers in the Holy Land

Army of Lovers in the Holy Land begins thirty years after launching the queer disco-pop band Army…

Artemio

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

As I Open My Eyes

On the eve of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, young Farah must decide whether to accept…

Asog

Jaya is a non-binary comedian whose life upends after a natural disaster devastates the Philippines and…

Atlantics

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

Bacurau

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

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Official Oscar© Selection—Mexico The latest film from five-time Academy Award-winner Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Birdman, Amores…

Beanpole

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

Beans

In her debut feature, Tracey Deer recounts the 1990 Oka Crisis, a 78 day land dispute…

Beautiful Beings

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

Being 17

Preceded by the short film Reckless (9 min.) Being 17 is a moving exploration of adolescent…

Beuys

Joseph Beuys was a revolutionary German painter, famous for his felt hat and unique performance pieces,…

Birds of Passage

In 1970s Colombia, a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera” pulls an indigenous Wayuu family…

Black Kite

When political turmoil in Afghanistan jeopardizes Arian’s love for kite flying, he is forced to let…

Blade of the Immortal

Manji is a legendary samurai who has battled dozens of men throughout his life. After his…

Border

Tina, ostracized for her unusual appearance, uses her unique sense of smell to sniff out contraband…

Bori

Bori, an 11-year-old girl who lives in a sea village, is the only hearing family member.…

Bound: African vs African Americans

The divide between Africans and African Americans is complex and seldom explored. Opening with personal testimonials…

Breath

This directorial debut from Simon Baker (The Mentalist, The Devil Wears Prada) is based on the…

Broker

2022 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Winner, Song Kang-ho Hirokazu Kore-eda presents a humanistic, humorous, and philosophical…

Bugs

Since the United Nations recommended edible insects as a resource to combat world hunger, insects as…

Café Daughter

Yvette Wong, a young Chinese and Cree heritage girl, lives in a small 1960s Saskatchewan town.…

Capernaum

Named after the town where Jesus was said to have healed the sick, Capernaum exposes the…

The Cave

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

Cemetery of Splendour

Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic where doctors explore ways…

The Charmer

Esmail seems to be a successful, charming bachelor frequenting Copenhagen’s high-end nightlife establishments. In reality, however,…

La Chimera

For a film chronicling a group of grave-robbers, La Chimera is markedly full of life and…

Close

Official Oscar© Selection—Belgium | 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prize Winner Thirteen-year-old neighbors Léo and Rémi…

Cobweb

In this film-within-a-film, Kim Yeol is a filmmaker haunted by the desire to reimagine the conclusion…

Concerned Citizen

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

Corsage

Official Oscar© Selection—Austria 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Winner: Un Certain Regard, Best Performance, Vicky Krieps Empress…

Counting

In 15 linked chapters, Counting merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a…

Court

An independent and multilingual film, Court examines the Indian legal system through the trial of an…

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…

Dachra

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

Daughter of Mine

Vittoria, a ten-year-old Sardinian girl, lives with her loving but overprotective adoptive mother Tina. At a…

Daydreaming

Set in Prato, Tuscany, this episodic film is split into the parallel stories of two men…

Dead Slow Ahead

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

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…

Django

In 1940s Paris, Django Reinhardt electrified audiences with his distinctive style of “hot jazz”. Serving as…

Dogman

Private, unassuming Marcello lives a quiet life of dog grooming in the small town of Magliana,…

Dolce Fine Giornata

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

Don’t Call Me Son

Pierre, a cross-dressing and eyeliner-wearing teenager, is stunned to discover that he was kidnapped from his…

Dough

A curmudgeonly widower stubbornly clings to his livelihood as a kosher bakery shop owner in London.…

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

In 1931 Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film after being…

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…

El Angel

Carlitos, a 17-year-old with a baby face and movie star swagger, discovers his true calling: to…

Elle

Michèle seems indestructible. Played by Isabelle Huppert, she is the head of a leading video game…

Embrace of the Serpent

This visionary adventure epic tracks two parallel odysseys as a lone shaman leads two European ethnographers…

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

A grown man, barely able to walk or talk, appears suddenly in the town square of…

EO

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

Eternal Spring

Official Oscar© Selection—Canada In March 2002, the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong hijacked a state TV…

Evil Does Not Exist

Oscar-winning director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) returns with Evil Does Not Exist, an unexpected and mysterious…

Exile

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

Fallen Leaves

Official Oscar© Selection—Finland | Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival A chance meeting in Helsinki offers two lonely…

Family Romance, LLC

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

A Fantastic Woman

Young waitress and aspiring singer Marina is a trans woman who is planning for the future…

The Father

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

Faust

Murnau’s iconic adaptation of Goethe’s Faust echoes the dreamlike surrealism of his silent films like Nosferatu.…

Fig Tree

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

Fighter

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

Fire at Sea

Each year hundreds of thousands of African immigrants journey to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa in…

Fishing Without Nets

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

The Five Devils

Joanne and Jimmy live in a small, foggy village in the French alps with Vicky, their…

The Forbidden Room

The Forbidden Room is Canadian auteur Guy Maddin’s epic phantasmagoria. Paying homage to the films and…

Four Daughters

Official Oscar© Selection—Tunisia | Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary, Cannes Film Festival The life of Olfa,…