Virginia Film Festival

Minari

Minari, which stars Yuh-jung Youn, who captured Best Actress in a Supporting Role honors at the…

Jackie

Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments…

W. W. Yen

Screens before the feature film I am Not Your Negro W.W. Yen, UVA’s first international graduate,…

Sex Planet

Screens before the feature film Sammy & Sherlock Can't Get Any A surprising new TV show…

Short Films: Block D

These six narratives vary from surreal comedy to unnerving psychic drama, from slice-of-life portrait to over…

Short Films: Block C

This assemblage of intensely experimental film art is stylistically dynamic and aesthetically adventurous, ranging from found…

Short Films: Block B

Heritage, performance, history, and competition are at the forefront of these documentary essays, giving us a…

Short Films: Block A

Focusing on family ties, new approaches to community building, and old traditions meeting with modern viewpoints,…

Sammy & Sherlock Can’t Get Any

Preceded by the short film Sex Planet (4 min.) Sammy and Sherlock are a mid-20s stoner…

A Road to Home

This documentary follows the journeys of six LGBT homeless young people over 18 months. Their lives…

The Ornithologist

Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is searching for endangered black storks along a remote river in northern…

Naledi: A Baby Elephant’s Tale

In the serene grasslands of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a baby elephant is born at a rescue…

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…

Joseph Cornell: Boxes and Films

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

Harmonium

An explosive contemporary drama, Harmonium details the collapse of a seemingly ordinary Japanese family. For Toshio,…

Glory

From the directors of The Lesson, this film follows Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker who finds…

A Face in the Crowd

A drifter named Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes is discovered by the producer of a small-market radio program…

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

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

Anywhere But Here + Seeking Asylum

These two documentaries by local filmmakers explore race and inequality on both the local and global…

After the Storm

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

The Unrelenting Charlie Davies

Screens before the feature film The Rebound The night before the US Men's National Soccer Team…

Titanic Boy

Screens before the feature film Life, Animated When asked to name a life-changing event from adolescence,…

Through

Screens before the feature film After Coal Shenandoah National Park marks the halfway point of the…

Sienna Burning

Screens before the feature film The Sweet Life Twin sisters estranged by the ravages of addiction,…

The Saurus

Screens before the feature film One Week and a Day A man with a robust vocabulary…

Reckless

Screens before the feature film Being 17 A high school janitor takes desperate measures to protect…

Home is Where the Farm is

Screens before the feature film SEED: The Untold Story Cleo Hicks is much like the average…

Empty Bed

Screens before the feature film Always Shine In the dark of night, a mother searches for…

Override

Screens before the feature film Lion In a post-apocalyptic world, a man joins a small group of…

The Magic Motley

Screens before the feature film The Red Turtle A small class finds a brown paper bag…

Loop

Screens before the feature film La La Land In the near future, virtual reality machines have…

Roadside Assistance

Screens before the feature film The Love Witch A mysterious woman stranded by the side of…

Bernie and Rebecca

Screens before the feature film Lost in Paris After a blind date, Bernie and Rebecca imagine…

Ran

Legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s reimagining of King Lear follows an elderly warlord in medieval Japan who…

La La Land

Preceded by short film Loop (7 min.) Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Damien Chazelle, La La…

Apprentice

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

Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker

Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker, a friend and…

I Am Not Your Negro

Preceded by the short film W. W. Yen (7 min.) Based on the text of Remember This House,…

Best of the VCUarts Cinema Program

The Best of the VCUarts Cinema Program presents a selection of the best works by students…

Best of FAVS Program at GMU

The Best of FAVS Program at GMU returns this year with a new selection of top…

Loving

Loving celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel…

6 Love Stories

Over the course of one afternoon in different areas of Los Angeles, six couples connect, reconnect,…

Lost in Paris

Preceded by the short film Bernie and Rebecca (15 min.) Fiona, a small town Canadian librarian,…

Land of Mine

As World War II comes to an end, a group of young German POWs in Denmark…

Kevin Everson Short Films

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

Vice Principals

From Danny McBride and Jody Hill, Vice Principals is a dark comedy telling the story of…

Tower

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

Trespass Against Us

Director Adam Smith (Doctor Who, Skins) presents three generations of the Cutler family who live as…

The Tenth Man

After building a new and successful metropolitan life as an economist in New York, Ari feels…

The Son of Joseph

Vincent, a high school student, lives alone with his mother in Paris. Although his mother attempts…

Sand Storm

Amid wedding festivities in a Bedouin village in southern Israel, Jalila finds herself in the awkward…

A Salute to Shirley MacLaine

A Richmond native, Shirley MacLaine is a distinguished film, television, theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and…

The Red Turtle

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

One Week and a Day

Preceded by the short film The Saurus (7 min.) Eyal and Vicky spend a week sitting…

Mifune: The Last Samurai

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

The Messengers

This documentary reveals the untold stories of the thousands of migrants who were unsuccessful in making…

Memories from Gehenna

J.D. loads his rifle and drives through Grande-Synthe, France, in search of people with an immigrant…

Lion

Preceded by the short film Override (8 min.) Precocious five-year-old Saroo Khan is always ready for…

Julieta

Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antía, where they both suffer in silence over the…

IndieWire: Celebrating 20 Years

IndieWire is the leading news, information, and networking site for independent-minded filmmakers, the industry, and moviegoers…

A Conversation with Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog is hailed as one of the most innovative contemporary directors in the world, and…

A Conversation with Liv Ullmann

Liv Ullmann is a Golden Globe-winning film actress with a career that spans seven decades. She’s…

Happy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda Dragon Good Time Fun Fun Show

Slanty Eyed Mama, the duo of virtuosic electric violinist Lyris Hung and comedian/actor Kate Rigg (Dr.…

Hope

Deep in the Sahara desert, Léonard, a young man from Cameroon, rescues Hope, a Nigerian woman,…

Exile

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

Eva Hesse

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

Elle

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

The Eagle Huntress

Set against the breathtaking expanse of the Mongolian steppe, this documentary follows 13-year-old Aisholpan as she…

Care

Care delves deeply into the day-to-day routines of domiciliary care through the eyes of both paid…

Bugs

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

Bleed for This

Bleed for This recounts one of the greatest and most unlikely comeback stories in sports history.…

As I Open My Eyes

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

Always Shine

Preceded by the short film Empty Bed (7 min.) Two actresses, each with differing degrees of…

After Spring

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

Light House Studio Shorts

These thirteen short films from Light House Studio students include a mixture of narratives, music videos,…

The Yellow Ticket

This silent film tells the story of Lea, a young girl living in the Jewish ghetto…

Joyce Chopra: 1963 – 1972

Joyce Chopra is one of the pioneering women of cinéma vérité, having worked alongside fellow filmmakers…

The War Room

Illustrating the monumental effort required to conduct a winning presidential campaign, Hegedus and Pennebaker reveal insider…

Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts

A wonderful new collection of twelve award-winning and beloved short films, Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts…