Virginia Film Festival

Light House Studio Shorts

For over 20 years, Light House Studio has helped Charlottesville youth tell their stories through film. With…

Orlando

30th Anniversary Screening | 30th Anniversary Celebration of Sony Pictures Classics Sally Potter’s bold re-working of…

The Lives Between the Lines

World Premiere This intimate, powerful film documents the inspiration for and construction of the Memorial to…

Short Films: Oh, The People You’ll Meet!

Program followed by Q&A with filmmakers from Runaway (director Eric Hurt, producer Jack Steinberg, producer Ty…

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

Emmy Award-winning directors Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir combine first-hand accounts with striking archival footage to…

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Golden Lion Winner, 2022 Venice Film Festival Academy-Award winning documentarian Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) chronicles the internationally…

After Sherman

Filmmaker Jon Sesrie-Goff travels to his minister father’s birthplace in Coastal South Carolina in the aftermath…

Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

The story of a friendship that spans five decades, this informative documentary explores Robert Caro and…

Refuge

Deep in the American South, Clarkston, Georgia, is a small rural town reminiscent of a United…

Nosferatu

100th Anniversary Screening w/Live Music A genre-defining film for the ages, Nosferatu celebrates its 100th anniversary…

Hazing

Byron Hurt explores the history and culture of hazing, a widespread, far-reaching practice that has long…

Devil Put the Coal in the Ground

Devil Put the Coal in the Ground creatively examines the historical impact of the extractive coal…

Black Fiddlers

The product of an intensive year's worth of uninterrupted field research, Black Fiddlers explores the legacy of African…