Virginia Film Festival

Adrenaline Film Project

The 13th annual Adrenaline Film Project has arrived! AFP is a 72-hour, highly-caffeinated filmmaking competition where…

Mercy Street

This new PBS Civil War drama produced in and around Richmond, Virginia, takes viewers beyond the…

Jack of the Red Hearts

Jack, a streetwise teenager and a casualty of the flawed foster care system, is in trouble…

Pixar Short Films: 2007-2012

Disney and Pixar present an incredible collection of 12 short films, featuring multiple Academy Award nominees…

Songcatcher

After being passed up for a well-deserved promotion, fearless musicologist Dr. Lily Penleric ventures into the…

The Birth of a Nation

A century after its debut, Griffith’s groundbreaking film remains one of the most important works in…

The Maltese Falcon

Considered by many historians to be the first Film Noir, The Maltese Falcon stars the legendary…

Employees’ Entrance

Kurt Anderson is the unscrupulous general manager of a department store, and although his ruthless devotion…

Babe

Preceded by the short film The Present “That’ll do, Pig, that’ll do.” Babe, the classic family film…

Lamb

Superbly shot and movingly acted, Lamb traces the disturbing yet intimate friendship between a middle-aged man…

Bound: African vs African Americans

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

Son of Saul

Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of Auschwitz-Birkenau’s Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from…

Adrenaline Film Project

The 12th annual Adrenaline Film Project has arrived! The AFP is a competition where teams pitch,…

Last Days in the Desert

Ewan McGregor plays both Jesus and the devil in the reimagination of Christ’s 40 days in…

Coming Through the Rye

Preceded by the short film Incubus Inspired by the filmmaker’s own life story, the story follows 16-year-old…

The Theory of Everything

Starring Eddie Redmayne (Les Misérables) and Felicity Jones (The Amazing Spider-Man 2), this is the extraordinary…

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story

Caroll Spinney has performed Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for over forty years.…

Shaft

Richard Roundtree’s iconic, gritty performance as self-reliant private detective John Shaft continues to resonate decades later.…

Low Down

Based on Amy-Jo Albany’s memoir, Low Down brings the audience into the life of 1970s jazz…

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…

The Wizard of Oz

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

Fed Up

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

Dead Poets Society

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

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…