Virginia Film Festival

Max Peril

Riley Young is a hopeless aspiring filmmaker who has never completed a full movie. In a…

Short Films: Sense of Place

These short films take you on a journey to places real and imagined. Explore a sinking…

Short Films: Connection

A collection of short films about the way we connect with one another. Films include: Black…

Paradise

Produced over the course of eight years beginning in 2007, Paradise is a feature-length nonfiction film…

Reconquest of the Useless

In Werner Herzog’s 1982 adventure film, Fitzcarraldo, the eccentric explorer Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald has the crazy…

Boom and Bust: America’s Journey on the Erie Canal

A meditation on economic cycles and the American Dream, this remarkable film tells the tale of…

Buskin’ Blues

Preceded by the short film Boardwalk Músico Buskers, more commonly referred to as street performers, come…

Winds of Chemical Warfare

This probing documentary traces the history of chemical weapons, their international practices, and the catastrophic dangers…

The Scientist: Are We Missing Something?

Dr. Raphael Mechoulam is a Nobel Prize nominee and an internationally renowned chemist—he also happens to…

Stinking Heaven

In the early 1990s married ex-junkies Jim and Lucy run a crumbling commune for sober living…

Theory of Obscurity: a Film about The Residents

Filmmaker Don Hardy investigates the infamously anonymous, avant-garde music collective known as The Residents on their…

Another Way of Living: The Story of Reston, VA

Visionary American urban planner Robert Simon believed that building community is more important than creating buildings.…

Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn of a New Era in Ocean Stewardship

Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn of a New Era in Ocean Stewardship takes the viewer on an…

Hallowed Ground

Amid the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Hallowed Ground explores Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, site of the…