Virginia Film Festival

Oh Mercy!

Roubaix police chief Daoud and newcomer Louis grapple with a peculiar case of murder, deceit, and…

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…

Grass

A young woman, Areum (Kim Min-hee, The Handmaiden) sits in the corner of a small café…

Short Films: Lessons Learned

Rear View: 2019. USA. 17 min. Director: Steve Kniss Featuring: Timmy H. Barron, Callie Johnson, Bela…

Short Films: Looking at Ourselves, Looking at Others

The Special Athlete 2019. USA. 4 min. Director: Christina Anton, Graham Barbour Featuring: Chris Raupp, Lloyd…

The Wild Goose Lake

Mob boss Zhou Zenong desperately tries to stay alive after he mistakenly kills a cop and…

When All is Ruin Once Again

Using a subtle black-and-white visual tone, native Irishman and filmmaker Keith Walsh provides a deeply personal…

Varda by Agnès

Photographer, installation artist, and pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague Agnès Varda returns with a characteristically bittersweet…

Tehran: City of Love

Three downhearted individuals— an ex-champion bodybuilder, an overweight beauty clinic secretary, and a dispirited religious singer—long…

Parwareshgah (The Orphanage)

In Soviet-era Afghanistan during the late 1980s, 15-year-old Qodrat makes his living on the streets of…

Olympic Dreams

Preceded by the short film Wax Paul Now After a disappointing finish in her event at the…

It Started as a Joke

Preceded by the short film Food Place. When Eugene Mirman first proposed a comedy festival making fun…

General Magic

Before 1990, there was no digital communications industry—no digital cell phones, no world wide web, no…

Fig Tree

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

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

A love letter to the celebrated musical Fiddler on the Roof, this documentary is an exhilarating…

Dolce Fine Giornata

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