Virginia Film Festival

Short Films: Block A

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

A Road to Home

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

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…

After the Storm

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

The Tenth Man

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

Sand Storm

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

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…

Hope

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

Eva Hesse

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

Bugs

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

Always Shine

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

Staying Vertical

Leo, a filmmaker, is scouting for a wolf in the south of France when he is…

SEED: The Untold Story

Preceded by the short film Home is Where the Farm is (5 min.) Few things on…

Old Stone

Chinese taxi driver Lao Shi is thrown into a Kafkaesque nightmare where no charitable act goes…

The Love Witch

Preceded by the short film Roadside Assistance (8 min.) This highly stylized and impeccably crafted drama-thriller…

Chronically Metropolitan

Fenton, a promising author, lost the love of Jessie when he published a thinly-veiled story about…