Virginia Film Festival

God $ Green: An Unholy Alliance

*This short film screens before FISH & MEN* God $ Green: An Unholy Alliance uncovers decades of religious…

Light House Studio Shorts Package

Once again this year, the VAFF is proud to showcase the work of the students at…

Piccolino: An Adventure In The City

*Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* Piccolino is a…

We Got This

*Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* Marcus, an ethnically…

Pastalight

*Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* An eccentric Italian…

Inhale

*Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* INHALE documents the…

Bird’s Eye

*Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* When the perfect…

Onward Adeline

*Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* A young woman…

Anna

*Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* Living in Eastern…

Meow, Meredith

*Screens as part of the WE CAN RELATE TO THAT Short Film Package* MEOW, MEREDITH is…

My Brother’s Keeper

*Screens as part of the FOUR LONG-ISH Short Film Package* A former Guantánamo detainee and his…

Lipstick and Leather

*Screens as part of the FOUR LONG-ISH Short Film Package* In a buttoned-up city like DC,…

Something In The Water: A Kinston Basketball Story

*Screens as part of the FOUR LONG-ISH Short Film Package* An underdog tale about beautiful yet…

The Legacy Sessions

*Screens as part of the FOUR LONG-ISH Short Film Package* Darby, a loner high school student…

Allan Ellen

*Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* Allan and Ellen are…

What If???

*Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* 2020. A scientist gets…

Classified

*Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* Will Gibbons is hired…

Memoirs

*Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* When a couple plays…

Alienated

*Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* An animated film about…

Progeny

*Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* This is a world…

Identity Crisis

*Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* A cyborg named Scott…

Before

*Screens as part of the OUT OF THIS WORLD Short Film Package* BEFORE follows a group…

But I Wanted to be a Cowboy

*Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* A teenaged kid dreams of being…

Strange Fruit: The Necroecology of Black Subsistence Farming

*Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* Given the blatant exploitation of Black…

Lolo Boy

*Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* This story follows the life of…

The Koi And The Frog

*Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* A friendly rivalry between a Koi…

The First.

*Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* Abrar, a young Muslim American woman…

Myopia

*Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* This film employs the act of…

January 13th, Richmond Va

*Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* *This short film also screens before FEELS…

Welcome Home

*Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* This stop motion animated film follows…

The Quarantine Experience

*Screens as part of the VIRGINIA STUDENT SHORTS BLOCK Film Package* As the stay at home order…

Buck

*This short film screens before PVT CHAT* Caught in the throes of a depressive fugue, young…

Reid’s Records

*This short film screens before HEARD* An interview with David Reid, current owner and inheritor of…

Saul’s 108th Story

*This short film screens before NEVER TOO LATE: THE DOC SERVINSON STORY* As a teenager in…

GraceLand

*This short film screens before ELECTRIC JESUS* Anna Camp stars as a southern mom whose life…

The Beekeeper

*This short film screens before FREELAND* A beekeeper on the island of Anglesey faces losing her…

Call Center Blues

*This short film screens before HAMTRAMCK, USA* A character-driven, cinematic tale of deportation, migration, displacement and…

HBCU Storytellers: Confederate Monuments – Heritage or Hatred?

*This short film screens before THE REUNITED STATES* HBCU students explore the question of Confederate monuments…

UNLADYLIKE2020: Maggie Lena Walker

*This short film screens before WOMEN IN BLUE* A full 50 years before the Montgomery bus…

Maradona’s Legs

*This short film screens before THE LAST OUT* During the 1990 World Cup, two young Palestinian…

Moneybag Head

*This short film screens before JUMBO* Dennis, a lonely sad sack with an unfortunate cranial deformity,…

The First and Last King of Haiti

*This short film screens before THERE IS NO EVIL* In 1807, the country of Haiti was split into…

You Will Die at 20

Soon after the birth of Sakina's son Muzamil, a traveling sheik prophecies that he will die…

Women in Blue

Minneapolis’ first female police chief, Janeé Harteau, works to reform the Minneapolis Police Department by getting…

The Woman Who Ran

Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran, which earned him the Silver Bear for Best Director at…

When My Time Comes

After the death of her beloved husband John Rehm, Peabody-award winner Diane Rehm began to examine…

Twilight’s Kiss (Suk Suk)

TWILIGHT’S KISS (SUK SUK) presents the story of two closeted married men in their twilight years.…

Tote Grandfather

María Sojob, a Tsotsil filmmaker from Chiapas, in southern Mexico, spent her childhood growing up in…

They Ain’t Ready for Me

Tamar Manasseh has become a well- known figure in Chicago, poised to become a national figure…

There is No Evil

Banned from filmmaking in Iran, director Mohammad Rasoulof returns to cinema with another moving critique of…

Test Pattern

After being sexually assaulted by a stranger, Renesha and her boyfriend Evan spend the day driving…

Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team

The transition from the Cold War to the post-Cold War world in America is marked as…

The Reunited States

As the 2020 election approaches, political divisions in the United States are at a near all-time…

PVT Chat

While living in New York City, lonely internet gambler Jack becomes slowly fixated on Scarlet -…

Pier Kids

Pier Kids documents three homeless queer black youth over five years as they navigate the streets,…

The Passing On

Three professions ushered Black former slaves from poverty to the American dream: preacher, teacher, and undertaker.…

The Passengers

As Ethiopian Jews, Demoz and Gezi are members of a community of 9,000 individuals who speak…

Overland

How can we connect to our natural, primal spirit when modern society threatens to erase it?…

The Outside Story

Perceiving a betrayal of trust as a sign his girlfriend Isha is leaving him, Charles Young,…

One of These Days

In a small southern town, twenty people compete to win a brand new pickup truck, a…

The Offensive

Why are so many civilians angry?The Offensive looks for answers in the stories of the people…

Night of the Kings

Following a pickpocketing charge, authorities send a young man to the Maca correctional facility in the…

New Order

A lavish wedding between the indecently wealthy is thrust into turmoil when an uprising of class…

Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story

After three decades as the colorful bandleader of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, legendary trumpet…

Negra

At the age of seven, Filmmaker Medhin Tewolde Serrano recounts her first experience of being called…

Nasir

In the town Tamil Nadu exists Coimbatore, a small Muslim community lives alongside the Hindu population.…

Monsoon

At just eight years old, Kit and his family were forced to flee Saigon during the…

Lucky Chan-Sil

Chan-Sil, a film producer, finds herself abruptly unemployed after the film director's sudden death she's spent…

Lifeline

Mark Rothko acknowledged him as a “myth-maker.” Clement Greenberg called him “a highly influential maverick and…

The Last Out

Three young Cuban baseball players, Happy, Carlos, and Victor have spent the past year training long…

Lapsis

In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli struggles to support himself and his ailing younger…

Lago Gatún

Lago Gatún (2021) is a journey traveling south to north through the Panama Canal. Introduction by…

Jumbo

Jeanne is a shy young woman who works the graveyard shift as a janitor at an…

The Judge – Character, Cases, Courage

After presiding over several historically significant cases during his nearly 31 years of service on the…

The Killing of Two Lovers

After agreeing to separate from his wife Nikki, David frantically tries to keep his family of…

Jamaica y Tamarindo

The jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a…

Heard

To many Americans, issues regarding public housing and urban poverty often remain out of sight and…

Hamtramck, USA

Hamtramck, Michigan is a city built by immigrants. Once a town that was 90% Polish, Hamtramck…

The Giverny Document (Single Channel)

Through audacious formal experimentation, filmmaker and artist Ja’Tovia Gary unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials,…

Gather

An indigenous chef embarks on an ambitious project to reclaim ancient foodways on the Apache reservation.…