HOW TO ORDER YOUR TICKETS

Tickets to the 2025 Festival will go on sale Fri, Oct 3 at Noon through the following channels:

  • Online by browsing our schedule page. Online sales continue up until to two hours prior to the start of each film.
  • By phone at (434) 924-3376 Tues-Fri from Noon-5:00 PM.
  • In Person at one of our box offices – locations and hours below.

locations & hours

UVA Arts Box Office | 109 Culbreth Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903
Located on UVA Grounds, in the lobby of the UVA Drama Building

  • Oct 3-21 – Tues-Fri: Noon-5:00 PM
  • Oct 22-26 – TBD

Downtown Box Office | 200 W Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902
Located inside Violet Crown Cinema on the Downtown Mall

  • Mon, Oct 20 – Tues, Oct 21: Noon-5:00 PM
  • Wed, Oct 22 – Thurs, Oct 23: Noon to the start of final screening each day
  • Fri, Oct 24 – Sun, Oct 26: 10:00 AM to the start of final screening each day

VAFF Box Office @ The Paramount Theater | 215 East Main Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902
Provides ticket sales and will-call pick up for screenings held at The Paramount only

  • Open one hour before each VAFF screening at The Paramount Theatre

Ticketing policies

TICKET PRICES

Film Screenings: $15 adult / $13 discounted (see below)
Special Screenings & Events: $20 and up
Opening Night Gala: $75
Late Night Wrap Party: $45

ALL SALES ARE FINAL. THERE ARE NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES.

Discounts are available to our individual film screenings for senior citizens (60+), students with ID, children, UVA faculty and staff, and local educators.

Group Discounts are offered at a $1 off each ticket to groups of 20 or more. Contact the UVA Arts Box Office for more details.

FREE TICKETS FOR UVA STUDENTS

All full-time UVA students can receive up to one complimentary ticket per VAFF film, as available, made possible by the Art$ program. These student tickets must be reserved in advance and are not available the day of a film or at the door of an event.

Reserve your Art$ tickets here!

SERVICE FEES

The UVA Arts Box Office will collect a processing fee on all Virginia Film Festival ticket orders. See the UVA Arts Box Office Policies for more information.

TICKET DELIVERY OPTIONS

You have the option to request Print-At-Home (PAH) tickets which will be electronically delivered to you, or for paper tickets to be held at will-call for pick up at one of our in-person box office locations. Note: If you selected PAH as your delivery method, your tickets were emailed to you as a PDF attachment from artsboxoffice@virginia.edu with the subject Your Print At Home Ticket(s).

PAYMENT METHODS

We accept all major credit cards and checks at of our in-person box office locations. Checks should be made payable to: UVA–Arts Box Office. Cash payments are ONLY accepted at the UVA Arts Box Office location.  

MISPLACED YOUR TICKETS?

You may visit our box office to request a ticket reprint for a fee, or you can login to your UVA Arts Box Office account here and navigate to Upcoming Events to view your ticket(s) in a mobile-friendly version. Mobile tickets are only available one hour prior to the start of each event and will display a QR code that can be presented at the door for scanning.

Please note a confirmation email is not a ticket, and each person in your party must present a ticket with a unique barcode to be scanned for entry.

WHAT IF ADVANCED TICKETS SELL OUT?

You are in luck! Ten minutes prior to the start of a film, we sell unclaimed tickets to a standby line. While there is no guarantee that we will have unclaimed tickets at the door, we typically do have at least some to release. Note: we do not permit the saving of places in standby lines, and a max of ONE ticket per person will be sold to patrons in the standby line.