Thursday, October 23
1:15 PM Yes! at Film House
Israel, in the aftermath of October 7. Y., a jazz musician struggling to make ends meet, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, sell their art, souls, and bodies to the elite and bring pleasure and consolation to a bleeding nation. Soon, Y. is given a mission of the highest importance: setting to music a new national anthem.
1:45 PM Cutting through Rocks at Black Box
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the film Battleship Potemkin, and as a result VTIFF will be holding a special screening of the film on October 19th, 2025. The groundbreaking silent epic was used by its director, Sergei Eisenstein, to innovate and perfect one of cinema’s most foundational aspects, the montage.
Originally commissioned 20 years after the 1905 Russian Revolution to honor the momentous occasion, Potemkin quickly transcended its propaganda roots. Seeing film not just...
The Little Sister (2025) is the film adaptation of an autofiction novel by Fatima Daas titled The Last One (2020). This film marks Hafsia Herzi’s third film as a director and writer, directing and writing two other feature-length films: You Deserve a Lover (2019) and Good Mother (2021). However, Hafsia Herzi is a triple threat, starting her career as an actor before transitioning to a filmmaker, first acting in The Secret of the Grain (2007), then starring in House of Tolerance (2011)...
Monday, October 20
1:00 PM Hedda at Film House
Hedda, a newlywed thrill-seeker, throws an extravagant party in the hopes of helping her husband receive a professorship. However, a lover from her past appears, and disrupts this event.
1:15 PM Timestamp at Black Box
Following teachers and students across Ukraine over the course of a school year, Kateryna Gornostai captures their evolving relationships with the current conflict.
2:00 PM Walk With Me at The Screening Room
a personal document...
7:00 PM My Father’s Shadow at Film House
A semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian capital Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. The story follows a father, estranged from his two young sons, as they travel through the massive city while political unrest threatens their journey home.
Saturday, October 18
12:00 PM Walk With Me at ...
On October 17th, 2025, the Vermont International Film Festival kicks off at 7 pm with its first film, Akinola Davies Jr.’s My Father’s Shadow. 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the largest film festival in the state of Vermont: the Vermont International Film Festival, or VTIFF for short. Through its dedication to advancing cinema as a vital art form, equal to other artistic media, the festival ensures that film culture remains an essential part of Vermont's o...
“John Waters 2014 (cropped)” by PEN American Center is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Image has been cropped to 400 x 571 pixels.
This Wednesday, October 22nd, the acclaimed cult classic filmmaker and writer John Waters will be attending the Vermont International Film Festival! Waters’ filmography includes underground classics such as Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972), and Female Troubles (1974), as well as more mainstream films like Hair...
It Was Just an Accident (2025) is an Iranian-made film made without authorization from the Iranian government. The drama was directed, written, and co-produced by Jafar Panahi. Jafar is a central part of Iranian new wave cinema with films such as The White Balloon (1995), The Circle (2000), and Crimson Gold (2003); all three films reflect the movement's themes of social critique, formal restraint, and realism. The cas...
Poster for It Was Just An Accident
It Was Just an Accident (2025) is an Iranian-made film made without authorization from the Iranian government. The drama was directed, written, and co-produced by Jafar Panahi. Jafar is a central part of Iranian new wave cinema with films such as The White Balloon (1995), The Circle (2000), and Crimson Gold (2003); all three films reflect the movement's themes of social crit...
Poster for It Was Just An Accident
It Was Just an Accident (2025) is an Iranian-made film made without authorization from the Iranian government. The drama was directed, written, and co-produced by Jafar Panahi. Jafar is a central part of Iranian new wave cinema with films such as The White Balloon (1995), The Circle (2000), and Crimson Gold (2003); all three films reflect the movement's themes of social critique, forma...
Poster for Sound of Falling and poster for The Little Sister
Monday, October 20
1:00 PM Hedda at Film House
Hedda, a newlywed thrill-seeker, throws an extravagant party in the hopes of helping her husband receive a professorship. However, a lover from her past appears, and disrupts this event.
1:15 PM Timestamp at Black Box
Following teachers and students across Ukraine over the course of a school year, Kateryna Gornostai captures their evolving relationships with t...
Vintage Battleship Potemkin poster. 1925. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the film Battleship Potemkin, and as a result, VTIFF will be holding a special screening of the film on October 19th, 2025. The groundbreaking silent epic was used by its director, Sergei Eisenstein, to innovate and perfect one of cinema’s most foundational aspects, the montage.
Originally commissioned 20 years after the 1905 Russian Revolution ...
Poster for It Was Just An Accident
It Was Just an Accident (2025) is an Iranian-made film made without authorization from the Iranian government. The drama was directed, written, and co-produced by Jafar Panahi. Jafar is a central part of Iranian new wave cinema with films such as The White Balloon (1995), The Circle (2000), and Crimson Gold (2003); all three films reflect the movement's themes of social critique,...
Friday, October 17 — Opening Night
7:00 PM My Father’s Shadow at Film House
A semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian capital Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. The story follows a father, estranged from his two young sons, as they travel through the massive city while political unrest threatens their journey home.
Saturday, Octo...
Photo of Burlington, Vermont's Waterfront Via Pixbaby
On October 17th, 2025, the Vermont International Film Festival kicks off at 7 pm with its first film, Akinola Davies Jr.’s My Father’s Shadow. 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the largest film festival in the state of Vermont: the Vermont International Film Festival, or VTIFF for short. Through its dedication to advancing cinema as a vital art form, equal to other artistic media, the festival ensures that ...
Joachim Trier returned to the Cannes Film Festival after his critically acclaimed film The Worst Person in the World premiered during the 2021 festival, both films star actress Renate Rensive, who won the award for Best Actress at the festival for her role in The Worst Person in the World. With its premiere on Wednesday, May 21st, Joachim Trier's newest film Sentimental Value cemented itself in the history books. Receiving an extremely imp...
COMPÉTITION (SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE)
RERUN OF THE COMPETITION
CÉRÉMONIE DE CLÔTURE / CLOSING CEREMONY at 18:40
SÉANCES DU LENDEMAIN (SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE)
RERUN OF THE COMPETITION
REPRISE DE LA SÉLECTION (SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE)
JEUNES MÈRES by JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE & LUC DARDENNE at 08:45 (runtime 1h44)
Jessica, Perla, Julie, Ariane and Naïma are housed in a she...
The Jury of the Immersive Competition of the 78th Festival de Cannes presented today the Best Immersive Work Award to "From Dust", created by Michel van der Aa, recognizing a creation that pushed the boundaries of storytelling, art space, and audience engagement.
The Jury, chaired by French director Luc Jacquet included American musician, director and writer Laurie Anderson, French author and performer Tania de Montaigne, British director, scree...
THE MASTERMIND and JEUNES MÈRES
COMPÉTITION (SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE)
RESURRECTION (RÉSURRECTION) by BI GAN at 8:30 (runtime 2h40)
In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld. This monster, adrift in reverie, clings to visions no one else can see—until a woman appears. Gifted with the rare power to perceive these illusions for what...
The new Spike Lee Joint first premiered in theaters on Tuesday, May 20th, as part of the out-of-competition Cannes premiere section of the festival. Reimagining Akira Kurosawa's critically acclaimed masterpiece High and Low, Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest sees the story take place in modern-day New York City, where David King, a titan in the music industry, receives a call that his son has been taken and is being held for ransom. Catapulted into this moral dilemma ...
RESURRECTION and ZAN O BACHEH
COMPÉTITION (SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE)
THE HISTORY OF SOUND by OLIVER HERMANUS at 8:30 (runtime 2h07)
Lionel is a talented singer from rural Kentucky raised on the songs his father would sing on the front porch. In 1917, he leaves his family farm to attend the Boston Music Conservatory. There he meets David, a charming music composing student who is soon drafted into the end of the war. In 1920, the two spend a winter walk...
THE HISTORY OF SOUND and AFFEKSJONSVERDI.
COMPÉTITION (SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE)
FUORI by MARIO MARTONE at 8:30 (runtime 1h55)
Rome, 1980. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza ends up in prison for stealing jewelry, but the encounter with some young inmates turns out to be a life-changing experience. After their release and over the ...
On Monday, May 19th, at 12:30 a.m., the film The Exit 8 premiered, and what a great time for this horror thriller to come out! The story follows the main character, who is left nameless, going only by the title "Lost Man." At the same time, on the phone with his ex-girlfriend, he attempts to navigate the train station, but eventually realizes he is going in circles with no way out. Eventually, stopping to read the rules of this "game," the main c...
FUORI by MARIO MARTONE and UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT
COMPÉTITION (SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE)
ALPHA by JULIA DUCOURNAU at 08:30 (runtime 2h08)
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC (LES AIGLES DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE) by TARIK SALEH at 11:45 (runtime 2h07)
UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT de / ...
Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Micheal Ward, Luke Grimes and Clifton Collins Jr.
Photographed by Laurent Hou
Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone
Photographed by Laurent Hou
Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Ari Aster, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Clifton Collins Jr., Micheal Ward, Amelie Hoeferle, Matt Gomez Hidaka, and Cameron Mann
Photographed by Laurent Hou
Ari Aster, Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal
Photographed by La...
