Virginia Film Festival

After Sherman

Filmmaker Jon Sesrie-Goff travels to his minister father’s birthplace in Coastal South Carolina in the aftermath…

Black Fiddlers

The product of an intensive year's worth of uninterrupted field research, Black Fiddlers explores the legacy of African…

Clarissa’s Battle

Clarissa Doutherd is a single Black mother and activist living in Oakland, California who, after becoming…

Descendant

2022 Sundance Film Festival, US Documentary Special Jury Award Winner Three miles north of downtown Mobile,…

Devotion

Set in the Korean War, Devotion captures the tale of the U.S. Navy's first Black aviator, Jesse…

Hazing

Byron Hurt explores the history and culture of hazing, a widespread, far-reaching practice that has long…

The Inspection

Inspired by writer-director Elegance Bratton’s own true story, The Inspection follows the journey of a young…

The Lives Between the Lines

World Premiere This intimate, powerful film documents the inspiration for and construction of the Memorial to…

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

Emmy Award-winning directors Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir combine first-hand accounts with striking archival footage to…

The Smell of Money

The overwhelming stench of pork products is infiltrating the air of eastern North Carolina. The Smell…

A Suite of Short Films by Kevin Jerome Everson

Gospel Hill (co-directed Claudrena Harold, 2023) has two Black University of Virginia hospital employees talking about the…

To the End

To the End follows four intersecting stories of courageous women of color—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Varshini Prakash, Alexandra Rojas,…