Virginia Film Festival

The Adderall Diaries

Based on the bestselling memoir by Stephen Elliot, this film examines the life of the once-successful…

Brooklyn

Brooklyn tells the moving story of Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish immigrant navigating her…

But Not For Me

Will is a young writer living in the big city, barely scraping by on his copywriter’s…

Carol

In 1950s New York City, young department store clerk Therese meets Carol, an alluring woman trapped…

Cheatin’

Oscar-nominated Bill Plympton, the “King of Indie Animation,” hand-draws and directs this animated adult tale of…

Christmas, Again

For a fifth consecutive December, a heartbroken Noel returns to New York City to work the…

Coming Through the Rye

Preceded by the short film Incubus Inspired by the filmmaker’s own life story, the story follows 16-year-old…

Court

An independent and multilingual film, Court examines the Indian legal system through the trial of an…

Daydreaming

Set in Prato, Tuscany, this episodic film is split into the parallel stories of two men…

Dough

A curmudgeonly widower stubbornly clings to his livelihood as a kosher bakery shop owner in London.…

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

In 1931 Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film after being…

Employees’ Entrance

Kurt Anderson is the unscrupulous general manager of a department store, and although his ruthless devotion…

The Forbidden Room

The Forbidden Room is Canadian auteur Guy Maddin’s epic phantasmagoria. Paying homage to the films and…

Grand Street

Camilla’s elegant life as a fast-track film executive has come undone. Just as she is about…

H8RZ

Preceded by the short film Rogue Taxidermy (7 min.) Alex, the lone survivor of a massive…

I Saw the Light

I Saw the Light tells the story of the iconic singer-songwriter Hank Williams, who revolutionized country…

Jack of the Red Hearts

Jack, a streetwise teenager and a casualty of the flawed foster care system, is in trouble…

Jackrabbit

Set after a catastrophic event known as The Reset, this film examines humanity’s attempt to rebuild…

The Kindergarten Teacher

Director Nadav Lapid explores what happens when fascination becomes obsession in this story about a teacher…

Krisha

Following a prolonged battle with addiction and self-destruction, Krisha returns for a holiday celebration with the…

Lamb

Superbly shot and movingly acted, Lamb traces the disturbing yet intimate friendship between a middle-aged man…

The Looking Glass

After losing her mother, a troubled 13-year-old moves to Indiana to live with her grandmother Karen,…

Lost Colony

While navigating life with his hyperprotective mother, teenaged Loren struggles with his pregnant girlfriend’s ambivalence toward…

Louder Than Bombs

An upcoming exhibition celebrating photographer Isabelle Reed three years after her untimely death brings her eldest…

Lucifer

An angel falling from heaven to hell unexpectedly lands in a Mexican village, where his presence…

The Maltese Falcon

Considered by many historians to be the first Film Noir, The Maltese Falcon stars the legendary…

The Measure of a Man

Vincent London, winner of the 2015 Cannes Best Actor Award, gives one of his finest performances…

Mekko

Mekko, a Muscogee man, has just been released from prison after serving 19 years for murder…

Men Go to Battle

A truly distinctive and sparse period piece, Men Go to Battle imagines the different paths that…

Mountains May Depart

Beginning in 1999, Mountains May Depart highlights China’s exponential economic development and the subsequent changes in…

My Friend Victoria

Victoria, a young girl from a humble background, spends the night with the bourgeois family of…

Paradise, FL

Tommy is an oysterman, who barely scrapes by and spends most of his earnings on OxyContin.…

Price of Love

In this gritty romantic drama by Ethiopian director Hermon Hailay, a taxi driver and beautiful prostitute…

Some Beasts

Sal abandons the modern world and leaves his troubled past behind, finding solitude on an isolated…

Son of Saul

Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of Auschwitz-Birkenau’s Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from…

Songcatcher

After being passed up for a well-deserved promotion, fearless musicologist Dr. Lily Penleric ventures into the…

Stinking Heaven

In the early 1990s married ex-junkies Jim and Lucy run a crumbling commune for sober living…

The Summer of Sangailé

Sangailé is fascinated by stunt planes. Afraid of heights and 17 years old, she has never…

Take Me to the River

Ryder, an artsy and confident California teen, heads to Nebraska for a family reunion. After planning…

They Look Like People

Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shapeshifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek…

Victoria

Outside a nightclub a young Spanish woman meets four local Berliners who promise to show her…

The Wave

This disaster drama by director Roar Uthaug is Norway’s submission for the upcoming Academy Award Best…

Youth

From Italy’s acclaimed director and recent Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino comes Youth, about two longtime friends vacationing…