Virginia Film Festival

A Face in the Crowd

A drifter named Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes is discovered by the producer of a small-market radio program…

A Road to Home

This documentary follows the journeys of six LGBT homeless young people over 18 months. Their lives…

After the Storm

Ryota, a struggling novelist, spends too much time dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning…

Anywhere But Here + Seeking Asylum

These two documentaries by local filmmakers explore race and inequality on both the local and global…

Glory

From the directors of The Lesson, this film follows Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker who finds…

Harmonium

An explosive contemporary drama, Harmonium details the collapse of a seemingly ordinary Japanese family. For Toshio,…

Joseph Cornell: Boxes and Films

This collection will offer an overview of Joseph Cornell’s work and screen both his first film…

Liv & Ingmar

This documentary tells the story of the 42 year- and 12 films-long relationship between legendary actress…

Lydia Moyer: Experimental Short Films

The personal and the political are interwoven with the magical and the traumatic in this program…

Naledi: A Baby Elephant’s Tale

In the serene grasslands of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a baby elephant is born at a rescue…

Sammy & Sherlock Can’t Get Any

Preceded by the short film Sex Planet (4 min.) Sammy and Sherlock are a mid-20s stoner…

Short Films: Block A

Focusing on family ties, new approaches to community building, and old traditions meeting with modern viewpoints,…

Short Films: Block B

Heritage, performance, history, and competition are at the forefront of these documentary essays, giving us a…

Short Films: Block C

This assemblage of intensely experimental film art is stylistically dynamic and aesthetically adventurous, ranging from found…

Short Films: Block D

These six narratives vary from surreal comedy to unnerving psychic drama, from slice-of-life portrait to over…

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

A grown man, barely able to walk or talk, appears suddenly in the town square of…

The Ornithologist

Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is searching for endangered black storks along a remote river in northern…

Jackie

Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments…