Virginia Film Festival

Last Days in the Desert

Ewan McGregor plays both Jesus and the devil in the reimagination of Christ’s 40 days in…

The Wave

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

Entertainment

Preceded by the short film Usetocould Entertainment follows a broken, aging comedian (Turkington) as he tours the…

Polyfaces

Set amid the stunning Shenandoah Valley, this joyful documentary details the innovative agricultural techniques of Polyface…

Mully

What happens when a six-year-old boy in Kenya is abandoned by his family and left to…

In Transit

In Transit takes you on a journey into the hearts and minds of everyday passengers aboard…

Dough

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

A Light Beneath Their Feet

A Light Beneath Their Feet follows a family coping with the mother’s bipolar disorder. Gloria (Manning,…

I Saw the Light

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

Lamb

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

Ithaca

Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has…

Carol

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

Son of Saul

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

H8RZ

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

Project Greenlight: The Leisure Class

The Leisure Class is the end product of the current season of HBO’s Project Greenlight, which…

Born on the Fourth of July

Ron Kovic enlists in the Marines and, by 1968, is a sergeant fighting in the Vietnam…

Louder Than Bombs

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

Mercy Street

This new PBS Civil War drama produced in and around Richmond, Virginia, takes viewers beyond the…

The Lady in the Van

Preceded by the short film Elemental (11 min.) Academy Award winner Maggie Smith brings to life…

Youth

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

Victoria

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

Brooklyn

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

The Looking Glass

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

The Report

Daniel J. Jones, a Senate staffer, is assigned the harrowing task of leading an investigation into…