Virginia Film Festival

6 Love Stories

Over the course of one afternoon in different areas of Los Angeles, six couples connect, reconnect,…

Actor for Hire

Aspiring actor Jesse thinks he’s not landing parts because he’s bald. After several failed auditions, Jesse…

All My Friends Hate Me

Preceded by the short film The Acolyte. All Pete (Tom Stourton) wants is to spend his birthday…

American Fiction

People's Choice Award Winner, Toronto International Film Festival Thelonious “Monk'' Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is a down…

ANORA

A exotic dancer gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she impulsively marries the son of an oligarch.

BAD SHABBOS

An interfaith couple’s boisterous Shabbat dinner is rudely interrupted by an uninvited dead body.

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Official Oscar© Selection—Mexico The latest film from five-time Academy Award-winner Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Birdman, Amores…

Beetlejuice

In this 1988 classic comedy-horror directed by Tim Burton, a newly deceased couple, Barbara and Adam…

Bernard and Huey

Long-time friends Bernard and Huey reunite after 25 years without contact. Bernard, now a successful New…

THE BLACK SEA

After falling for a catfishing scam, Khalid finds himself stranded in coastal Bulgaria.

BOB TREVINO LIKES IT

Searching for her estranged father, Lily accidentally befriends a stranger with the same name.

Booger

Preceded by the short film Tooth Life has not been easy for Anna since the unexpected death…

Border

Tina, ostracized for her unusual appearance, uses her unique sense of smell to sniff out contraband…

Broadcast News

Revealing foresight about the fate of news media, this romantic comedy follows the interconnected lives of…

Cafe Americano

Cafe Americano follows the story of Mikey Phillips (Alex Scheinman) as he ventures to make his…

The Candidate

Political operative Marvin Lucas persuades a young lawyer and son of a former governor, Bill McKay,…

CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING

A blood-drenched musical extravaganza about two lovers split up by a chainsaw.

Chronically Metropolitan

Fenton, a promising author, lost the love of Jessie when he published a thinly-veiled story about…

Cobweb

In this film-within-a-film, Kim Yeol is a filmmaker haunted by the desire to reimagine the conclusion…

Concerned Citizen

Things are going well for Ben and Raz, a well-to-do gay couple from Tel Aviv. After…

Dough

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

Downsizing

A technological advance promises to reduce a person’s environmental impact and allow them to live a…

Dream Scenario

Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) is a directionless family man and middling professor, troubled by the ordinary,…

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (How I Felt When I Saw That Girl)

Sweety Chaudhary, a young Punjabi woman, is constantly badgered by her overbearing family about her love…

Fallen Leaves

Official Oscar© Selection—Finland | Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival A chance meeting in Helsinki offers two lonely…

The Favourite

In early 18th century Britain, Queen Anne’s (Olivia Colman) gout renders her too weak to rule,…

Flop

Screens before the feature film Postal.  In this hilarious short film, a shy young man attempts to…

Food Place

Screens before the feature film It Started as a Joke. In this ensemble comedy, the ragtag…

The French Dispatch

The latest in a series of idyllic, fantastical pieces by Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch takes…

The French Dispatch at Morven

The latest in a series of idyllic, fantastical pieces by Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch takes us to…

GET AWAY

A family vacation on a remote Swedish island turns into a fight for survival.

Ghostwriter

Screens before the feature film In Fabric Ghostwriter is a sweet short comedy about a writer who,…

Girl Flu

Bird, a thoughtful twelve-year-old, must accept that she is developing into a woman whether she wants…

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

OPENING NIGHT FILM Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is the thrilling, star-studded standalone sequel to…

Good Manners

At a fancy apartment in São Paulo, Ana, in search of a nanny for her unborn…

The Graduate

Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) has just graduated from college and now lives at his parents’ house,…

Happy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda Dragon Good Time Fun Fun Show

Slanty Eyed Mama, the duo of virtuosic electric violinist Lyris Hung and comedian/actor Kate Rigg (Dr.…

Happy New Year Tijuana

When Chicano studies professor Alejandro Serna misses his flight to his hometown of Léon, Mexico, he…

Hard Shell, Soft Shell

Az is a hopelessly romantic (or just hopeless?) twenty-something oyster farmer, plying his trade in the…

Harold and Maude

When a young death-obsessed Harold Chasen meets Maude Chardin, a 79-year-old woman who shares his hobby…

Heaven: To the Land of Happiness

Nam Sik, a meek hospital worker, desperately needs a costly medicine to treat his terminal illness.…

Hell in India (Gahim Fel Hend)

When the Egyptian ambassador to India and his family are kidnapped by an evil billionaire, the…

The Holdovers

Most American children spend winter break at home with their families, but at Barton Academy, an…

Hot Air

A young man attends the funeral of his biological father, a man he never knew, only…

Hunter Gatherer

After three years in prison, Ashley Douglas moves back home with his mother in the hopes…

I Am Not a Witch

After nine-year-old orphan Shula is accused of witchcraft, she is exiled to witch camp. Mr. Banda,…

Boots Riley Presents I’m a Virgo

Screening followed by a Q&A with Boots Riley, moderated by A.D. Carson, assistant professor of Hip-Hop…

I’ve Got Issues

Self-loathing, loneliness, death, discrimination, injustice, oppression, and the atom bomb, I’ve Got Issues is a unique comic…

The Independents

A chance encounter of three unintentional collaborators reignites their aspirations of making it in the music…

An Indian Father (Bir Baba Hindu)

In this Turkish Bollywood-style musical comedy, Fadil, a fierce and renowned Turkish mobster, falls in love…

James and the Giant Peach

James, orphaned after a rhinoceros kills his parents, has been sent to live with his two…

Jason and Shirley

In response to Shirley Clarke’s 1967 Portrait of Jason, filmmaker Stephen Winter offers an imaginative look…

Jojo Rabbit

A lonely German boy has his world view turned completely upside down when he discovers his…

Karaoke

Karaoke follows Meir and Tova, a middle-class couple in their 60s who are getting tired of…

Kelebekler (Butterflies)

After a traumatic event in childhood, siblings Cemal, Kenan, and Suzan left their village of Hasanlar…

Kills on Wheels

Zoli and Barba are roommates at an assisted care facility. Zoli relies on a wheelchair because…

Krystal

Tyler Ogburn lives a sheltered life due to a heart condition that prevents him from going…

The Lady in the Van

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

Last Flag Flying

Former Navy corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepard reunites with old military friends, Marine Sal Nealson and Reverend…

The Lears

World-renowned architect Davenport Lear (Bruce Dern) summons his dysfunctional children to a weekend family retreat to…

Lost in Paris

Preceded by the short film Bernie and Rebecca (15 min.) Fiona, a small town Canadian librarian,…

Love at First Fight

Between hanging out with his friends and helping run the family business, Arnaud’s summer promises rest…

The Love Witch

Preceded by the short film Roadside Assistance (8 min.) This highly stylized and impeccably crafted drama-thriller…

Mama Boy

Xiao-hong, a painfully shy, almost thirty-year-old fish store employee, lives alongside his control-freak mother, Meiling, who…

Max Peril

Riley Young is a hopeless aspiring filmmaker who has never completed a full movie. In a…

May December

In preparation for her upcoming acting role, Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), a rising celebrity, deeply involves herself…

The Muppet Movie

Motivated to make his big break in Hollywood, Kermit the Frog decides to travel across America,…

My Little Chickadee

Celebrating its 75th anniversary, this iconic Western comedy stars Mae West as the feisty Flower Belle…

Night of the Living Deb

Preceded by the short film Soccer Moms in Peril After the endearingly awkward Deb wakes up in…

The Noise of Engines

Placed on compulsory leave from a Canadian customs college, Alexandre takes the opportunity to make a…

Olympic Dreams

Preceded by the short film Wax Paul Now After a disappointing finish in her event at the…

Parasite

The Park Family is the picture of aspirational wealth. The Kim family is rich in nothing…

Permanent

Based on the writer/director’s own experience while attending E.B. Stanley Middle School in Virginia, Permanent is…

The Persian Version

Audience Award, US Dramatic | Sundance Film Festival Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, US Dramatic | Sundance…

Pixar Short Films: 2007-2012

Disney and Pixar present an incredible collection of 12 short films, featuring multiple Academy Award nominees…

Please Stand By

When Wendy, an autistic girl with a strong independence, a keen intelligence, and a playful sense…

Portraits From A Fire

Tyler, an eccentric and lonely teenager, spends his days Vlogging (video blogging) his Indigenous community and…

Postal

Preceded by the short film Flop. Phillip Tress lives in Jacksonville, Florida,and has decided to finally confess…

Relaxer

Unaware of the imminent Y2K apocalypse, Cam convinces his brother, Abbie, to remain on the couch…

Road to Kabul

After four unemployed Moroccans suffer harassment from a crooked former cop, they set out for Holland…