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ANIMATION WORKSHOP WITH STEVE WOLOSHEN
Internationally renowned animator Steven Woloshen returns to VTIFF with his much-loved animation workshop! Woloshen is an award-winning Canadian film animator and a pioneer of drawn-on-film animation techniques.
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WHISPERS IN MAY
Many coming-of-age tales take on the archetype of the road movie, and Whispers in May does, too. But as a story about a teen thrust into the daunting world of adulthood and as a winding odyssey, Dongnan Chen’s hybrid documentary is unique and special.
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LITTLE KID FLICKS
Little Kid Flicks returns to VTIFF! This popular and charming selection of family-friendly short films from around the world is the perfect way for kids to discover the magic of the big screen.
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MADE HERE FILM FESTIVAL, BEST OF 2026
VTIFF’s Made Here Film Festival celebrates the work of filmmakers in all six New England states and Quebec, making it a truly international affair.
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SOY MARIO
Transgender taxi driver Mario has it pretty good in Mexico City—a steady job, a relatively even-keel relationship with his family, a circle of friends.
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HER GAME IS HARDBALL
Her Game Is Hardball explores the hidden history and modern struggles of women trying to play hardball—that’s baseball, not softball—at the professional level.
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CAR WASH
On paper, it might not seem like much—the frenzied goings-on over the course of a day at a car wash in Los Angeles—but Michael Schultz’s Car Wash pulls everything it can from its premise, delivering a remarkably sunny, human comedy.
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CROCODILE
A testament to the power of imagination and storytelling, Crocodile follows a group of young Nigerians, dubbed The Critics, who, armed with a single cell phone, begin making sci-fi films in their backyards, creating movies that were heavily influenced by mainstream American fare but decidedly African.
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REHEARSALS FOR A REVOLUTION
The film is an elegy for Iran, the Iran that could have been, and the Iranian people who, as the film's conclusion states, are now caught between internal oppression and a forced war
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MOUSE
When tragedy strikes on the eve of their senior year, Minnie is completely lost and forms an uneasy bond with Callie’s mother, Helen (Academy Award nominee Sophie Okonedo).
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THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL
Ti West is now best known for his X Trilogy—X, Pearl, and MaXXXine-and, bizarrely, this Thanksgiving he'll drop his Gothic take on A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer. But his breakout was The House of the Devil, and it still rips nearly two decades on. Sometimes lumped into the so-called "mumblegore" microgenre, alongside up-and-comers like Adam Wingard (You're Next, Godzilla Vs. Kong), David Bruckner (The Ritual), and Joe Swanberg (V/H/S), what sets this satanic panic revival film apart is its fully realized throwback swagger (in name it even references arguably the first ever horror film, Georges Méliès' three-minute magic show from 1896).
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GHOSTWATCH
Well before audiences were accustomed to found-footage movies—thanks in large part to The Blair Witch Project giving away the game—Ghostwatch set the template for how to catch viewers completely unawares, and it worked smashingly. Featuring real BBC personalities and reporters investigating “the most haunted house in Britain,” Ghostwatch adopted the format of a genuine live broadcast, War of the Worlds-style—taking place in more or less real time, expert parapsychologists on hand to unpack the goings on, and operators standing by to take your calls. But what starts out as a cheeky Halloween edition of the similarly titled Crimewatch goes terribly wrong, leaving shocked BBC viewers wondering what to believe.
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ROADS TO OLYMPIA
Three young athletes—a closeted Russian decathlete, a Saudi woman struggling against the patriarchy, and a Brazilian wrestler escaping crime—face cultural oppression, intolerance, and poverty as they pursue a shared dream to compete in the Olympic Games.
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ALL THAT JAZZ
The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece, starring Roy Scheider in the performance of his career.
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NAZA
Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the filmmakers behind the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, NAZA was shot covertly at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv and focuses on conversations with the people involved in the calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians.
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MUSICAL SILENTS: A TRIP TO MARS
In Holger-Madsen’s groundbreaking silent space adventure, a group of Danish astronauts land on Mars and discover a utopian, vegetarian society populated by people who look like... attractive Danes headed to a toga party.
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MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II—EXILE
In the expansive and equally intimate second chapter of her monumental procedural tracking a group of Russian dissidents, Julia Loktev picks up precisely where she left off, following the journalists branded as “foreign agents” as the disperse across Europe and beyond.
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DOWN BY LAW
Jim Jarmusch followed up his breakout film Stranger Than Paradise with this equally beloved portrait of three hapless misfits on the run in Louisiana: an unemployed disc jockey (Tom Waits), a small-time pimp (John Lurie), and an Italian tourist (Roberto Benigni).
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THE RULES OF THE GAME
One of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners, as a weekend of goings-on at a country château riles a group of haut-bourgeois acquaintances.
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THE KILLING
Stanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest, twistiest noirs. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony, it’s Kubrick to the core.
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THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Renate Reinsve won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for the revelatory, complex performance that anchors this sprawlingly novelistic film by Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier.
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PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until together they create a space in which it can briefly flourish, in this sumptuous 18th-century romance from Céline Sciamma, one of contemporary French cinema’s most acclaimed auteurs.
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