Celebrate Halloween at VTIFF. Costumes encouraged! Sam Raimi has gone on to much bigger things, but it's fair to say that his biggest cinematic milestone is Evil Dead II, quite possibly the greatest horror-comedy ever.

Celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt's autumnal heist movie stars Josh O’Connor as amateur art thief J.B Mooney, who sets out on his first theft with what he thinks is an airtight plan. Also starring Alana Haim, Gaby Hoffmann, John Magaro, Hope Davis, and Bill Camp.

Le Bonheur—translation "Happiness"—is an underrated masterpiece by Agnes Varda, one of, if not the, greatest filmmaker of the French New Wave, and perhaps her most shocking, subversive feminist statement.

With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, a crime drama shot in an intensely intimate vérité style.

Jim Jarmusch's breakout feature is essential indie cinema. Starring John Lurie, Richard Edson, and violinist Eszter Balint, the rudderless road movie unfolds over a succession of long takes shot in washed-out black and white, with Jarmusch's hipster bona fides already on full display.

With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist (Conan O'Brien) in Mary Bronstein's long-in-the-works follow up to her anxiety-ridden debut, Yeast.

Joachim Trier’s Grand Prix-winning follow-up to the runaway art house hit The Worst Person in the World, stars Renate Reinsve as an actress forced to confront her long-estranged filmmaker father (Stellan Skarsgård, getting long-overdue accolades).