By Alan Dominguez Recently I have been thinking about the intersection of two elements of my creative work — time and community. Timing is everything, or so we’re told. In my Chicanx/Indigenous community, I have found time is not always on our side — “It’s not the right time,” “Things take too much time,” “Wrong […]
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Indigenous storytelling has been at the heart of the work of the Sundance Institute since its inception. Through our labs and fellowships, we’re dedicated to
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Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2025) 2½ out of 5 stars Hamnet is the kind of movie where one feels terrible when not moved as much as the onscreen characters. They wail and proclaim their grief, making quite the intense spectacle. Give me more films like director Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-winning Nomadland, instead, please, where the struggle to […]
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the film Battleship Potemkin, and as a result VTIFF will be holding a special screening of the film on October 19th, 2025. The groundbreaking silent epic was used by its director, Sergei Eisenstein, to innovate and perfect one of cinema’s most foundational aspects, the montage.
Originally commissioned 20 years after the 1905 Russian Revolution to...
The Little Sister (2025) is the film adaptation of an autofiction novel by Fatima Daas titled The Last One (2020). This film marks Hafsia Herzi’s third film as a director and writer, directing and writing two other feature-length films: You Deserve a Lover (2019) and Good Mother (2021). However, Hafsia Herzi is a triple threat, starting her career as an actor before transitioning to a...
Monday, October 20
1:00 PM Hedda at Film House
Hedda, a newlywed thrill-seeker, throws an extravagant party in the hopes of helping her husband receive a professorship. However, a lover from her past appears, and disrupts this event.
1:15 PM Timestamp at Black Box
Following teachers and students across Ukraine over the course of a school year, Kateryna Gornostai captures...
Friday, October 17 — Opening Night
7:00 PM My Father’s Shadow at Film House
A semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian capital Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. The story follows a father, estranged from his two young sons, as they travel through the massive city while political unrest threatens their journey...
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On October 17th, 2025, the Vermont International Film Festival kicks off at 7 pm with its first film, Akinola Davies Jr.’s My Father’s Shadow. 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the largest film festival in the state of Vermont: the Vermont International Film Festival, or VTIFF for short. Through its dedication to advancing...
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This Wednesday, October 22nd, the acclaimed cult classic filmmaker and writer John Waters will be attending the Vermont International Film Festival! Waters’ filmography includes underground classics such as Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos...
It Was Just an Accident (2025) is an Iranian-made film made without authorization from the Iranian government. The drama was directed, written, and co-produced by Jafar Panahi. Jafar is a central part of Iranian new wave cinema with films such as The White Balloon (1995), The Circle (2000), and Crimson Gold (2003); all three films reflect the movement's themes of social...