Virginia Film Festival 2016 VFF
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- DirectorA. Troy ThomasStarsJay AliDavid AzerradH. Robert BakerOur Founding Fathers were yearning for a nation of individual liberty. But, the origins of America were overflowing with a deep-seated paradox. Our Founding Fathers were rallying the colonists to liberty, while many were slave owners.Thursday 4:00 - 6:00, Violet Crown A
- DirectorMarcie BegleiterStarsSelma BlairBob BalabanPatrick KennedyDocumentary feature film focusing on the life and times of Eva Hesse, a ground-breaking artist who was active in New York and Germany in the 1960's.Thursday 5:00 - 7:00, Violet Crown B
- DirectorSteph ChingEllen MartinezAfter Spring is a feature documentary that focuses on the Syrian refugee crisis. With the Syrian conflict entering its sixth year, millions of people continue to be displaced. This is the story of what happens next. By following two refugee families in transition and aid workers fighting to keep the camp running, viewers will experience what it is like to live in Zaatari, the largest camp for Syrian refugees. With no end in sight for the conflict or this refugee crisis, everyone must decide if they can rebuild their lives in a place that was never meant to be permanent.Thursday 6:00 - 8:00, Newcomb Hall Theater
- DirectorAndré TéchinéStarsSandrine KiberlainKacey Mottet KleinCorentin FilaDamien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them.Thursday 6:30 - 8:30, Culbreth Theater
- DirectorThomas JenkoeTen years after the Grande-Synthe racist homicide, we trace the murderer's footsteps. The sound design weaves in a voiceover linking architecture to discourse, past the news item itself.Thursday 6:45 - 7:50, Violet Crown A
- DirectorJeff NicholsStarsRuth NeggaJoel EdgertonWill DaltonThe story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.Thursday 7:00 - 9:45, The Paramount Theater
- DirectorAaron WolfStarsAaron WolfIn these divided times, religious institutions are losing young members and even closing their doors at an alarming rate. Director Aaron Wolf's personal journey of rediscovery comes alive in Restoring Tomorrow, a universal story of hope as a treasured local temple near demise, is lifted up by a community's determination to achieve the impossible. Wolf's journey explores how when any community puts their mind to it, the impossible becomes possible. Wilshire Boulevard Temple, a Los Angeles treasure built by the original Hollywood moguls, needs to raise millions to restore its majesty and vibrancy, thus also restoring the future of the Jewish community, the greater Los Angeles community-and on a personal level, Wolf himself.Thursday 7:30 - 9:00, Vinegar Hill Theatre
- DirectorAndreas JohnsenStarsJosh EvansRoberto FloreBen ReadeIn an effort to determine their sustainability as a food source, two chefs travel throughout the world tasting insects.Thursday 7:45 - 9:00, Violet Crown B
- DirectorJoel PotrykusStarsTy HicksonAmari CheatomFijiSuffering from delusions of fortune, a young hermit hides out in the forest hoping to crack an ancient mystery, but pays a price for his mania.Thursday 8:30 - 10:15, Violet Crown A
- DirectorAnna MuylaertStarsNaomi NeroDaniel BotelhoDani NefussiAfter discovering the truth about being stolen by the woman he thought was his mother as a child, Pierre (AKA Felipe) must deal with the consequences of his mother's actions and must try to cope with his biological family.Thursday 8:45 - 10:15, Newcomb Hall Theater
- DirectorAdam SmithStarsMichael FassbenderBrendan GleesonLyndsey MarshalA man looks to find a way to escape the criminal ways of his outlaw family.Thursday 9:15 - 11:00, Culbreth Theatre
- DirectorJohnny MaStarsGang ChenNai AnHongwei WangA psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.Thursday 9:45 - 11:15, Violet Crown B
- DirectorBrad AllgoodGraham TownsleyJuliana Penaranda-LoftusLandfill Harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra. An unlikely orchestra made out of recycled trash. As this group takes its inspiring spectacle of trash-into-music around the world, we follow the lives of a garbage picker, a music teacher and a group of children from a Paraguayan slum. Landfill Harmonic is a beautiful story about the transformative power of music, which also highlights two vital issues of our times: poverty and waste pollution.Friday 3:00 - 4:45, Newcomb Hall Theater
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi NezuIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.Friday 3:00 - 6:00, The Paramount Theater
- DirectorRodrigo ReyesStarsDaniel MuratallaThe story of an aging Mexican migrant who spent his entire life working in the California fields, separated from his family back home. A melancholy alcoholic, one morning he realizes life has rolled past him and he has nothing to show for it. Lupe embarks on existential journey, trying to come to terms with his choices and reconnect with what he left behind.Friday 4:00 - 5:45, Vinegar Hill Theatre
- DirectorBoris LojkineStarsJustin WangEndurance NewtonNabyl Fally KoivoguiOn his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.Friday 4:15 - 6:00, Violet Crown B
- DirectorNora PoggiInsiyah SaeedStarsSheena AllenStacey FerreiraBrienne GhafourifarShe Started It is an award-winning documentary that provides a rare look in the lives of five ambitious young women entrepreneurs (Thuy, Stacey, Sheena, Brienne and Agathe) who will stop at nothing to pursue their startup dreams.Friday 5:00 - 7:00, Violet Crown A
- DirectorSeth KramerDaniel A. MillerJeremy NewbergerStarsMary Catherine BatesonSusan CrateMargaret MeadTHE ANTHROPOLOGIST considers the fate of the planet from the perspective of an American teenager. Over five years, she travels alongside her mother, an anthropologist studying the impact of climate change on indigenous communities.Friday 6:00 - 7:45, PVCC Dickinson Center
- DirectorDorie BartonStarsKatee SackhoffJade PettyjohnJeremy SistoBird, 12, has to become a woman whether she wants to or not when - in the worst week of her life - she gets her first period, is ditched by her impulsive, free spirited mom, and learns that you can never really go back to The Valley.Friday 6:15 - 8:15, Newcomb Hall Theater
- DirectorMiguel 'M.i.G.' MartinezJamie SisleyFarewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the controversial H-2B guestworker visa.Friday 6:30 - 8:15, Vinegar Hill Theatre
- DirectorKeith MaitlandStarsMonty MuirViolett BeaneCole Bee WilsonAnimation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people.Friday 6:30 - 8:00, St. Anne's-Belfield
- DirectorXavier ManriqueStarsShiloh FernandezChris NothVictor CruzA cynical and clever coming-of-age film about first-time novelist Fenton Dillane, who returns to New York City unannounced to confront his family, his ex-girlfriend, and a few lingering childhood fears.Friday 6:45 - 9:15, Violet Crown B
- CreatorJody HillDanny McBrideStarsDanny McBrideWalton GogginsSheaun McKinneyAn overprotective father is obsessed with becoming a principal and competes against the popular vice principal. However, something happens that makes them work together to save the day.Friday 6:45 - 8:20, Culbreth Theatre
- DirectorMichael DunawayStarsBeth GrantMatthew LillardCarrie PrestonOver the course of one afternoon, in six different parts of Los Angeles, six couples connect, reconnect, or fall apart. Love Actually (2003) meets Magnolia (1999).Friday 7:45 - 9:30, Violet Crown A
- DirectorByrum GeislerStarsEthan SharrettChase ConnerBrandi PriceA re-imagining of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" set in modern day, rural Virginia with Elizabeth Bennet as a man. Ben Bennet is an affluent but seemingly arrogant attorney who unknowingly insults Lee Darcy, a detached factory worker wrongly charged with domestic abuse. Both men form an immediate dislike for each other which becomes a significant problem when Ben falls in love with Lee.Friday 8:45 - 10:45, PVCC Dickinson Center