OPENING NIGHT FILM
The Debut Wednesday, Oct. 21 | 7:00 PM The Paramount Theater Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain) returns with an absurdist tale of a housewife swept up in the fervor of a community theater production. On a whim, Mona (Julianne Moore) tries out for a role in a local musical. Under the guidance of its magnetic director (Paul Giamatti), she becomes spellbound and reinvents herself in the glamor of the stage. Presented by Bank of America
Possible Love
Elsinore
In Waves
Wednesday, Oct. 21 | 7:00 PM Violet Crown
Thursday, Oct. 22 | 5:15 PM Culbreth Theatre
Thursday, Oct. 22 | 5:30 PM Violet Crown
Official Oscar© Selection—South Korea
International People’s Choice Award, Toronto Film Festival
The story of friendship, partnership, and love between Kristen, a fearless surfer voiced by Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once), and AJ, a shy skateboarder voiced by Will Sharpe (A Real Pain).
Ebert Director Award Winner, Toronto International Film Festival Master filmmaker Lee Chang-dong (Burning, Poetry, Secret Sunshine) returns from an eight-year hiatus with an immaculately crafted, towering work of cinema that tracks the intertwined relationship of two married couples.
Andrew Scott (Blue Moon) stars as Chariots of Fire actor Ian Charleson, who undertakes the role of a lifetime just as his own life is slipping away. Diagnosed with AIDS, he defies his doctor (Olivia Colman) to play Hamlet at the London National Theatre. Presented by UVA Arts & the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts
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Adapted from AJ Dungo’s autobiographical graphic novel of the same name.
CENTERPIECE FILM
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd Saturday, Oct. 24 | 8:00 PM The Paramount Theater Tim Blake Nelson’s strikingly original psychological thriller follows Karen (Amanda Seyfried), a teacher in a maximum-security prison who becomes entangled with Wilson Shedd (Scoot McNairy), a death-row inmate whose unexpected warmth pierces right through her. Discussion with Tim Blake Nelson Virtuoso Award: Tim Blake Nelson Nelson will also appear at the screening of The Leader.
Josephine Thursday, Oct. 22 | 5:30 PM Violet Crown Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award Winner, Sundance Film Festival Eight-year-old Josephine (Mason Reeves) witnesses a devastating, lifealtering crime while running through Golden Gate Park with her father (Channing Tatum) in this unflinching and long-lingering film from director Beth Araújo (Soft & Quiet).
Daughters of the Forest Thursday, Oct. 22 | 7:45 PM Violet Crown Mexican scientists Lis and Juli come from communities that have long lived in symbiosis with mushrooms. But their world is changing, and their way of life is threatened by deforestation, lack of opportunity, and loss. Discussion with director Otilia Portillo Padua
Club Kid Thursday, Oct. 22 | 8:00 PM Culbreth Theatre Jordan Firstman (I Love LA) stars as a party promoter whose life has dissolved into a decade of drug-blurred nights and perpetual adolescence. His nightlife routine shatters when Arlo, the son he never knew he had, is dropped off on his doorstep. Discussion with composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer Outstanding Achievement in Film Composition: Cristóbal Tapia de Veer Tapia de Veer will also appear with Nuisance Bear. VIRGINIA FILM FESTIVAL 2026 | 3
CLOSING NIGHT FILM
1 15 41 Tragedy to Triumph Sunday, Oct. 25 | 7:30 PM The Paramount Theater World Premiere Follows the UVA Football team from the shootings that tragically claimed the lives of Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., and D’Sean Perry in 2022, through the history-making, 11-win 2025 season that ended with a trip to the ACC Championship game. Discussion with director Greg Frith and UVA Football head coach Tony Elliott, moderated by “Voice of the Cavaliers” John Freeman Presented in partnership with Virginia Athletics
Wild Horse Nine
Wild Inside
Behemoth!
Friday, Oct. 23 | 1:30 PM The Paramount Theater
Friday, Oct. 23 | 5:00 PM Violet Crown
Friday, Oct. 23 | 8:45 PM The Paramount Theater
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi).
Flaco the Owl escaped from the Central Park Zoo and set off on a magical odyssey through Manhattan. Flaco’s viral journey besotted a motley chorus of New Yorkers—all reaching for a glimpse of the wild, a glimmer of magic, or even just someone to believe in.
In the latest from writer-director Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton), Pedro Pascal delivers his grandest performance to date as Alex, a gifted cellist who returns home to Los Angeles after twenty years on the road.
As the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts, Chris’ newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens everything.
Discussion with director Penny Lane
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Finding work recording film scores, he immerses himself in every project, and long-held memories begin to resurface.
CAREER PRODUCER HONOR
Todd Black Todd Black is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated producer, having worked with many of the top talents in the industry, both in front and behind the camera. Black’s longtime collaboration with Denzel Washington began with Antwone Fisher and includes The Great Debaters, with both films earning the Producers Guild’s Stanley Kramer Award. Their partnership spans across other notable titles such as Fences, The Magnificent Seven, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Among Black’s other numerous credits as a producer are The Pursuit of Happyness, Being the Ricardos, and Emancipation. Black entered the entertainment business as a casting associate after attending USC’s School of Theater. In 1995, Black became President of Motion Picture Production at Mandalay Entertainment, where he managed Donnie Brasco and I Know What You Did Last Summer. With producer Jason Blumenthal, he created Black & Blu Productions and later formed Escape Artists. Their first film was A Knight’s Tale, which Black personally oversaw throughout the filmmaking process. Recently, Black and his company have jumped into television with extraordinarily received shows such as Servant, Dr. Death, Untamed, and DTF St. Louis, which garnered 7 Emmy Awards.
Black will receive the inaugural Career Producer Honor, which celebrates the career and artistic impact of a significant producer and is supported by a new endowment established by Virginia Film Festival Advisory Board Member and producer Julie Lynn and her sister, Amy Quinn.
The Social Reckoning
Madden Clip Talk
Thursday, Oct. 22 | 8:45 PM The Paramount Theater
Saturday, Oct. 24 | 3:30 PM Violet Crown
Inspired by true events, Aaron Sorkin’s (Molly’s Game) original screenplay is a companion piece to The Social Network.
Producer Todd Black and director David O. Russell present a sneak peek clip talk on the upcoming film Madden, chronicling John Madden’s journey from a Super Bowl-winning coach with the Raiders to becoming football’s most recognizable voice.
A young Facebook engineer (Mikey Madison) enlists the help of a Wall Street Journal reporter (Jeremy Allen White) to expose the social network’s most guarded secrets. Discussion with director Aaron Sorkin and producer Todd Black
The film stars Nicolas Cage, Christian Bale, Kathryn Hahn, Sienna Miller, and John Mulaney.
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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES SERIES
The Birdcage Sunday, Oct. 25 | 3:30 PM The Paramount Theater 30th Anniversary Screening Armand (Robin Williams) and Albert (Nathan Lane) have built the perfect life, tending to their gaudy Miami nightclub. But their tranquility is shaken when Armand’s son announces that he’s getting married to the daughter of ultra-conservative Senator Keeley (Gene Hackman). Discussion with actor Nathan Lane, moderated by Ben Mankiewicz
Visionary Award: Nathan Lane
All of a Sudden Saturday, Oct. 24 | 10:00 AM Violet Crown Official Oscar© Selection—Japan Joint Best Actress Award: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, Cannes Film Festival Academy Award-winning director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car), returns with a deeply humanistic, philosophical, and moving account of an unlikely friendship between an elderly care facility director and a Japanese theater director living with terminal cancer.
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FAMILY CENTERPIECE FILM
Julián Saturday, Oct. 24 | 10:00 AM Violet Crown While spending the summer with a grandmother he barely knows, Julián becomes friends with the water sprite Luna and discovers that he is a mermaid! Accompanied by friends, a magical whale, and his grandmother, Julián sets off on an extraordinary adventure.
Ben Mankiewicz, Primetime host of TCM
Being Heumann Saturday, Oct. 24 | 10:30 AM Culbreth Theatre They wouldn’t take Judy Heumann’s phone calls, so she took their building. From Academy Award-winning director Siân Heder (CODA) comes the trailblazing true story of Judy Heumann (Ruth Madeley), the disability rights activist who sparked the longest occupation of a federal building in American history.
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night Friday, Oct. 23 | 5:00 PM The Paramount Theater A family grapples with a mother’s addiction and suppressed grievances in a series of tense and volatile exchanges. Based on the Eugene O’Neill play, and starring Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster, and Colin Morgan. Discussion with actor Jessica Lange, moderated by Ben Mankiewicz Visionary Award: Jessica Lange. Lange will also appear at the screening of Blue Sky (1994) and join The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast (see page 11).
Tangles
La Bola Negra
Saturday, Oct. 24 | 2:00 PM Violet Crown
Saturday, Oct. 24 | 4:30 PM Culbreth Theatre
A young woman is unraveled by her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis in this stirring adaptation of Sarah Leavitt’s graphic memoir.
Official Oscar© Selection—Spain
Told through beautifully rendered, hand-drawn animation, Tangles is infused with a well-calibrated sense of humor and overflows with joy and love. Features a stellar voice cast including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Abbi Jacobson, Samira Wiley, Bryan Cranston, Beanie Feldstein, Wanda Sykes, and Seth Rogen.
People’s Choice Award, Toronto Film Festival The lives of a soldier drafted against his will, a young socialite navigating a culture of homophobia, and a historian grappling with family involvement in the Spanish Civil War collide in this sweeping epic that draws inspiration from the work of Federico García Lorca.
When a Witness Recants Saturday, Oct. 24 | 4:30 PM Violet Crown In 1983, noted author Ta-Nehisi Coates learned that a 14-year old boy was murdered in the corridor of his Baltimore middle school. Revisiting the case as an adult, he learns the truth about the three innocent teenagers who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
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Paper Tiger Thursday, Oct. 22 | 5:00 PM The Paramount Theater James Gray (Armageddon Time) delivers a foreboding New York City 1980’s thriller that follows brothers, Irwin (Miles Teller) and Gary Pearl (Adam Driver), as they and Hester Pearl (Scarlett Johansson) become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. Discussion with director James Gray and composer Christopher Spelman
Outstanding Achievement in Directing: James Gray Gray will also join IndieWire’s Screen Talk podcast (see page 11).
Clarissa
Love, Your Birth Mom
Fatherland
Saturday, Oct. 24 | 8:00 PM Culbreth Theatre
Sunday, Oct. 25 | 11:00 AM Violet Crown
Sunday, Oct. 25 | 11:45 AM Culbreth Theatre
Society woman Clarissa prepares to host a party at her home in Lagos, Nigeria, where she will unexpectedly encounter onceintimate friends from her youth in this modern-day reimagining of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.
World Premiere
Official Oscar© Selection—Poland
Two women navigate the final months of pregnancy and each weighs a profound decision: whether to raise her child or choose adoption.
Best Director, Cannes Film Festival
Discussion with screenwriter and co-director Chuko Esiri
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Discussion with producer-director Din Blankenship and producer Elizabeth Lodge Stepp
Academy Award-nominated director Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War) follows the novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) as they return to Germany for the first time after World War II.
Ink Saturday, Oct. 24 | 12:15 PM The Paramount Theater Rupert Murdoch recruits Larry Lamb to revive a failing British tabloid, spawning a sensationalist journalism without bottom. Based on James Graham’s Tony and Laurence Olivier Award-winning play, Danny Boyle’s (127 Hours) whirlwind film stars Guy Pearce, Jack O’Connell, and Claire Foy.
Once Upon a Time in Harlem Sunday, Oct. 25 | 2:00 PM Violet Crown Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film William and David Greaves’ documentary chronicles a legendary 1972 cocktail party hosted in Duke Ellington’s townhouse, capturing the voices and memories of the surviving luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance and offering the world a never-before-seen window into one of the most important artistic gatherings in history.
14th Sunday, Oct. 25 | 5:00 PM Culbreth Theatre The 14th Amendment fundamentally reshaped the U.S. with a promise declaring that anyone born on American soil is a citizen. Ava DuVernay (Origin) turns her lens toward the ongoing struggle over American identity. Discussion with Sherrilyn Ifill, founder of Howard University’s 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy and former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Safe for the Whole Family: How to Make a Christian Superstar Sunday, Oct. 25 | 5:15 PM Violet Crown 1990s and early 2000s Contemporary Christian musicians reveal what it was like in an industry that turned faith into profit. Discussion with director Jason Ikeler, producer Whitney Fern, and film subject Michael Passons Followed by a brief musical performance
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The Cashier Saturday, Oct. 24 | 4:00 PM The Paramount Theater Set in a world of everyday heroes and misguided villains, The Cashier is a feel-good, dark comedy centered on Glenda (Daphne Maxwell Reid), a humble cashier who stumbles upon a winning lottery ticket. Discussion with director Andy Edmunds and actors Daphne Maxwell Reid and Michael Marundé
Governor Gerald L. Baliles Founder’s Award: Daphne Maxwell Reid
A Price We Have To Pay Saturday, Oct. 24 | 12:30 PM Violet Crown World Premiere Ignacio Ezcurra, the only Argentinian journalist sent to Vietnam in 1968, vanished with barely a trace. The mystery of his death was left unchallenged for decades. Until now. Discussion with director Ricardo Preve and film subject Lê Vân
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Admission Possible Saturday, Oct. 24 | 1:30 PM Culbreth Theatre First-generation college applicants fight for access to higher education as they confront a rapidly changing admissions landscape. As the teens navigate essays, applications, family pressures, campus visits, and a rapidly shifting admissions landscape, Admission Possible reveals the intimate human stakes behind a national crisis in college access. Discussion with film subjects Kamani Confident and Bill Short
Death Becomes Us: And Hands Are With Us Sunday, Oct. 25 | 2:15 PM Culbreth Theatre World Premiere Preceded by the short film Ring Every Bell Charlottesville legend Chris Farina's final film is an ode to the hospice workers and funeral home staff who guide us through death. Discussion with Leslie Blackhall (UVA Health), Jonathan Bartels (UVA Health), Peter Thompson (The Center at Belvedere), Peggy Plews-Ogan (The Hummingbird Fund), and Chris Burke (Ring Every Bell). Moderated by Rachael Kesler Palm (I AM ALS)
FREE PANELS AND PODCASTS
AWARDS CHATTER IMAGE (LANGE, FEINBERG & THR LOGO)
Screen Talk with James Gray
Awards Chatter with Jessica Lange
Thursday, Oct. 22 | 3:00 PM Vault Virginia – The Gallery
Friday, Oct. 23 | 2:00 PM Irving Theater, CODE Building
Director James Gray joins IndieWire's Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio for a live recording of their popular podcast. This is a free, unticketed event. Arrive 15-30 minutes before the listed start time to find a seat.
Jessica Lange joins The Hollywood Reporter’s Executive Editor of Awards Coverage Scott Feinberg for a live recording of the Awards Chatter podcast. This is a free, ticketed event. A ticket is required for admission. Presented by The Hollywood Reporter
PANELS All panels are free and unticketed. Arrive 15-30 minutes before the listed start time to find a seat.
Saving Films, Telling Histories
Pitch Perfect: Get Your Project Made
Friday, Oct. 23 | 5:00 PM Irving Theater, CODE Building
Sunday, Oct. 25 | 12:00 PM Irving Theater, CODE Building
With panelists Jülide Etem (author of Film Diplomacy) and Jason Evans Groth (Moving Image Curator at the Library of Congress).
With panelists Christopher Golding (VP, Production Management & Business Operations, PBS), Jessica Harrop (Executive Director, Sandbox Films), and John Terenzio (Media executive and Producer: NBC Universal, ABC, CBS, Fox, Discovery). Moderated by Rebe Malaret (The Stagecoach Group).
Making It – Film Industry Career Panel Saturday, Oct. 24 | 3:30 PM Violet Crown
Building Worlds: The Art of Production Design
With panelists Ashley Allen (Marvel Comics writer), director/producer Din Blankenship (Love, Your Birth Mom), director/producer Noah Gray (New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper), and producer Elizabeth Lodge Stepp (Users).
Sunday, Oct. 25 | 2:00 PM Irving Theater, CODE Building
VAFF Panels are presented by and supported by Virginia Commission for the Arts
Craft Award: Ruth De Jong
Academy Award-nominated Production Designer Ruth De Jong (The Odyssey) gives us a tour of how the physical world of a film is created.
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Wednesday, Oct 21 PARAMOUNT
CULBRETH
VIOLET CROWN 1 & 2
Q&A VIOLET CROWN 3
VIOLET CROWN 4
VIOLET CROWN 5
VIOLET CROWN 6 & 7
VAULT 5pm
Light House Studio Shorts
6pm
5PM 7pm
Time Warp The Debut
Possible Love
7PM
Rehmat
6:30PM
8pm
6:45PM
The Blood Countess
7PM
9pm
8PM 10pm
11pm
Thursday, Oct 22 2pm The Only Living Pickpocket in New York 2:30PM
5PM
Elsinore 5:15PM
In Waves
5PM
5:30PM
Screen Talk w/ James Gray
3pm
3PM
3PM
4pm
5pm
Giants Do Fall
Paper Tiger
Jail Time Records
A Cree Approach
Jean-Michel Basquiat 5PM
Josephine 5:30PM
5:45PM
The Social Reckoning w/ Todd Black and Aaron Sorkin
Club Kid
Cherry and Virgin
Daughters of the Forest
8PM 8PM
7:45PM
6pm
7pm
8pm
My Name 8:45PM
No More Punk Time: The Last Days of Crayola House 8:15PM
Everytime
9pm
8:15PM
10pm
8:45PM
11pm
Friday, Oct 23
Q&A
PARAMOUNT
VIOLET CROWN 1 & 2
VIOLET CROWN 3
VIOLET CROWN 4
VIOLET CROWN 5
VIOLET CROWN 6 & 7
CODE BUILDING 10am
11am
12pm
1pm
2pm
Wild Horse Nine 1:30PM
A Suite of Short Films by Kevin Jerome Everson
La Gradiva TheyDream
2PM
Awards Chatter w/ Jessica Lange 3pm 2PM
2:30PM
3PM
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Everything Else is Noise
The Journey to Gyeong-Ju
5:45PM
5:15PM
Short Films: The B-Sides
4pm
Wild Inside
Rose 5PM
5pm
5PM
6pm
5PM
5:30PM
5PM
Saving Films, Telling Histories
7pm
8pm
Minotaur Blue Sky
Coward Behemoth!
8PM
8:45PM
Nuisance Bear
Phenomena
8PM
7:30PM
9pm
8:15PM 8:30PM
10pm
11pm
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FREE EVENTS
Saturday, Oct 24 PARAMOUNT
CULBRETH
Q&A
VIOLET CROWN 1 & 2
VIOLET CROWN 3
VIOLET CROWN 4
VIOLET CROWN 5
Julián
Our Community. Our Canvas.
VIOLET CROWN 6 & 7 10am
Kikuyu Land
Being Heumann
10AM 10AM
10:30AM
All of a Sudden
10:30AM 10AM
The Lorraine 11:45AM
Ink
Mouse Aanikoobijigan
12:15PM
(Ancestor/ Great-Grandparent /Great-Grandchild)
Admission Possible 1:30PM
1pm
12:30PM
2pm
Tangles
2PM
2PM
3:30PM
4PM
A Price We Have to Pay
A Bit of Light
La Bola Negra
When a Witness Recants
4:30PM
4:30PM
12pm
12:15PM
1PM
Making It – Film Industry Career Panel
The Cashier
11am
Delupi
Madden Clip Talk w/ David O. Russell and Todd Black
3:15PM
3:30PM
3pm
4pm
5pm
Bedford Park The Leader
One of a Kind 6PM
Short Films: Life Framed
4:45PM
5:30PM
6pm
7pm
6:15PM
8pm
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd 8PM
Clarissa
The Dreamed Adventure
Short Films: ReCaptcha
7:30PM 8PM
8:30PM
Flood 8:45PM
American Hustle 8:30PM
Just An Illusion
9pm
8PM
10pm
11pm
Sunday, Oct 25
Q&A
PARAMOUNT
CULBRETH
VIOLET CROWN 1 & 2
VIOLET CROWN 3
VIOLET CROWN 4
VIOLET CROWN 5
VIOLET CROWN 6 & 7
CODE BUILDING 10am
A Long Winter
Rock and Reel: A Film About Monticello’s Black Fiddlers
11am
Love, Your Birth Mom
10:30AM
Fatherland I Play Rocky
10:45AM
Landscapes of Memory
11:45AM
11AM
Carl Sagan: We are Made of Star Stuff
Pitch Perfect: Get Your Project Made
12pm
12PM
1pm
12PM
12PM 12:30PM
Death Becomes Us: And Hands are with Us
Rehearsals for a Revolution
Iron Boy 1:30PM Short Films: New Tide: Virginia Student Filmmakers
1:45PM
2:15PM
The Birdcage w/ Nathan Lane
2:45PM
We Are Aliens
3:30PM
14th
4PM
5PM
Nina Roza
5:15PM
4pm
9th & Gasoline
Safe for the a Christian Superstar
3pm
2:30PM
Welcome to Whole Family: the Fishbowl How to Make
4:15PM
Loves Company
2PM
2pm
2PM
Gentle Monster
The Endless Frontier
5PM
1 15 41 Tragedy to Triumph
Once Upon A Time In Harlem
Building Worlds: The Art of Production Design
4:30PM
5pm
6pm
The Beloved 5:45PM
7pm
6:30PM
8pm
7:15PM
Short Films: Our Wealth in Common
7:30PM
8:15PM
Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls: Another Side of Woody Guthrie 8:30PM
9pm
10pm
11pm
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FREE EVENTS
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