VTIFF Global Roots Festival showcase, March 6th
Beck, a single mom, lives in Six Nations, Canada. After her mother’s death, she abandons her dream of becoming a Mohawk language teach- er, and an unhealthy lifestyle leads to a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes. The ghost of Tom Longboat, a sports legend of the early 1900s, appears to her. He teaches Beck to become an honor runner, dedicating each run to an aspect of creation or a special person in her life. With Tom’s help, Beck is able to turn her life around.
Genre: Drama
Sketch for a Popular Film
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ALL SHOWS DOWNSTAIRS.
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
All Shows Downstairs:
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanja at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.
All Shows Downstairs:
Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, Mikey meets a young woman named Strawberry working the cash register at a local doughnut shop.
Follows Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as they face a crisis that could end their careers and another…
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In the late 17th century, with plague ravaging the land, Benedetta Carlini joins the convent in Pescia, Tuscany,…
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Jay Craven’s new independent narrative feature film, JACK LONDON’S MARTIN EDEN, will play its
Central Vermont premiere from Friday, January 7th through Thursday, January 13th. Director
Craven will lead a post screening Q&A after the Friday, January 7th, 6pm screening.
JACK LONDON’S MARTIN EDEN is based on the celebrated writer’s autobiographical novel. Set in
1909, it tells the story of a poor and unschooled sailor who unexpectedly meets Ruth Morse, a
magnetic young woman of means and education. Their unconventional attraction upends both
lives and propels timely themes of impossible love, dogged individualism in pursuit of the
American Dream, and the quest for a comfortable place in an inconstant world.
What little dialogue there is in Tsai Ming-Liang’s DAYS is intentionally unsubtitled. The deftly precise soundtrack draws on…
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A documentary filmmaker whose latest project involves gifted children bonds with his smart-yet-sensitive nephew, whose father struggles with bipolar disorder and is in the grips of a manic episode.
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