VTIFF is thrilled to announce this year’s Global Roots Film Festival lineup, featuring a dozen films from around the word, all of them officially nominated by their country for Oscar consideration as Best International Feature Film.

From creative documentaries to sweeping historical epics, from contemporary body-horror to razor-sharp satire, from eco-disaster to harrowing immigration stories, GRFF offers an incredibly wide range of films.

This year’s festival shines a light on a younger generation of women filmmakers. Of the dozen films, seven are directed by women, and four of those are first-time features (another two are second features).

We’re also extremely excited to offer a sneak-peak at our new venue, The Screening Room, a 35-seat micro-cinema located in VTIFF’s offices on the first floor of Main Street Landing. While it doesn’t officially open until March, The Screening Room will open its doors for the first time ever to show two festival films, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Estonia) and The Mother of All Lies (Morocco). Tickets for these films will, obviously, be very limited.

Schedule of Events:

Thursday, February 8th, 2024

Four Daughters
Documentary | Tunisia | 2023 | Documentary, Drama | Arabic w/subtitles | 107 mins
7:00pm
Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington, VT

Friday, February 9th, 2024

Concrete Utopia
Fiction | S. Korea | 2023 | Fiction | Korean w/subtitles | 130 mins
4:00pm
Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington, VT

IO Capitano
Fiction | Italy | 2023 | Fiction | Wolof w/subtitles | 121 mins
7:00pm
Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington, VT

Saturday, February 10th, 2024

Banel & Adama
Fiction | Senegal | 2023 | Fiction | French w/subtitles | 87 mins
11:30am
Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington, VT

Bye Bye Tiberias
Documentary | Palestine | 2023 | Documentary | French and Arabic w/subtitles | 82 mins
1:30pm
Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington, VT

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Fiction | Romania | 2023 | Fiction | Romanian w/subtitles | 163 mins
3:30pm
Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington, VT

The Teachers' Lounge
Fiction | Germany | 2023 | Fiction | German w/subtitles | 94 mins
7:00pm
Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington, VT

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Documentary | Estonia | 2023 | Documentary| Estonian w/subtitles | 89 mins
7:15pm
The Screening Room at VTIFF, Burlington, VT

Sunday, February 11th, 2024

I Have Electric Dreams
Fiction | Costa Rica | 2023 | Fiction | Spanish w/subtitles | 101 mins
12:00pm
Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington, VT

Tiger Stripes
Fiction | Malaysia | 2023 | Fiction | Malay w/subtitles | 95 mins
2:15pm
Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington, VT

The Promised Land
Fiction | Denmark | 2023 | Fiction | Danish w/subtitles | 127 mins
4:15pm
Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington, VT

Mother of All Lies
Documentary | Morocco | 2023 | Documentary | Arabic w/subtitles | 101 mins
4:30pm
The Screening Room at VTIFF, Burlington, VT

Date: February 8-11, 2024

Film Venues:

The Main Street Landing Film House - 60 Lake Street, 3rd Floor
The Screening Room at VTIFF - 60 Lake Street, 1st Floor

Ticket:

$12 General Admission
$10 VTIFF Patron Members
$6 Student w/ID

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