Films

After playing composer Richard Rodgers in Blue Moon and RAF meteorologist James Stagg in Pressure, Andrew Scott hits the biopic trifecta with his portrayal of Ian Charleson as the actor prepares to play his final role, Hamlet.

When his bass player dies in a car accident, grieving jazz pianist Bill Evans stops playing and retreats to his parents’ home in this stunning drama that unreels with the rhythm of improvised music.

An unforgettable study of identity, family, and generational remorse, the stunning Fatherland traces the relationship between renowned writer Thomas Mann and his accomplished actress-writer daughter Erika amidst the ruins of postwar Germany.

Director Danny Boyle charts the rise and fall of Sir Albert “Larry” Lamb, infamous Rupert Murdoch acolyte and creator of the titillating bits that rocketed The Sun to British tabloid superstardom in the 1970s.

Three eras, one buried story. La bola negra is a mesmerizing cinematic journey through love, memory, persecution, and the quiet wounds passed from one generation to the next, told with haunting beauty.

A stellar thriller built entirely from restored archival footage, Odyssey plunges us into the fateful Apollo 13 mission through the perspective of astronaut Jim Lovell—offering a moving reflection on the first Space Race just as a new one begins.

Five decades after director William Greaves invited the surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance to Duke Ellington’s apartment to debate their movement’s legacy, Greaves’ son David completes his father’s passion project documenting a wealth of brilliant personality and bracing ideas.

Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly star as community leaders confronting wildfire and other threats in a small Western town in 1870. Dara Van Dusen’s feature debut is both familiar and eerily apocalyptic—a notable accomplishment.

Nearly a half-century of Iranian political repression and resistance unfolds through one family’s experience, illustrated by home movies and other archival materials in this highly personal documentary from expatriate Pegah Ahangarani.

Sandra Hüller delivers a performance of searing psychological intensity as a 17th-century war veteran who conceals many secrets in Markus Schleinzer’s stark, formally stunning drama.

Witty, erudite documentary filmmaker Mark Cousins offers a monumental history of the genre, from cinema’s earliest day through to our own era, a lyrical journey that also acts as an epic memory poem about the modern world.

When filmmaker Gabriela Pena returns to Valparaíso, Chile, to renovate the house her family left behind decades earlier, she unearths how silences, unspoken fears, and absences have shaped their relationships and approaches to love.

A fisherwoman mocked for her spinsterish ways beseeches a basket maker to weave her a husband in this altogether unique and fantastical folk romance starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, and Peter Dinklage.

A pair of CIA agents, Easter Island, and a mysterious assignment: Martin McDonagh delivers a darkly funny, visually stunning thriller fueled by the irresistible chemistry of John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell.

After playing composer Richard Rodgers in Blue Moon and RAF meteorologist James Stagg in Pressure, Andrew Scott hits the biopic trifecta with his portrayal of Ian Charleson as the actor prepares to play his final role, Hamlet.

Three eras, one buried story. La bola negra is a mesmerizing cinematic journey through love, memory, persecution, and the quiet wounds passed from one generation to the next, told with haunting beauty.

Sam Rockwell will be honored with a special MVFF Tribute Program, featuring a screening of Wild Horse Night, clips from his career, and an in-depth conversation, and preceded by an earlier screening of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, another Martin McDonagh film starring Rockwell, whose performance earned him an Academy Award.