Schedule

Our online Box Office is closed as of 6pm on Sunday, October 26. Tickets must now be purchased in person at Regal Cinemas on the Downtown Mall. Please visit the Tickets page for Box Office hours and for information on the standby line. Will Call is located at Regal Cinemas on the Downtown Mall. Any uncollected Will Call tickets will be brought to the theatre holding the screening one hour before the screening begins and will be available for pick up at that location.

Thursday, October 30
Expanded Festival
  • Darden Producers' Forum (1:20 PM Darden School)
  • From Accented Cinema towards Multiplex Cinema with Film Festival Fellow Hamid Naficy (4:00 PM Harrison Auditorium)
  • Opening Night Gala (9:30 PM U.Va. Art Museum)
    • Time Culbreth Regal Downtown #4 Regal Downtown #3 McCormick Observatory Newcomb Hall The Paramount Vinegar Hill
    7:00 PM Lake City with actress Sissy Spacek, actor Troy Garity, directors Perry Moore and Hunter Hill, executive producer Weiman Seid, and producer Mark Johnson Prince of Broadway with director Sean Baker, producer Darren Dean, and cast members Prince Adu and Karren Karragulian       War of the Worlds (1938 Radio Broadcast) Waltz With Bashir            
    7:15 PM             Calavera Highway with director Renee Tajima-Peña                        
    8:15 PM                   Space Brothers and Others curated by Craig Baldwin                  
    10:00 PM War of the Worlds (1953 Film) introduced by George Pal biographer, Justin Humphreys Waiting for Happiness with director Abderrahmane Sissako             Phoebe in Wonderland            
    10:15 PM             Los Olvidados                        

    Friday, October 31
    Expanded Festival
  • Koryo Saram with producer Meredith Woo (12:30 PM Campbell Hall 160)
  • Gender, Race and Film (3:00 PM Campbell Hall 160)
    • Time Culbreth Regal Downtown #4 Regal Downtown #3 McCormick Observatory Newcomb Hall The Paramount Vinegar Hill
    10:00 AM Bad Day at Black Rock with Michael Sturges (Please Note: This screening is now scheduled at 10am) Ali: Fear Eats The Soul                              
    1:00 PM West Side Story My Life Inside                              
    1:15 PM             Nazarin                        
    4:00 PM Babel A Jihad For Love with director Parvez Sharma                              
    4:15 PM             My America: Honk If You Love Buddha with director Renee Tajima-Peña                        
    7:00 PM The Wrestler The Betrayal       Desired Constellations with filmmaker Jeanne Liotta Passengers with actor David Morse, producer Julie Lynn, and live teleconference interview with director Rodrigo García            
    7:15 PM             August Evening                        
    9:30 PM                   Blips, Demonoids, and Ju-Ju Cults with directors George & Mike Kuchar                  
    10:00 PM Slumdog Millionaire My Best Friends are Strangers (work in progress) with director Alexandra Woodward             Galaxy Quest            
    10:15 PM             Take Out with directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou                        

    Saturday, November 1
    Expanded Festival
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still Library of Congress Packard Campus (2:00 PM Mount Pony Theater, Culpeper)
  • Watch Out (Midnight Gravity Lounge)
    • Time Culbreth Regal Downtown #4 Regal Downtown #3 McCormick Observatory Newcomb Hall The Paramount Vinegar Hill
    10:00 AM       Life on Earth with director Abderrahmane Sissako                         New Media New Immigrants with Madhuri Mohindar, Eric Byler, and Annabel Park
    10:15 AM             Who Killed Vincent Chin? with director Renee Tajima-Peña                        
    1:00 PM       The Response with actor Peter Riegert, writer Sig Libowitz, and Slate legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick                   Strangers in Strange Lands with live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin, Joanna Seaton, Paul Reisler, Terri Allard, and Kid Pan Alley! Kuchars in Space with George & Mike Kuchar
    1:15 PM             Amores Perros with writer Guillermo Arriaga                        
    4:00 PM       Home (Stories) with live teleconference interview with Ghazel                   Terra Little White Feather and the Hunter
    4:15 PM             The Golden Age of Fish with directors Kevin Everson, Lydia Moyer, and William Wylie                        
    7:00 PM       El Norte with director Gregory Nava       Ancient Astronauts with curator Ed Halter Sunshine Cleaning with writer Megan Holley and producer Glenn Williamson The Burning Plain with writer Guillermo Arriaga      
    7:15 PM             Secret of the Grain                        
    9:30 PM                   Secrets of the Shadow World with director George Kuchar                  
    10:00 PM Adrenaline Film Project with filmmaker Jeff Wadlow and producer Beau Bauman Sleep Dealer with director Alex Rivera             Local Hero with actor Peter Riegert            
    10:15 PM             Lake City (REPEAT)                        

    Sunday, November 2
    Expanded Festival
  • Moviemaking in Virginia Take 3 (1:00 PM Gravity Lounge)
  • The Mark of Zorro with live musical accompaniment by Matt Marshall and Elizabeth Leverage of the Reel Music Ensemble (1:00 PM Scottsville Victory Theatre)
  • Moviemaking in Charlottesville (3:00 PM Gravity Lounge)
  • The Exiles presented by OFFScreen (7:00 PM Newcomb Hall (Offscreen))
  • The Exiles presented by OFFScreen (9:30 PM Newcomb Hall (Offscreen))
    • Time Culbreth Regal Downtown #4 Regal Downtown #3 McCormick Observatory Newcomb Hall The Paramount Vinegar Hill
    10:00 AM Close Encounters of the Third Kind Regal Shot-by-Shot Workshop: El Norte with director Gregory Nava                         The Snowflake Crusade with director Megan Holley
    10:15 AM             King of the Corner with director/actor Peter Riegert                        
    1:00 PM The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada with writer Guillermo Arriaga River of No Return with director Darlene Johnson and actress Frances Djulibing                         The Sixth Section and Other Videos with Alex Rivera
    1:15 PM             Waltz with Bashir (REPEAT)                        
    4:00 PM Aliens Cat People                         Mock Up on Mu
    4:15 PM             To See If I'm Smiling