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VTIFF, 60 Lake Street |
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
France, Japan, Germany, Belgium | 2026 | Fiction | 196 min | French, Japanese w/ subtitles
All of a Sudden (French: Soudain) is a co-production between France, Japan, Germany and Belgium. Virginie Efira stars as the director of a nursing home in the Parisian suburbs who attempts to introduce a humane care technique known as Humanitude. Her life is changed when she meets a terminally ill Japanese playwright. Writes VTIFf's Oliver O'Sullivan: "Packaged within this intimate drama is a meditative celebration of irreducible human compassion, delivered with Hamaguchi’s signature skill for proportion, that gently erodes your cynicism. There’s no denying that Hamaguchi is working at a very high level right now, and this generous movie—full of inhabited performances, theatricality, and unassuming visual mastery." All of a Sudden has received widespread critical acclaim, with special praise for its direction, screenplay and acting. It was selected as the Japanese entry for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards.
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VTIFF, 60 Lake Street |
Directed by Rodrigue Jean
Canada | 2026 | Fiction | 120 min | French, English, Inuktitut w/ subtitles
Labrador: Autopsy of Silence (French: Labrador - Autopsie du silence) is a Canadian crime thriller, directed by Rodrigue Jean. It Christopher Angatookalook as Alupa Tulugak, an Inuk mechanic working on a cargo ship supplying remote communities in Labrador, who becomes a murder suspect after his lover Alex (Alexandre Landry), the ship's cook, turns up dead. The film won Best international feature at the 2026 Tribeca Festival. Writes Nikki Baughan in Screen Daily, "In keeping with its central characters, this claustrophobic pressure-cooker tension never reaches fever-pitch but is kept simmering by Laverdiere’s evocative cinematography, which contrasts the desolate, industrial external landscape, wrought in cold blues and greys, with the warm intimacy between Alex and Alupa." Writes VTIFF's Steve MacQueen, "Jean manages to balance the murder mystery alongside his more potent observations on the imbalances of power, sexuality, class, and privilege."
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Middlebury College |
Soundtrack to a Coup d’état
Director Johan Grimonprez, 2024
Click here to watch the English trailer.
Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey
Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival at Middlebury College.
All films are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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VTIFF, 60 Lake Street |
Director: Alain Gomis
Countries of filming: Senegal, France, Guinea-Bissau
Release year: 2026
Run time: 185 min
Languages: French, Wolof, Manjak, and Portuguese Creole w/ subtitles
This sprawling epic is an inquiry into diaspora. Gloria (Katy Correa) and her biracial daughter Nour (D’Johé Kouadio) are an African immigrant duo living in France. Two family ceremonies anchor the film: the festive wedding of Nour, held in the suburbs of Paris, and the traditional funerary rites for Gloria’s father, held in Guinea-Bissau. Two heritages and two ceremonies: the film moves back and forth between them, as we encounter Gloria and Nour with their large extended family on two continents, unfolding their joys, heartaches, and blessings. It’s an unconventional film. Apart from the two ceremonies, the plot is minimal. The film meanders, free form, for 3 hours and 5 minutes. You won’t mind. The Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis builds bridges between continents, between ancestors and descendants, between past and present, between spirit and nature, between life and death. The film speeds and slows reflecting the rhythms of life.
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Haskell Opera House, 1 Rue Church, Stanstead, QC J0B 3E2, Canada |
Written and directed by Stanstead playwright Ross Murray, the comedy features performers from both sides of the border and benefits this
shared Vermont–Québec cultural institution. Tickets are $25; youth tickets are $10.
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VTIFF, 60 Lake Street |
Directed by Dione Roach and Steve Happi
Cameroon, USA| 2026 | Documentary | 94 min | French w/ subtitles
Douala’s New Bell Central Prison in Cameroon is a brutal prison, built for 800 men but now houses more than 6,000. The inmates stage musical interludes that turn their confinement into an artistic statements of rage and passion. In 2018, prisoners including Dione Roach and Steve Happi decided to establish a recording studio there, which became the first permanent recording studio in an African prison. Here musicians could record performances of their work. Out of that studio emerged Jail Time Records, a nonprofit record label that produces and releases work by artists incarcerated and formerly incarcerated in Cameroon’s prisons.
Over the years Jail Time has grown into a collective of musicians, producers and filmmakers and become a space of respect, creativity, purpose. Hundreds of artists have used the studio, creating thousands of songs spanning afro, hip-hop, R&B, traditional music, and gospel. The film immerses us in prison life, profiling incarcerated artists Stone, Empereur, and Transporteur as they create raw, impactful hip-hop. For artists living in confinement, music becomes a way to keep creating, resisting and believing in a second chance. Jail Time Records not only identifies and promotes talent, it gives them practical tools to aid their reintegration into society. It transforms lives through creativity, amplifying unheard voices and building pathways to change.
Today, Jail Time Records operates as a multimedia record label and cultural platform not only for incarcerated people but for marginalized and underserved communities generally. Jail Time Records has also opened a second recording studio in Douala outside the prison, to help formerly incarcerated artists reintegrate into community life. Beyond Douala, it created a a production space and visual arts center inside Ngoma prison in Cameroon and has opened a recording studio inside MACO prison in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
The film won three awards at the 2026 Tribeca Festival: Best Documentary Feature, Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature, and the Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director.
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Holy Angels Church, 246 Lake Street, St. Albans, VT |
Requiem for a King: Jean Gilles and Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Burlington Baroque and L'Harmonie des saisons (based on Montreal) will perform works by major composers of the French Baroque. The program pairs Jean Gilles’s celebrated Requiem—performed at the funeral of Louis XV—with sacred music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. For info and tickets, go here.
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Église Sainte-Famille de Granby, Québec J2G 2T9 |
Requiem for a King — Jean Gilles & Marc-Antoine Charpentier . L'Harmonie des saisons (based on Montreal) and Burlington Baroque will perform a concert devoted to major composers of the French Baroque. The program pairs Jean Gilles’s celebrated Requiem—performed at the funeral of Louis XV—with sacred music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. For info and tickets, go here.
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College Street Congregational Church, 265 College Street, Burlington, VT |
Requiem for a King — Jean Gilles & Marc-Antoine Charpentier . Burlington Baroque and L'Harmonie des saisons (based on Montreal) will perform a concert devoted to major composers of the French Baroque. The program pairs Jean Gilles’s celebrated Requiem—performed at the funeral of Louis XV—with sacred music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. For info and tickets, go here.
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Middlebury College |
L’étranger
Director François Ozon, 2025
Click here to watch the trailer.
In 1930s French Algeria, indifferent Frenchman Meursault faces upheaval after his mother’s death and a fatal beach encounter with an
Arab man, leading to a trial that scrutinizes his detached character in this adaptation of Albert Camus’s existential novella. The story
explores his emotional aloofness amid a violent intrigue involving his neighbor and the victim’s brothers.
Part of the Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival.A ll films are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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Haskell Opera House, 1 Rue Church, Stanstead, QC J0B 3E2, Canada |
Produced by Lion’s Den Creative at the Haskell Opera House. Canadian playwright E. Kent Stetson’s political satire—set in Montréal—examines Canadian identity and Canada–U.S.–Cuba relations. Each preview performance is followed by a discussion with the cast and production team. Tickets are $20 for Friday and Sunday; Saturday’s gala preview and panel are $75. November 13-15.
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Vermont Genealogy Library |
Suzanne Blanchard explores French-Canadian and Acadian participants in the American Revolution, their descendants, and their foundational role in the Lake Champlain region’s Francophone communities. Admission is $10. This is the fourth presentation in a series on French Canadians in the Lake Champlain Basin.
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The Phoenix Art Gallery, 5 Stowe Street, Waterbury, VT |
A concert featuring works by French composers Claude Arrieu, Claude Debussy, and Francis Poulenc.
No RSVP required.
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UVM Recital Hall, 384 South Prospect St., Burlington, VT 05405 |
A concert featuring works by French composers Claude Arrieu, Claude Debussy, and Francis Poulenc.
No RSVP required.
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Vermont Genealogy Library |
Suzanne Blanchard traces French-Canadian Revolutionary War veterans and refugee families who founded communities in northern Vermont and New York. Admission is $10.
