The arrest of trusted midwives ignites an unexpected rebellion, as Amish and Mennonite women break from tradition and emerge as fierce political activists.
Category Archives: Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival
MNFF 2025: Room for Us? Q&A
How do you live on an island whose cheapest freestanding house costs $1.8 million? This student documentary explores the lives of Nantucket’s year-round community members as they try to make a home in one of the world’s most expensive real estate markets.
MNFF 2025 : Shorts Program: Narrative Spotlight Q&A
A program of four narrative shorts, including Learners, Cliff Edge, Overcomers and Sally Get the Potatoes.
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival 2025: Closing Live!
Prior to our closing night film, we present our juried awards and prizes. Join us for a celebration of our prize-winning filmmakers and the festival supporters who make these prizes possible.
MNFF 2025: Shorts Program: Narrative Spotlight
A program of four narrative shorts, including Free Chair, Madrina, Holy Heavêness and Chasers.
MNFF 2025: Student Film Program: Narrative Shorts
A program of four student narrative shorts, including The Custodian, Sunshine City, Kosher Test and My Father’s Wedding.
MNFF 2025: Pistachio Wars Q&A
Journalist Yasha Levine discovers a hidden side to California’s healthy snack industry. Documenting towns ravaged by drought, farms built on oil fields, mass extinction, and a water heist straight from the plot of Chinatown, the film takes a road trip into the dark heart of the American Dream.
MNFF 2025: Powwow Highway Q&A
Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage. Featuring an extended Q&A with MNFF11 Honoree Gary Farmer.