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.
Ilsley Public Library Dog Days of Summer 08/23/2025
Show off your dog in a Dog Parade at Middlebury Market and see the “Most Well Read Dog” Crowned by Tela – Middlebury’s Dog Mayor. Attend a Doggy Storytime at Mini Ilsley books for dogs by dogs.
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.
MNFF 2025: Journalism, Public Narrative & Myth 08/22/2025
Join The New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent David Sanger, VT Digger Editor-in-Chief Geeta Anand, The New York Times movie critic Alissa Wilkinson, and the filmmaker behind A Calling in a conversation about the catalyzing power of journalism in the creation of public narratives–both factual and mythical. Moderated by Addison Independent News Editor John McCright.
Hannaford Career Center Board Meeting 08/21/2025
MNFF 2025: Lies, Truth & Laughs: Comedy As Social Commentary
Join a roundtable of professional funny people for a lively conversation about comedy as a tool for social commentary.
Vermont-raised stand-up comedian Tina Friml, Emmy-nominated comedy writer Devin Delliquanti (The Onion, The Daily Show), actor and puppeteer Paul Zaloom (Beakman’s World), and American University professor Caty Borum (author of A Comedian and An Activist Walk Into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice and The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power) muse on the role of comedy in education, awareness-building and civic engagement. How can the truth be mined for laughs? How can levity and laughter be a vehicle for satire and social critique? Moderated by Caty Borum.
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival 2025: Opening Live!
Congresswoman Becca Balint, Vermont’s first female U.S. Representative, will join for an on-stage discussion after the film.
Winner of the MNFF11 Clio Visualizing History Prize for the Advancement of Women in Film.
In 2017 Jacinda Ardern is catapulted to the top of New Zealand political life when she unexpectedly becomes Prime Minister. Over seven years of filming, we watch as she becomes the second world leader in history to give birth while in office, boldly leads her country through a mass shooting, a natural disaster and the Covid-19 pandemic, and after her resignation, continues to champion the fight against isolationism, fear and the distortion of truth.