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By The RiverRun Film Festival of Winston-Salem, NC
July 10, 2018
Our next installment of the RiverRun Retro series rides into town on Friday, August 17 at Hanesbrands Theatre in the form of Fred Zinnemann’s legendary western High Noon, starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. Author Glenn Frankel will join film historian Foster Hirsch to discuss the iconic film classic, with a reception and book signing to immediately follow.
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RiverRun and Foothills Brewing are joining forces this summer to deliver a FREE evening of family-friendly short films, with mood lighting provided by the trusty twilight of a North Carolina summer sky! We present to you SUMMER SHORTS: An Evening of Family Fun and Film on Saturday, July 28, featuring food trucks, live music, and a selection of outstanding, family-friendly short films from recent RiverRun lineups–all created by UNCSA School of Filmmaking student filmmakers!
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Served Like a Girl is a powerful and poignant look at a group of diverse female veterans as they transition from active duty to civilian life after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The free community screening will take place Tuesday, May 22, at 7:30 PM at the Huber Theatre on the campus of Salem College. A panel discussion will follow the screening.
View MoreThe RiverRun International Film Festival, based in Winston-Salem, NC, is one of the premier film festivals in the southeastern United States. The 2018 festival dates will be April 19-29, 2018.
Fresh off its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, this innovative film--shot in North Carolina--follows the true story of four young men who mistake their lives for a movie and attempt to pull off one of the most audacious rare book heists in U.S. history.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Featuring a star-studded roster of interviewees including Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal and Sidney Poitier, this in-depth biography pays tribute to the legendary, multi-talented song-and-dance man.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Manolo has a simple life in Southern Spain and two loves: his donkey Gorrión and wandering through nature. Against the advice of his doctor, he plans one last walk in the United States, the brutal 2,200 mile Trail of Tears--but not without his donkey.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
In 1528, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca crossed the Gulf of Mexico on a raft made of melted armor and slaughtered horses. Using de Vaca's writings and a psychic medium as guides, David Fenster attempts to communicate with the conquistador turned shamanic healer through an opuntia cactus, the plant that saved him from starvation, while tracing his route across the "New World."
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
A group of citizens in West Virginia, after discovering health problems that are direct consequences of their proximity to questionable chemicals produced by a powerful corporation in their area, take it upon themselves to hold the company accountable for their actions.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: get to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. The group endeavors to sell fancy bed linens door to door to raise the cash, but questions about David's past soon threaten to derail their plan.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Josephine, the matriarch of a sprawling Lebanese family, is delighted to gather everyone for Easter lunch for the first time in two years. While they all share a joyful meal, an incident ignites underlying tensions between the family members and leads them gradually into chaos.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Through personal interviews and in-depth study, this film illuminates the aesthetic and engineering questions sculptor Elizabeth King puzzles over while creating her own genre of art at the intersection of the classical and automata.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
A hexapod drone operator named Gordon catches an infrared glimpse of Ayusha, a young woman from the Middle East, while remotely monitoring a desert pipeline. He gleans that she is promised to an older man she doesn't love, and resolves to do everything in his power to intervene.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center of this tense family drama. Winner of the Silver Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, Xavier Legrand's gripping debut feature will keep audiences guessing and leave them with their hearts in their throats.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center of this tense family drama. Winner of the Silver Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, Xavier Legrand's gripping debut feature will keep audiences guessing and leave them with their hearts in their throats.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country's tumultuous political inheritance.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
After a Buddhist boy in the highlands of northern India discovers that he is the reincarnation of a centuries-old Tibetan monk, his godfather takes him on a journey to discover his past.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
This film chronicles the history and legacy of the notoriously "bad" Nintendo Power Glove. The first mass-marketed gesture-based video game controller, the invention was released in 1989 and hyped as a revolutionary device that would change the way humans interact with computers.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
Antoine attends a summer writing workshop to collaborate with other students on a crime thriller with the help of Olivia, a famous novelist. The process will recall the town of La Ciotat’s industrial past, a history that Antoine feels indifferent to. After a disagreement, Olivia becomes both alarmed and captivated by Antoine’s rage.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Walking past Jacquetta Thomas’ lifeless body in September of 1991 changed Greg Taylor’s life--and North Carolina’s criminal justice system--forever. For seventeen years, Greg and his family fought to undo his wrongful conviction, and Winston-Salem filmmaker Gregg Jamback's film bravely chronicles Taylor's long, hard-fought road to freedom.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely friendship with an adventurous veteran surfer who pushes them to take risks that will change their lives forever. Set in mid-70s Australia, Breath marks the feature directorial debut of Simon Baker (The Mentalist), who also plays a supporting role.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Each of us is seen by surveillance cameras, on average, 300 times a day. These all-seeing eyes observe a nun-in-training as she leaves her Buddhist temple in search of fulfillment. Assembled from over 10,000 hours of public surveillance footage, Dragonfly Eyes renders a captivating narrative from otherwise random video, charting Qing Ting's unlikely ascendance from dairy worker to internet sensation.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Winston-Salem native Daniel Peddle's road movie is actually set on a river, and is about a young man who disappears into the woods on his eighteenth birthday to find himself. A modern-day fable set in rural North Carolina, Moss reveals the struggles of lives deeply connected to nature.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
A bookseller and aspiring writer is shaken by the appearance and disappearance of an enigmatic beauty who steals books from his bookstore. Soon he discovers that she victimizes other bookstores as well, and sets about to unravel the mystery of his newfound nemesis and muse. US PREMIERE
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, French master Jean Renoir's 20th film is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners, in which a weekend at a country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
Year: 1939
Rating: MT
At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. The unique personal journey of this diminutive, quiet warrior's rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown--until now.
Year: 2018
Rating: TN
For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country's tumultuous political inheritance.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
In 1528, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca crossed the Gulf of Mexico on a raft made of melted armor and slaughtered horses. Using de Vaca's writings and a psychic medium as guides, David Fenster attempts to communicate with the conquistador turned shamanic healer through an opuntia cactus, the plant that saved him from starvation, while tracing his route across the "New World."
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Time Trial is an immersive film using innovative techniques to capture the very essence of professional cycling. From deep inside the peloton, we witness impossible climbs and rapid descents as we venture deep inside the world of cyclist David Millar.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
On a retreat to look after a remote resort lodge with her artist boyfriend, a grieving woman starts to see a mysterious figure around the house. Set in the Scottish highlands, Retreat is a psychological thriller about trying to run away from one's past. US PREMIERE
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
The Wolves are no ordinary biker club, as revealed in this rugged portrait of trauma and survival. Still struggling in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, this multi-ethnic club organizes charity for their small mountain town and defends the threatened herd of wild horses they first met on the front lines.
Year: 2016
Rating: MT
Josephine, the matriarch of a sprawling Lebanese family, is delighted to gather everyone for Easter lunch for the first time in two years. While they all share a joyful meal, an incident ignites underlying tensions between the family members and leads them gradually into chaos.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Mia, a teenager working reception at a seaside motel, is the only witness to an assault against two schoolgirls. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Trapped in a world that offers them no safety, the three young women must find their own way out.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Winston-Salem native Daniel Peddle's road movie is actually set on a river, and is about a young man who disappears into the woods on his eighteenth birthday to find himself. A modern-day fable set in rural North Carolina, Moss reveals the struggles of lives deeply connected to nature.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Each year RiverRun presents our own version of Saturday Morning Cartoons to our young audiences. We search high and low for the best new animated shorts that we think will appeal to both children and adults alike! Before each Hanesbrands Theatre screening we will be hosting a Kaleideum Prop Shop Pop-Up in the lobby beginning at 9:00am. Come early to join the fun!
Year: 2018
Rating: FM
Peppercorn Theatre at Kaleideum will present What Goes Up... a short play for ages 4 and up. Two architects are at it again to find out who can build the sturdiest structure! Watch as they test their creations, and help them decide which building can stand up to the challenge and which building must come down. Then RiverRun will present a collection of short films made by UNCSA students, tailor-made for our youngest audiences. This is a FREE event, no ticket required!
Year: 2018
Rating: FM
When teenager Irene is suspended, she must endure two weeks of community service at a retirement home. Following the advice of a Geena Davis poster in her bedroom, she convinces the retirees to audition for a dance-themed reality show and trains a group that are truly in a league of their own!
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
A group of citizens in West Virginia, after discovering health problems that are direct consequences of their proximity to questionable chemicals produced by a powerful corporation in their area, take it upon themselves to hold the company accountable for their actions.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
For those ready to revel in the awkwardly hilarious and disturbing, our late night shorts have got you covered! Films included in this program of shorts include: Fern, Garden Party, Hypertrain, Kaiju Bunraku, Porcelain Stare, Positive, Post Nuke, Sol, Steve’s Kinkoes and Versus.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Each year RiverRun presents our own version of Saturday Morning Cartoons to our young audiences. We search high and low for the best new animated shorts that we think will appeal to both children and adults alike! Before each Hanesbrands Theatre screening we will be hosting a Kaleideum Prop Shop Pop-Up in the lobby beginning at 9:00am. Come early to join the fun! Also please note that this screening is sensory friendly. This is a FREE event, no tickets required!
Year: 2018
Rating: FM
Through personal interviews and in-depth study, this film illuminates the aesthetic and engineering questions sculptor Elizabeth King puzzles over while creating her own genre of art at the intersection of the classical and automata.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
Julianne Nicholson delivers a career-making performance as an ex-con fighting for custody of her son in Who We Are Now. She explores her options with the help of an idealistic young lawyer (Emma Roberts), and in the process falls into a romantic fling with a traumatized former soldier (Zachary Quinto).
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Films in this program of short documentary works include: Automatic on the Road, Eye, Camera, Handmade Film, The Last Honey Hunter, Nobody Loves Me, and Nuuca.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
A young mother of limited means puts everything on the line to pursue her dream of becoming a competitive runner in this latest feature from RiverRun alums Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck (God Bless the Child).
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic 20th feature. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a war between two evil clans to his advantage. Remade by both Sergio Leone and Walter Hill, this exhilarating genre-twister remains one of the most influential films of all time.
Year: 1961
Rating: MT
Each of us is seen by surveillance cameras, on average, 300 times a day. These all-seeing eyes observe a nun-in-training as she leaves her Buddhist temple in search of fulfillment. Assembled from over 10,000 hours of public surveillance footage, Dragonfly Eyes renders a captivating narrative from otherwise random video, charting Qing Ting's unlikely ascendance from dairy worker to internet sensation.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Films screening in this program of short animated works include: After All, Extinguished, KCLOC, Late Afternoon, Liv, Phototaxis, Poles Apart, Sog, Toys, Two Balloons, and Weekends.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Films in this program of short narrative works include: The Beep Test, Einstein-Rosen, A House in the Countryside, The Incident, Laws of the Game, Merry-Go-Round, and The Shuttle.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Movie mogul Alan Ladd, Jr. is the unsung Hollywood visionary who greenlit Star Wars, Blade Runner, Alien, Police Academy, and many other timeless films. His daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones chronicles his journey as a producer and eventual 20th Century Fox chairman with a poignant personal touch.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Winner of the 1944 Best Picture Oscar, Casablanca follows a cynical American expatriate (Humphrey Bogart) who encounters a former lover (Ingrid Bergman) in Morocco in the early stages of WWII that creates unforeseen complications and heartbreak.
Year: 1942
Rating: PG
Anjali Nayar and Hawa Essuman profile the life of Liberian activist Silas Siakor, a tireless crusader against illegal logging and a symbol of resistance for a new generation.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
2014 RiverRun Emerging Master honoree Debra Granik (Winter's Bone) returns with the suspenseful tale of a war veteran (Ben Foster) and his 13 year-old daughter attempting to live peacefully off the grid in a vast urban park near Portland, Oregon. One small mistake, however, threatens to derail their lives forever.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Join us at Bailey Park in the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter for a free outdoor screening of the 20th anniversary of both RiverRun and the Disney classic Mulan. Make sure to come early to take fun photos in Mobile Photo’s free photo booth and enjoy food and beverages for sale from Twin City Hive, Hoots Beer Company and our food truck partners. Swingset will provide live music--so come, hang out, socialize, eat and join us for a very special evening! This is a FREE event, no ticket required!
Year: 1998
Rating: G
David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: get to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. The group endeavors to sell fancy bed linens door to door to raise the cash, but questions about David's past soon threaten to derail their plan.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Generation Wealth is an investigative documentary researching the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen, captured by the lens of acclaimed photographer and director Lauren Greenfield (Queen of Versailles) during her multi-year project collecting these wild stories.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
After a Buddhist boy in the highlands of northern India discovers that he is the reincarnation of a centuries-old Tibetan monk, his godfather takes him on a journey to discover his past.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
A young mother of limited means puts everything on the line to pursue her dream of becoming a competitive runner in this latest feature from RiverRun alums Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck (God Bless the Child).
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center of this tense family drama. Winner of the Silver Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, Xavier Legrand's gripping debut feature will keep audiences guessing and leave them with their hearts in their throats.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
The Wolves are no ordinary biker club, as revealed in this rugged portrait of trauma and survival. Still struggling in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, this multi-ethnic club organizes charity for their small mountain town and defends the threatened herd of wild horses they first met on the front lines.
Year: 2016
Rating: MT
Josephine, the matriarch of a sprawling Lebanese family, is delighted to gather everyone for Easter lunch for the first time in two years. While they all share a joyful meal, an incident ignites underlying tensions between the family members and leads them gradually into chaos.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Mia, a teenager working reception at a seaside motel, is the only witness to an assault against two schoolgirls. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Trapped in a world that offers them no safety, the three young women must find their own way out.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country's tumultuous political inheritance.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Films screening in this program of short documentary works include: Abby the Spoon Lady, Driven Blind, Gays for Trump, The Maestro, Princess Warrior, Regrowth, Strange Kid and The Woman Who Was in Love with Seashells and Other Stories.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Films screening in this program of short narrative works include: Crab Trap, The Future Is Bright, Get Bent, A God Among Us, Redaction, Shades, and Where Mothbloods Bloom.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Films in this program of short narrative works include: Arlo Alone, Destination Moon, Garage at Night, The Law of Averages, Sans Réponse, Tom and Welcome Home.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
This film chronicles the history and legacy of the notoriously "bad" Nintendo Power Glove. The first mass-marketed gesture-based video game controller, the invention was released in 1989 and hyped as a revolutionary device that would change the way humans interact with computers.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
In 1528, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca crossed the Gulf of Mexico on a raft made of melted armor and slaughtered horses. Using de Vaca's writings and a psychic medium as guides, David Fenster attempts to communicate with the conquistador turned shamanic healer through an opuntia cactus, the plant that saved him from starvation, while tracing his route across the "New World."
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Films in this program of short documentary works include: Footprint, I Have Something to Tell You, The Sandman, Talk To My Son, While I Yet Live, and Xavier Corbero: Portrait of an Artist in Winter.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Nicole Larsen is detested by her countrymen because they suspect she is collaborating with the occupying Germans. In reality she is working for the Norwegian underground, risking her life passing secrets to the resistance fighters.
Year: 1943
Rating: MT
Antoine attends a summer writing workshop to collaborate with other students on a crime thriller with the help of Olivia, a famous novelist. The process will recall the town of La Ciotat’s industrial past, a history that Antoine feels indifferent to. After a disagreement, Olivia becomes both alarmed and captivated by Antoine’s rage.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason and Piper Laurie star in this Academy Award-winning film about an up-and-coming pool player who decides to take on the long-time champion in one single, high-stakes match that just may end up costing him everything.
Year: 1961
Rating: MT
Films in the program of short animated works include: Afterwork, Between Sand and Tides, Carlotta’s Face, Darrel, The Driver Is Red, Late Season, Lotte that Silhouette Girl, Lovestreams, Tête à Tête, Train to Peace, and The Wayward Kite.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Claire Danes and Jim Parsons anchor this story of a Brooklyn couple whose four-year-old son is more interested in fairy tale princesses than toy cars. When his preschool director points out that his gender-nonconforming play may be more than a phase, they must rethink their roles as parents and spouses.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Time Trial is an immersive film using innovative techniques to capture the very essence of professional cycling. From deep inside the peloton, we witness impossible climbs and rapid descents as we venture deep inside the world of cyclist David Millar.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Each of us is seen by surveillance cameras, on average, 300 times a day. These all-seeing eyes observe a nun-in-training as she leaves her Buddhist temple in search of fulfillment. Assembled from over 10,000 hours of public surveillance footage, Dragonfly Eyes renders a captivating narrative from otherwise random video, charting Qing Ting's unlikely ascendance from dairy worker to internet sensation.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
When teenager Irene is suspended, she must endure two weeks of community service at a retirement home. Following the advice of a Geena Davis poster in her bedroom, she convinces the retirees to audition for a dance-themed reality show and trains a group that are truly in a league of their own!
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
The Wolves are no ordinary biker club, as revealed in this rugged portrait of trauma and survival. Still struggling in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, this multi-ethnic club organizes charity for their small mountain town and defends the threatened herd of wild horses they first met on the front lines.
Year: 2016
Rating: MT
A young mother of limited means puts everything on the line to pursue her dream of becoming a competitive runner in this latest feature from RiverRun alums Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck (God Bless the Child).
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Anjali Nayar and Hawa Essuman profile the life of Liberian activist Silas Siakor, a tireless crusader against illegal logging and a symbol of resistance for a new generation.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Movie mogul Alan Ladd, Jr. is the unsung Hollywood visionary who greenlit Star Wars, Blade Runner, Alien, Police Academy, and many other timeless films. His daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones chronicles his journey as a producer and eventual 20th Century Fox chairman with a poignant personal touch.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Movie mogul Alan Ladd, Jr. is the unsung Hollywood visionary who greenlit Star Wars, Blade Runner, Alien, Police Academy, and many other timeless films. His daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones chronicles his journey as a producer and eventual 20th Century Fox chairman with a poignant personal touch.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
A visually dazzling meditation on the delicate balance between human and nature, The Guardians elegantly melds the life cycle of the iconic monarch butterfly with the stories of an indigenous community in Mexico. Both species depend on the same ancient forest for their survival, and both now face an uncertain future.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
Father Divine was called an ingenious entrepreneur, a civil rights leader, a con man, and a fraud. His followers called him God. His religious movement once claimed to have millions of followers, now only a few remain, living as an interracial family on an estate outside of Philadelphia, struggling to keep his legacy alive.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening--women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This film revisits those photos, those women and those times, and takes aim at our current culture, vividly revealing the need for continued change.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
In his latest documentary, Sean Menard gives viewers an unprecedented look at UNC legend Vince Carter: the six-foot-six, eight-time NBA All-Star from Daytona Beach who made waves in the Canadian basketball scene when he joined the Raptors in 1998.
Year: 2017
Rating: FM
When a mobster's widow decides to testify and provide names of others involved in evil deeds, she goes undercover to avoid being killed and is escorted across country by train in order to testify. In this film noir classic, cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their trail.
Year: 1952
Rating: TN
Featuring a star-studded roster of interviewees including Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal and Sidney Poitier, this in-depth biography pays tribute to the legendary, multi-talented song-and-dance man.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Father Divine was called an ingenious entrepreneur, a civil rights leader, a con man, and a fraud. His followers called him God. His religious movement once claimed to have millions of followers, now only a few remain, living as an interracial family on an estate outside of Philadelphia, struggling to keep his legacy alive.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
Based on the NY Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree examines the experiences of families in which parents and children are profoundly different from one another a variety of ways.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
When filmmaker Will Lautzenheiser's limbs are amputated, his life is derailed and he turns to stand-up comedy as therapy. Despite grave risks, Will seeks the help of a world-famous medical team and undergoes an experimental double-arm transplant in hopes of reclaiming his independence.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Two rival record collectors attempt to con an old lady out of a rare but cursed 1930s blues record. When a series of unfortunate circumstances sends them to jail, the feud festers for over 20 years until they are released from prison and get a second chance at snagging the record--this time from a more formidable foe.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center of this tense family drama. Winner of the Silver Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, Xavier Legrand's gripping debut feature will keep audiences guessing and leave them with their hearts in their throats.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
After a Buddhist boy in the highlands of northern India discovers that he is the reincarnation of a centuries-old Tibetan monk, his godfather takes him on a journey to discover his past.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening--women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This film revisits those photos, those women and those times, and takes aim at our current culture, vividly revealing the need for continued change.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
A bookseller and aspiring writer is shaken by the appearance and disappearance of an enigmatic beauty who steals books from his bookstore. Soon he discovers that she victimizes other bookstores as well, and sets about to unravel the mystery of his newfound nemesis and muse.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Maynard Jackson, Jr. became Atlanta's first black mayor in 1973. Raised in the segregated American South, he became the father of Affirmative Action and transformed Atlanta into a progressive and world class city.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
When the family sells the house, live-in maid Teresa must take a job far from her beloved Buenos Aires. On a bus trip through the desert, she loses all of her belongings at a stop near the miraculous “Saint Correa.” A traveling salesman named El Gringo offers to help her find what she's lost, and possibly more.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
On a retreat to look after a remote resort lodge with her artist boyfriend, a grieving woman starts to see a mysterious figure around the house. Set in the Scottish highlands, Retreat is a psychological thriller about trying to run away from one's past.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
At the age of 58, Annebärbel crumbles when her husband breaks the news that he's leaving her. She decides to start over and attempts to pursue her childhood fantasy of becoming a figure skater, which she had to give up many years ago, proving that it is never to late to live your dream.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Time Trial is an immersive film using innovative techniques to capture the very essence of professional cycling. From deep inside the peloton, we witness impossible climbs and rapid descents as we venture deep inside the world of cyclist David Millar.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
When filmmaker Will Lautzenheiser's limbs are amputated, his life is derailed and he turns to stand-up comedy as therapy. Despite grave risks, Will seeks the help of a world-famous medical team and undergoes an experimental double-arm transplant in hopes of reclaiming his independence.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: get to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. The group endeavors to sell fancy bed linens door to door to raise the cash, but questions about David's past soon threaten to derail their plan.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Generation Wealth is an investigative documentary researching the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen, captured by the lens of acclaimed photographer and director Lauren Greenfield (Queen of Versailles) during her multi-year project collecting these wild stories.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
When the family sells the house, live-in maid Teresa must take a job far from her beloved Buenos Aires. On a bus trip through the desert, she loses all of her belongings at a stop near the miraculous “Saint Correa.” A traveling salesman named El Gringo offers to help her find what she's lost, and possibly more.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Maynard Jackson, Jr. became Atlanta's first black mayor in 1973. Raised in the segregated American South, he became the father of Affirmative Action and transformed Atlanta into a progressive and world class city.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
A hexapod drone operator named Gordon catches an infrared glimpse of Ayusha, a young woman from the Middle East, while remotely monitoring a desert pipeline. He gleans that she is promised to an older man she doesn't love, and resolves to do everything in his power to intervene.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East, the film is the study of an individual whose career provides rare insights into both Islamic law and gendered justice.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
In this coming-of-age saga, three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. Through first-person footage, the film explores the gap between fathers and sons, between discipline and domestic abuse, and ultimately the chasm between childhood and becoming an adult.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Two rival record collectors attempt to con an old lady out of a rare but cursed 1930s blues record. When a series of unfortunate circumstances sends them to jail, the feud festers for over 20 years until they are released from prison and get a second chance at snagging the record--this time from a more formidable foe.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Alison Chernick’s enchanting documentary looks beyond the sublime musician, to see the polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel, the young man who struggled to be taken seriously as a music student when schools saw only his disability. Itzhak is a portrait of musical virtuosity seamlessly enclosed in warmth, humor, and above all, love.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Academy Award nominee Demián Bichir stars in this radical, western re-imagining of Henry David Thoreau's classic. Walden interlaces three stories about the frustrations of modern society and those who dream dangerously of a simpler existence.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Kahkewistahaw First Nation Reserve is a world away from Toronto in so many ways, but for Grade 3 student William Kaysaywaysemat III it’s a journey he’s keen to make to represent his school and community through the first province-wide First Nations Spelling Bee.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
Antoine attends a summer writing workshop to collaborate with other students on a crime thriller with the help of Olivia, a famous novelist. The process will recall the town of La Ciotat’s industrial past, a history that Antoine feels indifferent to. After a disagreement, Olivia becomes both alarmed and captivated by Antoine’s rage.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
In this coming-of-age saga, three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. Through first-person footage, the film explores the gap between fathers and sons, between discipline and domestic abuse, and ultimately the chasm between childhood and becoming an adult.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
For teenagers in three American industrial towns, adolescent dreams intersect with the realities of adulthood. The latest feature from Daniel Patrick Carbone (Hide Your Smiling Faces), Phantom Cowboys is an exploration of youth in transition, spanning nearly a decade.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East, the film is the study of an individual whose career provides rare insights into both Islamic law and gendered justice.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Mia, a teenager working reception at a seaside motel, is the only witness to an assault against two schoolgirls. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Trapped in a world that offers them no safety, the three young women must find their own way out.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
For over six years, and for reasons he can't explain, Matt Green has been walking every block of every street in New York City--a journey of more than 8,000 miles. This unique film tells the story of one man's unusual personal quest and the journey of discovery, humanity, and wonder that ensues.
Year: 2018
Rating: TN
A heartfelt musical drama set in small-town Iowa, Saints Rest tells the story of two estranged sisters who, over the course of one summer, form a connection through their shared love of music as they grieve the recent death of their mother. WORLD PREMIERE
Year: 2018
Rating: TN
Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely friendship with an adventurous veteran surfer who pushes them to take risks that will change their lives forever. Set in mid-70s Australia, Breath marks the feature directorial debut of Simon Baker (The Mentalist), who also plays a supporting role.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Kahkewistahaw First Nation Reserve is a world away from Toronto in so many ways, but for Grade 3 student William Kaysaywaysemat III it’s a journey he’s keen to make to represent his school and community through the first province-wide First Nations Spelling Bee.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist, OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies) returns to RiverRun with this tribute to the French New Wave, specifically the transitional period in the career of Jean-Luc Godard surrounding 1967 release of La Chinoise. During his relationship with the film's lead actress Anne Wiazemsky, his politics and approach to cinema would forever change.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Skidding into middle-age, a stay-at-home dad must work for DriverX, an Uber-like rideshare company, to help support his working wife and two young daughters. Low pay and wild LA nights, however, put an even greater strain on his marriage.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
At the age of 58, Annebärbel crumbles when her husband breaks the news that he's leaving her. She decides to start over and attempts to pursue her childhood fantasy of becoming a figure skater, which she had to give up many years ago, proving that it is never to late to live your dream.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
In his latest documentary, Sean Menard gives viewers an unprecedented look at UNC legend Vince Carter: the six-foot-six, eight-time NBA All-Star from Daytona Beach who made waves in the Canadian basketball scene when he joined the Raptors in 1998.
Year: 2017
Rating: FM
From the segregated American South to the fashion capitals of the world, operatic fashion editor André Leon Talley's life and career are on full display in a poignant portrait that includes appearances by Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, Valentino, and Manolo Blahnik.
Year: 2017
Rating: PG-13
Academy Award nominee Demián Bichir stars in this radical, western re-imagining of Henry David Thoreau's classic. Walden interlaces three stories about the frustrations of modern society and those who dream dangerously of a simpler existence.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Rodents of Unusual Size is the giant-sized story of the nutria--prolific swamp rats invading coastal Louisiana and beyond. The defiant people most affected by their presence seek to preserve their communities, culture, and livelihoods from the onslaught of a most curious and unexpected invasive species.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
A Lebanese housewife and a millennial American girl bridge cultural differences to become friends. Dark secrets are aired, until one night they find themselves partners-in-crime.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Based on the NY Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree examines the experiences of families in which parents and children are profoundly different from one another a variety of ways.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
Skidding into middle-age, a stay-at-home dad must work for DriverX, an Uber-like rideshare company, to help support his working wife and two young daughters. Low pay and wild LA nights, however, put an even greater strain on his marriage.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
A heartfelt musical drama set in small-town Iowa, Saints Rest tells the story of two estranged sisters who, over the course of one summer, form a connection through their shared love of music as they grieve the recent death of their mother.
Year: 2018
Rating: TN
Maria is a woman with no country. A Bulgarian immigrant and adoptive mother of a black daughter, she finds herself stricken with anxiety following a break-in at her Kentucky home. When her daughter’s aging dog dies, Maria’s house arrest puts her into equally painful and funny situations that soon entangle her neighbors.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
For over six years, and for reasons he can't explain, Matt Green has been walking every block of every street in New York City--a journey of more than 8,000 miles. This unique film tells the story of one man's unusual personal quest and the journey of discovery, humanity, and wonder that ensues.
Year: 2018
Rating: TN
In an effort to further promote the development of new filmmaking talent, RiverRun is again joining forces with universities around the state to present Pitch Fest. Student filmmakers from North Carolina schools will pitch their ideas for new documentaries to our panel of expert judges in the hopes of being awarded a cash prize and recognition within the industry. Following the competition judges will participate in a discussion about current trends in documentary filmmaking.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
Films screening in this program of short documentary works include: Abby the Spoon Lady, Driven Blind, Gays for Trump, The Maestro, Princess Warrior, Regrowth, Strange Kid and The Woman Who Was in Love with Seashells and Other Stories.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Films screening in this program of short narrative works include: Crab Trap, The Future Is Bright, Get Bent, A God Among Us, Redaction, Shades, and Where Mothbloods Bloom.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
In this coming-of-age saga, three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. Through first-person footage, the film explores the gap between fathers and sons, between discipline and domestic abuse, and ultimately the chasm between childhood and becoming an adult.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Youth Pastor David Bauer has the "greatest job in the world" and can't wait to bring his youth group to Bible Camp, certain that this is the year he wins the camp competitions. David's plans are jeopardized by the arrival of a new co-worker, intense competition, and surly teenage rebellion.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
Join us for a celebration of RiverRun’s 2nd weekend and greet filmmakers and industry guests from around the world. Festivities begin at 9:00 and go until 1:00am! Featuring live music, a free photo booth by Mobile Photo, appetizers and desserts from area restaurants and drinks from our cash bar, this promises to be one of the high points of the 2018 Festival!
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For teenagers in three American industrial towns, adolescent dreams intersect with the realities of adulthood. The latest feature from Daniel Patrick Carbone (Hide Your Smiling Faces), Phantom Cowboys is an exploration of youth in transition, spanning nearly a decade.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
A Lebanese housewife and a millennial American girl bridge cultural differences to become friends. Dark secrets are aired, until one night they find themselves partners-in-crime.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Youth Pastor David Bauer has the "greatest job in the world" and can't wait to bring his youth group to Bible Camp, certain that this is the year he wins the camp competitions. David's plans are jeopardized by the arrival of a new co-worker, intense competition, and surly teenage rebellion.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
From the segregated American South to the fashion capitals of the world, operatic fashion editor André Leon Talley's life and career are on full display in a poignant portrait that includes appearances by Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, Valentino, and Manolo Blahnik.
Year: 2017
Rating: PG-13
Manolo has a simple life in Southern Spain and two loves: his donkey Gorrión and wandering through nature. Against the advice of his doctor, he plans one last walk in the United States, the brutal 2,200 mile Trail of Tears--but not without his donkey.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
When the family sells the house, live-in maid Teresa must take a job far from her beloved Buenos Aires. On a bus trip through the desert, she loses all of her belongings at a stop near the miraculous “Saint Correa.” A traveling salesman named El Gringo offers to help her find what she's lost, and possibly more.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
For over six years, and for reasons he can't explain, Matt Green has been walking every block of every street in New York City--a journey of more than 8,000 miles. This unique film tells the story of one man's unusual personal quest and the journey of discovery, humanity, and wonder that ensues.
Year: 2018
Rating: TN
A heartfelt musical drama set in small-town Iowa, Saints Rest tells the story of two estranged sisters who, over the course of one summer, form a connection through their shared love of music as they grieve the recent death of their mother.
Year: 2018
Rating: TN
Each year RiverRun presents our own version of Saturday Morning Cartoons to our young audiences. We search high and low for the best new animated shorts that we think will appeal to both children and adults alike! Before each Hanesbrands Theatre screening we will be hosting a Kaleideum Prop Shop Pop-Up in the lobby beginning at 9:00am. Come early to join the fun! This is a FREE event, no tickets required!
Year: 2018
Rating: FM
Films screening in this program of short animated works include: After All, Extinguished, KCLOC, Late Afternoon, Liv, Phototaxis, Poles Apart, Sog, Toys, Two Balloons, and Weekends.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Walking past Jacquetta Thomas’ lifeless body in September of 1991 changed Greg Taylor’s life--and North Carolina’s criminal justice system--forever. For seventeen years, Greg and his family fought to undo his wrongful conviction, and Winston-Salem filmmaker Gregg Jamback's film bravely chronicles Taylor's long, hard-fought road to freedom.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Films in this program of short documentary works include: Footprint, I Have Something to Tell You, The Sandman, Talk To My Son, While I Yet Live, and Xavier Corbero: Portrait of an Artist in Winter.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
For those ready to revel in the awkwardly hilarious and disturbing, our late night shorts have got you covered! Films included in this program of shorts include: Fern, Garden Party, Hypertrain, Kaiju Bunraku, Porcelain Stare, Positive, Post Nuke, Sol, Steve’s Kinkoes and Versus.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Films in the program of short animated works include: Afterwork, Between Sand and Tides, Carlotta’s Face, Darrel, The Driver Is Red, Late Season, Lotte that Silhouette Girl, Lovestreams, Tête à Tête, Train to Peace, and The Wayward Kite.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East, the film is the study of an individual whose career provides rare insights into both Islamic law and gendered justice.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Join RiverRun advisory board members Celia Weston (last year’s Master of Cinema honoree) and Angus Maclachlan as they discuss the finer points of communication between performers and directors to achieve ideal results on both sides of the lens!
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Films in this program of short narrative works include: The Beep Test, Einstein-Rosen, A House in the Countryside, The Incident, Laws of the Game, Merry-Go-Round, and The Shuttle.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
When a mobster's widow decides to testify and provide names of others involved in evil deeds, she goes undercover to avoid being killed and is escorted across country by train in order to testify. In this film noir classic, cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their trail.
Year: 1952
Rating: TN
Traveling to accept an honorary degree, a professor is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death. Full of iconic imagery in its flashbacks, fantasies and nightmares, Wild Strawberries is a masterpiece that helped catapult Bergman to international acclaim.
Year: 1957
Rating: MT
Films in this program of short documentary works include: Automatic on the Road, Eye, Camera, Handmade Film, The Last Honey Hunter, Nobody Loves Me, and Nuuca.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Young nobleman Orlando—played by Oscar winner Tilda Swinton in one of her breakout roles—is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. The film follows him as he moves through several centuries of British history, experiencing a variety of lives and relationships along the way, and even changing sex. Based on the classic novel by Virginia Woolf, Sally Potter's visually sumptuous film (its outlandish, exquisite costumes were nominated for an Oscar) is a queer landmark.
Year: 1992
Rating: PG-13
In rural Iowa, a beloved history teacher uncovers the century-old showreels of one of America's first motion picture impresarios and sets out to premiere the films at the world's oldest continuously operating movie theatre.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
Films in this program of short narrative works include: Arlo Alone, Destination Moon, Garage at Night, The Law of Averages, Sans Réponse, Tom and Welcome Home.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Join RiverRun in a conversation with our second Master of Cinema for 2018, the esteemed Academy Award winning film editor Chuck Workman whose career has spanned six decades. We will be screening one of Workman’s newest documentary films that, through the use of hundreds of film clips, allows dozens of filmmakers to voice their opinions on the titular question while primarily looking beyond the Hollywood mainstream to independent, experimental, documentary and avant-garde films.
Year: 2013
Rating: TN
Misunderstood by their families and demoralized at school, friends Edwin and Flake rebel against the world in ways that become increasingly dangerous. Produced by UNCSA grad Rebecca Green from a script by fellow alum Brett Haley, this unflinching look at adolescence explores how the childhood search for belonging can become a matter of life or death.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
After a death in the family, Ronit (Rachel Weisz) returns to the Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to Esti (Rachel McAdams), a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Rodents of Unusual Size is the giant-sized story of the nutria--prolific swamp rats invading coastal Louisiana and beyond. The defiant people most affected by their presence seek to preserve their communities, culture, and livelihoods from the onslaught of a most curious and unexpected invasive species.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
A Lebanese housewife and a millennial American girl bridge cultural differences to become friends. Dark secrets are aired, until one night they find themselves partners-in-crime.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
Maria is a woman with no country. A Bulgarian immigrant and adoptive mother of a black daughter, she finds herself stricken with anxiety following a break-in at her Kentucky home. When her daughter’s aging dog dies, Maria’s house arrest puts her into equally painful and funny situations that soon entangle her neighbors.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
A hexapod drone operator named Gordon catches an infrared glimpse of Ayusha, a young woman from the Middle East, while remotely monitoring a desert pipeline. He gleans that she is promised to an older man she doesn't love, and resolves to do everything in his power to intervene.
Year: 2017
Rating: MT
Manolo has a simple life in Southern Spain and two loves: his donkey Gorrión and wandering through nature. Against the advice of his doctor, he plans one last walk in the United States, the brutal 2,200 mile Trail of Tears--but not without his donkey.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
In rural Iowa, a beloved history teacher uncovers the century-old showreels of one of America's first motion picture impresarios and sets out to premiere the films at the world's oldest continuously operating movie theatre.
Year: 2017
Rating: TN
For teenagers in three American industrial towns, adolescent dreams intersect with the realities of adulthood. The latest feature from Daniel Patrick Carbone (Hide Your Smiling Faces), Phantom Cowboys is an exploration of youth in transition, spanning nearly a decade.
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
In a suburb of London, young Jamie is escaping sport hours to avoid being the victim of his comrades. Young Ste, his neighbor, is beaten by his father, and comes to sleep overnight. They discover new feelings, sleeping in the same bed. Beautiful Thing is one of the most endearing and enduring coming-of-age films of all time, a moving and delightful touchstone film of the nineties for gay audiences, featuring a stellar soundtrack of Mamas and the Papas hits.
Year: 1996
Rating: R
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder and Michelle Pfeiffer, Martin Scorsese's film brings to life Edith Wharton's tragic novel set in Gilded Age Manhattan. The Age of Innocence tells the story of a young lawyer whose engagement is thrown for a loop when his bride-to-be's captivating cousin arrives in town after separating from her husband, igniting passions he never knew existed.
Year: 1993
Rating: PG
A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college. Featuring Nick Offerman, Ted Danson, Toni Collette, and Blythe Danner, Hearts Beat Loud is the triumphant latest feature from UNCSA alum Brett Haley (I'll See You in My Dreams, The Hero).
Year: 2018
Rating: MT
The RiverRun International Film Festival, based in Winston-Salem, NC, is one of the premier film festivals in the southeastern United States. The 2018 festival dates will be April 19-29, 2018.
