Arlington International Film Festival

The Arlington International Film Festival in partnership with the Maynard Fine Arts Theatre is proud to present some of its finest from AIFF 2023! Please join us this Wednesday and Thursday (3/6-7) for three “Best of Festival” programs. ww.maynardfineartstheatre.com/movie/the-arli…

We are now accepting submissions for the 13th annual Arlington International Film Festival! Deadlines Feb. 28 / March 31 / April 30. Visit aiffest.org/submit for more info and the application link! #callforentries #filmfestival #indiefilm #aiff23 zcu.io/A3gE

Congrats to “On This Happy Note” and “Doubt” - winners of our Audience Choice Awards! Thank you to those who voted, and for those in the US, remember to go vote today! 🏆✅

Our deepest gratitude to everyone who made #AIFF22 possible: our filmmakers, judges, sponsors, volunteers, community partners, the Capitol Theatre, and YOU, our audience! What a pleasure to see our fellow film lovers in person once more 🤩

5:30pm - BEST OF FESTIVAL 🏆 “Not a Tame Lion” tells the story of John Boswell, an openly gay Catholic scholar whose research proved the Church had performed same-sex marriages well into the Middle Ages, paving the way for modern marriage equality. Followed by Q&A.

3:20pm - Shorts Program 3, including “Doubt” 📺 “Sheepish” 🐑 “An Insured Life” ☕️ “A Thousand Cars at Night Looks Like a Moving Train” 🐟 and “Bicentennial Bonsai: Emissaries of Peace” 🪴 which will be followed by a Q&A with Paul Awad and Kathryn O’Sullivan.

1:50pm - “The Gathering: Black Inventors Got Game” and “Becoming Black Lawyers” expose the pervasive challenges Black professionals face every day, giving even deeper significance to the successes they achieve. 👨🏾‍💻👩🏿‍🎓🧑🏽‍💼Followed by Q&A.

The films continue at 12pm! *On this happy note*, we’d like to announce today’s films: “On This Happy Note” and “Nothing is Going to Change,” two films that gracefully tackle the topic of death, and what we leave behind once we’re gone. Followed by Q&A.

Don’t forget to vote! Submit your favorites for feature films and shorts by Monday at 11:59pm - Audience Choice winners will be announced on Tuesday…. don’t forget to go out and VOTE that day, too! 🇺🇸 aiffest.org/vote

10:30pm - “The Rumba Kings” celebrates the epic quest of the DRC to find freedom and identity through music, fusing African rhythms with Afro-Cuban music to create an electrifying and unifying beat 🎸🪘🇨🇩

8:30pm - Shorts Program 2, including “Pops” ⚱️ “How to Be Not Perfect” 🎨 “The Last Day of Patriarchy” 🚪 “Kites” 🎐 and “Pony Boys,” 🐴 which will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Eric Stange and Jeff Whittemore!

6:50pm - Animation of every flavor! “Peykareh (The Statue)” 🗿 “A Void” 🚶🏽‍♀️ “Dragon Skills” 🐉 “Shakespeare for All Ages” 🎭 “Kkum 꿈” 😴 “Helping Hands” 👻 “The White Whale” 🛶 “Solitude” 🌵 “The Germans” 🚇 “Gruf and Me” 🎨 and “Navozande, the Musician” 🎻

5:10pm - Seven unique and accomplished Indigenous architects design and complete extraordinary buildings while transforming perspectives on built environments in Ron Chapman’s documentary “From Earth to Sky” 🏗🌇

2:45pm - Shorts Program 1 includes: “Day X” 🇩🇪 “Moonless” 🦷 “The Button” 🪡 “The Tendency” 👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏻 “Haut les Coeurs” 💞 “M.O.M.” 🚁 and “The Oscar S Show” 🖥Join filmmaker Oscar Segal for a Q&A after the screening!

It’s Shorts Day! Starting at 12pm, we have FOUR shorts programs for you, starting with our High School Filmmakers’ program, Voices of Our Youth. The Student Awards Program will follow the screenings 🏆 We’re so proud of and impressed by these talented folks!

10:25pm - Two films explore the intimate consequences of conflict in the Middle East. “Radiograph of a Family” documents the tension within a family where parents’ religions and outlooks are at odds. “Time to Lose” sees an aging man relive a past war.

8:55pm - Arturo Dueñas Herrero’s “Pessoas (People)” follows a father-daughter duo who traverse Cuba in search of the subject of a photo. Shot without written dialogue, fiction and reality meld through the actors’ poignant improvisation.

Tonight’s program opens at 7pm with our BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE: Maryna Er Gorbach’s “Klondike,” a gripping story about holding on to home and surviving destruction and invasion 🇺🇦

Congratulations to Faye Silvia, winner of the 2022 Audience Choice Poster Contest Award!

We are SO pleased to welcome you back to the Capitol Theatre in Arlington for #AIFF22 🎥🎞🎉 You can still purchase festival passes and single film tickets at the door 🎟