Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival

The 11th annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival will screen 107 films, including 18 student films, on seven screens across downtown Middlebury and the Middlebury College campus. Find the full schedule here: https://mnff2025.eventive.org/schedule?date=2025-08-20

A dynamic roster of special guests will also appear throughout the festival, including Representative Becca Balint, actors Peter Sarsgaard and Gary Farmer, director and musical composer Allan Nicholls, writer and director Nick Paley, New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent David E. Sanger, New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson, Vermont Poet Laureate Bianca Stone, VTDigger Editor-in-Chief Geeta Anand, comedian Tina Friml, Daily Show writer Devin Delliquanti, actor and puppeteer Paul Zaloom, and film industry guests from Netflix, WGBH, DCTV, Chicken & Egg Films and more.

Visiting filmmakers will come from cities around the world—including London, Tel Aviv, Jakarta, Guadalajara, Bratislava, Milan and Brussels—as well as from across New England and the United States. Approximately two-thirds of the festival’s screenings will be accompanied by a live, on-stage Q&A from a visiting filmmaker.

Festival locations include the historic Town Hall Theater and its new wing and Maloney Public Performance Plaza; the Middlebury Marquis Theatre, and three campus venues. Filmmakers from more than 58 films are expected to attend.

In addition to film screenings, the festival will host panels, master classes, happy hours and evening parties. All of the festival’s panel and roundtable discussions are free and open to the public.

Find ticket pricing and showtimes here: https://mnff2025.eventive.org/films

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