MNFF Selects Presents:

Winter's Bone (2010)

Sunday, April 20 at 3:00 PM

Faced with an unresponsive mother and a criminal father, Ozark teenager Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) does what she can to manage the household and take care of her two younger siblings. Informed by the sheriff (Garret Dillahunt) that their father put their home up for bond and then disappeared, Ree sets out on a dangerous quest to find him. Her entire family's fate now in her hands, Ree challenges her outlaw kin's code of silence and risks her life to learn her father's fate.

MNFF Selects is a series that presents thought-provoking films once a month at Town Hall Theater curated by the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. The 2025 winter/spring season will explore four films from the archive--each of them a unique example of the neo-noir genre