Vermilionville

Les Vues April -- Rodents of Unusual Size
2024-04-29 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Vermilionville – Performance Center
Enjoy our FREE Film Series, Les Vues! Monday, April 29 at 6:30 PM in the Vermilionville Performance Center, we’ll be showing Rodents of Unusual Size, a feature-length documentary film, which deals with the love-hate relationship between South Louisiana and the nutria, the titular ‘rodent of unusual size’.

Les Vues -- Reconstructing Creole
2024-07-01 18:30 - 20:00 | Vermilionville – Performance Center
Enjoy Les Vues, Reconstructing Creole, FREE documentary Monday, July 1 at 6:30 PM. This film was named Best Documentary Feature at the 2007 Hollywood HD/DV Film Festival, as well as the 2007 Humanities Documentary of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.A burned-out plantation home is restored while the memoir of its former mistress reveals a world of slavery and society balls, of race-mixing and family bonds, of cruelty, love and joie de vivre.

Les Vues August -- Acadian Brown Cotton
2024-08-26 18:30 - 20:00 | LA
Our Les Vues FREE Film Series continues in August with Acadian Brown Cotton, a documentary detailing all about “The fabric of Acadiana”, Acadian Brown Cotton.

Les Vues September: "After the Spill"
2024-09-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Vermilionville – Performance Center
Vermilionville’s Les Vues FREE Film Series continues in September, with “After the Spill’, a documentary that examines the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion & spill on the coastline, the economy and the people of Louisiana. Join us for a thought-provoking and insightful evening, Monday, September 30 at 6:30 PM.

Les Vues October -- Closed for Storm
2024-10-28 18:30 - 20:00 | LA
Join us for our FREE Film Series, Les Vues. In October, we’ll show Closed for Storm, the story of the ill-fated New Orleans Jazzland Six Flags amusement park, devastated in Hurricane Katrina and left to slowly deteriorate.

Les Vues November -- Can't Stop the Water
2024-11-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Vermilionville – Performance Center
Join us in November for Les Vues, our FREE Film Series, as we present Can’t Stop the Water. This documentary tells the story of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana and the Native American community fighting to save its culture as its land washes away.
For 170 years, a tribe of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians has occupied Isle de Jean Charles, an island deep in the Louisiana bayous. They have fished, hunted, and lived off the land. Now the land that has sustained them for generations is vanishing before their eyes. Years of gas and oil exploration have ravaged the surrounding marsh, leaving the island defenseless against the ocean tide that will eventually destroy it. As Chief Albert Naquin desperately looks for a way to bring his tribe together on higher ground, those that remain on the island cling to the hope that they can stay.

Les Vues January 2025 -- Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras
2025-01-27 18:30 - 20:00 | Vermilionville – Performance Center
Join us for our FREE Les Vues film for January, Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras. Pat Mire’s film explores the ritual, history and community of the Courir de Mardi Gras, practiced in rural communities in Acadiana.

Les Vues February 2025 -- Intention
2025-02-24 18:30 - 20:00 | Vermilionville – Performance Center
Join us for our FREE Les Vues film for February, Intention. The film follows the stories of eleven women who encompass the profound gradient of cultural heritage in Southwest Louisiana. Contextualizing language, music, food, art, and traditional faith healing, these Cajun, Creole, and Chitimacha preservationists inspire pursuits of passion in practice that give light to an untold cultural narrative. The discussion after the film will be curated by director/producer Olivia Luz Perillo. Don’t miss it!

Les Vues March 2025 -- L'eau Est La Vie: From Standing Rock to the Swamp
2025-03-31 18:30 - 20:00 | Vermilionville – Performance Center
Join us Monday, March 31 for Les Vues, our FREE film series. Our March selection is L’eau Est la Vie: From Standing Rock to the Swamp. The film features fierce Louisiana Indigenous women who are ready to fight-to stop the corporate blacksnake and preserve their way of life. They are risking everything to protect Mother Earth from the predatory fossil fuel companies that seek to poison it.

Les Vues April -- The Quiet Cajuns
2025-04-28 18:30 - 20:30 | Vermilionville, 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, LA, 70508, United States
The Quiet Cajuns, this month’s Les Vues free film series selection — join us Monday, April 28 at 6:30 PM. Please like and share, and follow us for all the latest!There are hundreds of Cajuns who have never heard a fiddle waltz and who lose their vision because of a genetic quirk that came here with the Acadians over two centuries ago. This documentary tells the story of Acadian Usher Syndrome.

Les Vues May -- Hollow Tree
2025-05-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Vermilionville, 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, LA, 70508, United States
Join us for our Les Vues FREE Film May selection, Hollow Tree. This documentary, directed by Kira Akerman, follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and billowing smokestacks. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women — shape their story of the climate crisis.

Les Vues July 2025 -- Ancestral Artistry: The Influence of Africans and Creoles of Color on Louisiana Architecture
2025-07-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Vermilionville – Performance Center
Join us for our FREE Les Vues film for July, Ancestral Artistry – The Influence of Africans and Creoles of Color on Louisiana Architecture. The 2025 Documentary Film of the Year spotlights Black master artisans’ contributions to Louisiana architecture.

Les Vues October -- Louisiana Grass Roots
2025-10-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Vermilionville – Performance Center
Join us for the October Les Vues selection, Louisiana Grass Roots, a short documentary about our forgotten prairie. The screening is FREE to the public, and there will be a short Q & A after the film with filmmakers Phyllis Griffard & Jillian Godshall.

Les Vues -- Precipice
2025-12-01 18:30 - 20:30 | Vermilionville – Performance Center
Join us on a special date and time for this documentary about the Pointe-au-Chien tribe in Terrebonne Parish fighting to hold on to their identity and their land. Les Vues FREE Film Series usually runs every last Monday of the month — may be pre-empted for events.

Les Vues January -- Dance for a Chicken
2026-01-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Vermilionville, 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, LA, 70508, United States
Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire gives us an inside look at the colorful, rural Cajun Mardi Gras. Every year before Lent begins, processions of masked and costumed revelers, often on horseback, go from house to house gathering ingredients for communal gumbos in communities across rural southwest Louisiana. The often-unruly participants in this ancient tradition play as beggars, fools, and thieves as they raid farmsteads and perform in exchange for charity or, in other words, “dance for a chicken.”
