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The 31st Annual Woods Hole Film Festival


      SHORTS: Be The Change                 SHORTS: Art In Many Forms             La Macana
                                                                                  Recently divorced Carmen and Franco work through
      Beauty Queen                          15 grains of sand                     their fervent relationship to support their daughter Sol
                                                                                  when she gets her period for the first time.
      Set in the Philippines during World War II, a young   The filmmaker explores her experience as one of only   Dramatic • Maria Mealla • USA • 2022 • 10 min.
      woman struggles to find purpose after losing her father.  a handful of people with Down syndrome in the world   Non-Negotiable
      Dramatic • Myra Aquino • Philippines • 2021 • 18 min.  to have earned a college degree, and how art can help   Nine year old Deb presents to her anxious parents a list
                                            expand educational opportunities for others.
      Burros                                Documentary • Rachel Handlin • USA • 2021 • 4 min  of terms and conditions for the arrival of her new sibling.
      A young Indigenous girl discovers a Hispanic migrant                        Comedy • Mike Doxford • UK • 2022 • 9 min.
      her age who has been separated from her father in the   Charlotte
      beautiful but dangerous Sonoran desert.  A pop song transforms the lives of an enigmatic folk   Roger That
      Dramatic • Jefferson Stein • USA • 2021 • 15 min.  singer and her family.   An inventor reveals his invention to his girlfriend, but
                                                                                  she uses it to reveal a surprise to him.
      Jill and Jack                         Animation • Zach Dorn • USA • 2021 • 13 min.  Dramatic • Inkar Maxutova • USA • 2020 • 7 min..
      A love story that never was in a city that does not know   DOPO YUMEmories
      how to talk. When Jill dares to chat with stranger Jack,   A short look back at Dopo Yume, a NYC-based rock   The Family We Chose
      a spark ignites and he rises to the challenge. But is the   band that gained traction in the late 90s, early 00s, but   Two in-laws build a connection over the dynamics of
      city ready to converse?               never quite took flight.              the family they married into.
      Comedy • Nick Calori • UK • 2021 • 11 min.  Documentary • Jordan Galland • USA • 2022 • 13 min.  Comedy • Justin & Kristin Schaack • USA • 2022 • 8 min.
      Stranger at the Gate                  Make Me A King                        Wei-Lai
      A U.S. Marine plots a terrorist attack on a small-town   After being shunned by their conservative parents, Ari   Tired of getting pushed and punished by his own
      American mosque, but his plan takes an unexpected   pursues their dream of being a Jewish Drag King and   parents, Wei-Lai, an 11-year-old Chinese American boy,
      turn when he comes face to face with the people he   honouring Pepi Littman as they perform.  decides to show up at his best friend’s family and offer
      sets out to kill.                     Dramatic • Sofia Olins • UK • 2021 • 16 min.  himself up for adoption.
      Documentary • Joshua Seftel • USA • 2022 • 30 min.  Memento Mori            Comedy • Robin Wang • USA • 2022 • 14 min.
      Superheroes Wear Hoodies              Late one stormy night in Victorian Dublin, a post-mor-
      A group of black youths from one of the most notori-  tem photographer receives his latest subject, a recently
      ous estates in London rise together in support of their   deceased young woman. And this encounter with the   SHORTS: Modern Problems
      community. In doing so, they challenge perceptions of a   dead young woman will be unforgettable.
      community often wrongly associated with crime, to one   Animation • Paul O’Flanagan • Ireland • 2021 • 9 min.  Algorithm
      now associated with love – fuelled by food.                                 When nervy Al has an absurd encounter with a stranger,
      Documentary • Jason Osborne • UK • 2021 • 10 min.  Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver  he begins to question his whole identity.
      The Recess                            In 1982, the completion of Jim Jarmusch’s sophomore film,   Dramatic • Edwina Casey • Ireland • 2020 • 9 min.
                                            Stranger Than Paradise, hinged on producer Sara Driver’s
      Seventeen-year-old Sahar is determined to watch her   willingness to smuggle one of the world’s rarest and most   Breakfast at the Bodega
      favorite soccer team play for the league championship.   controversial films across the Atlantic Ocean.  A talented young Brooklynite/Palestinian-American
      Barred from attending sports events as a woman, Sahar   Documentary • Lewie & Noah Kloster • USA • 2021 • 10 min.  attempts to live out his dreams of becoming a French
      disguises herself as a boy with the help of her friends.                    pastry chef despite his first-generation father’s wishes.
      Dramatic • Navid Nikkhah Azad • Spain/Iran • 2021 • 12 min.  The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms  Comedy • Marina Elise • USA • 2022 • 15 min.
                                            An intimate magical-realist documentary combining
                                            paintings with live action footage to open a window on   Le Pompon
      SHORTS: Conversations                 a man’s experience living with a painful chronic illness   Sandra is a struggling single mom and she’s losing the
                                            called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
                                                                                  plot. But today, she sees an opportunity to get even with
      An Encounter                          Documentary • Lauryn Welch, Eloise Sherrid • USA • 2021   the world... but will her son Ryan catch the pompon?
                                            • 10 min.
                                                                                  Comedy • David Hourrègue • France • 2022 • 13 min.
      Two improbable friends dodge school and freely wander   Tiny Titanic
      through Dublin until an encounter with a stranger leaves                    Out of Tune
      one of them utterly changed.          A Minnesota family discovers some surprising connec-  Stigmatized since childhood by her love of the rock
      Dramatic • Kelly Campbell, Claire McCabe • Ireland • 2021 • 21 min.   tions to the Titanic disaster. They decide to honor the   band Journey, Maya finds her voice in a world where
                                            ship by building a miniature replica in their front yard.
      Bounty                                Documentary • Mike Scholtz • USA • 2022 • 9 min.  she doesn’t always feel “Black enough.”
                                                                                  Comedy • Portlynn Tagavi • USA • 2022 • 15 min.
      “We are citizens of the Penobscot Nation. For this film,   Visions
      we bring our families to Boston to read our ancestors’                      Talk To The Can
      death warrant.”                       A kaleidoscope portrait of three artists: A first-genera-  When Dave, a control freak, discovers that the home
      Documentary • Maulian Dana, Dawn Neptune Adams, Tracy   tion American Congolese illustrator, a Chicanx musician   devices he uses to make his life easier have actually
      Rector, Ben Pender-Cudlip, Adam Mazo • USA • 2021 • 9 min.  and drummer and a Vietnamese visual and textile artist,   been secretly recording everything, he must change in
                                            that explores their journeys and focuses on the elation
      Desmond’s Not Here Anymore            of these creatives making their art.  order to survive.
                                                                                  Comedy • Jordan H. Elliott • USA • 2021 • 13 min.
      Abigail battles moving her elderly mother with dementia   Documentary • Karina Lomelin Ripper • USA • 2022 • 10 min.
      out from the family home. When her mother uncon-                            The Diamond
      sciously haunts her by continually questioning Desmond’s                    A lonely man with a blinding ambition to make friends
      whereabouts it forces her to finally face the question.                     stumbles upon a diamond in the woods. Unable to
      Dramatic • Mmabatho Montsho • USA • 2021 • 16 min.   SHORTS: Thicker Than Water  reach it, the solution presents itself in the form of an
      Mold of Malachi                       8¾                                    even smaller man.
                                                                                  Comedy • Vedran Rupic • Sweden • 2021 • 14 min.
      In the suburbs of America, a Black man’s morning jog   Armed with a formidable knowledge of Italian cinema,
      nightmare exists as a game for others.  an irrepressible eight-year-old boy helps his grandfa-  The F-Word
      Dramatic • Mtume Gant • USA • 2022 • 9 min.   ther recover from a catastrophic loss.  A father explains to his young daughter what the
      The Stupid Boy                        Comedy • Shawn Matthew Cheatham • USA • 2020 • 10 min.   f-word means.
                                                                                  Comedy • Alex & Paul Cannon • USA • 2022 • 7 min.
      In a London where there has been an increase in   Break Any Spell
      Christian white supremacists resorting to acts of terror-  In this collision of reality and fantasy, a teenage girl uses
      ism, two worlds collide when a neuro-diverse teenager   Live-Action-Role-Playing (LARPing) to cope and escape
      encounters a man on a suicidal mission.  from her mother, who suffers from early-   SHORTS:
      Dramatic • Phil Dunn • UK • 2022 • 16 min.   onset Alzheimer’s.
      Vigilant                              Dramatic • Anton Jøsef • Canada/USA • 2021 • 13 min.   It’s Getting Dark In Here
      When a woman is forced to walk home after car trouble   Family Recipe       Fishwife
      at night, the inherent fear of being female raises confus-  A girl’s baking lesson from her grandfather teaches her
      ing questions that spills into her world.  acceptance as she learns the similarities between    In wild 18th century Britain, a lonely woman discovers
                                                                                  that her menstrual cycle is of interest to a stranger.
      Dramatic • Sarah Day • UK • 2022 • 7 min.  ingredients and people.          Dramatic • Beth Park • UK • 2021 • 17 min.
      Wailing Wall                          Dramatic • Kamari Bright • USA • 2021 • 5 min.
      A first generation Ukrainian-American woman, is forced   Favorite Daughter
      to move her family back in with her immigrant mother   An intergenerational odd couple shelters-in-place in
      when their lives become unmanageable-- but the   a lower Manhattan apartment during the COVID-19    A Bringing Science to the Screen screening.
      stress of tight quarters and emotional triggers begin to   pandemic.
      blur the lines between reality and fantasy.  Documentary • Dana Reilly • USA • 2022 • 19 min.    This film/program screens live only.
      Comedy • Amy French • USA • 2022 • 9 min.
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