Page 7 - WHFF 2022

Saturday, July 30 through Saturday, August 6, 2022

Gilgamesh The Originals
Inspired by humanity’s oldest story, Gilgamesh, this epic Matty “Square” Ruggiero and his childhood friends, the SHORTS
tale explores themes of power, love and loss. Union Street Boys, tell their story of what it was like to
Dramatic • Noeline Kavanagh • Ireland • 2021 • 25 min. grow up in South Brooklyn, where money was tight but Screening with Features
friendships were tighter.
In Sickness and In Health Documentary • Alfie Koetter, Cristina Costantini • USA • Love Languages
A married couple struggles to accommodate one an- 2022 • 10 min. A nuanced and intimate portrayal of six Black British
other in the lead-up to a high-stakes business lunch. Where Land Ends men as they share their personal experiences of love
Comedy • Sarah Smick • USA • 2022 • 11 min. There are only 12 full-time residents living on the mile and loss whilst in an Afro-Caribbean barbershop.
Joshua by two-mile island of Cuttyhunk. Gwen Lynch is the only Documentary • Jason Osborne • UK • 2022 • 13 mins.
Screens with Scrum
Identical twin sisters seek to remedy a past childhood child on the Island and the only student at the last one
trauma, but each fatal attempt takes them further into room schoolhouse in Massachusetts. Shattering Star
the deep end. Documentary • Grace McNally • USA • 2022 • 28 min. A 19-year-old’s major discovery about black holes col-
Dramatic • Austin Lewis • USA • 2022 • 10 min. lides with accepted physics.
Marked SHORTS: Decisions Decisions Documentary • Peter Galison • USA • 2021 • 13 mins.
Screens with Zero Gravity
A tattoo artist is confronted by a client (Eric Roberts)
who knows the true meaning behind his body art. All That Glitters The Errand
Dramatic • Matthew Avery Berg • USA • 2021 • 13 min. A desperate teenager snatches a rich woman’s hand- When a young girl hitchhiking is picked up by a
Myrtle bag, but in a bizarre twist of fate discovers her life is not stranger, who ends up taking whom for a ride?
Dramatic • Amanda Renee Knox • USA • 2022 • 11 mins.
as rosy as it seems and that they have more in common
Myrtle, a trailer park Mom from Indiana, cooks dinner for than he realizes. Screens with Route One North
her son. But something’s not quite right.
Dramatic • Patricia McCormack • UK • 2022 • 15 min. Dramatic • Dan Bronzite • UK • 2021 • 24 min. The Man of My Dreams
Bea, Seriously Two gorgeous, magnetic male lovers traipse around the
Bea shows up at her mother’s house to decide what to streets of NYC enmeshed in a dreamy romance.
Dramatic • Tristan Scott-Behrends • USA • 2021 • 6 mins.
SHORTS: Moving Forward do about an unexpected pregnancy. Screens with Homebody
Dramatic • Hanna Gray Organschi • USA • 2021 • 10 min.
30 Meetings / 30 Days En Avant There Are Mermaids in LA
After being court ordered to attend Alcoholics Anony- After being cast in the lead role of a professional ballet, Two gorgeous, magnetic male lovers traipse around the
streets of NYC enmeshed in a dreamy romance.
mous, Alicia reluctantly commits to going to thirty Ragan is pressured by the ballet’s director to lighten her
meetings in thirty days. skin with make-up, in order to be consistent with the Comedy • Summer Benowitz • USA • 2021 • 13 mins.
Screens with Wake Up Leonard
Dramatic • Duane Andersen • USA • 2022 • 20 min. white dancers on stage.
Hush Dramatic • Sarah Jean Williams • USA • 2022 • 13 min. ꝌSɦO (What They’ve Been Taught)
Expressions of reciprocity in the Cherokee world,
In public 12-year-old Martin seems like a normal smiling Sinking Ships brought to life through a story told by an elder and first
boy, but at home he faces uncertainty, and at times a Sara endured many years in a relationship full of control language speaker.
harsh reality. With an alcoholic father, and a mother who and violence. As she and her family go on vacation, an Documentary • Brit Hensel • USA • 2022 • 9 mins.
barely manages to handle the situation, Martin is forced opportunity to break away suddenly presents itself. Screens with The Territory
to do what it takes to keep the family together. Dramatic • Andreas Kessler • Germany • 2020 • 22 min.
Dramatic • Emilie Beck • Norway • 2022 • 25 min. The Dress
She Dreams At Sunrise A young women under house arrest, decides to to use
An elderly woman escapes her mundane reality her only day-off and change her appearance drastically,
through her dreams, while her great-nephew helps for the last chance and “perfect date” with someone she
reconnect her to what she’s really missing. loves the most.
Animation • Camrus Johnson • USA • 2021 • 11 min. Dramatic • Marie Karkashadze • USA • 2022 • 9 min.
Strawberry Shake Your Mountain Is Waiting
A troubled young mother tries to win back her two kids What happens when you stop listening to your intuition,
with a pet rabbit and pink dessert. and the seemingly irrational steps it can take to learn to
Dramatic • Dianne Bellino • USA • 2020 • 16 min. trust your gut and instincts once again.
The Principal’s Assembly Animation • Hannah Jacobs • UK • 2021 • 8 min.
When a student passes away tragically over the sum-
mer, Principal Jane Marino is faced with the tough chal-
lenge of giving a speech to the students during the ‘first SHORTS: Finding Our Way
day of school’ assembly. IN-PERSON
Dramatic • Jordan Ancel • USA • 2022 • 19 min. Fourth of July
A young mother struggles to parent her two rambunc- SCREENING
tious boys over the course of one hot, summer day.
SHORTS: The Neighborhood Dramatic • Major Dorfman • USA • 2021 • 12 min. VENUES
More Than I Remember
Lalito 10 Fourteen-year-old Mugeni awakes to the sounds of
When COVID-19 forced his school to close and remote bombs. As her family scatters to the surrounding forests to Woods Hole Oceanographic
learning proved impossible, a teacher in Guatemala save themselves, Mugeni finds herself completely alone.
built a classroom on wheels to bring education directly Documentary • Amy Bench • USA/Chile • 2022 • 14 min. Institution’s Redfield Auditorium
to his students.
Documentary • Jordan Matthew Horowitz • USA • 2022 • My Dear God 45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA
17 min. June Bell unearths the painful truth of her sister’s over-
dose and finds the closure she didn’t know she needed.
Powers Dramatic • Tara Sheffer • USA • 2021 • 13 min. Clapp Auditorium
When a budding artist in her 60s hangs joyful sculp- MBL 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole,
tures on telephone poles, she comes into her own and North Star
makes peace with her troubled past. A rural rancher and his ailing husband, struggling against
Documentary • Paige Morrow Kimball • USA • 2022 • 24 min. poverty and isolation, are forced to make a heartbreaking Falmouth Academy’s Morse Hall
decision in order to preserve the dignity of their marriage
The Devil Will Run in the face of mounting pressures from relatives. 7 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA
A young boy is convinced that the Devil lives in a hole Dramatic • P.J. Palmer • USA • 2022 • 30 min.
in his backyard. Can he find the courage to face down Falmouth Academy’s
his fear? The Sea of Hope
Dramatic • Noah Glenn • USA • 2021 • 11 min. A refugee father and son’s dangerous sea journey to Simon Center for the Arts
escape their war-torn country.
Animation • Walid salhab • UK/Lebanon • 2022 • 7 min. 7 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA
A Bringing Science to the Screen screening. WanderLand Cotuit Center for the Arts
This film/program screens live only. A young girl attempts to navigate the seafront on the 4404 Falmouth Road, Cotuit, MA.
search for her missing alcoholic mother over the course
of one night.
Dramatic • Nicole Pott • UK • 2022 • 15 min.