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The 32nd Annual Woods Hole Film Festival

SHORTS: Decisions Decisions SHORTS: Modern Problems SHORTS: Finding Our Way
August 3 at 4:00pm • Redfield Auditorium August 4 at 4:00pm • Redfield Auditorium July 30 at 5:15pm • Falmouth Auditorium

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Dramatic • Oriana Ng • France, USA • 2022 • 5 min. Comedy • Tyler Riggs • USA • 2023 • 19 min. Dramatic • Brandon McKnight • Canada • 2022 • 15 min.
A dangerous elevator ride tests a couple’s bond. Insecure New Jersey bodybuilder, Joey Rossi aka Joey A former under-ground brawler goes against his loves
NAKAM Muscles, starts doing steroids in a last ditch effort to wishes and returns to the fight, sacrificing everything, so
go pro.
that his daughter will never have to.
Dramatic • Andreas Kessler • Germany • 2022 • 34 min.
Ukraine 1942. Twelve year old violinist Mitka plays in a Clam Shack Blues The Social Chameleon
Ukrainian restaurant with pianist Yegor. Nobody knows Comedy • Matt Ott • USA • 2022 • 12 min. Animation • Alex Ross • USA • 2022 • 10 min.
that Mitka is part of a Jewish partisan movement. When Two aging New England clammers bicker about how to Cosmo the chameleon doesn’t fit in with the other
an opportunity arises to execute an attack on SS officers live out their twilight years, with only one of the brothers animals and must learn to live by his own colors.
in the restaurant, Mitka puts his only friend Yegor at the willing to risk life and limb on a dream.
risk of death. Goodbye Tango Foreign Uncle
Picture Day Comedy • Jason Laurits • USA • 2023 • 15 min. Dramatic • Sining Xiang • USA, China • 2022 • 20 min.
Sining brings his American boyfriend, Patrick, back to
Dramatic • Kelly Pike • USA • 2022 • 16 min. The sudden death of Ruth’s beloved hamster reveals a China to visit his family. The family’s attitude towards
A young tomboy coming of age on military bases faces decaying marriage with her curmudgeonly wife, Connie. Patrick changes after Sining inadvertently comes out to
a new school’s picture day. Ruth must either accept the death of things or keep them, except for Sining’s 7-year-old nephew, Naonao.
Safe as Houses spinning the wheel. Give It To Me
Dramatic • Mia Mullarkey • Ireland • 2022 • 16 min. Misophonia Comedy • Courtney Hope Therond • USA • 2023 • 9 min.
On a hot summer’s day, a woman with Down Syndrome Animation • Linda Wingerter • USA • 2022 • 9 min. In an attempt to finally process a traumatic sexual ex-
offers shelter to a young girl when her home is not A quiet bus ride turns into an aural nightmare for a perience, Max hires a sex worker to recreate the scene,
so welcoming. book-reading commuter. With every stop the bus but things don’t go according to plan.
The Tuner of Silences fills with people and sounds, becoming a chaotic ca- Strings
cophony joyful to everyone but her. Only when the bus
Dramatic • Mário Patricínio • Portugal, Brazil • 2023 • 21 min. reaches her seaside destination do we discover she is Dramatic • Rodrigo Moreno-Fernandez • USA • 2022 • 14 min.
Mwanito only knows his father, brother, uncle and not the average commuter. Penny would sell her soul for a chance to be the world’s
servant. He’s been told that the rest of the world is dead. greatest axe player. Turns out....
My Eyes Are Up Here someone is ready to buy.
Comedy • Nathan Morria • UK • 2022 • 14 min.
Sonya is a super-busy, sought-after model, and dating The Bond
doesn’t really fit her lifestyle. However, a one-night Dramatic • Jahmil Eady • USA • 2022 • 16 min.
stand with a clumsy but considerate man changes Pregnant and incarcerated, Aria fights for her most
her perspective. precious connection against a system designed to
The Orb isolate her.
Comedy • Josh Kirk • USA • 2022 • 3 min. Wheel
A suburban couple clash over a mysterious product. Comedy • Honora Talbott • USA • 2022 • 9 min.
The Quarantine Redemption A casting director gets hit with some bad news while
helping her eccentric neighbor tape a Wheel of Fortune
Comedy • Bahar Dorabadi • Iran • 2023 • 13 min. audition. Tensions are high, nerves are shot, and it’s
Pandemic lockdown struggles: A noisy wife, a awkward as hell.
misophonic husband, and a small apartment.
Variations on a Theme
Dramatic • Peter Collins Campbell • USA • 2023 • 8 min.
A couple has begun physically splitting into many
different versions of themselves, and must investigate
an uncomfortable mutation that has arisen.

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