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The 32nd Annual Woods Hole Film Festival

The Egret River
SHORTS: The Blue Between Us Animation • Wan-Ling Liu • Taiwan • 2022 • 21 min. SHORTS before Features:
August 1 at 6:00pm • Clapp Auditorium When the secret field that the man shared with the
egret was destroyed, he decided to take the egret to Sand Mama
find a new place to live. Dramatic • Catherine Loerke • USA • 2022 • 6 min.
The Storm Chaser An ambivalent mother resolves her struggle with the
all-consuming nature of motherhood by making a
Documentary • Jack Pirie • UK • 2023 • 7 min. startling choice on a family beach trip.
While sensible souls retreat, storm-chasing legend Precedes Everybody Wants To Be Loved
Thomas Traversa embarks on a perilous journey in
search of a mythical storm, the likes of which the world Not Another Ballet Story
has never witnessed. Documentary • Emily Packer • USA • 2023 • 11 min.
A small contemporary dance company in San Francisco
Yellowstone 88 - Song of Fire provides dancers with a unique opportunity to write the
Animation • Jerry van de Beek & Betsy De Fries • USA • future of ballet, away from the ballet world’s entrenched
2022 • 7 min. ‘story ballet’ tradition.but became a legend by giving a
Coskata-Coatue: A Refuge on the Edge In the summer of 1988 dry lightning sparked a fire in the voice to the unheard.
Documentary • Laura Cunningham • USA • 2023 • 12 min. parched and drought ridden landscape of Yellowstone Precedes Woman in the MIrror
With the effects of climate change already threaten- Park igniting a blaze that would scorch over 1.5 million
ing Coskata-Coatue, what can be done to protect this perimeter acres. Song of Fire, a narrative poem, guides Tracks: Stumbling Stones Amsterdam
refuge on the edge? the animation to tell the story of this conflagration that Documentary • Maclovia Martel • USA • 2023 • 11 min.
Malignasquelluki (To Live in Harmony) raged unabated for months until a snow of intense A visual journey of remembrance in Amsterdam.
severity extinguished the flames. That winter surviving
Documentary • Ilegvak, Colin Russell • USA • 2023 • 13 min. Fauna, exhausted from fire and weakened by hunger, Precedes The Nettle Dress
A portrait of the Yupik fur hunter and artist, Ilegvak. died in greater numbers than those claimed by the Manō
Restoring An Icon: Tom Townsend and “Cirrus” fire. The cosmos turns from one season to another and Animation • Brittany Biggs • USA • 2022 • 10 min.
another and life in the park begins anew.
Documentary • Durier Ryan • USA • 2022 • 8 min. Manō is a short, animated film illustrating the human
Mystic Boatbuilder prepares for a major challenge: resto- impact on sharks and coral reefs, as seen through the
ration of the iconic ninety-year old Herreshoff yawl Cirrus. eyes of a Tiger Shark in Hawaiian waters over hundreds
of millions of years.
The Arctic Halocline 10:30pm • Captain Kidd Precedes Patrick and the Whale
Documentary • Amy Lauren • USA • 2022 • 21 min. Closing
The Arctic Halocline tells the story of the groundbreak-
ing discoveries made by an international research Night Party
program that has been monitoring the state of the
Arctic Ocean continuously for the past 20 years; it is a and Awards
crucial reminder that environmental and social justice Celebration
are heavily intertwined.

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