2025 Upcoming Screenings

A Special Event Documentary Film Screening and Solo Piano Concert. Mesmerizing pianist and filmmaker James Carson brings his internationally acclaimed CABIN MUSIC experience to Cotuit Center for the Arts. CABIN MUSIC is an award-winning feature documentary film combined with a new form of hypnotically immersive concert experience. Carson’s film is acclaimed for bringing people across three continents and into a unique straw bale cabin he built in Northern Alberta to transform the ways we create and experience music. Yet the aim of his combined film and concert events is still deeper: to invite each audience member not just into Carson’s cabin, but into their own ‘inner cabin’—that place inside that no one knows about, where change is possible. This cumulative effect of experiencing “a cinematic wonder” (The Independent Critic) before immersing in Carson’s “trance-inducing, shimmering arpeggiated figures” (Feast of Music)transports audiences into “inner and outer states of being approaching bliss” (POV Magazine).

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among a small, rural, lakeside community in Ireland near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in the life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere. An adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists.

In Baltimore, Brandon Scott, an idealistic young leader with an ambitious plan to stop chronic violence in the city, is elected mayor. Throughout his first year in office, he fights powerful political forces to save lives in Baltimore and reveal a pathway toward healing for the nation. WINNER: JURY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE AT THE 2024 WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL.