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Saturday, July 26 through Saturday, August 2, 2025
FE A TURE NARR A TIVES

An Arrangement Love, Danielle Motherland
Noree Victoria • USA • 2024 • 86 min. Marianna Palka • USA • 2024 • 79 min. Evan Matthews • USA • 2024 • 99 min.
A politician’s wife with a drug problem that is threat- When Danielle, a happily married thirty-something, In the Motherland, state-run Children’s Centers raise
ening to derail her husband’s gubernatorial run, is tests positive for a BRCA1 gene mutation, she learns all citizens, ensuring a fair upbringing and freeing
forced by her husband to secretly undergo rehab at that this puts her at a very high risk of developing parents from child-rearing burdens. This seemingly
their secluded summer home. But when he starts breast and ovarian cancer. Thanks a lot, DNA. She now utopian system turns into a nightmare for a Moth-
to take an interest in her young and unconventional struggles with daily life, working at her bakery with erland enforcer who uncovers the true identity of a
nurse, tensions arise that put their marriage, and all her hubby Pat and hanging out with her clueless best young woman in her care. When the Center launch-
of their lives, on the line. buds on game night. She now contemplates pre- es a program to combat population decline, she
emptively removing her “ticking time bomb” breasts becomes determined to protect the young woman
and reproductive organs before cancer gets her, too. from becoming part of it. Defying the system she
Ultimately, Danielle must figure out how to prioritize once upheld, she risks everything to save her—that
her health and well-being by putting herself first. is, if the Motherland doesn’t stop her first.

An Autumn Summer
Jared Isaac • USA • 2025 • 98 min.
Kevin and his girlfriend, Cody, are two months into his
family’s annual trip at their lake house. Time causes Magic Hour Revisit
change...and this year, one month remains before their
lives take them on different paths. Amid peaceful days Jacqueline Christy • USA • 2025 • 94 min. Harriet Wong Teng, Teng • China, Macau • 2024 • 88 min.
and adventurous nights, Kevin and Cody awaken to Harriet, a once-promising filmmaker, is stuck in the As Olivia charts her course through Beijing’s urban
reality: This time together will eventually end, and each suburbs of New Jersey. Alienated from her cheating maze post-graduation, a fateful call redirects her to
moment may become a fleeting memory. husband and spurned by her teenage daughter, she Macau. Faced with her grandmother’s ailing health,
secretly enrolls in film school. But, when she gets Olivia embraces her role as caregiver. Through their
fired off her own film and found out by her daugh- time together, they sharedstories, find comfort, and
ter, Harriet must decide if her life’s ambition is pure rebuild their relationship.
folly or a dream worth saving.

Homewrecker
Dante Marino • USA • 2025 • 75 min.
Megan is devastated when her mom can no longer Séance
afford to buy her a house, due to her stepdad’s Mistura Vivian Kerr • USA • 2024 • 85 min.
financial troubles. So Megan decides that she has to Ricardo de Montreuil • Peru • 2025 • 97 min.
split them up. With the help of her boyfriend, Liam, In 1892 California, a woman contemplating adultery
she hatches a plan to use artificial intelligence to In 1960’s Peru, a privileged French-Peruvian is forced to take refuge from a storm at the home of

make a deepfake sex tape of her stepdad in order to woman’s life unravels when her husband’s betrayal her first husband and his unstable wife, who claims
frame him for cheating. Things get messy as Megan ostracizes her from elite society and leads her to to be haunted by their dead child.
commits to the increasingly elaborate scheme and embrace people from the very communities that
grapples with the morality of her actions. she was raised to disregard. Amidst the backdrop
of newfound alliances, she embarks on a transfor-
mative journey that challenges societal norms and
reveals Peru’s authentic identity through a daring
culinary venture that celebrates the country’s re-
A Bringing Science to the Screen screening. markably diverse cuisine and peoples and ignites a
revolution that redefines her life.
Welcome to the 2025 Woods Hole Film Festival! My name is Sean Volk and I am the Narrative Feature Programmer.
I hope you are ready for an unforgettable week of movies on the Cape! This Festival is a celebration of independent
filmmaking and we are proud to present bold, original works from some of the most exciting voices working today.
We are so grateful that you are here watching movies on the big screen with an audience. You are going to love
the Woods Hole Film Festival and I can’t wait to experience it with you! See you at the movies!
Sean Volk, Narrative Feature Programmer
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