Page 24 - 2025 WHFF Program

The 34th Woods Hole Film Festival
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The Blue Between Us The Spirit of Modern Problems

July 28, 2025 4:00pm • Redfield Auditorium Massachusetts July 29, 2025 4:00pm • Redfield Auditorium
Born of the Ice July 28, 2025 5:30pm • FA-Simon Center Babka
Documentary • Stephanie Alton • USA • 2024 • 16 min. Comedy • Serena Dykman • USA • 2025 • 17 min.
A story of arctic survival, the whale, and a sacred hunt. From Sea to Shining Sea: Katharine In the heart of Hasidic Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a newly blind
Chasing Time Lee Bates and the Story of America Jewish Orthodox baker forms an unlikely friendship with a Queer
Catholic Latino guide dog trainer, embarking on an eye-opening
Documentary • Sarah Keo, Jeff Orlowski-Yang • USA • the Beautiful journey to overcome personal and cultural barriers in his quest to
2024 • 39 min. Documentary • John de Graaf • USA • 2025 • 37 min. reopen his beloved bakery.
Over the course of the 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project, The remarkable life of Katharine Lee Bates, poet, professor, and Catalogue of Noses
photographer James Balog and his team brought some of the social reformer, beginning with her childhood in Falmouth, Mas-
world’s first and most compelling visual evidence of climate sachusetts. An unsung hero best known for authoring “America Comedy • Josie Andrews • USA • 2025 • 13 min.
change to the global stage as he depicted the rapid melting of the Beautiful,” Bates was deeply committed to the beauty and When a 16-year-old Jewish actor faces off with her mother and
glaciers around the world. The reunion of James and the Emmy- principles of our country. Jewish plastic surgeon on the day of her surgery, she learns
winning team behind “Chasing Ice” captures the end of the epic unsettling truths about the consequences of assimilation.
undertaking and spotlights the power of an intergenerational ef- Keytar Bear
fort to seed hope and inspire action toward a sustainable future. Documentary • Kely Maloney • USA • 2025 • 11 min. City of Pigs
Mission Microbiome A Boston street busker dedicates his life to uncovering and Comedy • Juan Ángel Hernández • Spain • 2024 • 24 min.
In a future where world leaders are appointed by lottery Lenny
Documentary • Giulia Grossmann • France • 2023 • 19 defeating the evils that plague his home. Unable to work within Hicks, a former rockstar, becomes Prime Minister of the UK
the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for
min. the criminal underworld - Keytar Bear. against his will. Forbidden to resign by law Lenny decides to be-
Come aboard the schooner Tara, at the heart of the eponymous come the worst possible leader in order to be kicked out of office.
mission dedicated to the plankton. Peace, Quiet & A Little Dirt Unfortunately, he will discover that the more stupid he acts the
more popular he becomes.
Moon Crab Comedy • Kevin Samar • USA • 2025 • 13 min. Common Fly
Documentary • Leah Clare Michaels • USA • 2024 • 10 min. A chance encounter between a veteran and rookie leads to an
unexpected passing of the torch.
A meditation on the horseshoe crab, one of Earth’s oldest living Animation • Ian Alexander Castracane • USA • 2024 •
species, now struggling with extreme population decline. Rule Number 2 14 min.
Jeff is a common fly. He wakes up each morning to a dissatisfying
When I’m in the Water Comedy • Mark Kiefer • USA • 2025 • 10 min. marriage, insufferable children, and a mind-numbing job. And
Documentary • Kennedy Laylon • USA • 2025 • 12 min. A Nantucket realtor makes a potentially catastrophic mistake just today it gets much, much worse.
minutes before a showing.
Different communities seek to fight against isolation, personal i want to go to moscow
tragedy, and the fears of aging through one shared purpose: to The Cottage
make the world a better place before leaving. Comedy • Sarah Baskin • USA • 2024 • 13 min.
Dramatic • Haulston Mann • USA • 2025 • 11 min. When a disillusioned actor is thrown into a classroom of kids
As Hannah navigates a huge life choice she is confronted by two rehearsing a Disneyfied version of Chekhov’s THREE SISTERS
terrifying apparitions that may or may not actually be torment- — her favorite play about existential longing — she swan dives
ing her.
ARLO Wilbur, The King into her own crisis of aging, nostalgia, and the loss of childhood
dreams.
Friday, August 1 Comedy • Abby Sommers • USA • 2024 • 15 min. Prawn Star
A washed-up Elvis impersonator loses his job at a kitschy
Comedy • Juan C. Linares, Mitch Deitz • USA • 2024 •
10:00pm • Grumpys Pub amusement park so he must find work as a middle school music 9 min.
teacher.
When a young shrimp gains aspirations to become an actor, he
purposefully gets caught by humans so he can end up at a fancy
restaurant and on the plate of someone who could make him
famous.
Supercritical
Comedy • John Osment • USA • 2024 • 7 min.
This is my second summer at the In a post-apocalyptic nuclear fallout shelter, a young scientist
bothers their team leader with a series of progressively inane HR
Festival. I handle everything related requests.
to social media, newsletter, and
communications, and I love telling
the complex stories of thefilms. I’m Passholder and
thrilled with this year’s diverse line- Ticketholder Rules:
up representing stories from close
to home to countries far away. With No portion of any film or event may be cop-
a program of over 115 fascinating ied or distributed in any format or shared
Covering everything from The Dead documentaries and compelling nar- and the pass holder and/or ticket holder
agrees to abide by all Festival rules, includ-
to Taylor Swift, there’s no limits to ratives in this year’s Festival, there is ing, but not limited to the Code of Conduct
an ARLO setlist. ARLO returns to the truly something for everyone. required at a Festival Venue. Failure to abide
Film Fest stage after a 2023 perfor- Olivia dePunte, by Festival rules may result in immediate
mance that had the whole crowd on Communications Associate loss of access to films and events, both in-
their feet and wanting more. person and virtual. No refunds will be given.
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