The 24th Annual Woods Hole Film Festival Schedule subject to change. Please check www.woodsholefilmfestival.org for updates. struggling mother to live with her uncle in Juneau, Alaska. Although Uncle seems like a supportive caretaker and friend, Cesar’s Last Fast Saturday, July 25 the relationship turns and Mackenzie is forced to run. Trying to Documentary Feature, Richard Ray Perez (Filmmaker In make her way back to Seattle alone to find her absent mother, Residence), 2014, 100 min. Infinitely Polar Bear Mackenzie only winds up deeper in the Alaskan interior. Lost and 7:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium Narrative Feature, Maya Forbes, 2014, 88 min. Rated R. with no one else to turn to, she shadows a loner backpacker, In 1988 Cesar Chavez embarked on a water-only fast – an act Bartlett, an unlikely father figure with scars of his own. of penance, and dedication to stop growers from spraying Special Screening with Filmmaker in Residence Maya Together, they cross the wilderness and discover sanctuary in Forbes, courtesy Sony Pictures Classics. pesticides on farm workers. Structured around this fast, the the last frontier. Starring Ella Purnell, Bruce Greenwood, Brian film illustrates his devotion to social justice and uncovers an 5:00 PM, Falmouth Cinema Pub Geraghty, Teddy Kyle Smith, Nolan Gerard Funk, Ann Dowd, Diane overlooked chapter in the story of civil rights in America. 1978 - While most fathers spend their days at work, CAM STUART Farr, Joshua Leonard (Mark Ruffalo) is more likely to be found mushroom-hunting, cooking elaborate meals, or working on one of his many half- Living With the Dead completed projects. His family’s wealth keeps his family just SHORTS 1: Passions, Patterns, Narrative Feature, Christine vartoughian, 2015, 93 min. barely afloat, while Cam struggles to live with manic depres- 7:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station sion. When Cam has a manic breakdown that lands him in a & Obsessions mental hospital, his wife MAGGIE (Zoe Saldana) and their two 9:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station, 86 min. Max McLean is eighteen years old and can’t get out of bed. Since young daughters, AMELIA and FAITH, are forced to leave their Impact, a boxer’s story, Keith Rivers her boyfriend Adam killed himself over a year ago, Max has been house in the country and move into a cramped apartment in using sex, drugs, and parties to ignore the pain until one day Cambridge, where Maggie tries to find a decent job, with no Crooked Candy, Andrew Rodgers she wakes up in a hospital, haven taken a nearly lethal dose of luck. sleeping pills. While being haunted by visions of Adam, Max runs “San Quentin Inside”, S. Kramer Herzog away from home and ventures into the forest with a bizarre Broke, stressed, and overwhelmed, Maggie applies to business Spearhunter, Adam Roffman, Luke Poling but endearing boy named Ish. Starring Emily Jackson, Craig school and is accepted to Columbia University’s MBA program. Kelly, Selenis Leyva, Chris Riggi, Chris Bellant, Robert Clohessy, Seeing this as her chance to build a better life for their daugh- Cops and Robbers, Marco Ragozzino Deborah Twiss, Marc Coppola, Tanner Flood, John J Thomassen, ters, Maggie asks Cam to become the primary caregiver for Thomas Poarch, Benjamin Frankenberg, Aurora Heimbach, Cara the girls while she completes her degree in New York. After all, Seduction Theory, Steven Ascher Francis, Kristen Adele routine is what the doctor ordered and the girls miss their dad. The Bad Boy of Bowling, Bryan Storkel Cam agrees, hoping to rebuild his family. But the two spirited Screens with: girls are not interested in making things easy for him. Answers With Maggie away in New York, Cam quickly realizes that he’s in Opening Night Party Drama by Michael Goode, 2014, 8 min. over his head. Over the course of the next 18 months, as Maggie 10:30 PM, Captain Kidd rushes to complete her degree, he learns, through trial and a lot of error, how to take care of his precocious daughters as Music by Liz Frame and the Kickers well as himself. After years of struggling to find his place in the Open Tables world, Cam may finally have found where he fits in. Narrative Feature, Jack Newell, 2015, 76 min. 7:00 PM, Falmouth Academy Based on a true story, INFINITELY POLAR BEAR is a funny and Within the walls of the trendiest Chicago restaurants, behind heartbreaking portrait of the many unexpected ways in which Sunday, July 26 the closed doors of private dinner parties, and on the banks of parents and children save each other. Starring Mark Ruffalo, Zoe the Seine in Paris, OPEN TABLES explores true love, love lost and Saldana, Imogene Wolodarsky, Ashley Aufderheide, Beth Dixon, the importance of a good main course. Starring Desmin Borges, Keir Dullea. Kids’ Day Colleen Doyle, Jack Newell, Caroline Neff, Beth Lacke, Gwndolyn Lotte and the Moonstone Secret Gourvenec, TJ Jagodowski, Linda Orr, Keith Kupferer, Kate Duffy, Harry & Snowman David Pasquesi, William Prunk, Mike McNamara, Bill Arnett, Joel Heiki Ernits, Janno Poldma, Estonia, 76 min. Murray Documentary Feature, Ron Davis, 2015, 84 min. 2:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium 7:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium Whenever Lotte looks at the moon, she wonders who might Screens with: Dutch immigrant, Harry deLeyer, journeyed to the United States live there. One night, two small hooded figures try to snatch after World War II and developed a transformative relationship a magic stone, which Lotte’s uncle once brought back from a Eating Out with a broken down Amish plow horse he rescued off a slaugh- trip to the mountains. Lotte prevents the theft and in doing Drama by Al Sutton, 2013, 4 min. ter truck bound for the glue factory. Harry paid eighty dollars so discovers that the stone possesses mysterious powers. for the horse and named him Snowman. In less than two years, The people who travelled with her uncle on his earlier trip also Harry & Snowman went on to win the triple crown of show own stones like these. Determined to get to the bottom of Containment jumping, beating the nation’s blue bloods and they became the mystery, Lotte persuades her uncle to accompany her Documentary Feature, Peter Galison, Robb Moss, famous and traveled around the world together. Their chance on an adventure-filled expedition. A lovelorn musician turns meeting at a Pennsylvania horse auction saved them both and out to be the least of the problems that Lotte and her uncle 2015, 81 min. crafted a friendship that lasted a lifetime. Eighty-six year old must overcome, for the hooded figures are also hot on their 9:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium Harry tells their Cinderella love story firsthand, as he continues heels. The stones belong to them, and they must retrieve them Every nuclear weapon made, every watt of electricity produced to train on today’s show jumping circuit. before the moon fades once more. This children’s animation from a nuclear power plant leaves a trail of nuclear waste that offers a rich array of endearing characters and hilarious ideas. will last for the next four hundred generations. We face the Screens with: It celebrates imagination and the many little adventures life has problem of how to warn the far distant future of the nuclear to offer to those who are curious. waste we have buried --but how to do it? How to imagine the COWS far-distant threats to the sites, what kinds of monuments can Animation by Sandra Boynton, 2014, 4 min. be built, could stories or legends safeguard our descendants? Kissinger Twins Cinematic Filmed at the only American nuclear burial ground, at a nuclear weapons complex and in Fukushima, the film grapples with the Across the Sea Labyrinths ways people are dealing with the present problem and imagin- Narrative Feature, Esra Saydam, Nisan Dag, 2014, 102 min. Filmmakers In Residence interactive and transmedia ing the future. Part observational essay, part graphic novel, 7:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station (Subtitles) storytelling Containment explores the idea that over millennia, nothing stays put. Damla is a successful but unhappy Turkish immigrant who lives 5:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium in New York City with her husband Kevin, planning their lives as Cinematic Labyrinths, interactive and transmedia storytell- imminent parents. During her pregnancy, Damla’s ‘perfect’ ing, is a 90 minute show in which the audience is immersed in Screens with: life is haunted with her childhood memories from the summer the projects made from 2002 to 2015. Their newest project Indispensable Shift, Fukushima, Tip of the Iceberg will debut at the Woods Hole Film Festival. The viewer has total town Karaca in Turkey, where she spent all her summers before Documentary Short by Yoko Kubota, 2014 5 min. she came to New York. Damla misses her first love, Burak, freedom of navigation through the stories and their are many whom she had to leave heartbroken after moving to New York. different paths to follow, so each experience is unique. The Kiss- When Damla finds out that her cousin is selling their house inger Twins Cinematic Labyrinths, filmmakers in residence. in Karaca, she decides to visit the summer town with Kevin SHORTS 2: Life, Seriously as this is her last chance to reconcile with Burak after eight 9:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station, 89 min. years. Experiencing a turbulent time in Karaca, Damla and Burak Love Between the Covers Bis Gleich, Benjamin Wolff finally start talking again and begin to revisit their past and Documentary Feature, Laurie Kahn, 2015, 83 min. rekindle their friendship. Damla still feels uneasy because of the 5:00 PM, Falmouth Academy Maurice, Francois Jaros confrontation that she owes to Burak.