Schedule :

October 9, 2023

6:00pm : Best of the Woods Hole Film Festival : Patrol - Cotuit Center for the Arts

PATROL, feature documentary by Camilo de Castro and Brad Allgood, Nicaragua, 81 mins. 2023, winner, Jury award, Best Feature Documentary

Synopsis: An emerging crisis in one of the last remaining rainforests in Central America ignites a heroic mission in PATROL. When illegal cattle ranchers decimate large swaths of rainforest, indigenous rangers join forces with an American conservationist and undercover journalists to expose the dark world of conflict beef.

Monday, October 9th, 6 pm

Tickets: $16 per screening, $12 members

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8:00pm : Best of the Woods Hole Film Festival: Shorts 1 - Cotuit Center for the Arts

Award-winning shorts, drama, comedy, documentary and animation

DECIDING VOTE, short documentary by Jeremy Workman and Robert Lyons, USA, 20 mins. 2023, winner Jury award, Best Short Documentary

Synopsis: 50 years ago, a now-forgotten New York assemblyman cast a single tie-breaking vote that legalized abortion in New York and laid the groundwork for Roe v Wade.

DRAGON POETS OF BOSTON, short comedy by Gordon LePage, USA, 9 mins, 2023, runner up Audience Award, Best Short Comedy

Synopsis: Two underemployed dragons have a revelation when they audition for a podcast.

MANO, short animation by Brittany Biggs, USA, 10 mins, 2023, winner Audience Award, Best Animated Short

Synopsis: Man? is a short, animated film illustrating the human impact on sharks and coral reefs, as seen through the eyes of a Tiger Shark in Hawaiian waters over hundreds of millions of years.

SEEDS OF CHANGE, short documentary by Maximilian Armstrong, USA, 27 mins., winner Audience Award, Best Short Documentary

Synopsis: An organic Farmer in Maine sets out to transform the prison food system.

THE BOND, short drama by Jahmil Eady, USA, 16 mins., runner up Audience Award, Best Short Drama

Synopsis: Pregnant and incarcerated, Aria fights for her most precious connection against a system designed to isolate her.

THE VACATION, short comedy by Jarreau Carrillo, USA, 10 mins., winner Jury Award, Best Short Comedy

Synopsis: A Black man attempts to take a vacation.

Monday, October 9th, 8 pm

Tickets: $16 per screening, $12 members

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October 10, 2023

6:00pm : Best of the Woods Hole Film Festival: Shorts 2 - Cotuit Center for the Arts

Award-winning shorts, drama, comedy, documentary and animation

CLAM SHACK BLUES, short comedy by Matt Ott, USA, 12 mins, 2nd runner up Jury Award, Best Short Comedy

Synopsis: Two aging New England clammers bicker about how to live out their twilight years, with only one of the brothers willing to risk life and limb on a dream.

CONFESSIONS, short comedy by Stephanie Kaznocha, USA, 11 mins., winner, audience award, Best Short Comedy Synopsis: After the death of a friend, two nuns in their golden years contemplate what their future holds. One confession leads to another and before they know it, they're embarking on an adventure.

FOREIGN UNCLE, short drama by Sining Xiang, USA/China, 20 mins, Director's Choice Award, Best Youth Actor in a Short Film.

Synopsis: Sining brings his American boyfriend, Patrick, back to China to visit his family. The family’s attitude towards Patrick changes after Sining inadvertently comes out to them, except for Sining’s 7-year-old nephew, Naonao.

MISOPHONIA, short animation by Linda Wingerter, USA, 9 mins., runner up Jury Award, Best Animated Short

Synopsis: A quiet bus ride turns into an aural nightmare for a book-reading commuter. With every stop the bus fills with people and sounds, becoming a chaotic cacophony joyful to everyone but her. Only when the bus reaches her seaside destination do we discover she is not the average commuter.

NAKAM, short drama by Andreas Kessler, Germany, 34 mins., audience award, Best Short Drama

Synopsis: Ukraine 1942. Twelve year old violinist Mitka plays in a Ukrainian restaurant with pianist Yegor. Nobody knows that Mitka is part of a Jewish partisan movement. When an opportunity arises to execute an attack on SS officers in the restaurant, Mitka puts his only friend Yegor at the risk of death.

Tuesday, October 10th, 6 pm

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8:00pm : Best of the Woods Hole Film Festival: Lakelands - Cotuit Center for the Arts

LAKELANDS, feature narrative by Robert Higgins and Patrick McGivney, Ireland, 99 mins., winner, Jury Award, Best Dramatic Feature

Synopsis: Lakelands takes place in a small town in the midlands of Ireland – the sort of place where Gaelic football is religion and identity is defined by what one can do on the pitch. The film tells the story of Cian Reilly, a young Gaelic footballer who struggles to come to terms with a career-ending injury after a violent attack on a night out.

At the same time, he begins a friendship with Grace, a nurse who is back in town to look after her ailing father. Cian tries to find meaning in other areas of life, but the pull from the team and pressure from the town is too strong. He soon finds himself risking it all by returning to football against the doctor’s orders and considering seeking retribution against his assailants. The film depicts youth culture in the midlands that hasn’t been seen in Irish cinema ever before.

Tuesday, October 10th, 8 pm

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October 11, 2023

6:00pm : Best of the Woods Hole Film Festival: Dusty & Stones - Cotuit Center for the Arts

DUSTY & STONES, feature documentary by Jesse Rudoy, USA, 83 mins., runner up, Jury Award, Best Feature Documentary

Synopsis: Dusty & Stones intimately chronicles the remarkable ride of cousins Gazi “Dusty” Simelane and Linda “Stones” Msibi, a determined duo of struggling country singers from the tiny African Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) who long for their big break. When they are unexpectedly invited to record their songs in Nashville and to compete in a Texas battle of the bands, Dusty and Stones embark on their long-awaited first pilgrimage to the ancestral heart of country music. Over a momentous ten-day road trip through the American South, Dusty and Stones bring their music to life in a top Nashville recording studio, explore the storied locales of their favorite country songs, and excitedly engage with the culture they’ve long felt part of from afar. But this sense of kinship is abruptly thrown into question when Dusty and Stones arrive in the small town of Jefferson, Texas to compete in the battle of the bands. There, the hostile leader of the local backing band threatens to derail their debut American performance. As their family and friends back home wait for good news, a shell-shocked Dusty and Stones take the stage and fight to bring home an award for Swaziland.

Wednesday, October 11th, 6 pm

Tickets: $16 per screening, $12 members

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8:00pm : Best of the Woods Hole Film Festival: 26.2 to Life - Cotuit Center for the Arts

26.2 TO LIFE, feature documentary by Christine Yoo, USA, 88 mins., winner audience award, Best of the Fest

Synopsis: Every year, the San Quentin Marathon gathers crowds of participants for its challenging 26.2 mile course. Some run for life, some for freedom, some to prove how much they’ve transformed. For all the incarcerated members of the prison's 1000 mile club, running is a way to transcend prison politics and be defined by more than just their past crimes.

Wednesday, October 11th, 8 pm

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Date : October 9, 2023 - October 11, 2023

Location :

Cotuit Center for the Arts

4404 Falmouth Road

Cotuit, MA 02635

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