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The 31st Annual Woods Hole Film Festival

A young boy is convinced that the Devil lives in a hole SHORTS: Finding Our Way
SHORTS: Moving Forward The Devil Will Run
in his backyard. Can he find the courage to face down
his fear?
Dramatic • Noah Glenn • USA • 2021 • 11 min.
The Originals
Matty “Square” Ruggiero and his childhood friends, the
Union Street Boys, tell their story of what it was like to
grow up in South Brooklyn, where money was tight but
friendships were tighter.
Documentary • Alfie Koetter, Cristina Costantini • USA •
2022 • 10 min.
Where Land Ends
There are only 12 full-time residents living on the mile
by two-mile island of Cuttyhunk. Gwen Lynch is the only
child on the Island and the only student at the last one
room schoolhouse in Massachusetts.
30 Meetings / 30 Days Documentary • Grace McNally • USA • 2022 • 28 min. Fourth of July
After being court ordered to attend Alcoholics Anony- A young mother struggles to parent her two rambunc-
mous, Alicia reluctantly commits to going to thirty tious boys over the course of one hot, summer day.
meetings in thirty days. SHORTS: Decisions Decisions Dramatic • Major Dorfman • USA • 2021 • 12 min.
Dramatic • Duane Andersen • USA • 2022 • 20 min. More Than I Remember
Hush Fourteen-year-old Mugeni awakes to the sounds of
In public 12-year-old Martin seems like a normal smiling bombs. As her family scatters to the surrounding forests to
boy, but at home he faces uncertainty, and at times a save themselves, Mugeni finds herself completely alone.
harsh reality. With an alcoholic father, and a mother who Documentary • Amy Bench • USA/Chile • 2022 • 14 min.
barely manages to handle the situation, Martin is forced
to do what it takes to keep the family together. My Dear God
Dramatic • Emilie Beck • Norway • 2022 • 25 min. June Bell unearths the painful truth of her sister’s over-
She Dreams At Sunrise dose and finds the closure she didn’t know she needed.
Dramatic • Tara Sheffer • USA • 2021 • 13 min.
An elderly woman escapes her mundane reality
through her dreams, while her great-nephew helps North Star
reconnect her to what she’s really missing. A rural rancher and his ailing husband, struggling against
Animation • Camrus Johnson • USA • 2021 • 11 min. poverty and isolation, are forced to make a heartbreaking
Strawberry Shake decision in order to preserve the dignity of their marriage
in the face of mounting pressures from relatives.
A troubled young mother tries to win back her two kids Dramatic • P.J. Palmer • USA • 2022 • 30 min.
with a pet rabbit and pink dessert. All That Glitters
Dramatic • Dianne Bellino • USA • 2020 • 16 min. A desperate teenager snatches a rich woman’s hand- The Sea of Hope
The Principal’s Assembly bag, but in a bizarre twist of fate discovers her life is not A refugee father and son’s dangerous sea journey to
escape their war-torn country.
as rosy as it seems and that they have more in common
When a student passes away tragically over the sum- than he realizes. Animation • Walid salhab • UK/Lebanon • 2022 • 7 min.
mer, Principal Jane Marino is faced with the tough chal-
lenge of giving a speech to the students during the ‘first Dramatic • Dan Bronzite • UK • 2021 • 24 min. WanderLand
day of school’ assembly. Bea, Seriously A young girl attempts to navigate the seafront on the
Dramatic • Jordan Ancel • USA • 2022 • 19 min. Bea shows up at her mother’s house to decide what to search for her missing alcoholic mother over the course
do about an unexpected pregnancy. of one night.
Dramatic • Hanna Gray Organschi • USA • 2021 • 10 min. Dramatic • Nicole Pott • UK • 2022 • 15 min.
SHORTS: The Neighborhood En Avant
After being cast in the lead role of a professional ballet,
Ragan is pressured by the ballet’s director to lighten her
skin with make-up, in order to be consistent with the
white dancers on stage.
Dramatic • Sarah Jean Williams • USA • 2022 • 13 min.
Sinking Ships
Sara endured many years in a relationship full of control
and violence. As she and her family go on vacation, an
opportunity to break away suddenly presents itself.
Dramatic • Andreas Kessler • Germany • 2020 • 22 min.
The Dress
A young women under house arrest, decides to to use
her only day-off and change her appearance drastically,
for the last chance and “perfect date” with someone she
loves the most.
Lalito 10 Dramatic • Marie Karkashadze • USA • 2022 • 9 min.
When COVID-19 forced his school to close and remote Your Mountain Is Waiting
learning proved impossible, a teacher in Guatemala What happens when you stop listening to your intuition,
built a classroom on wheels to bring education directly and the seemingly irrational steps it can take to learn to
to his students. trust your gut and instincts once again.
Documentary • Jordan Matthew Horowitz • USA • 2022 • Animation • Hannah Jacobs • UK • 2021 • 8 min.
17 min.
Powers
When a budding artist in her 60s hangs joyful sculp-
tures on telephone poles, she comes into her own and
makes peace with her troubled past.
Documentary • Paige Morrow Kimball • USA • 2022 • 24 min.

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