Shorts

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Fri Oct 1  4:00pm Blueprint KINGSTONSat Oct 27:00pm [DRIVE-IN: 1ST] CONVERSATIONS WITH A WHALE

Directed by Anna Samo Germany / 2020 / 8:45 minutes A love letter to artists, their art, and its audience.

BEAUTIFUL

Directed by Mulan Fu USA, China / 2020 / 5:49 minutes A teenage girl reckons with love and loss as her mother battles a dangerous disease.

DEMI’S PANIC

Directed by Bill Plympton USA / 2021 / 9:40 minutes A young NYC Latina deals with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

NUEVO RICO

Directed by Kristian Mercado Figueroa USA, Puerto Rico / 2021 / 16:00 minutes Nuevo Rico is a bold venture in creating LatinxFuturism.

LAUNCH

Directed by Leah Shore USA / 2021 / 3:00 minutes Reflectors placed on the moon 35 years ago help to explain physical laws of the universe.

THERE YOU ARE

Directed by Rui Huang USA / 2021 / 6:00 minutes In my heart, there you are.

YAY

Directed by Anne Isensee USA, Germany / 2021 / 2:39 minutes Friendship, collaboration, hope, children, trippy, adventure.

FALL OF THE IBIS KING

Directed by Mikai Geronimo, Josh O’Caoimh Ireland / 2021 / 10:30 minutes The antagonist of a dark opera becomes unsettled following the unlikely return of the former lead actor.

MY AUNTIES

Directed by Richard O’Connor USA / 2020 / 2:34 minutes Stefan Lynch remembers the community of gay men who helped raise him, and the lessons learned about surviving the AIDS epidemic together.

COCKPERA

Directed by Kata Gugic Croatia / 2020 / 4:27 minutes Just a regular cock fight.

HORACIO

Directed by Caroline Cherrier France / 2021/ 10:03 minutes Guillaume kills Horacio “Because he was shouting too loud.”

THERE IN SPIRIT

Directed by Beck Underwood USA / 2020 / 4.51 minutes In a non-distinct period in time, at a table in a barn, masked figures commune over simple chores and games.

THIS JUST SPEAKS TO ME

Directed by Robin Sindler, Joy Buran, Noelle Melody USA / 2020 / 3:11 minutes A story inspired by some uplifting themes from the very uncertain times of covid, highlighting quotes from Hoda Kotb’s book, “This Just Speaks to Me.”

FAMILY MATTERS [99 MINUTES]

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Sun Oct 3  10:00am

THE BLACK KITE

Directed by I-hui Lee Taiwan / 2021 / 23:30 minutes Told through the lens of a seven-year-old girl and her relationship with her father. Complexities of suffering and surviving under totalitarianism.

AL-SIT

Directed by Suzannah Mirghani Sudan, Qatar / 2020 / 20:00 minutes A thread breaks at its weakest point.

TALLAHASSEE

Directed by Darine Hotait USA / 2021 / 22:17 minutes A glimpse into the struggles of mental illness, an issue often silenced in Arab culture.

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FISH TO THE LAKE

Directed by Youngdae Lee UK / 2021 / 9:24 minutes People always see what they want to see, and always think what they imagined.

UNTIL

Directed by Kyra Sedgwick , Kevin Bacon USA / 20201 / 10:45 minutes A couple deals with loss.

ARE YOU STILL THERE?

Directed by Rayka Zehtabchi, Sam Davis USA / 2020 / 15:01 minutes A dead car battery leaves Safa stranded alone in a strip mall parking lot.

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Sat Oct 2  6:45pm DYE RED

Directed by Vittoria Campaner USA, Italy / 2020 / 12:45 minutes Celeste and Aurora have lived together for some time. A dark but graceful slice-of-life look at their relationship.

SIZE UP

Directed by Rigo Garay US / 2020 / 15:35 minutes Noel must choose between revenge or righteousness, throughout the course of a single night.

INHERITANCE

Directed by Annalise Lockhart USA / 2021 / 14:02 minutes A Black family strives to shield its rural Vermont home from the gaze of the spirits that surround it.

FILM SCHOOL SHORTS [93 MINUTES]

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Sat Oct 2  10:00am

THE SETTLER

Directed by Henry Nelson USA / 2021 / 9:27 minutes A lone settler tends to an an empty town.

LA MUJER DE HECTOR (Hector’s Woman)

Directed by Ricardo Varona Puerto Rico / 2021 / 17:37 minutes A year after Hurricane María, a young mother tries to find herself as she wrestles with her responsibilities to her daughter and incarcerated husband.

LITTLE SKY

Directed by Jess X. Snow USA, Canada / 2021 / 13:48 minutes Little Sky is a film about finding the chosen family who sees us when our blood family cannot.

DREAMWORLD: Pine Bush, NY

Directed by Rose Felice USA / 2021 / 17:52 minutes In the UFO capital of the East Coast, a generation of believers still searches for answers.

LEAD ME HOME

Directed by Julien Hosmalin France / 2021 / 20:31 minutes Monsters are less dangerous than the ones who follow them. NOTE: this film contains violent content.

VICTIM #6

Directed by Nancy Menagh USA / 2020 / 21:38 minutes Be careful who you leave with.

THE CRIMINALS

Directed by Serhat Karaaslan France, Romania, Turkey / 2020 / 23:46 minutes Late at night in a small Turkish town, a young couple tries to find a hotel room to spend the night together.

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THE BINDING OF ITZIK

Directed by Anika Benkov USA / 2020 / 17:20 minutes In his online search for bookbinding materials, a middle-aged Hasidic bookbinder responds to a Craigslist ad offering binding lessons for submissive women.

UNMOTHERED

Directed by Urvashi Pathania India / 2020 / 17:55 minutes When Priyanka, a rebellious American, goes back to India to disperse her mother’s ashes, she discovers her funny family has kept a serious secret..

GENERATION 328

Directed by Nika Nikanava Belarus, USA / 2020 / 18:35 minutes A group of mothers defy Europe’s last dictatorship, fighting to free their children from draconian sentences in brutal Belarusian prisons.

IRL: THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE [67 MINUTES]

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WOODSTOCK Community Center  Sat Oct 2  4:00pm Explore the untold story of the last shame and blame disease, obesity, from the Deep South to a circus tent, the backseat of an Uber to backstage with the world’s greatest stand-ups. An experiential window into one of the most misunderstood human conditions.

PRESENTED BY THE CREATIVE COALITION

YOU JUST BIG BONED

Directed by Kelly Jenrette USA / 2020 / 13:58 minutes A young Black girl’s journey to combat obesity and free herself from her family’s “big boned” label.

ST. NICK

Directed by Greg DePaul USA / 2021 / 6:20 minutes An obese Uber driver and his empathic passenger.

[FAT] LIFE

Directed by David Gallo USA / 2021 / 24:37 minutes A silent comedy about a loving couple’s struggles with obesity until their desire for a child inspires them to get treatment.

UNTITLED WEIGHT AND COMEDY PROJECT

Directed by Stephen Kessler USA / 2021 / 12:58 minutes The social and political implications of jokes about weight.

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Fri Oct 1  7:00pm CHERRY COLA

Directed by Amandine Thomas USA / 2020 / 12:15 minutes When Sherri gets arrested for shoplifting from work, she needs to find money for legal fees.

THE COCKTAIL PARTY

Directed by Jessica Sanders USA / 2021 / 5:00 minutes A cocktail party turns into an unexpected martial arts action film.

A PUFF BEFORE DYING

Directed by Michael Reich, Mike Pinkney USA / 2020 / 10:00 minutes When marionettes mix with marijuana, a joy ride becomes their last ride. STILL STANDING

Directed by Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonough USA / 2021 / 26:39 minutes Two 80-somethings discover the healing power of laughter.

HELEN’S NOSE

Directed by Andrea Rosen USA / 2021 / 10:27 minutes Helen feels invisible until she grows an extra proboscis. CUPIDS

Directed by Zoey Martinson USA / 2021 / 10:00 minutes From the bodega man to the the principal, nobody is off limits as a possible courtship.

BREAK UP, BABY

Directed by Fareeha Khan, Alec Cohen USA / 2021 / 12:30 minutes Aries Sun, Cancer Moon, Dumbass Rising

GIRL WITH A THERMAL GUN

Directed by Rongfei Guo China / 2020 / 11:36 minutes A grocery delivery man grows tired and lonely — until a thermal gun is pressed to his forehead.

9 THE UNCONSCIOUS CONSCIOUS [95 MINUTES]

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Sun Oct 3  4:00pm POPS

Directed by Lewis Rose UK, France / 2021 / 19:54 minutes How would you react if your father’s last wish was a little bit out there?

FEELING THROUGH

Directed by Doug Roland USA / 2020 / 18:17 minutes The unlikely connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man

THE TREES REMEMBER - MAINTENANCE

Directed by Angela Tucker USA / 2020 / 12:17 minutes A film from a series that shows Black women of different ages growing and thriving in the outdoors.

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MARBLEHEAD

Directed by Kevin Walker, Jack Auen USA / 2021 / 10:23 minutes A cryptic man’s little life. He lives amongst the graves at New Redeemer Cemetery.

DUET

Directed by Mika Orr Israel, USA / 2020 / 21:30 minutes One fateful day in the lives of 8-year-old girls, inspired by a true story.

THE TRUCKER

Directed by Raven Johnson USA / 2021 / 14:00 minutes An immigrant truck driver makes his way home across the American Midwest.

9 WOMEN ON TOP [95 MINUTES]

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Fri Oct 1  10:00am GOD’S DAUGHTER DANCES

Directed by Sungbin Buyn South Korea / 2020 / 24:54 minutes Korean with English Subtitles A transgender female dancer, Shin-mi, gets a call to attend for the Military Service Examination. BLAME THEM

Directed by Eliza McKenna US / 2021 / 10:52 minutes After learning she has chlamydia, a high school student enlists a friend to help call the boys who may have infected her.

DO YOU THINK JESUS LIKED HARD BOILED EGGS

Directed by Ben Kujawski USA / 2020 /17:51 minutes The lord provides...

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WE WON’T FORGET

Directed by Lucas Elliot Eberl, Edgar Morais USA, Portugal / 2021 / 13:45 minutes A woman’s frustrations boil to the surface while hosting a party for her friends, culminating in a public freakout that turns into collective hysteria. WIGGLE ROOM

Directed by Sam Guest, Julia Baylis USA / 20201 / 14:00 minutes Determined to save her wheelchair ramp from repossession, Daisy confronts the shady insurance agent who owes her money. UNDERCUT

Directed by Kelly Pike USA / 2020 /14:00 minutes High school female athletes become unlikely teammates in the wake of unspoken trauma.

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Sun Oct 3  1:00pm SUPERMALO

Directed by Matthew Seger Cuba / 2021 / 15:00 minutes Cuban street artists are having their moment. Fabian is one of the movement’s fearless and prolific leaders. You cannot walk for more than a few blocks without seeing his character, the Supermalo or his signature 2+2=5? painted on the crumbling walls of Havana.

RESURRECTION! Airto Moreira & the Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Directed by Dale Djerassi USA / 2021 / 20:46 minutes This is music as medicine for the soul!

IDOLIZED

Directed by Steven Ross USA / 2021 / 9:56 minutes A story of where cosplay begins and ends.

SHOOT FROM THE HEART

Directed by Joan Churchill & Alan Barker USA / 2021 / 25:15 minutes A rollicking evening with Haskell Wexler, D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus, as seen through the lens of Joan Churchill.

SOCIAL DIALOGUES [95 MINUTES]

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Fri Oct 1  1:00pm OCTOBER 27TH, 2020

Directed by Hannah Price USA / 2021 / 16:00 minutes October 27, 2020 was the second night of protests in Philadelphia over the killing of Walter Wallace, Jr. HUNGER WARD

Directed by Skye Fitzgerald USA,Yemen / 2020 / 40:00 minutes On the frontlines of famine in Yemen.

THE BLACK DISQUISITION

Directed by Quincy G. Ledbetter USA / 2021 / 10:07 minutes A film about the conversation that all Black parents must eventually have with their children.

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THE BOX

Directed by Shal Ngo & James Burns USA / 2020 / 16:19 minutes A documentary hybrid about solitary confinement.

WHAT YOU’LL REMEMBER

Directed by Erika Cohn USA / 2021 / 12:58 minutes Home is not a building.

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS [89 MINUTES]

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Sat Oct 2  1:00pm

THE BEAUTY PRESIDENT

Directed by Whitney Skauge USA / 2021 / 10:00 minutes “If a bad actor can be president, why not a good drag queen?” ÁGUILAS/EAGLES

Directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Co-Director - Maite Zubiaurre USA / 2021 / 14:00 minutes Every bone has a story.

GIVE AND TAKE

Directed by Gareth Smith USA / 2021 / 11:29 minutes An intimate glimpse into the community fridge movement in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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KINDERLAND

Directed by Amy Grappell USA / 2021 / 32:00 minutes A century-old rivalry between two Jewish summer camps and their attempt at a newfound alliance. DESDE QUE LLEGASTE, MI CORAZÓN DEJÓ DE PERTENECERME (Since you arrived my heart stopped belonging to me)

Directed by Erin Semine Kökdil USA / 2021 / 20:33 minutes Central American mothers journey along Mexico’s migrant trail in search of their missing loved ones.