BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Woodstock Film Festival 2025 Unofficial Calendar//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Woodstock Film Festival 2025 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fatal Watch DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T211500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c481d44a5a549b8e8a9de9@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Join us for a pre-festival Kick-off Tuesday October 14th at Wh ite Feather Farm for a screening ofFatal Watch\, followed by a Q&A with di rectorsMark BenjaminandKatie Carpenter\,moderated by documentary filmmaker Pamela Yates.\n\nDead men tell the ocean’s secrets. Four marine observer s vanish at sea under suspicious circumstances. This investigation uncover s why. From Fiji to Ghana\, Spain to the US\, this film reveals the underb elly of the global tuna trade\, where profit outweighs human life and envi ronmental destruction is buried beneath the waves.\n\n🔗 https://woodsto ckfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c481d44a5a549b8e8a9de9 LOCATION:Broken Wing Barn at White Feather Farm URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c481d44a5a 549b8e8a9de9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Barry Feinstein Photography Exhibition DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T130000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68e7d2cdba016233ce58a2c7@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Barry Feinstein(1931–2011) was an American photographer\, fi lmmaker\, and graphic designer whose work helped define the look of Hollyw ood and of rock-and-roll. Starting as a studio photographer in the 1950s\, he created striking portraits of stars like Marlene Dietrich\, Judy Garla nd\, and Steve McQueen.\n\nIn the 1960s and ’70s\, Feinstein became one of music’s most celebrated photographers\, shooting more than 500 album covers—including Bob Dylan’sThe Times They Are a-Changin’\, Janis Jo plin’sPearl\, and George Harrison’sAll Things Must Pass.His images of Dylan’s 1966 UK tour\, later featured inReal Momentsand Martin Scorsese ’sNo Direction Home\, remain among the most intimate and iconic in music history.\n\nFeinstein also worked in film\, contributing toMonterey Pop\, You Are What You Eat\, andEasy Rider\,where his handheld style broke new ground. His photography has been exhibited worldwide\, including at London ’s National Portrait Gallery.\n\nThis Woodstock Film Festival exhibition celebrates Feinstein’s timeless vision—images that go beyond celebrit y to capture the soul of artists\, actors\, and eras.\n\nAlong with the exhibition\, prints of the photos will be available for purchase with 50% of the proceeds going towards the Woodstock Film Festival.\n\n🔗 https: //woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68e7d2cdba016233ce58a2 c7 LOCATION:Hospitality Lounge at Woodstock Artists Association and Museum + Bearsville Theater lobby URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68e7d2cdba01 6233ce58a2c7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Life Illuminated DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T190000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a05@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Tasha Van Zandt.\n\nAfter a lifetime of unve iling the deep sea's most elusive secrets\, pioneering marine biologist Dr . Edie Widder descends 3\,300 feet into the ocean's depths on her most gro undbreaking mission yet: to capture a bioluminescent phenomenon that could transform our understanding of life on Earth.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfi lmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a05 LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a05 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Blue Moon DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T191500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b9b@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:In Richard Linklater's newest film\, on the evening of March 3 1\, 1943\, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) confronts his shat tered self-confidence in Sardi's bar as his former collaborator Richard Ro dgers (Andrew Scott) celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking h itOklahoma!\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?even tId=68c821f8753473748e277b9b LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b9b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Arco DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T193000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a9c@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:In 2075\, a ten-year-old girl\, Iris\, witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. It’s Arco. He comes from an idy llic far future where time travel is possible. Iris shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time.\n\nCourtesy of Neon.\ n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8 753473748e277a9c LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a9c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A BREAK IN THE RAIN DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T210000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:689f737c5e5af7929a09a684@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Join us for the World Premiere of locally shot film A BREAK IN THE RAIN starring Michael O’Keefe\,followed by a Q&A\, and then a live performance of original music featured in the film by “The Catriona Wals h Band” with Elizabeth A. Davis\, Will Chase\, and Don Scardino\, and Ne w York musicians John Miller (bass)\, Larry Saltzman (electric guitar)\, A ndy Ezrin (piano)\, and Clint DeGanon (drums).\n\nPlease note: Tickets for this event are sold exclusively through Eventbrite and are separate from our main ticketing website. While this is a considered a special event\, o fficial Woodstock Film Festival passes will still be honored at the door.\ n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=689f737c 5e5af7929a09a684 LOCATION:Colony URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=689f737c5e5a f7929a09a684 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:River of Grass DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T211500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c481d44a5a549b8e8a9dee@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Sasha Wortzel.\n\nInspired by the writings o f Marjorie Stoneman Douglas\, an environmentalist from the mid 20th centur y who was way before her time\, this meditative documentary explores the d elicate\, endangered ecosystem of the Everglades – known poetically as t he “River of Grass.” –Adam Schartoff\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfe stival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c481d44a5a549b8e8a9dee LOCATION:Broken Wing Barn at White Feather Farm URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c481d44a5a 549b8e8a9dee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Honky Tonkin' in Kingston DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T213000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68a489b0c66525a82b7e64a7@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Capturing the popularity and spirit of Honky Tonk Wednesdays h eld at the Kingston VFW\, we’re featuring the world premiere of HONKY TO NK WEDNESDAYS directed by Al Markman and OPRYLAND USA: A CIRCLE BROKEN dir ected by Brandon Vestal.\n\nFollowing the screenings\, Honky Tonk Wednesda ys co-founder and Texas Steel Guitar Hall of Fame inductee Cindy Cashdolla r and co-founder of The Lovin’ Spoonful musician John Sebastian will par ticipate in a Q&A. The night continues with two-steppin’ to vinyl countr y classics spun by DJ Pretty Good.\n\nAbout DJ Pretty Good:\n\nCountry music lover turned DJ hailing from Austin Texas\, playing everything from obscure tracks to hits. I started collecting vinyl for fun and out of fear of losing access to the songs I loved the most. As my collection grows\, so does my love for all branches of the genre and the history behind it. I ’m absolutely honored to play my records for you!\n\n🔗 https://woodst ockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68a489b0c66525a82b7e64a7 LOCATION:Assembly URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68a489b0c665 25a82b7e64a7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T214500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68b9a1d69dda499e9b291c09@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with Dayna Goldfine (Producer/Director) and Dan Geller (Pr oducer/Director).\n\nBlending rock documentary and musical memoir\,Everywh ere Mantells the extraordinary life story of Peter Asher – pop star\, pr oducer\, manager\, and confidant to legends from Paul McCartney to James T aylor\, Linda Ronstadt\, Carole King\, and many more – across six decade s at the heart of rock and roll history.\n\nCourtesy of Film Collaborative .\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68b9a1 d69dda499e9b291c09 LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68b9a1d69dda 499e9b291c09 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sentimental Value DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T220000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277ab0@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World) has led Norway ’s global cinema wave. His Cannes Grand Prix winnerSentimental Valuereun ites him with Renata Reinsve in a father-daughter drama about art\, memory \, and family wounds\, exploring where life ends and creation begins. – Amir Bogen\n\nCourtesy of Neon.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/ 2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277ab0 LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277ab0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Testament of Ann Lee DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T220000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68d5aaeb65f8244782d9315f@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:OPENING NIGHT FILM. Q&A with director Mona Fastvold\, star Ama nda Seyfried\, and choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall.\n\nAn epic fable insp ired by the life of Ann Lee\, the founder of the Shakers\, a radical relig ious movement that began in the late 1700s.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmf estival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68d5aaeb65f8244782d9315f LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68d5aaeb65f8 244782d9315f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Out Standing DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T130000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277aa1@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with writer/director Mélanie Charbonneau and producer Jul ia Rosenberg.\n\nBased on a true story\, a determined young woman shatters military barriers as Canada's first female infantry officer — only to f ace her fiercest battles within her own ranks.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfi lmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277aa1 LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277aa1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:THE BEND IN THE RIVER DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T131500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c9d23dad3c42bd27330630@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:In The Bend in the River\, filmmaker Robb Moss reunites with t he river guides he first filmed in the ’70s\, now in their seventies. Ex ecutive produced by Joel Coen and Frances McDormand\, this powerful chroni cle contrasts youthful freedom with aging’s realities\, offering a raw\, unforgettable meditation on resilience and time’s relentless current. —Jessica Edwards\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-even ts?eventId=68c9d23dad3c42bd27330630 LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c9d23dad3c 42bd27330630 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holding Liat DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T133000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a0a@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Brandon Kramer. Moderated by Ondi Timoner.\n \nDuring the October 7th attack on Israel\, Liat and her husband Aviv are kidnapped by Hamas. This is the gripping and beautiful story of a family's struggle to win their return\, while grappling with their own fight for p eace for those on both sides. —Sabina Barach'\n\nCourtesy of The Film Collaborative\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?e ventId=68c821f8753473748e277a0a LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a0a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Outdoor School DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T160000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277aa6@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with Director Ime Etuk\, Executive Producer Vin Shambry\, and cast memberJahi Di’allo Winston.\n\nBased upon the Moth story of how 12-year-old Melvin Shambry\, now an actor and published writer\, survived his own childhood on the hardscrabble streets of 1990s Portland\, Oregon\ , a single week in the wilderness at the real-life Outdoor School transfor med his life. —Peter Wortmann\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/ 2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277aa6 LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277aa6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Train Dreams DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T160000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277bb9@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Joel Edgerton stars in Train Dreams\, a soulful period drama s et amid America's western expansion. As he lays railroad tracks\, he build s friendships\, love\, and family while enduring hardship and loss. Clint Bentley channels classic Hollywood in his Sundance standout\, supported by powerful performances by Felicity Jones\, William H. Macy\, and Clifton C ollins Jr. —Amir Bogen\n\nCourtesy of Netflix.\n\n🔗 https://woodst ockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277bb9 LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277bb9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Come See Me In The Good Light DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T163000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a19@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Ryan White.\n\nWinner of the Festival Favori te Award at this year's Sundance\, this extraordinary story follows much-c elebrated non-binary poet Andrea Gibson as they battle ovarian cancer toge ther with their wife\, told with a deft and kind eye into this intimate an d heartbreaking world. —Sabina Barach\n\nCourtesy of Apple TV+\n\n🔗 h ttps://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748 e277a19 LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a19 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Chef's Choice DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T183000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68acbc709ecfba6af5eca786@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:With Q&A\n\nEntrusting. A thematically-diverse collection of n arrative and documentary films.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/ 2025-all-events?eventId=68acbc709ecfba6af5eca786 LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acbc709ecf ba6af5eca786 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IDIOTKA DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T184500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277aab@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Nastasya Popov\, producer Camila Mendes\, st ars Anna Baryshnikov and Nerses Stamos.\n\nFacing eviction\, Margarita – Depop “seller\,” hustler\, and fashion maven – turns her chaotic li fe into content\, staring us down as if daring us to root for her. In this electric satire of reality TV and self‑mythmaking\, the question isn’ t if she’ll win\, but how far she’ll go. –Monet Massac\n\n🔗 https ://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277 aab LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277aab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mr. Scorsese DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T190000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277ba0@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Followed by a conversation with its acclaimed director Rebecca Miller\, executive producers Damon Cardasis and Cindy Tolan\, and editor David Bartner.\n\nThe first two episodes of the upcoming special 5-part do cumentary series explores the incredible life and award-winning work of le gendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese\, a visionary who redefined filmmaking\, followed by a conversation with its acclaimed director Rebecca Miller and executive producers Damon Cardasis and Cindy Tolan.With exclusive access to Scorsese’s private archives\, the documentary series is anchored by e xtensive conversations with the filmmaker himself and interviews with frie nds\, family and creative collaborators.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfest ival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277ba0 LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277ba0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Concessions DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T191500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b2d@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with writer/director Mas Bouzidi\, cast members Rob Riorda n\, Jonathan Lorenzo Price\, Lana Rockwell\, and Volkan Eryaman. Introduce d by Max Madsen.\n\nAs the beloved Royal Alamo Cinema closes its doors for good\, jaded staff\, eccentric patrons\, and one unhinged manager stumble through one last night at the movies — grappling with busted dreams\, b ad popcorn\, and hard goodbyes. Featuring Michael Madsen in one of his last roles.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?even tId=68c821f8753473748e277b2d LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b2d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ask E. Jean DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T193000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a14@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Ivy Meeropol and E. Jean Carroll. Moderated by Sheila Nevins.\n\n\n\nE. Jean Carroll's sharp wit meets steely resol ve in this riveting portrait of the only woman to beat Donald Trump in cou rt. Ivy Meeropol's Ask E. Jean fuses outrage\, humor\, and resilience\, ch arting Carroll's transformation from advice columnist to fearless icon. —Jessica Edwards\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-even ts?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a14 LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a14 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Arrest The Midwife DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T193000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b73@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Elaine Epstein and producer Robin Hessman.\n \nWhen trusted midwives are arrested in a tight-knit Amish and Mennonite e nclave\, a quiet community is thrust into turmoil. With their way of life under threat\, these women — once expected to stay silent — emerge as unexpected activists\, defying tradition and fighting for justice.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534737 48e277b73 LOCATION:Upstate Midtown URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b73 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T210000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c43c31e6b67ad85b3aa097@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with Dayna Goldfine (Producer/Director) and Dan Geller (Pr oducer/Director).\n\nBlending rock documentary and musical memoir\,Everywh ere Mantells the extraordinary life story of Peter Asher – pop star\, pr oducer\, manager\, and confidant to legends from Paul McCartney to James T aylor\, Linda Ronstadt\, Carole King\, and many more – across six decade s at the heart of rock and roll history.\n\nPreceded by the short film OH YEAH.\n\nCourtesy of Film Collaborative.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmf estival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c43c31e6b67ad85b3aa097 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c43c31e6b6 7ad85b3aa097 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SEEDS DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T211500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c481d44a5a549b8e8a9df3@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Brittany Shyne and producers Sabrina Schmidt Gordon & Danielle Varga\n\nExploring African American centennial farmers in the rural South with intertwining storylines\, this Sundance US Documen tary Award winner is a portrait of resilience and legacy shown through obs ervational filmmaking\, revealing how cultivating land is a radical act of hope. –Jessica Edwards\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-a ll-events?eventId=68c481d44a5a549b8e8a9df3 LOCATION:Broken Wing Barn at White Feather Farm URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c481d44a5a 549b8e8a9df3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Film School Shorts DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T213000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68adc1f50145ff59e28b061e@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Finely-crafted and distinctive narrative and documentary short s from up and coming visionary film school students.\n\n🔗 https://woods tockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68adc1f50145ff59e28b061e LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68adc1f50145 ff59e28b061e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Secret Agent DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T213000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277ab5@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Kleber Mendonça Filho’s political thriller is set in 1970s Brazil during the dictatorship. Leading actor Wagner Moura (Civil War) shi nes as a disgraced engineer who returns to his hometown\, Recife\, to see his son and confront a corrupt establishment that ruined his career. This historical drama won Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes. –Amir Bogen \n\nCourtesy of Neon.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-al l-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277ab5 LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277ab5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Comparsa DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T214500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b78@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with directors Vickie Curtis & Doug Anderson\, screenwrite rs Lesli Canela Pérez & Lupe Pérez. Moderated by Pamela Yates.\n\nAfter 41 girls die in a fire at a state-run safe house\, teenage sisters Lesli a nd Lupe take action. In Ciudad Peronia\, Guatemala\, they ignite a youth m ovement\, blending circus\, music\, and performance to reclaim public spac e\, confront injustice\, and spark a powerful movement of resilience and h ope. —Jessica Edwards\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all -events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b78 LOCATION:Upstate Midtown URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b78 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sirāt DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T220000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b32@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Winner of Cannes’ Special Jury Prize\, beginning with a fren zied desert party\, then becoming a trippy journey toward the world’s en d\, this Spanish wild road trip film blends a father’s search for his da ughter with war’s shadow\, desert vistas\, and electrifying rave energy. – Amir Bogen\n\nCourtesy of Neon.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival .org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b32 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b32 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Free Leonard Peltier DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T201500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T221500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a0f@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with David France (co-director)\, Jhane Myers and Paul McG uire (producers)\, Holly Cook Macarro (featured in the film)\, and a virtu al Q&A with Leonard Peltier.\n\nLeonard Peltier was a young leader of the American Indian Movement in the 1970s\, when he was convicted of a brutal crime based on falsified evidence. After global outrage and fifty years of failed appeals\, Free Leonard Peltier arrives to revive calls for his fre edom. This time\, things are different.\n\nCourtesy of The Film Collaborat ive\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c8 21f8753473748e277a0f LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a0f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Adult Children DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T223000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277ba5@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with actor Thomas Sadoski.\n\nLiving a sheltered life\, Mo rgan struggles to define herself in a college essay. A family crisis bring s her significantly older half siblings home for the summer.Adult Children is filled with heart and hijinks that reminds us sometimes human connectio n is all we have. —Sierra Slaughter\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestiva l.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277ba5 LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277ba5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Park Avenue DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T130000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68b70376b92e138c1bba87bf@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Gaby Dellal & DOP David Johnson. Preceded by the short film ELOISE AND THE DRESS.\n\nEscaping a cowboy existence\, Cha rlotte tips up at her childhood Park Avenue apartment unannounced. Set aga inst the backdrop of old New York and the eclectic\, intertwined lives of the building's long-time residents\, PARK AVENUE explores the intricate bo nd between a mother and daughter.\n\nPreceded by the short film ELOISE AND THE DRESS.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?even tId=68b70376b92e138c1bba87bf LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68b70376b92e 138c1bba87bf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Family Matters DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T131500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68acbb34bdb8e197ddd2a3e4@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:With Q&A\n\nIntimate portraits of diverse generational familie s in moments of control\, heartbreak\, and memory.\n\n🔗 https://woodsto ckfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acbb34bdb8e197ddd2a3e4 LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acbb34bdb8 e197ddd2a3e4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Teenage Wasteland DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T131500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a1e@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with editor Chris Passig\; subjects Fred Isseks\, David Bi rmingham\, Jeff Dutemple\, and Mike Regan.Introductory remarks by Senator Michelle Hinchey.\n\nIn the 90s\, when a media arts teacher and his studen ts uncover a disturbing secret\, their high school documentaryGarbage\, Ga ngsters and Greedexposes a web of corruption. Packed with suspense\, humor \, and nostalgic VHS archive\, Emmy®-winning filmmakers Jesse Moss and Am anda McBaine’s feature documentaryTeenage Wastelandis a thrilling remind er that youth can spark real change. –Jessica Edwards\n\n🔗 https://wo odstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a1e LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a1e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Out Standing DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T133000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277af1@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with writer/director Mélanie Charbonneau and producer Jul ia Rosenberg.\n\nBased on a true story\, a determined young woman shatters military barriers as Canada's first female infantry officer — only to f ace her fiercest battles within her own ranks.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfi lmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277af1 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277af1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Solomamma DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T133000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277baa@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Journalist Edith chose to become a single mother in her 40s th rough an anonymous sperm donor and now she is the happy mother of a five-y ear-old son. When she unexpectedly discovers the donor’s identity\, what begins as a calculated encounter gradually deepens into a genuine connect ion\, driving Edith to sink deeper into lies and endanger the fragile bala nce of the life she has built.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2 025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277baa LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277baa END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:DEFINING SUCCESS IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T160000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1e3@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Prevailing narratives in today’s film industry suggest that you can only sell a documentary film or series about true crime or a major celebrity. So how are we defining success in the U.S. documentary industr y in 2025? The nonfiction world is shifting fast: public funding is disapp earing\, documentary theatrical releases face headwinds\, and filmmakers a re being pushed to deliver stories that are both urgent and entertaining.\ n\nBut success doesn’t look the same for everyone. It might mean sparkin g cultural impact\, fueling social change\, reaching underserved audiences \, or simply building a sustainable career. This conversation asks what su ccess really means for documentary today – and how redefining it on our own terms can help shape a more resilient\, relevant\, and enduring future for nonfiction.\n\nPanelists:Geeta Gandbhir\, Julie Goldman\, Sabrina Sc hmidt Gordon\, Ryan White\, Jeremy Workman\n\nModerator:Jessica Edwards\n\ nDirectorGeeta Gandbhiris an Emmy\, Independent Spirit\, and Peabody Award -winning filmmaker. As a Director\, recent credits includeThe Perfect Nei ghbor\,Katrina Come Hell and High Water\,The Devil is Busy\,Reclaimed\,How We Get Free\,Born in Synanon\,Eyes on the Prize\,Lowndes County and the R oad to Black Power.\n\nJulie Goldmanis an Academy Award-nominated\, Emmy-w inning producer of documentary and fiction films and series. Producing cre dits includeSelena y Los Dinos\; Victim/Suspect\; The Eternal Memory\; The Velvet Underground\; The Mole Agent\; Life\, Animated\; Abacus\; Weiner\; In The Same Breath\;Cassandro\;and the Ted Danson seriesA Man on the Insi de.\n\nSabrina Schmidt Gordonis an award-winning filmmaker known for power ful\, resonant documentaries\, including the critically-acclaimed filmsSee ds\,Quest\,Victim/Suspect\, andBaddddd Sonia Sanchez. Her achievements hav e earned her membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .\n\nRyan Whiteis an acclaimed director and producer of documentary films and series. Recent credits include Netflix’sInto the Fire\; Emmy-nominat edPamela\, A Love Story\; andGood Night Oppy\, which won two Emmys and fiv e Critics Choice Awards including Best Documentary & Best Director.\n\nJer emy Workman's most recent documentary\,Secret Mall Apartment\, was release d theatrically in 250 cities in 2025\, becoming one of the highest grossin g documentaries in years.  He is a multi WFF alumni.\n\nJessica Edwardsi s the documentary programmer for WFF and a Peabody Award–winning directo r\, producer\, and distribution consultant. She founded her company Film F irst in 2010\, producing acclaimed short and feature-length documentaries. She recently produced and distributed the generative box-office hitEno. S he lives in Saugerties\, New York.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.o rg/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1e3 LOCATION:Kleinert/James Center for the Arts URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8 e06c5bb8c1e3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Floaters DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T161500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:6895ff6aa2442a19d0c2a11e@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with Rachel Israel and cast members.\n\nStruggling musicia n Nomi (Jackie Tohn) takes a last-resort job from her overachiever best fr iend Mara (Sarah Podemski): supervising misfits at their childhood Jewish summer camp. With the camp’s survival in the balance as it ramps up for a drama competition with a longtime rival\, the clashing friends and campe rs must overcome their differences to save the camp.\n\nPreceded by the sh ort film MEOW.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?e ventId=6895ff6aa2442a19d0c2a11e LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=6895ff6aa244 2a19d0c2a11e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dislocation DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T161500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68acbca55174b14b28a20537@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:With Q&A\n\nWell-crafted\, authentic documentaries which share stories of displacement and community repossession.\n\n🔗 https://woods tockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acbca55174b14b28a20537 LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acbca55174 b14b28a20537 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Memory Lane DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T161500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b37@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with writer/director Jelle de Jonge.\n\nAn unexpected lett er disrupts the lives of an elderly couple\, forcing them to confront what they've long avoided. Maartje\, who is battling dementia\, and her husban d Jaap embark on a road trip to a dying friend in Spain. Along the way\, t hey encounter a changed world\, but nevertheless rediscover their shared p ast.\n\nThis film is supported by the Dutch Culture USA program of the Con sulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York.\n\n🔗 http s://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e27 7b37 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b37 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T161500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277baf@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:January 29\, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergenc y call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza\, pleadin g for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line\, they do everything th ey can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.\n\n🔗 https: //woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b af LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277baf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AN EYE FOR AN EYE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T163000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a23@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Tanaz Eshaghian\n\nUpon release from a long prison sentence\, an Iranian mother's fate lies in the hands of her victim 's family: they can either receive a "blood money" payment or have her exe cuted. Is murder of an abuser justifiable? Unpredictable twists make this film a compelling watch. —Sabina Barach\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfes tival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a23 LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a23 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Concessions DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T163000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a65@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with writer/director Mas Bouzidi\, cast members Rob Riorda n\, Jonathan Lorenzo Price\, Lana Rockwell\, and Volkan Eryaman. Introduce d by Max Madsen.\n\nAs the beloved Royal Alamo Cinema closes its doors for good\, jaded staff\, eccentric patrons\, and one unhinged manager stumble through one last night at the movies — grappling with busted dreams\, b ad popcorn\, and hard goodbyes. Featuring Michael Madsen in one of his last roles.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?even tId=68c821f8753473748e277a65 LOCATION:Rosendale Theatre URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a65 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Outdoor School DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T164500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277af6@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with Director Ime Etuk\, Executive Producer Vin Shambry\, and cast memberJahi Di’allo Winston.\n\nBased upon the Moth story of how 12-year-old Melvin Shambry\, now an actor and published writer\, survived his own childhood on the hardscrabble streets of 1990s Portland\, Oregon\ , a single week in the wilderness at the real-life Outdoor School transfor med his life. —Peter Wortmann\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/ 2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277af6 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277af6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Magic Hour DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T164500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b7d@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with filmmakers Katie Aselton and Mark Duplass.\n\nErin (d irector and star Katie Aselton) is on a weekend retreat in the desert with her partner Charlie (Daveed Diggs). The couple has chosen to escape their L.A. life and work through deep love and unexpected loss. But a much more complicated situation emerges\,and things may be different than they seem . —Adam Schartoff\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-eve nts?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b7d LOCATION:Upstate Midtown URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b7d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A CONVERSATION WITH BRAD DOURIF DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T180000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1e8@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Larry Fessenden\, moderator\n\nBrad Dourifis the winner of Gol den Globe and BAFTA awards\, and Academy Award and Emmy nominations. He ha s appeared in numerous films and series includingLord of the Rings\,Deadwo od\,One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest\, and is the voice of Chucky.\n\nLar ry Fessendenis a writer\, director\, producer\, and actor who runs the New York production shingle Glass Eye Pix with the mission of supporting indi vidual voices in the arts.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025- all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1e8 LOCATION:Kleinert/James Center for the Arts URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8 e06c5bb8c1e8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Is This Thing On? DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T190000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b3c@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:As their marriage quietly unravels\, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce\, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family — forcing them to navigate co-parenting\, identity\, and w hether love can take a new form.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org /2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b3c LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b3c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:HEDDA DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T190000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277bb4@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Nia DaCosta's bold adaptation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is fast- paced\, sexy\, and glamorously dark. Tessa Thompson plays a larger-than-li fe Black woman battling boredom\, class\, and social norms with seductive plots and treacherous schemes. Set around a dazzling Gatsby-like party\, t his sharp\, wild\, and relevant film spirals toward self-destruction. —A mir Bogen\n\nCourtesy of Amazon.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org /2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277bb4 LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277bb4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Friday Night Toons DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T191500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68ac9d7f6f143360ceb36a7a@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:With Q&A\n\nA selection of the best new indie animation from a cross the globe. Kick off your festival weekend with a wild ride that’s a feast for the eyes! Mature Audience.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestiv al.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68ac9d7f6f143360ceb36a7a LOCATION:Upstate Midtown URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68ac9d7f6f14 3360ceb36a7a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nice to Meet You DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T191500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68acbb79379b88e690591c24@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:With Q&A\n\nA poignant collection of films that explore compli cated human relationships\, capturing the delicate balance of love\, confl ict\, and the unspoken truths that shape our connections.\n\n🔗 https:// woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acbb79379b88e690591c24 LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acbb79379b 88e690591c24 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nuremberg DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T191500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277afb@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:The Allies\, led by the unyielding chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon)\, have the task of ensuring the Nazi regime answ ers for the unveiled horrors of the Holocaust at the Nuremberg trials\, wh ile a US Army psychiatrist (Rami Malek) is locked in a dramatic psychologi cal duel with former Reichsmarschall Herman Goring (Russell Crowe).\n\n 🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753 473748e277afb LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277afb END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Coexistence\, My Ass! DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T191500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a28@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Amber Fares and editor Rabab Haj Yahya\n\nHo w do we create real change — through policy\, protest or punchlines? Com ic Noam Shuster Eliassi unpacks the concept of coexistence with sharp humo r and disarming honesty in a moving\, provocative\, and funny Sundance-win ning doc\, making space to rethink what peace means. —Jessica Edwards\n\ n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f875 3473748e277a28 LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a28 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mildlife DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T191500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a6a@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with filmmaker Cory Thibert and editor/co-creator of origi nal score Gary Thibert.\n\nLawrence just wants to drum his depression away in his hardcore band. The only problem? His girlfriend wants to leave the ir hometown\, where he struggles with a complicated\, co-dependent relatio nship with his parents\, who both live with cerebral palsy.\n\n🔗 https: //woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a 6a LOCATION:Rosendale Theatre URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a6a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:THE PLAGUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T193000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277aba@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Charlie Polinger's Cannes debut is a playful yet darkly humoro us coming-of-age drama set at a youth water polo camp. Exploring the bully ing of "plague"-rumored misfits\, it features Joel Edgerton in a visually striking\, Lord of the Flies-like tale reimagined for today. —Amir Bogen \n\nCourtesy of IFC.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-ev ents?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277aba LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277aba END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BUGONIA DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T214500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a6f@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:In Academy Award-nominated director Yorgos Lanthimos' (Poor Th ings\,The Favourite) latest satirical absurdist sci-fi dark comedy\, two c onspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO (two-time Academy Award-winner Emma Stone) of a major company\, convinced that she is an al ien intent on destroying planet Earth.\n\nCourtesy of Focus Features.\n\n 🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753 473748e277a6f LOCATION:Rosendale Theatre URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a6f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Our Girls DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T220000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b41@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with writer/director Mike van Diem\n\nDuring an idyllic ho liday in the Austrian Alps\, the long- standing friendship between two cou ples spins out of control when an unthinkable accident forces them to deci de how far they will go\, and which lines they will cross\, to save their daughters.\n\nThis film is supported by the Dutch Culture USA program of t he Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York.\n\n 🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753 473748e277b41 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b41 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Kain DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T220000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b82@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with Gabriel Bauer (Director) & Daniël Gellvoet Gellvoet (lead actor).\n\nAn autistic man sets out to get his driver's license and prove he can function "normally" in society. But when he meets the love of his life during driving lessons\, his desire for independence collides wi th society's demands. Confronted with his autism\, he learns a valuable le sson in self-acceptance.\n\nThis film is supported by the Dutch Culture US A program of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ne w York.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId= 68c821f8753473748e277b82 LOCATION:Upstate Midtown URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b82 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T220000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c84e241a4c8a26624f5a08@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Detective Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet .\n\nCourtesy of Netflix.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-a ll-events?eventId=68c84e241a4c8a26624f5a08 LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c84e241a4c 8a26624f5a08 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Perfect Neighbor DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T201500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T221500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a2d@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Geeta Gandbhir.\n\nUsing bodycam footage fro m dozens of police visits\, The Perfect Neighbor bears witness to a tight- knit community navigating one neighbor’s relentless harassment. But her hostility takes a sinister turn when it escalates into a fatal crime.\n\nC ourtesy of Netflix.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-eve nts?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a2d LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a2d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hilarity DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T223000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68aca11dc8a18db6ac79af3c@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:With Q&A\n\nIn an uncertain world\, laughter is the best medic ine.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68a ca11dc8a18db6ac79af3c LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68aca11dc8a1 8db6ac79af3c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Floating Carousel DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T223000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277abf@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with filmmakers Delilah Napier & Lucy Powers.\n\nTwo young women\, a sugar daddy\, a jealous boyfriend\, a cuddler\, and a gay cabar et star collide in this sharp\, sexy NYC dramedy. Yale alums Lucy Powers a nd Delilah Napier's debut is a funny\, messy\, modern Sex and the City\, w ith rising stars and veteran talent. —Amir Bogen\n\n🔗 https://woodsto ckfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277abf LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277abf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:STARMAN DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T223000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b00@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Robert Stone.\n\nYou won't find a more dynam ic documentary subject than NASA robotics engineer turned best-selling sci ence fiction author Gentry Lee. Robert Stone's latest documentary\, STARMA N\, gives the octogenarian Lee the ideal platform to ponder life's big que stions. —Adam Schartoff\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-a ll-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b00 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b00 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Park Avenue DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T120000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c31fb189232c0da79097e6@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Gaby Dellal & DOP David Johnson. Preceded by the short film ELOISE AND THE DRESS.\n\nEscaping a cowboy existence\, Cha rlotte tips up at her childhood Park Avenue apartment unannounced. Set aga inst the backdrop of old New York and the eclectic\, intertwined lives of the building's long-time residents\, PARK AVENUE explores the intricate bo nd between a mother and daughter.\n\nPreceded by the short film ELOISE AND THE DRESS.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?even tId=68c31fb189232c0da79097e6 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c31fb18923 2c0da79097e6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:LOVE (AND WORK WITH) THE ONES YOU'RE WITH DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T120000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1ec@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: There will be a limited number of tickets for thi s event available at the door for STANDING ROOM ONLY\, for a reduced price of $20.\n\nThis panel explores the pitfalls and the bonuses of working wi th the ones you love\, and in particular here\, with married couple Mark D uplass and Katie Aselton who worked together onMagic Hour. A humorous and revealing conversation about husband and wife working together\, which ser ves also as a model for how to best move things forward during a tough tim e by banding up with those you trust most.\n\nPanelists:\n\nMark Duplass\, filmmaker\, actor\, husband\n\nKatie Aselton\, filmmaker\, actor\, wife\n \nModerator:FilmmakerNadia Conners\n\nMark Duplassis an award-winning acto r\, writer\, and producer known forThe Morning Show\,Togetherness\,Creep\, andThe Puffy Chair. He co-founded Duplass Brothers Productions\, the comp any behindWildWild Country\,Room 104\, and more.\n\nKatie Aselton’s brea kout acting role was in the indie darlingThe Puffy Chair\, directed by the Duplass brothers. She made her directorial debut with the acclaimedThe Fr eebie.Magic Houris Katie’s fourth feature.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilm festival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1ec LOCATION:Kleinert/James Center for the Arts URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8 e06c5bb8c1ec END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Lure of Ponies - a spellbound attic mystery DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T120000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277ac4@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Beck Underwood.\n\nSet in an attic populated by toys\, an animated playful homage to the cozy mystery finds a distress ed baby doll unable to find her human child. She enlists Detectives France s Faraday\, a Victorian era doll\, and her sidekick Midge\, a sixties plas tic doll\, to solve the case. —Noelle Melody\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfi lmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277ac4 LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277ac4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rental Family DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T120000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277bbe@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Set against modern-day Tokyo\, RENTAL FAMILY follows an Americ an actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency\, playing stand -in roles for strangers in various emotional and life altering situations. \n\nCourtesy of Searchlight.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/202 5-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277bbe LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277bbe END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mildlife DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T121500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b46@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with filmmaker Cory Thibert and editor/co-creator of origi nal score Gary Thibert.\n\nLawrence just wants to drum his depression away in his hardcore band. The only problem? His girlfriend wants to leave the ir hometown\, where he struggles with a complicated\, co-dependent relatio nship with his parents\, who both live with cerebral palsy.\n\n🔗 https: //woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b 46 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b46 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Difficult Beauty DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T123000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68ac9f23e9f2fc85c97cc899@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:With Q&A\n\nThe pain and joy of creation: a diverse group of a rtists admitting their truths.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2 025-all-events?eventId=68ac9f23e9f2fc85c97cc899 LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68ac9f23e9f2 fc85c97cc899 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Long Walk: The Story of the Bharat Jodo Yatra DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T130000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c336aa80bd1cbf8f2fe029@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Join us for the world premiere ofThe Long Walk: The Story of t he Bharat Jodo Yatra.This is the story of one of the largest marches and m ovements that the world has yet to know about where Rahul Gandhi\, India's opposition leader\, walked 4000 kilometers – from the Southern tip of t he country to the North over 141 days. Millions of everyday Indians partic ipated. Following the screening is a discussion with DirectorShruti Gangu ly\, Executive ProducerGeeta Gandbhir\, moderated byTimeExecutive EditorNi khil Kumar.\n\nThe post-screening conversation will discuss the interconne ctedness of movements and cultures\, movements that can actually work\, it ’s about standing up against silencing\, and an examination of self\, id entity\, pluralism\, and community.India is the largest democracy in the w orld\, and its protection should matter\, even to people who are not of th e place or its diaspora.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-al l-events?eventId=68c336aa80bd1cbf8f2fe029 LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c336aa80bd 1cbf8f2fe029 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Kain DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T133000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a74@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with Gabriel Bauer (Director) & Daniël Gellvoet Gellvoet (lead actor).\n\nAn autistic man sets out to get his driver's license and prove he can function "normally" in society. But when he meets the love of his life during driving lessons\, his desire for independence collides wi th society's demands. Confronted with his autism\, he learns a valuable le sson in self-acceptance.\n\nThis film is supported by the Dutch Culture US A program of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ne w York.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId= 68c821f8753473748e277a74 LOCATION:Rosendale Theatre URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a74 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CONVERSATION WITH MARISKA HARGITAY DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T140000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1f0@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: There will be a limited number of tickets for thi s event available at the door for STANDING ROOM ONLY\, for a reduced price of $20.\n\nModerated by Thelma Adams\n\nPeeling back the layers of a publ ic persona is never easy\, however Mariska Hargitay does just that in her feature-length directorial debut\,My Mom Jayne. Join veteran film critic a nd journalist Thelma Adams for a captivating panel discussion with directo r\, producer and actress Mariska Hargitay as they delve into the deeply pe rsonal and intimate documentary\, exploring themes of loss and identity\, while gaining insight into Hargitay’s motivations and filmmaking process in revealing a story that intertwines public history with personal truths .\n\nMariska Hargitaystars as Captain Olivia Benson on NBC'sLaw & Order: S VU\, where she also serves as an executive producer and director. She rece ntly directed and producedMy Mom Jaynefor HBO. She produced HBO's Emmy-win ningI Am Evidence\, about the backlog of untested rape kits in the US\, an d co-produced the documentariesEmanuelandMy Beautiful Stutter.\n\nWFF Cont ent Strategy ConsultantThelma Adamspenned three novels while writing criti cism forThe Boston Globe\,The New York Post\,VarietyandAARP\, twice servin g as the chair of the New York Film Critics Circle.\n\n🔗 https://woodst ockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1f0 LOCATION:Kleinert/James Center for the Arts URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8 e06c5bb8c1f0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Love + War DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T141500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277ac9@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director E. Chai Vasarhelyi\n\nRaw\, riveting\, and d eeply human\; directed by Oscar® winners E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chi n\; Love+War follows Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynsey Addario from war zones t o home life\, revealing the impossible trade-offs faced by parents in high -impact professions. —Jessica Edwards\n\nCourtesy of National Geographic .\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821 f8753473748e277ac9 LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277ac9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Peter Hujar's Day DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T143000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277bc3@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Fearless independent filmmaker Ira Sachs' (Passages\, Love is Strange) latest film centers on groundbreaking gay photographer Peter Huja r (Ben Whishaw). Based on rediscovered transcripts from an unused 1974 int erview by nonfiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall)\, Sachs shutt les us back to a specific moment in New York queer cultural history in thi s illustration of the life of the creative mind.\n\nCourtesy of Janus Film s.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c82 1f8753473748e277bc3 LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277bc3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cover-Up DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T144500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b4b@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Laura Poitras and producerYoni Golijov\n\nCo ver-Up is a political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitze r Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Urgent and deeply re ported\, Cover-Up is both a portrait of a relentless journalist and an ind ictment of institutional violence — revealing a cycle of impunity in the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfes tival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b4b LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b4b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sylvania DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T150000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b05@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with writer/director Kyle Smith and producers Morgan Polli tt & Ben Shields Catlin.\n\nAs their own marriage falls apart\, Gracie and Stewart take their family on a Midwest road trip to convince Gracie’s s tubborn\, ailing father that he needs help.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmf estival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b05 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b05 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Achaar DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T153000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68acbce1445261623d86c412@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:With Q&A\n\nA distinctive set of shorts with a wide flavor pro file from across the South Asian diaspora.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfe stival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acbce1445261623d86c412 LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acbce14452 61623d86c412 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Evolution of the Modern Sports Doc DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T153000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1df@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:The Evolution of the Modern Sports Doc panel with ESPN F ilms producers and Rudy Valdez\, director of Big Dreams: Little League Wor ld Series 2024 and Breakaway for 30 for 30\, showcases the progression of  sports documentaries over the years. The panel features clips from vari ous ESPN documentaries\, highlighting the evolution of storytelling and production quality in sports filmmaking.\n\nThe panel also explores the role of sports documentaries in shaping the cultural narrative of sport s and athletes\, as well as the importance of authenticity and storytelli ng in captivating audiences. Overall\, the panel offers a fascinating look at the evolution of sports documentaries and their enduring appeal in the world of entertainment.\n\nPanel Participants:\n\nMarquis Daisy\, co- director of “Baltimore Boys\,” is a producer for ESPN Films. Among his most notable work includes Rand University\, a 30 for 30 film on the ofte n-turbulent career of former NFL great Randy Moss and Black Hoosiers\, a S pike Lee Lil’ Joint on the high school years of NBA Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson. Daisy’s 2021 project\, “The March on Washington: Keepers of the Dream\,” debuted on NatGeo and is available on-demand from Hulu.\n\ nCarolyn Hepburnis an Emmy\, Peabody and Gotham Award-winning producer and executive producer who joined ESPN Films in 2022. Recent films include Em pire Skate (ESPN 30 for 30)\; Candace Parker: Unapologetic (ESPN Films)\; Love To Love You\, Donna Summer (HBO Documentaries)\, Victim/Suspect (Emmy Winner\, Netflix)\; The Fire That Took Her (Emmy Winner\, MTV Documentary Films)\; American Pain (CNN Films)\; The Return of Tanya Tucker featuring Brandi Carlile (SXSW Audience Winner\, Sony Pictures Classics)\; In The S ame Breath (Oscar Shortlisted\, HBO Documentaries)\; The Velvet Undergroun d (Oscar Shortlisted\, Apple Originals)\; The Mole Agent (Oscar nominee\, Hulu)\; A Thousand Cuts (Emmy\, Gotham and IDA winner\, Frontline)\; One C hild Nation (Oscar-shortlisted\, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner\, Amazon Studios)\; Life\, Animated (Oscar nominee\, Winner of three Emmys\, A&E I ndieFilms)\; Weiner (Oscar shortlisted\, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner\ , IFC Films)\; and 3½ Minutes\, Ten Bullets (Sundance Special Jury Prize\ , HBO Documentaries)\n\nGentry Kirbyis an Emmy-award winning producer who joined ESPN Films in 2014. Kirby directed or co-directed three 30 for 30s - This Magic Moment\, The Great Heisman Race of 1997 and Tommy – as wel l as producing over 30 other ESPN Films projects including The Last Dance\ , Fantastic Lies\, and Be Water.\n\nRudy Valdezis a two-time Emmy Award-wi nning filmmaker known for telling powerful\, emotionally resonant stories through a self-taught and deeply human lens. His work spans family\, jus tice\, culture\, and legacy—centered on truth\, voice\, and representati on. He directed the HBO documentary The Sentence\, a decade-long project a bout his sister’s incarceration and the impact of mandatory minimums\, which earned a Primetime Emmy and the Sundance Audience Award. His recent credits include Carlos\, a portrait of Carlos Santana’s rise from stre et musician to global icon\; Choir\, a Disney+ series following the Detroi t Youth Choir as they chase a dream beyond America’s Got Talent\; Big D reams\, an ESPN film spotlighting young athletes from around the world at the Little League World Series\; and Eyes on the Prize III\, where he di rected an episode on environmental justice in the legendary civil rights s eries. He also directed Translators\, a Tribeca-winning short about child ren translating adult worlds for their immigrant families. Through his co mpany Bluff Road Films\, Valdez continues to champion untold stories and b old voices\, with award-winning work across HBO\, Netflix\, ESPN\, Disney +\, and beyond.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events? eventId=68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1df LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8 e06c5bb8c1df END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CREATIVE CONTROL: CENSORSHIP\, FILM AUDIENCES\, AND FREE SPEECH DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T153000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1f4@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by NYWIFT\n\nThroughout history\, creators have f aced the challenge of industry and government censorship\, with authoritie s attempting to control the narratives and themes presented on screen. Des pite these restrictions\, many filmmakers have bravely pushed the boundari es of artistic expression\, using their work to highlight social and polit ical issues\, and advocate for freedom of speech. Storytellers have subver ted such restrictions using techniques like metaphor or allegory\, contrib uting to the evolution of the medium and preserving cultural heritage.\n\n The panel will bring together documentary and narrative filmmakers with in dustry leaders to discuss the complex interplay between artistic freedom a nd societal values\, in both a historical and contemporary context.\n\nPan elists:Yoruba Richen\, Kim A. Snyder\, Melissa Leo\,Julia Bacha\n\nModerat or:Cynthia Lopez\n\nYoruba Richenis a Peabody award-winning documentary fi lmmaker who was awarded the Trailblazer award by Black Public Media. Her work has been featured on multiple outlets\, including Netflix\, MSNBC\, P eacock and FX/Hulu. Her most recent filmAmerican Coup: Wilmington 1898\, p remiered on PBS’sAmerican Experienceand was nominated for a Peabody Awar d.\n\nKim A. Snyderis an Academy Award® nominee and Peabody Award-winning Director / Producer whose latest feature\,The Librarians\, premiered at t he 2025 Sundance Film Festival and will release globally in late 2025. Her Oscar-nominated shortDeath By Numbers\, co-created with gun-violence surv ivor Sam Fuentes\, has won multiple awards.\n\nMelissa Leois an Academy Aw ard-winning actress\, as well as a recipient of several accolades\, includ ing aPrimetime Emmy Award\, a Golden Globe Award\, a Screen Actors Guild A ward\, and two Critics' Choice Awards. She is best known for her roles onH omicide: Life on the Street\,Frozen River\, andThe Fighter.\n\nCynthia Ló pezis the Chief Executive Officer of New York Women in Film & Television\, an award-winning media strategist\, and former Commissioner of the New Yo rk City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. López is the recipie nt of many coveted industry awards including: 11 News and Documentary Emmy Awards\, a Special Emmy Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking\, three Peabody Awards\, and two duPont-Columbia Awards.\n\nJulia Bachais a Peabody award-winning filmmaker and the Creative Director at Just Vision. Julia’s directing credits include Encounter Point (Tribeca 2006)\, Budru s (Berlinale 2009)\, My Neighbourhood (Tribeca 2012)\, Naila and the Upris ing (IDFA 2017)\, and Boycott (SXSW 2022).\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfe stival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1f4 LOCATION:Kleinert/James Center for the Arts URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8 e06c5bb8c1f4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Remaining Native DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T161500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a79@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with producer Jessica Epstein.\n\nKu Stevens is the fastes t 17-year-old cross-country runner in Nevada. While training for recruitme nt to his dream school with limited resources\, he recalls his great-grand father\, who ran 50 miles from a boarding school designated to repatriate Indians. This coming-of-age documentary reflects on the weight of history in carving one's path. —Shira Friedman-Parks\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfi lmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a79 LOCATION:Rosendale Theatre URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a79 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Teenage Wasteland DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T170000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b87@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with editor Chris Passig\; subjects Fred Isseks\, David Bi rmingham\, Jeff Dutemple\, and Mike Regan.\n\nIn the 90s\, when a media ar ts teacher and his students uncover a disturbing secret\, their high schoo l documentaryGarbage\, Gangsters and Greedexposes a web of corruption. Pac ked with suspense\, humor\, and nostalgic VHS archive\, Emmy®-winning fil mmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s feature documentaryTeenage Waste landis a thrilling reminder that youth can spark real change. –Jessica E dwards\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=6 8c821f8753473748e277b87 LOCATION:Upstate Midtown URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b87 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Steal This Story\, Please! DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T170000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277bc8@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal\, Amy Goodman (su bject)\, and producer Karen Ranucci.\n\nModerated by playwright\, author\, and activist V (formerly Eve Ensler).\n\nFiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account\, repo rting from conflict zones and the Democracy Now! newsroom. InSteal This St ory\, Please!\, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin craft a riveting portrait of journalism's power — and peril — in an era of c orporate control and political attacks on truth.\n\n🔗 https://woodstock filmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277bc8 LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277bc8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Magic Hour DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T171500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277ace@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with filmmakers Katie Aselton and Mark Duplass.\n\nErin (d irector and star Katie Aselton) is on a weekend retreat in the desert with her partner Charlie (Daveed Diggs). The couple has chosen to escape their L.A. life and work through deep love and unexpected loss. But a much more complicated situation emerges\,and things may be different than they seem . —Adam Schartoff\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-eve nts?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277ace LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277ace END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:THE FUTURE OF FILM - SOLUTIONS DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T173000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1f8@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:In response to the current challenges to the American independ ent film\, a new coalition was formed – theFuture Film Coalition\, which envisions a transformed landscape for U.S. independent filmmaking where a udience demand\, public funding\, innovative policy and regulation\, and r evitalized entrepreneurial activity lead to a production\, distribution\, and exhibition ecosystem that sustainably supports a diverse array of film makers\, small businesses\, and film workers.\n\nThis panel will feature a conversation about the current crisis\, the Future Film Coalition’s fir st steps\, and how regional filmmakers and industry members can get involv ed and make a difference.\n\nPanelists:\n\nBrian Newman\, Sub-Genre Media\ , Future Film Coalition board member\n\nJon Reiss\, 8 Above\, Future Film Coalition co-founder and board president\n\nJonathan Gray\n\nJax DeLuca\n\ nModerator:Scott Macaulay\n\nBrian Newman\, founder ofSub-Genre\, consults on film strategy for some of the top brands in the world. Brian has serve d as CEO of theTribeca Film Institute\,producesindependent films\, and wri tes a popularweekly newsletteron film.\n\nJon Reissis a filmmaker\, author and media strategist. His company\, 8 Above\, creates custom audience-bui lding strategies and theatrical release campaigns for independent films. H e wrote the bookThink Outside the Box Officeand recently created the 8 Abo ve Distribution Lab.\n\nJonathan Grayis an attorney\, producer and advisor in the independent film community for over 25 years. His producer and exe cutive producer credits includeAnxiety Club\;Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbel l’s Swimsuit Issue\;Afghan Dreamers\;Dark Night\;Nightingale\; andBlue C aprice.\n\nAs a cultural strategist and former NEA Film & Media Arts Direc tor\,Jax Delucahas championed independent film for over two decades\, lead ing national initiatives\, research\, and sector-wide strategies. Currentl y\, she is the director of Future Film Coalition and a Harvard Shorenstein Research Fellow.\n\nScott Macaulayis a film producer and co-founder and E ditor-in-Chief ofFilmmaker Magazine. Producing credits with his New York-b ased production company Forensic Films includeThe Assistant\,Saving Face\, Raising Victor Vargas\, andWhat Happened Was.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfil mfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1f8 LOCATION:Kleinert/James Center for the Arts URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8 e06c5bb8c1f8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Ark DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T173000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b0a@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with Tony Castle (producer)\, Roxy Hunt (producer)\, Jerem y Chilnick (director)\, and Joe Vele (editor).\n\nSoon after Russia invade d in 2022 and the remnants of a missile fell on their land\, Zhenya and An atoly Pilipenko opened up their homestead in eastern Ukraine to orphaned a nimals\, some local\, others abandoned in the fighting\, and delivered by the Ukrainian military. The Ark is the intimate story of their family's de fiance\, courage and patriotism. —Peter Wortmann\n\n🔗 https://woodsto ckfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b0a LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b0a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holding Liat DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T174500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b50@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Brandon Kramer and producer and cinematograp her Yoni Brook.\n\nDuring the October 7th attack on Israel\, Liat and her husband Aviv are kidnapped by Hamas. This is the gripping and beautiful st ory of a family's struggle to win their return\, while grappling with thei r own fight for peace for those on both sides. —Sabina Barach\n\nCourtes y of The Film Collaborative\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025 -all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b50 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b50 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Keeper DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T180000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a32@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Jon Bowermaster and film subject John Lipsco mb.\n\nNew York’s Hudson River stars in Jon Bowermaster’s environmenta l documentary The Keeper about America’s “first river”. The film fol lows patrol boat captain John Lipscomb who has been the eyes and ears of t he environmental watchdog group Riverkeeper and is fast approaching retire ment. We learn that while the River might look more beautiful and cleaner than ever\, the news isn’t all that great. –Adam Schartoff\n\n🔗 htt ps://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e2 77a32 LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a32 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Saturday Evening Cartoons DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T183000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68ac9c75a8a3bbd7d6b079d2@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:With Q&A\n\nNot your average Saturday Morning Cartoons! Join u s for yet another spectacular lineup of animation from around the world. M ature Audience.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events? eventId=68ac9c75a8a3bbd7d6b079d2 LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68ac9c75a8a3 bbd7d6b079d2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:WE'RE OUT HERE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T183000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68ac9de3e4f9783fb47dc2f3@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:With Q&A\n\nA collection of bold\, transformative narrative an d documentary shorts from across the LGBTQIA+ community.\n\n🔗 https:// woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68ac9de3e4f9783fb47dc2f3 LOCATION:Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68ac9de3e4f9 783fb47dc2f3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Memory Lane DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T191500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a7e@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with writer/director Jelle de Jonge.\n\nAn unexpected lett er disrupts the lives of an elderly couple\, forcing them to confront what they've long avoided. Maartje\, who is battling dementia\, and her husban d Jaap embark on a road trip to a dying friend in Spain. Along the way\, t hey encounter a changed world\, but nevertheless rediscover their shared p ast.\n\nThis film is supported by the Dutch Culture USA program of the Con sulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York.\n\n🔗 http s://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e27 7a7e LOCATION:Rosendale Theatre URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a7e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Yes DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T194500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b8c@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with writer/director Nadav Lapid.\n\nCo-presented by Albi\ n\nIsraeli auteur Nadav Lapid (Synonyms\, Ahed's Knee) returns with Yes\, his most provocative work yet — a bold\, visually charged portrait of a nation reeling from October 7\, torn between grief and manic excess. As Ga za burns\, Israel's elites descend into vulgar\, glittering revelry\, blur ring reality\, fantasy\, empathy\, and cynicism. —Amir Bogen\n\n🔗 htt ps://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e2 77b8c LOCATION:Upstate Midtown URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b8c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:DUST TO MALIBU DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T200000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277ad3@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with writer/director Stephen Ward\, actor Tim Daly\, and a ctor/producer Shelly Gibson.\n\nAnchored by Tim Daly's brave vulnerable pe rformance\,Dust to Malibuexplores the lingering trauma of a father's attem pt to reconnect with his grown daughter\, embarking on an ill-conceived ro ad trip\, and forcing him to confront the central role he has played in th eir deep-set estrangement.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025- all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277ad3 LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277ad3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cutting Through Rocks DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T200000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b0f@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with executive producer Judith Helfand.\n\nAs the first el ected councilwoman of her Iranian village\, Sara Shahverdi aims to break l ong-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcyc les and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara ’s intentions to empower the girls\, her identity is put in turmoil.\n\n 🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753 473748e277b0f LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b0f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hamnet DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T200000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277bcd@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao (Noma dland\, The Rider)\, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece\, Hamlet.\n \nCourtesy of Focus Features.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/20 25-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277bcd LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277bcd END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Comparsa DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T203000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b55@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with directors Vickie Curtis & Doug Anderson\, screenwrite rs Lesli Canela Pérez & Lupe Pérez. Moderated byAntonio Flores-Lobos.\n\ nAfter 41 girls die in a fire at a state-run safe house\, teenage sisters Lesli and Lupe take action. In Ciudad Peronia\, Guatemala\, they ignite a youth movement\, blending circus\, music\, and performance to reclaim publ ic space\, confront injustice\, and spark a powerful movement of resilienc e and hope. —Jessica Edwards\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2 025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b55 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b55 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Arrest The Midwife DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T210000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a37@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with Elaine Epstein\, Robin Hessman\, and film participant s.\n\nWhen trusted midwives are arrested in a tight-knit Amish and Mennoni te enclave\, a quiet community is thrust into turmoil. With their way of l ife under threat\, these women – once expected to stay silent – emerge as unexpected activists\, defying tradition and fighting for justice.\n\n 🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753 473748e277a37 LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a37 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dilated Pupils DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T220000 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68acb91c9de0d833ac8c038f@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:With Q&A\n\nPulse-increasing thrillers and genre films.\n\n 🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acb91c9de 0d833ac8c038f LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acb91c9de0 d833ac8c038f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Secret Agent DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T201500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T221500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a83@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Kleber Mendonça Filho’s political thriller is set in 1970s Brazil during the dictatorship. Leading actor Wagner Moura (Civil War) shi nes as a disgraced engineer who returns to his hometown\, Recife\, to see his son and confront a corrupt establishment that ruined his career. This historical drama won Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes. –Amir Bogen \n\nCourtesy of Neon.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-al l-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a83 LOCATION:Rosendale Theatre URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a83 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dust Bunny DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T204500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T224500 DTSTAMP:20251019T003204Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277ad8@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:In this nightmarish coming-of-age fantasy\, a girl suspects a giant bunny devoured her adoptive parents. With her hitman neighbor\, she faces criminals – and the lurking dust bunny – through suspense\, horr or\, and dark humor. Mads Mikkelsen\, Sigourney Weaver\, David Dastmalchia n\, and child actress Sophie Sloan star in Bryan Fuller’s feature debutD ust Bunnythat premiered at TIFF’s “Midnight Madness.” – Amir Boge n\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821 f8753473748e277ad8 LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277ad8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T204500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T224500 DTSTAMP:20251019T003204Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b5a@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:January 29\, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergenc y call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza\, pleadin g for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line\, they do everything th ey can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.\n\n🔗 https: //woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b 5a LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b5a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Jay Kelly DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T204500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T224500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277bd2@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:In Noah Baumbach's newest film\, famous movie actor Jay Kelly (George Clooney) embarks on a journey of self discovery confronting both h is past and present. Alongside his devoted manager Ron (Adam Sandler)\, th ey explore the intersection of life's regrets and notable glories.\n\nCour tesy of Netflix.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events ?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277bd2 LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277bd2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sentimental Value DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T230000 DTSTAMP:20251019T012032Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b14@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World) has led Norway ’s global cinema wave. His Cannes Grand Prix winnerSentimental Valuereun ites him with Renata Reinsve in a father-daughter drama about art\, memory \, and family wounds\, exploring where life ends and creation begins. –A mir Bogen\n\nCourtesy of Neon.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.or g/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b14 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b14 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Maverick Awards DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T230000 DTSTAMP:20251019T031744Z UID:68c98cfe390b2e0575d6046d@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:The Woodstock Film Festival will introduce the inauguralLauren t Rejto Made in the Hudson Valley Award. Named in tribute to the late Rejt o\, co-founder of the festival and a tireless champion for regional filmma king\, the award celebrates a filmmaker whose work was produced in the Hud son Valley. The trophy was crafted and donated by Steve Heller of Fabulous Furniture.\n\nThis year’s honoree recipients include:\n\nThe Fiercely I ndependent Award is presented to a filmmaker whose singular vision has adv anced the field of independent filmmaking while serving as a role model fo r others. This year’s honoree is NYC-based indie icon Ira Sachs\, acclai med forPassages\,Little Men\,Love is Strange\, and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize–winningForty Shades of Blue. A Guggenheim Fellow and founder of Q ueer|Art\, Sachs has work in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Whi tney Museum of American Art. His filmPeter Hujar’s Daywill also screen a t this year’s festival.\n\nAcclaimed filmmakersTia LessinandCarl Deal\, directors ofSteal This Story\, Please!which first premiered at the 2025 Te lluride Film Festival\, will receive this year’s Art of Activism Award. Their Oscar-nominatedTrouble the Waterwon the Sundance Grand Jury Prize an d a Gotham Award\, whileCitizen Kochwas shortlisted for an Oscar. Lessin a lso co-directed the Emmy-winningThe Janes\, and together the pair produced Michael Moore’sBowling for Columbine\,Fahrenheit 9/11\,Where to Invade Next\, andFahrenheit 11/9.\n\nPresented to a filmmaker whose work demonstr ates courage\, creativity\, and an unflinching commitment to truth\, the F reedom of Expression Award honors storytelling that challenges power\, amp lifies silenced voices\, and defends free speech in the face of censorship .Laura Poitras\, an Oscar and Pulitzer Prize–winning filmmaker and journ alist\, received the Golden Lion forAll the Beauty and the Bloodshed\, won an Oscar forCitizenfour\,which also earned BAFTA\, DGA\, and Emmy Awards\ , and was recognized with the Pulitzer for her journalism exposing NSA glo bal mass surveillance. Her filmCover-Upwill also screen at this year’s f estival.\n\nAdditionally\, jury award winners will also be presented acros s multiple categories includingBest Narrative Feature\,Best Documentary Fe ature\,Best Ultra Indie\, andBest Short Documentary.\n\nThe Woodstock Film Festival is an Academy Awards® qualifying festival in the categories of Animated Short Film\, Live Action Short Film\, and Documentary Short Film. \n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c98cf e390b2e0575d6046d LOCATION:Assembly URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c98cfe390b 2e0575d6046d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:MAN ON THE RUN DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T211500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T231500 DTSTAMP:20251019T012032Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a3c@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Man On The Runtakes viewers on an intimate journey through Pau l McCartney's extraordinary life following the breakup of The Beatles and the formation of Wings with his wife\, Linda. From Academy Award®-winning director Morgan Neville\, the film chronicles the arc of McCartney's solo career as he faces down a myriad of challenges while creating new music t o define a new decade.\n\nCourtesy of Amazon\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilm festival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a3c LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a3c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ACTOR'S DIALOGUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T120000 DTSTAMP:20251019T135422Z UID:68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c204@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Panelists:Rory Culkin\, Michael O’Keefe\n\nModerator:Martha Frankel\n\nRory Culkinis currently shooting Apple’s upcoming seriesLazar us. Other notable credits includeBlack Mirror\,Swarm\,Under the Banner of Heaven\,Halston\,Waco\,Lords of Chaos\,Columbus\,Scream 4\, andGabriel\, t he latter of which earned him a Gotham Award Nomination.\n\nAs an actor\,M ichael O'Keefehas garnered both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations . He's appeared in the filmsMichael Clayton\, Frozen River\, The Pledge\, Ironweed\, The Great SantiniandCaddyshack. Television audiences will recog nize him as Ron Cooper onYour Friends And Neighbors\, CIA Agent John Redmo nd onHomelandand remember him as "Fred" onRoseanne.\n\nMartha Frankelis th e director of Woodstock Bookfest and has moderated over 20 Woodstock Film Festival Actor's Dialogues.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025 -all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c204 LOCATION:Kleinert/James Center for the Arts URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8 e06c5bb8c204 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Our Girls DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T120000 DTSTAMP:20251019T135422Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277add@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with writer/director Mike van Diem\n\nDuring an idyllic ho liday in the Austrian Alps\, the long- standing friendship between two cou ples spins out of control when an unthinkable accident forces them to deci de how far they will go\, and which lines they will cross\, to save their daughters.\n\nThis film is supported by the Dutch Culture USA program of t he Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York.\n\n 🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753 473748e277add LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277add END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Teen Shorts + Youth Film Lab DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T121500 DTSTAMP:20251019T145558Z UID:68ac9fbb1ad410f8abbf7aa5@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:View documentary and narrative films by tomorrow's filmmakers. \n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68ac9fb b1ad410f8abbf7aa5 LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68ac9fbb1ad4 10f8abbf7aa5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Remaining Native DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T121500 DTSTAMP:20251019T145558Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a41@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with producer Jessica Epstein.\n\nKu Stevens is the fastes t 17-year-old cross-country runner in Nevada. While training for recruitme nt to his dream school with limited resources\, he recalls his great-grand father\, who ran 50 miles from a boarding school designated to repatriate Indians. This coming-of-age documentary reflects on the weight of history in carving one's path. —Shira Friedman-Parks\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfi lmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a41 LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a41 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Selena y Los Dinos DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T130000 DTSTAMP:20251019T145558Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b19@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with Isabel Castro (director)\, Julie Goldman (producer)\, Christopher Clements (producer)\, and Daniel Torres (producer). Courtesy of Netflix.\n\nIn a fitting tribute\, Selena y Los Dinos unveils intimate stories from those who knew Tejano icon Selena best. Blending home videos\ , archives\, and personal interviews\, the film transcends the promise of "never-before-seen" footage to capture both the electric joy of her perfor mances and the quiet tenderness behind them. —Jessica Edwards\n\nCourtes y of Netflix.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?ev entId=68c821f8753473748e277b19 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b19 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hamnet DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T131500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b5f@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao (Noma dland\, The Rider)\, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece\, Hamlet.\n \nCourtesy of Focus Features.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/20 25-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b5f LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b5f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Is This Thing On? DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T131500 DTSTAMP:20251019T155513Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277bd7@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:As their marriage quietly unravels\, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce\, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family — forcing them to navigate co-parenting\, identity\, and w hether love can take a new form.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org /2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277bd7 LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277bd7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Floating Carousel DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T133000 DTSTAMP:20251019T155513Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a88@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with filmmakers Delilah Napier & Lucy Powers.\n\nTwo young women\, a sugar daddy\, a jealous boyfriend\, a cuddler\, and a gay cabar et star collide in this sharp\, sexy NYC dramedy. Yale alums Lucy Powers a nd Delilah Napier's debut is a funny\, messy\, modern Sex and the City\, w ith rising stars and veteran talent. —Amir Bogen\n\n🔗 https://woodsto ckfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a88 LOCATION:Rosendale Theatre URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a88 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Barbara Kopple and David Amram on Scoring Films DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T140000 DTSTAMP:20251019T155513Z UID:68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1fc@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Supported by BMI.\n\nTwo-time Academy Award winning Director B arbara Kopple & legendary Musician/Composer David Amram discuss film scori ng\, includes live music by Amram & film clips.\n\nModerated by Barbara Ko pple\n\nAt the age of 94\,David Amram\,the “Renaissance Man of American Music\,” continues to be among the most influential & celebrated compose rs of our time. Beginning his professional life in music in 1951 playing F rench Horn in the National Symphony Orchestra\, he moved to NYC in 1955\, playing in the legendary jazz bands of Charles Mingus\, Dizzy Gillespie & Thelonious Monk. From 1956-1967\, he wrote the acclaimed scores of Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park productions\, and created Jazz/Poetry rea ding with the iconic writer Jack Kerouac\, his close friend & long time co llaborator.\n\nIn 1966\, Leonard Bernstein chose him to be the New York Ph ilharmonic’s first ever Composer-In-Residence\, creating highly regarded symphonies & concertos which are performed around the world. He also serv ed as World Music Ambassador to more than 35 countries and is considered a father of the “world music” movement.\n\nAmram composed scores for ou tstanding films\, includingSplendor in the Grass\,The Manchurian Candidate \,The Young Savages\,The Arrangement\, and for Broadway’sOn the Waterfro nt. In 2018\, he composed the music forHomeland\, the documentary film by two-time Academy Award-winning Director Barbara Kopple.\n\nBarbara Kopple\ , a two-time Academy Award and Emmy-winning filmmaker\, directs and produc es documentaries and narrative films. Her latest film\,Gumbo Coalition\, f ollows civil rights leaders Marc Morial and Janet Murguia during a pivotal moment in American history.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/202 5-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1fc LOCATION:Kleinert/James Center for the Arts URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8 e06c5bb8c1fc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A People's Archive DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T144500 DTSTAMP:20251019T165545Z UID:68acb984f86d59fa8686a079@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Powerful documentaries that follow the transformative journeys of communities pursuing justice\, accountability and the truth of their o wn histories from extractive American systems of power.\n\n🔗 https://wo odstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acb984f86d59fa8686a079 LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68acb984f86d 59fa8686a079 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:STARMAN DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T150000 DTSTAMP:20251019T165545Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a46@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Robert Stone.\n\nYou won't find a more dynam ic documentary subject than NASA robotics engineer turned best-selling sci ence fiction author Gentry Lee. Robert Stone's latest documentary\, STARMA N\, gives the octogenarian Lee the ideal platform to ponder life's big que stions. —Adam Schartoff\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-a ll-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a46 LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a46 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Franz DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T150000 DTSTAMP:20251019T165545Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277ae2@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Award-winning director Agnieszka Holland is embarking on her m ost ambitious project to date\, a biopic of the iconic 20th-century Czech writer Franz Kafka. Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic\, the film follows the imprint Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th century Prague \, to his death in post-WW1 Berlin.Franzwill give the audience a brand new perspective on the life of the man behind the literary giant.\n\n🔗 htt ps://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e2 77ae2 LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277ae2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:STATE OF THE ARTIST: HOW ART IS SHAKING COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T160000 DTSTAMP:20251019T175445Z UID:68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c200@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Artistic expression coupled with the platform of film can be a powerful tool in reaching wide audiences and affecting change. Civic enga gement is often central to the practice of many artists\, including actors \, writers and directors\, who have a uniquely public-facing role and dist inct voice in our society.\n\nPanelists:Tim Daly\, Ellen Kuras\, Tim Blake Nelson\n\nModerator:Gabriel Miller\n\nTim Dalyhas been an actor for more than forty years\, working in TV\, films\, and theater. He is perhaps best known for his roles inWings\,Private Practice\,The Sopranos\, andMadam Se cretary. Since 2008\, he has been president of The Creative Coalition.\n\n Ellen Kuras\, ASC is an Oscar-nominated director/cinematographer. One of t he first female members of the American Society of Cinematographers\, she is the unprecedented three-time winner for Best Dramatic Cinematography at Sundance and the recipient of two Primetime EMMY awards. Her directorial debut narrative film\, Lee\, was BAFTA nominated.\n\nTim Blake Nelsonis an acclaimed actor\, writer\, director\, and producer. He currently stars in the independent featureBang Bangand on FX’s new seriesThe Lowdown. His second novel\,Superhero\, will be published this December.\n\nGabriel Mill eris the co-founder and editor of The Industry\, a film industry publicati on that goes out to 97\,000 members of the film industry. He is also a fil mmaker.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId= 68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c200 LOCATION:Kleinert/James Center for the Arts URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8 e06c5bb8c200 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Perfect Neighbor DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T160000 DTSTAMP:20251019T175445Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b1e@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Using bodycam footage from dozens of police visits\, The Perfe ct Neighbor bears witness to a tight-knit community navigating one neighbo r’s relentless harassment. But her hostility takes a sinister turn when it escalates into a fatal crime.\n\nCourtesy of Netflix.\n\n🔗 https://w oodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b1e LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b1e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:MAN ON THE RUN DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T161500 DTSTAMP:20251019T135422Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b64@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Man On The Runtakes viewers on an intimate journey through Pau l McCartney's extraordinary life following the breakup of The Beatles and the formation of Wings with his wife\, Linda. From Academy Award®-winning director Morgan Neville\, the film chronicles the arc of McCartney's solo career as he faces down a myriad of challenges while creating new music t o define a new decade.\n\nCourtesy of Amazon\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilm festival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b64 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b64 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nuremberg DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T161500 DTSTAMP:20251019T185606Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a8d@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:The Allies\, led by the unyielding chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon)\, have the task of ensuring the Nazi regime answ ers for the unveiled horrors of the Holocaust at the Nuremberg trials\, wh ile a US Army psychiatrist (Rami Malek) is locked in a dramatic psychologi cal duel with former Reichsmarschall Herman Goring (Russell Crowe).\n\n 🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753 473748e277a8d LOCATION:Rosendale Theatre URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a8d END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:RESTORING A LEGACY / "The Struggle Against Terrorism" by Philip Gu ston DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T163000 DTSTAMP:20251019T185606Z UID:6890dda6a201e29119c1b0d2@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening ofRestoring A Legacy: "The Struggle Ag ainst Terrorism" by Philip Gustonfollowed by a special conversation with a rtists Avery Singer\, Matthew Day Jackson\, Mark Thomas Gibson\, and schol ar Barbara Sproul\, moderated by journalist Laura Furcic.\n\n—\n\nAvery Singer\, a leading contemporary artist\, merges painting and technology\, blending archival traditions with art historical themes. Her innovative wo rk quickly earned critical acclaim through major solo exhibitions worldwid e.\n\nMatthew Day Jacksonexplores American history\, technology and identi ty across diverse media\, using American iconography and art historical re ferences to examine false utopias\, authorship\, and connections between p ast and present political\, social and environmental issues.\n\nMark Thoma s Gibson\, artist\, professor\, and American history buff\, uses drawing\, painting\, print\, and sculpture to depict a satirical\, dystopian Americ a where every viewer becomes a potential character. (Photo by Ryan Collerd \, courtesy of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage)\n\nBarbara Sproul\, for mer Director of Hunter College’s Religion Program\, holds a PhD in relig ion from Columbia University and authored Primal Myths. She has been an Am nesty International member since 1968.\n\nModerator\n\nLaura Furcic\, an a rt-and-science journalist and producer\, began in Venezuelan TV. Awarded t he International King of Spain Journalism Award\, she creates news\, art d ocumentaries\, and projects with distinctive aesthetic and critical vision .\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=6890dd a6a201e29119c1b0d2 LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=6890dda6a201 e29119c1b0d2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cover-Up DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T173000 DTSTAMP:20251019T195555Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a4b@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with Laura Poitras and Olivia Streisand.\n\nCover-Upis a p olitical thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winni ng investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Urgent and deeply reported\,Cover -Upis both a portrait of a relentless journalist and an indictment of inst itutional violence – revealing a cycle of impunity in the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025- all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a4b LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a4b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On the End DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T180000 DTSTAMP:20251019T195555Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277ae7@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Ari Selinger and star Tim Blake Nelson.\n\nA curmudgeon Montauk local (Tim Blake Nelson) is a hoarding mechanic with a beachfront property with a brand new love interest. Suddenly\, a power-hu ngry realtor wants to strip him of everything. A heroic true story of what it means to fight against greed and power in the midst of losing everythi ng. —Sierra Slaughter\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all -events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277ae7 LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277ae7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Coming of Age DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T181500 DTSTAMP:20251019T205542Z UID:68ac9e3fcd067964e9dc380a@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:With Q&A\n\nGenuine and heart-wrenching shorts for when we lea rn all the important truths of being human.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilm festival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68ac9e3fcd067964e9dc380a LOCATION:Woodstock Community Center URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68ac9e3fcd06 7964e9dc380a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:THE PLAGUE DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T184500 DTSTAMP:20251019T205542Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b69@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Charlie Polinger and producer Lizzie Shapiro .\n\nCharlie Polinger's Cannes debut is a playful yet darkly humorous comi ng-of-age drama set at a youth water polo camp. Exploring the bullying of "plague"-rumored misfits\, it features Joel Edgerton in a visually strikin g\, Lord of the Flies-like tale reimagined for today. —Amir Bogen\n\n Courtesy of IFC.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events ?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b69 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b69 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Steal This Story\, Please! DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T190000 DTSTAMP:20251019T130334Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b23@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal\, Amy Goodman (su bject)\, and producer Karen Ranucci.\n\nModerated by filmmakerYoruba Riche n.\n\nFiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account\, reporting from conflict zones and the De mocracy Now! newsroom. InSteal This Story\, Please!\, Oscar-nominated film makers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin craft a riveting portrait of journalism's power — and peril — in an era of corporate control and political attac ks on truth.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eve ntId=68c821f8753473748e277b23 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b23 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Lure of Ponies - a spellbound attic mystery DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T190000 DTSTAMP:20251019T165545Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b91@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Beck Underwood.\n\nSet in an attic populated by toys\, an animated playful homage to the cozy mystery finds a distress ed baby doll unable to find her human child. She enlists Detectives France s Faraday\, a Victorian era doll\, and her sidekick Midge\, a sixties plas tic doll\, to solve the case. —Noelle Melody\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfi lmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b91 LOCATION:Upstate Midtown URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b91 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CHRISTY DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T190000 DTSTAMP:20251019T205542Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277bdc@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Based on remarkable true events\, David Michôd’s (The Rover \, Animal Kingdom) latest film follows boxer Christy Martin (Sydney Sweene y in a powerful performance) as she charges into the world of boxing under the guidance of her trainer and manager-turned-husband\, Jim (Ben Foster) . While Christy flaunts a fiery persona in the ring\, her toughest battles unfold outside it – confronting family\, identity\, and a relationship that just might become life-or-death.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestiva l.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277bdc LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277bdc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rental Family DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T194500 DTSTAMP:20251019T215606Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a92@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Set against modern-day Tokyo\, RENTAL FAMILY follows an Americ an actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency\, playing stand -in roles for strangers in various emotional and life altering situations. \n\nCourtesy of Searchlight.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/202 5-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a92 LOCATION:Rosendale Theatre URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a92 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Ark DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T210000 DTSTAMP:20251019T225548Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a50@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with Tony Castle (producer)\, Roxy Hunt (producer)\, Jerem y Chilnick (director)\, and Joe Vele (editor).\n\nSoon after Russia invade d in 2022 and the remnants of a missile fell on their land\, Zhenya and An atoly Pilipenko opened up their homestead in eastern Ukraine to orphaned a nimals\, some local\, others abandoned in the fighting\, and delivered by the Ukrainian military. The Ark is the intimate story of their family's de fiance\, courage and patriotism. —Peter Wortmann\n\n🔗 https://woodsto ckfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277a50 LOCATION:Bearsville Theater URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a50 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Yes DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T211500 DTSTAMP:20251019T235510Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277aec@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with writer/director Nadav Lapid.\n\nCo-presented by Albi\ n\nIsraeli auteur Nadav Lapid (Synonyms\, Ahed's Knee) returns with Yes\, his most provocative work yet — a bold\, visually charged portrait of a nation reeling from October 7\, torn between grief and manic excess. As Ga za burns\, Israel's elites descend into vulgar\, glittering revelry\, blur ring reality\, fantasy\, empathy\, and cynicism. —Amir Bogen\n\n🔗 htt ps://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e2 77aec LOCATION:Tinker Street Cinema URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277aec END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Keeper DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T211500 DTSTAMP:20251019T002715Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b96@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Q&A with director Jon Bowermaster and film subject John Lipsco mb.\n\nNew York’s Hudson River stars in Jon Bowermaster’s environmenta l documentary The Keeper about America’s “first river”. The film fol lows patrol boat captain John Lipscomb who has been the eyes and ears of t he environmental watchdog group Riverkeeper and is fast approaching retire ment. We learn that while the River might look more beautiful and cleaner than ever\, the news isn’t all that great. –Adam Schartoff\n\n🔗 htt ps://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e2 77b96 LOCATION:Upstate Midtown URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b96 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Jay Kelly DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T214500 DTSTAMP:20251019T195555Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b6e@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:In Noah Baumbach's newest film\, famous movie actor Jay Kelly (George Clooney) embarks on a journey of self discovery confronting both h is past and present. Alongside his devoted manager Ron (Adam Sandler)\, th ey explore the intersection of life's regrets and notable glories.\n\nCour tesy of Netflix.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events ?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b6e LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 2 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b6e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:HEDDA DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T220000 DTSTAMP:20251019T235510Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277b28@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Nia DaCosta's bold adaptation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is fast- paced\, sexy\, and glamorously dark. Tessa Thompson plays a larger-than-li fe Black woman battling boredom\, class\, and social norms with seductive plots and treacherous schemes. Set around a dazzling Gatsby-like party\, t his sharp\, wild\, and relevant film spirals toward self-destruction. —A mir Bogen\n\nCourtesy of Amazon.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org /2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f8753473748e277b28 LOCATION:Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre 1 URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277b28 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dust Bunny DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T220000 DTSTAMP:20251019T235510Z UID:68c821f8753473748e277a97@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:In this nightmarish coming-of-age fantasy\, a girl suspects a giant bunny devoured her adoptive parents. With her hitman neighbor\, she faces criminals – and the lurking dust bunny – through suspense\, horr or\, and dark humor. Mads Mikkelsen\, Sigourney Weaver\, David Dastmalchia n\, and child actress Sophie Sloan star in Bryan Fuller’s feature debutD ust Bunnythat premiered at TIFF’s “Midnight Madness.” – Amir Boge n\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821 f8753473748e277a97 LOCATION:Rosendale Theatre URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c821f87534 73748e277a97 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dead Man's Wire DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T223000 DTSTAMP:20251020T011811Z UID:68d6e6cf94d01c53551b143f@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:InDead Man’s Wire\, Gus Van Sant dramatizes Tony Kritsis’s 1977 Indianapolis hostage crisis\, where a failed real-estate mogul seize s a loan shark’s son. Broadcast live on national TV\, the ordeal shifts between menace and empathy\, blending suspense\, dark humor\, and searing commentary on the fractured American Dream. Starring Bill Skarsgård\, Dac re Montgomery\, Al Pacino and Colman Domingo.\n\n🔗 https://woodstockfil mfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68d6e6cf94d01c53551b143f LOCATION:Woodstock Playhouse URL:https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68d6e6cf94d0 1c53551b143f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Subscribe to the new Woodstock Film Festival Calendar DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261008 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261009 DTSTAMP:20260915T203617Z UID:subscribe-notice@woodstockfilmfestival.org DESCRIPTION:This calendar has been replaced and is no longer updated.\nSub scribe to the new feed to get every Woodstock Film Festival from now on - you only have to do this once.\n\n🔗 https://github.com/themorgantown/wo odstock-filmfestival-calendar-generator/blob/main/README.md TRANSP:TRANSPARENT URL:https://github.com/themorgantown/woodstock-filmfestival-calendar-gener ator/blob/main/README.md END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR