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Martha's Vineyard Film Society - Here's your passport to World Cinema - the 17th annualMartha's Vineyard International Film Festival
Arts and Entertainment
September 7, 2022
From: Martha's Vineyard Film SocietyCLICK HERE TO BUY AN ALL-ACCESS PASS
ANNOUNCING THE OFFICIAL LINEUP FOR THE 17th ANNUAL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival, is a celebration of cinema worldwide. These films' bold imagery, creative storylines, and unique characters will wrap your in warm cinematic magic.
The MVIFF is a culminating highlight of our island's culture-packed summer season. Each September we gather the best new films from dozens of countries, films that provide a path to bridging our cultural differences and exploring universal human experiences.
You can buy an ALL-ACCESS FESTIVAL PASS here.
We open the festival with our "Spotlight" screenings at the Film Center, located in the Tisbury Marketplace. These festival films, showing on September 6th and 7th, are A FILM ABOUT COUPLES (Dominican Republic), SALVATORE: Shoemaker of Dreams (Italy), HIT THE ROAD (Iran), and PINK MOON (Netherlands).
Our official OPENING NIGHT, September 8th, will feature the new drama from Korean master filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, BROKER, playing at the Film Center at 7:30pm. The film will be preceded by our Opening Night Party on the lawn of the Tisbury Marketplace
Enjoy meeting fellow festival attendees and special guests inside a tented reception, from 5:30-7:30 PM, on the beautiful waterfront lawn adjacent to Lagoon Pond, just off Beach Road at the Tisbury Marketplace. We’ll be serving champagne, wine, beer and appetizers & buffet provide by Goldie's Rotisserie, while a wonderful jazz band performs. For an added sweet treat, Mad Martha's Ice Cream will be scooping cones from its cart. Thank you OUR MARKET for your beverage and MAD MARTHA'S donations.
Don't miss our annual SHORT FILMS JURIED COMPETITION, Friday September 9 at 7:30pm, 10 shorts chosen from over 250 submissions from around the world.
The "godfather of animation", Bill Plympton is back with his weird wild world of hand-crafted animated shorts. Check it out HERE.
Our closing night film will be OFFICIAL COMPETITION a new comedy out of Spain starring Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas. After the film we will reconvene on the porch at FISH MV, 80 Main Street in Vineyard Haven, for our Closing Night Party with Latin music, food and libations!
2022 Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival Complete Lineup.
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OPENING NIGHT PARTY & FILM:
BROKER (Korea)
On Opening Night of the Festival, enjoy meeting fellow festival attendees and special guests inside a tented reception, from 5:30-7:00 PM, on the beautiful waterfront lawn adjacent to Lagoon Pond, just off Beach Road at the Tisbury Marketplace.
We’ll be serving champagne, wine, beer and Goldie’s Rotisserie Truck provides the bites, while the wonderful Jeremy Berlin jazz quartet performs. After the reception, guests will be invited to make their way to the Film Center for a special OPENING NIGHT screening of the new drama from Korean filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, BROKER. The film begins at 7:30 pm.
Your ticket is good for both the OPENING NIGHT reception and the OPENING NIGHT FILM.
There will be no tickets sold for Opening Night film separately.
BROKER
(Korea)
Thursday, September 8th @ 7:30pm
Directed by Japan’s Kore-eda Hirokazu, the Korean-language “Broker” scored a best actor prize at Cannes for male lead with “Parasite” star Song Kang-ho. Playing like a scrappy road movie, more than a crime story, the film tells the tale of two chancers who are trying to arrange an adoptive home for an unwanted infant, the child’s mother who tags along, and two women police officers on their trail.
Join us to celebrate the final night of films and bring another wonderful festival to a triumphant end. Following the Closing Night Film, OFFICIAL COMPETITION (Spain), we will reconvene on the porch at FISH MV, 80 Main Street in Vineyard Haven, for our closing Night Party. Your ticket includes both the closing night film, OFFICIAL COMPETITION, and admittance to the party at FISH MV. Enjoy wonderful food, libations and live music.
No tickets for the film will be sold separately.
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
(Spain)
Sunday, September 11th @ 4:30pm
A billionaire businessman in search of fame and social prestige decides to make a unique, groundbreaking film. To achieve this goal, he hires the best of the best: A stellar team consisting of famous filmmaker Lola Cuevas and two well-known actors who boast not only an enormous talent, but also an even bigger ego: Hollywood star Félix Rivero and aging theater thespian Iván Torres. They’re both legends, but not exactly the best of friends. Through a series of increasingly hilarious tests set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other, but also their own legacies.
The All-Access pass gets you into every party and movie playing during the festival.
Once you buy a pass, please email [email protected] and let us know which films you plan to attend. We will fulfill these requests and send you an email confirmation.
Passes: $250 per person
$220 for MV Film Society Members
-General Admission to any film program during the festival (however pass holder must pre-select movie tickets in advance with our staff. Please arrive 15 minutes before start time to guarantee a seat for yourself)
-Admission to "Spotlight" films on Tuesday and Wednesday nights (4:00 and 7:30PM), September 6th and 7th at MV Film Center.
-Admission to OPENING NIGHT GALA and Film with live music, tasty bites, and libations, plus premiere screening at MV Film Center on September 8th.
-Admission to any film festival pop-up events and activities, notified by email.
-Complimentary 2022 Film Festival T-shirt, festival badge and lanyard.
-Free Concession beverage and item.
-Admission to CLOSING NIGHT party at FISH MV (on Main Street Vineyard Haven) with live music and seafood, preceded by closing night film at 4:30 PM at Martha’s Vineyard Film Center on September 11th.
2022 Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival Complete Lineup
A FILM ABOUT COUPLES
(Dominican Republic)
Tuesday, September 6th @ 4:00pm
Natalia and Oriol are a couple of filmmakers in their thirties who have a little daughter called Lia. One day, they receive an offer to direct a documentary and they decide to make a film about couples in love. Natalia and Oriol interview many couples, always wanting to know how they get along and what their most typical problems are. But as filming progresses, wounds of their own relationship begin to open up, fights and doubts seem to be endless. But finishing the film will be their opportunity to reformulate their love for each other and their love for cinema.
SALVATORE:
SHOEMAKER OF DREAMS
(Italy/USA)
Tuesday, September 6th @ 7:30pm
Growing up poor in Bonito, Italy, Salvatore Ferragamo began his career as a shoemaker before he was barely a teenager. Immigrating to America in 1915 at the age of 16, his work would soon help invent the glamour of Hollywood’s silent era as he created shoes for iconic films including The Thief of Bagdad and The Ten Commandments and for stars including Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, many of whom became his friends. Overcoming a Depression-era setback, Ferragamo rebounded and would define mid-century elegance for performers including Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth, and Ingrid Bergman — all while embarking on a love story and warm family life with his wife, Wanda, and their six children.
HIT THE ROAD
(Iran)
Wednesday, September 7th @ 4:00pm
Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled Iranian master Jafar Panahi, makes a striking feature debut with this charming, sharp-witted, and deeply moving comic drama. Hit the Road takes the tradition of the Iranian road-trip movie and adds unexpected twists and turns. It follows a family of four — two middle-aged parents and their sons, one a taciturn adult, the other an ebullient six-year-old — as they drive across the Iranian countryside. Over the course of the trip, they bond over memories of the past, grapple with fears of the unknown, and fuss over their sick dog. Unspoken tensions arise and the film builds emotional momentum as it slowly reveals the furtive purpose for their journey. The result is a humanist drama that offers an authentic, raw, and deeply sincere observation of an Iranian family preparing to part with one of their own.
PINK MOON
(Netherlands)
Wednesday, September 7th @ 7:30pm
When completely out of the blue Iris (29) is told by her father Jan (74) that he has had enough of life and wants to die, she is forced to face the total absurdity of the situation. As his unsettling deadline approaches, Iris decides to ignore her brother’s watertight action plan. She strong-arms her father into answering the one question that matters to her: why? Without ever getting a satisfactory answer, she eventually tries to find herself a way to deal with her father’s very last wish.
WAITING FOR BOJANGLES
(France)
Friday, September 9th @ 1:00pm
A young boy, Gary, lives with his eccentric parents, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment – each night, Camille and Georges dance lovingly to their favourite song, Mr. Bojangles. At home, there is only room for fun, fantasy and friends. But as his mesmerizing and unpredictable mother descends deeper into her own mind, it is up to Gary and his father, Georges, to keep her safe.
MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE
(Latvia/USA)
Friday, September 9th @ 4:00pm
With Director Signe Baumane in person
From an early age, songs and fairytales convince Zelma that Love would solve all her problems as long as she abides by societal expectations of how a girl should act. But as she grows older something doesn’t seem right with this concept of love: the more she tries to conform, the more her body resists. A story of inner-female rebellion.
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM JURIED COMPETITION
(International)
Friday, September 9th @ 7:30pm
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The International Juried Shorts Competition will feature a bonus Q & A with several directors and actors from the featured short films!
From more than 250 entries our festival selection committee has chosen 10 finalists. We will screen each short film and our jury will select the “Best Overall” film at the conclusion of the program. The winning short film will be shown again prior to the Closing Night feature.
UTAMA
(Bolivia)
Saturday, September 10th @ 1:00pm
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily routine for years. When an uncommonly long drought threatens their entire way of life, Virginio and Sisa face the dilemma of resisting or being defeated by the passage of time. With the arrival of their grandson Clever, the three of them will face, each in their own way, the environment, the necessity for change, and the meaning of life itself.
BILL PLYMPTON'S WORLD OF ANIMATED SHORTS
(International)
Saturday, September 10th @ 4:00pm
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The MV International Film Festival will present a display of animated shorts with a showcase curated by Bill Plympton, an Oscar-nominated animator and cartoonist, who has been amusing and provoking audiences with his surrealist, off-kilter take on everyday life for years.
THE GOOD BOSS
(Spain)
Saturday, September 10th @ 7:30pm
Awaiting a visit by a committee that could give his company an award for excellence, the owner of an industrial scales manufacturing business tries to resolve any problems from his workers in enough time.
“The Good Boss” takes place in and around the Blancos Básculas factory, where all things must be in balance at all times. After all, they manufacture scales of all shapes and sizes. There, the seemingly benevolent boss, Bardem’s Blanco, is preparing his workforce for an upcoming inspection by a group visiting local businesses to select one for a prestigious prize. Tensions begin to mount, however, when recently fired employee Jose shows up with his two children and begins making demands for the reinstatement of his employment. When Blanco’s management team refuses, the employee begins a one-man crusade to discredit Blanco and prevent him from winning the much-coveted award.
DOS ESTACIONES
(Mexico)
Sunday, September 11th @ 12:00pm
Fifty-year-old Maria Garcia is the owner of the Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat, and the final hold-over from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco; the rest have folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, Maria knows her current financial situation is untenable. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage, she is forced to do everything she can to save her community’s main source of economy and pride.
KARAOKE
(Israel)
Sunday, September 11th @ 2:pm
NOMINATED FOR 14 OPHIR AWARDS (Israel’s Academy Awards)
Meir and Tova live a middle-class life in a sleepy suburb, plagued by an unspoken sense of disappointment and regret. When Itsik Marziano, a former Miami-based modeling agent, moves into their building, their lust for life is reignited.
Sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel to New England