The 18th Woodstock Film Festival, will open with the East Coast premiere of Stuck, a musical narrative about a group of six strangers trapped together on a stalled New York City subway car. The characters confront their assumptions of one another under the scrutinizing eye of a mysterious homeless man played by Giancarlo Esposito. This kickoff event will begin at 7PM October 11 at the Woodstock Playhouse.
The Festival will present an outstanding lineup of films to be shown in Woodstock, Rhinebeck, Rosendale, Saugerties, and Kingston.
“This year’s lineup is one that challenges our creative and intellectual boundaries and brings important social issues into focus, both locally and globally” said Woodstock Film Festival’s co-founder and executive director Meira Blaustein. “In today’s political climate it is particularly important to celebrate our differences and find our commonalities. This year’s participating filmmakers have gone above and beyond in capturing diverse moments of humanity that personify fierce independence.”
NARRATIVE FEATURES
The Bachelors, directed by Kurt Voelker
The Ballad of Lefty Brown, directed by Jared Moshe
Beauty Mark, directed by Harris Doran
Becks, directed by Dan Powell and Elizabeth Rohrbaugh
Cold November, directed by Karl Jacob
Crash Pad, directed by Kevin Tent
Don’t Come Back From the Moon, directed by Bruce Thierry Cheung
Girl in Flight, directed by Sandra Vannucchi
Holden On, directed by Tamlin Hall
Infinity Baby, directed by Bob Byington
Last Flag Flying, directed by Richard Linklater
The Light of the Moon, directed by Jessica M. Thompson
A Real Vermeer, directed by Rudolf van den Berg
Revengeance, directed by Bill Plympton and Jim Lujan
The Song of Sway Lake, directed by Ari Gold
The Sounding, directed by Catherine Eaton
The Square, directed by Ruben Östlund
The Strange Ones, directed by Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein
Stuck, directed by Michael Berry
Submission, directed by Richard Levine
They, directed by Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Time Trap, directed by Mark Dennis and Ben Foster
The Traveller, directed by Hadi Ghandour
Us And Them, directed by Joe Martin
Waterboys, directed by Robert Jan Westdijk
What Children Do, directed by Dean Peterson
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide, directed by Hope Litoff
40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie,directed by Lee Aronsohn
Against All Odds – The Fight for a Black Middle Class with Bob Herbert, directed by Bob Herbert
Arthur Miller: Writer, directed by Rebecca Miller
Bean, directed by Emilie Bunnell
Becoming Who I was, directed by Moon Chang-Yong and Jeon Jin
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, directed by Alexandra Dean
The Chocolate Case, directed by Benthe Forrer
The Cycle (America Divided), directed by Solly Granatstein, Lucian Read and Richard Rowley
Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution, directed by Jamie Redford
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, directed by Griffin Dunne
La Chana, directed by Lucija Stojevic
The Last Pig, directed by Allison Argo
Mary Janes: The Women of Weed, directed by Windy Borman
My Name is Pedro, directed by Lillian LaSalle
Nat Bates for Mayor, directed by Bradley Berman and Eric Weiss
The Organizer, directed by Nick Taylor
The Rape of Recy Taylor, directed by Nancy Buirski
Roll With Me, directed by Lisa France
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me, directed by Sam Pollard
Shingal, Where Are You?, directed by Angelos Rallis
Supermensch, directed by Mike Myers, Beth Aala
A Symphony of Hope, directed by Brian Weidling
Thank You For Coming, directed by Sara Lamm
This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, directed by Barbara Kopple
To A More Perfect Union: U.S. v. Windsor, directed by Donna Zaccaro
To the Edge of the Sky, directed by Jedd Wider and Todd Wider