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| | THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
The story of a family and a family business.
Wealthy businessman, Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | BOULDER ENOFF CLOSING NIGHT RECEPTION - UPGRADE
Reception from 6:00PM to 8:00PM
Reception at Velvet Elk Lounge, on 13th Street
Libations & Appetizers, Live Music
RAFFLE PRIZES GALORE!
CLOSING NIGHT PERFORMER ACE ENGFER!! | BUY TICKETS | |
| | BAD SHABBOS
Kyra Sedgwick and Cliff “Method Man” Smith lead a hilarious ensemble cast in the award-winning new comedy BAD SHABBOS, winner of the Audience Award at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival!!
When David and his fiance Meg gather for his family’s traditional Shabbat dinner on New York’s Upper West Side, things spiral faster than you can say “hamotzi” when an accidental death (or…murder?) derails the evening entirely. With Meg’s devoutly Catholic parents due any moment to meet David’s very Jewish family, soon Shabbat becomes a comedy of biblical proportions. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | THE LIFE OF CHUCK
From the hearts and minds of Stephen King and Director Mike Flanagan comes THE LIFE OF CHUCK, the extraordinary story of an ordinary man. This powerful tale celebrates the life of Charles 'Chuck' Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us. Critics call the film "a life-affirming masterpiece" and "a stunning celebration of the moments that make life worth living." Rated R for language, but does not contain violence or explicit content. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | SEPARATED
Followed by a discussion with the author Jacob Soboroff, moderated by David Helpern
Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family's plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty, as over 1300 children remain separated today, according to the Department of Homeland Security. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | WELCOME BACK COTTERS (COMEDIAN TOM COTTER with KERRI LOUISE)
Don’t miss the MV Film Center Performance of America’s Got Talent Breakout Star Comedian Tom Cotter!
Comedian TOM COTTER has taken the comedy scene by storm since finishing as runner-up and becoming the Breakout Star from Season 7’s “America’s Got Talent.” Tom was the first comedian ever to be a finalist on the show and was the highest finishing human being on the show that year. In August 2013, AGT asked Tom back to perform as a special guest star (along with Train) and then again to host “The Season 8 AGT Snapple Viewing Party.” In January 2019 Tom was again invited back to the AGT stage – this time to perform against the best of the best “Got Talent” performers from other years and around the world in “America’s Got Talent: The Champions.” In one the most talked about sets of the entire competition, Tom received a STANDING OVATION from the adoring crowd. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | MATERIALISTS
A young New York City matchmaker's lucrative business gets complicated as she finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. Co-staring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal in this romantic comedy. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | DEAF PRESIDENT NOW
Followed by a discussion with co-director Davis Guggenheim in person!
"Deaf President Now!" recounts the eight days of historic protests held at Gallaudet University in 1988 after the school's board of trustees appointed a hearing president over several very qualified Deaf candidates. After a week of rallies, boycotts and protests, the students of Gallaudet University triumph as the hearing president resigns and beloved dean Dr. I. King Jordan becomes the university's first Deaf president. The protests marked a pivotal moment in civil rights history, with an impact that extended well beyond the Gallaudet campus, and paved the way for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). | BUY TICKETS | |
| | DOC WEEK ALL ACCESS PASS
Documentary films have become the conscience of the nation, providing a deeper study of contemporary, and often unnoticed, social issues. By using the unique medium of film, Documentarians are able to cultivate a more compelling and fruitful discussion by mixing strongly-driven narratives with vivid imagery. In recognition of the rising importance of documentaries to public dialogue, the Martha's Vineyard Film Society is proud to announce its eleventh annual Documentary Week from July 28 to August 1, 2025.
This pass gets you access to all five films playing at the MV Film Center during DOC WEEK July 28-August 1. Once you purchase a pass, we will email you and ask which specific shows you plan to attend so that we can reserve your tickets.
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| | BECOMING KATHARINE GRAHAM
Becoming Katharine Graham tells the story of a painfully shy woman's accidental rise to power and how it changed history. After a family tragedy, Kay evolved from a "doormat wife" into a legendary newspaper publisher. Nixon's nemesis during Watergate, she fought for truth, broke barriers in a sexist world, and won a Pulitzer Prize, inspiring generations with her courage and resilience. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | DOC WEEK: TENGA DURO SIGNORINA! ISABELLA DUCROT UNLIMITED
When, at the age of fifty-five, Isabella Ducrot, whose real name was Antonia Mosca, decided to become a visual artist, no one, not even Ducrot herself, ever dreamed that today, at ninety, she would be the darling of art galleries the world over. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | DOC WEEK: THE STRINGER
A former Saigon photo editor plagued by a 52-year secret courageously makes a stunning admission, setting off a gripping two-year investigation into five decades of buried secrets behind one of the Vietnam War’s most iconic photographs. Acclaimed war photographer Gary Knight and journalists Fiona Turner, Terri Lichstein, and Lê Vân embark on a relentless search to locate and seek justice for a man known only as “the stringer.”
The work of photographers during the Vietnam War exposed the horrors committed against the civilian population to a Western audience largely unaware of the scale of the atrocities. The iconic photograph, The Terror of War, also known as Napalm Girl, was shocking in its depiction of the violence experienced by children, prompting global protests and calls to end the war. But a claim by a former Associated Press photo editor raises doubts over the image’s origins. Bao Nguyen’s film follows a relentless journey to find the truth, locating a photographer known only as ‘the stringer’ who claims he took the photo, throwing the AP photographer credit into question. In following this investigation Nguyen’s film tackles racial injustice and journalistic ethics as it questions why Vietnamese photographers’ essential contribution to this conflict have not found their place in history. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | DOC WEEK: WOMEN & THE WIND
Three women ignite flames of curiosity and adventure by deepening our understanding of the synergy between nature and humanity through a voyage following plastic across the North Atlantic on Mara Noka, a 50-year-old wooden catamaran. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | BROADWAY DIVAS
CLEO KING PRESENTS BROADWAY DIVAS
Come enjoy an evening of SONGS by Broadway's finest! Our first annual Broadway Divas!!! We will also have poetry & spoken word! The Story telling and videos to share with you of more than 30 years of show business In New York City and Los Angeles. Broadway Divas have also done television and film and will share clips of these that you will recognize right away. Come and enjoy the talents of these lovely ladies and I promise we won't need to convince you next year!!!
One of our own Natasha Yvette Williams has recently won a Grammy for her broadway show, Some Like It HOT!!! You don't want to miss this Songbird. SHE IS TRULY SOMETHING SPECIAL!!
Cleo King is the grandma/Nana on Mike & Molly. You have seen her in movies & tv & film. The Hangover, Pineapple Express, Dreamgirls, Recurring on Grey's Anatomy, Shameless, Lemony Snickets, Minx, CSI, NCIS, She is so happy to finally make her dream come true. Bringing these talented performers to the stage at the Film Society in Martha's Vineyard.
Come have fun with us and we just might bring you up on stage too. ONLY if you want to participate!!!! WE know how to have fun and give you a great show!!! | BUY TICKETS | |
| | FINDING YOUR ROOTS – with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Valerie Jarrett
Free Event – Limit 2 per customer
Presented by The Inkwell Society
Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns to the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center for a special screening of FINDING YOUR ROOTS. Gates will present an episode of the show featuring businesswoman and former Senior Advisor to the President of the United States Valerie Jarrett, who will then join Gates on stage for a discussion. Gates uses genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis to guide guests through the branches of their family trees. Uncovering buried secrets and inspiring stories of long- forgotten ancestors. | | Sold out |
| | LOST NATION
Followed by a discussion with filmmaker Jay Craven in person!
“Lost Nation” is a Revolutionary War-era action drama set in the early upstart Republic of Vermont. “Lost Nation” stars Irish actor Kevin Ryan (“Copper,” Harry Wild”) as Vermont founding father and rebel schemer, Ethan Allen, who leads resistance to New Yorker land claims, launches an ill-fated attack on British forces in Montreal, and leads invasions by his Green Mountain Boys into Yorker strongholds of Guilford and Brattleboro. At every turn, Allen navigates thick entanglements with allies, enemies, and family.
“Lost Nation’s” parallel and intersecting story features Kenyan actress Eva Ndachi (“Beautifully Broken”) as Lucy Terry Prince, whose poem, “Bars Fight,” about the 1746 Deerfield Massacre, is the first known work of African American literature. Enslaved in Western Massachusetts at the age of 3 - for 30 years - Terry then settled with her family on a Guilford homestead carved out of the forest by her husband, formerly enslaved frontier transport operator, Abijah Prince.
Like Ethan Allen, the Princes found themselves caught up in turbulent times that threatened their prospects for the land and freedom they sought. Like Allen, Lucy Prince upset the status quo in her assertive use of early Vermont’s legal and political systems to defend her family in the face of pressure and threats. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | THE LIBRARIANS
Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities.
In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQia+ stories – triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of White Christian Nationalism fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work – the librarians’ rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | ZURAWSKI V TEXAS
Sponsored by Reproductive Equity Now Foundation
Women denied abortions under Texas’ ambiguous and unforgiving abortion bans band together with a fearless attorney to sue Texas. While battling in court against the state and its immovable Attorney General, the extent of their traumatic experiences is revealed as they wrestle to regain their reproductive futures and set a precedent for millions of other women and families. ZURAWSKI V TEXAS reveals the dire impact of losing access to healthcare—and the extraordinary efforts of the women and men fighting on the frontline to regain those rights. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | MODERISM, INC: The Eliot Noyes Design Story
Followed by a live discussion with Fred Noyes, architect and son of Eliot Noyes
Mid-century architect and designer Eliot Noyes built the design programs for some of America’s most powerful postwar corporations. The film weaves Noyes’ story with the broader context of corporate America’s embrace of Modernism during the period of postwar economic expansion and culminates in the backlash against Noyes and his generation during the countercultural upheaval of the Vietnam era. The life and work of Eliot Noyes is a vehicle to explore the intersection of postwar business, technology and design – a story that continues to resonate in the contemporary context. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | LIVINGSTON TAYLOR LIVE IN CONCERT
We are honored to to have Livingston Taylor performing for the first time at the MV Film Center. Livingston is a Martha’s Vineyard resident and when not performing can be found sometimes watching films at the Film Center as a film society member.
Livingston Taylor picked up his first guitar at the age of 13, which began a 50-year career that has encompassed performance, songwriting, and teaching. Born in Boston and raised in North Carolina, Livingston is the fourth child in a very musical family that includes Alex, James, Kate, and Hugh. Livingston recorded his first record at the age of 18 and has continued to create well crafted, introspective, and original songs that have earned him listeners worldwide. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | AGE GROUP WINNER
Followed by a live discussion with director Alexandra Helgerson!
In 1980 Jay Helgerson shocked the world, becoming the first person to run a marathon a week for a year – each race completed in under three hours. For the last ten years, his daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Helgerson, followed him with a camera in order to understand the eccentric man who raised her. What she gets are his projected anxieties, his struggles with physical age and emotional distress, all while he endlessly trains for the Boston Marathon. But as Jay trains, the film is nearly derailed by Alexandra’s encounter with a life threatening illness. Ultimately, AGE GROUP WINNER is an affirmation of the will to live. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | JON STETSON: PSYCHIC, MIND-BLOWING COMEDY SHOW
Jon Stetson returns to the Film Center stage
5 TIME WHITEHOUSE PERFORMER AND THE INSPIRATION FOR THE CBS SHOW “THE MENTALIST” JON STETSON RETURNS TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD!
There is simply NO other audience interactive performer like Jon Stetson. Known across the globe as America’s Master Mentalist, Jon knows what you’re thinking. No, he really does! What is The Stetson Experience? A truly mindblowing, crowd-pleasing, audience interactive mix of magic, mind reading, and amazing mystery all packaged together and delivered by an engaging and very funny comedic personality. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | Jimmy Tingle: Humor and Hope for Humanity
Fresh off a NYC theatrical run of his newest critically acclaimed one person show Humor and Hope for Humanity at the SoHo Playhouse and the release of his new Comedy Documentary JIMMY TINGLE: The “Radical” Middle- Why Would a Comedian Run for Office? Three time "Best of Boston" winner comedian Jimmy Tingle makes his return to the Martha's Vineyard Film Center with one show only on Wednesday, August 20th.
In Humor and Hope for Humanity Jimmy will take us on a very funny and soul-searching journey from his Boston roots as an aspiring comic and street performer to network television, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a run for political office and up to the present 2025 moment. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | Kevin and Jackie Flynn’s:
Brothers From Another Mother Comedy Tour
Both Flynn’s began their comedy careers in Boston’s red hot comedy scene in the late 80’s. It was not long before they were both headlining comedy clubs from NY to LA and everywhere in between.
Jackie Flynn currently is a regular character in the Hit TV series LOUDERMILK. Jackie recently completed shooting, THE WORLD’S GREATEST BEER RUN in Thailand , starring Russell Crowe, Bill Murray and Zac Ephron, due in theaters and Apple TV summer of 2022.
Jackie is truly a "comic's comic" whose refreshingly unique brand of sarcastic observational humor puts him in a class all his own, apart from the many derivative cookie cutter comics plying the airways today. Audiences young and old appreciate his wit and rapid-fire "take no prisoners" delivery.
Kevin Flynn, as a writer, actor, producer and comedian, has done it all. As an actor Flynn has appeared in a number of movies including the The Heartbreak Kid with Ben Stiller, Me, Myself and Irene with Jim Carey as well as starring as one of the series “most popular boyfriends” as voted by viewers, on HBO’s hit series SEX AND THE CITY. Kevin is also the Executive Director of The Nantucket Comedy Festival in support of a non-profit “Stand-Up and Learn”, an ongoing project that teaches school kids self-confidence through stand-up. Kevin is currently touring nationally with his latest one-man show, FEAR OF HEIGHTS-A VERY FUNNY PHOBIA. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | LABORS OF LOVE: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold
Followed by a live discussion with filmmaker Abby Ginzberg!
Henrietta Szold is among the most influential American Jewish women who ever lived. She founded Hadassah in 1912, a Jewish women’s service organization, that inspired hundreds of thousands of Jewish women to invest their energies in a cause that transcended their own personal lives. She became a major force in the early twentieth century in Palestine: she established its health care system, treating Jews and Arabs equally, shaped its education system and initiated social services that prevail today. In a crowning achievement, Szold helped organize Youth Aliyah, which successfully rescued thousands of Jewish children from Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during the 1930s and transported them to Palestine. | BUY TICKETS | |
| | IMAGINING THE INDIAN: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
Followed by a discussion with Co-Director and Co-Producer Aviva Kempner in person!
Imagining the Indian is a comprehensive examination of the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native Americans and their allies
find harmful, demeaning, and offensive. The film takes a deep-dive into the issues through archival footage and interviews with those involved in the fight.
The psychological research is clear, the use of Native American mascots is detrimental, not only to Native people, but to marginalized groups everywhere. | BUY TICKETS | |