Director: Kent Jones | Cast: Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, Edmond Donovan, Jake Lacy

1h 36m, R

A legendary New York poet rediscovers his artistic passion after befriending an eccentric group of young creatives.

Director: Brian Henson | Cast: Dave Goelz, Tim Curry, Kevin Bishop, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, Steve Whitmire, Kevin Clash 

1h 39m, PG

All attendees will be entered to win a box of pirate themed prizes!

A reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale in which The Muppets take to the high seas in search of buried treasure. Young Jim Hawkins is given a treasure map by a mysterious sailor and sets sail with his friends the Great Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat.

The Saturday Morning Cartoons & More series is sponsored by Cheryl & Chris Jensen, Claire & Zak Mei, and the Nancy F. Vaughan Fund of NHCF; co-sponsored by Lori & Eric Raichle and Barbra & Eliot Weisman

Doors 10:30am | Free to all!

Director: Colleen Thurston | Cast: Charlotte Leonard, Sandra Stroud, Lauren Haygood, Kenneth Roberts, Johnna Thurston

6:30 PM - Meet the speakers reception, 7:00 PM - Discussion with Brooke Brown and Landon Gryczkowski about watershed restoration and its impact on the surrounding ecosystem, followed by a screening of Drowned Land

BROOKE M. BROWN

Brooke Brown has served as the Pemigewasset District Ranger on the White Mountain National Forest for the past decade, overseeing operations across the forest’s western half. She brings more than 25 years of federal land management experience with the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service.

She holds a master’s degree in archaeology and bachelor’s degrees in archaeology and history. Before becoming District Ranger, Brooke worked as an archaeologist and tribal liaison, including representing the Bureau of Land Management on a Department of the Interior team evaluating dam removals along the Klamath River in southern Oregon and northern California.

In her current role, Brooke served as the decision-maker for the South Gale River and Wild Ammonoosuc dam removal projects, advancing ecological restoration across the Pemigewasset Ranger District.

LANDON GRYCZKOWSKI, PhD

Landon Gryczkowski is the Watershed Program Manager for the White Mountain National Forest. He specializes in combining advanced technology with an understanding of natural processes to evaluate river systems and design river and floodplain restoration projects. His work includes monitoring water movement, assessing erosion and channel change, mapping beaver habitat, and applying geospatial tools to watershed restoration.

Most notably, Landon co-leads restoration efforts in the Zealand River watershed, helping reconnect the river with its historic floodplain to restore natural form and function. He uses advanced geospatial tools, imagery, and LiDAR analysis to inform ecological restoration and federal land management.

Landon holds a PhD in Water Resources Engineering, integrating hydrologic science with the engineering principles needed to design and restore resilient natural systems.

About Drowned Land

Winding its way through southeastern Oklahoma, the Kiamichi River is a bastion of ecological diversity. Already twice-dammed, the state of Oklahoma and a Texas corporation are now trying to dam and divert the remaining water from the river.. For a group of locals, this isn’t just a fight for a river; it is a lifelong reckoning with the cycle of land theft and displacement that began with the Trail of Tears. Now, in a region where the community relies on the Kiamichi’s ecosystem for subsistence, taking the water out of the watershed could mean yet another relocation.

The narrative arc follows the river as its main character—witnessing the ebb and flow of its life-giving ability through the seasons, and the detrimental impact caused by damming and development projects. The director, Colleen, explores the

effects of her grandfather's work designing dams for the Army Corps of Engineers, her tribe’s ongoing struggles with resource exploitation, and how it shapes her reconciliation of the past with the present.

Interwoven are the stories of the river’s advocates—residents, Choctaw culture- keepers, and scientists—who have come together to save the river and initiate a paradigm shift grounded in ideals of re-matriation and the Rights of Nature, reinforcing a commitment to end the cycle of disconnection from our land.

The New Leaf Series is created in partnership with Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust and is co-sponsored by Forest Society North at The Rocks, Tall Provisions, and Liquid Death

Director: Marianne Elliott | Cast: Jillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs, James Lance, Lara Peake

1h 55m, NR

The profound story of husband and wife Raynor and Moth Winn, who embark on a 630-mile trek after being forcibly removed from their home. Hoping that in nature they will find solace and a sense of acceptance, they walk through the beautiful but rugged coastline of South West England - a journey that is exhilarating , challenging, and liberating in equal measures. THE SALT PATH is a powerful portrayal of home and how it can be lost and rediscovered in the most unexpected ways.

If you haven’t been fortunate enough to meet Vanessa Collier and witness one of her head-turning, fiery, and passionate performances, her set will blow your mind. As a master musician and multi-instrumentalist, Vanessa weaves funk, soul, rock, and blues into every powerful performance. With soulful vocals, searing saxophone, and witty songwriting, Vanessa is blazing a trail, racking up an arsenal of honors, and has already singled herself out as an artist of distinction.

It’s not simply the accolades she has accumulated so far, although they’ve been many, including two Blues Music Awards for Horn Player of the Year, seven BMA nominations, a Blues Blast Award nomination, the Jammingest Pro Award bestowed by the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, First Place for lyrics in the International Songwriting Competition, and Best of 2014 Blues Breaker on Dan Aykroyd’s BluesMobile. It’s the fact that she has accumulated all these honors even while her career is still in its infancy.

Having first picked up the saxophone at the age of 9, Collier embarked on her road to recognition at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, earning dual degrees in Performance and Music Production & Engineering. While still completing her degree, Collier landed a position touring with Joe Louis Walker for a year and a half before Joe encouraged her to strike out on her own. And strike out she did.

She’s toured nationally and internationally, released four critically acclaimed albums including the highly anticipated fourth album, Heart on the Line, in May 2020. In 2017, Vanessa was also a featured artist in three major tours across Europe as part of Ruf Records’ 2017 Blues Caravan.

As for Collier, she says she’s happy performing on stages across the world, hoping that she can make a difference with fans and followers along the way. “I am driven to do this because I find it a total form of expression and connection,” she explains. “I love connecting with an audience and feeling their energy and I hope to inspire people to follow their dreams and passions, to find what brings them joy, and then to pursue it doggedly.”

Event Sponsored by Carrie & Jim Hamblin.

BACK FOR ANOTHER RUN!

The RITUAL Mountain Bike Film Tour returns with a NEW LINE UP of films that showcase creative filmmaking, incredible riding, and beautiful cinematography, bringing local bike communities together in mountain biking’s greatest towns. RITUAL 26 stands committed to local MTB bike organizations and has partnered with organizations across the US to bring this film to the BIG Screen.

COME OUT AND ENJOY THE RIDE!

The 2026 Reel Outdoors Series is co-sponsored by Appalachian Mountain Club, Carlson's Lodge, North Country Climbing Center, The Lawton Company, and The Trout Unlimited Ammonoosuc Chapter 554

Manhattan Short is not a touring Festival; rather, it is an instantaneous celebration that occurs simultaneously across the globe, bringing great films to great venues and allowing audiences to select their favorites. If the Film Festival experience truly is about getting great works in front of as many eyes as possible, Manhattan Short offers the ultimate platform—one that sees its films screened in Sydney, Mumbai, Moscow, Vienna, Cape Town to cinemas in all 50 states of the United States and beyond—and you are the judge!

Director: Matthew Johnson | Cast: Dominic Sessa, Antonio Banderas, Leo Woodall, Emilia Jones

1h 46m, R

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

6:30pm - Meet the Speaker reception | 7pm - Science the House Out of It: presentation by speaker Daniel Zajic | After the presentation - Stay for a screening of The Martian

The Martian (2015): An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assumes him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.

Presentation:
Housing today faces growing pressure—from rising costs, limited labor, and land constraints to sustainability and aging-in-place needs. Before the screening of The Martian, this talk follows a multi-year solo project building a new house in pursuit of better answers. By intentionally creating constraints to drive innovation, continually asking what’s truly necessary, and questioning assumptions, it explores what becomes possible when you start from first principles—guided by an ideal of what a home could be, and the attempt to get as close to that as reality allows. What if a home could give back more than it takes—producing more energy than it uses, minimizing waste not just today but over its entire lifetime? And if that’s within reach, why aren’t we already building this way?

Bio: Daniel Zajic was born in Ottawa, Canada, to immigrant parents, and came to the United States for college, where he met his wife, also Canadian. After several moves across the country, they settled in the White Mountains about a decade ago. He brings over 25 years of experience in software engineering, including work at several successful healthcare startups, and is a techno-optimist—an outlook that now fuels his ambition to apply his problem solving experience to his own long-held dream, and simultaneously help others achieve theirs.

Science on Screen at The Colonial is presented in partnership with White Mountain Science, Inc. (WMSI) and is sponsored by Kerberos LLC and Hacker.Nexus

Science on Screen is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Director: Alicia MacDonald | Cast: Spike Fearn, Angourie Rice, Minnie Driver

1h 51m, PG-13

When a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way.

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky | Cast: Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, David Spade, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi, Fran Drescher

1h 31m, PG

When monsters want to get away from it all, they go to Count Dracula's (Adam Sandler) Hotel Transylvania, a lavish resort where they can be themselves without humans around to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula invites creatures like the Invisible Man, the Mummy and others to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez). However, an unforeseen complication unfolds when an ordinary human unwittingly crashes the party and falls in love with Mavis.

The Saturday Morning Cartoons & More series is sponsored by Cheryl & Chris Jensen, Claire & Zak Mei, and the Nancy F. Vaughan Fund of NHCF; co-sponsored by Lori & Eric Raichle and Barbra & Eliot Weisman

Doors 10:30am | Free to all!

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature (Benedict Cumberbatch) is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the increasingly desperate and vengeful Creature determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.

Scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil, are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic tale.

Please note: Includes sexual violence

Play by Nick Dear

Directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle
Based on the novel by Mary Shelley

Filmed from the Olivier Theatre in 2011

6:30 PM Doors and Patio Reception with finger food to celebrate Italian cuisine | 7:15PM Bethlehem Community Dinner/Bethlehem Food Pantry presents on their mission and how to get involved, followed by a screening of Italian Wannabe | After the screening stick around for a Zoom Q&A with Director Steve Dabal.

Director: Steve Dabal | Cast: Bill Disselhorst

In a quiet village nestled in the Italian countryside, a celebrated Los Angeles chef begins again, not to escape his past, but to taste life again.

In collaboration with our friends at the Littleton Food Co-Op.

Look for a table from the Bethlehem Community Dinner/Bethlehem Food Pantry!

Director: Padraic McKinely | Cast: Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe, Julia Jones

1h 55m, R

Desperate to save what is left of his family, during the height of the Great Depression a battle-scarred veteran is hired to help smuggle a fortune in gold across 100 miles of impenetrable wilderness.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Cast: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Bernie Mac

1h 57m, PG-13

Dapper Danny Ocean is a man of action. Less than 24 hours into his parole from a New Jersey penitentiary, the wry, charismatic thief is already rolling out his next plan. He follows three rules: do not hurt anybody, do not steal from anyone who does not deserve it, and play the game like you have got nothing to lose. With those in mind, Danny works to orchestrate the most sophisticated, elaborate casino heist in history, targeting three establishments owned by the man who is dating his ex-wife.

The 2026 Anniversary Classics series is co-sponsored by Les Apple & Debra Saunders, Teri Bordenave & Eric van Leuven, The North Country Chamber Players.

Director: Jane Schoenbrun | Cast: Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Jack Haven, Amanda Fix, Eva Victor

2h, R

After years of slapdash sequels, the "Camp Miasma" franchise gets handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the reclusive actress from the original film, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear and delirium.