Women’s Week 2026 Film Screenings
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13
11AM | BARBARA FOREVER
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
11:30AM | GIVE ME THE BALL
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Tennis icon Billie Jean King transformed sports and society. Through archives and intimate interviews with King and her inner circle, we see how she prioritized changing the world over self-preservation.
1PM | W@WE SHORTS
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Five new short films by women directors.
1:30PM | DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Three friends in their mid-thirties road trip across the Midwestern United States in search of a friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid.
4PM | ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PRESENTATION: BEBA
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • Free Get tickets!
In a raw and powerful self-portrait, Beba confronts the curses of her ancestry and the psychic wounds she has inherited while embracing the vastness of her identity. PFS artist-in-residence Rebeca Huntt in person.
4:30PM | MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, a quiet queer icon, captivated readers everywhere with her accessible celebration of nature, dogs, and life itself.
7PM | A TALENT FOR MURDER
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Helen Mirren stars as novelist Patricia Highsmith in this psychological drama based on Joanna Murray-Smith’s play Switzerland. When a young literary agent tries to convince Highsmith to write one last Ripley novel, their collaboration becomes a dangerous game of wits.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14
11AM | W@WE SHORTS
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Five new short films by women directors.
11:30AM | EDIE ARNOLD IS A LOSER
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Timid dork Edie makes waves when she starts a punk band with her fellow “turds,” becoming an icon to the other losers at her Catholic school while infuriating the popular girls, the nuns, and one particularly horny altar boy.
1PM | THE LIBERATION
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Carrie Coon stars as a Holocaust survivor who leaves her family to join a mysterious all-female commune, drawing her two grown daughters into a fight to bring her home. Inspired by true events.
1:30PM | ASK E. JEAN
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
A documentary portrait of writer, advice columnist, and Trump-trial victor E. Jean Carroll, tracing her rise from small-town Indiana to the top ranks of American magazine journalism and her fight to hold power accountable.
4PM | GIVE ME THE BALL
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Tennis icon Billie Jean King transformed sports and society. Through archives and intimate interviews with King and her inner circle, we see how she prioritized changing the world over self-preservation.
4:30PM | CLARISSA
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
A contemporary reimagining of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, set among the elite of present-day Lagos, as a society woman hosting a party confronts the choices and relationships of her youth.
7PM | TANGLES
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
A hand-drawn animated feature adapting Sarah Leavitt’s graphic memoir, following a young woman who returns home to care for her mother as Alzheimer’s disease reshapes their family.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15
Women’s Week Film Fest
11AM | MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, a quiet queer icon, captivated readers everywhere with her accessible celebration of nature, dogs, and life itself.
11:30AM | ASK E. JEAN
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
A documentary portrait of writer, advice columnist, and Trump-trial victor E. Jean Carroll, tracing her rise from small-town Indiana to the top ranks of American magazine journalism and her fight to hold power accountable.
1PM | BEING HEUMANN
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
A dramatization of the 1977 sit-in led by disability-rights activist Judy Heumann, in which more than 100 protesters occupied a San Francisco federal building for 28 days to demand enforcement of accessibility law. Directed by Siân Heder (CODA).
1:30PM | BARBARA FOREVER
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
4:30PM | ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PRESENTATION: DESTETE AND LATINER
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • Free Get tickets!
Two short comedic films exploring identity, family, and culture. PFS artist-in-residence Ines Gowland in person.
7:30PM | KAREN WILLIAMS: I HAD TO LAUGH
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
A documentary portrait of Karen Williams, the trailblazing comic who broke barriers as the first openly lesbian Black stand-up to bring queer material to the mainstream club circuit. The film traces her decades-long career and her mission to heal through humor. Karen Williams and director Andrea Meyerson in person for a Q&A.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16
11AM | CLAMBAKE
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Andrea Meyerson’s fan-favorite documentary, filmed during the 30th anniversary of Women’s Week in Provincetown. Director Andrea Meyerson in person for a Q&A.
11:30AM | ANNE PACKARD: AN ARTIST’S RESOLVE
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
In Provincetown, a single mother of five becomes one of the greatest artists of her generation.
1:30PM | MOUSE
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
A coming-of-age drama set in small-town Arkansas. After a sudden rupture with her best friend, a quiet teenager forms an unexpected, tender bond with the friend’s grieving mother. Starring Sophie Okonedo and Katherine Mallen Kupferer.
4PM | THE BRITTNEY GRINER STORY
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
WNBA star Brittney Griner’s journey from playing abroad to her detention in Russia, her fight for freedom, and her work to help other wrongfully detained Americans.
7:30PM | HURRICANNA
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Sylvia Hoeks stars as Anna Nicole Smith in a biographical drama tracing the chaotic, headline-making final chapter of her life and the forces that drove her toward self-destruction. Also starring Holly Hunter and Mark Duplass. Director Francesca Gregorini in person for a Q&A.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
11AM | AT NIGHT
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Six women navigate the neon-lit streets, bars, and metro of Paris over a single night in a film blending dreams, fiction, and reality.
11:30AM | KAREN WILLIAMS: I HAD TO LAUGH
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
A documentary portrait of Karen Williams, the trailblazing comic who broke barriers as the first openly lesbian Black stand-up to bring queer material to the mainstream club circuit. The film traces her decades-long career and her mission to heal through humor. Karen Williams and director Andrea Meyerson in person for a Q&A.
1:30PM | JEWEL’S CATCH ONE
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • $12/$13/$15 Get tickets!
Jewel Thais-Williams ran America’s oldest Black-owned disco for 42 years while fighting discrimination. Her club, “The Catch,” united LGBTQ+ and Black communities, helped people with AIDS, and became the West Coast’s answer to Studio 54. Director C. Fitz in person for a Q&A.
