If ever there was a sign that life as we know it is starting to return, it’s the Provincetown International Film Festival unspooling June 16–25. One of the region’s most popular and highly regarded film festivals, PIFF this season will be a hybrid, mixing virtual and live, reduced capacity screenings at the Waters Edge cinema. Outdoor screening venues include the lawn of the newly remodeled Mary Heaton Vorse House in the town’s East End and one of Cape Cod’s treasures that’s also ideal for socially distanced moviegoing: the Wellfleet Drive-In. Like so many arts events in 2020, PIFF had to scuttle last year’s festival because of COVID-19. This year, PIFF’s artistic director Lisa Viola has already assembled an impressive slate of features, documentaries and shorts geared to the town’s eclectic community of LGBTQ residents and visitors, artists and townies. The festival opens June 16 at the Wellfleet Drive-in with the much anticipated “In the Heights,” the movie version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2007 Tony-winning musical. Find the full line-up and more details on the website.
| WHEN | WHERE | HOW |
| June 16–25 | virtual & live screenings, Provincetown, Wellfleet | provincetownfilm.org |
