Zeb — Schooner Life, a film documentary about the Vineyard’s legendary schooner Captain Zeb Tilton, premieres Thursday, June 26, at 7 p.m. at the Capawock Theater in Vineyard Haven. The event will benefit the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. Future screenings on the Island are planned as well.

What happens to the 705 people of tiny Crawford, Tex. when George W. Bush moves to town?

Pangea Day

Martha’s Vineyard will be linked to locations as diverse as Cairo, Kigali, London and Rio de Janeiro tomorrow, Saturday, May 10, when the Capawock Theatre in Vineyard Haven joins the Pangea Day program.

Internationally, sites will be linked live to produce a program of powerful films, speakers and uplifting music. Inspirational films such as 2 Men, 1 War, 33 Years On; Combatants For Peace; and Dear Mandela will be shown, along with performances by musicians including Sir Bob Geldof, Dave Stewart and Hypernova.

The Vineyard Haven Library begins a new foreign film series on Wednesday, May 7, at 1 p.m.

The first movie is Russian, with subtitles for the Russian, Finnish, and Sámi (spoken in Lapland) languages. The film begins in September, 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A Lapp woman, Anni, gives shelter at her farm to escaped soldiers of the two enemy armies. Unable to speak each other’s language, the two men begin to fall in love with Anni and are forced to let their body language speak for them.

Modern art, commercialism and child development collide in the documentary My Kid Could Paint That, screening this Saturday at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society series.

Parents all watch and admire as their offspring first pick up a paint brush; most encourage their children to express themselves through art. But what happens when it turns out that a child might be a true prodigy — with parents willing to go to great lengths to convince the world of her genius?