About 200 Islanders took in Saturday’s Family Film Feast event, the last in this successful new Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival’s winter series, which varied each month in all ways except in its emphasis on the spirit of community.

Community drumming aficionado Rick Bausman led a drum circle with kids involved during the first hour, while, underscoring the feast portion of the event, a meal made from food donated by the Farm Institute and Whippoorwill Farm was prepared and served by Amy Miller and Billy Dillon.

The film program was billed A New You. The celluloid subjects ranged from feeling unnoticed on your birthday, to having an imagined reality about a long-lost father who comes home at last dashed, to a film about noisy pigs who come into the wild and trash the woods for the creatures who dwell there — and how they deal with the situation.

After the movies, Matteus Seheffer, age 10, declared, “It was good that they put on good films.”

Nine-year-old Jack Sierputoski added, “I liked the films although I could not always hear the sound” — a large number of the short films simply did not have any words in them.

Seven of the nine films were animated, a form that often allows filmmakers to engage serious issues in a way that works for all ages, with universal themes that could be seen through an adult’s or a child’s eye.

— Jonah Lipsky