For five days, the Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival will showcase nine feature films, two documentaries and nine short films from a variety of countries including Senegal, Bangladesh and Mexico.

Years after it became the Island’s first state-designated cultural district, the Vineyard Haven Harbor Cultural District is relaunching as a newly-minted nonprofit led by artists working in the town.

Films abound this weekend with both the The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society and Circuit Arts hosting mini festivals.

More than 40 years after it was filmed in Oak Bluffs between 1962 and 1966 and premiered at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, Othello returns to the Island, this time screening at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center on August 11 at 7:30 p.m.

It's school break week and that means the Island empties out and activities slow to a trickle.

There are seven films on this year’s Spectrum Film Festival, ranging from hard-hitting documentaries to light hearted romantic comedies.

Richard Paradise, founder and director of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society, has a lot to celebrate this holiday season, after quietly raising more than $750,000 to purchase the Film Center.

Executive director Richard Paradise said that buying the building — a condominium within the Tisbury Marketplace development — has always been part of the long-term plan.

The Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival is more than an armchair trip around the world this year — it also travels back in time.