Special Event

Event

Winter Film Festival: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Cape Cod National Seashore

Fee:

Free.

Location: LAT/LONG: 42.000000, -70.000000


50 Nauset Road, Eastham, MA

Dates & Times

Date:

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Time:

1:30 PM

Duration:

2 hours and 30 minutes

Type of Event

Exhibition/Show
Partner Program

2 hr. 15 min.


Description

Cape Cod National Seashore will kick off its annual winter film festival with the theme, “Sources of Solace and Inspiration”. The films will show on six consecutive Sundays at 1:30 pm on the theatre-size screen at Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham. The festival is co-sponsored by the Friends of Cape Cod National Seashore. Movies are free and open to the public.
 
Details for February 16: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (2 hr. 15 min.) Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film depicts the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object; and Jillian, a single mother whose three-year-old son was also abducted by a UFO.
 
Salt Pond Visitor Center is located at the intersection of Route 6 and Nauset Road in Eastham and can be contacted by calling 508-255-3421. The visitor center is open from 9 am to 4:30 pm.
 

Reservation or Registration: No