Acclaimed director Susanne Bier returns with her most powerful film yet, the Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film, After the Wedding.

Far from home, Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen), runs a struggling orphanage in one India’s poorest regions. Desperate to save the orphanage from closure, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard) a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. Jorgen offers Jacob a seemingly innocent invitation to attend his daughter’s wedding.

In the age of electronic entertainment, how delightful to see a roomful of children wrapped in the spell — not of a movie, video game or Web site — but an old-fashioned puppet show. Che’s Lounge in Vineyard Haven played host Sunday, Feb. 15 (the second of three consecutive Sundays scheduled) to a local puppet troupe performing a Brazilian folktale — Toad and the Party in the Sky — to a packed house. Children in the audience, ranging in age from one to ten, were clearly captivated, laughing aloud and even singing along with the characters.

Think you’ve got problems? Get a little perspective with Shakespeare’s most famous problem play, Measure for Measure. Among other timeless topics, the play addresses hypocrisy in public figures, government’s meddling into people’s private lives, and that old favorite: lust, and what to do about it.

The Vineyard Haven Public Library is giving away MP3 players. The library will be offering two classes in February to teach patrons how to use the Clams (Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing) overdrive service to download audio books and music.

The classes will be offered at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21 and Saturday, Feb. 28 at the library. During each class a drawing will be held, and one class participant will win an MP3 player, a portable device that can be used to listen to digital audio files.

In this year-long serialized novel, set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby.

Poking out from the gloom of financial news is new hope for the fund-raising efforts of Island nonprofit organizations. A partnership of the Martha’s Vineyard Donors Collaborative, the Oak Bluffs Public Library and the Associated Grant Makers of Massachusetts has established the Grant Resource Center at the library, available for organizations and individuals.