Funky Guajiro will perform Cuban jazz at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in a tribute to Suzanne Koch Gosman, a co-founder of the library and a former member of its board who died in 2008.

The group features Jainardo Batista, percussion, Yuniel Jimenez, Cuban tres guitar, and Pedro Giraudo, bass. All three sing. The songs, which will be announced during the free concert, will include original compositions by the band, classics by Marcelino Guerra and Agustin Pina, and pieces that have been recorded by the Buena Vista Social Club.

As they have in recent years, the guitarist G.E. Smith and the musician Taylor Barton-Smith, who live in Amagansett, will liven up the South Fork’s off-season with a host of special events at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, starting on Saturday at 8 p.m. with the launch of the Portraits series.

Ms. Barton-Smith, a singer-songwriter whose album “Everybody Knows” was described in The Star in 2013, serves as curator and producer of the series, which will feature Mr. Smith, the former musical director of “Saturday Night Live” who has toured and recorded with artists including Bob Dylan, Roger Waters, and Hall and Oates. He will perform and speak with artists of various disciplines, starting on Saturday with a trio of diverse talents: the composer Carter Burwell, the artist Dan Rizzie, and the photographer Ralph Gibson.

On Oct. 30, Mr. Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd and a resident of the South Fork, will join Mr. Smith for an intimate performance that is sold out. And on Nov. 7, Ethan Hawke, who portrayed the jazz musician Chet Baker in “Born to Be Blue,” a film that made its U.S. debut on Saturday as part of the Hamptons International Film Festival, will be Mr. Smith’s guest.

Each of the guests will offer their musical talent, whether or not it is the artistic sphere for which they are known. And therein await surprises, Mr. Smith said. Apart from Mr. Waters,he said, “The other people aren’t known as musicians. But they all play music — Ethan Hawke is a good musician!”

“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little nervous,” said Mr. Rizzie, who lives on North Haven. “But I collect guitars, and have shared that passion with G.E. for years.” Mr. Rizzie described himself as a closet musician. “I really play in my studio,” he said. “Waiting for the paint to dry, sometimes I’ll pick up the guitars,” of which he has about 15.

A fan of 1960s and ’70s rock ’n’ roll and rootsy artists like Steve Earle, Bob Dylan, and the Band, Mr. Rizzie said he will perform three original songs, “which are generally sort of tongue-in-cheek.”

Mr. Waters, Mr. Smith said, “is doing this as a favor to me. He’s never, ever done a solo show and I guarantee he’ll never do one again. People are coming from Europe for that one.” He and Mr. Waters, with whom he played 229 concerts around the world over three years, will talk about the former Pink Floyd bassist and vocalist’s compositions, which are featured on landmark albums including “Dark Side of the Moon,” “Wish You Were Here,” and “The Wall.” “That Pink Floyd-Waters appeal is deep all over the world,” Mr. Smith said.

Each event will be primarily a musical performance. “It’s probably going to be 75 or 80-percent music and 20-percent talking. I will ask a couple questions, and maybe we will have a little conversation, but basically I want to present their music. These people all have something to offer musically. I wouldn’t ask them to do it if I didn’t think the audience would enjoy it.”

He hopes that the Portraits series will continue. “There are more people that live here,” he said, “and have a musical tradition in their lives.”

Tickets to the Portraits series are $35 and are available at baystreet.org, at the box office, and by calling the theater.

Four filmmakers whose works were in the Hamptons International Film Festival’s documentary competition gathered at Rowdy Hall in East Hampton on Saturday morning as part of the Winick Talks series. The directors are linked by their obsessions with specific individuals whose personalities and circumstances not only drove the filmmakers to make their films but also in large part determined how those films evolved.

“Pebbles at Your Door,” a short documentary by Vibeke Bryld, a Danish filmmaker, is the story of a North Korean woman who grew up believing her life in Pyongyang was charmed. Eventually, her world fell apart, and she ultimately escaped via China to the south, where she encountered a very different society from that portrayed by North Korea’s propaganda.

“I had to hide her identity since her family escaped to the south,” said Ms. Bryld. “You don’t see her, you only hear her voice.” The film is composed almost entirely of still images. The filmmaker and her set designer created sets based on their research into propaganda films from North Korea.

David Shapiro’s “Missing People” also has a mysterious woman at its center. Martina Batan is a New York gallery director who had purchased a work by Mr. Shapiro, who is also a visual artist. She invited him to her studio to look at the work of Roy Ferdinand, an outsider artist from New Orleans, whose paintings were “very violent, very sexual, very graphic,” according to the filmmaker.

“I thought, ‘Something is going on here that doesn’t add up.’ My intuition told me this artist was very compelling and she was obsessed with him, and I wondered why. I felt there was something rumbling under the surface, and she wasn’t going to tell me what it was.”

Mr. Shapiro learned a year and a half into the film that Martina’s brother had been murdered in New York City in the 1970s. So the film became a double narrative of Martina’s investigation into Roy Ferdinand and her private investigator’s investigation of her brother’s unsolved murder.

Mystery surrounded the subject of Ilinca Calugareanu’s “Chuck Norris vs. Communism.” During the 1980s in Romania, when the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was still in power, a blackmarket VHS racketeer smuggled more than 3,000 foreign films into the country, many of them American blockbusters, which Irina Nistor, a translator, dubbed into Romanian. “She was huge in Romania,” said Ms. Calugareanu, “everyone knew her voice.”

“From the beginning I knew it was a great story. My concern was how to tell something that happened 25 years ago, especially since there was very little archival material from that period.” This dilemma led to staged re-enactments of the smuggling and dubbing process. “The man in the shadows who started this whole business didn’t want to be filmed, but he relented for the final image.”

An extraordinarily complex character was the impetus for Jon Fox’s film, “Newman.” “It’s a story of superlatives,” said the filmmaker. “There’s a backwoods maniac genius who comes up with a free energy motor than can end oil, operates on magnetism, and he gets a tremendous amount of support from the science community in the late 1970s.”

Mr. Fox first met Joseph Newman 12 years before becoming a filmmaker, and the story stayed with him. When the inventor was unable to get a patent, he sued the patent office, had 15 minutes on the Johnny Carson show, and even rented the Superdome for a demonstration, where “he ranted about this and that.”

Mr. Fox avoided showing his subject, except in archival footage, for the first 50 minutes of the film. Eventually, “I got to the point where I did something unconventional — I entered the story.” He tried to bring him inventors and academics to see if he could reignite some interest, but Mr. Newman’s “ways don’t work for him. I think the technology works, but he’s so difficult that in the end that eclipses the motor and my film.”

Later the discussion turned to the problems of getting a film out into the world. With the exception of Ms. Bryld, who cited the Danish Film Institute as a source of income for her — “We are quite spoiled,” she said — the general consensus was that, difficult as it is to support yourself in the field, drive, determination, and commitment to an idea more often than not will carry you to the finish line.

Four New Shows at Guild Hall

Christina Mossaides Strassfield, the museum director and chief curator of Guild Hall, will deserve a vacation after this weekend, when four exhibitions, all of which she organized, will open on Saturday afternoon with a reception from 4 to 6.

“Cornelia Foss” will survey the artist’s oil-on-canvas works from the late 1990s through 2014. The show will explore her organic affinity for nature, including bold blue seascapes and vast flat landscapes that place her in the tradition of such other East End painters as Fairfield Porter, Jane Freilicher, Robert Dash, and Jane Wilson.

Speaking of landscapes, “A Sense of Place: Selections From the Guild Hall Museum Permanent Collection” will include works spanning three centuries inspired by the topography of the East End. Artists represented include Childe Hassam, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Mary Nimmo Moran, Thomas Moran, Elaine de Kooning, James Brooks, Francesco Bologna, and many others.

“Portraying Artists: Photographs by Walter Weissman” will consist of 15 black-and-white photographs of some of the most interesting performing, fine, and literary artists of our time, among them Chuck Close, Ross Bleckner, Edward Albee, Billy Joel, Calvin Klein, Betty Friedan, and Robert Rauschenberg. The works range in date from 1983 to 2001.

“Dancing With Truffaut” features eight recent paintings by Stephanie Brody-Lederman, a two-time winner of top honors in the museum’s artist-member exhibitions. According to the artist, the show pays homage to the French filmmaker’s exploration of the seemingly small, ordinary aspects of everyday life.

The exhibitions will remain on view through Jan. 3, with the exception of “Portraying Artists,” which will run through Feb. 21.

VJS Artists at Ashawagh

The employees of VJS Studio, who by day frame the works of other artists, will exhibit their own artwork at Ashawagh Hall in Springs tomorrow from 5 to 9 p.m., Saturday from noon to 10 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5. A reception will happen on Saturday from 6 to 10.

The show will include work in a variety of media — painting, photography,

mixed media, and textiles, by Eddie Cortes, Mary Daunt, AG Duggan, Claudia Dunn, Luc LeBoleis, and ORLOUARTS.

Paul Davis in Milan

“American Hotel,” a three-dimensional assemblage by the Sag Harbor artist Paul Davis, will be included in “Barfly,” an exhibition organized by Cristina Taverna, a Milan gallerist, as part of Bookcity Milano, a citywide festival that will take place today through Sunday.

Mr. Davis is one of 20 artists selected for the show, which is devoted to cafes and bars around the world that have attracted notable artists and writers. “American Hotel” consists of the artist’s own photograph of the bar, stones and seashells collected locally, a fragment of a recent poster by Mr. Davis with seagulls, a cigar box provided by the hotel’s proprietor, Ted Conklin, and other memorabilia.

Benefit at Mark Borghi N.Y.C.

“Artists and Animals,” a group exhibition for the benefit of Broadway Barks, will open Wednesday at Mark Borghi Fine Art’s Manhattan location and remain on view through Nov. 17. Among the artists participating are Hilary Knight, Jules Feiffer, Peter Beard, and Joel Grey. The show has been organized by the gallery and Julie Keyes of Keyes Art Consulting.

Broadway Barks provides a safe haven and seeks homes for abandoned animals. Proceeds from sales will benefit the Barc Shelter in Brooklyn.

Burt Glinn in London

The Serena Morton Gallery in London will present “Cuba 1959,” an exhibition of photographs by Burt Glinn, the noted photographer who worked with Magnum Photos, from Wednesday through Nov. 20.

Mr. Glinn, who lived in East Hampton until his death in 2008, caught the last flight to Cuba from Miami on New Year’s Day 1959 and proceeded to capture in pictures the idealism, mayhem, and excitement of the first days of the Cuban revolution, including Fidel Castro’s entrance into Havana.

Guild Hall will present an encore screening of the National Theatre Live production of “Hamlet” on Saturday at 7 p.m. Benedict Cumberbatch, an Academy Award nominee for “The Imitation Game,” plays the Danish prince who is forced to avenge his father’s death at the hands of his uncle, Claudius, but is unable to act.

Dominic Cavendish, writing for The Daily Telegraph about the production, which is currently running at the Barbican Center in London, said “Cumberbatch is a blazing five-star Hamlet.” Tickets are $18, $16 for members.

Donald Alfano, a classical pianist, will present “Spanish and Latin American Composers,” a free concert, at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. He will perform works by Mateo Albeniz, Issac Albeniz, Enrique Granados, Federico Mompou, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ernesto Lecuona, Manuel de Falla, and Astor Piazzolla.

The program will include brief commentary between selections. Mr. Alfano, who teaches music history and appreciation, jazz history, and Latin and Caribbean music at Housatonic Community College in Connecticut, has presented programs throughout the United States and Europe.

The Parrish Art Museum’s Salon Series will conclude its fall program with a concert by Inna Faliks tomorrow at 6 p.m. Ms. Faliks, who made her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 15, has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Concert Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris’s Salle Cortot, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall, and at music festivals around the world.

Tomorrow’s program will include works by Clarice Assad, Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Maurice Ravel, and Franz Liszt. Tickets are $20, $10 for members.

Tomer Gewirtzman, a 2013-2014 Pianofest Distinguished Artist, will make his third appearance at the Southampton Cultural Center as part of its Rising Stars piano series on Saturday at 7 p.m. His program will include Bach’s Toccata in E minor, Haydn’s Sonata in C major No. 48, and Scriabin’s 12 Etudes Op. 8.

Mr. Gewirtzman has won first prizes at competitions in Shreveport, La., Aspen, Colo., and Tel Aviv, among many others, and has performed in festivals and recitals throughout the world. Admission is $20, free for students under 21.

For Anne Chaisson and David Nugent, the executive director and artistic director, respectively, of the Hamptons International Film Festival, this year’s program of more than 140 films seemed to have a common theme — they were thought-provoking and encouraged hard questions.

“It felt to me that the theme of this festival was more about our right as U.S. citizens and as human beings to ask questions . . . and to do everything we can to discover the truth,” Ms. Chaisson said at the start of the festival’s awards presentations on Monday.

“Rams,” directed by Grimur Hakonarson, was the winner of the best narrative feature award. The film depicted a pair of brothers in a farming family in Iceland who haven’t spoken to each other in 40 years but must come together when a deadly virus threatens the family’s prizewinning herd of sheep. The film is expected to be released in the United States soon. “Embrace the Serpent,” directed by Ciro Guerra of Colombia, received an honorable mention in the narrative feature film category.

The narrative short film award went to Jorn Threlfall, director of “Over,” described as “a crime scene told in reverse.” The short film “Patriot” by Eva Riley was highlighted with an honorable mention in the narrative short film category.

An intense lineup of documentary films, including “The Uncondemned,” about the push for the treatment of rape as a war crime following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and Darcy Dennet’s “The Champions,” about the fate of the pit bull terriers involved in the Michael Vick dog-fighting operation, yielded several winners.

“The Uncondemned,” directed by Michele Mitchell and the late Nick Louvel, received the the Victor Rabinowitz and Joanne Grant Award for Social Justice and the Brizzolara Family Foundation Award for a Film of Conflict and Resolution. The award was accepted by a tearful Ms. Mitchell, whose co-director, Mr. Louvel, died in a car accident here about three weeks ago.

“The Champions” received the Zelda Penzel Giving Voice to the Voiceless Award, which is “dedicated to those who suffer in silence.”

For the best documentary feature award, the winner was “Missing People,” directed by David Shapiro, about a prominent New York City art gallery director’s investigation into her young brother’s unsolved murder. The documentary “Chuck Norris vs. Communism,” directed by Ilinca Calugareanu, took home an honorable mention for best documentary feature. The best documentary short film award was given to “Last Day of Freedom,” directed by Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman.

Other awards honored films with local connections or produced by up-andcoming female filmmakers. “When I Live My Life Over Again,” directed by Robert Edwards, which was largely shot on Long Island, received the Suffolk County Film Commission Next Exposure Grant. The film depicted the daughter of “a famed romantic crooner,” played by Christopher Walken, who heads to the Hamptons in the wintertime to reflect on her vices, victories, and reinvention. The Tangerine Entertainment Juice Fund Award, recognizing outstanding work by a female filmmaker, went to “Suffragette,” directed by Sarah Gavron, which was inspired by the true story of activists who risked everything they had in pushing for women’s right to vote.

Furniture and Photographs

Ille Arts in Amagansett will show furniture by Andy Ring and photographs by Bart Julius Peters and Julius Shulman from tomorrow through Nov. 1. A reception will take place Oct. 24 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Formerly a software engineer, Mr. Ring made the switch to construction in 2002 and, within several years, began to concentrate on custom furniture for architects and fabrication projects for artists. He divides his time between Montauk and Brooklyn, where he has a shop in the Navy Yard.

Mr. Shulman, who died in 2009, was a noted architectural photographer who specialized in Modernist buildings, many of them California houses by such architects as Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Oscar Niemeyer. He was one of the first to stage his photographs as tableaus including people in their homes.

Mr. Peters’s coarse-grained blackand-white photographs appear much older than they are, creating a sense of nostalgia, romance, and timelessness.

Flo Lunn is the curator of the photography show.

Three at Ashawagh

Ashawagh Hall in Springs will show work by Annie Sessler, John Todaro, and Sarah Jaffe Turnbull on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 to 5, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 8.

Ms. Sessler, who lives in Montauk, is known for her monoprints, which have been inspired by Japanese gyotaku, or fish printing. She uses water-soluble, non-toxic inks and freshly caught fish to make handmade relief prints on recycled, vintage, and new natural and synthetic fabrics.

A full-time photographer since 1987, Mr. Todaro, who lives in East Hampton, has been published, collected, and exhibited widely. The Ashawagh show will include new work in both black and white and color, along with a series of recent botanical abstractions.

Ms. Jaffe has been making ceramic sculpture in recent years, beginning with a series of heads and moving into abstract architectonic structural pieces. The exhibition will include a group of wall plaques that imagine the surface of dwarf planets. She lives in Bridgehampton.

Watermill’s Open Rehearsal

The Watermill Center will present an open rehearsal of Amy Khoshbin’s “The Myth of Layla,” a work in progress that incorporates performance and video, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

An artist-in-residence at the center this month, Ms. Khoshbin uses her personal history as an Iranian-American activist in the work, which is set in a near future when the United States is at war with Iran. She performs as Layla, the protagonist, whose relationships and beliefs are put to the test as her fame increases and she is cast in a new reality show.

The show is co-directed by Liz McAuliffe, a dance and performance artist. Both Ms. Khoshbin and Ms. McAuliffe have performed extensive-ly at museums, festivals, and arts centers, among them the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New Museum, and Judson Church. The program is free, but advance reservations, which can be made at the center’s website, are required.

New at Tulla Booth

“Fall Treasures,” a show of new and classic photographs, is on view through Nov. 23 at the Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor. A reception will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. Theparticipating photographers are Daniel Jones, Roberto Dutesco, Stephen Wilkes, and Eric Meola.