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Do you love films? Do you love the sun, surf, and beautiful Cape Cod locations? The two need not be mutually exclusive. There are two area festivals that will have cineastes shuttling between indoor movie houses and picture-perfect outdoor settings. Since they are both scheduled for next week, June 13 to 17, you could attend the Nantucket Film Festival or the more offbeat Provincetown International Film Festival; or, you could consider taking a ferry and catching parts of both events.

Highlights of the Nantucket Film Festival:

• Evening, starring Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave,
  Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close, opens the event.
  
• Screenwriter Robert Benton (Bonnie and Clyde, Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the
  Heart) will receive an honor,
  
• Among the more than 50 films to be shown at the festival will be Rocket Science, Son of Rambow, and I Am An Animal.

Highlights of the Provincetown International Film Festival:

• Kathleen Turner (who will receive a lifetime achievement award) and John Waters will host "A Different Kind of Family Night" at the Wellfleet Drive-In with showings of Serial Mom and War of the Roses.
  
• Alan Cumming will receive an Excellence in Acting Award
  
• Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness) will receive The Filmmaker on the Edge Award
  
• Among the more than 60 films to be shown at the festival will be Death at a Funeral (directed by Frank Oz), a sing-along to the film Xanadu, and In the Shadow of the Moon.

Photo: Lorne Michaels and Steve Martin at last year's Nantucket Film Festival. Courtesy of Nantucket Film Festival.