Events
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Maine Jewish Film Festival: We Met at Grossinger’s
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Paula Eiselt. 104 minutes. Not Rated. In English. We Met at Grossinger’s is an immersive journey through the Jewish Catskills—once known as the Borscht Belt—reviving the iconic resort…
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Maine Jewish Film Festival: Heightened Scrutiny
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Sam Feder. 89 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Amid the surge in anti-trans legislation that Chase Strangio battles in the courtroom, he must also fight against media bias,…
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Maine Jewish Film Festival: Looking Up
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Elena Neuman. 72 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Looking Up is the inspiring story of Eitan Armon, a young man facing encroaching blindness who takes on the challenge…
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Maine Jewish Film Festival: The Stamp Thief
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Dan Sturman. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Part detective story, part heist film, part untold history, “The Stamp Thief” investigates a tale dating back to the Holocaust:…
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Maine Jewish Film Festival: Proud Jewish Boy
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Isri Halpern. 87 minutes. Not Rated. In English, French, German, and Hebrew with English subtitles. They say the personal is political, and it’s hard to find a story…
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Contemporaries Tour of Ming Smith
Join us for a private tour of Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue with Anjuli Lebowitz, PhD, Judy Glickman Lauder Curator of Photography 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. | Tour of…
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Trip to the Netherlands
A trip of Holland gives Portland Museum of Art members the chance to explore innovative approaches to world-renowned architecture and organizations that engage deeply with Dutch artistic and cultural traditions,…
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Noontime Talk: Maine Seaweed Week
It’s Maine Seaweed Week! Join Jaclyn Robidoux among PMA’s marine paintings for a talk on the versatility of seaweed, from ancient fertilizers and textiles to handcrafted pottery and bioplastics. She’ll explore how…
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Maine Jewish Film Festival: Maintenance Artist
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Toby Perl Freilich. 95 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Maintenance Artist is the first feature documentary about Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the New York City Sanitation Department’s official artist-in-residence.…
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Maine Jewish Film Festival: The Sea
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Shai Carmeli Pollak. 93 minutes. Not Rated. In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. Khaled, a 12-year-old boy from a Palestinian village, gets the chance to see the…
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Maine Jewish Film Festival: Holding Liat
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Brandon Kramer. 97 minutes. Not Rated. In Hebrew and English with English subtitles. Liat Atzili was kidnapped from her kibbutz on October 7. What begins as a chronicle…
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Maine Jewish Film Festival: Farewell, Mr. Haffmann
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Fred Cavayé. 115 minutes. Not Rated. In German and French with English subtitles. Occupied Paris, 1941: all members of the Jewish community are instructed to come forward and…
