• PMA Films: Chronovisor

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In French, English, German, and Italian with English subtitles. While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any...

  • PMA Films: “A Few Small Odysseys”: Good Time (2017)

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie. 101 minutes. Rated R. In English. Following the mind-bending Heaven Knows What, celebrated filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie return to the mean streets of New York City with Good Time, a hypnotic crime thriller that explores with bracing immediacy the tragic sway of family and fate. After a...

  • PMA Films: Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) (Presented with Portland Symphony Orchestra)

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. 119 minutes. Rated PG. Dubbed in English. This screening will be introduced by Portland Symphony Orchestra guest conductor Morihiko Nakahara. He will lead the Portland Symphony Orchestra in performances of "The Music of Studio Ghibli" on October 10 and 11 at Merrill Auditorium. Tickets for this screening are free for PSO...

  • PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka. 118 minutes. Rated R. In English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner, Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic), 2026 Sundance Film Festival Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an...

  • PMA Films: Chronovisor

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In French, English, German, and Italian with English subtitles. While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any...

  • PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka. 118 minutes. Rated R. In English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner, Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic), 2026 Sundance Film Festival Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an...

  • PMA Films: Chronovisor

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In French, English, German, and Italian with English subtitles. While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any...

  • PMA Films: Aanikoobijigan [ancestor / great-grandparent / great-grandchild] (Free Screening)

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil. 80 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Anishinaabemowin with English subtitles. Aanikoobijigan documents the emotional and vital work of MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance). This alliance, made up of repatriation specialists representing all Michigan tribes, fights to bring their Ancestors and funerary objects home from...

  • PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka. 118 minutes. Rated R. In English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner, Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic), 2026 Sundance Film Festival Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an...

  • Champlain Film Festival: Afrotōpia (with virtual filmmaker discussion)

    Directed by David Mboussou. 128 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Ezekiel, a 25-year-old aspiring filmmaker, lives in the heart of the Congo Basin under the authority of his father, Maurice, a powerful businessman who opposes his artistic ambitions. When Ezekiel is forced to join the family logging business, he...

  • Champlain Film Festival: Colours of Time/La Venue de l’Avenir (followed by discussion)

    Directed by Cédric Klapisch. 124 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. This screening will be followed by a discussion with Andrew Eschelbacher, PMA Deputy Director and Head of Art and Exhibitions. Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four cousins discover they share a...

  • Champlain Film Festival: Colours of Light/La Venue de l’Avenir (Special Student Screening)

    Directed by Cédric Klapisch. 124 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four cousins discover they share a mysterious family history. In 1895, their ancestor Adèle, then aged 21, leaves her hometown to search for her mother in...

  • Champlain Film Festival: Promised Sky/Promis Le Ciel + Je ne lâcherai pas ta main

    Directed by Erige Sehiri. 92 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Marie, an Ivorian pastor and former journalist, has lived in Tunisia for ten years. Her home becomes a refuge for Naney, a young mother seeking a better future, and Jolie, a strong-willed student carrying her family’s hopes. The arrival of a little...

  • Champlain Film Festival: Maria Chapdelaine (with virtual filmmaker discussion)

    Directed by Sébastien Pilote. 158 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Maria Chapdelaine is a young sixteen-year-old girl who lives with her family on the shores of the Peribonka River in rural Quebec in the 1910s. The Chapdelaine family works tirelessly to push the limits of the forest. Where the...

  • Champlain Film Festival: All Stirred Up!/Tous toqués!

    Directed by Manon Briand. 90 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Sonia is an intractable Canadian Customs border agent who confiscates the contents of a car being driven by French chef Victor, only to subsequently need his help when her daughter Lili-Beth decides to enter a cooking competition despite barely knowing how to...

  • Champlain Film Festival: Once Upon My Mother/Ma Mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan

    Directed by Ken Scott. 132 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Esther Perez is a Moroccan-Jewish immigrant and devoted mother of six. When her newborn son Roland is diagnosed with a clubfoot in 1963 and given a bleak prognosis, she is determined to make him overcome physical challenges and social barriers as she...

  • Champlain Film Festival: Sisters and Neighbors/Nos Belles-Soeurs

    Directed by Richard Syr. 135 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Germaine Lauzon, a housewife, wins a million trading stamps that she believes will give her access to the happiness and new world she’s been dreaming of for so long. She invites her sisters, sisters-in-law and neighbours to a party to help her...

  • Champlain Film Festival: The Stranger/L’Étranger

    Directed by François Ozon. 122 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Meursault is a detached and indifferent Frenchman in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The ensuing trial explores both the crime and his character. It is considered a landmark work of existentialism and...

  • PMA Films: Chronovisor

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In French, English, German, and Italian with English subtitles. While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any...

  • PMA Films: American Doctor

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Poh Si Teng. 93 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. From Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, American Doctor follows three American physicians— Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—united by a single oath to save lives. After volunteering in besieged hospitals in Gaza, they return home determined to fight for the...

  • PMA Films: Chronovisor

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In French, English, German, and Italian with English subtitles. While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any...

  • PMA Films: American Doctor

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Poh Si Teng. 93 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. From Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, American Doctor follows three American physicians— Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—united by a single oath to save lives. After volunteering in besieged hospitals in Gaza, they return home determined to fight for the...

  • PMA Films: American Doctor

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Poh Si Teng. 93 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. From Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, American Doctor follows three American physicians— Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—united by a single oath to save lives. After volunteering in besieged hospitals in Gaza, they return home determined to fight for the...

  • PMA Films: “A Few Small Odysseys”: The Swimmer (1968)

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Directed by Frank Perry. 94 minutes. Rated PG. In English. Burt Lancaster stars as Ned Merrill, a man who confronts his destiny by swimming home, pool by pool, through the suburban nightmare of upper-class East Coast society. Based on the acclaimed short story by John Cheever, and directed by Frank Perry (Diary of a Mad...