• PMA Films: 2026 Oscar Nominated Shorts — Live Action

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

    For the 21th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on February 20. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world,...

  • PMA Films: 2026 Oscar Nominated Shorts — Documentary

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

    157 minutes. Not Rated (Suggested Rating: R). By various directors. In various languages with English subtitles. DCP. For the 21th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on February 20. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have...

  • Director’s Circle Tour of Ming Smith

    Director's Circle members are invited to meet at the Cumberland Club for snacks and drinks, and then participate in a tour of Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue with Anjuli Lebowitz, PhD, Judy Glickman Lauder Curator of Photography 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. | Snack and drinks at the Cumberland Club 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. |...

  • PMA Films: 2026 Oscar Nominated Shorts — Documentary

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

    157 minutes. Not Rated (Suggested Rating: R). By various directors. In various languages with English subtitles. DCP. For the 21th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on February 20. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have...

  • PMA Films: 2026 Oscar Nominated Shorts — Animated

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

    By various directors. 83 minutes. Not Rated (Suggested Rating: PG/PG-13). In various languages with English subtitles. Note: Short films that are suitable for general audiences will screen first in this program. An on-screen card will denote when the remaining shorts may not be appropriate for all ages. For the 21th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the...

  • Noontime Talk: Precious: The Value of Ornament

    Take a deep dive into how museums assign meaning and value to objects. Discover works by Indigenous, Black, queer, and women artists, alongside decorative arts and jewelry historically overlooked in traditional collections. Hear about new acquisitions, including Shane Perley-Dutcher’s Kikehtahsu (Healing) and Kamrooz Aram’s Untitled (Arabesque Composition), and gain insight into the narratives museums preserve,...

  • PMA Films: Sirât

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

    Directed by Oliver Laxe. 120 minutes. Rated R. In Spanish, French, English, and Arabic with English subtitles. A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless...

  • PMA Films: The Voice of Hind Rajab (Encore Screening)

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

    Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania. 89 minutes. Not Rated. In Arabic with English subtitles. Academy Award Nominee - Best International Feature January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line,...

  • PMA Films: Sirât

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

    Directed by Oliver Laxe. 120 minutes. Rated R. In Spanish, French, English, and Arabic with English subtitles. A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless...

  • YAM Celebration Reception

    Schedule of Events10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Free admission for Youth Art Month participants, their families, and teachers. Please note: galleries will close at 6:30 p.m. Certificate Ceremonies Osher Auditorium on the Lower Ground Floor 3:30 PM Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th graders and their families 4:30 PM 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th graders and their...

  • PMA Films: The Voice of Hind Rajab (Encore Screening)

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

    Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania. 89 minutes. Not Rated. In Arabic with English subtitles. Academy Award Nominee - Best International Feature January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line,...

  • PMA Films: Sirât

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

    Directed by Oliver Laxe. 120 minutes. Rated R. In Spanish, French, English, and Arabic with English subtitles. A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless...

  • PMA Films: Sirât

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

    Directed by Oliver Laxe. 120 minutes. Rated R. In Spanish, French, English, and Arabic with English subtitles. A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless...

  • PMA Films: Sirât (Free Screening)

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

    Directed by Oliver Laxe. 120 minutes. Rated R. In Spanish, French, English, and Arabic with English subtitles. A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless...

  • Third Thursday | Picture This: a personal photo inspired writing workshop

    Photographs are images frozen in time, and unique stories can be told through them. Inspired by Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem – Notations In Blue, this workshop explores photography as through the lens of words. Within one's own personal collection of photographs that are dear to us, how do we create our own photographic story with...

  • Third Thursday | little house dance Performance

    little house presents its first performance of their three-month PMA residency. little house has developed elements of their current research, including excerpts of ALPHA MARE a new choreographic work exploring practices of mourning in the nonhuman animal world and interspecies connection. These performances will be developed in direct response to the PMA’s architecture and spaces,...

  • PMA Films: A Photographic Memory (with filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed)

    Directed by Rachel Elizabeth Seed. 85 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In English.This free screening is co-presented with the Rabkin Foundation and SPACE Gallery. A discussion with Rachel Elizabeth Seed, moderated by Mary Louise Schumacher of Rabkin Foundation, will follow the film. A Photographic Memory is an intimate, genre-bending portrait of a daughter’s attempt...

    Free
  • Noontime talk with Rachel Elizabeth Seed Director/Producer

    Join filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed, director of the documentary, A Photographic Memory (screening March 19 at the PMA) for a Noontime Talk. Seed’s work resonates with the themes of the Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue exhibition, where stories of artists seeing and being seen unfold through evocative photography. This talk will explore the power...

  • PMA Films: The President’s Cake

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

    Directed by Hasan Hadi. 102 minutes. Rated PG-13. In Arabic with English subtitles.  While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, the President requires each school in the country to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her...

  • PMA Films: Sirât

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

    Directed by Oliver Laxe. 120 minutes. Rated R. In Spanish, French, English, and Arabic with English subtitles. A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless...

  • PMA Films: Sirât

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

    Directed by Oliver Laxe. 120 minutes. Rated R. In Spanish, French, English, and Arabic with English subtitles. A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless...

  • PMA Films: La grande séduction (Seducing Doctor Lewis) (2003) (Free screening with Alliance Française du Maine)

    Directed by Jean-François Pouliot. In the little harbour village of St-Marie-La Mauderne, the vanishing fish stocks have plummeted a once thriving community into decline, forcing the fishermen to rely on government welfare. When a small company considers building a factory on the island, the inhabitants see an opportunity for the village to be restored to...

    Free
  • PMA Films: Sirât

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

    Directed by Oliver Laxe. 120 minutes. Rated R. In Spanish, French, English, and Arabic with English subtitles. A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless...

  • PMA Films: The President’s Cake

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

    Directed by Hasan Hadi. 102 minutes. Rated PG-13. In Arabic with English subtitles.  While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, the President requires each school in the country to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her...