Explore Maine’s maritime heritage as seen through works in the PMA collection. Beginning with the birch bark canoe featured in the PMA’s exhibition Passages in American Art—its construction and cultural significance to the Wabanaki people—Goldstein will expand to consider broader traditions of boat and shipbuilding imagery across the galleries. Seth Goldstein is Director of the...
Directed by Sophy Romvari. 90 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Hungarian with English subtitles. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with...
Directed by Sophy Romvari. 90 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Hungarian with English subtitles. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with...
37 minutes. Directed by Liza Donnelly. Not Rated. In English. In Women Laughing, longtime New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly sets out to explore her lifelong passion for women’s humor and cartooning by speaking, laughing, and drawing with a diverse group of remarkable women who create cartoons for the iconic magazine. Inspired by her acclaimed book...
108 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. In English. This screening is part of our "Makers at the Movies" series! Attendees are invited to bring knitting, crochet, fiber arts, or drawing projects to work on during the film. The lights will remain partially on to accommodate making. Presented in partnership with Olde School Fiber...
Directed by Sophy Romvari. 90 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Hungarian with English subtitles. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with...
Directed by Sophy Romvari. 90 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Hungarian with English subtitles. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with...
Directed by Sophy Romvari. 90 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Hungarian with English subtitles. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with...
Directed by Sophy Romvari. 90 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Hungarian with English subtitles. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with...
Directed by Sophy Romvari. 90 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Hungarian with English subtitles. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with...
Directed by Sophy Romvari. 90 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Hungarian with English subtitles. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with...
Join Museum Educator, David Smith, for a tour through the decades of PMA architecture. Learn about the history of the PMA’s building and grounds from the early 1800s to the present as we move through the different spaces.
Directed by Ru Hasanov. 79 minutes. Not Rated. In Azerbaijani with English subtitles. This screening is part of the Bates Film Festival. All festival screenings are free and open to the public. Vitaly enjoys the dusk of his life on an island with thousands of feral horses until his solitude is interrupted by Seymour, an...
Directed by Pierre Saint-Martin. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In Spanish with English subtitles. This screening is part of the Bates Film Festival. All festival screenings are free and open to the public. We Shall Not Be Moved tells the story of Socorro—played by Luisa Huertas in a tour-de-force performance—a retired lawyer consumed by her obsession...
Directed by Sean Mewshaw. 105 minutes. Rated R. In English. Screens with short The Diver. Directed by Sean Mewshaw. 19 minutes. Not Rated. In English. This screening is part of the Bates Film Festival. All festival screenings are free and open to the public. A young woman struggles to move on with her life after...
Directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London. 84 minutes. Not Rated. In English. This screening is part of the Bates Film Festival. All festival screenings are free and open to the public. We Want the Funk! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots, to...
Directed by Sepideh Farsi. 112 minutes. Not Rated. In Arabic and English with English subtitles. This screening is part of the Bates Film Festival. All festival screenings are free and open to the public. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective on life under siege in Gaza, captured through...
Directed by Taylor Sheridan. 100 minutes. Rated R. In English. This screening is part of the Bates Film Festival (link). All festival screenings are free and open to the public. A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a...
Directed by Ido Fluk. 112 minutes. Not Rated. In German with English subtitles. This screening is part of the Bates Film Festival. All festival screenings are free and open to the public. Keith Jarrett’s legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn’t happen. Based on a true story, Köln 75 follows how the concert was conceived...
Directed by Carson Lund. 99 minutes. Not Rated. In English. This screening is part of the Bates Film Festival. All festival screenings are free and open to the public. Two recreational baseball teams, the River Dogs and Adler’s Paint, have been meeting on their New England field on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can...
Directed by Lee Unkrich. 105 minutes. Rated PG. In English. This screening is part of the Bates Film Festival. All festival screenings are free and open to the public. In Disney•Pixar’s vibrant tale of family, fun and adventure, aspiring young musician named Miguel (voice of newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) embarks on an extraordinary journey to the...
Directed by François Ozon. 120 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) works as a clerk at an office in Algiers during the French colonial occupation. A modest man who keeps to himself, Meursault finds his routine upended by the sudden death of his mother. At her funeral, he faces scrutiny...
Join us for a lecture and conversation with artist Chitra Ganesh, alongside Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, PhD, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum of Art (PMA). Across a twenty-year practice, Chitra Ganesh has developed an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting, which has evolved to encompass animations, wall drawings,...
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs. What gives a piece of jewelry...