• (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) Noontime Talk: The Haunted PMA Tour

    Step inside the 19th-century McLellan House and beyond as PMA Educators share spine-tingling stories hidden in the museum’s walls. Using the powers of close observation and imagination, artworks and their histories take on a chilling new light. With Museum Educators:Tiffani Ortiz and Joanne Sterling

  • (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: NAZA

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

    Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. 80 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Hebrew with English subtitles. Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA is directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four co-directors of the 2024 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, and produced by the Guardian and...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: The Work in Progress (with filmmaker Ian Cheney)

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

    Directed by Ian Cheney. 100 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In English. This screening will be followed by a discussion with director Ian Cheney. If you were invited to sit at a table with someone you’ve never met before and answer handwritten questions from a wooden box about the state of America, would you...

  • (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: NAZA

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

    Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. 80 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Hebrew with English subtitles. Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA is directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four co-directors of the 2024 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, and produced by the Guardian and...

  • (Past Event) 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...

  • (Past Event) Noontime Talk: The Haunted PMA Tour

    Step inside the 19th-century McLellan House and beyond as PMA Educators share spine-tingling stories hidden in the museum’s walls. Using the powers of close observation and imagination, artworks and their histories take on a chilling new light. With Museum Educators: Tiffani Ortiz and Joanne Sterling.

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Fjord

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

    Directed by Cristian Mungiu. 146 minutes. In English, Romanian, Norwegian, and Swedish with English subtitles. Winner, Palme d'Or, 2026 Cannes Film Festival From two⁠-⁠time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, close⁠-⁠knit, coastal town. Their teenage children form a fast bond...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Fjord

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

    Directed by Cristian Mungiu. 146 minutes. In English, Romanian, Norwegian, and Swedish with English subtitles. Winner, Palme d'Or, 2026 Cannes Film Festival From two⁠-⁠time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, close⁠-⁠knit, coastal town. Their teenage children form a fast bond...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Fjord

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

    Directed by Cristian Mungiu. 146 minutes. In English, Romanian, Norwegian, and Swedish with English subtitles. Winner, Palme d'Or, 2026 Cannes Film Festival From two⁠-⁠time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, close⁠-⁠knit, coastal town. Their teenage children form a fast bond...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: The Innocents (1961)

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

    Directed by Jack Clayton. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Based on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, with a screenplay co-written by In Cold Blood’s Truman Capote, The Innocents stars Deborah Kerr (From Here to Eternity) as Miss Giddens, the newly appointed governess for a pair of orphaned children. With their uncle (Michael...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Fjord

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

    Directed by Cristian Mungiu. 146 minutes. In English, Romanian, Norwegian, and Swedish with English subtitles. Winner, Palme d'Or, 2026 Cannes Film Festival From two⁠-⁠time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, close⁠-⁠knit, coastal town. Their teenage children form a fast bond...