PMA Films

Head to the museum and experience Maine’s best selection of indie, foreign, art house, and award-winning cinema you can’t find anywhere else.  

Upcoming screenings

Film ticket prices: $10 / $7 Members & Students / $6 Friday Matinees

All films are screened in-person in the Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium unless otherwise noted.

Assisted listening devices are available to use for PMA Film screenings. Inquire at the Konkel Family Welcome Center.

Programs & Events
PMA Films: Dahomey (with Chief Curator Shalini Le Gall)
Dec 6
PMA Films: Dahomey (with Chief Curator Shalini Le Gall)

68 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. Directed by Mati Diop. In French with English subtitles. DCP.

In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?

PMA Films: Dahomey
Dec 6
PMA Films: Dahomey

68 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Mati Diop. In French with English subtitles. DCP.

In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?

PMA Films: Dahomey
Dec 7
PMA Films: Dahomey

68 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Mati Diop. In French with English subtitles. DCP.

In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?

PMA Films: Wojnarowicz (Free screening with Frannie Peabody Center)
Dec 7
PMA Films: Wojnarowicz (Free screening with Frannie Peabody Center)

105 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Chris McKim. In English.

Exclusive access to his breathtaking body of work – including paintings, journals, and films – reveals how Wojnarowicz emptied his life into his art and activism. This is a free screening in commemoration of World AIDS Day on December 1.

PMA Films: Dahomey
Dec 8
PMA Films: Dahomey

68 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Mati Diop. In French with English subtitles. DCP.

In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?

PMA Films: Dahomey
Dec 8
PMA Films: Dahomey

68 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Mati Diop. In French with English subtitles. DCP.

In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?

PMA Films: Dahomey
Dec 8
PMA Films: Dahomey

68 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Mati Diop. In French with English subtitles. DCP.

In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?

PMA Films: The End
Dec 13
PMA Films: The End

148 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. In English. DCP.

From Academy Award®-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.

PMA Films: The End
Dec 13
PMA Films: The End

148 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. In English. DCP.

From Academy Award®-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.

PMA Films: The End
Dec 14
PMA Films: The End

148 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. In English. DCP.

From Academy Award®-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.

PMA Films: Building Hope: Ending Homelessness in Maine (Free screening with panel discussion)
Dec 14
PMA Films: Building Hope: Ending Homelessness in Maine (Free screening with panel discussion)

85 minutes (followed by panel discussion). Not Rated. Directed by Richard Kane. In English. DCP.

One of the worst societal traumas of the century, Building Hope puts a face on homelessness and tells us it could happen to anyone. A free screening followed by a discussion with Senator-elect Rachel Talbot Ross, Cullen Ryan (Community Housing of Maine), Andrew Bove (Preble Street), and film producer Melody Lewis-Kane.

PMA Films: The End
Dec 15
PMA Films: The End

148 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. In English. DCP.

From Academy Award®-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.

PMA Films: The End
Dec 15
PMA Films: The End

148 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. In English. DCP.

From Academy Award®-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.

PMA Films: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) (Free Third Thursday screening)
Dec 19
PMA Films: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) (Free Third Thursday screening)

87 minutes. Rated G. Directed by Brian Henson. In English.

Kermit the Frog, Michael Caine, and an expansive cast of Muppets populate this delightful adaptation of Charles Dickens’s holiday classic. A free Third Thursday screening!

PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light
Dec 20
PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light

118 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles. DCP.

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. 

PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light
Dec 21
PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light

118 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles. DCP.

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. 

PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light
Dec 22
PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light

118 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles. DCP.

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. 

PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light
Dec 26
PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light

118 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles. DCP.

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. 

PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light
Dec 27
PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light

118 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles. DCP.

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. 

PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light
Dec 28
PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light

118 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles. DCP.

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. 

PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light
Dec 29
PMA Films: All We Imagine as Light

118 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles. DCP.

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. 

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