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.
Film ticket prices: $10 Public | $7 Members and 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.
Click here for a printable version of our full June 2026 schedule and calendar.
Featured Screenings
Events
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PMA Films: Steal This Story, Please!
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin. 98 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Undeterred by armed soldiers, smooth-talking politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the…
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PMA Films: “Social Studies: A Tribute to Frederick Wiseman”: Public Housing (1997)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Frederick Wiseman. 195 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Screening as part of “Social Studies: A Tribute to Frederick Wiseman.” Public Housing documents daily life at the Ida B.…
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PMA Films: “Social Studies: A Tribute to Frederick Wiseman”: The Store (1983)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Frederick Wiseman. 118 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Screening as part of “Social Studies: A Tribute to Frederick Wiseman.” The Store is a film about the main Neiman-Marcus…
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PMA Films: “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair”: Cries and Whispers (1972)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Ingmar Bergman. 91 minutes. Rated R. In Swedish with English subtitles. Screens as part of “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair,” a week-long festival presented in partnership with the…
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PMA Films: “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair”: Kiss Me Deadly (1955) + La Jetée (1962) (Presented on 16mm with Kinonik)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesScreens as part of “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair,” a week-long festival presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque. These films will be projected on 16mm by Kinonik. Discounted festival…
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PMA Films: “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair”: Red Desert (1964)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Michelangelo Antonioni. 117 minutes. Not Rated. In Italian with English subtitles. Screens as part of “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair,” a week-long festival presented in partnership with the…
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PMA Films: “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair”: Black Girl (1966) (Presented on 16mm with Kinonik)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Ousmane Sembène. Not Rated. 59 minutes. In French with English subtitles. Screens as part of “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair,” a week-long festival presented in partnership with the…
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PMA Films: “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair”: The Turin Horse (2011)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Béla Tarr. 149 minutes. Not Rated. In Hungarian with English subtitles. Screens as part of “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair,” a week-long festival presented in partnership with the…
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PMA Films: “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair”: Beau Travail (1999)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Claire Denis. 93 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Screens as part of “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair,” a week-long festival presented in partnership with the…
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PMA Films: Unless Something Goes Terribly Wrong (Free screening with panel discussion)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Kaitlyn Schwalje and Alex Wolf Lewis. 73 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In English. In celebration of Clean Water Week, this screening is offered free of charge.…
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[At SPACE Gallery] PMA Films: “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair”: Watership Down (1978) (Presented with SPACE Gallery)
Directed by Martin Rosen. 92 minutes. Rated PG. In English. Screens as part of “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair,” a week-long festival presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque. Discounted…
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[At SPACE Gallery] PMA Films: “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair”: The Plague Dogs (1982) (Presented with SPACE Gallery)
Directed by Martin Rosen. 103 minutes. Rated PG-13. In English. Screens as part of “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair,” a week-long festival presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque. Discounted…
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PMA Films: A riveting adaptation of ‘The Stranger’ opens, plus the astonishing ‘Dry Leaf,’ more Wiseman, and much more
Screening Times and Tickets: The Stranger “Film adaptation of Albert Camus’s bleak, existentialist 1942 masterpiece” did not initially strike me as a super appealing idea, so color me surprised that François Ozon pulls off his The Stranger with remarkable beauty and vitality. Shot in crisp, alluring black and white by Manu Dacosse, this is an adaptation…
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PMA Films Series: “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair”
Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair” is an annual festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history. PMA Films joins the fifth annual edition in June 2026 as the festival…
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PMA Films Series: “Social Studies: A Tribute to Frederick Wiseman”
PMA Films is proud to present a film series in tribute to the late filmmaker, Frederick Wiseman. “Social Studies: A Tribute to Frederick Wiseman” will run through June, highlighting seven of of the director’s films from across his long and eclectic career. Over 60 years of work, Wiseman’s eye was drawn toward locations as specific as…
