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 May 2026 schedule and calendar.
Featured Screenings
Events
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PMA Films: Dry Leaf (Free Screening)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Aleksandre Koberidze. 186 minutes. Not Rated. In Georgian with English subtitles. Lisa, a sports photographer, vanishes off into the greener pastures of the Georgian countryside, traces of her…
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PMA Films: 2026 Maine Mayhem Film Festival
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesBy various directors. 150 minutes (estimate). Not Rated. The Maine Mayhem Film Festival is held in May of each year and showcases films by second year Communications and New Media…
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PMA Films: “Social Studies: A Tribute to Frederick Wiseman”: Aspen (1991)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Frederick Wiseman. 146 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Screening as part of “Social Studies: A Tribute to Frederick Wiseman.” Aspen is a film about a town famous in…
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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: ‘Blue Heron’ is the best film of the year so far, plus ‘Mamma Mia!,’ the Bates Film Festival, and more
Screening Times and Tickets: Blue Heron I’m pretty sure that Blue Heron, Sophy Romvari’s remarkable debut feature and the year’s best-reviewed (and best) movie, is the first film I’ve watched twice before we’ve even shown it here at the PMA. I’ll be seated again this weekend. Blue Heron follows a family in late 1990s Canada, after…
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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…
