
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 August 2026 schedule and calendar.
This Week at PMA Films
Featured Screenings
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PMA Films: Sheep in the Box
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Hirokazu Kore-eda. 126 minutes. Rated PG. In Japanese with English subtitles. In the near future, Otone and Kensuke, a grieving couple who have lost their son, take into…
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PMA Films: “Eve Biddle Selects”: Do the Right Thing (1989)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Spike Lee. Rated R. 120 minutes. In English. Screens as part of “Eve Biddle Selects: Beautiful People Doing Impossible Things,” a companion to the exhibition “Eve Biddle: Wonderlands.”…
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PMA Films: Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Sasha Waters. 91 minutes. Not Rated. In English. If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and…
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PMA Films: Wild Inside
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Penny Lane. 95 minutes. Not Rated. In English. What would happen if a captive-born owl with no survival skills tried to make it on his own in New…
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PMA Films: Late Fame
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Kent Jones. 96 minutes. Not Rated. In English. The great Willem Dafoe lends his delicate gravitas to the role of Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet who…
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PMA Films: Sherman’s March (1985)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Ross McElwee. 157 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Co-presented with SPACE Gallery, who will screen McElwee’s new film, Remake, on September 9. Armed with a 16mm camera and…
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PMA Films: The Samurai and the Prisoner
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. 147 minutes. Not Rated. In Japanese with English subtitles. When Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) rises up against the tyrannical Oda (Bando Shingo), he finds himself besieged…
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[At SPACE Gallery] PMA Films: Remake
Directed by Ross McElwee. 116 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Screening at SPACE Gallery and co-presented with SPACE Gallery. Filmmaker Ross McElwee has spent forty years recording himself and his…
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[At Congress Square Park] PMA Films: “Eve Biddle Selects”: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (Free Screening)
Directed by Robert Zemeckis. 104 minutes. Rated PG. In English. Screening for free in Congress Square Park! Screens as part of “Eve Biddle Selects: Beautiful People Doing Impossible Things,” a…
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PMA Films: Animal season continues with cats, an owl, and ‘Sheep in the Box,’ plus ‘Mary Oliver’ and ‘Do the Right Thing’!
Screening Times and Tickets: CatVideoFest 2026 An annual delight for all ages and one of our most popular yearly offerings, CatVideoFest returns for its 2026 installment beginning on August 8. This is a collection of the latest and greatest in internet cat content, a short and awfully sweet program lovingly curated by Will Braden. We’ve once…
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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…

