• National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World

    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery. Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero […]

    $14.50 – $17.00
  • Met Opera Encore: El ÚLtimo Sueño de Frida y Diego

    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, El ÚLtimo Sueño de Frida y Diego (“The Last Dream of Frida and Diego”), a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned […]

    $16 – $19
  • Fireflies: Muppet Treasure Island

    Fireflies: <i>Muppet Treasure Island</i>
    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Date: June 6 + 7 at 2:30pm Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes MPA Rating: G Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arrr-ts Access Fund. Dress up in your finest scallywag attire and get a free small popcorn at concessions! Get ready […]

  • Fireflies: Muppet Treasure Island

    Fireflies: <i>Muppet Treasure Island</i>
    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Date: June 6 + 7 at 2:30pm Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes MPA Rating: G Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arrr-ts Access Fund. Dress up in your finest scallywag attire and get a free small popcorn at concessions! Get ready […]

  • Pressure

    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Join us for a special Memorial Day screening before the film begins its regular run on May 29! In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, Pressure follows General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser) and Britain's chief meteorological officer Captain James Stagg (Emmy-nominee Andrew Scott) as […]

    $9 – $10
  • Met Opera Encore: Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)

    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Date: May 16 at 12:55pm Runtime: TBD MPA Rating: Not Rated Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck […]

  • Canoe Dig It?

    <em>Canoe Dig It?</em>
    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Two Screenings: May 9 + 10 at 1:00 p.m. Canoe Dig It? is a mockumentary comedy about a fictional canoeing competition in Northern Maine that highlights the very real and eccentric sport of Freestyle Canoeing, a performative art best described as “canoe dancing.” Competitors paddle out to spin, dip, and “dance” in perfect synchronization with music of […]

    $9 – $10
  • Canoe Dig It?

    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Two Screenings: May 9 + 10 at 1:00 p.m. Canoe Dig It? is a mockumentary comedy about a fictional canoeing competition in Northern Maine that highlights the very real and eccentric sport of Freestyle Canoeing, a performative art best described as “canoe dancing.” Competitors paddle out to spin, dip, and “dance” in perfect synchronization with music of […]

    $9 – $10
  • National Theatre Live: All My Sons

    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge). One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe, it comes at a price when his partner […]

    $14.50 – $17.00
  • Mid-Maine Technical Center Student Works Screening

    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Join the Maine Film Center in celebrating the work of young media students from the Mid-Maine Technical Center's Mass Media Communications program! Admission is free, but ticket reservations are encouraged. tickets

    Free
  • MJFF: The Stamp Thief

    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Date: Wednesday, April 29 at 7pm Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes MPA Rating: Not Rated Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Part of the Maine Jewish Film Festival! Part detective story, part heist film, and part historical reckoning, […]

  • MJFF: The Sea

    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Date: Monday, April 27 at 7pm Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes MPA Rating: Not Rated Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Part of the Maine Jewish Film Festival! Khaled, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, is on his way to […]

  • Fire at Sea

    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Date: April 23 at 7pm Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes, followed by discussion MPA Rating: Not Rated Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine Free and open to all, ticket reservations encouraged. Sponsored by the Department of Francophone and Italian Studies, Cinema Studies, and the Center for the Arts […]

    Free
  • Earth Day: MOFGA at MFC

    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Date: April 22 at 6pm for demonstrations and at 7pm for movie shorts and discussion Runtime: 2 hours MPA Rating: Not Rated Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine Free and open to all, ticket reservations encouraged. Join the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) and Waterville Creates […]

    Free
  • Schindler Space Architect

    Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

    Date: April 21 at 7pm Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes MPA Rating: Not Rated Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine Free and open to all, ticket reservations encouraged. Sponsored by the Colby College Cultural Events Committee and President David Greene! Austrian-born and educated, R.M. Schindler laid the foundation […]