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Met Opera: Fedora

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

One showing only! Date: Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 12:55PM Running Time: 2 hours 45 minutes Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Paul J. Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St., Waterville, ME This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Met Opera Live in HD: Fedora by Umberto Giordano! Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama returns […]

$16 – $19

Recurring

Love Makers + Rule Breakers

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Every Tuesday and Thursday in February, join us for stories about passion, transgression, and sex. Show your ticket and get 10% off at Silver Street Tavern or similar discount at Front & Main! Come for the spiciness, stay for the cinematic pleasure! February 2 - William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet February 7 - Magic Mike February 9 - […]

$10 – $12

Academy Awards Reception and Viewing

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Join us for a broadcast of the 95th Academy Awards, celebrating the best films of 2022. We'll be hosting a gala reception with catered refreshments at 7:30pm, before settling in to watch the Oscar ceremonies broadcast live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Dress to impress or come as you are! We'll have a red […]

Free – $15

My Name Is Andrea

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

My Name Is Andrea is the story of controversial feminist writer and public intellectual Andrea Dworkin, who offered a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy with iconoclastic flair. Decades before #MeToo, Dworkin called out the pervasiveness of sexism and rape culture, and the ways it impacts every woman’s daily life. This documentary film, directed by Pratibha […]

Free

On These Grounds

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Q&A with Maine director Garrett Zevgetis! A video goes viral, showing a white police officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her school desk and throw her across the floor. A healer and an activist, Vivian Anderson uproots her life in New York City to move to South Carolina to support the girl […]

$8 – $9

Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Resistance and Heroism

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

“All I owned was my camera, a leopard coat, and a grenade in case of capture...the pillow was the rifle, the walls were the trees and the sky was the roof,” says partisan Faye Schulman. Over 25,000 Jewish partisans, fought back against the Nazis and their collaborators from deep within the forests of WWII’s Eastern […]

Free

Negra

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Free admission, sponsored by Colby College Department of Spanish and the Latin American Studies Program. At the age of seven, filmmaker Medhin Tewolde Serrano recounts her first experience of being called Black by a stranger on the streets of Mexico, noting it as the first time becoming conscious of her racial identity and the prejudice […]

Free

Porpora

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Q&A with local trans activists and Colby students! Porpora is a road trip across Italy and through the life of Porpora Marcasciano, a leading figure of the Italian trans movement. While traversing the Italian peninsula from the north to the south, Porpora and her traveling companion, Vittorio, retrace the key moments and places of her […]

Free

Israelism

Schupf Art Center 93 Main Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Back by popular demand! Free for MIFF Full and Partial Pass holders, as well as Comp "Admit One" ticket holders. Show your pass at the Box Office to exchange for a ticket. Additional tickets available for purchase. The role of Israel in American Jewish identity is challenged when Simone Zimmerman and Eitan join an awakening […]

Free – $14

National Theatre Live: Jack Absolute Flies Again

Date: Saturday, August 26 at 12pm Running Time: 3 hours MPA Rating: R Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine   A rollicking new comedy by Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night). After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to […]

Met Opera Encore: Florencia en al Amazonas

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Running Time: 2 hour 35 minutes MPA Rating: Not Rated Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This event is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian […]

$15

Met Opera Encore: Carmen

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell brings a vital new production of Georges Bizet’s Carmen, one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive […]

$16 – $19

Underdog

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Join us for a Q&A following the showing with director Tommy Hyde! Hardscrabble, Vermont dairy farmer Doug Butler has an offbeat passion: dog mushing. A local folk hero, Doug trains his team of mutts on the family farm with a dream to compete at the world dog mushing championships in Alaska. But the demands of […]

$9 – $12

Dear England

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Date: Saturday, March 16 at 12pm Runtime: 3 hours 11 minutes MPA Rating: NR Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of nation and game. […]

WICKED LITTLE LETTERS

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes MPA Rating: R Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Fiery Rose Gooding (the wonderful, Oscar-nominated Jessie Buckley) has little in common with the pious Edith Swan (Oscar-winner Olivia Colman) aside from them being neighbors in the seaside […]

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