Maine Film Center

Designed for teens aged 13-18, SLICE features free online classes for exploring careers in the creative arts. Join Phoebe and Isabelle Rogers to learn the fun process of bringing life to your own shapes, characters, and scenes through stop-motion animation using simple materials and any basic camera. REGISTER.

Un Prophète, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 2009, is the story of Malik El Djebena, a 19-year-old, illiterate Franco-Algerian inmate who’s been sentenced to six years in prison and the “thick network of warring tribes he finds himself mired in and ultimately forced to master” (Variety). When it comes to hard-bitten crime […]

Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international […]

The Maine Film Center will conclude its fall series Cinema in Conversation: Films of Freedom, Captivity, and Human Rights with a special screening of the documentary All Light, Everywhere, followed by a Q&A with producer Jonna McKone. The film is free and open to the public. Jonna McKone, originally from Maryland, graduated from Bowdoin College. […]

Brian Wilson is, indisputably, one of the most celebrated and “eccentric” musicians who's ever lived—and a true musical genius. He turned pop music into hymnals, with an unprecedented mastery of the recording studio that produced, as well as inspired, some of the most acclaimed albums and songs of all time. He's also one of the […]

French auteur Jacques Tati's Playtime is a genre-less collection of scenes observing the absurd and often comedic banalities of everyday modern life. The set, called "Tativille," was created with its own high-rises, offices, power plant, and airline terminal. The characters on screen interact with the glass and steel of the whimsical world, often disappearing and […]

You’ll work with award-winning horror film director Corey Norman to understand how suspense works, then build a series of shots that will bring terror to life. Don’t wear your best clothes for this session — lots of fake blood around! Open to Maine students ages 12 and up.

Vermont poet Ruth Stone is still not well known outside of the poetry world, though she won accolades and vaunted accolades such the National Book Award. Now, Vermont filmmaker Nora Jacobson, many of whose films have been favorites at the Maine International Film Festival, returns to Waterville with the premiere of a new feature, 12 […]

One showing only! Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott), TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities, an assignment he's not exactly thrilled about. But on his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant […]

One Night Only! Recently nominated for 10 Oscars, Dune returns to Railroad Square for one night only. With a cast that’s topped by Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, and Charlotte Rampling, “Dune reminds us what a Hollywood blockbuster can be” (Xan Brooks, Guardian). (PG-13, 155 min., 2021) Regular admission prices apply. For more information […]

For one night only, we bring back the poignant comedy Everything is Illuminated, about a young man exploring his Jewish heritage in a visit to Ukraine. Elijah Wood plays Jonathan, a spectacled neurotic American intent on finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. The film starts as a humorous road movie, then […]

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, Maidan chronicles the civil uprising that toppled the government of pro-Russian Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich in 2014 in "The Revolution of Dignity." Filmed in stunning long takes without commentary, Maidan is a record of a momentous historical event and an extraordinary study of the popular uprising as a social, […]

Join us April 11, 8 p.m. for a community conversation about the new film, Revolution from Afar. Program partners Black Public Media, Maine Film Center, Maine Public Television, and Indigo Arts Alliance are excited to host this virtual panel discussion, featuring director Bentley Brown, artists Khadega Mohammed, Nyamuon aka “Moon” Nguany Machar, and moderator Hana Baba, as we engage […]

One Show Only! Very recently, the "real-life" Erin Brockovich visited Central Maine to help throw her support to the fight and clean-up efforts made against dangerous PFAS in Fairfield.  But Erin Brockovich became a household name in large part for the similar fight she waged in this crackerjack movie, based on an environmental disaster of […]

Turquoise Jones is a single mom who holds down a household, a rebellious teenager, and pretty much everything that goes down at Wayman's BBQ & Lounge. In Fort Worth, Texas, Turquoise is also a bona fide beauty queen: she was once crowned Miss Juneteenth, a title commemorating the day slaves in Texas were freed, two […]

Special advanced screening of the 2010 viral video turned family-friendly feature film, courtesy of A24 Films. Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a […]

Join us for the closing reception of Abbott Meader’s exhibition A Rock Made Out of Stone. Light refreshments will be served from 5:00 to 6:00, with a selection of Meader’s short films to be screened starting at 6:00.

One screening only! Politics got you down? Well, it could be a lot worse. On Election Day we're showing 2006's Idiocracy, "easily the most potent political film of the year" (Reihan Salam, Slate). Despite having never benefitted from a wide release or big studio marketing budget, Mike Judge's follow-up to Office Space has earned its place as one […]

Met Opera Live in HD: La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi! Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta—one of opera’s ultimate heroines—in Michael Mayer’s vibrant production of Verdi’s beloved tragedy. Tenor Stephen Costello is her self-centered lover, Alfredo, alongside baritone Luca Salsi as his disapproving father, and Maestro Daniele Callegari on the podium. TICKETS […]