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Holding Back the Tide

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Date: November 12 at 7pm Runtime: 1 hour 17 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. Join us after the screening for a Q+A with director Emily Packer! Holding Back the Tide is an impressionistic hybrid […]

Free

Ernest & Celestine

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Young mouse Celestine wants to be an artist but is pressured into studying dentistry like every other rodent. While collecting discarded baby teeth, she meets a would-be entertainer named Ernest. The problem? Ernest is a bear, and society has taught the two to fear each other. The pair warily agree to help each other, but […]

Show Her the Money

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Date: November 7 at 5:15pm Runtime: 1 hour 24 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 required. Join us after the screening for a panel discussion featuring women funders and founders! This is a story that has […]

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Better Maine Conference: Creating Equitable Workspaces

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME +3 more

Dirigo Labs and its partner, the Skowhegan Center for Entrepreneurship, are pleased to announce the 2024 Better Maine Conference, taking place on November 7 in downtown Waterville. This year's conference will focus on "Creating Equitable Workspaces" and feature keynote speaker Ariel Ricci, executive director for the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, & […]

$35

Met Opera Encore: Grounded (Tesori)

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Date: November 2 at 12:55pm Runtime: 2 hours 30 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. Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues […]

$16 – $19

Creative Communities Grant

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Waterville Creates is excited to host the Maine Arts Commission for a public learning session to introduce their new Creative Communities Grant, which is designed to support arts-based projects that foster community engagement! The session will also include an overview of their Assets for Artists professional development workshops. Coffee and snacks will be provided. Please register […]

Free

Star Wars: Original Trilogy Marathon

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

“Do or do not. There is no try.” Relive the classic space opera trilogy that redefined science fiction with our all-day marathon! From the Mos Eisley Cantina to the winding halls of the Death Star, through the frozen tundras of Hoth to the forests of Endor, join Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and the […]

Coraline

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Date: October 26 at 12pm Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes MPA Rating: PG Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Celebrate Halloween with the 15th anniversary of Coraline, a beautifully animated film from director Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before […]

Hocus Pocus

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

A Deja-Boo Throwback Movie Night, sponsored by KV Connect! Teenager Max struggles to fit in with his peers after moving to Salem right before Halloween. An avid denier of the spooky legends surrounding the town, he is less than thrilled to take his little sister Dani trick-or-treating. Hoping to impress his new friend Allison, Max […]

Free

Met Opera Encore: Les Contes D’Hoffmann (Offenbach)

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Date: October 19 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. Offenbach’s fantastical opera kicks off the Metropolitan Opera’s season of Live in HD performance transmissions, starring French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet. […]

Castle in the Sky

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

A classic Studio Ghibli title, Castle in the Sky follows Sheeta, an orphaned girl who possesses a mysterious crystal that is seemingly tied to the mystical floating island Laputa. After being kidnapped by the treasure-hungry air pirate Dola, Sheeta meets Pazu, a mechanic and fellow orphan who dreams of discovering the island. The two embark […]

$8 – $9

Prima Facie

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Date: October 12 at 12pm Runtime: 2 hours 5 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. Jodie Comer’s (Killing Eve) Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller’s gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas. Tessa […]

Recurring

Eno

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime cinema experience. Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno pioneered the genre of ambient music, releasing more than 40 solo and collaborative albums and producing the likes of David Bowie, U2, and Talking Heads, among many others. Now he reveals his creative processes in this groundbreaking generative documentary: a film that’s […]

$8 – $12

Daytime Revolution

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Two Screenings: 4:45 p.m. + 7:00 p.m. Celebrate John Lennon's 84th birthday with Daytime Revolution, a documentary about one extraordinary week in February 1972 when the revolution WAS televised. Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at that time the […]

$8 – $12

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Join us after the screening for a Q+A with director and two-time Academy Award nominee Rick Goldsmith! Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink is the story of one secretive hedge fund that is plundering America’s newspapers and the journalists who are fighting back. Investigative reporter Julie Reynolds, Denver Post editorialist Chuck Plunkett and […]

Free
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Eno

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime cinema experience. Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno pioneered the genre of ambient music, releasing more than 40 solo and collaborative albums and producing the likes of David Bowie, U2, and Talking Heads, among many others. Now he reveals his creative processes in this groundbreaking generative documentary: a film that’s […]

$8 – $12

Frame by Frame: Russian Ark

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

For the modernist painter Martha Diamond and the Russian director Alexander Sukorov, time is a mirage that unfolds on an extravagant scale. Join us for a free screening of Russian Ark, a gauzy journey through Russian history, shot entirely within the State Hermitage Museum in a single take. The film will be preceded by an […]

Free

Recurring

The City of Lost Children

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Two Screenings: September 28 at 7:00 p.m. and September 29 at 12:00 p.m. In a surrealist, steampunk world, Krank (Daniel Emilfork), a mad and aging scientist who lacks the ability to dream, orders his Cyclopes henchmen to kidnap children from the nearby port city so he can steal their dreams for himself. When little Denrée […]

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The City of Lost Children

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Two Screenings: September 28 at 7:00 p.m. and September 29 at 12:00 p.m. In a surrealist, steampunk world, Krank (Daniel Emilfork), a mad and aging scientist who lacks the ability to dream, orders his Cyclopes henchmen to kidnap children from the nearby port city so he can steal their dreams for himself. When little Denrée […]

Unmasking the Domination Code

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Dakota filmmaker Sheldon Wolfchild's compelling documentary is premised on Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, a book based on two decades of research by Shawnee, Lenape scholar Steven T. Newcomb. The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code tells the story of how little-known Vatican documents of the 15th century […]

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James and the Giant Peach

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Date: September 15 at 3pm Runtime: 1 hour 19 minutes MPA Rating: PG 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 "Fireflies", a family-friendly film series. See all Fireflies films. After losing his parents to a tragic rhinoceros […]

Present Laughter

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Date: September 14 at 12pm Runtime: 3 hours MPA Rating: PG Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. The multi award-winning production of Noël Coward’s provocative comedy featuring Andrew Scott (Vanya, Fleabag) returns to the big screen. As he […]

Frederick Ndabaramiye

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Date: September 7–December 31 Time: 11am–7pm Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: MFC Cinema Lobby Frederick Ndabaramiye is a Rwandan artist, speaker, and author. Frederick is co-founder of the Ubumwe Community Center (ubumwecommunitycenter.rw), a school and center that provides children and adults with disabilities the opportunity to receive educational and vocational services. Frederick and his wife have two children. In […]

Free

Matilda

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Date: August 23 at 2:30 + 7pm Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes MPA Rating: PG Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. When a person is bad, that person has to be taught a lesson! Matilda (Mara Wilson), a […]

Akeelah and the Bee

Maine Film Center 93 Main St., Waterville, ME

Date: August 21 at 2:30 + 7pm Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes MPA Rating: PG Organization: Maine Film Center Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Spell “prestidigitation.” These are the words that change Akeelah’s (Keke Palmer) life. After participating in the spelling […]

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