Maine Film Center | Railroad Square Cinema presents Cinema EXPLORATIONS: A COMMUNITY-CURATED FILM SERIES Sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities This innovative, spectacular film does not just tell the when, where, and how migratory birds range over the globe or even just show these creatures in flight, it takes us along on…

Maine Film Center | Railroad Square Cinema presents Cinema EXPLORATIONS: A COMMUNITY-CURATED FILM SERIES Sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (unrelated to Akira Kurosawa) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the 2020 Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted Hitchcockian thriller. The year is 1940 on…

Maine Film Center | Railroad Square Cinema presents Cinema EXPLORATIONS: A COMMUNITY-CURATED FILM SERIES Sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities We follow polar explorer Will Steger’s life journey as an eyewitness to the profound changes to the polar regions. In 1989, Steger led an international team of six scientists and explorers on the…

Maine Film Center | Railroad Square Cinema presents Cinema EXPLORATIONS: A COMMUNITY-CURATED FILM SERIES Sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities Black gospel quartet music served as the bedrock for the mid-twentieth-century rock ‘n’ roll boom and helped break down racial walls across America. The film showcases the history of how Black gospel…

Maine Film Center | Railroad Square Cinema presents Cinema EXPLORATIONS: A COMMUNITY-CURATED FILM SERIES Sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities Jesmark is a hard-working Maltese fisherman facing an agonizing moral choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu—a colorful, traditional wooden fishing boat—in the hope of eking out a meager living for his wife…

Maine Film Center | Railroad Square Cinema presents Cinema EXPLORATIONS: A COMMUNITY-CURATED FILM SERIES Sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities Q&A with Director Richard Kane and Robert Shetterly on January 15 only! This new documentary film chronicles the lives of courageous Americans fighting for peace, racial equity, environmental justice, and indigenous rights…

Maine Film Center | Railroad Square Cinema presents Cinema EXPLORATIONS: A COMMUNITY-CURATED FILM SERIES Sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities Director Barnabás Tóth tells a beautiful, lyrical story showing survivors healing in post-war Hungary. Teenaged Klara desperately hopes her father and mother will come home. A camp survivor and—like Klara—bereft of family,…