2025 MJFF Schedule
Saturday March 1
5:00 p.m.
Portland Museum of Art
Come Closer
(Run Time: 1 hr 47 min)
5:00 p.m. Screening
6:45 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. reception
Includes Opening Reception
Sunday March 2
12:00 p.m.
Portland Museum of Art
The True Story of
Tamara de Lempicka & The Art of Survival
(Run Time: 1 hr 36 min)
Sunday March 2
2:00 p.m.
Bates College, Pettengill Hall G 52
The Ride Ahead
(Run Time: 1 hr 23 min)
Monday March 3
3:00 p.m.
Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine
The Ride Ahead
(Run Time: 1 hr 23 min)
Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine
Monday March 3
7:00 p.m.
The Hill Arts
Torah Tropical
(Run Time: 1 hr 40 min min)
Includes a discussion with Producer, Heidi Paster
Tuesday March 4
7:00 p.m.
The Hill Arts
Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round
(Run Time: 1 hr 29 min)
Tuesday March 4
6:30 p.m.
Film Center, Waterville
Bad Shabbos
(Run Time: 1 hr 24 min)
Includes a Discussion with Daniel Heinrich – Deputy Director, Center for Small Town Jewish Life
Tickets available at watervillecreates.org on or about Feb. 7th.
For more information
call (207) 873-700
Tuesday March 4
7:00 p.m.
Bates College, Olin Arts Center 104
Torah Tropical
(Run Time: 1 hr 40 min min)
Includes a discussion with Producer, Heidi Paster
Wednesday March 5
5:00 p.m.
Portland Museum of Art
The Klezmer Project
(Run Time: 1 hr 55 min)
Wednesday March 5
6:30 p.m.
Film Center, Waterville
The Other
(Run Time: 1 hr 40 min)
Tickets available at watervillecreates.org on or about Feb. 7th.
For more information
call (207) 873-7000
Thursday March 6
5:00 p.m.
Portland Museum of Art
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
(Run Time: 1hr 40 min)
Includes a special talk and Q&A with Director Varda Bar-Kar
Presenting Partner:
Maine Advisory Associates
Thursday March 6
7:00 p.m.
Eveningstar, Brunswick
Come Closer
(Run Time: 1hr 47 min)
Tickets available at eveningstarcinema.com on or about Feb. 7th.
Friday March 7
2:00 p.m.
Portland Museum of Art
Call Me Dancer
(Run Time: 1 hr 25 min)
Includes a pre-recorded introduction by Director/ Producer, Leslie Shampaine
Friday March 7
7:00 p.m.
Eveningstar, Brunswick
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
(Run Time: 1 hr 40 min)
Tickets available at eveningstarcinema.com on or about Feb. 7th.
Presenting Partner:
Maine Advisory Associates
Saturday March 8
5:00 p.m.
Portland Museum of Art
The Goldman Case
(Run Time: 1 hr 47 min)
Includes a discussion with Bates Whitehouse Professor of Psychology, Amy Douglass
Sunday March 9
2:00 p.m.
Portland Museum of Art
2025 MJFF Films
Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round
- 89 mins
- United States
- Genre: Documentary
- Director: Ilana Trachtman
Call Me Dancer
- 1 hr 25 min
- India, UK, Israel, United States
- Genre: Documentary
- Director: Leslie Shampaine
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
- 1 hr 54 mins
- United States
- Genre: Documentary
- Director: Varda Bar-Kar
No Name Restaurant
- 2 hours
- Germany
- Genre: Comedy
- Director: Peter Keller, Stefan Sarazin
The Goldman Case
- 1 hr 56min
- France
- Genre: Drama, Crime, History
- Director: Cédric Kahn
The Klezmer Project
- 1 Hr 55 Mins
- Austria/Argentina
- Genre: Docu-Fiction, Musical Road
- Director: Leandro Koch & Paloma Schachmann
The Ride Ahead
- 1 hr 33 min
- United States
- Genre: Documentary
- Director: Samuel Habib, Dan Habib
The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & The Art of Survival
- 1 hr 36 mins
- United States
- Genre: Documentary
- Director: Julie Rubio
Torah Tropical
- 1 hr 40 min
- Colombia
- Genre: Documentary
- Director: Jimmy Ferguson, Ezra Axelrod, Gloria Nancy Monsalve
