Shannon Haines 151 First Rangeway Waterville, ME 04901

Cinema Explorations is a program of the Maine Film Center dedicated to fostering the voices and choices of our community of film lovers. Our winter film series is programmed by a volunteer steering committee drawn from this community. Our goals are to present works of Laurie Graves cinema from around the world that can enrich, educate and entertain filmgoers and to Clif Graves encourage the sharing of the experience of cinema through communal film viewing and Bill Jefferson discussion. Alice Johnson Joel Johnson Abbott Meader All screenings will be held at Railroad Square Cinema with complimentary bagels provided by Nancy Meader Bagel Mainea! Each film will screen on Saturday and Sunday (see the reverse for screening Alan Sanborn dates) at 10:00 a.m. Sam Sanborn

Individual tickets are $8 each; Festival passes (each pass admits one to all 6 films) are $36. Railroad Square comp tickets, 10-passes, and membership benefits may also be used. Tickets www.mainefilmcenter.org may be purchased at the door or online in advance at www.railroadsquarecinema.com. www.railroadsquarecinema.com Find “Cinema Explorations” on Facebook

Bagel Mainea

190 Western Ave. From Brazilian favelas to dusty Congolese villages, from neo-lithic Augusta, ME 04330 Scottish isles to modern soccer pitches, BOUNCE explores the little-known origins of our favorite sports, the passion that they (207) 626-5581 inspire, and why the ball occupies such a central place in these games. The evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and historians who have studied play know that anything that universal has to be essential. And yet all attempts to reduce it to a set of common sense benefits fail utterly to explain or capture the reckless abandon, the poetry of body and mind, the labyrinth of stories, rules, games, metaphors, social customs—all that meaning thrust upon the simplest object in the world. The film crosses time, languages, continents, and even species to discover how the ball has staked its claim on our lives and fueled our passion to compete. Cinematographer and Producer David McLain to attend the January 10th screening. Unrated. 76 Min.

Brad Barber and Scott Christopherson’s film PEACE OFFICER is a documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of William 'Dub' Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained Utah's first SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Driven by an obsessed sense of mission, Dub uses his own investigative skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officer-involved shootings in his community, while tackling larger questions about the changing face of peace officers nationwide. “A powerful and important film about policing tactics that have crept into everyday use with little scrutiny, PEACE OFFICER makes its case effectively enough to move even the staunchest law-and-order civilians.”—John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter. The film includes graphic and very disturbing video. Unrated. 105 Min.

The third film in famed Indian director Satyajit Ray’s beautiful humanistic, and intimate “APU Trilogy” about the childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood of Apurba Roy, THE WORLD OF APU is the story of a poor young man ambitious to be a writer living on his own after having been stricken with a series of tragic losses throughout his young life. An invitation to a wedding changes everything. He finds love, loses it, and then must find a way to reclaim it. When it opened in New York City in 1960, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote, “The cycle of life in India that film-maker Satyajit Ray determined to make graphic and poetic in an ADVERTISEMENT uncommon film trilogy is finally brought full circle in THE WORLD OF APU. Decades later, the late Roger Ebert described it as being “like a prayer, affirming that this is what the cinema can be, no matter how far in our cynicism we may stray.” Unrated. 105 Min.

Award-winning director (, THE CIRCLE) was arrested in 2010 for “making propaganda against the Iranian government,” put under house arrest, and given a 6-year jail sentence and a 20-year ban on making films. Despite the ban, he went on to make entirely within his apartment, CLOSED CURTAIN in his summer home, and TAXI in a taxi that circles the streets of Tehran with Panahi himself in the driver's seat. TAXI went on to win the FIRESCI Prize at Berlin: “Our award goes to a film showing great personal and artistic bravery. It is a multilayered tale about everyday life, an original narrative ADVERTISEMENT exploration of both human choices and constrained existence. A humane and subtle portrait of a filmmaker and his country, a man and his surroundings and fellow citizens. Above all, this witty, sharp and devious take on freedom of speech encapsulates the struggle of all artists who seek to overcome the restrictions of reality and express their emotions and opinions regardless of censorship or state bans...” Unrated. 82 Min.

In 1962 the master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and a young French New Wave upstart François Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting—used to produce the mythical book Hitchcock/Truffaut— this film illustrates the greatest cinema lessons of all time and plummets us into the world of the creator of PSYCHO, THE ADVERTISEMENT BIRDS, and VERTIGO. Hitchcock’s incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained by some of today’s leading filmmakers including: Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Schrader. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter called it “A film buff’s nirvana... A resourceful, illuminating, and very welcome documentation both of filmmaking and the making of film history.” Jordan Hoffman of biography.com described it “like an entire semester of film school dumped in your lap. And it is absolutely terrific.” PG-13. 80 Min.

The synopsis of the Pakistani submission for the 2015 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar states: “In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her ten-year-old daughter flee their home on the eve of the girl's arranged marriage to a tribal leader. A deadly hunt for them begins.” DUKHTAR is the first feature film from Pakistani ADVERTISEMENT native and Columbia University MFA Film Studies graduate Afia Nathaniel. Katie Walsh of the Los Angeles Times states she “has delivered a stunning, emotive work that takes to task oppressive patriarchy. It's a gorgeous, suspenseful cinematic achievement.” Diana Clarke of the Village Voice describes it as “an issues film with the twisted, heart-pounding feel of a road-trip thriller, but Nathaniel based her script on a true story, and there's a low- key quality to the conversations that feels real, intimate, and all the more urgent for it.” Unrated. 93 Min.