Schedule

We are pleased to embark on our third season of films - coming this July .

Friday, July 29, 2022

6:00pm: Opening Night Reception & Screening of "Imber's Left Hand"

Please join us as we kick off the 3rd Annual MidCoast Film Fest!

Our Opening Reception will begin at 6 PM with hors d’oevres, prosecco, and sparkling cider catered by SeaCoast Catering.

The MidCoast Film Fest is pleased to welcome filmmaker Richard Kane (Truth Tellers, I Know A Man Ashley Bryan) for our opening night screening with his documentary film, Imber’s Left Hand, beginning at 7 PM. Richard Kane, co-producer Melody Lewis-Kane, and artist and widow of Jon Imber, Jill Hoy, will be joining us for a talk back following the film.

Imber’s Left Hand

“This beautiful film … takes the wind out of you.” — Boston Globe

Imber’s Left Hand traces this artist’s life and adaptations, switching from painting with his right hand to his left, then to both as the degenerative condition worsens.  Adversity only makes him more determined: more than 100 portraits in three month.
The film first encounters Imber in his studio with his partner, the beautiful painter Jill Hoy, analyzing Jon’s self-portrait and talking about the terror to come.  The painting becomes an unsettling metaphor of his psychological journey living into his dying through his art. The way in which Imber carries on against the greatest of odds is at the heart of this portrait. Especially moving is how members of his community rally to his support, dropping by to give his swollen and atrophied hands a massage or bring a dish, as he invites them to have their portrait painted.  In one portrait session, a spry 93 year old is told by Imber that he will paint him “au naturel”. “Does that mean I have to take everything off?” he replies. The session becomes an exercise in Borscht Belt humor as Imber tells him he will do something radical — paint a portrait series of naked 90 year olds! In the end, Imber’s Left Hand is a testament to the life-giving force that is art and the ability of two people and their community to face an uncertain future with passion and resolve. It’s a tragic love story of how to die and how each of us can make our lives meaningful even as we approach our deaths.

Running Time: 1 hour, 14 minutes

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Saturday, July 30, 2022

10:00am - 11:00am: MCFF No. 3 presents: The Forgotten War

As the second world war came to an end, the once colonized Korea was split at the 38th parallel by allied forces. Less than five years after the split North Korean forces led by Kim-Il-Sung invaded the south. The UN headed by the United States responded with the first ever police action to combat the invading North Korean forces. Thus the world was once again plunged into pinnacle conflict that would set the tone for the second half of the 20th century. The Korean war saw three years of heavy combat on the small Korean peninsula, ending in a stalemate and an armistice that still remains open today. The Forgotten War tells the story.

Running Time: 1 hour

Director Biography – Daniel Leonard Bernardi (El Dorado, CA)

All MCFF ticket sales are final – Nonrefundable and Nontransferable.

Tickets are available for purchase at the door beginning 30 minutes before showtime, or in advance through our online box office.

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12:00pm - 2:00pm: Invisible Threads

On the eve of an imminent global conflict- spies, subterfuge and sabotage emerge in America as the birth of a new technology changes the world forever. While Tesla, Marconi and a mysterious German wireless plant compete for radio supremacy off the east coast of NY, the unseen casualties of war threaten to divide a nation. Hidden secrets, destruction and a legendary ship sinking were all part of a forgotten wireless plant called Telefunken… A story linked through history by invisible threads.

Running Time: 1 hour, 55 minutes

Director Biography – Joseph Sikorski (Babylon, NY)

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3:00pm - 4:30pm: Dreaming An Island

What if everything stopped? If the wheels of the economy were to come off permanently? The Japanese island of Ikeshima is a place that seems to be ahead of its time, showing us a possible future. The few remaining inhabitants live in a surreal setting, clinging to a normality that seems however to escape them. A dreamlike journey, which forces us to think about our relationship with the planet but also about social isolation and loneliness.

Running Time: 1 hour, 16 minutes

Director Biography – Andrea Pellerani (Switzerland)

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7:00pm - 8:30pm: Natasha Mayers: An-Un Still Life and the Price Of Safety

Artist. Trickster. Activist. Now, more than ever, people want to see truthful, creative role models like Natasha Mayers, who is known as the “most committed activist artist” in Maine and who Senator George Mitchell called a “state treasure.” Presenting an artist who has remained true to her passion for over 50 years, the film follows Natasha as she takes on social, economic and environmental justice issues with humor, irreverence and a keen aesthetic that enlightens while it entertains.

Running Time: 38 minutes

Director ANITA CLEARFIELD (Litchfield, ME)

Festival pass: $25 Adult / $20 Lincoln Theater Member & Youth

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Sunday, July 31, 2022

11:00am - 12:30pm: Food Forest

In this documentary, landscape architect Louis De Jaeger outlines how food forests can save the earth from suffocation, resuscitate communities, make agriculture sustainable, reverse global warming and still produce an abundance of food.

This film takes you on a trip through the secret gardens of food forest pioneers. From urban jungles to healing projects in psychiatric institutions. Because nature appears to be the best healer for the social, psychological and ecological scars that people have caused. If we give nature’s resilience a chance, together we can create a new Eden. In fact, pieces of this new paradise are already visible.

Running Time: 1 hour, 3 minutes

Director Biography – Louis De Jaeger (Belgium)

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1:00pm - 2:30pm: The Master Brewer and The Prediction of Extreme Events

A magical comeback story about Leo Andelin, who in 1963 developed the most famous food of Finland – Lapin Kulta beer. A boy from a working class family in remote Tornio, Leo grows up to become the humble gentleman of beer, who passionately nurtures his “northern beer flower”. Leo’s life’s work is destroyed in 2010 when the time-honored Tornio brewery is shut down by the global beer giant Heineken. Local returnee Kaj Kostiander flies to the rescue of the old beer Jedi, who passes on his wisdom to the younger man. Together they launch a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign and hunt for the original beer yeast. And, like a real-life fairy tale, a golden reward awaits Leo and Kaj at the end. Uplifting and beautiful, THE MASTER BREWER shows how people living far from the centers of global power can still survive and prosper with ingenuity, perseverance and authenticity.

Running Time: 26 minutes

Director Biography – Antti Haase (Finland)

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3:00pm - 5:30pm: New England and Flim Makers Shorts program

REARRANGING SKIN: A LOVE LETTER TO THE WORLD

“Rearranging Skin” tells the story of how Divya Anantharaman, a visionary, Brooklyn-based taxidermist and queer woman of color, is transforming a once bloody and violent practice into a beautiful, ecological, and humane work of art. A “cabinet of curiosities” in its own right, “Rearranging Skin” is ultimately a call to action: to remake the world with creativity and care, righting the wrongs of the past one loving, skillful stitch at a time.

Running Time: 10:20

Director Biography – Elizabeth Myer (Keene. NH)

Festival Pass: $25 Adult / $20 Lincoln Theater Member & Youth

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Festival Pass:

Festival Pass: $75 Adult / $60 Lincoln Theater Member & Youth (includes admission to the Opening Night Reception and all film screenings for the full weekend)

Date: July 29, 2022 - July 31, 2022

Location: Lincoln Theater: 2 Theater St,  Damariscotta, ME 04543

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