
Film Art Series
The Film Art Series brings art-house cinema and film conversations to Provincetown. Curated and hosted by Howard Karren, presented by Provincetown Film Society & Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
*Please note, these films are not eligible for the Townie Thursday discount.

Now in its 20th year, the Film Art Series brings art-house cinema and film conversations to Provincetown. Curated and hosted by Howard Karren, presented by Provincetown Film Society & Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
Upcoming Schedule:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) dir. Steven Spielberg: Sunday November 8th
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

Licorice Pizza (2021) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson: Thursday November 19th. 7pm
The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

Plainclothes (2025) dir Carmen Emmi: Thursday December 3rd. 7pm
Writer-director Carmen Emmi handcuffs obsession to power in this confident debut set in ‘90s New York, detecting erotic fixations in homophobic policing.

Nouvelle Vague (2025) dir. Richard Linklater: December 17th. 7pm
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.

The Christophers (2025) dir. Steven Soderbergh: Thursday January 7th. 7pm
The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be “discovered” and sold after his death.

Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski: Thursday January 21st. 7pm
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.

White (1994) dir. Krzysztof KieslowskI: Thursday February 4th. 7pm
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.

Red (1994) dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski: Thursday February 18th. 7pm
Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she returns to his house and catches him listening to his neighbors’ phone calls.

Oh, Hi! (2025) dir. Sophie Brooks: Thursday March 4th. 7pm
Iris and Isaac’s first weekend away as a couple is going so well — until Isaac mentions he didn’t know they were a couple. Convinced she’s met her perfect guy and that he’s just confused, Iris goes to increasingly ridiculous and irrational lengths to prove to Isaac that they are meant to be together.

Ponyboi (2024) dir. Esteban Arango: Thursday March 18th. 7pm
Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.

In the Mood for Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar-Wai: Thursday April 1st. 7pm
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.

Between the Lines (1977) dir. Joan Micklin Silver: Thursday April 15th. 7pm
The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the ’70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.

Trial of Hein (2026) dir. Kai Stänicke: Thursday April 29th. 7pm
After 14 years away, Hein returns to his home village on a remote island, only to discover that the close-knit community no longer recognises him. Suspecting him to be an impostor, they demand a trial to determine his true identity.

Fjord (2026) dir. Cristian Mungiu: Thursday May 13th. 7pm
After the deaths of Mihai’s parents, Mihai and Lisbeth leave everything behind in Romania and move with their children to a remote village in Norway, hoping to rebuild their lives near Lisbeth’s family. There, they grow close to their neighbors, the Halbergs, whose warmth offers the promise of a fresh start. But the fragile peace begins to unravel when the Gheorghius’ young daughter, Elia, arrives at school covered in bruises.
Thank you to our Film Art Series co-presenter!


Season passes are $210, or $180 for PFS and PAAM Members