Temple Theatre

Date: Sunday, September 27, 2026
Time: Doors: 6:00PM, Films: 7PM
Admission: Get Tickets HERE
Location: 20 Market Square, Houlton, ME 04730
Presented by: Temple Theatre
Program Notes: The film program will last about two hours.

Screening Program*:

THE HIVE ARCHITECT | 12.07 minutes | by Max Weston | from: United Kingdom | Short synopsis: For the last 14 years Matt Somerville has spent the winters creating his log hives before driving around all of England in the summer, erecting them as non-intervention habitats for wild honey bees.
WILD RIDE | 6.2 minutes | by Allie Rood | from: United States | Short synopsis: This is a story about women who don’t hold back—gritty, hard charging, and completely in their element. Sunny, Mo, and Galen are leading the second annual Women’s Snowmobile Clinic, drawing riders from across Alaska to take control of their sleds and their confidence.
FISH FOR THE FUTURE | 5.03 minutes | by Matthew Benton | from: United States | Short synopsis: At the beginning of 2025 the Palisades fire ravaged the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles. In the aftermath, conservation biologists and volunteers scramble to rescue one of the last endangered steelhead trout populations in the region before an upcoming rainstorm. The team has a short window to save as many fish as possible as mudslides threaten to wipe out their habitat.
THE DESCENT INTO DISCOMFORT (VEGURINN TIL VANLÍÐUNNAR) | 14.8 minutes | by Sam Walker | from: United Kingdom | Short synopsis: A 10-day, 209-mile crossing of Iceland from north to south. A journey that has profound physical and emotional challenges as its participants ‘descend into discomfort’.Crossing landscapes that are as wild as they are beautiful – from the barren moonscape area known as “Exploding Sands” to intensely green volcanic valleys and lava fields. Escaping the pressures of work, social media, and home life to find freedom in the wide open silence of Iceland’s interior.
THE RIVER’S GIFT | 17.3 minutes | by Patrick Kirby | from: United States | Short synopsis: The Tallapoosa River brings a community of veterans together to find peace, connection and of course, red eye bass. Wind through Alabama’s pines, meet Rowell and his friends, and cast a line or two with them while hearing about their healing connection to this community and this special place.
LOBSTER QUEEN | 23.6 minutes | by Alix Buck | from: Canada | Short synopsis: They say women are bad luck on a boat. Captain Gail Atkinson never gave a damn. She’s spent the last 30 years proving everyone wrong—and taking chances on people nobody else would hire.But Gail’s convictions are put to the test as she faces the storm of the year and an emotional upheaval that shakes her to her core. As she grapples with identity, loneliness, and legacy, Gail finds unexpected purpose providing others the very opportunities that she was once denied.
LA TRACE | 11.75 minutes | by Clement Lefer | from: France | Short synopsis: Five months after falling thirty meters into an ice crevasse and being rescued by helicopter, Arnaud chose to return. La Trace follows his attempt at the Summum Mont Blanc: 3.8 km of cold-water swimming, 180 km of cycling with 3,000 meters of elevation gain, and the ascent of Mont Blanc from Saint-Gervais, nearly 4,000 meters of vertical climb. All in a single day.
THE CHASE | 18.75 minutes | by Joshua Bogardus | from: United States | Short synopsis: The Chase is an East Coast ski film that explores relationships with others, ourselves, and the ever-changing winters. The film follows Blake Keogh, a backcountry athlete living in South Portland, Maine, who chases snow and solitude for an entire year. It offers an intimate look at the intersection between skiing, mental health, and community. Blake’s 1971 Scotty camper serves as the winter base camp from which his search for connection, joy, and deep snow begins.