Guthries Independent Theater, 22 Park St., Lewiston,  will be showing “Point and Shoot,” a documentary by Marshall Curry. In 2006, Matt VanDyke, a timid 26-year-old with obsessive- compulsive disorder, left home in Baltimore and set off on a self-described “crash course in manhood.” He bought a motorcycle and a video camera and began a three-year, 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East. While traveling, he struck up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie, and when revolution broke out in Libya, Matt joined his friend in the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi. With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, Matt fought in, and filmed the war until he was captured by Gaddafi forces and held in solitary confinement for six months. Two-time Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry tells this harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man’s struggle for political revolution and personal transformation. The film will be showing the next two weeks: Thursday, May 7 –  6:30 p.m.; Fridays, May 1, and May 8 –  6 and 8:30 p.m.; and Saturdays, May 2 and May 9 – 2:30, 5, and 7:30 p.m. Doors open 30 minutes before the show and tickets are $8.

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