LEWISTON — The 2013-2014 season of the L/A Film Forum kicks off on Wednesday, Oct. 2, in the Lewiston Public Library’s Callahan Hall with a showing of the documentary film, “Household,” by Lewiston videomaker Craig Saddlemire.

The program will open at 5:45 p.m. with social time and refreshments, with the movie screening starting at 6.

To explore how his friends and neighbors are defining family for themselves today, Saddlemire invited four different households in his community to allow him to document their routines and challenges.

“Household” tells the story of four Lewiston households: an extended refugee family from Somalia, an interracial same-sex couple, a single mother in a housing cooperative, and a mother of six who has fostered nearly 50 children in her lifetime.

Through food, finances and sibling disputes, “Household” presents an ever-shifting perspective on the enduring bonds of kinship. It reveals what it means to be a family member by choice, by birth and by circumstance.

The L/A Film Forum is a collaborative project co-sponsored by the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries and the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival. Each film program in the series will open with a short subject from the LAFF archives.

The forum is a free, public event open to all adults (18 and over) in the community.

Film Forum programs conclude with a short discussion following each screening. Saddlemire will moderate the Oct. 2 discussion.

The film series will continue monthly on the first Wednesday of each month through March. The program location will alternate between LPL and APL.

The upcoming season schedule includes: Nov. 6 at APL: “Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock”; Dec. 4 at LPL: “Timer”; Jan. 8 at APL: “One Man, One Cow, One Planet”; Feb. 5 at LPL: (film not yet selected); March 5 at APL: “Hurt Locker.”

For more details on the Film Forum, contact the LPL Adult Services Department at 513-3135 or [email protected].