It started with a simple question: Sarah Carey asked her husband, “What do you think about a film festival in Castine?”

Carey, an interior design and architecture consultant, had never worked with films before. But she loves watching movies and sharing them with others; the idea got a warm response in town, she said, and the first Castine Film Festival took shape with help from local organizations.

It takes place on Saturday with a wide-ranging selection of 12 films from six countries of varying lengths, topics and languages — in one case, no words at all.

The new event is the first in the small coastal town, and unlike many other film festivals, is not limited to certain lengths or subjects. That provides an unusual opportunity for filmmakers, according to Carey, and should bring a new

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