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Tickets $15. The Portland premiere of Oregon-based filmmaker Nisha Burton's documentary which tells the story of her mother Norma Burton's path from domestic violence survivor to one of the co-founders of the National Coalition of Domestic Violence.

Tickets $15. Join us for this 1994 holiday classic based on the Louisa May Alcott novel.

Tickets FREE. Some people change your life forever. Join Basic Rights Oregon and the Lesbian Culture Club for a FREE movie night, featuring an all-time favorite holiday film for so many queers!

Tickets FREE. Filmmaker Kevin Hanzlik will host the screening of his new short film RESTROOM followed by a Q&A with the cast.

Tickets $20. 7 Deadly Sins: CHURCH is going to be a kick-ass, howl-at-the-moon evening of fun as we all celebrate what it means to be human, and keep the darkness at bay just one night longer.

Tickets $15. Deck the halls…with bats, claws, and chaos. Join us for mistletoe and mayhem with another round of Violet Hex's Movie Bingo, this time set in Tim Burton’s snow-dusted Gotham. 

Tickets $35. Get ready to deck the halls, dodge paint cans, and relive the holiday classic like never before! CineWhimsy: Home Alone, brought to you by Gosh Darn Delightful, transforms movie night into a booby-trapped, immersive adventure.

Tickets $15. A soul wandering in love… Belladonna, a flower that blooms with the sap of tears…with woo-woo.

Tickets FREE. Join documentary filmmaker and educator Courtney Hermann for an evening of conversation, film clips, and reflection on the evolving practice of directing the documentary.

Tickets $15. A gripping, deeply moving documentary about librarians thrust into the heart of America’s cultural reckoning. This film pulls back the curtain on a surge of book bans targeting essential stories about race, gender, and queerness—and shows how libraries have become unlikely battlegrounds for civil rights.

Tickets $20. Join hostess Violet Hex for a Queer Celebration of Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special! Presented in Violet-Vision: Screened with archival commercial breaks spliced in for a special interactive TV viewing experience. Featuring a special PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE DRAG SHOW with pre-film performances by PDX icons Given, Violet Hex, XO Skeleton, & More TBA!

Tickets $15. The Muppets put their own hilarious and heartfelt spin on Charles Dickens’ classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge.

Tickets $15. It’s not stealing if you don’t get caught.

Tickets $5. If you love Christmas then why don't you merry it?! Ring in the season with our annual holiday tradition: the Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special on the big screen! 🎄 Packed with guest stars, queer icons, music, and Pee-wee’s signature kooky cheer, this yuletide classic is pure joy.  

Tickets $15. Jim Jarmusch’s moody meditation on art, love, and immortality.

Tickets $25 Get ready for a marathon of love, danger, and the supernatural with The Twilight Saga trilogy! Join us for over 6 hours of everyone's favorite cozy PNW favorites.

Tickets $15. A sultry, stylish descent into immortal longing.

Tickets $15. When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.

Tickets FREE. Join us for a screening of The Perfect Neighbor, a film that honors the life and legacy of Ajike Owens while exposing the stark realities of “stand your ground” laws. Emmy Award–winning director Geeta Gandbhir uses groundbreaking real-time storytelling—told largely through police bodycam footage—to immerse viewers in a community grappling with escalating harassment, systemic failure, and a devastating crime.

Tickets $15. Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.

Tickets $15. Get swept up in joyful chaos and big-band rebellion with Swing Girls, a raucous slice of Japanese teen comedy from director Shinobu Yaguchi. Set in rural Yamagata, a group of bored high-school girls accidentally poisin their school brass band, and decide, on a whim, to form a swing jazz group instead. 

Tickets $65. Renowned for her luminous, rhinestone-adorned compositions and her profound explorations of Black womanhood, love, desire, and celebration, Mickalene Thomas is recognized as one of the most influential voices in contemporary art. In this moderated conversation at PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater, she will reflect on her creative practice, formative influences, evolving artistic vision, and current projects.

Tickets $15. A gripping, deeply moving documentary about librarians thrust into the heart of America’s cultural reckoning. This film pulls back the curtain on a surge of book bans targeting essential stories about race, gender, and queerness—and shows how libraries have become unlikely battlegrounds for civil rights.

Tickets $15. On nights like this, when the world's a bit amiss, put on some makeup and join us for a night of glitter, grit, and rock-and-roll catharsis with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, curated by Donni Davy!

Tickets $15. In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity. Wang Zhenxi is part of this growing profession, a “mistress dispeller” who is hired to maintain the bonds of marriage — and break up affairs — by any means necessary. Offering strikingly intimate access to private dramas usually hidden behind closed doors, Mistress Dispeller follows a real, unfolding case of infidelity as Teacher Wang attempts to bring a couple back from the edge of crisis. Their story shifts our sympathies between husband, wife and mistress to explore the ways emotion, pragmatism and cultural norms collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.

Tickets $15. Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Tickets $15. A loyal dog moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities threaten his human companion, the brave pup must fight to protect the one he loves most.

Tickets $15. In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.

Tickets $15. Bring your own knitting, crocheting, and fiber arts to the Tomorrow Theater for this special event co-hosted by RITUAL DYES.

Tickets $15. Grace and Jackson move into an old house deep in the country. With ambitions to write The Great American Novel, Grace settles into her new environment, and the couple soon welcome a child. However, with Jackson frequently—and suspiciously—absent, and the pressures of domestic life starting to weigh on her, Grace begins to unravel, leaving a path of destruction in her wake.

Tickets $15. From Mazzy Star to MC Hammer, Sinead O’Connor to Sonic Youth and everything in between, you just can’t touch this!

Tickets $15. An onstage conversation about the most challenging questions Portlanders are facing. We’ll bring together three people with very different experiences of and perspectives on the city to talk through some shit with help from the audience and a moderator.

Tickets $15. A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life – SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie – is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. Set amidst a ground-breaking investigation into abuse and death at an Indian residential school, the film empowers participants to break cycles of intergenerational trauma by bearing witness to painful, long-ignored truths – and the love that endures within their families despite the revelation of genocide.  Filmmaker in attendance for this screening.

Tickets $15. Over the course of a single day, the lives of innocent and not-so-innocent individuals collide in a web of misfortune and redemption.  

Tickets $15. Welcome to Movie Book Club—for anyone who loves movies, books, or simply having opinions about both. Hosted by author Margaret Malone, each session invites you to watch a literary adaptation and then stick around for a warm, lively, and lightly irreverent post-screening conversation. Bring your thoughts, your questions, your favorite passages, and your spiciest hot takes. Read the book if you want (gold star!). Or just show up and let the movie do the heavy lifting (also gold star!). Either way, you’ll leave with new ideas, new questions, and maybe a new favorite character to lovingly overanalyze. Our inaugural Movie Book Club features Train Dreams, adapted from Denis Johnson’s novella of the same name.

Tickets $15. Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.

Tickets $15. Join Lesbian Cinema Club for a night of Cheryl Dunye short films. 

Tickets $15. An X-Rated descent into demented comedy and maniacal horror, as a desperate mother drags an innocent stranger into an absurd, filthy nightmare beyond comprehension. An unflinchingly loyal adaptation of transgressive artist Johnny Ryan’s joyfully disgusting comic book. Adults only.

Tickets $15. Join Brain Dead—L.A.’s boundary-pushing creative collective—for a one-day-only special screening of the 1995 Japanese cyberpunk film Ghost in the Shell.

Tickets $15. Come See Me in the Good Light is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose, and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.

Tickets $15. With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

Tickets $15. Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.

Tickets $15. Celebrate five decades of groundbreaking art and storytelling with Portland legend Rupert Kinnard! In conjunction with his 50-year retrospective at the Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts, we’re thrilled to present a screening of No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics. This illuminating documentary traces the history of queer comics and the artists who reshaped representation on the page. Following the screening, Kinnard, creator of the first Black, queer superhero, will be onstage for an audience Q&A moderated by NWMOCA Board Chair Mike Rosen. Rupert Kinnard will sign books after the Q&A. 

Tickets $15. As A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin comes to a close at Oregon Contemporary, join us for a film that honors the imagination, empathy, and wonder at the heart of Le Guin’s work.

Tickets $15. Join Ethereal Reflection's Correspondence Club and discover that someone you pass on the street may already be the love of your life.

Tickets $15. 'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963.

Tickets $15. Sophie has an uneventful life at her late father’s hat shop, but all that changes when she befriends wizard Howl, who lives in a magical flying castle. However, the evil Witch of Waste (Lauren Bacall) takes issue with their budding relationship and casts a spell on young Sophie, which ages her prematurely. Now Howl must use all his magical talents to battle the jealous hag and return Sophie to her former youth and beauty.

Tickets $15. Spend Valentine’s Day wrapped in the smoky, slow-burn romance of Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love — now celebrating its 25th anniversary. We’re screening the restored feature plus a rarely-seen 9-minute short that brings Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung back together for one more exquisite bite of longing.

Tickets $15. Bring your own knitting, crocheting, and fiber arts to the Tomorrow Theater for this special screening of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, co-hosted by RITUAL DYES

Tickets $15. A rising pop sensation navigates fame and industry pressures while preparing for her arena tour debut, revealing the transformation of underground culture into mainstream success.

Tickets $15. American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union and now based in the U.S., returned to Moscow in 2021 to document the growing crackdown on independent journalism in Putin’s Russia. Months later, the country invaded Ukraine. What began as a vérité portrait of young reporters labeled “foreign agents” suddenly became a frontline chronicle of a nation sliding into war, repression, and exile. Told across five chapters, My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow is an intimate, unflinching record of a community fighting to tell the truth as the ground shifts beneath them. Loktev’s camera captures the urgency, fear, humor, and resilience of journalists fighting Putin’s regime —offering a front row seat to how authoritarianism works and the lives of those who resist, which becomes more and more relevant both globally and in the U.S. every day.