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Tickets FREE. Join guest programmers Ariella Tai and Tracy Kernell as they present the 2023 short film Quiet As It's Kept, directed by Ja'Tovia Gary, followed by the 1996 feature film Naked Acts, directed by Bridgett M. Davis.

Tickets $45. To celebrate womanhood and all of its messiness, humor, heartbreak, and joy, Grand Gesture Books is so excited to offer a movie viewing with sleepover vibes.

Tickets $15. Celebrate five decades of groundbreaking art and storytelling with Portland legend Rupert Kinnard!

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. Following the screening, writer Leni Zumas will be in conversation with Theo Downes-Le Guin about the film and Ursula K. Le Guin's work. 

Tickets $15. Join Nationale for a special movie night featuring Peter Hujar's Day. Nationale will be vending Peter Hujar's books and hosting a salon-style discussion after the film. 

Tickets $15. In 1981, Jessie Maple became one of the first African American women to direct an independent film with this raw, unflinching portrait of heroin addiction and recovery. Shot on location in Harlem, Will stars Obaka Adedunyo as the title character, a former All-American basketball star who has fallen from grace because of his dependence on junk. Soon after Will promises his wife, Jean (Loretta Devine, in her screen debut), that he’ll go straight, he becomes a father figure to Little Brother (Robert Dean), a street-tough teen who appears to be following in Will’s footsteps. Restored from the 16mm camera negative and magnetic sound elements by the Black Film Center & Archive (BFCA), the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Time-Based Media Archives and Conservation staff, and the Center for African American Media Arts. 

Tickets $15. Presented by local writer, filmmaker, and musician Kalimah Abioto, Twice as Nice is the second film by Jessie Maple, a pioneering independent African American filmmaker.

Tickets $15. Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

Tickets $15. Jim Jarmusch's latest feature film in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.