QUEER CINEMA
LGBTQIA+ stories created by queer filmmakers
The People’s Joker x Video Store•Age
- Thu, Jul 2
Run Time: 92 min.
Tickets FREE. In honor of Portland Pride month, join us for a free screening of our favorite batman movie: The People's Joker! Hard copies of The People's Joker will be available for sale at this screening through the grassroots indie distributor Video Store•Age.
Go Fish x Lesbian Cinema Club
- Thu, Jul 9
Run Time: 105 min.
Tickets $15. Rose Troche's playful and punk rock film about Chicago's lesbian community. A special zine and merch will be on sale in advance of the screening.
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World x QDoc
- Sat, Jul 11
Run Time: 91 min.
SOLD OUT – Encore Screening added on 8/14. From a lonely childhood to literary fame, her life was shaped by devotion to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it.
Pink Narcissus w/ Live Score by kraftwitch
- Thu, Jul 16
Run Time: 90 min.
Tickets $15. Join us for a screening of James Bidgood’s 1971 queer experimental erotic film with a live score by multimedia artist, kraftwitch!
The Birdcage
- Sat, Jul 18
Run Time: 119 min.
Tickets $15. A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- Sat, Jul 18
Run Time: 103 min.
Tickets $15. With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam, and Bernadette journey across the Australian Outback in their battered, pink tour bus “Priscilla”.
But I’m a Cheerleader Crafternoon w/ Ritual Dyes
- Sun, Jul 19
Run Time: 85 min.
Tickets $15. Bring your own knitting, crocheting, and fiber arts to the Tomorrow Theater for this special event co-hosted by RITUAL DYES, who will be there to offer assistance and support.
Pillion
- Sun, Jul 19
Run Time: 107 min.
Tickets $15. Wallflower Colin (Harry Melling) leads a humdrum existence until he meets the impossibly handsome Ray (Alexander Skarsgård), a mysterious biker he is soon desperately devoted to.
She’s the He
- Sat, Jul 25
Run Time: 81 min.
Tickets $15. Before graduation, Ethan and Alex pose as trans women in a last ditch effort to quell gay rumors. It's all a joke until Ethan realizes: she really is trans. The two must reckon with their changing friendship, coming out, and coming-of-age.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma w/ Jane Schoenbrun & Hannah Einbinder
- Sat, Jul 25
Run Time: 132 min.
Tickets $25. After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie’s star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
Give Me the Ball! x Portland Arts Week
- Sun, Jul 26
Run Time: 101 min.
Tickets $15. World champion tennis trailblazer Billie Jean King has had a game-changing impact on culture and sports. Rare archive and candid interviews with Billie Jean and those closest to her reveal how one woman put changing the world ahead of saving herself.
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World – Encore Screening
- Fri, Aug 14
Run Time: 91 min.
Tickets $15. If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Best-selling poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, queer and out but intensely private—Oliver’s poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites. She was America’s unlikely, contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself—and us, her readers—to the known and unknowable world. Sasha Waters’ beguiling portrait features poems read by Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Jesse Welles, and Oprah Winfrey.
Desert Hearts
- Sun, Aug 16
Run Time: 91 min.
Tickets $15. Celebrate a landmark of queer cinema with a theatrical screening of Donna Deitch’s tender and groundbreaking 1985 romance.
Pratibha Parmar Shorts x Lesbian Cinema Club
- Thu, Aug 20
Run Time: 90 min.
Tickets $15. Join Lesbian Cinema Club for a special screening of the short films of groundbreaking queer filmmaker Pratibha Parmar.