QUEER CINEMA
LGBTQIA+ stories created by queer filmmakers
Shakedown x Lesbian Cinema Club
- Thu, Jun 11
Run Time: 72 min.
Tickets $15. Charting the eight-year run of Shakedown, a peripatetic black lesbian strip club in Los Angeles, director Leilah Weinraub attempts “to portray the before and after of a utopic moment.” Special merch will be on sale in advance of the screening.
Blue Is the Warmest Color
- Sun, Jun 14
Run Time: 180 min. Language: French
Tickets $15. Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
The People’s Joker
- Thu, Jul 2
Run Time: 92 min.
Tickets FREE. A law-breaking comedian who is grappling with her gender identity forms a new anti-comedy troupe with a friend and finds herself battling a fascistic caped crusader.
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World x QDoc
- Sat, Jul 11
Run Time: 91 min.
Tickets $15. 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”.
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.
Desert Hearts
- Sun, Aug 16
Run Time: 91 min.
Tickets $15. In 1959, Vivian Bell came to Reno, Nevada for a quick divorce. Of all the people she met there, the one who surprised her the most was herself.