UNORTHODOX DOCS
Non-fiction arts that play with the boundaries of form, function, style & story.
Secret Mall Apartment
- Fri, May 23
Run Time: 91 min.
Tickets $15. In 2003, eight young Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment in a hidden space inside the Providence Place Mall and lived in it for four years, filming everything along the way.
Desire Lines – Portland Premiere // TRANS JOY
- Sat, Jun 7
Run Time: 81 min.
Tickets $15. An Iranian-American trans man, searching for his place in history, finds more than a just link to the past in the archives. Drawing from first-person accounts, as well as fictionalized segments, filmmaker Jules Rosskam explores the lines of desire as they intersect with identity for many trans men.
New Wave (Documentary) 4pm Screening w/ Subtitles
Run Time: 190 min.
Tickets $15. Join us for a very special community screening of New Wave, featuring Phụ Đề Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese Subtitles). So bring your aunties, your grandparents, and your whole community!
Power of Place // Juneteenth Event
- Thu, Jun 19
Run Time: 120 min.
Tickets $15. Celebrate Juneteenth with an evening of film, conversation, and community. We’ll kick things off with two compelling short films—Dear Young Black Portland and Where We Goin: The Power of Place, followed by a conversation with the filmmakers and local voices who bring these stories to life.
Blur: To the End (Documentary)
- Sun, Jun 29
Run Time: 104 min.
Tickets $15. This new documentary follows the unique relationship of four friends—and band mates of three decades—Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree as they come together to record new songs ahead of their sold-out at London’s Wembley Stadium in 2023.
The Falling Sky
- Sun, Jul 6
Run Time: 110 min. Language: Portuguese
Tickets $15. In collaboration with Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami people, this film follows the Yanomami leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa as he fights to return the world to balance in closely observed rituals and trenchant comments on the ruthless logic of a materialistic outside culture.