UNORTHODOX DOCS
Non-fiction arts that play with the boundaries of form, function, style & story.
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.
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. Sasha Waters’ beguiling portrait features poems read by Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Jesse Welles, and Oprah Winfrey.
Sherman’s March (4K Restoration)
- Sun, Sep 6
Run Time: 158 min.
Tickets $15. Armed with a 16mm camera and a grant to make a documentary about the lingering aftermath of William Tecumseh Sherman’s 1864 march to the sea, Ross McElwee gets sidetracked. After his girlfriend breaks up with him, Ross shifts his attention from the historical to the personal, to the battlefield of modern love.
Cookie Queens
- Sun, Sep 13
Run Time: 91 min.
Tickets $15. It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which childhood and ambition collide. A celebration of girlhood and the complexities that come with it, Cookie Queens is a coming-of-age story about the joys, pressures, and tensions woven into one of America’s most cherished rituals: Girl Scout Cookie season.
A Life Illuminated
- Sun, Sep 20
Run Time: 90 min.
Tickets $15. An uplifting documentary that takes audiences into one of Earth’s last great frontiers: the deep sea. Pioneering marine biologist Dr. Edith Widder’s perseverance is a wonder to behold as she pursues her lifelong quest to use the language of light to communicate with the ocean’s most mysterious creatures.