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.
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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.
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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.
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Tickets: FREE. Marking the 81st anniversary of the horrific Hiroshima atomic bombing, local filmmaker David Paul-Heberg will premiere his new documentary about a survivor of the bombing who continues to spread a message of peace by collecting seeds from trees that survived the blast and spreading them across the Pacific Northwest. Followed by a special post-film conversation.
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Tickets $15. An experimental—at times fantastical—hybrid feature film, co-created by a collective of autistic artists, the Neurocultures Collective, and filmmaker Steven Eastwood, who invite you into a neurodiverse world within the undulating logic of neurotypical environments.
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Tickets $15. Join us for an activation by Skate Like a Girl before a screening of Skate Dreams, the first feature documentary about the rise of women’s skateboarding.
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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.
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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.
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Tickets $15. The Portland premiere screening of a new documentary film directed by David Poulshock with a live musical performance by Big Vibe and exhibition of beloved painter and scene designer Tim Stapleton’s larger-than-life hexaptych Coal Miners.
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