Tickets $25. The second chapter in the documentary series showcasing the culture and traditions of henna art around the world. Join us for this premiere screening, along with a very special performance by the captivating musicians of Seffarine, who scored the film, and a post-film discussion with the directors.
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Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency w/ Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens
Posted on October 1, 2025
Tickets $15. Trailblazing artist-activists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens join us in person for a special pre-film artist talk before the Portland premiere of their latest documentary.
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Tickets FREE. Come See Me in the Good Light is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose, and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.
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Tickets $15. Crafted from decades of intimate, self-shot footage, the film offers a rare, unfiltered glimpse into the artistic evolution, friendship, and frictions of Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala—the visionary musicians behind At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta.
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Tickets $15. A gripping, deeply moving documentary about librarians thrust into the heart of America’s cultural reckoning. This film pulls back the curtain on a surge of book bans targeting essential stories about race, gender, and queerness—and shows how libraries have become unlikely battlegrounds for civil rights.
Read MoreWorlds of Ursula K. Le Guin w/ Dir. Arwen Curry // Hosted by From The Ground UP
Posted on August 14, 2025
Tickets $15. An evening celebrating one of the most influential voices in science fiction and fantasy. Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin offers a rare, intimate journey into the life and imagination of the legendary Portland-based author, whose groundbreaking works forever reshaped the genres she loved.
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Tickets $65. Renowned for her luminous, rhinestone-adorned compositions and her profound explorations of Black womanhood, love, desire, and celebration, Mickalene Thomas is recognized as one of the most influential voices in contemporary art. In this moderated conversation at PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater, she will reflect on her creative practice, formative influences, evolving artistic vision, and current projects. Mickalene will be joined in conversation with Tanya Selvaratnam and Thomas Lauderdale who worked on her short film Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman.
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Tickets $15. Archivist Göran Hugo Olsson’s (Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975, Concerning Violence) latest film in which images of the rise of the Israeli state are interspersed with Palestine’s freedom struggle.
Read MoreHeightened Scrutiny w/ Director Sam Feder, Basic Rights Oregon, ACLU Oregon, & Latino Network
Posted on July 28, 2025
Tickets $15. Fearless civil rights lawyer, Chase Strangio, battles at the Supreme Court for transgender adolescents’ access to life-saving healthcare, confronting not only the legal system but also a media landscape that distorts public perception and threatens the fight for trans rights.
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Tickets FREE. An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete, and its ancestor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?
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