Posted on June 18, 2025
Tickets $15. Director and musician Alexandra Helgerson presents her feature-length documentary about her father, who shocked the world as the first person to run one marathon per week for a year in 1980. Following the film there will be a discussion with Alexandra.
Read MoreTickets $15. A 1999 documentary about ambition, obsession, excess, and one man’s quest for the American Dream.
Read MoreTickets $15. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury. Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States’ disregard for everyone living…downwind.
Read MoreTickets $15. Join us for a powerful short documentary exploring senior homelessness in Portland through personal stories and expert insight. Following the film, there will be a discussion with director Davey Schaupp & producer Michael Larson.
Read MoreTickets Free. Join MusicPortland and City Commissioner Jamie Dunphy for a special screening of an award-winning documentary chronicles Nashville’s loss of its independent music venues to corporate development.
Read MoreTickets $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.
Read MoreFREE EVENT. Join us for this very special Portland premiere of director Ali Perrin’s film, Dream Into Being, a short documentary which tells the powerful stories of Edna Vázquez, DJ Anjali, and Brenna McDonald—artists who have made their mark in traditionally male-dominated roles within Portland’s music scene and beyond.
Read MoreTickets $15. A masterfully crafted portrait of the trailblazing actor, activist, and Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin, directed by groundbreaking deaf actor and filmmaker Shoshannah Stern.
Read MoreTickets $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.
Read MoreTickets $15. Pavements is a movie about Pavement the band—among other things. A documentary that may or may not be entirely true, may or may not be totally sincere, and may or may not be more about the idea of the band—or any band—than a history of the short-lived, passionately loved, commercially marginal Nineties American alternative group Pavement.
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