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Portland Film Festival 2023
Welcome to the Portland Film Festival 2023 Virtual Festival!
Explore our on-demand catalog here.
Documentary
A master of Japanese drumming and a Korean adoptee from Minnesota boldly convene an all-female troupe to perform Taiko, the Japanese drumming art that has been off-limits to women for centuries.
89 min | 2022 | USA & Japan
Finding Her Beat
The Houston Herricanes, a women's professional full tackle football team, find camaraderie and friendship as they controversially open a new door in the world of sports.
88 min | 2023 | USA
The Herricanes
“Jailhouse to Milhouse” follows the courageous journey of actor Pamela Hayden, the voice of Milhouse on “The Simpsons.” After overcoming tremendous obstacles throughout her life, she now reaches out to others who have fallen through the cracks.
68 min | 2023 | USA
Jailhouse to Milhouse
“After the deliberate separation and an unjust declaration of extinc tion, the Sinixt people return to their ancestral land in Canada to continue practicing and protecting their aboriginal rights.
57 min | 2022 | USA
Older than the Crown
In 2001 a small group of local residents were denied a grant to put on the first LGBTQ Pride Festival in Jersey City. The festival recently turned 20 years old. This is their story.
48 min | 2023 | United States
Strength through Visibility - 20 Years of Pride in Jersey City
Take the Ice follows the founder and commissioner of the first professional women’s hockey league and the athletes competing to win its first championship.
88 min | 2022 | United States
Take the Ice
Horror
Women In Horror Shorts Block
Midnight Movies
Taka, a shiftless young man, sets off on a quest to find his brother Mune. Teaming up with a quirky new friend and an edgy, mysterious young girl along the way, Taka finds himself taking on a pack of vicious monster cats determined to execute unscrupulous pet shop owners
88 min | 2023 | Japan
Mad Cats
Women In Horror Shorts Block
Portland Stories
DEAD MOM CARD: a black comedy about white privilege is a feature-length film about opportunity, ownership, and community.
108 min | 2022 | USA
Dead Mom Card
A six-year-old Rohingya boy named Hossain comes of age in the world's largest refugee camp while the crisis around him grows increasingly dangerous.
78 min | 2023 | USA, Bangladesh
From This Small Place
A delusional director and his beleaguered cast attempt to stage his terrible Beatles musical.
85 min | 2023 | United States of America
Nowhere Men
Portland Shorts Block 1
Portland Shorts Block 2
Black Stories
Black Stories Shorts Block
Indigenous Stories
130 min | 2021
Bones of Crows
Indigenous Stories Shorts Block
“After the deliberate separation and an unjust declaration of extinc tion, the Sinixt people return to their ancestral land in Canada to continue practicing and protecting their aboriginal rights.
57 min | 2022 | USA
Older than the Crown
Latine Stories
Latine Stories Shorts Block
Asian Stories
A master of Japanese drumming and a Korean adoptee from Minnesota boldly convene an all-female troupe to perform Taiko, the Japanese drumming art that has been off-limits to women for centuries.
89 min | 2022 | USA & Japan
Finding Her Beat
Taka, a shiftless young man, sets off on a quest to find his brother Mune. Teaming up with a quirky new friend and an edgy, mysterious young girl along the way, Taka finds himself taking on a pack of vicious monster cats determined to execute unscrupulous pet shop owners
88 min | 2023 | Japan
Mad Cats
LGBTQ+ Stories
LGBTQIA+ Stories Shorts Block
In 2001 a small group of local residents were denied a grant to put on the first LGBTQ Pride Festival in Jersey City. The festival recently turned 20 years old. This is their story.
48 min | 2023 | United States
Strength through Visibility - 20 Years of Pride in Jersey City
Music Videos
Music Videos