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PIFF 42: Ways of Seeing

March 7, 2019 – March 21, 2019

Casanova Gene

Directed by Luise Donschen

A shape-shifting exploration into human/animal sexuality and desire, Donschen’s feature debut is wide-ranging, intimate, and unafraid to ask uncomfortable questions. …

Diamantino

Directed by Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt

One of the year’s most out-there conceptual works, Diamantino is an eye-opening and thoroughly hilarious experience. The film tracks the …

Introduzione All’oscuro

Directed by Gastón Solnicki

When longtime Viennale director Hans Hurch died suddenly in the Summer of 2017, the film world lost an immense figure …

Meteors

Directed by Gürcan Keltek

Captured during a recent crucial juncture in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict that has raged in Southeast Turkey since 1978, Keltek’s poetic …

Shorts 7: Ways of Seeing

Directed by Various

The Grand Bizarre

Directed by Jodie Mack

Mack’s hypnotic travelogue takes her around the world through the prism of textiles. Always extremely colorful, the film animates production …

Your Face

Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang

Master director Tsai’s latest experiment with heavily stripped down cinema is no less thrilling and enveloping than his earlier quasi-neorealist …

The Northwest Film Center recognizes and honors the Indigenous peoples of this region on whose ancestral lands the museum now stands. These include the Willamette Tumwater, Clackamas, Kathlemet, Molalla, Multnomah and Watlala Chinook Peoples and the Tualatin Kalapuya who today are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and many other Native communities who made their homes along the Columbia River. We also want to recognize that Portland today is a community of many diverse Native peoples who continue to live and work here. We respectfully acknowledge and honor all Indigenous communities—past, present, future—and are grateful for their ongoing and vibrant presence.