PIFF XL: Films for Families

In accordance with the recent mandate from Oregon Governor Kate Brown, masks are required during Open-Air Cinema at OMSI. Masks continue to be required for all staff and visitors at the Portland Art Museum, including Venice VR Expanded.

February 11, 2017 – February 20, 2017

Return to PIFF XL

Half Ticket

Directed by Samit Kakkad

Half Ticket is a story of the “Have Nots” struggling to survive in a world of “Haves.” Fascinated by the …

Heidi

Directed by Alain Gsponer

Johanna Spyri’s classic children’s novels return to the screen for a new generation. Our heroine Heidi is sent to live …

My Life as a Zucchini

Directed by Claude Barras

Barras’s funny and brightly colored stop-motion film tells the story of nine-year-old Icare, known to his friends as Courgette (Zucchini). …

The World of Us

Directed by Ga-Eun Yoon

At an age when perhaps friends mean more than moms, 10-year-old Sun is an outcast at school. During summer vacation, …

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.