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Shorts 3: Distant Tales

Directed by Various

89 mins.

Showtimes & Past Screenings

Films in this Program

Wren Boys

Directed by Harry Lighton

On the day after Christmas, a Catholic priest from Cork drives his nephew to prison.

Not Yet

Directed by Arian Vazidaftari

Hasti, who has just turned 21, is studying abroad and her parents in Iran want to congratulate her via Skype.

Edith & Eddie

Directed by Laura Checkoway

Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America’s oldest interracial newlyweds. Their love story is disrupted by a family …

Poles Apart

Directed by Paloma Baeza

In a harsh Arctic landscape, a hungry and solitary polar bear has to decide if a naïve Canadian grizzly bear …

Red Light

Directed by Toma Waszarow

A bus stops at a village’s only intersection, where the traffic light is stuck on red. The driver refuses to …

Genres: Short

Appears in: 41st Portland International Film Festival, PIFF 41: Short Cuts

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.