Genre: Documentary
Mr. Gaga
Directed by Tomer Heymann
Ohad Naharin, artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, is celebrated as one of the most important choreographers in the …
Native Wisdom Films
Directed by Lawrence Johnson
Wisdom of the Elders, a Portland cultural organization, records and preserves the history and arts — music, dance, storytelling and …
Thursday, July 6
Running Fence
Directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Some fences unite and inspire rather than divide. The Maysles’ engrossing documentary chronicles the four-year realization of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's …
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Wells
Directed by Chuck Workman
“Oscar-winner Chuck Workman’s (famed for his Academy Award clip montages and iconic trailers) impressive, comprehensive documentary tells the tragic, extraordinary …
The Galapagos Affair
Directed by Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Darwin meets Hitchcock in this gripping, stranger-than-fiction murder-mystery. In 1929, Berlin physician Friedrich Ritter and his lover Dore Strauch left …
Broken
Directed by Lynne Spencer
“This is the extraordinarily intimate portrait of Simone Orlando, Ballet BC's lead dancer for twelve years. During rehearsals for a …
Oregon Art Beat: Oregon’s Animation Magic
OPB and Northwest Film Center present a free screening of Oregon’s Animation Magic in advance of the TV premiere. At …
Sunday, July 9
The B-Side: Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
Directed by Erroll Morris
Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger than life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera—her’s one of only …
Maidan
Directed by Sergei Loznitsa
Loznitsa, whose My Joy and In the Fog have screened in recent PIFFs, brings his distinctively vision to a remarkable eye-witness account of the …
Google and the World Brain
Directed by Ben Lewis
Lewis’s engaging documentary uses science fiction writer H.G. Wells’s prophetic declarations of a “complete planetary memory for all mankind,” or …
Sud
Directed by Chantal Akerman
The work of James Baldwin and William Faulkner long influenced Chantal Akerman’s work and life, and she had long planned …
Tongues Untied!
Directed by Marlon T. Riggs
To this day, probably the most important film on Black gay life in the US is Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied!, …