Documentary

TIFF 15 – HORIZON – TIFF Docs World Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 13, 2015 @ 4:45 PM @ Jackman Hall Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 9:30 AM at Jackman Hall Oscar-nominated director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and co-director Bergur Bernburg helm this lovely documentary portrait of influential Icelandic landscape painter Georg Gudni. Directors – Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and Bergur Bernburg […]

Venezia 72 – HUMAN – Out of Competition

Festival Screening – September 12, 2015 @ 2:30 PM at Sala Darsena Human is a diptych of stories and images of the world, to immerge ourselves in the depth of Human kind. Through testimonies full of emotions, Human allows us to reflect on our existence. From the smallest everyday life story to the most incredible […]

TIFF 15 – RETURN OF THE ATOM – World Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 11, 2015 @ 6:30PM – The Scotiabank Theatre Saturday, September 12, 2015 @ 11:30am – Jackman Hall Last Festival Screening – September 18, 2015 @ 6:15 PM – The Scotiabank Theatre Film is also known as Atomin Paluu. This incisive and often savagely funny documentary chronicles the black comedy of […]

TIFF 15 – WELCOME TO F.L. – World Premiere

The film is also known as Bienvenue À F.L.. First Festival Screening – September 10, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre This feature-length documentary by filmmaker Geneviève Dulude-De Celles offers a candid portrait of the smart, passionate and reflective […]

Venezia 72 – REMEMBER

First Festival Screening – September 10, 2015 @ 7:30 PM at Sala Grande Last Festival Screening – September 10, 2015 @ 8:00 PM at PalaBiennale Zev has a mission: to avenge his family, murdered 70 years ago by a Nazi guard who lives under assumed identity in America. Director – Atom Egoyan –Venice Film Festival

Telluride 15 – BITTER LAKE

First Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 7:00 PM Last Festival Screening – September 7, 2015 @ 8:30 AM BITTER LAKE picks up the baton, distilling hundreds of hours of archival TV footage into a revelatory study of the relationship between Afghanistan and the West. Punctuated by a number of shocking scenes, the result […]

Portland 15 – BATKID BEGINS – Closing Night Film

Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 7:30 PM at Mission Theater On one day, in one city, the world comes together to grant one 5 year old cancer patient his wish. Batkid Begins looks at the ‘why’ of this flash phenomenon. November 15th, 2013. San Francisco transformed into Gotham City and captivated the nation. […]

2015 Portland Film Festival Announces Film Line-Up

2015 Portland Film Festival Announces Film Line-Up

The 2015 Portland Film Festival is Oregon’s largest film event of the year, with 80 narrative and documentary feature films and 134 short films selected out of 3500 submissions. This week long extravaganza also includes over 75 master classes, Two Lifetime Achievement Tributes, and an unprecedented live event featuring several thousand festival goers as extras […]

Telluride 15 – AMAZING GRACE

First Festival Screening – September 4, 2015 @ 7:30 PM Last Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 8:00 PM In 1972, Aretha Franklin arrived at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles to record an album of the gospel music she’d heard— and sung—as a girl growing up in her father’s church […]

Portland 15 – MORPHINE ‘JOURNEY OF DREAMS’ – Special Q&A

Festival Screening – September 3, 2015 @ 7:15 PM at Mission Theater The band Morphine blazed like a comet across the global music scene in the 1990s. The trio rose from local Boston clubs to indie and major label record deals and wide critical acclaim until their tragic and untimely demise in 1999. In “Morphine: […]

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