Portland EcoFilm Festival

Hollywood

When

June 19–21, 2025

Thursday and Saturday, Times vary

Cost: Cost Varies

Where

Hollywood Theatre

4122 NE Sandy Blvd
Portland, OR 97212

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

Founded in 2013, the Portland EcoFilm Festival is the premier ecological and environmental film festival in the Pacific Northwest. This is a signature program of The Hollywood Theatre, Portland, Oregon’s modern-historic nonprofit movie house. The Portland EcoFilm Festival's mission is to utilize the art of cinema to nurture a more active, inspired, diverse, and connected community of environmental advocates and ecologically minded people.

6/19: Presenting the regional premieres of seven new short films from around the world about humanity’s relationship with water. (Community conversation with directors and special guests follows)

On Screen: 

• The Endless Tide (Australia)
• Dream to Cure Water (Peru)
• Return of the Mangroves (El Salvador)
• Tahnaanooku (Dakotas)
• Quillayute River Restoration (WA)
• The Persistence of Memory (California)
• How We Are Saving a River (PDX)

6/21: For the final program of the 2025 festival, presenting the regional premieres of two new films about humans, horses, buffalo, Indigeneity, and colonization. Community conversation with directors follows. This program features an official selection in our Indigenous Voices series, BRING THEM HOME(AISKÓTÁHKAPIYAAYA), produced and narrated by Academy Award nominee, Lily Gladstone (Reservation Dogs, Killers of the Flower Moon).

On Screen:

• BRING THEM HOME
• THE CAVALRY