A GREAT AWAKENING tells the true story of an unlikely friendship that resulted in one of the most defining moments in American history. With the colonies on the brink of collapse, the Reverend George Whitefield sparks the first Great Awakening, uniting an entire generation with his thundering proclamation of liberty in Christ. In a miraculous turn of events, one of Whitefield’s closest friends and greatest promoters becomes none other than Benjamin Franklin. With the nation’s freedom hanging in the balance, Franklin discovers true liberty cannot only be written into law - it must be awakened in the hearts of the people.

The Portland EcoFilm Festival presents a very special screening of our curation community’s 2026 Best Feature Film Award winner, Germinal Roaux’s moving tale about healing connection across cultures set in the changing wilderness of the Yucatán. This program is happening in conjunction with the festival’s Multnomah Clemente Course, sponsored by the Clemente Course in the Humanities. COSMOS Directed by Germinal Roaux 2024 | Mexico, Switzerland | 146 minutes | Spanish and Mayan with English subtitles 2026 Best Feature Film (Curation Community) | Official Selection | Indigenous Voices | Regional Premiere Life brings together Lena, a 68-year-old widow, and Leon, a 62-year-old Mayan guardian of nature’s secrets and spirits. Despite their differences, a deep bond forms between them. Set within the changing wilderness of the Yucatán and shot in stunning black and white, COSMOS is a stirring and elegant tale of aging, its quiet transformations, and the essential bond of love and connection in every human life.

The Portland EcoFilm Festival presents a program of six new ecological short films from around the living world, selected from our Expansive Ecological Imagination, More Than Human, and Indigenous Voices programs. Includes the winners of our curation community’s 2026 Best Short Film and Best Conservation Film Awards. This program is happening in conjunction with the festival’s Multnomah Clemente Course, sponsored by the Clemente Course in the Humanities. Program Runtime: 87 minutes AKABABURU: EXPRESSION OF ASTONISHMENT Directed by Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí 2025 | Colombia | 14 minutes Emberá Chamí and Spanish with English subtitles Official Selection | Indigenous Voices | Regional Premiere Kari, an Indigenous girl who is afraid to laugh, meets Kera, who shares with her the myth of Kiraparamia, a woman punished by the gods for laughing at her husband. Together, they discover that laughter actually set Kiraparamia free and restored her essential bond to nature. LIKE FRIEND, LIKE DEER Directed by Malek Eghbali 2025 | Islamic Republic of Iran | 13 minutes Winner, Best Short Film Award (Curation Community) | Official Selection | Regional Premiere Iranian filmmaker Malek Eghbali spent five years meticulously hand painting this short film. Simultaneously soft and somber, it explores the deep connection between humans, animals, and the environment we all share, inspired by the story of a wildlife ranger who killed an illegal hunter during a confrontation. REINDALEN Directed by Morgan Elizabeth Heim 2024 | Norway | 14 minutes English with English captions Winner, Best Conservation Film Award | Official Selection | Regional Premiere In the fastest-warming place on Earth, two friends, Emma and Oline, and their canine sidekick, Thando, uncover how the world's smallest and fattest reindeer are thriving in certain ways because of rising temperatures. But are they seeing a positive side-effect of climate change in the Arctic, or witnessing the end of innocence for Svalbard reindeer? ROOST 2020 PDX Directed by Irene Tejaratchi Hess 2025 | USA | 19 minutes English with English captions Official Selection | Regional Premiere What begins as a traditional natural history documentary about Portland’s crow roost becomes a chronicle of a city navigating a year of immense turmoil and unexpected beauty. ROOST 2020 PDX weaves together seemingly disparate threads: thousands of crows gathering to roost, empty pandemic streets, tear gas clouding protests for racial justice, federal agents occupying a city, and wildfires. Through it all, nature offers refuge, as well as a vivid illustration and reflection on the power of numbers. VOX HUMANA Directed by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan 2024 | The Republic of the Philippines | 22 minutes Tagalog with English subtitles Official Selection | Indigenous Voices | Regional Premiere In the aftermath of multiple natural disasters, the police find a man in the woods. A zoologist, a sound recorder, and a news team grapple with the fact that he may be the cause of the devastation—or that he holds the key to the truth. WITNESS: AN ORGANIMA FILM Directed by Nik Arthur 2025 | Canada | 5 minutes Official Selection | Regional Premiere Wonderfully handcrafted, WITNESS: AN ORGANIMA FILM captures the sentience in small life-forms: ancient beings on stone, an intelligent water droplet, and spirits of sunlight. Utilizing novel animation approaches wherein natural materials guide their own stories, elemental archives invite viewers to question the nature of human purpose and renew their child-like vision.

The Portland EcoFilm Festival presents a very special screening of our 2026 Black Merlin (Grand Prize) Award-winning film, David Bim’s stirring documentary about a family’s closeness and struggle in rural Cuba, TO THE WEST, IN ZAPATA. This program is happening in conjunction with the festival’s Multnomah Clemente Course, sponsored by the Clemente Course in the Humanities. TO THE WEST, IN ZAPATA (AL OESTE, EN ZAPATA) Directed by David Bim 2025 | Cuba, Spain | 75 minutes Spanish with English subtitles Winner, Black Merlin Visionary Film Award (Curation Community Grand Prize) | Official Selection | Regional Premiere Landi is a father who secretly camps in the marshlands of Zapata, Cuba, where he hunts crocodiles with his hands to feed his family. The radio reports hundreds of daily deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic and strong social tensions in the country. On the coast, his wife Mercedes searches for charcoal to cook and takes care of their son, Daynis, who lives with severe autism. Days go by, and Mercedes becomes impatient. Landi should have returned by now, and there is no news of him. She fears something has happened to him, but she cannot say anything and risk giving away the details of their survival in the marshlands.

A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.

MICHAEL is the cinematic portrayal of the life and legacy of one of the most influential artists the world has ever known. The film tells the story of Michael Jackson’s life beyond the music, tracing his journey from the discovery of his extraordinary talent as the lead of the Jackson Five, to the visionary artist whose creative ambition fueled a relentless pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world. Highlighting both his life off-stage and some of the most iconic performances from his early solo career, the film gives audiences a front-row seat to Michael Jackson as never before. This is where his story begins.

From New Line Cinema comes the latest high-stakes installment in the blockbuster video game franchise in all its brutal glory, Mortal Kombat II. This time, the fan favorite champions—now joined by Johnny Cage himself—are pitted against one another in the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders. Karl Urban stars as Johnny Cage, alongside Adeline Rudolph, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Tati Gabrielle, Lewis Tan, Damon Herriman, with Chin Han, Tadanobu Asano as Lord Raiden, Joe Taslim as Bi-Han, and Hiroyuki Sanada as Hanzo Hasashi and Scorpion. Director Simon McQuoid returns to helm the follow up to his explosive 2021cinematic adventure, from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, based on the videogame created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. The film is produced by Todd Garner, E. Bennett Walsh, James Wan, Toby Emmerich and Simon McQuoid, and executive produced by Michael Clear, Judson Scott, Jeremy Slater, Ed Boon and Lawrence Kasanoff. Joining McQuoid behind the camera are director of photography Stephen F. Windon, production designer Yohei Taneda, editor Stuart Levy and costume designer Cappi Ireland, with casting by Rich Delia and music by Benjamin Wallfisch. New Line Cinema Presents an Atomic Monster/Broken Road Production, a Fireside Films Production, Mortal Kombat II.

The latest collaboration between Bob Odenkirk, JOHN WICK creator Derek Kolstad and NOBODY producer Marc Provissiero, director Ben Wheatley’s (FREE FIRE, HIGH RISE) kinetic neo-Western stars Odenkirk as an unassuming substitute sheriff with a troubled past who, after moving to a small, sleepy town, responds to a bank robbery and unknowingly uncovers something far more explosive. For Sheriff Ulysses (Odenkirk), his provisional posting to the quaint Midwestern American town of Normal was meant to be a welcome respite from both his marital woes and recent moral injuries in the line of duty. But when a botched bank robbery interrupts the municipality’s tranquil pace, a dark secret is inadvertently exposed, and Ulysses soon discovers that the town is anything but its namesake.

Power To The People: John & Yoko Live in NYC is the 2026 multiscreen concert film of two massive live shows by John Lennon & Yoko Ono at Madison Square Garden, New York City on 30 August 1972, newly restored, re-edited and remixed by the Lennons’ seven-times GRAMMY®-Award winning team. John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant's Memory and Special Guests performed these now-legendary sold-out One To One concerts to a combined audience of 40,000 people, raising over $1.5M (equivalent to $11.5M in 2026) for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They were the only full-length concerts John Lennon (with Yoko Ono) performed after leaving The Beatles. Originally filmed by multi-camera director Steve Gebhardt in 1972, this 2026 version of the concert film is directed by Simon Hilton, edited by Ben Wainwright-Pearce and produced by Peter Worsley & Sean Ono Lennon. Music Production is by Sean Ono Lennon; mixed and engineered by Paul Hicks & Sam Gannon. Hits performed include John's 'New York City', 'Instant Karma!', 'Imagine' and 'Mother', plus Yoko's 'Don't Worry Kyoko' and 'Open Your Box', plus rousing renditions of 'Come Together' & 'Hound Dog' and encore 'Give Peace a Chance' with special guests Stevie Wonder, Melanie and many others.

Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.

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Twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in 20th Century Studios’ “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon that defined a generation. The film is directed by David Frankel, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, produced by Wendy Finerman, and executive produced by Michael Bederman, Karen Rosenfelt and Aline Brosh McKenna.

The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fledgling New Republic works to protect everything the Rebellion fought for, they have enlisted the help of legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and his young apprentice Grogu. Directed by Jon Favreau, “The Mandalorian and Grogu” also stars Sigourney Weaver and is produced by Jon Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni, and Ian Bryce, with music composed by Ludwig Göransson.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is an animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros., and follows The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which was released in 2023 and earned more than $1.3 billion worldwide. Both the 2023 film and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie are produced by Chris Meledandri of Illumination and Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo. The film will be co-financed by Universal Pictures and Nintendo and will be released worldwide by Universal Pictures. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is directed by returning filmmakers Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, from a screenplay by returning screenwriter Matthew Fogel, with Brian Tyler returning to compose the score.