2025 FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS at Cinema 21
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. | Cinema 21
The Portland EcoFilm Festival presents an encore screening of two 2025 AWARD WINNERS at Cinema 21. These outstanding films explore themes of belonging, tradition, and change, shared individually and collectively by people with unique relationships to their more-than-human relatives.
WAYS TO TRAVERSE A TERRITORY
(FORMAS DE ATRAVESAR UN TERRITORIO)
Winner, 2025 Best Feature Film Award
Official Selection, 2025 Indigenous Voices Series
Mexico | 2024 | 72 minutes | Dir. Gabriela Dominguez Ruvalcaba
In this meditative new feature by a great poet of contemporary Mexican cinema, Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Indigenous Tsotsil women tend their sheep and weave their wool while honoring their land’s memory. Their encounter with the filmmaker, in their ancestral mountains, reveals a longing to acknowledge different ways of inhabiting the same territory.
PERCEBES
Winner, 2025 Best Short Film Award
Portugal | 2024 | 12 minutes | Dir. Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves
PERCEBES is a brilliant new short film directed by Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves, two emerging visionaries from Portugal. Through a blend of stunning animation and audio interviews, the film explores the symbiotic relationship between the resilient percebes goose barnacle and the native people of the Algarve region. Taking us on an imaginative journey through the region’s striking cultural and physical landscape, PERCEBES entertains and enlightens—shedding light on the balance between nature, tourism, tradition, and survival.
