The 2025 Portland EcoFilm Festival features dozens of the best new ecological films from around the world, our annual Indigenous Voices series, several special presentations, community conversations with special guests, and opportunities to engage with organizations that are involved in multifaceted, broad-based ecological solutions.
Our festival season lasts several months, providing the opportunity to integrate these important films more thoroughly into the programming of the Hollywood Theatre, a beloved cultural institution.
Wonder and woe, though seemingly opposites, are deeply interconnected aspects of contemporary ecological experience. This program features new short films from around the globe, exploring the angst, awe, complexity, and joy of being in our living world.
Includes a community conversation with special guest:
Katalin Fikkert (director, IN MY TIME)
The Portland EcoFilm Festival proudly presents the regional premieres of APPLE CIDER VINEGAR and PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS.
APPLE CIDER VINEGAR is the winner of our 2025 Visionary Film Award.
The Portland EcoFilm Festival proudly presents a special screening of Todd Haynes’ 2019 ecological thriller, DARK WATERS, featuring an all-star cast led by Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, and including a community conversation with special guests.
Sponsored by Oregon Environmental Council
Five new short films centering the wisdom, accomplishments, stories, and struggles of Indigenous people around the living world.
Includes a community conversation with special guests:
Anna Lueck, director (HITOLÁAYCA)
Katsisionni Fox, director (KANENON:WE)
shalan joudry, director (WELIMA'Q)
Celebrate May Day with new environmental justice films, including the winner of this year’s EcoHero Award, OUR MOVEMENT STARTS HERE, and ADIDAS OWNS THE REALITY from The Yes Men.
Featuring a community conversation with special guests:
Keil Orion Troisi, director (ADIDAS OWNS THE REALITY)
Dollie Burwell, 2025 EcoHero Award Winner (featured in OUR MOVEMENT STARTS HERE)
Cameron Oglesby, 2025 EcoHero Award Winner (featured in OUR MOVEMENT STARTS HERE)
John Rash, director (OUR MOVEMENT STARTS HERE)
Features the winner of our 2025 EcoHero Award (OUR MOVEMENT STARTS HERE)
Four new ecological films from around the living world about different ways of being at and returning to home. This program includes two official selections from our Indigenous Voices series and the winner of our 2025 Best Conservation Film Award, WELCOME HOME.
Features the winner of our 2025 Best Conservation FIlm Award (WELCOME HOME)
Includes a community conversation with special guests:
Alan Lacy, director (WELCOME HOME)
Katsisionnin Fox, director (TENTSÍTEWAHKWE)
Sarah Bourscheid, edito (GARDENING IN A WAR ZONE)
Eight new animated ecological films from around the living world, including the winner of our 2025 Best Short Film Award, PERCEBES
Features the winner of our 2025 Best SHORT FILM AWARD (PERCEBES)
Includes a community conversation with special guests:
Bianca Vázquez, director (LIA BY THE SHORE)
David Bunting, director (NO ONE IS AN ISLAND)
James McKay, participant (NO ONE IS AN ISLAND)
Lucia Lambarri Barberis, director (I WALK WHILE GLACIERS MELT)
Appropriate for all ages! Family friendly pricing: $6 per ticket!
The Portland EcoFilm Festival presents its first ever screening at Cinema 21! It's an encore presentation of this season's wildly popular QUEER ECOLOGY program, featuring three new films by queer filmmakers about intersections of nature, ecology, disability, Indigeneity, and queerness.
Eight new short films from around the living world about humanity’s relationship with water, including four official selections in our Indigenous Voices series and a community conversation with special guests.
Sponsored by Human Access Project
In a world with so many fences, what does it mean to be free? The Portland premieres of two new films about humans, horses, buffalo, Indigeneity, and colonization. Featuring an official selection in our Indigenous Voices series, BRING THEM HOME, produced and narrated by Academy Award nominee, Lily Gladstone (RESERVATION DOGS, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON).
The Portland EcoFilm Festival presents two new films from Latin America exploring ways that humans coexist with animals, land, family, and economy. (Approximate program running time: 84 minutes)
Features the winner of our 2025 Best Feature Film Award and Indigenous Voices selection, WAYS TO TRAVERSE A TERRITORY (FORMAS DE ATRAVESAR UN TERRITORIO)
Includes a community conversation with director Gabriela Dominguez Ruvalcaba (WAYS TO TRAVERSE A TERRITORY)
The Portland EcoFilm Festival presents regional premieres of three new films by queer filmmakers about intersections of nature, ecology, disability, Indigeneity, and queerness.
Includes a community conversation with special guests:
Rio Mitchell, director, and Danny Cox, cinematographer (ANIMAL PRIDE)
Cynthia Ling Lee, director (MOSS TIME, CRIP TIME)
Radio-JusSunná, director (ÁHKUIN)
We’re kicking off our 2025 festival with a very special 20th anniversary presentation of Wes Anderson’s Jacques Cousteau inspired seafaring adventure, THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU, in 35mm!
The Portland EcoFilm Festival is a signature program of the nonprofit Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon.
The nonprofit Crag Law Center provides free and low-cost legal services to people who are working on the ground to protect our environment, climate and communities.
Oregon Environmental Council brings Oregonians together to protect our water, air and land with healthy solutions that work for today and for future generations.
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