Enjoy 3 nights of dance film screenings at the 8th Annual Portland Dance Film Fest! 

Portland Dance Film Fest returns for its multi-day festival running September 26th – 28th, 2024! Join us for 27 spectacular PDFF Picks, curated from 14 different countries. Each screening is a crafted evening of original and diverse dance film. PDFF 2024 is in partnership with the Portland Art Museum’s Center for An Untold Tomorrow and will be screened at PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater.

Portland Dance Film Fest showcases the art form of dance film, featuring a diverse range of films that use movement to tell stories. PDFF endeavors to foster the appreciation and creation of dance film in Portland and to connect us all more to the language of our bodies.

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The Festival Pass will get you into all 3 PDFF Picks screenings at the Tomorrow Theater.

Funding Support from Regional Arts and Culture Council

More about each screening: 

PDFF Picks 1

Thursday, SEPT 26TH | 7:30 @ THE TOMORROW THEATER
Nostalgia, longing, and reckoning, whether held lightly or earnestly, moves throughout the 8 films of Picks 1. We say hello and goodbye to our ways of life, our memories that orient us to who we think we are, and our thirst. Whether this thirst is for water or for the realization of the curves of peace, we can almost/decidedly feel the knowledge of it in our hands and feet as we answer the call of the music and surrender to the forever dance. Picks 1 shares films from France/Vietnam, Greece, India, USA, Canada, Austria, and The United Kingdom and runs ~1hr. 45min. 

• Urban Genesis
  
• Ruins Within Ruins
• A State of Thirst
• All of Us
• What Remains
• Shake Stew - Lila
• Home
• Burn From The Inside

PDFF Picks 2

Friday, SEPT 27TH | 7:30 @ THE TOMORROW THEATER
The aperture of Picks 2 shifts out and in, holding many Revolutions in its frame. With these 10 films we contemplate the revolution of the Earth itself and of our youth's unconditioned clarity of our one home. Revolutions that nudge our collective madness towards breaking into sanity, the courageous revolutions of resistance and love, and the revolutions of magnetic release all entice us into emergent relationships with our humanity. Each film brings a style unto its own as generations of storytellers converge and give context for each other. Picks 2 comes to us from Spain, USA, Iran, Germany, and Sweden and runs ~1 hr. 45min.

• Earthy Beings
• SPINNING HUG
• Sameness: Magnificence
• Table for one, please.
• Until...
• The Source
• Dead Flesh
• At First Sight
• in silence is the offering presented
• Simulation

PDFF Picks 3

Saturday, SEPT 27TH | 7:30 @ THE TOMORROW THEATER
If Picks 3 were a dinner party, it would carry on late into the night, slipping into the realm in between this and that. We end our 2024 Festival with 9 films that evoke geological and bodily time, grief's many longings and stalemates, the horrors of piecing ourselves back together, the refreshment of piecing ourselves back together, and we follow our dance elders as they offer themselves to the luminous mundanity of a life given to the dance of it all. These films come to us from the USA, China, Spain, Japan, and Sweden. Picks 3 runs ~1hr. 50min.

• Where Once There Was Water
• Poet
• carefully
• Cendres
• Now I Hold You Close
• Dancing with Time
• a foreigner
• My role·My life
• Last Boy Left

We'll see you there!

Funding support by
Regional Arts Council & Commission