Above: the trailer for our 2026 festival
June, 2026: We recently concluded our regular festival season with encore screenings of several of this year’s award-winning films, including: LIKE FRIEND, LIKE DEER; TO THE WEST, IN ZAPATA; and COMSOS. We also announced the winners of our audience awards for Best Feature Film, RUNA SIMI, and Best Short Film, AKABABURU: EXPRESSION OF ASTONISHMENT.
Thousands of people attended our 2026 festival in Portland, which featured dozens of the best new environmental, Indigenous, and place-based films from around the living world, including our annual Indigenous Voices series and a handful of repertory special presentations.
Our regular season happened from March through May in Portland at the Hollywood Theatre, Cinema 21, and the Clinton Street Theater.
In June, our Best of the Fest series and Multnomah Clemente Course arrive at City Lights Cinemas (Florence, OR), the Columbian Theater (Astoria), and Olympia Film Society at the Capitol Theater (Olympia, WA). We are honored to share these fantastic films across the USA Pacific Northwest, celebrating the abundance of independent cinemas in our region:
AKABABURU: EXPRESSION OF ASTONISHMENT (Best Short Film, Audience Award)
COSMOS (2026 Best Feature Film)
LIKE FRIEND, LIKE DEER (2026 Best Short Film, Curation Community)
REINDALEN (2026 Best Conservation Film)
ROOST 2020 PDX
TO THE WEST, IN ZAPATA (2026 Black Merlin Grand Prize)
VOX HUMANA
WITNESS: AN ORGANIMA FILM
We are a signature program of the Hollywood Theatre.
Our 2026 festival is sponsored and supported by:
The Clemente Course in the Humanities
Crag Law Center
The Multnomah County Cultural Coalition
The Oregon Cultural Trust
The Portland Film and Events Office
Prosper Portland
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It’s a big year at the Portland EcoFilm Festival.
In addition to screening dozens of excellent ecological films, we are:
Producing our first-of-its-kind Global Ecological Cinema Podcast, featuring in depth conversations with filmmakers, cultural luminaries, and film participants about fascinating intersections of ecology and cinema.
Becoming the first film festival to host our own free, for-credit ecological humanities course, Multnomah Clemente, in collaboration with Bard College and the Clemente Course in the Humanities. Registration begins in March, 2026. Courses are happening in Florence, Astoria, and Olympia alongside our Best of the Fest series.
Initiating audience awards for Best Feature and Best Short Film, empowering festival audiences to uplift ecological films and filmmakers in a new and exciting way
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