Portland Festival of Cinema Animation And Technology

OMSI is the place to be in Portland as the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology will present five days of screenings, panels, presentations, parties, and our annual award ceremony. The festival is open to a variety of genres and will highlight films and animations created by visionary filmmakers and animators from across the globe. The festival also features VR, dome film screenings, and other special technology showcases. Thank you in advance to our jury, volunteers, and team!

Schedule of Events:

5:30pm - Light, Time & Cosmic Wonders - Dome Films

Get ready for a ride through color, time, and space in this playful collection of dome adventures made just for kids and families! Dive into a rainbow-filled world in Our Colorful World, blast to the past with Captain Bani and her crew in Cosmonaute 360: Time to Fly, and soar to the Moon with a restless, and rather wacky hen in Total Eclipse: Chasers of Lost Sleep. With plenty of laughs, surprises, and eye-popping visuals, Light, Time & Cosmic Wonders is a fun and imaginative journey perfect for curious young minds and the grown-ups who come along for the ride. Recommended for ages 6 and up.

5:30pm 
Cosmonaute 360 - Time to Fly
Our Colorful World
Total Eclipse: Chasers of Lost Sleep

Location: Kendall Planetarium OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214

6:00pm - Mind-Bending Anomalies: The PFCAT Sci-Fi Extravaganza

Science fiction is about what is over the horizon. But science fiction is also about what it will mean to be human once we’ve crossed that horizon. Oh yeah, and sci-fi can just be about blowing stuff up on crazy alien worlds too! PFCAT’s 2025 presentation of Mind-Bending Anomalies will take you to alternative histories, alien worlds, animated wonderlands, the AI apocalypse, disruptions in space and the mysteries of the future.

6:00pm
Help Me Tom
Kitty and the Viper
Alienated!
Running Out on a Feeling music video
Aura
RIPPER WAS HERE
The Intention Invention
Bippy the Little Robot
113 Words for You Today

Location: The Empirical Theater OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214

7:00pm - Resolution: A Cinephonic Rhapsody for the Soul

7:00pm - White birds worship the phoenix

Location: Kendall Planetarium OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214

8:00pm - A Rare Grand Alignment

In the winter of 1982, three American boys find themselves stranded in a cable car with a dead body, suspended midair in the mountains of Norway during a rare celestial event. The film’s gripping visuals were brought to life almost entirely using cutting-edge virtual production inside an LED Volume.

This film stars Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo Rabbit), Felix Jamieson (Raised by Wolves), Charlie Price (The Great) and Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones)

Location: Theory Theater OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214

8:30pm - Psychological Horror Short Films and Animations

Enter a world where reality is fragile, and the mind is a labyrinth of delusion and dark secrets. With these films and animations, the terror is not just found lurking in the shadows, but also in the unpredictable workings of the human psyche. Each film in this chilling collection explores the deep recesses of the mind, where the lines between truth and imagination are easily blurred, and the greatest threat is the unraveling of one’s own sanity.

8:30pm
Deformed
Crazy as a Loon
Gardening
Agoraphobia
LAIKA; An Animated Short Film
Rash
Teddy
Sister

Location: The Empirical Theater OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214

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