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The first edition
2010
October 8–10 · Portland, Oregon
A free, volunteer-built weekend that opened an accessible window onto existence, morality, history, science and philosophy through film.
Program archiveA weekend of films.
A weekend of films.
A decade of questions.
Explore the surviving program record from all three Portland editions. Times and prices shown here are historical; there is no current festival sale.
Edition index
2010 · 2011 · 2012
The original site was built as a set of individual, case-sensitive HTML pages. Those routes now resolve again, with the clearest verified information brought into a single archive.
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The conversation grows
2011
November 11–13 · Portland, Oregon
Seventeen films, guest speakers and independent-film awards brought together audiences interested in science, freethought, civil liberties and human rights.
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Reason on the big screen
2012
October 26–28 · Portland, Oregon
The third edition focused on critical thinking, evidence, belief and the social questions that make cinema a place for public conversation.
2011
Second annual edition
Seventeen films across three days
Cinema 21 · November 11–13, 2011
Friday · November 11
The Nature of Existence
The Invention of Lying
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Saturday · November 12
8: The Mormon Proposition
Here Be Dragons
D.M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker
Waiting for Armageddon
Who Are the Doubters Anyway? — featured speaker Tom Flynn
Agora
Sunday · November 13
Waking Life
Humanism: Making Bigger Circles
The Lord Is Not on Trial Here Today
Separation of Church and State — featured speaker Bruce Adams
Independent Film Awards
The Ledge
Third annual edition
2012 highlights
October 26–28 at Cinema 21. The program paired classic narrative cinema with documentaries about belief, education, evidence, mathematics and human rights.
Kumaré
A playful and searching documentary about belief, identity and the bonds formed around a false spiritual teacher.
Let’s Talk About Sex
A comparison of approaches to sex education and the health outcomes they shape.
In God We Teach
A school controversy that brings church–state separation into a classroom and a community.
12 Angry Men
A classic demonstration of doubt, evidence and the courage required to question consensus.
Flatland & Sphereland
Animated mathematical adventures about dimensions, imagination and thinking beyond familiar limits.
Solving for X
A documentary about using data and quantitative analysis in the defense of human rights.
Documented recognition