Watch films from around the world at the Fungi Film Festival.
The Fungi Film Fest is the world’s only film festival dedicated to the beauty, weirdness and human influences of fungi. The festival explores mushrooms, lichens, and micro fungi in a variety of genres.
The third annual event premieres live in Portland this December. Here are the details about the upcoming showings and streaming.
2024 Fungi Film Festival
The 2024 Fungi Film Festival is at the historic Cinema 21 Theater in Portland. The festival has two screenings: Thursday, December 12 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, December 15 at 3:30 p.m.
This year’s event features 20 films from 12 countries uncovering the world of fungi. The festival lasts for about 2 hours.
Here is the list of featured films:
- Amanita (11:06) – Alexa Angeles, Carolina Revilla (Mexico)
- Batrachia (6:47) – Lorenzo Silano (Italy)
- Dead Bird (1:29) – Matthew Lei (USA)
- Flora, Fauna, Funga (16:51) – Sam Sheline (Chile)
- Fungi Forage (2:10) – Molly Brown, Cy Henty, Al Ronald (UK)
- Gold of the Plateau (5:52) – Miriam Follin (China)
- How to Film a Mushroom (20:14) – Lucas Gortemaker (Netherlands / Belgium / Germany)
- Il Fungo di Albaredo (3:40) – Lennart Reichel (Italy)
- Misteria del Bosque (Mystery of the Forest) (4:40) – Ger Killeen (USA)
- MUSH (2:12) – Maya Zhelyazkova (Bulgaria)
- Mushlings (3:53) – Magdalena Berezowska (Poland)
- Mushrooms in Space (5:05) – Rosi Bundz (Germany)
- Mycelium (3:21) – Heather Whelton (UK)
- Mycoaudiology: The Lost Tapes (6:32) – Sebastian Fontey-huety (UK)
- Psilocybin (2:50) – Alvaro Giraldo Mesones (Spain / Canada)
- Rot (2:00) – Autojektor (UK)
- Silverphae (3:02) – Hannah Read (USA)
- The Mushroom Keepers (16:08) – Naveed Mulki (India)
- Visions of the Fungicene (5:48) – Angel Salazar (Argentina)
Tickets
Tickets are $15 per person on Thursday and $13 on Sunday. If you buy tickets online, you can claim them at the theater’s will call.
If you cannot attend in person, you can also stream the film festival online from December 13 to January 13.
Cinema 21 Theater is at 616 NW 21st Ave. in Portland. For more information and to buy tickets, visit the Fungi Film Festival’s website.
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