Science & wonder
Curiosity is not the enemy of wonder. It is how wonder becomes understanding.
The Portland Humanist Film Festival put science, reason, freedom of inquiry and deeply human stories on the big screen. This renewed archive keeps that conversation alive.
PHFF welcomed humanists, atheists, agnostics, skeptics, freethinkers and the simply curious. Its films made difficult ideas approachable—and made room for conversation after the credits.
Curiosity is not the enemy of wonder. It is how wonder becomes understanding.
Evidence, honest disagreement and the freedom to revise a belief are part of public life.
Human stories make questions of liberty, equality and justice impossible to keep abstract.
Cinema brings emotion and argument together, creating a common experience before discussion begins.
A jury room becomes a lesson in practical skepticism: slow down, examine the evidence and give doubt the attention it deserves.
Discover the documented programOctober 8–10 · Portland, Oregon
A free, volunteer-built weekend that opened an accessible window onto existence, morality, history, science and philosophy through film.
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.
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.
A later series at Portland’s Lucky Labrador Beer Hall included Here Be Dragons, Watermark, The Unbelievers and Religulous.
The final documented program paired Solving for X, Kidnapped for Christ, Letting Go of God and The Theory of Everything.
The original case-sensitive /PHFF/… pages have been restored as readable, mobile-friendly archive pages. Later unrelated content is intentionally excluded so the domain once again reflects its real cultural history.