Astoria International Film Festival offers local, global touches By Marianne MonsonOct 17, 2023Click Here to view the original article in Our Coast Weekend Now in its 16th year, the Astoria International Film Festival is back on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, this time at the Columbian Theater. The brainchild of Ron Craig, the festival seeks to bring access to independent films …

This year we have a number of our short films that look to our hood – Oregon! This year’s short films include: Remembering York, Playin’ Possum, Hunger Ward, Rex Amos: Man of Many Hats, and Wide Blue Yawn. The Columbian box office opens at 6:00, Friday, October 20, 2023 and the collection begins at 7:00pm.

Displeased with the intervention of whitefella laws, Charlie takes off to live the old way and sets off a chain reaction of enlightening difficulties. Screening is at the Columbian Theater on Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 3:00pm.

“Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives,” but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. Screening is at the Columbian Theater on Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 5:30pm.

Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Screening is at the Columbian Theater on Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 7:30pm.

Two parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power. Screening is at the Columbian Theater on Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 1:00pm.

EO Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes. Screening is at the Columbian Theater on Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 3:30pm.

After two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They’re desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They show up at the train …

Residents of California’s San Fernando Valley are under attack by flying saucers from outer space. The aliens, led by Eros (Dudley Manlove) and his assistant, Tanna (Joanna Lee), intend to conquer the planet by resurrecting corpses in a Hollywood cemetery. The living dead — a cape-wearing ghoul (Bela Lugosi), a vampire (Vampira) and a slow-footed cop (Tor Johnson) who was killed …