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If you’re itching to take your bag o’ bones to the movies in a masked-up and socially distanced manner, the in-person options in Portland are steadily growing—this week brings screenings to Living Room Theaters, CineMagic, the Moreland, and elsewhere, including the award-show darling The Father. If you’d prefer to stay buoyed to your own personal screen, we’ve rounded up other picks hitting local and national streams this week, from Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance to the new HBO Max show Genera+ion, along with details on the final days of the Portland International Film Festival and its affiliated Cinema Unbound Drive-In, which is showing classics like The Iron Giant at Zidell Yards this weekend.
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The Inheritance
Set almost entirely in a West Philadelphia house where a community of young Black artists and activists form a collective, Ephraim Asili’s debut feature comes after his decade-long study of the many facets of the African diaspora and his own place within it. While most of the film is a scripted drama, it also weaves in documentary footage of the Philly liberation group MOVE, which was subject to a notorious police bombing in 1985.
Hollywood Theatre & Clinton Street Theater
Starting Friday
