This month, Portland venues will close out summer with a psychedelic swirl of films merging myth and magical adolescence. Teen girls time-travel and chat with dolphins; cosmic heroes emerge from horse goddesses. Meanwhile, here on earth, a sex worker undertakes her own journey from a donut shop to a laundromat in Los Angeles.

Screenings are of the “rare” and “for real, don’t miss this” varieties, like Gakuryū Ishii’s surreal August in the Water, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s lesser-known teen dreams, and a little glittery Y2K irony. Microdosers, I hope you’re listening.

For fans of petrographs, water signs, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010).

Last month’s screening of Gakuryū Ishii’s The Crazy Family at Clinton Street Theater showcased the director’s an

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