Los Angeles Filmforum is the longest-running organization in Southern California dedicated exclusively to the ongoing, non-commercial exhibition of independent, experimental, and progressive media art.

Filmforum is proud to be in the center of the cultural programming of a city with a rich history of avant-garde filmmaking and programming. Now in our 50th year, we celebrate personal, hand-crafted and non-commercial work. Read more about our various programs, purchase tickets for upcoming screenings, explore our archives, or learn more about volunteering or making a tax-deductible donation on our website!

Upcoming Screenings

The 21st Century Century: A Durational Performance Conceived by Barbara T. Smith

POSTPONED Filmforum 50, program 14: The 21st Century Odyssey

Start Date: Jun 14, 2026 1:00PM
End Date: Jun 14, 2026 5:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

POSTPONED. New date to be announced later.

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Queer Cinema for Palestine

Date: Jun 16, 2026 7:30PM
Location: Lumiere Cinema at the Music Hall

This 60-minute curated program, part of a global wave of solidarity events taking place throughout June 2026, brings together six powerful short films by queer, Palestinian, and allied artists — from historic Palestine, across the diaspora, and beyond.

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The Decay of Fiction

Filmforum 50, program 15: The Decay of Fiction in 35mm

Date: Jun 17, 2026 7:30PM
Location: Brain Dead Studios

Filmforum continues its 50^th anniversary screenings with a rare 35mm screening of Pat O’Neill’s classic feature film The Decay of Fiction, a multi-layered reverie of the abandoned Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, of ghosts of old Hollywood, and film noir. We’re also going to have the DVD-Rom Tracing the Decay of Fiction available, in tribute to the late Marsha Kinder, who was behind the Labyrinth Project that created it.

We’re sorry to say that the new Pat O’Neill film Skies will not be able to screen tonight.

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The Old Sorceress and the Valet

A Night of Films by Julius-Amédée Laou

Date: Jun 24, 2026 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Los Angeles Filmforum, Black Revivalist, and CaribbeanLens Film Festival are proud to present a double feature of films by French-Martinican playwright and filmmaker Julius-Amédée Laou. We’ll be screening Laou’s 2002 film French Wedding, Caribbean Style along with his 1987 film The Old Sorceress and the Valet. Both films will feature a pre-recorded introduction by the filmmaker!

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Mare's Nest

Mare's Nest, by Ben Rivers

Date: Jun 26, 2026 7:30PM
Location: Philosophical Research Society

Los Angeles premiere of internationally renowned filmmaker Ben Rivers’s acclaimed new feature MARE’S NEST (2025). Set in a strange future world with no adults, where children have inherited the remnants of a fallen civilization and begun forging new forms of community, ritual, and meaning, the film follows a young girl named Moon as she wanders through a landscape shaped by ecological collapse and what remains of the world that came before.

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