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

Flaherty LA Finale: Program VI, Surprises in Time

Date: Jun 29, 2025 7:00PM
Location: The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building

Entering its 70th year, the Flaherty Film Seminar is revered as one of the most significant convenings around non-fiction cinema. Each year filmmakers, scholars, students, curators, critics, archivists, and cinephiles gather for an immersive, week-long program of film screenings, in-depth discussions, artist talks, installations, and/or performances around a theme. Held in collaboration with Los Angeles Filmforum, for this program, Flaherty LA opens the seminar experience to the wider public. Curated by CEMA’s Stephanie Spray and SCA’s Michael Renov (Flaherty curator, 2005), with special guests James Benning, Rebecca Baron, and more.

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Collective Monologue (Monólogo Colectivo)

Collective Monologue

Date: Jul 8, 2025 8:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Acropolis Cinema and Filmforum present Collective Monologue (Monólogo Colectivo), directed by Jessica Sarah Rinland (2024), in person for the screening. At the film’s core are the animals and staff in various Argentinian zoos and shelters—including the Buenos Aires Ecopark, established as a zoo in the late 19th century—capturing not just tender moments of interspecies interaction but also administrative and infrastructural details.

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Chris & Heather’s Big Screen Blowout

Date: Jul 16, 2025 8:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Artist/filmmaker Heather McAdams and songwriter husband Chris Ligon have assembled one of the most impressive, private collections of short-form 16mm films we know of, focusing on music films, commercials, movie previews and other true oddities which usually fall through the cracks at large, institutional film archives. For this special event, Chris and Heather present some of the very best of their 16mm film collection for a unique and inspiring evening of nonstop laughs and entertainment in their inimitable style.

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