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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! 

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Newt Leaders, by Amy Halpern

Upcoming Screenings

  • I’ll Go To Santiago / Ire a Santiago 1964

    Sara Gómez’s Cuba: Empathy and the Revolution - Program 1

    Date: Nov 15, 2026 1:00PM
    Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

    Filmforum presents a three-part screening retrospective on the documentary works of Sara Gómez, recently restored by the Vulnerable Media Lab in Canada.  Gómez was a pioneering Afro-Cuban filmmaker of the revolutionary era from 1962-1974 who, in her tragically short lifetime, created confrontational and educational shorts concerning childcare, racism, labor, music history, and geography, leading up to her seminal docu-fiction feature De cierta manera.