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 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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Mare's Nest

Mare's Nest, by Ben Rivers

Date: Jun 28, 2026 4:00PM
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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Star Spangled to Death

Filmforum 50, program 16: Star Spangled to Death

Date: Jul 5, 2026 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

In celebration of the 250^th anniversary of the United States, and in honor of the late Ken Jacobs, we present his epic tribute to the United States of America.

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