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 48th 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

Nation Estate, by Larissa Sansour

An Evening with Larissa Sansour

Date: Dec 14, 2024 7:30PM
Location: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum

Interdisciplinary artist Larissa Sansour creates works that examine the collective memory and trauma of the Palestinian people through allegorical and experimental science fiction films. The program includes the three films in Sansour’s science fiction trilogy — A Space Exodus (2009), Nation Estate (2013) and In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain (2015) — along with her follow-up science fiction film In Vitro (2019). Though varied in aesthetic and approach, the films relate to one another in their examination of inherited history and identity, trauma and resistance.

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What About China?

What About China? with Trinh T. Minh-ha in person

Date: Dec 15, 2024 7:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Los Angeles Premiere, with Trinh T. Minh-ha in person! Low-res video footage shot 30 years ago of Chinese rural life centering on women, children, labor, and family is reanimated and reframed through photomontage, oral histories, travelogues, poetry, and folk songs in order to interrogate what China has been, is, and could be.

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