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

Sanctuary Station

Sanctuary Station, by Brigid McCaffrey

Date: May 22, 2025 7:30PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Sanctuary Station traces a series of encounters with women and youth who have cultivated intrinsic attachments to the various life forms inhabiting the redwood forests and remote terrains of northwestern California. In person discussion following the screening with director Brigid McCaffrey.

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Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik's Satellite Spectaculars

Date: May 25, 2025 7:00PM
Location: Philosophical Research Society

7th House and Los Angeles Filmforum are proud to co-present an evening of video art pioneer and avant-garde visionary Nam June Paik’s rarely screened, groundbreaking satellite link-up installations – elaborate internationally produced video spectaculars that were recorded, edited, and broadcast live around the world, featuring performances by David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Merce Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Gabriel, Ryuichi Sakamoto and many more!

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Turang

Turang, by Bachtiar Siagian - U.S. Premiere!

Date: Jun 1, 2025 7:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Discover a landmark of Indonesian cinema, recently restored and screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Barbican in London. In 1958, Turang screened to wide acclaim at the Afro-Asian Film Festival—a space created to foster cinematic collaboration among newly independent and decolonizing nations across Africa and Asia. Tragically, just a few years later, it was destroyed during the wave of anti-communist violence that swept through Indonesia, erasing a vital piece of the country’s cinematic memory. Today, we are privileged to witness its restoration—as a powerful act of narrative reclamation. US Premiere of a classic film from 1958 (as far as we can tell)!

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Gate of the Sun (Bab El Shams)

Date: Jun 8, 2025 1:00PM
Location: 2220 Arts & Archives

Don’t miss this rare screening of the poignant Palestinian epic as it chronicles a history of many dimensions through captivating character and layered narratives. Rather than focusing on the suffering, Gate of the Sun (Bab El Shams) reflects the absurdity of life under the harshest conditions, recounting days not unfamiliar to the ones we are currently witnessing.

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