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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Mindful Awareness Meditation will be ONLINE ONLY on May 1, May 8, & May 15. Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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Still from the film "Land of Dreams" (2021)

Land of Dreams

The UCLA Film & Television Archive screens the first English-language film by artist Shirin Neshat as part of its two-night retrospective of the director's feature films. In person: Shirin Neshat.

Fri Sep 30 7:30 PM

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Landscape in the Mist

Theo Angelopoulos's eighth feature, a modern fairytale and the final installment in his “Trilogy of Silence,” was the first to find theatrical distribution in the United States.

Fri Oct 14 7:30 PM

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Eternity and a Day

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, Theo Angelopoulos’ s final “Trilogy of Borders” film offers a meditation on national and existential boundaries.

Sat Oct 15 7:30 PM

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Days of '36

A political assassination kicks off Theo Angelopoulos’s depiction of one Greek dictatorship made under the shadow of another.

Fri Oct 21 7:30 PM

Still from the film "Journey from the Fall" (2006)

Journey from the Fall

The UCLA Film & Television Archive screens director Hàm Trần’s award-winning drama as part of Hear + Việt + Film, a Symposium on Music in Trans-Vietnamese Film.

Sat Oct 22 7:30 PM

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Screenings Kids

Family Flicks: Coco

Desperate to prove his talent and become a musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz, young Miguel finds himself in the fantastical Land of the Dead on an extraordinary journey to unlock his family history.

Sun Oct 23 11:00 AM

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Madame Satã

UCLA Film & Television Archive and Film Quarterly present a screening of director Karim Aïnouz's biopic on João Francisco dos Santos.

Sun Oct 23 7:00 PM

Still from the film "Play It As It Lays" (1972)

Play It As It Lays

This adaptation of Joan Didion’s Hollywood novel offers a hypnotic, distinctive, and underappreciated vision of L.A. anomie.

Tue Oct 25 7:30 PM

Part of the series Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind: Joan Didion and Cinema

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Voyage to Cythera

After years living in exile in the Soviet Union, a communist resistance fighter returns home to the dismay of his family and neighbors.

Fri Oct 28 7:30 PM

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Drácula (Spanish language version)

The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles screen a 1931 horror classic.

Sat Oct 29 7:30 PM