Programs & Events

Screening of two films that engage with the depiction of Black girlhood.

Also known as Black Sister’s Revenge, Jamaa Fanaka’s Emma Mae (1976) offers a rare, sympathetic portrait of a young Black woman adjusting to city life.

This screening features 12 classic animation restorations funded by The Seth MacFarlane Foundation

This stirring documentary revels in the beauty of the natural world while examining how climate change impacts species as far-flung as the Arctic polar bear and the African bush elephant.

Join us for a rare opportunity to experience early Japanese paper films, or kami firumu, projected alongside live musical accompaniment, and discuss the innovative techniques currently being used to safeguard these fascinating artifacts of pre-war Japanese cinema.

This program, curated by UCLA AMIA Student Chapter, features animated films that reject traditional narrative structures while exploring abstract concepts and emphasizing visual and aural elements.

Screening of two films that depict girls—five orphaned sisters in rural Turkey and an 11-year-old French-Senegalese girl—exploring identity and rebellion.

This program, curated by UCLA AMIA Student Chapter, explores how reenactment exposes cinema’s inherent nature to simultaneously depict, reconstruct and reinterpret.

Documenting the careers and lives of Vietnamese American New Wave musicians in the 1970s and 1980s, Elizabeth Ai’s kinetic film skillfully weaves together the challenges of intergenerational understanding in the search for the American dream.

Set in Oregon’s lush woods, this 2015 feature film follows a teenage girl (Thomasin McKenzie) and her PTSD-stricken father (Ben Foster) as they live off the grid.