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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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Exhibition Highlights Tour: Made in L.A. 2025

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Made in L.A. 2025.

Sat Dec 6 1:00 PM

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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Our Father, the Devil

Writer-director Ellie Foumbi’s taut, elegant revenge thriller stands up as one of the most engrossing depictions of the aftermath of trauma, even as it surrenders to the allure of supposed payback.

Sat Dec 6 7:30 PM

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Kids Screenings

Family Flicks: The Wiz

Director Sidney Lumet's dazzlingly inventive adaptation of the hit Broadway musical transplants L. Frank Baum's fantastical world from somewhere over the rainbow to somewhere over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Sun Dec 7 11:00 AM

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Art in Conversation

Educators lead 30-minute in-person talks about connections and comparisons between two works of art.

Sun Dec 7 1:00 PM

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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Putney Swope / Hi, Mom!

Cartoonist and illustrator Nathan Gelgud ill be on hand for this screening of two films, by writer-directors Robert Downey, Sr. and Brian De Palma

Sun Dec 7 7:00 PM

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It Was Just an Accident

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Jafar Panahi’s latest film sees the director returning to a more traditional narrative form, yet it is also his most daring, unflinching political work.

Tue Dec 9 7:30 PM

Part of the series MoMA Contenders 2025

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Freddy Villalobos

Assistant director of Academic Programs Hallie Scott leads an in-person discussion of Alake Shilling's work in Made in L.A. 2025.

Wed Dec 10 12:30 PM

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Sinners

Rooted in the intertwined histories of Black cultural achievement and racism in America, Sinners is destined to be regarded as a landmark of the genre. Followed by a conversation with writer & director Ryan Coogler and actor Wunmi Moskau

Wed Dec 10 7:30 PM

Part of the series MoMA Contenders 2025

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Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Dec 11 12:30 PM

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Nouvelle Vauge

Richard Linklater pays tribute to a film that shook the world like few others and sparked an aesthetic revolution that still fascinates audiences: Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle (Breathless).

Thu Dec 11 7:30 PM

Part of the series MoMA Contenders 2025