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Sun May 12, 2024

5:00 pm

RAMBLING ROSE / INTRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIDGE

Aero Theatre |Q&A with filmmaker Martha Coolidge. Moderated by Jan Oxenberg.

‘Martha Coolidge: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

Wed May 15, 2024

7:30 pm

GENIUS: MLK/X

Aero Theatre | Q&A with executive producers Reggie Rock Bythewood and Gina Prince-Bythewood and executive producers and showrunners Raphael Jackson Jr. and Damione Macedone. Moderated by Jenelle Riley.

Sun May 12, 2024

2:00 pm

MAMMA MIA!

Aero Theatre | Mothers’ Day Screening!

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Thu May 23 – Mon May 27, 2024

Don’t Knock the Rock 2024

Festival | The return of the iconic festival includes 3 LA premieres and 18 guests including filmmakers Andrew Reich, Issac Gale, Ryan Olson, Stuart Swezey, Ondi and David Timoner and Allan Arkush, musicians Jeff and Steve McDonald, Swamp Dogg, Moogstar, Dr. Jeri and more!

Tue May 7 – Fri May 31, 2024

Glauber Rocha: An American Cinematheque Retrospective

Series | BARRAVENTO, ENTRANCED EARTH, BLACK GOD WHITE DEVIL, ANTONIO DAS MORTES, THE AGE OF THE EARTH, THE LION HAS SEVEN HEADS

Sat Jun 1 – Fri Jun 7, 2024

Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 3

Festival | This year’s program includes 43 films, from 18 countries, archival prints, premieres of restorations, in-person guests and for the first time it will take place across three venues

Tue Jun 4 – Thu Jun 6, 2024

Lynne Ramsay: An American Cinematheque Retrospective

Series | WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, RATCATCHER, MORVERN CALLAR

Thu May 16, 2024

7:30 pm

THE BIG CIGAR

Aero Theatre | Q&A with showrunner Janine Sherman Barrois, executive producer Jim Hecht and actor Glynn Turman. Moderated by AAFCA President and Co-Founder Gil Robertson.

Fri May 17 – Sun May 19, 2024

Alejandro Jodorowsky: An American Cinematheque Retrospective

Series | THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, PSYCHOMAGIC, A HEALING ART, SANTA SANGRE, EL TOPO

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