Film & Television Archive
The Offenders / Vortex
Sat 4/1 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program Admission is free. No advance reservations. Free tickets must be obtained on a first come, first served basis at the box office, where seating will...
The Cremator / Krakatit
Sun 4/2 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles Admission is free. No advance reservations. Free tickets must be obtained on a first come, first served basis at the box office, where...
And the Fifth Rider is Fear / The 13th Police Station
Fri 4/7 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles In-person: Professor Pavel Jech, Chapman University. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Free tickets must be obtained on a...
Salvation! Have You Said Your Prayers Today? / The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight
Sat 4/8 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program Admission is free. No advance reservations. Free tickets must be obtained on a first come, first served basis at the box office, where seating will...
Invaders from Mars
Sun 4/9 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program In-person: pre-screening presentation by Scott MacQueen, former Head of Preservation at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Admission is free. No...
If I Go Will They Miss Me / Killer of Sheep
Fri 4/14 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association In-person: Q&A with filmmaker Walter Thompson-Hernández. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Free tickets must be obtained on a first come, first...
Crocodile Conspiracy / Compensation
Sat 4/15 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association In-person: Q&A with filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Free tickets must be obtained on a first come, first served...
The Sandlot
Sun 4/16 • 11AM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum All Family Flicks screenings are free admission. Seating is first come, first served. The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each Family Flicks program. The Sandlot...
The Films of Amy Halpern
Sun 4/16 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program In-person: curator David Lebrun. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Free tickets must be obtained on a first come, first served basis at...
Orphan Film Symposium: All-Television Edition Day 1
Fri 4/21 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Four Arguments for the Preservation of Television May Hong HaDuong (UCLA Film & Television Archive) Welcome Dan Streible (NYU Cinema Studies) What Was Television? Jeffrey Bickel (UCLA Film & Television Archive) Anniversary of a Great Invention...
Orphan Film Symposium: All-Television Edition Day 2
Sat 4/22 • 11:30AM - 10:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Admission is free and open to the public, first come, first served. Saturday, 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Early and Local Televisions Daniela Currò (Univ. of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections) Fox Movietone News outtakes, Ives on Television...
When You Left Me on That Boulevard / Cleaners
Sun 4/23 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association In-person: Q&A with filmmaker Kayla Abuda Galang Admission is free. No advance reservations. Free tickets must be obtained on a first come, first served...
The Voice of Dust and Ash
Sat 4/29 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
In-person: filmmaker Mandana Biscotti. Inner Self Nahan, Iran, 2020 Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival Finalist A violinist is barred by authorities from entering the building where she is expected to perform because she lacks the required...
The Carriage Driver
Sun 4/30 • 7PM - 9PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
The Carriage Driver Doroshkechi, Iran, 1971 Director Nosrat Karimi’s pre-revolutionary Iranian classic opens on a funeral and ends with a violent conflagration, yet somehow remains deliriously funny every minute all along the way. When a family...
Until Tomorrow
Fri 5/5 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Kooseh, A Man Who Can’t Grow a Beard Iran, 2022 Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival Finalist Samim, a teenage Afghan refugee boy with a secret, works illegally in a banquet hall in Tehran. The head waiter in the hall discovers Samim’s big...
Free Chol Soo Lee
Sat 5/6 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association In-person: Q&A with filmmakers Julie Ha, Eugene Yi. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Free tickets must be obtained on a first come, first served...
Shorts Program Curated with Roya Rastegar
Sun 5/7 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
In-person: filmmaker Roya Rastegar. The ongoing protests in Iran that began with the murder of Mahsa Amini in police custody after she was detained for violating Iran's mandatory hijab law have impacted every level of Iranian society and sparked...
The Last Snow
Mon 5/8 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
113 Iran, 2019 Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival Finalist Exhausted by the demands of military life, a soldier finds a place to nap under the table in a strategy planning room. He awakes to find himself eavesdropping on a top secret meeting...
World War III
Fri 5/12 • 7:20PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
White Winged Horse Asbe sefide baldar, Iran, 2020 Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival Finalist The figure of a white-winged horse has haunted Taha since childhood—an emblem of the sweetheart he left behind years ago when war tore apart their...
Wind of Change
Sat 5/13 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Nazri Iran, 2022 Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival Finalist After it was publicly revealed that Omid and his best friend Masoud were engaged in a same-sex relationship, Omid commits suicide. In the wake of tragedy, his grieving mother...
Babies
Sun 5/14 • 11AM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum All Family Flicks screenings are free admission. Seating is first come, first served. The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each Family Flicks program. Babies France,...
Leila's Brothers
Sun 5/14 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Faranak Iran, 2021 Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival Finalist Fired from his job, behind on his rent and abandoned by his wife, a burnt-out taxi driver gets an unusual passenger who is more similar to him than meets the eye. Faranak is the...
A Hard Day's Night
Sun 6/11 • 11AM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum All Family Flicks screenings are free admission. Seating is first come, first served. The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each Family Flicks program. A Hard Day’s...