The Culver Screening Series brings foreign, independent, experimental, documentary, and exemplary Hollywood film to Riverside. The films screened at the Culver are marked by their aesthetic innovation and their capacity to provoke thought and dialogue about issues affecting local, national, and global communities. The Culver Screening Series aims to be the gathering point for Riverside and the inland region for filmmakers, scholars, students, and the film-going community.
All Films
Ahree Lee – Bojagi (Memories to Light) and other video works
February 25th
Free admission! Join us for a special program featuring the video works of Ahree Lee. The program will play on continuous loop on Saturday, November 16th...
All We Imagine as Light
February 25th through April 20th
The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this...
In the Mood for Love
February 25th
This screening has been postponed to a later date due to technical issues. UCR ARTS will announce the rescheduled date in the coming weeks. Hong Kong,...
Spencer
March 4th through March 6th
The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the...
Belfast
March 11th through March 13th
Belfast is a movie straight from filmmaker Kenneth Branagh’s own experience. A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly...
Red Rocket
March 18th through March 20th
The audacious new film from writer-director Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine), starring Simon Rex in a magnetic, live-wire performance, Red Rocket is a darkly funny...
Chess of the Wind
March 25th
Screened publicly just once before it was banned and then lost for decades, this rediscovered jewel of Iranian cinema reemerges to take its place as one...
C’mon C’mon
March 26th through March 27th
Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply...
Parallel Mothers
April 1st through April 3rd
Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis,...
The Tragedy of MacBeth
April 8th through April 10th
Joel Coen’s bold and fierce adaptation of Macbeth, a tale of murder, madness, ambition, and wrathful cunning.
Drive My Car
April 15th through April 17th
Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle...
The Worst Person In The World
April 22nd through April 24th
Director Joachim Trier returns with another modern twist on a classically constructed character portrait of contemporary life in Oslo. Chronicling four years in the life of...
Writing With Fire
April 29th through May 1st
Reporting from a social environment built to divide based on caste and gender, a fearless group of journalists maintain India’s only women-led news outlet. The women...
Flee
May 6th through May 8th
Recounted mostly through animation, Amin opens up about his past for the first time of his journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan. He begins to...
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
May 13th through May 15th
Poly Styrene was the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion,...
Summer of Soul
May 27th through May 29th
In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record created around an epic event...
RCC Student Film Festival 2022
June 9th
See student films from the Film, Television, and Video Department at Riverside City College. Free admission!
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
June 10th through June 12th
On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria. When Amina...
Crip Camp
July 29th
In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” (a term...
Jazz Fest
August 5th through August 7th
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, aka “Jazz Fest,” is the signature annual music and cultural event of the city and has...
I Am Here
August 12th through August 14th
A life-affirming documentary that celebrates the remarkable life of Ella Blumenthal, whose magnetic personality and spirit has remained undimmed despite living through one of history’s darkest...
Eraserhead
August 19th
A dream of dark and troubling things . . . David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of...
Inland Empire
August 20th
“A WOMAN IN TROUBLE” Laura Dern stars as an actress that begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film; her world becomes nightmarish and...
Neptune Frost
August 26th through August 28th
Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and...
Off the Block on the Screen!
August 27th
Join us to celebrate the films of Off the Block 2022! Now in its 13th year, OFF THE BLOCK is an annual month-long summer documentary filmmaking...
Hit the Road
September 2nd through September 3rd
Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, makes a striking feature debut with this charming, sharp-witted,...
Memoria
September 16th through September 18th
From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman,...
CatVideoFest 2022
September 25th
CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic...
Fire of Love
October 7th through October 9th
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and...
Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour 2022
October 15th
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 95-minute theatrical program of 7 short films curated from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival short film...
Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Short Film Tour 2022
October 16th
The 2022 Sundance Institute Indigenous Short Film Tour is a 91-minute theatrical program of 6 short films directed by Indigenous filmmakers, featuring titles from the 2022...
Dos Estaciones
October 28th
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Dos Estaciones follows iron-willed businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a...
The Nightmare Before Christmas
October 30th
The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown’s beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the...
The Territory (Virtual Screening)
November 4th through November 6th
THE TERRITORY provides an immersive look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by farmers and illegal settlers in...
Daisies
November 12th through November 13th
Maybe the New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Věra Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be “spoiled,” they...
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
November 18th through November 19th
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is a definitive exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, Hallelujah....
Soul Boys of the Western World
December 3rd
This screening will be introduced by Richard T. Rodríguez, Professor of English and Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside and author of A Kiss across the...
Monterey Pop
December 10th through December 11th
On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the beginning of the Summer of Love, the first Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s...
Beauty and the Beast
December 17th through December 18th
Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy-tale masterpiece—in which the pure love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but...
Aftersun
January 13th through January 15th
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps...
EO
January 27th through January 29th
With his first film in seven years, legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski (Deep End, Moonlighting) directs one of his most free and visually inventive films yet, following...
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
February 3rd
Free Admission! Culture critic and historian Elvis Mitchell traces the evolution — and revolution — of Black cinema from its origins to the impactful films of...
Song of Salt
February 4th
Free admission! A Q&A with the filmmakers will follow the screening. Set in an isolated mining town on the outskirts of Death Valley, Song of Salt...
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
February 10th through February 12th
Rescheduled from January 20th. Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally...
The Inspection
February 17th through February 19th
In Elegance Bratton’s deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his...
Geographies of Solitude
February 25th through February 26th
An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic, the film follows Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and...
Everything Everywhere All at Once
March 2nd through March 5th
Free admission! No reservations are required. Seating is first come, first serve. Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is...
The Eternal Daughter
March 10th through March 12th
Free admission! No reservations are required. Seating is first come, first serve. An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a...
Is It Really So Strange?
March 18th
Free admission! The screening will be followed by a conversation between filmmaker William E. Jones and Richard T. Rodríguez, Professor of English and Media and Cultural...
Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno
March 31st
Free admission! Please note that screenings at UCR ARTS are overbooked. A reservation does not guarantee admission. Please arrive early to ensure a seat. A discussion...
No Bears
April 21st through April 23rd
One of the world’s great cinematic artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades,...
Godland
April 28th through April 30th
The struggle between the strictures of religion and our own brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning...
Sansón and Me
May 5th through May 6th
During his day job as a Spanish criminal interpreter in a small town in California, filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes (499) met a young man named Sansón, an...
Fanny: The Right to Rock
May 12th
Free admission! A live performance by Fanny bandmates with Q&A — including filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart — will follow the screening. Revivify Fanny. And I will...
Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV
May 26th through May 28th
The father of video art and coiner of the term “electronic superhighway,” Nam June Paik was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century....
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
June 2nd through June 3rd
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is part high-stakes heist,...
Walk Up
June 9th through June 11th
In his ninth film for Hong Sangsoo, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu (Park Miso), an aspiring interior designer,...
Rewind & Play
June 16th through June 18th
In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk ended his European concert tour with a performance at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. Before the...
You Hurt My Feelings
June 23rd through June 25th
From acclaimed filmmaker Nicole Holofcener comes a sharply observed comedy about a novelist whose long standing marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband give...
Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour 2023
July 1st through July 16th
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour presented by Shutterstock is an 90-minute theatrical program of seven short films curated from the 2023 Sundance Film...
Close
July 22nd through July 23rd
Leo and Remi are two thirteen-year-old best friends, whose seemingly unbreakable bond is suddenly, tragically torn apart. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes...
Off the Block 2023 on the Screen!
August 5th through August 5th
Free admission! Join us to celebrate the films of Off the Block 2023! Now in its 14th year, OFF THE BLOCK is an annual month-long summer...
Showing Up
August 11th through August 13th
A sculptor preparing to open a new show must balance her creative life with the daily dramas of family and friends, in Kelly Reichardt’s vibrant and...
Claydream
August 26th through August 27th
Known as the “Father of Claymation,” Will Vinton revolutionized the animation business during the 1980s and 90s, creating such iconic characters as the California Raisins and...
Gods of Mexico
September 2nd
The August 20th screening, previously cancelled due to Tropical Storm Hilary, has been rescheduled for September 2nd. With visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, GODS...
The Eight Mountains
September 9th through September 10th
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery, The Eight Mountains is a landmark cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental, as deep as it is...
CatVideoFest 2023
September 16th through September 17th
CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic...
LYNCH/OZ
September 22nd through September 24th
The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch’s art and filmography—from his very first short, The...
Past Lives
September 29th through September 30th
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in...
Hell-Bound Train
October 13th
Free Admission! With an introduction by and conversation with Dr. Elyse Ambrose (UCR, Dept. of Religion). “HELL-BOUND TRAIN is the work of self-taught filmmakers James and...
Manzanar Diverted
October 14th
Free Admission! Screening of the festival version of Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust (with Spanish subtitles), and launch of the Manzanar, Diverted Augmented Reality visual sound bath. Before the screening, Alexander...
Def by Temptation
October 20th
Free Admission! With an introduction by and conversation with Director James Bond III & John Jennings! “Joel grew up in the church but has recently started...
Sweetheart
October 21st
Free Admission! With an introduction by and conversation with Dr. Jalondra Davis! A woman washes ashore a small uninhabited island after an accident. The situation turns...
Candyman
October 27th
Free Admission! With an introduction by and conversation with Jasmine Moore (PhD candidate, English, UCR) and Keith Harris (English, UCR). For as long as residents can...
Nope
October 28th
Free Admission! With an introduction by and conversation with Dr. Mikal Gaines (English, Mass. College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) and Dr. Courtney R. Baker (English,...
RCC Student Film Festival 2023
November 2nd
See student films from the Film, Television, and Video Department at Riverside City College. Free admission! The screening is at capacity. Unclaimed tickets will be released...
Born in Flames
November 3rd
Free admission! The movie that rocked the foundations of the early Indie film world, this provocative, thrilling classic is a fantasy of female rebellion set in...
The Janes
November 4th
Free admission! In the spring of 1972, police raided an apartment on the South Side of Chicago where seven women who were part of a clandestine...
Union Maids / Dolores (Double Feature)
November 17th
Free admission! A special double feature of Union Maids (1973) and Dolores (2017)! Union Maids (1976) Directors: Jim Klein, Julia Reichert, Miles Mogulescu Running Time: 50...
Soul
December 2nd
Free admission! Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx) – a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz...
Anatomy of a Fall
January 19th through January 21st
For the past year, Sandra, her husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps....
Daughters of the Dust
January 26th
Free Admission! At the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina – former...
Earth Mama
February 2nd through February 3rd
A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family in this singular debut...
Till
February 8th
Free Admission! The story of Emmett Louis Till and the legacy of his mother who pursued justice for her lynched son. Join us at 6:00pm for...
Space is the Place
February 16th
Avant-jazz mystic Sun Ra brought his pioneering Afrofuturist vision to the screen with this film version of his concept album. It’s a wild, kaleidoscopic whirl of...
Origin
March 8th through March 10th
Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay, ORIGIN chronicles the tragedy and triumph of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she investigates a...
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
March 16th
Free Admission! Q&A with the filmmaker will follow the screening. Beginning at 2pm, join us for a print viewing highlighting images from the collection of UC Riverside’s...
Exposing Muybridge
March 23rd
Free Admission! Q&A with the filmmaker will follow the screening. Before the screening, join us at 2pm for a tour of the exhibition Movement Exercises (After...
Delano Manongs
March 30th
Free Admission! With a special introduction by the filmmaker, Marissa Aroy. The Delano Manongs tells the story of farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group...
Anselm
April 19th through April 21st
In Anselm, Wim Wenders creates a portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time. The film presents...
The Zone of Interest
April 26th through April 28th
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to...
Pa’Čapa, A Mt. Rubidoux Story
May 2nd through May 2nd
Free admission! Join us for the premiere of Pá’čapa: A Mt. Rubidoux Story on May 2nd, at 7:15pm. The film will also run continuously on May...
Forever, Chinatown
May 10th
Free admission and Q&A with filmmaker James Q. Chan! Forever, Chinatown (Emmy-nominee, Documentary Cultural/Historical) is a story of unknown, self-taught 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent...
Hollywood Chinese
May 17th
Free admission and Q&A with filmmaker Arthur Dong! Hollywood Chinese is a captivating revelation on a little-known chapter of cinema: the Chinese in American feature films....
Forbidden City, USA
May 18th
Free admission and Q&A with filmmaker Arthur Dong! The screening will be followed by a special performance by the Grant Avenue Follies! It was the swinging...
Nosferatu
June 8th
Free admission! A cornerstone of the horror film, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is resurrected in an HD edition mastered from the acclaimed 35mm...
ME / It’s Such A Beautiful Day
June 22nd through June 23rd
Join us for a special double-feature from Don Hertzfeldt! ME (2024) Don Hertzfeldt’s newest animated film ME is a 22-minute musical odyssey about trauma, technology, and...
Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour 2024
July 6th through July 14th
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 110-minute theatrical program of seven short films curated from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, including three...
In Our Day
July 20th through July 21st
Sangwon (Kim Minhee), an actress recently returned to South Korea, is temporarily staying with her friend, Jungsoo (Song Sunmi), and her cat, Us. Elsewhere in the...
CatVideoFest 2024
August 3rd through August 4th
CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic...
Off the Block 2024 on the Screen!
August 10th through August 10th
Free admission! Join us to celebrate the films of Off the Block 2024! Now in its 15th year, OFF THE BLOCK is an annual month-long summer...
World on a Wire
August 24th
World on a Wire is a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt...
Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Film Tour 2024
September 21st through September 29th
The 2024 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour is a 83-minute theatrical program featuring eight short films from Indigenous filmmakers: four from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival...
Sans Soleil
October 3rd
Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex...
Videodrome
October 11th
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new material for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show...
Seeking Mavis Beacon
October 12th through October 13th
One of the most influential Black women in technology is a figment of our collective imagination. Mavis Beacon was invented by the Co-Founder of MySpace to...
The Bikeriders
November 2nd
This screening will be accompanied by a special viewing of photographs from the collection of the California Museum of Photography. The Bikeriders captures a rebellious time...
Conceiving Ada / Teknolust (Double Feature)
November 7th
Conceiving Ada (1997) This time-travel adventure film tells the story of Lady Ada Lovelace (daughter of Lord Byron), a mathematics genius a century ahead of her...
Sound Imaginations: Telematic Immersion
November 9th
The filmmakers invite you to experience the world premiere of Sound Imaginations: Telematic Immersion (2024), audiovisual journey that dissolves the boundaries between the real and the...
Paprika
November 15th
Prepare to enter the realm of fantasy and imagination — where reality and dreams collide in a kaleidoscopic mindscape of sheer visual genius. The magical tale...
Robot Dreams
December 14th through December 15th
DOG lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they...
Videograms of a Revolution
January 10th
Free admission! Videograms of a Revolution by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica examines the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 in Bucharest through archival footage, amateur recordings,...
Intercepted
January 25th through January 26th
Intercepted is harrowing portrait of war through intercepted phone calls made by Russian soldiers from the battlefield in Ukraine to their families and friends in Russia....
Anora
February 14th through February 16th
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey Madison (ONCE UPON A TIME IN...
RoboCop
February 21st
Free admission! Detroit cop Alex Murphy is killed in the line of duty but revived as RoboCop by OCP, the mega-corporation running the Detroit Police Department....
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
March 1st through March 2nd
2025 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature. United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the...
Interstellar
March 6th
Free admission! In the future, as planet Earth becomes uninhabitable, a crew of astronauts explores a wormhole in order to find a suitable replacement and save...
The Brutalist
March 8th through March 16th
Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced...
Lost Highway
March 21st
Due to technical difficulties, the screening on March 21st has been postponed to a later date. Pre-ordered tickets have been issued refunds. UCR ARTS apologizes for...
El Pachuco: from Zootsuit to Lowriding
March 28th
Free Admission! This screening will include a special introduction by and post-film discussion with Tomas Montoya. The 51 minute film, El Pachuco: From Zoot Suits to...
Flow
April 11th through April 13th
A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a...
Lwanzo (Cobalt)
April 18th
Free admission and filmmaker Q&A! In Kolwezi, where the earth bleeds cobalt and the future is forged in dust, a quiet war rages. Beneath the shadow...
And Water Brings Tomorrow
April 26th
Free admission! Directed by Ashley Hunt, the film And Water Brings Tomorrow explores political grief and change by highlighting community efforts to close prisons and showcasing...
Eat Your Catfish
April 27th
Free admission! Winner of the 2024 Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary Kathryn’s ALS has left her paralyzed and her family’s relations in tatters, but...
Ghosts of Adelanto & the Rise of Abolish ICE
May 3rd
Free admission! Amid rising immigrant detention and deportation, we journey California’s largest immigrant prison to encounter the Ghosts of Adelanto, which intertwines stories of family separation,...
New Wave
May 16th
The screening will be followed by a discussion between director Elizabeth Ai, editor Hee-Jae Park and Richard T. Rodríguez, Professor of English at the University of California,...
This Dissonance
June 7th
Free admission! Join us for a special screening of This Dissonance, a film shot on 16mm film by UCR Professor Christophe Katrib and nominated for the...
RCC Student Film Festival 2025
June 12th
**Doors will open at 6pm and the screening will start at 6:30pm** Join us for an evening of films from the Film, Television, and Video...
Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour 2025
July 12th through July 20th
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour, presented by Vimeo, is a dynamic showcase of seven standout short films from this year’s Festival, including two...
Womanhouse
July 26th
Free admission! WOMANHOUSE is an historic documentary about one of the most important feminist cultural events of the 1970s. Judy Chicago (best-known as the creator of...
CatVideoFest 2025
August 2nd through August 3rd
CatVideoFest returns to UCR ARTS with its 2025 edition! CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of...
Off the Block 2025 on the Screen!
August 9th
Free admission! Join us to celebrate the films of Off the Block 2025! Now in its 16th year, OFF THE BLOCK is an annual month-long summer...
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
August 16th
A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily...
2025 Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Film Tour
September 6th through September 14th
The 2025 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour is a 98-minute theatrical program featuring 7 short films from Indigenous filmmakers: six from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival...
Don Hertzfeldt’s Animation Mixtape
September 27th through September 28th
Two-time Academy Award nominee and Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner Don Hertzfeldt partners with Ink Films to release Animation Mixtape, an 85-minute short film...
CatVideoFest 2025 (encore)
October 4th
CatVideoFest returns for an encore! CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced...
Upshot (2024) & The Dupes (1972)
November 2nd
Free admission! This screening is one of over 500 others taking place around the world on November 2nd as part of Palestine Cinema Days Around the...
Barn Rushes & Natural Selection
November 15th
Free admission! A discussion between Larry Gottheim and Madison Brookshire will follow the screening. Larry Gottheim is an avant-garde filmmaker and a founding figure of the...
Compensation
January 17th
Free admission! A landmark of independent cinema, Compensation is Zeinabu irene Davis’s moving, ambitious portrait of the struggles of Deaf African Americans and the complexities of...
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
January 24th
Free admission! Reception – 2pm Screening + discussion – 3pm UCR ARTS presents a free screening of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, followed by a conversation...
Dear Watsonville
January 31st
Free admission! The screening will be introduced by filmmaker Sondy Lu. A Q&A will follow the screening. Dear Watsonville is a mixed-media documentary offering an intimate...
Night Fight
February 13th
Free admission! Discussion with filmmaker Khary Saeed Jones to follow the screening. In August 2017, filmmaker Khary Saeed Jones was followed by a vigilante down back...
In the Hour of Chaos
February 27th
Free admission! Panel discussion with H. Samy Alim, Imani Kai Johnson, Samuel Lamontagne, and Tabia Shawel to follow the screening. In the Hour of Chaos: Hip...
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