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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

RCC Student Film Festival 2022

June 9th

See student films from the Film, Television, and Video Department at Riverside City College. Free admission!

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 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.

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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.