Events & Exhibits

Browse our upcoming events, workshops and exhibits.

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    Screening
    Black Rabbit, White Rabbit
    Billy Wilder Theater

    Visit the UCLA Film & Television Archive website to learn more about upcoming screenings and events.

    REGISTER FOR THIS SCREENING

    Please note: Registration does not guarantee entry if the event reaches capacity. Admission is granted on a first come, first served basis.

    Patrons who have registered will need to obtain their free tickets at the box office, where seating will be assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby patrons.

    Screening 1 of 2

    Where the Winds Die

    Year: 2021
    Country: Iran
    Language: Persian with English subtitles
    Runtime: 13 min.
    Digital. Color.

    Farhang Short Film Festival 3rd prize winner

    A Kurdish city in western Iran, Sardasht was the target of a chemical weapons attack in 1987. Director Pejman Alipour captures the moment the city’s peaceful calm was shattered in this powerful, watercolor-style animated short.

    DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Pejman Alipour.

    Screening 2 of 2

    Black Rabbit, White Rabbit

    Year: 2025
    Country: Tajikistan/United Arab Emirates
    Language: Tajik, Persian and Russian with English subtitles
    Runtime: 139 min.
    Digital. Color.

    Tajikistan's submission to the Oscars for Best International Feature Film, Black Rabbit, White Rabbit finds writer-director Shahram Mokri working at the top of his cinematic game. On a film set for the remake of a classic Iranian film, the crew’s armorer worries that a prop gun may not be what it seems and a mysterious young woman arrives to demand an audition. Meanwhile, at a well-appointed villa, a woman recovering from a car accident discovers she may be the target of a murder plot. In Mokri’s inimitable style, long camera takes and elliptical editing blur time and space, visions and reality, history and fiction.

    DCP. Director: Shahram Mokri. Screenwriters: Shahram Mokri, Nasim Ahmadpour. With: Babak Karimi, Hasti Mohammaï, Kibriyo Dilyobova.

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    Screening
    Checkpoint / Dead End
    Billy Wilder Theater

    Visit the UCLA Film & Television Archive website to learn more about upcoming screenings and events.

    REGISTER FOR THIS SCREENING

    Please note: Registration does not guarantee entry if the event reaches capacity. Admission is granted on a first come, first served basis.

    Patrons who have registered will need to obtain their free tickets at the box office, where seating will be assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby patrons.

    In person: director Parviz Sayyad, actor Mary Apick.

    Screening 1 of 2

    Checkpoint

    Year: 1987
    Country: U.S.
    Language: English and Persian with English subtitles
    Runtime: 91 min.
    35mm. Color.

    During the height of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, a busload of Iranian college students returning to the U.S. after a field trip in Canada are thrown into political and legal limbo when they’re refused entry at the border. A ripped-from-the-headlines urgency drives writer-director Parviz Sayyad’s Checkpoint as the students split along factional lines in their struggle to reclaim their rights and dignity. Executive producer Mary Apick also leads a committed ensemble cast that never loses sight of the fragile, individual humanity ever at risk amid grand ideological clashes.

    Director/Screenwriter: Parviz Sayyad. With: Mary Apick, Houshang Touzie, Parviz Sayyad.

    Screening 2 of 5

    Dead End

    Year: 1977
    Country: Iran
    Language: Persian with English subtitles
    Runtime: 95 min.
    Digital. Color.

    This provocative film stars Mary Apick as a young woman who is drawn to a mysterious suitor haunting the dead-end street where she lives, only to discover that he is not what he seems and she and her family may be in danger. A giant of Iranian cinema, writer-director Parviz Sayyad rose to fame as the star of the commercial Samad film and television series before producing some of the key works of the Iranian New Wave, including films by Sohrab Shahid Saless, Ebrahim Golestan and Dariush Mehrjui. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, Dead End plays with themes of voyeurism and surveillance in a society on the verge of radical transformation.

    DCP. Director: Parviz Sayyad. Screenwriter: Parviz Sayyad, Houshang Baharlou. With: Mary Apick, Parviz Bahador, Apick Yousefian.

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Event Series & Exhibitions

  • man dressed warmly and holding a suitcase talking to another person with both standing in the snow
    Event Series
    2026 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema

    The UCLA Film & Television Archive continues its long tradition of bringing the best cinema from Iran and the Iranian diaspora to Los Angeles

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    Event Series
    2026 UCLA Festival of Preservation

    The 22nd edition of the biennial UCLA Festival of Preservation showcases the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s latest preservation and restoration projects on the big screen.

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    Event Series
    Archive Talks
    Ongoing

    Archive Talks pairs leading historians and scholars with screenings of the moving image media that is the focus of their writing and research.

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    Event Series
    Archive Television Treasures
    Ongoing

    Made possible by the John H. Mitchell Television Programming Endowment

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    Event Series
    Archive Treasures
    Ongoing

    Archive Treasures showcases works from UCLA Film & Television Archive’s extensive holdings, which comprise one of the largest moving image collections in the world.

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    Exhibition
    Artists’ Books Recent Acquisitions

    A curated exhibit of recently acquired artists' books and select older works exploring a diverse range of topics

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    Event Series
    Family Flicks
    Ongoing

    UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum have teamed up for a free matinee screening series of new and classic family-friendly films from around the world.

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    Event Series
    Food and Film
    Ongoing

    Presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum

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    Event Series
    Marschak Colloquium
    Ongoing

    The UCLA Library presents the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences, a series featuring distinguished speakers from areas of the behavioral sciences.

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    Workshop Series
    Research Workshops
    Ongoing

    UCLA Library research workshops teach relevant skills and encourage critical thinking about the research process.

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    Event Series
    Stressbusters
    Ongoing

    Drop-in week 10 and finals week activities to help you relax, recharge and finish the quarter strong

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    Event Series
    Training the Trainers: Materiality of Ming Books and Manuscripts

    An introduction to the history and material culture of Ming books and manuscripts

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