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Screenings & Events

Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.

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The Little Sister

The American French Film Festival

Sat, Nov 01 @ 8:05 pm
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DGA Theater
Star Nadia Melliti
Queer Palm winner!
Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, makes friends, and explores a whole new world, all while confronting a timeless and heartrending dilemma: How can one stay true to oneself when reconciling different parts of one’s identity feels impossible?
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective

Sun, Nov 02 @ 1:00 pm
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Egyptian Theatre
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
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The Seduction

The American French Film Festival

Sun, Nov 02 @ 8:10 pm
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DGA Theater
Composer Delphine Malaussena
To be the hero of your own story, you sometimes have to be the villain in others’. Marquise de Merteuil, betrayed by Valmont, embarks on a daring journey to become Paris’ leading courtesan. Freely adapted from the novel “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
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The Stranger

The American French Film Festival

Mon, Nov 03 @ 12:50 pm
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DGA Theater
Out French provocatuer Francois Ozon adapts the classic existentialist novel by Albert Camus.
Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother’s funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a work colleague. He quickly slips back into his usual routine. However, his daily life is soon about to be disrupted by his neighbor, Raymond Sintès, who draws Meursault into his shady dealings. Until one blisteringly hot day, a tragic event occurs on a beach…
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Je Tu Il Elle

Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective

Tue, Nov 04 @ 7:00 pm
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Los Feliz 3
50th Anniversary screening, with Ackerman's early short films.
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
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Juan Gabriel: I Must, I Can, I Will

GuadaLAjara Film Festival

Fri, Nov 07 @ 7:00 pm
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Milagro Cinemas
A documentary series with unprecedented access to Juan Gabriel’s personal archives, including videos he filmed himself. Across four episodes, this investigation offers an intimate and revealing story about Alberto Aguilera Valadez, the man behind the iconic Mexican music idol.
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2025 HUMP! Film Festival

Thu, Nov 13 @ 6:30 pm
Thu, Nov 13 @ 8:30 pm
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Brain Dead Studios
After two decades of bringing independent, genre-bending, jaw-dropping adult short films to the masses, these days the HUMP! Jury receives way too many incredible, festival-worthy submissions each year to narrow them all down into one feature-length presentation. That means we ge
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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Sat, Nov 22 @ 7:30 pm
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Academy Museum
Filmmakers Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein, and Irwin Rapport, Chair, Board of Directors, The Foundation for the AIDS Monument
On the eve of 1987’s Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.
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In The Room: Chantal Akerman Short Films

Chantal Akerman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective

Sun, Nov 23 @ 4:00 pm
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Los Feliz 3
Three short films by Chantal Akerman: La Paresse, 1986; La Chambre 1972; Le 15/8, 1973.
Theatrical runs

Now In Theaters

Prefer your movies with popcorn and trailers? Here some the queer films at LA cinemas right now...

The History of Sound
Opened Sep 12, 2025
Opens Sep 12, 2025

Two young music students, Lionel and David, attending the Boston Conservatory in 1917, bond over their shared love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.

Plainclothes
Opened Sep 19, 2025
Opens Sep 19, 2025

In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he’s surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.

After The Hunt
Opened Oct 09, 2025
Opens Oct 09, 2025

A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Opened Oct 10, 2025
Opens Oct 10, 2025

Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.

Fairyland
Opened Oct 10, 2025
Opens Oct 10, 2025

A young girl recounts growing up in San Francisco in the ’70s and ’80s with her gay dad, activist and author Steve Abbott.

Blue Moon
Opened Oct 24, 2025
Opens Oct 24, 2025

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.