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Early Screening: LA BOLA NEGRA (2026)

5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

DCP | 2026 | Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi | Spain | 159 minutes | Spanish with English subtitles Free and open to the public. No registration required. Please arrive early to secure a seat. WINNER OF THE AUDIENCE AWARD TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi — popularly known as Los Javis — La Bola Negra follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish history, bound by pain, desire, and love. Carlos (Milo Quifes) longs to belong in a fractured Spain.…

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Film: The Murder of Fred Hampton + May Day x 4

6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Humanities Quadrangle, New Haven, CT

Treasures from the Yale Film Archive The Murder of Fred Hampton (Howard Alk, 1971, 35mm, 88 mins) May Day x 4 (Brian Meacham, 2026, DCP, 35 mins) Sampada Aranke and Brian Meacham in person! New print! Urgent, uncompromising, and essential, Alk’s acclaimed documentary captures history in the act, bringing us Hampton's extraordinary charisma and resolve along with the aftermath of the Chicago police raid that ended his life. The film is paired with the premiere of a new short that draws on archival footage from four separate productions that documented protests in early May, 1970, creating a…

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Dropouts and Dreamers Film Series: THE WAY STEEL WAS TEMPERED (1988)

6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Humanities Quadrangle, New Haven, CT

DCP | 1988 | directed by Želimir Žilnik | Yugoslavia | 101 minutes | BCMS with English subtitles Free admission. No registration required. Steelworker Leo is surrounded by chaos at work and at home. While the decaying factory is drowning in corruption, his marriage is ruined after he falls for a teenage girl. But when foreign business partners and collectors of socialist realism visit the factory, they are so impressed by its atmosphere and by Leo as an authentic example of a socialist worker that they offer him a promising career abroad as an antiquated curiosity. Over half a century after…

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Film: Titicut Follies

1:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Humanities Quadrangle, New Haven, CT

Yale Film Archive: Wisemania Film Series Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967, 16mm, 84 mins) Banned from public exhibition for nearly a quarter century, Wiseman's first documentary is one of his most famous, and arguably his most consequential. Filmed in a state hospital for the criminally insane, it exposes practices that cross the line from care into cruelty, raising questions about dignity, authority, and society’s treatment of the most vulnerable. “An extraordinarily candid picture of a modern Bedlam, where the horrors are composed of indifference and patronizing concern” (Vincent…

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Advance Screening: PAPER TIGER

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Humanities Quadrangle, New Haven, CT

DCP | 2026 | Directed by James Gray | United States | 115 minutes | English Free admission. No registration required. Please arrive early to secure a seat. Starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller. From director James Gray, known for The Lost City of Z (2016) and Ad Astra (2019). In James Gray’s deeply felt and intense drama, two brothers become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through the dangerous world of the Russian mafia, family bonds begin to fray with life-altering consequences. A NEON release. Trailer…

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Film | THE CORDILLERA OF DREAMS (2019)

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Humanities Quadrangle, New Haven, CT

DCP | 2019 | Directed by Patricio Guzmán | Chile | 85 minutes | Spanish with English subtitles Free admission. No registration required. Winner of the Golden Eye for best Documentary at Cannes, THE CORDILLERA OF DREAMS (2019) completes Patricio Guzmán’s documentary trilogy exploring Chile’s past and present through its landscapes, following NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT (2010) and THE PEARL BUTTON (2015). Narrated by Guzmán himself, the film turns to the Andean mountain range as a living witness to the legacy of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, which lasted from 1973 to 1990. Guzmán places archiv…

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Film: Gun Crazy

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Humanities Quadrangle, New Haven, CT

Treasures from the Yale Film Archive Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950, 35mm, 87 mins) New print! It’s love at first shot when a gifted marksman meets a carnival sharpshooter whose appetite for excitement proves impossible to resist. Together they race across postwar America chasing the next thrill, the next robbery, the next narrow escape, bound together by desire and self-destruction. An influence on Breathless and Bonnie and Clyde, this is “a small but perfectly formed black-and-white masterpiece of flash and trash, unwholesome obsession, and criminal daring” (Peter Bradshaw). 35mm print…

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Film: Bound, 30th Anniversary Screening

7:50 PM – 9:45 PM

Humanities Quadrangle, New Haven, CT

Yale FIlm Archive: Sundance Revisited Film Series Bound (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, 1996, 35mm, 109 mins) 30th anniversary screening! Before reinventing sci-fi, the Wachowskis made their knockout neo-noir debut with a film known for its crackling chemistry, relentless suspense, unabashed eroticism, and style to burn. An ex-con fresh out of prison (Gina Gershon) and her alluring new neighbor (Jennifer Tilly) hatch a plot to steal millions from the mob, but first they’ve got to get around a money-laundering boyfriend (Joe Pantoliano) who fights dirty and suspects everyone. “Bound is one of those…

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Film: Man of Marble

1:00 PM – 3:45 PM

Humanities Quadrangle, New Haven, CT

Yale Film Archive: Andrzej Wajda Film Series Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda, 1977, DCP, 160 mins) Wajda enters the disco era, and his star is a sly and swaggering Krystyna Janda in her arresting big-screen debut. When an aspiring filmmaker sets out to make a thesis film about a once-celebrated socialist laborer, her pursuit of the truth builds into a riveting political detective story that asks how history is written and erased. With a synth-funk soundtrack and an audacious juxtaposition of ‘50s and ‘70s visual languages, Man of Marble “evokes the comic creation, and tragic desecration, of a…

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Advance Screening: ALL OF A SUDDEN

5:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Humanities Quadrangle, New Haven, CT

DCP | 2026 | Directed by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi | France, Japan, Germany | 197 minutes | Japanese and French with English subtitles Free admission. No registration required. Please arrive early to secure a seat. From director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, known for Drive my Car (2021), winner of Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Introduction by Professor Aaron Gerow (A. Whitney Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures and Film & Media Studies) Set in France and Japan, ALL OF A SUDDEN follows Marie-Lou (Virginie Efira), the director of a care facility for the elderly, who is…

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Film: Daughters of the Dust

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Humanities Quadrangle, New Haven, CT

Yale FIlm Archive: Sundance Revisited Film Series Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991, 35mm, 113 mins) Dash conjures the story of three generations of Gullah women on an island off the South Carolina coast in the first feature film by an African American woman to get national theatrical distribution and the first selected for the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. Her luminous masterpiece’s "impressionistic look at the Great Migration (who will go, who will stay, and at what cost?) combines a corporeal sense of history with poetic, often indirect and allegorical underpinnings…

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