AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

06/19/2026

*Today*
NAKED ACTS

30th Anniversary | New 4K Restoration

Celebrated as a key film in the canon of Black independent cinema in the 1990s, Bridgett M. Davis’ NAKED ACTS was included in the seminal anthology “The 50 Most Influential Black Films” by S. Torriano Berry. Beautiful aspiring actor Cicely (Jake-Ann Jones) has just landed her first major role, but there is a big problem: It requires a n**e scene. Her mother was a Blaxploitation star known for her s*x appeal, while Cicely is a survivor of s*xual assault with lifelong body image issues, all of which has left her with a strong aversion to disrobing in public. Now, with the support of her boyfriend, Joel (Ron Cephas Jones), she attempts to get past her fear.

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*Note courtesy of Kino Lorber

In theaters June 14.Celebrated as a key film in the canon of inde...

06/18/2026

Last year, we celebrated VistaVision on the big screen. This summer, we’re going even wider — with CinemaScope!

🎬 CinemaScope Summer
July 11–September 17

Introduced in 1953 by 20th Century–Fox, CinemaScope was Hollywood’s biggest bid to ensure theatrical entertainment held sway over broadcast television. Utilizing anamorphic lenses that captured a wider image than previous formats, CinemaScope ensured that the motion-picture image would have a scale no tiny screen could compete with — and stories to match.

🎟️ Explore the lineup and buy tickets: https://tinyurl.com/CinemaScopeSummerAFi

06/18/2026

Almost 200 intrepid cinephiles joined us on Saturday for our first Bleak Week screening of Béla Tarr’s masterpiece SÁTÁNTANGÓ. Those who made it through the entire seven-hour runtime received their official Survivor Certificate, signed by AFI Silver’s director of programming, marking them as a Certified Cinephile.

If you, too, want to prove your movie-viewing mettle — and catch this foundational text of slow-cinema on the big screen — SÁTÁNTANGÓ screens one more time as part of Bleak Week.

*Tomorrow*, June 18, 11:00 a.m.

☕️ Each ticket includes a complementary caffeinated beverage (coffee or soda)

⏳http://tinyurl.com/SatantangoAFI

06/17/2026

Filmmaker Mark Jenkin, featured on the cover of last month’s Sight and Sound Magazine, will be here next week for a special advance screening of his new film ROSE OF NEVADA.

📅 Wed, June 24, 7:15 p.m.
💬 Q&A w/ Mark Jenkin, moderated by Roxana Hadadi, Critic for Vulture & NY Magazine

Thirty years ago, the Rose of Nevada disappeared at sea. Now, it has returned. Desperate to make ends meet, two men (George MacKay and Callum Turner) join its crew and set sail once again. But they soon discover they have been transported back into the past, where they are mistaken for the original crew.

⛵️http://tinyurl.com/RoseOfNevadaAFI

ROSE OF NEVADA opens Fri, June 26.

06/16/2026

Renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a cinematic time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. Using his own collected archives and his grandparents’ photographs and films, as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s story with that of the land around him. From Academy Award®-nominated director Sara Dosa, TIME AND WATER is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.

Opening Friday, June 19

🗻 http://tinyurl.com/TimeAndWaterAFI

Renowned Icelandic poet and author, Andri Snær Magnason, is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a cinematic ti...

06/12/2026

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Play Ball! The American Pastime
July 3–16

“Baseball is our game: the American game. I connect it with our national character,” said poet Walt Whitman about a sport one just cannot help but romanticize. “[It] belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.” With 2026 marking three anniversaries — the 125th of the American League, the 150th of the National League and the 250th of the United States of America itself — AFI Silver presents these four films that capture the magic and history of the great American pastime.

Batter Up! ⚾️ https://tinyurl.com/PlayballAmericanPastimeAFI