In the MUBI Microcinema
Alpha
- Fri, Apr 24
- Sat, Apr 25
- Mon, Apr 27
- Thu, Apr 30
Director: Julia Ducournau Run Time: 128 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 2025 Language: French and Berber with English subtitles
Starring: Emma Mackey, Finnegan Oldfield, Golshifteh Farahani, Mélissa Boros, Tahar Rahim
Make room in your nightmares for Julia Ducournau's brilliantly unsettling mix of body horror and familial trauma in the Cannes-winning director's most human film to date with jaw-dropping visuals and a sinister tone of surreality and coming-of-age angst.
Numbskull Revolution
- Fri, Apr 24
- Sat, Apr 25
- Sun, Apr 26
Director: Amy Davis, Jon Moritsugu Run Time: 95 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2026
Starring: Amy Davis, Hank Rogerson, James Duval, John Howard Shannon, Julia Eringer
Are you ready to get skullf*$#ed Vidiots?!? Lose your mind over the hilarious new film from the living legends of DIY punk rock cinema - Jon Moritsugu and Amy Davis.
The Height of the Coconut Trees
- Sat, Apr 25
Director: Du Jie Run Time: 100 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2026 Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
Starring: Mado Karasumori, Minami Ohba, Riria Kojima, Seita Shibuya, Soichiro Tanaka
A haunting tale of youthful love and loss set along the dramatic Japan seaside, a mysterious ring found inside a fish connects two couples across time, place and the lines between the living and the dead.
With a special introduction from Carson Lund (writer/director of Eephus)!
Jeff Parker – ETA IVtet – Happy Today
- Sun, Apr 26
Director: Charlie Weinmann Run Time: 45 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2026
This homegrown concert film directed by Charlie Weinmann documents the August 20, 2025 performance by guitarist/bandleader Jeff Parker and his ETA IVtet (with drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, and saxophonist Josh Johnson) at Highland Park, Los Angeles venue Lodge Room.
Jeff Parker and band members in person!
The Stranger
- Fri, May 1
- Sat, May 2
- Sun, May 3
- Thu, May 7
Director: François Ozon Run Time: 122 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025 Language: French with English subtitles
Starring: Benjamin Voisin, Denis Lavant, Pierre Lottin, Rebecca Marder, Swann Arlaud
Nihilism has never looked so good as in François Ozon's stunning and sensual adaptation of Albert Camus's existential classic.
Mārama
- Fri, May 1
- Sat, May 2
- Sun, May 3
Director: Taratoa Stappard Run Time: 89 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2026 Language: English and Māori
Starring: Ariaana Osborne, Erroll Shand, Jordan Mooney, Toby Stephens, Umi Myers
Join us in the microcinema for Taratoa Stappard's stunning anti-colonial Māori gothic story of retribution.
Sweet 16mm: Mid-Century Social Guidance Classics
- Wed, May 6
Run Time: 90 min. Format: 16mm Film Release Year: 1953
From strangers with candy to high school dropouts, to puberty's pitfalls, to civic responsibility, these largely forgotten gems are laughably out-of-date and teeming with an antiquated morality you can only find in yesteryear. Screened entirely on 16mm.
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)
- Fri, May 8
- Sat, May 9
- Sun, May 10
- Mon, May 11
Director: Joel Alfonso Vargas Run Time: 101 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2026 Language: English and Spanish with English subtitles
Starring: Destiny Checo, Juan Collado, Nathaly Navarro, Yohanna Florentino
With humor and grit, Joel Alfonso Vargas paints a tender portrait of the chaos and charm of urban life, and the ups and downs of youthful abandon when things take an unexpected turn.
Steal This Story, Please!
- Sat, May 9
- Tue, May 12
Director: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin Run Time: 98 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2026
Starring: Amy Goodman
Fiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account, reporting from war zones and the Democracy Now! newsroom. In Steal This Story, Please!, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin craft a riveting portrait of journalism’s power – and peril – in an era of corporate control and political attacks on truth.
Short Films by Athina Rachel Tsangari
- Sun, May 17
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari Run Time: 76 min. Format: Digital
Part of Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari, a retrospective of the Greek director's films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI
Filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari in conversation with filmmaker/animator Flóra Anna Buda!
Harvest
- Sun, May 17
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari Run Time: 131 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Starring: Arinzé Kene, Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen, Thalissa Teixeira
Athina Rachel Tsangari in person!
Part of Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari, a retrospective of the Greek director’s films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 through mid-May at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots, and the Los Feliz 3.
River of Grass
- Tue, May 19
Director: Sasha Wortzel Run Time: 83 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Starring: Betty Osceola
Artist and Filmmaker Sasha Wortzel joins us in the microcinema for a screening of her dreamy and poetic documentary River of Grass.
Sweet 16mm: Kinder Nonsense
- Thu, May 28
Run Time: 90 min. Format: 16mm Film Rating: All Ages Release Year: 1969
We're back again with another dose of 16mm celluloid curiosities - this time we're throwing reason out the window with a program of fabulous late 60s, early 70s groovy kids films that sought to open young minds to a world of imagination.