Public Screenings

WHAT'S ON SCREEN?

Yale Screenings

For a full list of public screenings on campus, select "Film & Media Screenings" on the Yale Calendar of Events.

Yale Film Archive Screenings

These screenings are always free and open to the public, and take place on the Lower Level of the Yale Humanities Quadrangle, located at 320 York Street in New Haven, CT, unless noted.

Fall Series

Treasures from the Yale Film Archive, an ongoing series of classic and contemporary films from our collection.

O Canada, a selection of features and shorts from the True North strong and free.

Five for Fonda, featuring five films starring or about actor Henry Fonda.

Wisemania, a multi-year exploration of the works of documentarian Frederick Wiseman.

Cinemix, stand-alone screenings of standout films, presented with our colleagues from across campus and beyond.

Fall Films

Eat Drink Man Woman
(Ang Lee, 1994, 35mm, 124 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28

Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2010, 35mm, 131 mins)
Poen (Josef Reeve, 1967, DCP, 4 mins)
7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5

Henry Fonda for President
(Alexander Horwath, 2024, DCP, 184 mins)
4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11
Alexander Horwath in person!

Young Mr. Lincoln
(John Ford, 1939, 35mm, 100 mins)
7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12
Alexander Horwath in person!

High School
(Frederick Wiseman, 1968, 16mm, 75 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18

The Freshman
(Sam Taylor & Fred C. Newmeyer, 1925, 16mm, 77 mins)
2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21
Live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin!
100th anniversary screening!

Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012, DCP, 108 mins)
Distant Islands (Bettina Maylone, 1981, DCP, 6 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2

Canal Zone
(Frederick Wiseman, 1977, 16mm, 174 mins)
2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5

Talk to Her
(Pedro Almodóvar, 2002, 35mm, 112 mins)
7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10

Anemone
(Ronan Day-Lewis, 2025, DCP, 121 mins)
Location: 53 Wall Street Auditorium
7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11
New Release!

I Am Free...But Who Is Left?
(Joanne W. Rudof, 2022, DCP, 92 mins)
5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16
Joanne W. Rudof in person!

Fail Safe
(Sidney Lumet, 1964, 35mm, 112 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23

My Darling Clementine
(John Ford, 1946, 35mm, 103 mins)
2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
(F.W. Murnau, 1922, 35mm, 94 mins)
Location: 53 Wall Street Auditorium
7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31
Live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton!

Nouvelle Vague
(Richard Linklater, 2025, 35mm, 105 mins)
Location: 53 Wall Street Auditorium
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5
New Release!

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, 2001, 35mm, 172 mins)
Little Thunder (Nance Ackerman & Alan Syliboy, 2009, DCP, 2 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6

Aspen
(Frederick Wiseman, 1991, 16mm, 146 mins)
2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9
Stephanie LaCava in person!

Touch of Evil
(Orson Welles, 1958, 35mm, 111 mins)
7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14
New print!

The Lady Eve
(Preston Sturges, 1941, 35mm, 94 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20
New print!

Universal Language (Matthew Rankin, 2024, DCP, 89 mins)
In the Shallows (Arash Akhgari, 2024, DCP, 4 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4

Die Hard
(John McTiernan, 1988, 35mm, 132 mins)
7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12

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GET INVOLVED

Do you have an idea for a public film screening or series? Are you interested in presenting films from the Yale Film Archive's collection? The Yale Public Screening Partnership program welcomes proposals for public screenings from academic units, student groups, museums, and other Yale organizations.

Students interested in film programming should consider joining some of the many great film groups on campus:

COLLABORATIONS

The Yale Film Archive is always looking for opportunities to collaborate. Over the last decade, we have:

  • Co-presented screenings with over 30 Yale departments, programs, and organizations.
  • Co-presented screenings with over 30 local and national community groups.
  • Included more than 60 Yale faculty members in film introductions and panel discussions.
  • Included more than 40 Yale students in film introductions and panel discussions.
  • Included more than 20 representatives of local community groups in panel discussions.
  • Had nearly 30 students write Film Notes for Treasures screenings.
  • Included graduate students as co-programmers for our biennial “Class Pictures” screenings.
  • Collaborated with faculty to turn numerous course screenings into public events.
  • Mentored graduate and undergraduate students on their series and conferences.
  • Created the Public Screening Partnership program to encourage the use of Yale Film Archive prints in campus screenings.
  • Worked with fellow FIAF archives to bring prints from their collections to Yale for screenings.
  • Promoted Yale screenings on our Facebook, Twitter, Threads, and Instagram accounts.
  • Included Yale faculty, alumni, and local experts in the Treasure Talks video discussion series.

If you would like to collaborate on an upcoming screening or series, please get in touch! We welcome your ideas.

SPECIAL GUESTS

Guest artists at Yale Film Archive screenings have included:

  • Actors Brooke Adams, Abigail Breslin, Keir Dullea, Julian Sands, and Seret Scott
  • Film critics Bilge Ebiri and Wesley Morris
  • Musical accompanists Makia Matsumura and Donald Sosin
  • Academy Award-winning screenwriter William Goldman
  • Academy Award-winning producer Bruce Cohen
  • Documentarians Lauren Belfer, Sarah Botstein, Peter Davis, Suzannah Herbert, Laura Israel, and Leopold Pospisil
  • Filmmakers Ashish Avikunthak, Curtis Hanson, James Ivory, Charlie Kaufman, Caroline Mouris, Robert Mulligan, Bob Rafelson, Martín Rejtman, Michael Roemer, John Sayles, Stephen Scher, Charlie Shackleton, and Norman Weissman
  • Yale alumni filmmakers Max Barbakow, Phyllis Chillingworth, Lee Isaac Chung, Nick Doob, Warrington Hudlin, Alexis Krasilovsky, Sandra Luckow, Lynn Novick, Josh Morton, Frank Mouris, Willie Ruff, Ira Sachs, and Oliver Stone

PAST SERIES

The Yale Film Archive has presented several stand-alone series in the past, including the following:

CONTENT ADVISORIES

The Yale Film Archive does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. Information about content and age-appropriateness for specific films can be found at Common Sense Media, DoesTheDogDie.com, and IMDb.

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