The Yale Film Archive has made changes to increase and improve our support for research, teaching, collections building, preservation, and programming. These changes will also expand access to our viewing facilities and video collection.
Announcing a new season of screenings from the Yale Film Archive, all free and open to the public!
This spring, we'll bring you more than 40 films from around the world, with a full Stanley Kubrick retrospective, a musical commemoration of America 250, and an exploration of the artistry of Meredith Monk. All that, plus visits from filmmakers Charlie Kaufman, Rebecca Miller, Greg Mottola, Alex Ross Perry, and Billy Shebar!
Doors open half an hour before each screening.
The Yale Film Archive has been awarded a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve two early films by Yale alumna Jacqueline Leger: Sunday Morning (1971) and Jocko’s New Haven (1976).
Announcing a new season of screenings from the Yale Film Archive, all free and open to the public! This fall, we'll bring you more than 20 films from around the world—including two films with live musical accompaniment—with a few more surprises coming soon.
Unless noted, screenings take place on the lower level of the Yale Humanities Quadrangle, located at 320 York Street, between Elm and Grove in New Haven. Doors open half an hour before each screening.
Wisemania is a multi-year exploration of the works of documentarian Frederick Wiseman, drawing on the collection of more than two dozen 16mm prints the Yale Film Archive acquired from Wiseman’s Zipporah Films in 2024. All screenings are free and open to the public.
The O Canada film series brought Yale audiences a selection of features and shorts from the True North strong and free. Spanning nearly 60 years, the series incorporated nonfiction, drama, comedy, and experimental animation, and included films in English, French, Inuktitut, Arabic, and Persian. All screenings are free and open to the public.
Presented with special thanks to the National Film Board of Canada.
The Five for Fonda series featured a selection of films starring or about actor Henry Fonda, in celebration of the 120th anniversary of his birth. All screenings were free and open to the public.
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? Visit our Public Screening Partnership page for more information on our co-presentation opportunities.
We're bringing you a cross-country crime caper, a swoon-worthy retelling of a classic romance, a sci-fi thriller that predicted our future a little too well, and a game-changing indie hit.
The Yale Film Archive presents a summer full of films, all free and open to the public. Tell your friends and help us spread the word!
Screenings take place on the lower level of the Yale Humanities Quadrangle, located at 320 York Street, between Elm and Grove in New Haven.
Summer Series
Don't miss any of the action with the Yale Film Archive's new slate of films, all free and open to the public. This spring will feature brand-new 35mm prints of the #1 and #2 greatest films of all time (according to the latest Sight and Sound critics' poll), along with many other pristine prints, three filmmaker visits, a talk on film preservation, and a few more surprises we'll announce soon.
