AFI Life Achievement Award Retrospective: Francis Ford Coppola

The 21st edition of the New African Film Festival (NAFF) kicks off in one week on Friday, March 14! Presented by AFI and Africa World Now Project, the festival brings the vibrancy of African filmmaking from all corners of the continent and across the diaspora to the Washington, DC, area. Featuring 29 films from 19 countries, this year’s festival opens with NO CHAINS NO MASTERS, an epic historical drama that follows an enslaved father and daughter as they race to…

The 37th AFI European Union Film Showcase is just one week away, and it is bringing 54 films from all 27 EU member states — including 12 Best International Feature Film Oscar® submissions and six U.S. premieres — to the Washington, DC region. With such a wide selection of films, it can be hard to know where to begin. That is why our programming team has handpicked some options to guide you through the diverse lineup of movies, which includes…

AFI Silver is lucky enough to call film historian David Pierce co-curator of our inaugural Classic Film Weekend, and we spoke to him about the magic of pre-Code cinema on the occasion of the series' June 13 opening. To us, there may be no better way to spend a weekend than engulfed in movies from that brief yet monumental period, from the late 1920s through 1934, when filmmakers weren't tightly bound by studio-imposed restrictions. The output from that period is…

The 2024 edition of Spanish Cinema Now kicks off today with 10 films that reflect the breadth of styles and talents at work in Spain today!

We're just a week away from the 2024 edition of Spanish Cinema Now and AFI Silver Associate Film Programmer Josh Gardner, who has been involved with AFI since interning for Silverdocs in 2005, guides us through the history of this annual event and shares his favorite picks from this year's lineup.

It's May Day and that means the 2024 DC Labor FilmFest is now in full swing!

Our Columbia Pictures Centennial Retrospective continues this weekend with screenings of Otto Preminger's ANATOMY OF A MURDER on Sunday, April 28 and Wednesday, May 1. Washington City Paper writer Noah Gittell examines how the film pushed the boundaries of Hollywood's production code and set the template for courtroom dramas for decades to come.

May Day is just around the corner and that means another edition of the DC Labor FilmFest is nigh! Co-presented by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the AFI Silver, this annual series, now in its 24th year, features a wide-ranging selection of "laborific" films about work, workers and the wider issues affecting workers' lives.

Saddle up for (more than) a fistful of iconic film scores at AFI Silver! Inspired by Giuseppe Tornatore's recent documentary ENNIO, we're presenting Mondo Morricone, a 35-title series that explores the breadth of Ennio Morricone's career, from his best-known work perfecting the sound of the Spaghetti Western with Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy to his celebrated Hollywood output and everything – and we mean everything – in between.

Tom Fallows is something of a Romero expert: the author of two books and several articles on the subject and a bona fide irer and er of his work. He recently hosted the opening NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD screening of our George A. Romero's Independent Cinema series, and will be back to introduce the film's equally brilliant follow-up, DAWN OF THE DEAD, on Friday, April 12, plus sign copies of his "George A. Romero's Independent Cinema: Horror, Industry, Economics."

Foster Hirsch is a name everyone should be familiar with — especially fans of film noir — and AFI Silver's Director, Todd Hitchcock, spoke to the noted author and film historian about his latest book, "Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties," which inspired our Fabulous '50s series, now running through May 2.

This winter and spring, our audiences were given the opportunity to experience not one, not two but four films on glorious 70mm — the rare, ultra-high-definition format that has been undergoing a welcome resurgence over the past decade. From the historic battles featured in Ridley Scott's NAPOLEON to the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey TENET to the spice fields of Arrakis in DUNE: PART TWO and, coming up the weekends of April 5 & 12, the masterpiece of 70mm photography that is LAWRENCE OF…

The 20th edition of the New African Film Festival (NAFF) kicks off this Friday, March 15! Presented by AFI and Africa World Now Project, the festival brings the vibrancy of African filmmaking from all corners of the continent and across the diaspora to the Washington, DC area. This year's stellar lineup features 26 films from 16 countries, including three