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CTCS-466: Theatrical Film Symposium
This Fall 2026 semester, the School of Cinematic Arts will offer a very special course called CTCS-466: Theatrical Film Symposium, a four-unit elective class open for enrollment to ALL USC STUDENTS OF ANY MAJOR that brings you face-to-face with leading film directors, writers, producers, and actors working today. Throughout the semester, students will watch a wide selection of new film releases, followed by exclusive Q&As with the creative teams behind them.
The Exhibition Ecosystem: A New Symposium Series focusing on the Business of Theatrical Film Exhibition
The future of the Cinematic Arts has as much to do with the health of our theatrical exhibition industry as it does with the now and future challenges facing production and distribution. In a new symposium focused on both the bird's eye view and the granular business operations of the exhibition ecosystem, the USC School of Cinematic Arts will better prepare the next generation of theater owners, bookers, and managers to lead the industry forward.
AGFA Movie Hooky Club IMAX Matinee Screening: WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971)
Brand-new restoration! Alongside MAD MAX and WALKABOUT, WAKE IN FRIGHT is one of the most seminal of Aussie films. Directed by Ted Kotcheff (FIRST BLOOD) and co-starring an unforgettable (and unforgettably trashed) Donald Pleasence, WAKE IN FRIGHT is the nightmarish story of a schoolteacher’s descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small Outback town. This is one of the ultimate lost-weekend film hangovers, and won't soon leave your memory.
In Conversation with Mark Cerny
In Conversation with Mark Cerny
EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET
In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Pollokshields, Scotland's most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors.
COOKIE QUEENS
A celebration of girlhood and the complexities that come with it, Cookie Queens is a coming-of-age story about the joys, pressures, and tensions woven into one of America’s most cherished rituals: Girl Scout Cookie season.
THE SCOUT
Sofia works as a location scout for a TV pilot filming in New York City. It’s her job to find the homes, businesses, and exteriors where the show will be filmed. Driving around the city's different neighborhoods, she enters the private spaces of strangers to photograph their cozy apartments and eclectic shops, stepping into the fabric of their lives while trying to satisfy the demands of her erratic employers. Over a day filled with these encounters, Sofia witnesses moments of curiosity, vulnerability, and quiet tension until her work takes a sudden, personal turn.
THE GIRL SLEEPING ON THE SHELF (LA FILLE SUR L'ÉTAGÈRE)
Paul and Meilin have been living under the same roof for several months now. Watching each other, they've even started to get to know and like each other. But they've never met.
ABOUT A HERO
When a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances, our narrator, Werner Herzog, travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate his perplexing death. But Herzog is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect... ABOUT A HERO is an adaptation of a script written by an AI trained on Werner Herzog's body of work, with Herzog's permission. The result is a fictional narrative that is ironically self-reflective, interlaced with a collection of interviews with artists, philosophers and scientists reflecting on the notion of originality, authenticity, immortality and soul in the age of AI.
AGFA Movie Hooky Club IMAX Matinee Screening: MUERTE EN LA PLAYA (1991)
David, the disturbed son of a wealthy businesswoman, returns to his sunny beachside home to try to get over the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his boarding school teacher. As he tries to overcome his homosexual urges, David begins murdering all those around him who he sees as being responsible for his trauma. Never available theatrically for English language audiences, MUERTE EN LA PLAYA is a sleazy homoerotic serial killer thriller with a Telenovela twist from one of Mexico's most unheralded genre filmmakers.
FREE LEONARD PELTIER
Leonard Peltier, one of the surviving leaders of the American Indian Movement, has been in prison for 50 years following a contentious conviction for the murder of two FBI agents. After global outrage and continued failed appeals, a new generation of Native activists arrives to revive calls for his freedom. This time, things are different.
WE'RE NOTHING AT ALL
On Valentine’s Day, a double-decker bus explodes in a fiery blast, killing many and leaving charred remains, with evidence pointing to a deliberate act by two passengers, Fai and Ike, a gay couple from troubled backgrounds living on society’s margins. As retired forensic expert Lung Sir investigates, he uncovers their tragic story of abuse, homophobia, and despair, culminating in their decision to end their lives in a suicidal protest against an unjust world, leaving behind a haunting message: “On a beautiful day, we end our unbeautiful lives.”
NOLLYWOOD IN HOLLYWOOD: THE INAUGURAL SHORT FILM SHOWCASE
5 very exciting, fresh voices with eclectic stories from the black diaspora.
2027 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science Seminar: FOREVER YOUNG? - The Science, Promise and Limits of Human Longevity
The goal of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Film School program is to influence and encourage the next generation of filmmakers to create more realistic and dramatic stories about science and technology, and to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists and engineers through visual media storytelling.
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II - EXILE
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II — EXILE is the follow up to the critically acclaimed MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW, which in 2025 won the Gotham Award, and the New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics awards for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction, was nominated for a Spirit Award and Shortlisted for the Oscars. It was on the Top 10 Films of the Year lists at The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, NPR’s Fresh Air and Slate.
Movies We Love Presents: AIR FORCE ONE (1997)
The President is held hostage on Air Force One by a crew of Russian terrorists. Using his strength and guile, the Commander-in-Chief must spring into action and fight off his attackers.
INFIRMARY
Recovered bodycam footage reveals a security guard’s first night inside an abandoned hospital, where an intruder and a series of inexplicable disturbances turn a routine shift into a desperate fight for survival.