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Past Events

June 2026 CFA Open House
CFA Open House June 2026
June 28, 2026 from 1-4:30pm
329 W 18th St, Suite 610 (sixth floor)
Preservation Through Photography The Story And Legacy Of Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church
Preservation through Photography: The Story and Legacy of Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church
June 13, 2026 from 3-6pm
Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church
Highlanders Wedding / Goralskie Wesele
Highlanders Wedding (Góralskie wesele)
May 15, 2026 at 7pm
Logan Center Screening Room
Chicago Film Archives Open House - All Are Welcome
CFA Open House April 2026
April 26, 2026 from 1-4:30pm
329 W 18th St, Suite 610 (sixth floor)
Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)
Love It/Leave It: Tom Palazzolo's America
April 12, 2026 at 11am
Bartell Theatre, 113 E Mifflin St, Madison, WI
A Celebration at 150 Media Stream
"A Celebration" at 150 Media Stream
February 26 - July 4, 2026
150 N Riverside Plaza Lobby, Chicago, IL — Enter through the Randolph Street entrance
Lens Distortions 8 & 9
Avant-Garde Ads: Goldsholl Design & Film Associates
February 15 - February 21, 2026
Anthology Film Archives
In Another Light: Cinema of Memory
In Another Light: Cinema of Memory
February 1, 2026 at 6:30pm
Music Box Theatre (Theater 2)
Chicago Film Archives Open House
CFA Open House January 2026
January 25, 2026 from 1-4:30pm
329 W 18th St, Suite 610 (sixth floor)
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Lord Thing
November 8, 2025 at 4:30pm
First Church of the Brethren
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Chicago Home Movie Day 2025
November 1, 2025 from 11am-3pm
Chicago History Museum, 1601 N Clark St
Novo Dextro: Purity and Danger
Small Gauge, Big Shoulders: Films by Bill Stamets
October 17, 2025 at 7pm
Logan Center Screening Room
CFA Open House
CFA Open House September 2025
September 28, 2025 from 1-4:30pm
329 W 18th St, Suite 610 (sixth floor)
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A Collection of Short Films from the CFA Media Mixer
July 24, 2025 at 7pm
Elmhurst Art Museum
Chicago Film Archives Open House
CFA Open House June 2025
June 29, 2025 from 1-4:30pm
329 W 18th St, Suite 610 (sixth floor)
Amateur Movie Day 2025
Amateur Movie Day 2025
March 12, 2025 at 7pm
Music Box Theatre (Theater 2)
The Murder of Fred Hampton
Out of the Vault at 20: The Murder of Fred Hampton
December 3, 2024 at 6:30pm
Gene Siskel Film Center
Chicago Home Movie Day
Home Movie Day 2024
October 19, 2024 from 11am-3pm
Chicago History Museum, 1601 N Clark St
Beauty and the Beast
Out of the Vault at 20: Preserved Silent Shorts from CFA
October 11, 2024 at 7pm
Logan Center Screening Room
What She Said
What She Said: Movies and Movements on the Arts Lawn
October 3, 2024 at 6pm
The Arts Lawn
Variety Show at Peoria's Palace Theater
Out of the Vault at 20: CFA 20th Anniversary Variety Show
September 24, 2024 at 7pm
Music Box Theatre (Theater 2)
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2024 CFA Media Mixer: Homemade
June 6, 2024 from 7-10pm
Constellation
The Whole World Is Watching
The Whole World Is Watching: Stories from the Front Line
May 8, 2024 at 6:30pm
Claudia Cassidy Theater
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Tom Palazzolo's Chicago
January 28, 2024 at 3pm
Gene Siskel Flim Center
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Tom Palazzolo's Added Lessons
January 27, 2024 at 5pm
Chicago Filmmakers
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Tom Palazzolo's Short Takes
January 27, 2024 at 7pm
Chicago Filmmakers
Home Movie Day 2023
Home Movie Day 2023
October 28, 2023 from 11am-3pm
Chicago History Museum, 1601 N Clark St
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Making Flowers Dance: The John Nash Ott Collection at Chicago Film Archives
July 28, 2023 at 1:30pm
Northeast Historic Film
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