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Yale Film Archive receives grant to preserve experimental films by Jacqueline Leger

September 17, 2025
The Yale Film Archive has been awarded a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) to help preserve two early films by Jacqueline Leger, MFA 1976: “Sunday Morning” and “Jocko’s New Haven.”

April 24: View a film begun by theater icon Lee Breuer in 1968 Paris—now finished by his son

April 22, 2025
The Yale screening of “Moi-même” on April 24 will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Mojo Lorwin, Breuer’s son and eventual collaborator on the film. The Beinecke Library, home to Breuer’s papers, recently acquired the film’s original footage.
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Good news, movie fans! See 21 free films through December

August 27, 2024
Free film screenings of an assortment of award-winning and notable films run nearly every week from August to December.
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The Yale Film Archive receives its 14th national grant for film preservation

August 21, 2024
The Yale Film Archive’s 14th National Film Preservation Foundation grant will enable the preservation of two short films by Sheldon Renan, Class of 1963.
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A semester full of films: Yale Film Archive presents 20 weeks of free movies

January 10, 2024
The Yale Film Archive’s Spring Series presents a new film to see nearly every week of spring semester.
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Yale Film Archive wins 13th federal grant for preservation of significant films

October 11, 2023
The Yale Film Archive receives grant to preserve Shades , a 1960 fictional short about inmate rehabilitation.
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Films on film: Yale Film Archivist shares strategy for preserving and screening

July 7, 2023
Brian Meacham, film archivist, spoke about the Yale Film Archive at the British Film Institute film festival in London.
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