EXCLUSIVE: Ava DuVernay’s Array has set the 2025 lineup for its annual cinema and conversation series, Array 360.
Offering a global and intergenerational lens to explore themes of migration, resistance, gender, idenity and collective liberation, the series will open this time around with Taiwan’s official 2025 Oscar entry, The Left-Handed Girl, directed by Tsou Shih-Ching. The series closes with a day-long marathon of the works of Gregory Nava. The Centerpiece Presentation is Nia DaCosta’s Amazon MGM pic Hedda, with the Spotlight Presentation set for Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions.
Other special programming includes Academy Award winner Ben Proudfoot’s Eyes of Ghana and Palestine’s official 2025 Oscar entry, Palestine 36, directed by Annemarie Jacir, along with an anniversary screening of Jennie Livingston’s Paris Is Burning.
A showcase of women-directed films from around the world will also be featured, along with a Black Panther-themed triple header of films from Ryan Coogler, Stanley Nelson and Agnès Varda.
“ARRAY 360 convenes community, not just to watch films, but to discuss the ideas inside them,” said Array’s EVP of Public Programming, Mercedes Cooper. “The selected films bring into focus the urgent, the overlooked and the beautifully human as shown on screen.”
All events are free to the community and will take place at Array Creative Campus in Los Angeles between October 4 – November 8. View the full lineup below.
Week 1
Saturday, October 4
Opening PresentaMon: LEFT-HANDED GIRL
Filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou presents her solo directorial debut, LEFT-HANDED GIRL (2025). *
Week 2
Saturday, October 11
A Woman’s Work: Women Made Film Gems
A journey through global work by women including Marion Wong’s THE CURSE OF QUON GWON (1916), Merata Mita’s MAURI (1988) and Sarah Maldoror’s SAMBIZANGA (1972).
Week 3
Saturday, October 18
Black Panthers x3
Reflecting on revolutionary history and radical imagination with Agnès Varda’s BLACK PANTHERS (1968), Stanley Nelson’s THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION (2015) and Ryan Coogler’s BLACK PANTHER (2018).
Week 4
Friday, October 24
Centerpiece Spotlight: HEDDA
Advance screening of HEDDA (2025) with director Nia DaCosta and actress Nina Hoss in conversation. *
Saturday, October 25
Spotlight Presentation: BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS
Kahlil Joseph presents an advance look at the feature adaptation of his acclaimed video art installation. *
Week 5
Saturday, November 1
For the People: A Day of Discourse
Amplifying voices of those who resist with Hind Meddeb’s SUDAN: REMEMBER US (2025), Ben Proudfoot’s THE EYES OF GHANA (2025) and Annemarie Jacir’s PALESTINE 36 (2025).
Sunday, November 2
ARRAY Ball: The Legacy of PARIS IS BURNING
Celebrating the enduring impact of ballroom culture with a 35th anniversary screening of Jennie Livingston’s quintessential documentary followed by an interactive ball, in partnership with REACH LA.
Week 6
Saturday, November 8
ARRAY Maestro: Gregory Nava
A panorama celebration of Mr. Nava’s classic work with daylong screenings of EL NORTE (1984), MY FAMILY (1995) and WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE? (1998). Special conversation with Gregory Nava. *
* Indicates filmmaker conversations moderated by Arrat founder and filmmaker Ava DuVernay