AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Past Events
Many events have been hosted previously at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. HistoryGuide currently has 90 past event listings in its database, shown below.
| Date | Event Information |
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| Every Sun Every Fri Every Sat | Totally Awesome 2: More Films of the 1980s. Films from the 80s are screened each weekend with several showings. Call for exact schedule and showtimes. (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| "Boxing Day" Premiere. A comedy about race and family, produced by D.C. area filmmakers. An update of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" for a generation o… (Performance - Movies) 301-512-6874. | |
| Daily | 22nd Annual European Union Film Showcase. A selection of top films from EU member states, including film festival award winners, box office hits, and US premieres. (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| Daily | AFI / Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS. An international documentary festival and conference, featuring over 100 films from over 60 countries. Join an estimated 25,000… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6700. |
| Daily | AFI Silver Latin American Film Fest. Now in its 20th year, the AFI Latin American Film Festival showcases the best filmmaking from Latin America and, with the inclus… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6700. |
| Daily | La Danse: Paris Opera Ballet. This documentary provides an in-depth look at how a ballet company (the Paris Opera Ballet, one of the world's greatest) functio… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| Daily | AFI Silver Presents: Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. This is the heart-warming story of Ma Otter and her son who both secretly enter a talent contest to win money for each other's C… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| Daily | AFI Silver Presents: Christmas Holiday (Film Noir). Deanna Durbin, the "singing sweetheart" of Universal, bravely picked this twisted tale of love-gone-bad as her first serious dra… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| Daily | AFI Silver Presents: Screen Valentines - Great Movie Romances. In time for Valentine's Day and throughout February, AFI Silver offers a selection of great movie romances, from 1930s screwball… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| Daily | 6th Annual New African Film Festival. Co-presented by AFI, TransAfrica Forum, and Afrikafe. Films this year include: No Time to Die, Nothing but the Truth, Glorious E… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6720. |
| Daily | AFI Silver Theatre Presents Michael Caine: A Class Act. South London-born Michael Caine became an international star after his career-making turn to Zulu. In anticipation of Caine's la… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| Daily | Noir City DC: The 2010 Film Noir Festival. This edition features a cavalcade of noir stars, including Robert Mitchum, Sterling Hayden, and Burt Lancaster, and femmes fatal… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6720. |
| 07/19/08 07/25/08 07/25/08 More... | Muppets, Music & Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy. Muppets, Music & Magic explores all facets of Jim Henson's creative legacy, including both beloved old favorites and rarely seen… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6700. |
| 08/07/08 | "Boxing Day" Premiere. A comedy about race and family, produced by D.C. area filmmakers. An update of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" for a generation o… (Performance - Movies) 301-512-6874. |
| 02/03/09 | Silverdocs Presents: Trouble the Water. Director / Screenwriter / Producer Carl Deal, Tia Lessin. US, 2008, color, 90 min. Not rated. Post-screening reception at Jackie… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6700. |
| 03/26/09 | Special Silver Spring Screening of "Running the Sahara". Narrated and executive produced by Matt Damon, the film follows three ultra-marathoners on their 111-day, 4,300-mile attempt to… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| 07/11/09 | Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo plus Party. Part of the Totally Awesome 3: More Films from the 80s Film Series. All ticketholders are invited to stay for the Electric Booga… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| 12/10/09 | The Secret Policemen's Ball. The first stage show (and film) to deploy the now iconic title that gave the entire series its name was "slightly directed" by J… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| 12/11/09 12/11/09 12/12/09 More... | AFI Silver Presents: "Collapse". Meet Michael C. Ruppert, the subject of the film who predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, Fr… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| 01/18/10 | King: A Filmed Record - Montgomery to Memphis (MLK). A compilation of documentary footage of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from the Montgomery bus boycott to the "I Have a Dream" spee… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| 03/12/10 | Black Dynamite. Screened today. (Performance - Movies) 202-244-8787. |
| 03/29/10 | Silverdocs Presents: No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson. Oscar nominee Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returns to his hometown of Hampton, where he once played basketball, to take a personal… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6700. |
| 05/01/10 | Babydoll. Actress Carroll Baker and film scholar Foster Hirsch in person. This film is incorporated in AFI Silver's Elia Kazan: A Centenni… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| 05/19/10 | AFI Silver Presents: The Mighty Uke. From the Redwoods of California through the gritty streets of Paris, from swinging London through Tokyo's highrise canyons to Ha… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| 04/12/11 | An Evening with Li Cunxin and Screening Of Mao's Last Dancer. Based on Li Cunxin's bestselling autobiography of the same name, Mao's Last Dancer is the fascinating and epic tale of a peasant… (Performance - Movies) 301-495-6720. |
| 09/22/11 09/23/11 09/24/11 More... | AFI Latin American Film Festival. The AFI Latin American Film Festival showcases the best filmmaking from Latin America and, with the inclusion of films from Spai… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6700. |
| 10/02/11 10/03/11 11/05/11 More... | Opera in Cinema at the AFI Silver Theatre. The Opera in Cinema series: Landmark productions from classic to modern, starring some of today's greatest voices, broadcast liv… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6700. |
| 10/09/11 10/13/11 11/20/11 More... | Ballet in Cinema at the AFI Silver Theatre. The Ballet in Cinema series features performances of live ballets from Europe's top companies, including the Bolshoi Ballet, the… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6700. |
| 11/11/11 | This Is Spinal Tap Screening at AFI Silver. Rob Reiner's uproarious spoof of heavy metal music, artistic vanity, lower-rung celebrity and rock docs themselves launched Chri… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6700. |
| 11/12/11 | Susan Orlean: "Rin Tin Tin, The Life and The Legend," A Conversation. Join acclaimed author and regular New Yorker contributor Susan Orlean as she shares her passion for the legendary film and telev… (Community - Panel Discussion / Forum) 301-495-6700. |
| 11/23/11 11/23/11 | Screening of INNI - featuring Sigur Rós!. As a special, one night only event, the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center will be hosting screenings of the film INNI featu… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6700. |
| 01/26/12 02/01/12 | Three Superstars in Berlin. Three of the biggest names in opera come together for a once-in-a-lifetime performance. Opera superstar Anna Netrebko, baritone… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6700. |
| 02/25/12 | The Black Pirate: Screening w/ Live Musical Accompaniment. A screening of the silent film, The Black Pirate (1926), will take place at the AFI Silver Theatre and will feature live musical… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6700. |
| 03/02/12 | A Tribute to the Nicholas Brothers, Hosted by Bruce Goldstein. The AFI Silver will host a special tribute to the fabulous Nicholas Brothers, Fayard and Harold. The two are among the greatest… (Festivals) 301-495-6700. |
| 08/12/13 08/17/13 | The Last Unicorn. (92 min, RATED G) Fearing she's the last of her kind, unicorn Amalthea (voiced by Mia Farrow) travels to the realm of King Hagga… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6700. |
| 03/01/14 | (WJFF) Friends From France. It is 1979. Carole & Jerome are 20, & going on an organized trip to Odessa in the USSR, deep behind the Iron Curtain. During the… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/14 | Bethlehem. Israel's entry for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, Bethlehem tells the story of the complex relationship between an Is… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/14 | Ida. Direct from its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, this Oscar contender seamlessly weaves together two deeply resonant narr… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/14 | Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story. The film features priceless archival footage of his performances, including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and his tradema… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/02/14 | (WJFF) For A Woman. In her mid-thirties, Anne knows practically nothing of her family's past. After her mother's death, Anne discovers old photos an… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/02/14 | (WJFF) Hanna's Journey. Hanna's motives for spending several months in Israel working with disabled youths and elderly Holocaust survivors aren't exactl… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/02/14 | (WJFF) My German Friend. In the late 1950s, Sulamit Löwenstein strikes up a casual friendship with her neighbor Friedrich in a quiet, affluent section of… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/03/14 | (WJFF) Arabani. The first feature by an Israeli-Druze filmmaker, Adi Adwan's Arabani is a beautifully crafted tale about Yosef, who, newly divor… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/04/14 | (WJFF) Aftermath. Aftermath tells the story of two brothers, Jozek (Maciej Stuhr) and Franek (Ireneusz Czop), who discover a terrible secret and a… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/05/14 | Russendisko. The Wall's just fallen, and Jewish citizens from the Soviet Union are now free to immigrate to Germany. Vladimir and his best pa… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/06/14 | (WJFF) Regina. Regina Jones, played here by Rachel Weisz, was the first female Rabbi- a prototypical feminist, who would have never copped to t… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/08/14 | (WJFF) Centerpiece Evening: Fading Gigolo. Facing the imminent closure of his business, a New York City bookstore owner (Woody Allen) teams up with his florist friend (Joh… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 05/31/14 | The Conformist [Il conformist] Screening. AFI Silver is screening The Conformist [Il conformist], director Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece based on the eponymous 1951 n… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/19/15 | Magic Men - Washington Jewish Film Festival. In the latest feature from the directors of Flood, A Matter of Size, & Strangers, a 78-year-old Greek-born atheist & his estrang… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/21/15 02/28/15 | 24 Days - Washington Jewish Film Festival. In 2006, Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Parisian Jew of Moroccan descent, gave his phone number to a pretty young woman. Later, when… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/21/15 | Theodore Bikel - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Portraits of two beloved icons - Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel - are woven together in this enchanting new documentary. (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/22/15 | Apples from the Desert - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Rebecca Abravanel is the only daughter of an Orthodox family living in Jerusalem. Unhappy with her strict upbringing, Rebecca se… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/22/15 | The Go-Go Boys - Washington Jewish Film Festival. This documentary reveals the inside story of two Israeli-born cousins, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who in pursuit of the Ame… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/23/15 | Next to Her - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Chelli is raising her mentally disabled sister Gabby all by herself. When the social worker discovers she leaves her sister alon… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/24/15 | Hester Street - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Joan Micklin Silver's humorous and poignant movie focuses on a traditional Jewish woman (Carol Kane) who arrives with her son to… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/25/15 | Little White Lie: Reviewing the Situation- Washington Jewish Film Festival. What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? Lacey Schwartz, who tells her remarkable story, gr… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/26/15 | Golem - Washington Jewish Film Festival. A reprisal of the 1920 German silent horror-fantasy expressionist film Golem, the tale of a 16th century rabbi who made a man ou… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/15 | The Dove Flyer - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Based on the autobiographical blockbuster novel by Eli Amir, this sweeping epic recalls a lost and cherished time when over 125,… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/15 | The Farewell Party - Washington Jewish Film Festival. A compassionate dark comedy about friendship and knowing when to say goodbye. A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/15 | Above and Beyond - Washington Jewish Film Festival. In 1948, just three years after the liberation of Nazi death camps, a group of Jewish-American pilots answered a call for help. (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/15 | Secrets of War - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Lambert and Tuur, two 12-year-old boys living in a small town in Nazi-occupied Netherlands, share a strong friendship. It's 1943… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/15 | The Trilogy of Life - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Laurence Attali's three-part ode to Senegal, spirituality, and the nature of love. An extremely rare screening of the full work.… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 10/31/15 | AFI and Count Gore De Vol present Halloween Two Double Features. Two double features back to back, each presented by Count Gore De Vol himself! At 3:30: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein fo… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 11/12/15 | Internet Cat Video Festival. You'll witness 75 minutes of the internet's best cat videos. From hilarious cell phone-captured clips to short works of cinemat… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/24/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Baba Joon. Israel's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award is a tender tale of a generational divide and immigrant exp… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/25/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival -The Hebrew Superhero. Israelis long shunned comics as something on the cultural fringe: they were deemed childish, trivial, and perhaps most cuttingly… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/27/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Mountain. An Orthodox woman lives in the Jewish cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. While her husband works and the children are at s… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/27/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Fire Birds. The body of an 80-year-old man with a mysterious tattoo and three stab wounds to the chest washes up by the Yarkon River. Dir. A… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Creamator. Karl works at a stately crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is liberating the souls of the departed.… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Song of Songs. Starting with Sholem Aleichem's enchanting tales, Eva Neymann concocts a strong, dreamy potion of a film that invokes young love… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - The Record Man. Brooklyn-born Henry Stone exported the music of Miami to the world. Dir. Mark Moormann (110 min, USA/Bahamas. 2015). (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/29/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - No Home Movie. At the center of Chantal Akerman's enormous body of work is her mother, a Holocaust survivor who married and raised a family in… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Demon. A modern interpretation of the Dybbuk legend, Piotr's joy at visiting his bride-to-be at her home is quickly upended by his disc… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Tikkun. A young ultra-Orthodox man experiences a crisis of faith in this formally daring drama that employs bravura and often-shocking i… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/02/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Dirty Wolves. In this WWII thriller imbued with notes of magical realism, Manuela works in the Wolfram (aka tungsten) mines in rural Galicia.… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/02/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - A Grain of Truth. An adaptation of the titular best-selling detective novel by Polish author Zygmunt Miloszewski. Dir. Borys Lankosz (110 min, Pol… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/05/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Natasha. Adapting his prize-winning story collection, Natasha and Other Stories, to screen, David Bezmogis delivers a tragic story of you… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/05/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Spotlight Evening: Gary Lucas Fleischerei: Music from Max Fleischer Cartoons. Backed by the Max Fleischer's surreal, wacky and Yiddish-inflected Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons themselves, and the cream of N… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 03/06/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - One Day Pina Asked. An encounter between two of the most remarkable women artists of the 20th century, the film is Chantal Akerman's look at the wor… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/06/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Sunday, Bloody Sunday. John Schlesinger followed his iconic Midnight Cowboy with this deeply-personal take on love and sex. Sunday, Bloody Sunday depic… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/06/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - The Pawnbroker. A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 04/02/16 | The Woman Disputed Film Screening with Live Accompaniment. Viennese prostitute Norma Talmadge finds herself in a love triangle with geopolitical dimensions during the Great War: in this c… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 04/03/16 | Tempest Film Screening with Live Musical Accompaniment. Having risen through the ranks in the czar's army, former peasant John Barrymore's romantic overtures are rejected by noblewoman… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6700. |
| 04/17/16 | Within Our Gates. Special Feature: Silent with live musical accompaniment by William Hooker! Oscar Micheaux's powerful drama is the oldest known s… (Festivals - Film Festival) 301-495-6700. |
| 06/24/17 | Vince Giordano Brings New York's Best Jazz Age Band To Silver Spring. AFI Silver Theatre screens, VINCE GIORDANO: THERE'S A FUTURE IN THE PAST about the Grammy-winning musician. Accompanying this ev… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 06/25/16 06/26/16 11/18/17 | CatVideoFest. The live event gathers fellow feline fanatics to watch a curated collection of cat clips - from six second Vine videos to short… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 08/20/22 08/21/22 08/27/22 More... | Looney Tunes on the Big Screen. Enjoy these animation masterpieces back on the big screen - classic Looney Tunes cartoons featuring the whole Looney Tunes gang,… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 09/10/22 | Grease Sing-A-Long. Your chills will be multiplyin' - the beloved high school romance of good girl Sandy and bad boy Danny returns in an interactive… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 12/03/22 12/04/22 | A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story. Filmed live for cinemas during the 2021 stage run at London's Alexandra Palace Theatre. Prepare to be frightened and delighted i… (Performance - Theater) |
| 03/02/23 03/03/23 03/04/23 | Capital Irish Film Festival (CIFF). Solas Nua's annual Capital Irish Film Festival, now in its 17th year, presents the best of contemporary Irish cinema by filmmake… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
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