The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival opens its 20th edition in Hollywood this month with 56 films from Greece, Cyprus, and the diaspora, including 20 features, 21 shorts, and 15 animated works. The program also includes filmmaker Q&As, industry events, Discovery Days, and the Orpheus Awards.
A Pre-Opening Night Screening on May 26 leads into the Netflix-presented Opening Night celebration on May 27 at the Egyptian Theatre, with the West Coast premiere of Patty Is Such a Girly Name by Giorgos Georgopoulos. The festival closes May 31 with the Orpheus Awards and a screening of Sundance 2026 World Cinema Audience Award winner Hold Onto Me by Myrsini Aristidou.
The festival began in 2007, founded by filmmakers Ersi Danou and Angeliki Giannakopoulos, with documentary filmmaker Avra Georgiou joining the effort. Over the past 19 years, LAGFF says it has screened more than 580 films and hosted more than 530 filmmakers, building a Los Angeles home for Greek and Greek-connected cinema.
The in-person theatrical schedule runs Tuesday, May 26 through Sunday, May 31. Virtual screenings begin June 2.
Tuesday, May 26: Pre-Opening Night Screening
- 5:00 p.m., Don’t Laugh (They’ll See You)
- 7:30 p.m., Maysoon
Wednesday, May 27
- 7:00 p.m., Patty Is Such a Girly Name
Thursday, May 28
- 5:30 p.m., Spiti
- 5:30 p.m., Together Apart
- 6:00 p.m., Bearcave
- 8:00 p.m., Endless Land
- 8:00 p.m., The Wolves Return
- 8:45 p.m., They Come Out of Margo
- 8:45 p.m., Last Tropics
Friday, May 29
- 3:00 p.m., Soli, Where’s Your Star?
- 3:00 p.m., Magdalena Hausen: Frozen Time
- 3:00 p.m., MJ
- 3:00 p.m., Fuit
- 3:00 p.m., Dust to Dust
- 5:00 p.m., NIKH
- 5:00 p.m., Life in a Beat
- 7:30 p.m., Poppy Flowers
- 7:30 p.m., Prikosymphono
- 7:30 p.m., The Day You Left Spring
- 7:30 p.m., The Smoker
- 7:30 p.m., The Synthetic Age
- 7:30 p.m., The Water of the Sun
- 7:30 p.m., Holy Shit
- 7:30 p.m., Maricel
- 7:30 p.m., Lilly’s Curse
- 7:30 p.m., 13 m2
- 7:30 p.m., 50.000.000 Tons of Landscape
- 7:30 p.m., Cut the Tie
Saturday, May 30
- 3:30 p.m., The Clark Family Road Trip
- 3:30 p.m., Grampa
- 3:30 p.m., Pirateland
- 3:30 p.m., Fouetté
- 3:30 p.m., Gekas
- 6:00 p.m., Best Friends Forever
- 8:00 p.m., Broken Vein
Sunday, May 31
- 1:00 p.m., The Megalomaniacs
- 6:00 p.m., Hold Onto Me
The following films are available on the festival’s virtual platform beginning June 2:
- 400 Cassettes
- Carcass
- A Little Mouse for Christmas
- Diversion
- Dream
- Bitter Honey
- Dreaming of Lions
- Black Cities
- I Will Love You in November
- Icarus
- La Première Image
- Levi
- Our Little Act of Rebellion
- How Smart Are Crows?
- Little Man-Eater
- Prelude to a Supernova
- Receptions
- Smaragda: I Got Thick Skin and I Can’t Jump
The 2026 jury includes Norwegian director-cinematographer Leo Behrens, winner of the 2023 Student Academy Award gold for Skin; Los Angeles-based programmer Nora Bernard; Karen Cifarelli; Warner Bros. Pictures Animation art director Cheng Guo; animation director Angelo Hatgistavrou, an Annie Awards nominee whose work has shown at Annecy; writer-director Harrison James; Taiwanese animator Joey Liao; filmmaker and Nicholl Fellow Eric Nazarian, known for The Blue Hour and Die Like a Man; and Sundance shorts programmer Irene Soriano Saxon.
The anniversary edition includes two tributes. Opening night features a remembrance of Academy Award-winning production designer Dean Tavoularis, whose credits include The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, and Bonnie and Clyde.
Francis Ford Coppola, in a statement carried on the festival site, called Tavoularis “a great artist, a great friend, a great production designer and a great man.”
Closing night honors French composer Alexandre Desplat, a two-time Academy Award winner whose mother is Greek, with the festival’s 2026 Tribute and Honorary Orpheus Award, presented with support from Villa Albertine.
The festival’s Closing Night and Orpheus Awards are presented in collaboration with the American Cinematheque. Tickets, passes, and venue details are available at lagff.org.