Upcoming Community Events
The below events are being held at The Byrd Theatre but tickets are being sold by the individual organizations sponsoring the event. For tickets, please reach out to each organization directly. For The Byrd’s list of public movies, please go here.
Italian and French Film Festival at Richmond
Join us for a vibrant and intellectually engaging encounter with some of the most compelling Italian and French films being made today.
THE 2026 FESTIVAL WILL FEATURE:
- Screenings of eight films from Italy and France on the University of Richmond campus and at the historic Byrd Theatre.
- Two roundtables with filmmakers and guest scholars.
- An opening and a closing reception celebrating French and Italian cuisine.
- A special 60th-anniversary screening of Gillo Pontecorvo’s masterpiece The Battle of Algiers (1966).
- A closing night screening and reception at the Byrd Theatre on Monday, March 30 at 7pm.
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, please go here.
For tickets, please go here.