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The Film and Media Studies Program at Yale University is the hub for the study of film and other moving image and sound media at Yale. Deeply invested in scholarship, teaching and film programming, the Program nurtures innovative directions in film and media studies research. Showcasing wide-ranging scholarly interests and drawing on the university’s extraordinary collections, the FMS Program has taken its place as one of the exciting venues for film and media study in the world.

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Francesco Casetti, Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media...
An update from alumna Zoë Colfax:   Over the past year, I had the...
Film and Media Studies Faculty Member Millicent Marcus among the six...

Upcoming Events

Monday, October 5, 2026 - 6:00pm

Sound Studies Working Group

All are welcome!

Friday, October 9, 2026 - 4:00pm

What You Cannot Unknow documents the January 2026 protests and subsequent massacre in Iran, and the months that followed, from the specific vantage point of the Iranian diaspora: people who...

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 - 12:00pm

Hindutva Archaeology and the Future of Indian Past

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 - 5:00pm

The Faith of Water: Sonic Nostalgia in Andrei Tarkovsky

With Andrea Gyenge, Assistant Professor of Cinema, SUNY Binghamton

Leaky Bodies: Illness, Spill, and the Poetics of Contagion...

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - 7:00pm

DCP | 2024 | directed by Ashish Avikunthak| Germany, India| 86 minutes | Bangla

In parallel narratives, an Indian policeman opens up about his job executing Muslim men, while Lord Krishna...