Featured Events in Beverly Hills in October, 2024 (June Updated)

About the event Our new initiative, the Made in Hungary Film Festival, is a celebration of Hungarian film culture and a promotional event series for the Hungarian film industry. The mission of the brand new festival is to introduce the diversity and richness of contemporary Hungarian cinema to the Los Angeles audience. Moviegoers will have the opportunity to discover the freshest films across various genres and themes that have attracted significant audiences in theatres and online, as well as those that have received critical acclaim. Made in Hungary is not just about films; it is about building bridges between cultures, sharing stories that touch our hearts, and experiencing the unique perspectives that Hungarian cinema and film industry have to offer. The film festival is organized by the National Film Institute of Hungary, in collaboration with the Liszt Institute New York. About the movie: Tamás Lefkovics, a generous and stubborn boxing coach (Zoltán Bezerédi), has had such a strained relationship with his son Iván (Tamás Szabó Kimmel) that they haven't spoken in years. Iván fled to Israel to escape the conflict with his father, where he now lives as an Orthodox Jew and has started a family, maintaining contact only with his mother (Ágnes Máhr) back in Budapest. When his mother dies unexpectedly, Iván returns home with his six-year-old son (Leo Gagel) to observe a week of mourning and shiva in his parents' house, in accordance with Jewish traditions. The two men represent clashing worlds, with the stakes being the potential reunification of their fractured family. Information Source: eventbrite

Gagosian is pleased to announce Exhibiting Forgiveness, an exhibition of new paintings by Titus Kaphar at the gallery in Beverly Hills. Shown here for the first time, this group of paintings is featured in the artist’s first narrative feature film, Exhibiting Forgiveness (2023), which debuted at Sundance this year and will be released theatrically nationwide on October 18. The semi-autobiographical Exhibiting Forgiveness stars André Holland as Tarrell Rodin, an accomplished painter whose life is upended by an unexpected reunion with his father, La’Ron (John Earl Jelks), a recovering addict who hopes to rebuild a relationship with his estranged son. Tarrell, now an active and loving father and husband, is skeptical despite the encouragement of his mother. Written and directed by Kaphar, Exhibiting Forgiveness follows his documentary shorts Shut Up and Paint (2022, shortlisted in the Documentary Short Film category of the 95th Academy Awards) and The Jerome Project (2016)—the latter of which was inspired by a painting series initiated in 2014 exploring the artist’s relationship with his own estranged father. Exhibiting Forgiveness is a direct, though fictionalized, extension of The Jerome Project. In addition to portraits, the Exhibiting Forgiveness paintings depict figures, façades of neighborhood houses, personal objects, and ephemera. These are emotionally and intellectually charged pieces. The paintings preceded the film; as Kaphar says, “they spring from the same personal, emotional and psychological well” that is the source for all his work. Combining a mastery of oil painting techniques with application of heterogenous mediums and innovative methods, Kaphar challenges conventional representation to provoke deep contemplations of family, community, and memory. Painting some canvases in highly saturated palettes and draining others of color, he combines gold leaf with tar—suggesting both divine transcendence and being stuck. Kaphar renders grief and loss, obscuring bodies, or removing them outright with knife-cut excisions. What remains is a testament to how we continue to live despite our wounds.

Join Gagosian for a conversation between Titus Kaphar and Sandra Jackson-Dumont, director and CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, inside the exhibition Exhibiting Forgiveness at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. Shown here for the first time, the paintings on view are featured in Kaphar’s first narrative feature film, Exhibiting Forgiveness (2023), which debuted at Sundance this year and will be released theatrically nationwide on October 18. Jackson-Dumont—who organized an exhibition of Kaphar’s work at the Seattle Art Museum in 2009—will speak with the artist about his multifaceted practice, focusing on the semi-autobiographical film. 5:30pm: doors open, 6pm: talk begins Left: Titus Kaphar. Photo: Mario Sorrenti. Right: Sandra Jackson-Dumont. Photo: Jenny Miyaski Information Source: Gagosian | eventbrite

IN-PERSON CLASS. The nutrition topic changes every month, here is a quick description of topics: We explore several topics from anti-inflammatory nutrition, eating for energy, nutritional eating habits to support digestion and assimilation. Managing cravings with nutritional foods, nutritional cooking for immunity, Gut health and nutrition, sugar blues and smart delicious ways to control glucose, rainbow nutritional cooking for heart health, nutritional cooking for osteoporosis, and more. All levels welcome. Instructor: Lilly Padilla Information Source: Tower Cancer Magnolia House | eventbrite