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Join us in 2025!
The 18th Annual Mendocino Film Festival is happening May 29 - June 1, 2025
~ Hope to see you there!
Artwork by Karen Bowers
Classic Film Series is back!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
April 2, 2025 | 7PM
Coast Cinemas
135 S Franklin St, Fort Bragg
Our Classic Film Series returns with this 1977 American science fiction drama directed by Steven Spielberg.
Free for members!
PREVIEW SCREENING of Música!
Saturday, April 26th
1pm • Coast Cinemas
135 S Franklin St, Fort Bragg
Mendocino Film Festival screening & pop-up dinner
E.T.
May 28, 2025 | 7PM
Mendocino Grove
9601 California 1, Mendocino
Special pop-up event! Three-course dinner and a screening of E.T. under the stars and amidst the trees. Free popcorn! Beer and wine for sale! Fun surprises! Doors open at 7pm and film will begin at sunset. Please bring a chair and wear warm clothes—it gets chilly in Mendocino in the evening!

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