Plaza Classic Film Festival

The Plaza Classic Film Festival is an 11-day classic film festival presented by the El Paso Community Foundation in and around the historic Plaza Theatre in downtown El Paso. The foundation started it in 2008 to bring movies back to the 1930 movie palace, which had closed in the early 1980s and reopened after a 2006 restoration. Each July it screens roughly 90 to 100 older films, with lectures, receptions and visiting actors and filmmakers. It also runs Local Flavor, a juried showcase of local and locally connected shorts. The 2026 festival ran July 16–26; the 20th edition is set for July 15–25, 2027.

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