Following this year’s collaboration on Academy Museum Branch Selects in New York, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the Paris Theater announce a new summer series, Around the World with/Autour du monde avec/La vuelta al mundo con Luis Buñuel, presenting a snapshot of one of the last century’s most radical populist artists.

Screenings will take place from Saturday, June 20, until Tuesday, July 7, 2026.

Born in Spain in the first months of a new century, filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) was as prolific as he was peripatetic. Across some three dozen short and feature-length films over six decades, Buñuel worked in his native Spain, as well as France, Mexico, and the United States, often fleeing to a new country due to tumultuous geopolitical circumstances. While his filmography may be bookended by his most radical and celebrated works, including Un chien Andalou (1929, with Salvador Dalí) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, his final film as director), his most consistent period occurred in Mexico, where he became a citizen in 1949 after renouncing the Franco dictatorship in his home country. While in Mexico, Buñuel directed 21 films, many of which uphold the Surrealist roots fostered during his formative years in Paris at the legendary Le Cyrano café, as well as his fascination with taking the bourgeoisie—a class to which he begrudgingly belonged—to task. Originally programmed at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles in 2025 to celebrate 125 years since the director’s birth, this series considers Buñuel’s films made in France, Mexico, and Spain, presenting a snapshot of one of the last century’s most radical populist artists.

Academy Museum film programming is generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.