For a town that’s all about the movies, Los Angeles strangely isn’t always the destination for a premier film festival. Enter the Los Angeles Festival of Movies (LAFM), heading into its second year, and adding more films to its lineup. IndieWire exclusively announces the latest additions. The festival runs April 3 through 6 across venues on the east side of L.A.

Mubi and Mezzanine co-present the festival, which has just added A24’s fest-favorite comedy “Friendship,” starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, to its lineup along with restorations of Robina Rose’s “Nightshift” and Jessie Maple’s “Will,” which is regarded as the first indie feature made by an African American woman. The festival, as previously announced, opens with Amalia Ulman’s satire of clueless documentarians adrift in South America, “Magic Farm,” and closes with Neo Sora’s dystopic coming-of-age Venice premiere “Happyend.” “Magic Farm” will be released later this year by LA Festival of Movies co-presenter Mubi, while “Happyend” has distribution from the up-and-coming Metrograph Pictures. Mubi just won its first Oscar, for the Makeup & Hairstyling in “The Substance.”

“We couldn’t be more proud to close the festival with Neo Sora’s incredible debut feature ‘Happyend,’ a film that captures the joy and uncertainty of adolescence today in the face of what feel like insurmountable challenges of rising authoritarianism and climate change,” said Micah Gottlieb, co-founder of LAFM, in a press statement. “We’re also so excited to include two restorations of independent films by women on the cutting edge of independent filmmaking in the early 1980s, both here in the U.S. and Britain, with the revelatory naturalism of Jessie Maple’s ‘Will’ and the hypnotic reverie of Robina Rose’s ‘Nightshift.’ Finally, we’re overjoyed to spotlight one of the funniest new movies we’ve watched in years, Andrew DeYoung’s ‘Friendship,’ a comedy that deserves to be seen on the big screen with an audience.”

As announced before, the festival will feature the world premiere of “Room Temperature” from novelist, poet, and provocateur Dennis Cooper in collaboration with Zac Farley; the U.S. premiere of Alexandra Simpson’s “No Sleep Till”; director Grace Glowicki’s midnight Sundance premiere “Dead Lover”; and a series of panels and talks, including a conversation about transgression in cinema and literature between Dennis Cooper and writer Tony Tulathimutte, the millennial satirist whose 2024 novel “Rejection” was longlisted for the National Book Award. Charlie Shackleton’s “Zodiac Killer Project,” a Sundance premiere that looks with a close and critically funny eye at our obsession with true-crime documentaries, also features in the lineup.

Passes for the LAFM are currently on sale, and pre-sale pass-holder tickets go on sale March 10. Single ticket sales are on sale March 17. More about the LAFM’s full lineup is available via the festival’s website.