Mill Valley Film Festival at BAMPFA

October 8–17, 2021

BAMPFA is pleased to partner with the Mill Valley Film Festival to present selected screenings from MVFF44 in the Barbro Osher Theater.

 

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  • Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

  • Drive My Car

  • Memoria

  • Bergman Island

  • A Hero

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Past Films

  • Drive My Car

    • Sunday, October 17 3 PM
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
    Japan, 2021

    In this enchanting narrative, a theater director reeling from family tragedy is invited to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima. He’s assigned a driver, and during their time together, the two unburden themselves of their personal traumas. Winner of the Cannes Best Screenplay Award, Drive My Car is an exquisitely crafted mosaic about emotional connection.

  • Song for Cesar

    • Saturday, October 16 4:30 PM
    Andres Alegria, Abel Sanchez
    United States, 2021

    Building on the legacy of late civil rights activist and labor leader Cesar Chavez, and the pride inspired by the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, this documentary showcases the music of that era—a powerful soundtrack for farmworkers who until then felt invisible and unheard.

    Andres Alegria and Abel Sanchez in Person

  • Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez

    • Saturday, October 16 7 PM
    Susan Stern
    United States, 2021

    A star in San Francisco’s influential underground comics scene of the late 1960s and ’70s, Rodriguez created beautifully rendered art that was nonetheless raunchy, politically radical, and sometimes willfully offensive. His filmmaker widow parses a complex personality and artistic legacy, both of them dazzling if often wildly at odds with today’s cultural norms.

    Victoria B. Fender in Person

  • Bergman Island

    • Friday, October 15 7 PM
    Mia Hansen-Løve
    France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, 2021

    One of Mia Hansen-Løve’s most autobiographical films to date, Bergman Island continues her ongoing exploration of the existential dynamic between work and love. Vicky Krieps plays a writer/director who struggles to find her own voice in a drama resonant with moments of humor, mystery, and self-realization.

  • Courtroom 3H

    • Sunday, October 10 4 PM
    Antonio Méndez Esparza
    Spain, United States, 2020

    This powerful fly-on-the-wall documentary spends one month in Florida’s Tallahassee Unified Family Court system, shining a needed light on the results of economic disparities in that community. Sometimes shocking, sometimes uncomfortable, it’s a nonetheless nuanced and necessary look into a world too few people know about.

  • Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

    • Sunday, October 10 7 PM
    Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
    Chad, France, Germany, Belgium, 2021

    Pioneering Chadian auteur Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is in blistering form with his latest film, a feminist social realist drama exploring abortion rights in conservative, patriarchal Chadian society through the experiences of a mother and her teenage daughter.

  • Petite maman

    • Saturday, October 9 5 PM
    Céline Sciamma
    France, 2021

    “Secrets aren’t always things we try to hide, there’s just no one to tell them to,” says eight-year-old Nelly to her new best friend. In Céline Sciamma’s achingly beautiful new film, the past and present magically merge to ease the sorrows of a grieving mother and daughter.

  • A Hero

    • Saturday, October 9 7 PM
    Asghar Farhadi
    Iran, 2021

    Acclaimed filmmaker Asghar Farhadi returns with another gripping human drama, chronicling a man (Amir Jadidi) in prison for an unpaid debt who makes a plan for freedom. Brilliantly mapping out a moral dilemma and astutely examining our fascination with (and suspicion of) folk heroes, A Hero travels an unpredictable, unforgettable path.

  • Memoria

    • Friday, October 8 7 PM
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    Colombia, Mexico, France, United Kingdom, Thailand, Germany, China, Switzerland, 2021

    Set in Colombia and starring Tilda Swinton, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s first feature film made outside of Thailand covers familiar thematic terrain for the veteran director in its exploration of the blurred boundaries between the natural world and spirit realm, and the way that collective traumas reemerge as memories and dreams.