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Documentary Voices 2022
January 26–April 20, 2022Our annual series features an international array of recent and historical documentaries and nonfiction films.
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Animation! Speaking with the Makers
January 29–February 26, 2022In this hybrid series, shown in-theater and via BAMPFA’s streaming platform, we interview filmmakers who specialize in animation and ask them to discuss how they develop their stylistic approaches, and how they distill time, gesture, and mood, frame by frame, into the basic unit... View
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Streaming: Animation! Speaking with the Makers
January 29–March 13, 2022In this hybrid series, shown in-theater and via BAMPFA’s streaming platform, we interview filmmakers who specialize in animation and ask them to discuss how they develop their stylistic approaches, and how they distill time, gesture, and mood, frame by frame, into the basic unit... View
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Recent Films of Nathaniel Dorsky
February 5–6, 2022We are delighted to present eight recent additions to our film collection: new silent 16mm films by local filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky, most made during the COVID-19 pandemic, photographed in San Francisco across different seasons.
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Contemporary Indigenous Media
February 10–April 14, 2022In our first series to explore the breadth of Indigenous media currently being made in the Americas, we place works in relation to one another across geographies and stylistic approaches, with filmmakers from South and North America in conversation.
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Federico Fellini 100
March 4–May 14, 2022Romantic. Elegant. Fantastical. We welcome back to the BAMPFA screen one of the greats, Federico Fellini, a “larger-than-life maestro who created an inimitable cinematic style combining surreal carnival with incisive social critique” (Criterion).
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Chinese Portraits
March 5–17, 2022A collection of narrative and documentary works on artists, writers, and ordinary citizens in China, presented in conjunction with the Townsend Center’s In Dialogue with China: Art, Culture, Politics.
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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2022
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Wayne Wang in Person
March 11–April 17, 2022From defining Asian American identity on-screen in Chan Is Missing and The Joy Luck Club to adapting the writing of Paul Auster and working with Jennifer Lopez, Wayne Wang is a filmmaking original. This series features new restorations of his work.
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Souleymane Cissé
March 31–April 17, 2022An overdue tribute to one of the giants of world cinema, Malian director Souleymane Cissé, a former projectionist, jailed dissident, and fiercely antiauthoritarian, proudly African filmmaker whose work includes Brightness, The Wind, Baara, and The Young Girl.
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65th San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA
April 22–May 1, 2022BAMPFA is proud to partner with the SFFILM Festival, an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and a major cultural event in the Bay Area.
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The Films of Márta Mészáros
June 3–July 20, 2022“Since my first film I have attempted in a very deliberate and stubborn way to portray women capable of making independent decisions,” wrote acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros, who at age ninety is the subject of this major retrospective featuring new digital... View
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Film Preservation: Celebrating The Film Foundation
June 4–August 27, 2022This series showcases an impressive range of world cinema that has been preserved thanks to a concerted effort by The Film Foundation and the World Cinema Project over more than thirty years.
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Indelible Moments: May I Have This Dance
June 12–August 25, 2022A selection of films in which a dance scene crystallizes the experience of the movie, a moment leaving its imprint more than the plotline or even the characters.
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Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
July 8–August 28, 2022Celebrated for her performances in films by iconic directors, Tanaka also made a significant contribution to the golden age of Japanese cinema as a director. This series features new restorations of all six of Tanaka’s films, along with works representative of the scope of her... View
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From the Front Page to the Front Lines: The Essential Sam Fuller
July 29–August 31, 2022Ten essential films from Samuel Fuller’s influential oeuvre confront prejudice and inequity head-on, chronicling the grit, resilience, and soulful struggle of misfits, foot soldiers, petty criminals, detectives, and reporters surviving in the face of moral misgivings or... View
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Free Outdoor Screenings—Indelible Moments: May I Have This Dance
August 4–25, 2022Bring a blanket or lawn chair to BAMPFA’s huge outdoor LED screen for three free screenings.
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African Film Festival
September 7–October 29, 2022After two years of pandemic-related cancellations or virtual screenings, we are proud to welcome the African Film Festival back to BAMPFA. This year, open your eyes to new horizons, new heroes, and new narratives.
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Alternative Visions
September 7–November 30, 2022This year our annual series showcases current and historical experimental films by local filmmakers, as well as works by artists from Brazil, Canada, Iran, Poland, Rwanda, and the United Kingdom.
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Undoing Time: Cinema and Histories of Incarceration
September 8–November 16, 2022Including historical and contemporary documentaries, essay films, and works of fiction, this series reflects on the inherent racism and inhumanity of the prison industrial complex while celebrating courageous voices and acts of resistance from inside and outside of prison... View
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Elaine May: Age of Irony
September 9–30, 2022Highly regarded as a comedian, screenwriter, playwright, and actress, Elaine May had a more tempestuous ride as a film director—often at odds with the Hollywood studio executives. Her films are championed by many for their ironic humor, sense of spontaneity, authenticity, and... View
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Rithy Panh in Person
September 24–25, 2022This fall BAMPFA is honored to have Rithy Panh present two of his recent films in person, his haunting and personal investigation into the Cambodian genocide, The Missing Picture, and Irradiated, an exploration of the man made cataclysms and atrocities of the twentieth... View
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In Dialogue with China: Family, Memory, Resistance, and Change
October 6–27, 2022Presented in conjunction with the Townsend Center’s In Dialogue with China: Art, Culture, Politics, these films show how three contemporary Chinese filmmakers—Chan Tze Woon, Li Dongmei, and Luo Li—use inventive and subtle techniques to approach themes of family, memory, change,... View
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Mill Valley Film Festival at BAMPFA
October 8–16, 2022BAMPFA is pleased to partner with the Mill Valley Film Festival to present selected screenings from MVFF45 in the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
October 22–November 27, 2022This retrospective of the influential Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) features 35mm restorations, many done by Cineteca di Bologna in partnership with Cinecittà.
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Camera Man: Buster Keaton
December 4–21, 2022Keaton’s ingenious gags and stunts in his silent two-reelers and features confirm his timeless appeal as a commentator on the human condition who was drawn to the dreamlike and the all-too-real.
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Elegy to Seijun Suzuki
December 8, 2022–January 15, 2023To celebrate the publication of William Carroll’s recent book Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema, BAMPFA is delighted to participate in a tour, organized by the author, of imported 35mm prints of films spanning several decades of Suzuki’s brilliant and varied career.
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The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film, 1958–89
January 12–February 25, 2023A series of stark, scathing, and playful films from the former socialist republics of Eastern Europe, where absurdity was a fact of life under authoritarian rule—and a source of cinematic creativity.
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Georgian Cinema: Highlights from the BAMPFA Collection
October 29–November 27, 2022Among the treasured special collections within our film archive are the rare and distinctive holdings of Georgian cinema produced during the Soviet era and since the country’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. This series features works by leading Georgian auteurs.
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Out of the Vault: Everything’s Ephemeral
January 14–February 16, 2023Three programs of 16mm ephemeral films from the BAMPFA collection—one of place, one of poetry, and one of play—ask us to pause and listen for quiet rhythms, to look closer at what is in front of us, and to celebrate the moment.
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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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