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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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The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History
January 18–February 26, 2023Over the course of the six decades since the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), filmmakers have reacted to the history of this revolutionary period with powerful responses and insightful perspectives. This selection of films deal with the backstory and history of the Algerian... View
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Documentary Voices
February 1–April 12, 2023Our annual series features an international array of recent and historical documentaries and nonfiction films.
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Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo
February 3–18, 2023“Hong Sangsoo’s films seize the material of everyday life in the service of exploring psychology and metaphysics in elegant, subtly profound ways” (Lincoln Center) as revealed in three double-bills and a recent film.
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Pratibha Parmar in Person
February 9—23, 2023The completion of Parmar’s new documentary, My Name Is Andrea, an essential and timely corrective to the historical record concerning the late writer and activist Andrea Dworkin, provides a welcome opportunity to invite Parmar to share her work at BAMPFA.
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The New Lebanese Cinema of the 1970s and 1980s
November 10–December 10, 2022This small series features new restorations of works by three filmmakers from Lebanon who bear witness to its difficult history: Borhane Alaouié, Jocelyne Saab, and Heiny Srour.
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Joel Coen in Person
January 21–29, 2023This carte blanche series provides the very special opportunity to see eight films selected by Joel Coen, four films of his own making and four films he admires.
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Pioneers of Queer Cinema
March 3–May 3, 2023Pioneers of Queer Cinema celebrates the groundbreaking achievements born from visionary queer filmmakers, ranging from landmark to little-known works.
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Orchestrating Time: The Films of William Kentridge
March 9–April 2, 2023South African artist William Kentridge’s work in animation and live action film is a central element of his interdisciplinary approach. Featured here are many of his short works, including the film cycle Drawings for Projection (1989–2020) and several filmed versions of his staged... View
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now
March 10–May 12, 2023Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents several programs and the Townsend Center for the Humanities’s Una’s Lecture during this retrospective of the artist’s haunting, beautiful, and resonant works.
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Lizzie Borden’s New York Feminisms Trilogy
March 17–19, 2023Filmmaker Lizzie Borden presents her New York Feminisms Trilogy: Regrouping, Born in Flames, and Working Girls.
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Monique Wittig: Twenty Years Later / Monique Wittig: Vingt ans après
March 18, 2023Filmmakers respond to Les Guérillères, Monique Wittig’s 1969 novel—for Oriana, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz sets her film in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, while Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames takes place in New York after a “social-democratic war of liberation.” With shorts by... View
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Out of the Vault: Billy Woodberry in Person
March 22–29, 2023Filmmaker Billy Woodberry presents two nights of his moving-image work and the annual Les Blank Lecture on documentary film.
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Kelly Reichardt in Person
March 24–31, 2023We are delighted to welcome Kelly Reichardt, the very first guest in BAMPFA’s long-running Afterimage series in 2009, back to present her most recent film, Showing Up, and to launch a spotlight series of three more films that she has released in the intervening years.
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Odessa’s Uncompromising Eccentric: The Films of Kira Muratova
April 1–May 14, 2023We are honored to collaborate with the Ukraine’s Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center on this series celebrating “Odessa’s uncompromising eccentric” (Jane Taubman), with guest curator Stanislav Menzelevskyi introducing three screenings.
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