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Afterimage: Trinh T. Minh-ha
September 14-17, 2016Filmmakers and Critics in Conversation
Internationally renowned filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha presents two of her films (including her latest, Forgetting Vietnam) and discusses them with Shannon Jackson and Akira Mizuta Lippit.
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Committed Cinema: Hayoun Kwon
September 21–22, 2016Animated films from Hayoun Kwon that explore the border between North and South Korea, as well as the border between historical and personal truth. Plus a program of animated films selected by Kwon.
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Cinema Mon Amour: Mark Morris
September 24–October 1, 2016Choreographer Mark Morris introduces four films centering on the theme of unrequited love in conjunction with the premiere of his new production of Layla and Majnun at Cal Performances.
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Anna Magnani: Eternal Soul of Italian Cinema
September 25–December 4, 2016A series spotlighting Italian actress Anna Magnani, who brought a unique combination of exuberance, empathy, and intelligence to all the parts she played.
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Committed Cinema: Zhou Hao
September 30-October 2, 2016Unparalleled Access
Acclaimed documentarian Zhou Hao visits Berkeley to present and discuss his films, which examine the impact of the massive social and economic changes in China.
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Inspector Maigret on Film
October 8–22, 2016Three films focusing on Georges Simenon's fictional detective: Duvivier's 1933 La tête d'un homme, Renoir's La nuit du carrefour (1932), and Chabrol's 2009 Inspector Bellamy.
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Afterimage: Ken Jacobs
October 12–15, 2016Filmmakers and Critics in Conversation
Filmmaker Ken Jacobs visits from New York to present a Nervous Magic Lantern performance, which uses pre-cinema technology to create startling, mesmerizing images, and a lecture on his teacher, painter Hans Hofmann.
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80th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War
October 13, 2016Peter Carroll introduces The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War in conjunction with other UC Berkeley campus events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War.
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Committed Cinema: Alanis Obomsawin
November 3–6, 2016The films of Committed Cinema guest Alanis Obomsawin reveal the effects of colonialist history and destructive government policy on indigenous Canadians and show the power of resistance in First Nations communities.
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Three Lives: Classics of Contemporary African American Cinema
November 5–December 1, 2016Spanning several decades and employing radically different cinematic styles, three films revolving around the daily lives of young black men: Do the Right Thing, Killer of Sheep, Fruitvale Station.
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Cinema Mon Amour: Robert Beavers
November 9–14, 2016Avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers comes to BAMPFA for a weeklong residency to show his own work alongside films that have inspired him.
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Arrows of Desire: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
November 19–December 30, 2016The witty, daring, and lavish films of writer-director-producer duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, including the influential Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, and A Matter of Life and Death.
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Cinema Mon Amour: Fall 2016
November 27–December 8, 2016David and Janet Peoples, Justin Desmangles, and Daniel Clowes present films that inspire them.
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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2017
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders
January 18–March 1, 2017Lecture/Screening Series
A seven-week lecture/screening course with film historian David Thomson focusing on Hollywood directors who were at odds with the studio system. Special admission applies.
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Movie Matinees for All Ages 2017
OngoingTreat the family to a Saturday afternoon at the movies.
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Documentary Voices 2017
January–April 2017A selection of recent and historical documentaries that extend the nonfiction form in provocative ways.
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Not Reconciled: The Cinema of Straub & Huillet
January 26–May 14, 2017The duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet created one of the most uncompromising, yet eternally surprising, filmmaking aesthetics in postwar European cinema. Discover the films that inspired Harun Farocki, Pedro Costa, John Gianvito, and others.
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Paz Encina: Exercises in Memory
February 1–9, 2017Four evenings with Paraguayan artist, filmmaker, and humanist Paz Encina, who is the UC Regents’ Lecturer of 2017.
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Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964–1974
February 7–May 20, 2017Films that actively participated in emerging counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s, presented in conjunction with the exhibiton Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia.
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Other Minds Festival at BAMPFA
February 19, 2017Biographical films of composers Lou Harrison (1917–2003) and Isang Yun (1917–1995).
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Afterimage: Sergei Loznitsa
February 22–24, 2017Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa joins us to present and discuss his work, including the award-winning Maidan and his latest, Austerlitz.
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Grace and Perfection: The Films of Robert Bresson
March 3–April 1, 2017A near-complete restrospective of the French director's austere yet compassionate work.
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In Focus: Robert Bresson
March 8–22, 2017Film scholar Jeffrey Skoller offers insights into three of Bresson's films in this lecture/screening series.
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African Film Festival 2017
March 9–April 28, 2017This annual festival draws on the best of African cinema and films from the African diaspora.
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Cinema Mon Amour: Sharon Lockhart
March 15–17, 2017The artist presents her contemplative, collaborative works in addition to films by Jean Eustache and Raymond Depardon.
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60th San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA
April 6–16, 2017BAMPFA is proud to be the East Bay venue for this global showcase of cinematic discovery.
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