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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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Hannah Levy / MATRIX 279
August 10, 2022–January 8, 2023Hannah Levy’s tactile, creaturelike sculptures infuse the stripped-down lines of Modernist design with a visceral tension that is simultaneously sterile and erotic, amusing and disturbing.
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Arts + Design Thursdays
September 1–December 1, 2022Thinking Through Art and Design: Creativity & Practice
BAMPFA partners with Berkeley Arts + Design to offer this lecture series about creativity and practice as a vital resource in times of change. Join us every Thursday afternoon to hear cutting-edge thinkers and makers share about their creative practice.
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Arts + Design Fridays
September 2–December 2, 2022Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration, and Resistance
Join us for a lively series of talks by artists, performers, scholars, and activists exploring themes of global and US migration, exclusion, and belonging. We use the historic Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay as jumping-off point for this exploration.
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Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration
September 3–December 11, 2022Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration considers the foundational roots of confinement from philosophical, sociological, theological, and art historical perspectives to better understand the fact that today’s mass incarceration crisis has been centuries in the making.... View
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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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The Black Poet’s Imagination
September 25–November 13, 2022This reading series brings together a deeply talented group of Black poets and highly skilled performers to address themes of revolution, wounding, and intergenerational healing through powerful words.
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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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Lena Wolff and Hope Meng: VOTE
October 8–November 8, 2022The return of Wolff’s iconic poster series encourages viewers to make their voices heard at the ballot box in support of urgent and timely issues: for reproductive freedom, gun reform, trans rights, environmental justice, and democracy at large.
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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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Art Wall: Luis Camnitzer
November 30, 2022–May 31, 2023In his West Coast solo project debut, Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer (b. 1937) debuts the new work below/here/above/ahead/was as part of BAMPFA’s Art Wall commissioned series.
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Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World
December 14, 2022–May 7, 2023Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World explores how artists and practitioners across two millennia have understood and utilized one of the core tenets of Buddhism—dependent arising, which posits that cycles of existence (saṃsāra) arise from past actions and... View
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Black Life
OngoingExperience the vitality and range of cultural production in the African diaspora through this multidisciplinary event series.
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Family Events
OngoingSecond Saturdays: Hands-on activities and participatory readings designed for kids and their families.
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