Streaming: Recent Releases & Restorations 2021
January 1–October 10, 2021
Enjoy newly released films and restored classics selected by our curators, now available in your own home.
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A Place of Rage
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Son of Monarchs
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What We Left Unfinished
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Tove
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The Cloud-Capped Star
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Streaming: A Place of Rage
Pratibha Parmar
United Kingdom, 1991Free Streaming Presentation
September 10–October 10, 2021A fierce and loving assessment of the social movements of the 1960s from the vantage point of the 1990s culture wars, featuring three influential Black feminist intellectuals: Angela Y. Davis, Alice Walker, and June Jordan.
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Streaming: Acasă, My Home
Radu Ciorniciuc
Romania, Germany, Finland, 2020January 15–March 31, 2021
A family living freely in marshlands outside Bucharest is forcibly relocated to the city in this intimate documentary on the cost of social integration. Winner of a Special Jury Award for Cinematography at Sundance. “Lyrical and provocative” (Hollywood Reporter).
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Streaming: Atlantis
Valentyn Vasyanovych
Ukraine, 2019January 29–March 31, 2021
Unfolding as a series of carefully constructed tableaus set in a near-future Eastern Ukraine, Atlantis presents a magnificent cinematic accounting of the costs of war. “Sensitively observed and meticulously crafted. . . . A remarkable piece of filmmaking” (Screen).
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Streaming: BAMPFA Student Committee Student Film Festival
Free Streaming Program Available April 8–May 31, 2021
A selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area.
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Streaming: Center Stage
Stanley Kwan
Hong Kong, 19914K Digital Restoration
April 2–June 6, 2021Maggie Cheung stars in Stanley Kwan’s modernist biopic on the life and tragic early death of Chinese film star Ruan Lingyu. “A masterpiece . . . the greatest Hong Kong film I've seen” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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Streaming: Identifying Features
Fernanda Valadez
Mexico, Spain, 2020January 25–April 11, 2021
An elegantly constructed anti-macho western. “Fernanda Valadez finds a personal tragedy within a national one—the murder or disappearance of thousands of people, the mass collateral damage of the ongoing drug war” (Carlos Aguilar, AV Club).
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Streaming: If I go, where do I go?
Amit Dutta
India, 2021Streaming Premiere!
April 30–August 31, 2021At ninety-one, Krishna Baldev Vaid (1927–2020), a pioneer of Hindi experimental writing living in New York, feels at a loss for words. Yet he is eager to access the “dance of language,” to which he has devoted his life. With shorts The Scent of Earth and Ten Questions from a Critic.
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Streaming: Lost Course
Jill Li
Hong Kong, 2019March 5–May 9, 2021
Jill Li’s formidable documentary is a comprehensive account of the 2011 grassroots uprising and its aftermath in Wukan, a fishing village in Guangdong Province in southern China. “Engrossing, revealing and bittersweet” (Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter).
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Streaming: Mandabi
Ousmane Sembène
Senegal, 1968January 22–May 31, 2021
A comic fable about a middle-aged man in Dakar whose life changes when he receives a money order from Paris. African master Ousmane Sembène’s approach is “spare, laconic, slightly ironic, and never patronizing” (New York Times).
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Streaming: maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
Sky Hopinka
United States, 2019April 9–June 30, 2021
Honoring connections to nature and the cycles of life, Sky Hopinka’s poetic experimental documentary follows two Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest as they share their personal rituals and relationships to life, identity, language, and homeland.
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Streaming: My Darling Supermarket
Tali Yankelevich
Brazil, Denmark, 2019April 9–June 30, 2021
Tali Yankelevich’s portrait of the Veran supermarket in São Paulo records the dreams and philosophies of the workers who populate the meticulously stocked aisles. “An existentialist delight” (Los Angeles Times).
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Streaming: Son of Monarchs
Alexis Gambis
United States, Mexico, 2020July 30–October 10, 2021
An intricately constructed meditation on migration, the environment, science, and identity, Son of Monarchs follows biologist Mendel as he shuttles between New York City and Michoacán, Mexico, revealing the inspiration for his research and the source of a haunting trauma.
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Streaming: Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Jia Zhangke
China, 2020April 2–August 31, 2021
Three of China’s greatest living authors share their stories and memories in Jia Zhangke’s tribute to storytelling, and to the connection between intellectual thought and working-class labor. “A spiritual depiction of China. Illuminating” (South China Morning Post).
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Streaming: Tell Them We Were Here
Griff Williams, Keelan Williams
United States, 2021May 7–July 31, 2021
Featuring Sadie Barnette, Amy Franceschini, Jim Goldberg, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alicia McCarthy, Tucker Nichols, Nigel Poor, and Michael Swaine, this documentary reflects on a Bay Area art scene less concerned with money and power than with imagination, innovation, community, and care.
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Streaming: The Cloud-Capped Star
Ritwik Ghatak
India, 1960Digital Restoration
June 25–October 10, 2021Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the partition of India and comes to depend on their eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury).
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Streaming: The Fever
Maya Da-Rin
Brazil, France, Germany, 2019March 25–June 30, 2021
Acclaimed documentarian Maya Da-Rin’s first narrative film is an atmospheric exploration of the divide between urbanity and the Amazonian wilderness. “Gives us an elusive but powerful sense of the limits of our own vision” (New York Times).
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Streaming: The Inheritance
Ephraim Asili
United States, 2020March 12–June 30, 2021
Experimental filmmaker Ephraim Asili calls his feature debut a “speculative reenactment” of Black activism and artistry in his hometown Philadelphia, from the Black Arts Movement to MOVE. “Playful, erudite, and boundary-blurring” (James Lattimer, Cinema Scope).
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Streaming: The Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1974February 5–May 2, 2021
Juxtaposing fragments of childhood memory with the collective memories and nightmares of the twentieth century, Andrei Tarkovsky invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman).
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Streaming: The Passionate Thief
Mario Monicelli
Italy, 1960February 10–May 2, 2021
In Monicelli’s beloved comedy, struggling actress Anna Magnani just wants to have a nice time on New Year’s Eve but is unwittingly dragged into a night of attempted thievery by her broke friend Totò and handsome pickpocket Ben Gazzara.
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Streaming: The Story of a Three Day Pass
Melvin Van Peebles
France, 1968May 14–August 31, 2021
In an exuberant, inventive, and poignant film about an American soldier’s sojourn in Paris, Melvin Van Peebles brilliantly balances French New Wave style with profound social critique and psychological substance.
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Streaming: There Is No Evil
Mohammad Rasoulof
Iran, 2020May 18–August 15, 2021
If you are an Iranian man—a military conscript, or a certain functionary—you might be called upon to execute a fellow citizen convicted of some crime or another. Mohammad Rasoulof’s searing new drama tells of four such men.
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Streaming: Tove
Zaida Bergroth
Finland, 2020July 2–October 10, 2021
An exploration of love, art, and personal freedom, Zaida Bergroth’s engaging biopic spans ten years in the life of Tove Jansson, creator of the internationally beloved Moomin characters, and meticulously recreates her fascinating bohemian milieu.
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Streaming: What We Left Unfinished
Mariam Ghani
United States, Afghanistan, Qatar, 2019August 6–October 10, 2021
Mariam Ghani’s astute, entertaining, and illuminating documentary tracks Afghan film history through the lens of the country’s complicated political history.
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Streaming: Yiddish
Nurith Aviv
France, Israel, 2020February 17–June 30, 2021
Seven young scholars share their love for Yiddish, and for the avant-garde Yiddish poetry written between the world wars. “Pulsates with the sounds of forgotten rhythms” (Genica Baczynski, L’Humanité).
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Streaming: You Will Die at Twenty
Amjad Abu Alala
Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar, 2019January 25–April 11, 2021
In this visually entrancing film, a young man faced with a prophecy of an early death tries to experience a normal adolescence. “Beautifully composed . . . the film lovingly depicts the remote east-central region of Sudan as a quasi-magical place of sand, sky, and the colors of the Nile” (Variety).
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Streaming—Black Life: Losing Ground
Kathleen Collins
United States, 1982Free Streaming Presentation
May 28–July 6, 2021Kathleen Collins’s nuanced portrayal of a strained marriage expands beyond the domestic sphere to explore existential and aesthetic questions. One of the first features directed by a Black woman, it “still feels fresh, over three decades later” (Indiewire).
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