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2 PM
Sunday, March 31, 2024
2 PM
(91 mins)
Agnès Varda’s short films offer incredible insights into her aesthetic approach as a filmmaker. She uses the language of cinema in a remarkably free and creative way. This collection of shorts finds Varda observing people, spaces, and places from France to Cuba, in L’opéra-Mouffe, Du côté de la côte, Ô saisons, ô chateaux, and Salut les Cubains.
Series
Viva Varda!
4 PM
Sunday, March 31, 2024
4 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
Senegal,
1975,
(123 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
An aging, affluent businessman about to marry his third wife is struck with the curse of xala (impotence) in “one of the most sophisticated works of the African cinema—at once both comic satire and a deadly accurate polemic against the black bourgeoisie of Dakar” (Albert Johnson).
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Sembène 100
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7 PM
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
7 PM
Mohanad Yaqubi,
Belgium, Palestine, Qatar,
2022,
(71 mins)
Drawing on a collection of twenty films safeguarded in the home of a Japanese scholar in Tokyo, Palestinian filmmaker and archivist Mohanad Yaqubi tells the story of Palestine’s struggle through the lens of international solidarity.
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Documentary Voices 2024
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Thursday, April 4, 2024
7:30 PM
(94 mins)
Four films, all concerned with Guinea-Bissau’s and Cape Verde’s struggles for independence, from different time frames and perspectives, include an analysis of four colonial statues and a celebration of carnival mask making.
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7:30 PM
Friday, April 5, 2024
7:30 PM
(93 mins)
Free Admission
A selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 5:30 PM.
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Special Screenings
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Saturday, April 6, 2024
1 PM
Artist Yee I-Lann presents BAMPFA’s 2024 endowed Lijin Lecture in conjunction with her Art Wall project, TIKAR/MEJA/PLASTIK. The Borneo-based multidisciplinary artist addresses this work in the context of her wider practice, and in relation to the art and film landscape in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on issues of climate crisis, precarious ecologies, and the creation of resilient communities. The lecture will be followed by a screening of short films from Borneo.
Included with gallery admission
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Talks & Conversations
4 PM
Saturday, April 6, 2024
4 PM
Edward Yang,
1996,
(121 mins)
New Digital Restoration
An assortment of half-assed young tough guys, British carpetbaggers, and mob enforcers flitter about a Taipei nightspot in Edward Yang’s almost screwball takedown of the blinding hunt for modern riches. “A jaundiced love letter to late ’90s Taipei” (Film at Lincoln Center).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories
7 PM
Saturday, April 6, 2024
7 PM
(68 mins)
One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary cinema, Nicolás Pereda presents four short films at the permeable border of documentary and fiction that explore the everyday through thoughtful, elliptical narratives.
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1:30 PM
Sunday, April 7, 2024
1:30 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
Senegal,
1977,
4K Digital Restoration
In the guise of a political thriller set in the eighteenth century, Ceddo takes on taboo subjects—Islamic influence in Senegal, African support for the slave trade, the status of women—becoming a reflection on all forms of colonialism in Africa. “Like a contemporary Euripides, [Ousmane] Sembène has created a form of public, primal art” (Village Voice).
Series
Sembène 100
4 PM
Sunday, April 7, 2024
4 PM
Sarah Maldoror,
Angola,
1972,
(124 mins)
One of the first feature films made by a woman in Africa is an urgent call for political change. It is a fictionalized chronicle of the events leading up to a 1961 prison rebellion in Angola. With Foreword to Guns for Banta (Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc), an excavation of a lost film by Sarah Maldoror.
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7 PM
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
7 PM
Humberto Gómez Pérez,
Mexico,
2023,
(94 mins)
Ch’ul be explores the ancient collective commitments, devotion, and music that sustain the cycle of life in the Tsotsil community of San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas. With Chick Strand’s luminous portrait of musician Anselmo Aguascalientes.
Series
Documentary Voices 2024
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7 PM
Thursday, April 11, 2024
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1985,
(105 mins)
Digital Restoration
The short life and eventual death of a young female drifter forms the basis of Agnès Varda’s chilling look at alienation and idealism. “Like so many of the greatest films, it tells us a very specific story, strong and unadorned, about a very particular person” (Roger Ebert).
Series
Viva Varda!
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7 PM
Friday, April 12, 2024
7 PM
Natalia Almada,
Mexico, United States,
2016,
(98 mins)
Academy Award–nominated actress Adriana Barraza stars as a solitary Mexico City bureaucrat whose daily routines are tracked with Jeanne Dielman–like focus in this austere tale of isolation and grief. “Almada has a documentarian’s eye for how truth reveals itself in seemingly nondescript details” (48 Hills).
In Conversation
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4:30 PM
Saturday, April 13, 2024
4:30 PM
Pierre-Henri Gibert,
France,
2023,
(71 mins)
Bay Area Premiere
A new documentary by Pierre-Henri Gibert chronicles Agnès Varda’s expansive career and fills in notable gaps from the previous autobiographical films The Beaches of Agnès and Varda by Agnès. Viva Varda! features rare archival material and interviews with Varda’s family members, friends, and collaborators. Shown with the posthumously completed Agnès Varda—Pier Paolo Pasolini—New York—1967.
Series
Viva Varda!
7 PM
Saturday, April 13, 2024
7 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
France, Senegal,
1992,
(115 mins)
Digital Restoration
When the body of a murdered political activist goes missing from the morgue, his family’s attempts to retrieve it nearly escalate into a holy war. “A work of wry sophistication” (New York Times).
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Sembène 100
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2 PM
Sunday, April 14, 2024
2 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
2000,
(82 mins)
Digital Restoration
Agnès Varda’s rumination on the art of “living off the leftovers of others” visits food scavengers and cultural rebels, finding inspiration in both the past and the present, the rural and the urban, the political and the highly personal. “Beautiful, absorbing, and touching” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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Viva Varda!
4 PM
Sunday, April 14, 2024
4 PM
Pedro Costa,
Portugal,
2019,
(124 mins)
Vitalina Varela travels to Lisbon from Cape Verde, only to discover that her husband has died, in Pedro Costa’s emotionally and visually compelling work, winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno. For Costa, dramatizing Varela’s true story gave him “the chance to approach the Cape Verdean immigration from the woman’s point of view.”
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7 PM
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
7 PM
Ruy Guerra,
1979,
(116 mins)
New Digital Restoration
Three films reveal the history of the Mozambique liberation struggle through different cinematic forms. Ruy Guerra documents a reenactment of the massacre that triggered the Mozambique War of Independence, a protest song and dance recalls the migration to work in mines in apartheid South Africa, and a recent fictional reconstruction examines rural land dispossession.
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
7 PM
Juan Pablo González,
Mexico,
2022,
(99 mins)
A strong-willed businesswoman fights to keep her tequila factory—and her community—afloat in the face of foreign buyouts and natural disasters in this intense drama, set in the Jalisco hinterlands. “Visually arresting, a vivid, textured, altogether unexpected world” (New York Times).
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7 PM
Friday, April 19, 2024
7 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
Senegal,
2001,
(118 mins)
35mm Archival Print
The first in Ousmane Sembène’s series on “everyday heroes” (Moolaadé is the second) centers on the quick-witted proprietress of a Dakar gas station. “A rich comedy of manners that gives a feeling of hope about Africa’s future” (Film Comment).
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Sembène 100
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4:30 PM
Saturday, April 20, 2024
4:30 PM
(104 mins)
A selection of short films made by Agnès Varda between 1967 and 2002 that offer great insights into her approach to filmmaking, which is at once immediate, intimate, and imaginative. The films featured are a posthumously completed portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Uncle Yanco, and Black Panthers, all three filmed in the United States, as well as La réponse de femmes, Plaisir d’amour en Iran, Ulysse, Les dites cariatides, and Tribute to Zgougou, about her beloved cat.
Series
Viva Varda!
7 PM
Saturday, April 20, 2024
7 PM
Edward Yang,
Taiwan,
2000,
(173 mins)
35mm Archival Print
A wedding and a wake bookend Edward Yang’s look at a year in the life of one multigenerational middle-class family in Taipei. “The work of a master in full command of the resources of his art” (New York Times). Released in 2000, it was still named to many Best Films of the 2000s lists.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories
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2 PM
Sunday, April 21, 2024
2 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
Burkina Faso, France, Senegal,
2004,
(124 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Universally acclaimed, Ousmane Sembène’s final film portrays a mother’s courage in protecting the next generation of women from the terrible tradition of female genital mutilation. “A masterpiece of political filmmaking” (New York Times).
Series
Sembène 100
5 PM
Sunday, April 21, 2024
5 PM
Filipa César, Marinho de Pina,
Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal,
2023,
(126 mins)
Moments from a collectively built new community space in Malafo, “a laboratory for archival practice, community gatherings, and communion with the ancestors’ knowledge, nature, and new technology” (Arsenal—Institute for Film and Video). With Mined Soil, on Amílcar Cabral.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
7 PM
Filipa César,
Germany, Guinea-Bissau,
2017,
(96 mins)
After decaying archival film materials from Guinea-Bissau’s war of independence were digitized, a mobile cinema screened them in the places where the original footage was shot. The resulting film is “a tribute, a documentary, and an excavation” (New York Times).
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7 PM
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
7 PM
(81 mins)
Three of Filipa César’s collaborative projects draw on memories and oral tradition: a militant school is re-created, Creole weaving is used to explore computer programming and globalization, and traditional round houses are compared to contemporary square ones.
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6:30 PM
Thursday, April 25, 2024
6:30 PM
Johan Grimonprez,
Belgium, France, Netherlands,
2024,
(150 mins)
Jazz becomes a successful smoke screen for the United States and its allies’ efforts, as well-meaning musicians’ diplomatic missions offer cover for a conspiracy to stage a coup against the Democratic Republic of the Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Filmmaker and multimedia artist Johan Grimonprez is this year’s recipient of the Persistence of Vision Award.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA. In Conversation
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4:00 PM
Friday, April 26, 2024
4:00 PM
Farah Nabulsi,
Palestine, Qatar, United Kingdom,
2023,
(118 mins)
An educator (Saleh Bakri) in Palestine’s West Bank tries to steer a student away from the path of violence while hiding his own involvement with a hostage situation.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.
7:00 PM
Friday, April 26, 2024
7:00 PM
Jazmin Renée Jones,
United States,
2024,
(103 mins)
A spellbinding cyberspace adventure, Jazmin Renée Jones’s inquisitive directorial debut expands ideas around feminism and digital selfdom while searching for the real-life Black woman whose pixelated image taught a generation to type.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA. In Person
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11:30 AM
Saturday, April 27, 2024
11:30 AM
Oskar Alegría,
Spain,
2023,
(89 mins)
Armed with a Super 8 camera and accompanied by an elegant donkey named Paolo, director Oskar Alegría employs his keen eye and poetic voice-over as he traverses a scenic shepherding route in northern Spain.
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2:15 PM
Saturday, April 27, 2024
2:15 PM
Shiori Ito,
Japan, United Kingdom, United States,
2024,
(104 mins)
Journalist Shiori Ito becomes the face of Japan’s #MeToo movement after a powerful newsman sexually assaults her and she investigates her own case in a determined quest to see justice done.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.
5:00 PM
Saturday, April 27, 2024
5:00 PM
Ramata-Toulaye Sy,
France, Mali, Senegal,
2023,
(87 mins)
The titular Senegalese couple at the heart of this visually ravishing romantic drama faces challenges of drought and communal responsibility. Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s poetic debut competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.
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Saturday, April 27, 2024
7:15 PM
María Zanetti,
Argentina,
2023,
(87 mins)
Independence and escape from an unstable homelife beckon sixteen-year-old Lola when the opportunity arises to spend a semester abroad in this vibrant coming-of-age tale inspired by filmmaker María Zanetti’s own life.
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12:00 PM
Sunday, April 28, 2024
12:00 PM
Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó,
Bhutan, Hungary,
2024,
(94 mins)
Two government officers, Amber Kumar Gurung and Guna Raj Kuikel, travel through Bhutan’s breathtaking landscapes in pursuit of happiness and its true meaning.
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2:30 PM
Sunday, April 28, 2024
2:30 PM
Behrooz Karamizade,
Germany, Iran,
2023,
(101 mins)
Eager to wed his upper-class girlfriend, a young man turns to fishing to raise her dowry, only to discover the seedy underbelly of Iran’s fisheries, rife with poaching and human smuggling.
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4:45 PM
Sunday, April 28, 2024
4:45 PM
Annie Baker,
United States,
2023,
(113 mins)
Closed Captioned
Beautifully portraying how adolescent self-awareness builds from small life experiences and careful observation of adult behavior, this astute debut focuses on Lacy, who brims with questions and gripes for her unmarried mom, Janet.
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Sunday, April 28, 2024
7:15 PM
Kazuhiro Soda,
Japan,
2024,
(119 mins)
A seaside Japanese village debates what to do about its feral feline population in this rich observational documentary, in which the cats make the case for themselves as charming, fluffy providers of purring hospitality at the beloved titular shrine.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1965,
(85 mins)
Digital Restoration
A bold statement about conjugal fidelity, Agnès Varda’s strikingly colorful, lyrical film examines a love triangle within a circular structure, as a carpenter seeks happiness with both his wife and his mistress. “Varda fills her frames with riots of nature and color” (Richard Brody).
Series
Viva Varda!
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7 PM
Thursday, May 2, 2024
7 PM
Yulene Olaizola,
Colombia, France, Mexico,
2021,
(96 mins)
A young Belizean woman is both prize and doom, prisoner and possible demon, for a group of Indigenous laborers in this mystic, minimalist tale of colonialism, greed, and desire, set in the 1920s, deep in the Mayan jungles. “Lushly made, highly enigmatic” (Hollywood Reporter).
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Friday, May 3, 2024
7 PM
Edward Yang,
Taiwan,
1983,
(166 mins)
New Digital Restoration
Two successful career women meet by chance and flash back to their pasts and paths—and those of Taiwan in the 1980s—in Edward Yang’s first feature, which also marked the debut of legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Sylvia Chang stars.
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Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories
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3:30 PM
Saturday, May 4, 2024
3:30 PM
(156 mins)
Digital Restorations
Agnès Varda’s documentary Mur Murs looks at the murals of Los Angeles as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures circa 1980. Made directly afterward, Documenteur, a meditative portrait of urban isolation, is different in tone and form, but complexly interwoven with Mur Murs in terms of its imagery and ideas.
Includes 10 minute intermission.
Series
Viva Varda!
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