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African Film Festival

Through May 9

Coming-of-age stories and portraits of dynamic cities in transition anchor this year’s African Film Festival, with stories from across Africa and its global diaspora, from the coasts of Kenya to the cityscapes of Lagos and Cayenne, French Guiana, Mali, and Chicago. Learn more→

Upcoming Films

The Films of Apparatus and Early Works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival
Kouté vwa
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Late Works: Mouth to Mouth, Permutations, and White Dust from Mongolia
Days and Nights in the Forest
Freedom Way
Our Land/Nuestra Tierra
Aurora’s Sunrise
Floating Weeds
Germany in Autumn
Canuto’s Transformation
Selected Short Films of Lucrecia Martel
The Headless Woman
Distant Relative: News from Home and Measures of Distance
Zama
All My Trees
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
Under the Skin of the City
Gilaneh
Renoir
Hair, Paper, Water . . .
Blue Heron
It Would Be Night in Caracas
Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird)
Risa and the Wind Phone
Time and Water
The World of Love
Give Me the Ball!
Figaro Up, Figaro Down
Enough Is Enough
Persistence of Vision Award: Lynne Sachs + Every Contact Leaves a Trace
Silent Friend
The Son and the Sea
Salvation
Filipiñana
Amílcar
The Arch
Those Who Whistle After Dark
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Memoria
The Tin Drum
Bouchra
Days and Nights in the Forest
Robert Wilson and the CIVIL warS
The Holy Mountain
In a Year of 13 Moons
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Our Hitler
Film and Video Makers at Cal: Works from the Eisner Competition
Paris, Texas
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Exhibitions on View

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection
Art Wall / Stephanie Syjuco: Present Tense (Roll Call)
Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection
MATRIX 289 / Zeinab Saleh: Signs of a softer world
Teaching Gallery / Environmental Justice, Art, and Race
Atrium Projects / Sarah Cain: To—you know—you
Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS
Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition
Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing
Art Wall / Marcel Pardo Ariza: Las Frutas del Labor
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Upcoming Events

Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
Gallery+Studio / Go Figure!
Exhibition Tour: Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection
Roundtable Reading / Fast Pitch by Nic Stone
Educator’s Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
Lijin Lecture / Joan Kee: Afro Asia, or Art for a Global Majority
Introduction to Risograph Workshop
Free First Thursday
Roundtable Reading / Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly
Gallery+Studio / Architectural Designs
Rethinking Abstraction: Chinese Calligraphy Workshop
MFA Artists’ Talk
Black Life: Bloom as Miracle
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