BAMPFA News
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Alphabet Rockers
Join Us for Spring Free Family Day April 22!
Bring the whole family to BAMPFA for Spring Free Family Day, an exciting day of Earth Day-inspired art-making, exhibition tours, live music, a movie matinee, and more.
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Clockwise from top left: Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu, 2017); I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni, 2017); Godard, mon amour (Michel Hazanavicius, 2017); Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018)
SF International Film Festival Schedule Announced
More than a dozen internationally renowned filmmakers are set to visit Berkeley next month, when BAMPFA returns for its thirty-fourth year as the premier East Bay presenter for the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM) April 5–15.
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VIDEO: Karabo Poppy Moletsane on Process, Portraiture, and an African Aesthetic
"Contemporary South Africa is a hybridized culture.
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Still from Ingmar Bergman's Persona
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Still from October; screening on February 28 as part of In Focus: Eisenstein and His Contemporaries
New In Focus Series: Eisenstein and His Contemporaries
DECEMBER 8, 2017—In 2018, BAMPFA invites you to “focus” on the work of one of cinema’s greatest directors: Sergei Eisenstein, a pioneering filmmaker who ranks among the most lauded figures in Russia’s cultural history.
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Maggie Cheung in Irma Vep.
November–December Film Series Announced
Are you in the mood for love? So are we. We're also in the mood for Maggie Cheung, and you'll find plenty of both on our just-announced film calendar for November and December.
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Screen icon Toshiro Mifune in Eiga Fan magazine, 1952
Eiga Star: Toshiro Mifune in Japanese Film-Fan Magazines
Japanese movie star Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997) was a "New Face" of Toho Studios in 1947, when the country's fan-magazine industry was in full bloom.
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Proposed Federal Budget Would Eliminate Crucial Funding for the Arts and Humanities
The Association of Art Museum Directors made the following statement in response to the release of the proposed federal budget, which would eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services:
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