Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2021

October 21–November 27, 2021

Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.

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Chess of the Wind
Nightmare Alley
Hive
My Grandmother
Faya dayi
Fauna

Past Films

Fauna
Nicolás Pereda
Mexico, Canada, 2020
Thursday, October 21 7 PM
Nicolás Pereda in Person
An actor’s ambivalence toward participating in Narcos: Mexico helped shape Nicolás Pereda’s newest work, which channels his familiar concerns—the rhythms, conversations, and silences of Mexico—into an off-kilter, metafictional investigation of storytelling and performance.
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Faya dayi
Jessica Beshir
Ethiopia, United States, Qatar, 2021
Friday, October 22 7 PM
“A nonfiction work of sensory immersion that’s part anthropology, part poetry” (Hollywood Reporter), the stunning Faya dayi explores the khat trade that dominates rural Ethiopia, circling between youths with little hope and their elders, who are dependent on the leaf’s dream state.
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Fauna
Nicolás Pereda
Mexico, Canada, 2020
Saturday, October 23 7 PM
Nicolás Pereda in Person
An actor’s ambivalence toward participating in Narcos: Mexico helped shape Nicolás Pereda’s newest work, which channels his familiar concerns—the rhythms, conversations, and silences of Mexico—into an off-kilter, metafictional investigation of storytelling and performance.
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Faya dayi
Jessica Beshir
Ethiopia, United States, Qatar, 2021
Sunday, October 24 7 PM
“A nonfiction work of sensory immersion that’s part anthropology, part poetry” (Hollywood Reporter), the stunning Faya dayi explores the khat trade that dominates rural Ethiopia, circling between youths with little hope and their elders, who are dependent on the leaf’s dream state.
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Nightmare Alley
Edmund Goulding
United States, 1947
Digital Restoration
Sunday, October 31 5 PM
“Wildly unpredictable circus and penthouse noir with gorgeous scumbag Tyrone Power, at the height of his doomed charms. . . . After viewing this picaresque and cathartic film, you will never again misuse the word ‘geek’” (Guy Maddin).
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Chess of the Wind
Mohammad Reza Aslani
Iran, 1976
Bay Area Premiere!
Thursday, November 4 7 PM
A scheming aristocratic family battles for a dead mother’s riches in this gothic 1976 Iranian blend of Visconti, Persian art miniatures, Vermeer, and Edgar Allan Poe—long thought lost, now gorgeously restored.
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Hive
Blerta Basholli
Kosovo, Switzerland, Macedonia, Albania, 2021
Bay Area Premiere!
Saturday, November 6 5 PM
An iron-willed widow in Kosovo fights to provide for herself and her family in this formidable tale of female empowerment and resilience, the first film to sweep Sundance’s narrative Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, and Director Award.
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Nightmare Alley
Edmund Goulding
United States, 1947
Digital Restoration
Sunday, November 7 7 PM
“Wildly unpredictable circus and penthouse noir with gorgeous scumbag Tyrone Power, at the height of his doomed charms. . . . After viewing this picaresque and cathartic film, you will never again misuse the word ‘geek’” (Guy Maddin).
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CineSpin: My Grandmother
Kote Mikaberidze
USSR, 1929
BAMPFA Collection
Free Admission!
Friday, November 12 7 PM
Live Music from Gabe and Miles
Join the BAMPFA Student Committee for our exciting annual film and live music event. Berkeley-based jazz duo Gabe and Miles perform a live, original score for My Grandmother, Kote Mikaberidze’s riotous, scathingly antibureaucratic satire.
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Hive
Blerta Basholli
Kosovo, Switzerland, Macedonia, Albania, 2021
Bay Area Premiere!
Saturday, November 20 5 PM
An iron-willed widow in Kosovo fights to provide for herself and her family in this formidable tale of female empowerment and resilience, the first film to sweep Sundance’s narrative Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, and Director Award.
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Chess of the Wind
Mohammad Reza Aslani
Iran, 1976
Bay Area Premiere!
Sunday, November 21 7 PM
A scheming aristocratic family battles for a dead mother’s riches in this gothic 1976 Iranian blend of Visconti, Persian art miniatures, Vermeer, and Edgar Allan Poe—long thought lost, now gorgeously restored.
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Nightmare Alley
Edmund Goulding
United States, 1947
Digital Restoration
Saturday, November 27 7 PM
“Wildly unpredictable circus and penthouse noir with gorgeous scumbag Tyrone Power, at the height of his doomed charms. . . . After viewing this picaresque and cathartic film, you will never again misuse the word ‘geek’” (Guy Maddin).
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