On View
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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Film to Table Dinners at Babette
OngoingDelectable dinners following screenings of the films that inspired them
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Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions
OngoingArtists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.
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Black Life
OngoingExperience the vitality and range of cultural production in the African diaspora through this exciting, multidisciplinary event series.
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Five Tables
OngoingDrop by our art study centers on Free First Thursdays for an up-close look at treasures from the BAMPFA collection.
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Family Events
OngoingHands-on activities, participatory readings, performances, movie matinees, and more events designed for kids and their families.
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Divine Women, Divine Wisdom
June 26, 2019–May 24, 2020Art from South Asia and the Himalayan region that celebrates the beauty, fecundity, wisdom, power, and compassion of women within the context of Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
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View Finders: Women Cinematographers
July 12–November 21, 2019Showcasing the artistic visions of female cinematographers around the world, this series asks whether there is such a thing as a “female gaze.”
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Meditation in Motion: Zen Calligraphy from the Stuart Katz Collection
July 17–October 20, 2019The first exhibition at BAMPFA to present the unique art form of Japanese Zen-inspired calligraphy, Meditation in Motion features important works by Chinese Ōbaku monks who immigrated to Japan, as well as writings by Japanese monks who expanded on their examples.
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Abbas Kiarostami: Life as Art
August 2–December 21, 2019Iran’s most influential director, Kiarostami made films that blended fiction and documentary, minimalism and spontaneity, poetic vision and humanist spirit. We present a near-complete retrospective of his work.
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The San Quentin Project: Nigel Poor and the Men of San Quentin State...
August 21–November 17, 2019Following the evolution of artist Nigel Poor’s collaboration with men incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, this exhibition features visual documents, photographs from the prison’s archive, and episodes of the award-winning podcast Ear Hustle.
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Arts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA: Responsible Design from Bits to...
August 29–November 21, 2019This lecture series examines the role of the designer in articulating new methods connecting the conceptual knowledge for asking why with technical skills for asking how.
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Alternative Visions
September 4–November 13, 2019Our annual series of avant-garde and artist-made films returns with a stellar roster of in-person guests, as well as programs of strange and wonderful surrealist works from around the world.
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Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA: Equity and Democracy
September 9–December 2, 2019Join Berkeley Arts + Design and dozens of UC Berkeley campus organizations every Monday as we explore the connections among creative practice, social movements, and the strategic research of our public university.
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Out of the Vault: Native American Reelism
September 12–November 14, 2019Drawn from the BAMPFA collection, three programs of films by and about Native Americans explore geographical belonging and dislocation, political and social action, and questions of representation.
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Berkeley Film Foundation: Celebrating Ten Years of Local Filmmaking
September 12–October 27, 2019The Berkeley Film Foundation is an essential lifeline for East Bay filmmakers. We celebrate BFF’s tenth anniversary with a diverse selection of films—many with makers in person—including two free screenings on BAMPFA’s outdoor screen.
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Kader Attia / MATRIX 274
September 18–November 17, 2019Part of French-Algerian artist Kader Attia’s ongoing investigation of the concept of repair and healing from the trauma of war, this exhibition presents his seminal installation J’accuse.
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No Regrets: A Celebration of Marlon Riggs
September 19–November 25, 2019In his lucid and provocative video essays, Marlon Riggs grappled with African American culture, representation, and identity. This retrospective presents all of his films, in dialogue with works by other filmmakers.
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Looking Back at the British New Wave
September 21–November 30, 2019Look back at 1950s and ’60s British cinema and rediscover the England of Angry Young Men and working-class heroes, boundary-crossing writing and innovative direction, and electrifying acting by the likes of Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, and Julie Christie.
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Terry Fox: Resonance
October 2–December 15, 2019Two of Terry Fox’s video and audio works are being presented at BAMPFA in conjunction with Terry Fox: Resonance, a multivenue celebration organized by Dena Beard and Constance Lewallen.
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Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting
October 2, 2019–February 2, 2020The first US exhibition focused on Sakaki Hyakusen, the founding father of the Nanga school of painting in Japan, this presentation reveals his pivotal role in the history of eighteenth-century Japanese art and highlights the conservation of his masterpiece Mountain Landscape.
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In Focus: The British New Wave
October 2–23, 2019Lecture/Screening Series
Film historian David Thomson expands on our British New Wave retrospective with a series of four illuminating presentations on the writers, directors, and actors of sixties Britain.
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Zheng Junli: From Shanghai’s Golden Age to the Cultural Revolution
October 3–November 16, 2019Anchored by new restorations from the China Film Archive, this series explores the extraordinary career of Zheng Junli, an actor, director, film theorist, and victim of the Cultural Revolution.
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Dennis Feldman: Photographs
October 16–December 15, 2019Photographs by an affecting social documentarian and explorer of what he calls “a world contained in a frame.”
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