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Film Series
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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Documentary Voices
February 1–April 12, 2023Our annual series features an international array of recent and historical documentaries and nonfiction films.
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Pioneers of Queer Cinema
March 3–May 3, 2023Pioneers of Queer Cinema celebrates the groundbreaking achievements born from visionary queer filmmakers, ranging from landmark to little-known works.
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Orchestrating Time: The Films of William Kentridge
March 9–April 2, 2023South African artist William Kentridge’s work in animation and live action film is a central element of his interdisciplinary approach. Featured here are many of his short works, including the film cycle Drawings for Projection (1989–2020) and several filmed versions of his staged operas, notably Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Nose and Alban Berg’s Lulu.
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now
March 10–May 12, 2023Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents several programs and the Townsend Center for the Humanities’s Una’s Lecture during this retrospective of the artist’s haunting, beautiful, and resonant works.
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Out of the Vault: Billy Woodberry in Person
March 22–29, 2023Filmmaker Billy Woodberry presents two nights of his moving-image work and the annual Les Blank Lecture on documentary film.
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Kelly Reichardt in Person
March 24–31, 2023We are delighted to welcome Kelly Reichardt, the very first guest in BAMPFA’s long-running Afterimage series in 2009, back to present her most recent film, Showing Up, and to launch a spotlight series of three more films that she has released in the intervening years.
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Odessa’s Uncompromising Eccentric: The Films of Kira Muratova
April 1–May 14, 2023We are honored to collaborate with the Ukraine’s Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center on this series celebrating “Odessa’s uncompromising eccentric” (Jane Taubman), with guest curator Stanislav Menzelevskyi introducing three screenings.
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66th San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA
April 14–23, 2023BAMPFA is proud to partner with the SFFILM Festival, an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and a major cultural event in the Bay Area.
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