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Film Series
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Documentary Voices
February 5–April 30, 2025BAMPFA’s annual selection of compelling nonfiction films includes the award-winning Palestinian/Israeli documentary No Other Land, as well as films by Dana Claxton, Kevin Jerome Everson, Asmae El Moudir, and Ibrahim Nash’at. With Sergei Loznitsa, Rick Prelinger, Jenni Olson, Elizabeth Ai, Pinar Öğrenci, and Sylvain George in person.
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Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling
March 1–May 8, 2025A centennial year celebration of the films of Mai Zetterling (1925–1994), the Swedish-born actor-turned-director, featuring some of her best screen roles and the short films, documentaries, and features that earned her a reputation as a director interested in psychological treatments and sexual candor. With guest presenters Linda Haverty Rugg and Anna Stenport.
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68th San Francisco International Film Festival at BAMPFA
April 18–27, 2025BAMPFA 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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Love Streams, Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes
May 2–May 14, 2025A celebration of one of the most significant cinematic partnerships of the twentieth century, Love Streams, Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes, focuses on Gena Rowlands’s performances in six groundbreaking independent films written and directed by John Cassavetes, her husband of thirty-five years.
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Special Screenings 2025
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City
June 6–July 24, 2025Inspired by Imogen Sara Smith’s 2011 book, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City, this series focuses on film noirs set in suburbia and small towns, on the road, in the desert, and along borderlands. Smith will travel from New York City to introduce the films on the series’ opening weekend, and we will also tap Bay Area film experts David Thomson and Eddie Muller to host additional screenings.
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Robert Altman at 100
June 13–August 30, 2025Presented in collaboration with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Robert Altman at 100 showcases a selection of his work across five decades, including his 1970s classics The Long Goodbye, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Nashville, and later work like Vincent & Theo and Gosford Park.
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Bruce Conner: Films from the BAMPFA Collection
June 15 & 27, 2025Alive with satire, irony, and rhythm, experimental filmmaker Bruce Conner’s collage films have influenced countless artists and captivated viewers. His work constitutes a wry, devastating portrait of America. These two programs of his short films are drawn from the BAMPFA collection.
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time
June 20–August 29, 2025Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) directed an impressive body of work that continues to be celebrated today for its visual power and poetic resonance. There is no better way to experience Tarkovsky’s cinema than theatrically, since scale and sound design are so essential to his films.
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Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman
July 3–December, 2025Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman offers a rare opportunity to see many of Naruse’s great films chronicling the lives of ordinary people—from his 1935 international hit Wife! Be Like a Rose! (the first Japanese talkie to screen in the United States) to the magnificent 1967 melodrama Scattered Clouds.
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Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs
July 11–August 29, 2025The second installment in BAMPFA’s ongoing Swedish Cinema Project offers a lineup of classic films synonymous with the white nights of Swedish summers and the country’s rich tradition of auteur directors, including Roy Andersson, Ingmar Bergman, Gustaf Molander, Alf Sjöberg, and Bo Widerberg.
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Tsai Ming-liang in Person
August 14–31, 2025BAMPFA welcomes director Tsai Ming-liang and actor Lee Kang-sheng to discuss seven of their films, including Vive l’amour; The Hole; Goodbye, Dragon Inn; What Time Is It There?; and Stray Dogs.
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