On View
Film Series
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Special Screenings
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Alternative Visions
September 11–November 20, 2024Alternative Visions features new restorations of great films by Man Ray and Nicolás Guillén Landrián, classic works on film by Pat O’Neill, and artists in person, including Shu Lea Cheang, Charif Kiwan, Lewis Klahr, Jennifer Reeves, Scott Stark, and Amanda Strong.
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Movie Matinees for All Ages
September 28–November 30, 2024BAMPFA’s movie matinees are a wonderful way to introduce young people to the joys of the big-screen cinematic experience—and for all of us to rediscover the pleasures of Saturday afternoon at the movies.
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Mill Valley Film Festival at BAMPFA
October 4–13, 2024BAMPFA is pleased to partner with the Mill Valley Film Festival to present selected screenings from MVFF47 in the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Hong Kong Cinema with Paul Fonoroff
October 17–27, 2024Film collector and former television personality Paul Fonoroff returns to BAMPFA with a program that draws from the golden age of Hong Kong cinema from the 1980s and 1990s.
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Cuban Cinema without Borders
October 23–November 16, 2024Through captivating storytelling, this series celebrates the resilience of independent Cuban cinema and the enduring legacy of trailblazers like Nicolás Guillén Landrián. Explore themes of exile, motherhood, and nationhood in a formally stunning collection of fiction, documentary, and experimental films that reflect on Cuban lives and imaginaries in the island and its diasporas.
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Sergei Parajanov: Centennial Celebration
November 1–22, 2024This is a centennial tribute to the legendary Armenian poet-filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, who worked across transnational boundaries and struggled against the Soviet authorities, who banned and censored his films. A one-day symposium on November 2 will bring scholars and experts to Berkeley to speak about Parajanov’s life and work.
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Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence
November 7–30, 2024One of the world’s foremost filmmakers, Jia Zhangke, joins us for a weeklong residency during which he will engage in conversations with leading experts about his distinctive body of work, which reflects sweeping cultural and economic change in China since the late 1990s.
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