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Special Screenings
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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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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Movie Matinees for All Ages
OngoingBAMPFA’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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G. W. Pabst: Selected Films, 1925–38
December 7, 2024–February 28, 2025A selection of the films G. W. Pabst is best known for, made during the Weimar Republic, plus two French productions from the 1930s. Featuring several restored films plus live piano accompaniment by Judith Rosenberg for all of the silent films.
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To Exalt the Ephemeral: Artists on Screen
December 8–22, 2024Three programs offer insight into some of the artists whose work is currently on view at BAMPFA. The program includes films about or made by Bruce Conner, Imogen Cunningham, Jay DeFeo, Eva Hesse, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, and Chiura Obata.
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Marcello Mastroianni at 100
December 15, 2024–February 27, 2025Born one hundred years ago, Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni appeared in over 170 films, from comedies to Modernist masterpieces. Just how much he meant to the cinema is attested to in these films, where Mastroianni defines the screen actor’s art and our joy in it.
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Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After The Searchers
January 10–February 28, 2025Bookended by John Ford’s The Searchers and Zacharias Kunuk’s Maliglutit (Searchers), the mythic, elemental, and spiritual significance of landscape provides a throughline in this diverse selection of Westerns, including films made by Robert Altman, Charles Burnett, Jane Campion, Kevin Jerome Everson, Sidney Poitier, Kelly Reichardt, Glauber Rocha, and Quentin Tarantino.
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Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas
Butch Dykes, Trans Men, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema
January 17–February 23, 2025Last year’s wildly popular Masc film series returns with a fresh new installment, offering an opportunity to experience several rarely seen AFAB (assigned-female-at-birth) masc movies from around the world. Filmmaker Cheryl Dunye joins us in person for a rare screening of Stranger Inside (2001).
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Sergei Loznitsa: Filmmaker in Residence
January 30–February 8, 2025We welcome the celebrated Ukrainian director of Belarusian origin Sergei Loznitsa for a ten-day residency, during which time he will speak about his work in documentary, feature filmmaking, and short form.
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Climate Journalism on Screen
February 2–February 23, 2025Drawing on a variety of documentary techniques, these four recent films ambitiously reckon with climate change through their multifaceted subjects. Each program includes a post-screening discussion.
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Documentary Voices
February 5–April 18, 2025BAMPFA’s annual selection of compelling nonfiction films includes the award-winning Palestinian/Israeli documentary No Other Land, as well as films by Sergei Loznitsa, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, Dana Claxton and the Ishi Collective, and Kevin Jerome Everson.
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