Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
ViewAlternative 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.
ViewBAMPFA’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.
ViewBAMPFA is pleased to partner with the Mill Valley Film Festival to present selected screenings from MVFF47 in the Barbro Osher Theater.
ViewFilm 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.
ViewThrough 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.
ViewThis 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.
ViewOne 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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