Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2022

Ongoing

Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.

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  • Cinespin: Zvenigora

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Past Films

  • CineSpin: Zvenigora

    • Friday, November 4 7 PM
    Alexander Dovzhenko
    USSR, 1928

    BAMPFA Collection
    Free Admission

    The BAMPFA Student Committee presents Alexander Dovzhenko’s Zvenigora; a mythic search for treasure in the mountains of the Ukraine, accompanied by the sounds of multi-instrumentalist and DJ Erika Bontrager.

    Live Music from Erika Bontrager

  • Between a Flower and a Bomb: Latin American Short Films

    • Thursday, May 5 7 PM

    Cosponsored by the LASA Visual Culture Studies Section

    In conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association Congress, we present three decades of short Latin American films from the BAMPFA collection—by Santiago Álvarez, Chick Strand, and Raymundo Gleyzer. 

  • BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival 2022

    • Friday, April 8 8:30 PM

    Free Admission!

    A selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area.

    Student filmmakers in Person

  • One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting

    • Sunday, March 6 2 PM
    Tacita Dean
    United States, Germany, 2021

    Painters Luchita Hurtado and Julie Mehretu bond over family, climate change, their experience as immigrants, and a lifelong practice of painting in this intimate, inspiring work by artist Dean (MATRIX 189).

    Christina Yang, Lauren Kroiz, and Rizvana Bradley in Conversation