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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  • One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting

    Tacita Dean
    United States, Germany, 2021
    Sunday, March 6 2 PM
    Christina Yang, Lauren Kroiz, and Rizvana Bradley in Conversation

    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).

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  • BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival 2022

    Free Admission!

    Friday, April 8 8:30 PM
    Student filmmakers in Person

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

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

    Cosponsored by the LASA Visual Culture Studies Section

    Thursday, May 5 7 PM

    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. 

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  • CineSpin: Zvenigora

    Alexander Dovzhenko
    USSR, 1928

    BAMPFA Collection
    Free Admission

    Friday, November 4 7 PM
    Live Music from Erika Bontrager

    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.

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