Mill Valley Film Festival at BAMPFA
Mill Valley Film Festival at BAMPFA
October 8–17, 2021
BAMPFA is pleased to partner with the Mill Valley Film Festival to present selected screenings from MVFF44 in the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
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Drive My Car
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Memoria
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Bergman Island
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A Hero
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Past Films
Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Colombia, Mexico, France, United Kingdom, Thailand, Germany, China, Switzerland, 2021Friday, October 8 7 PMView DetailsSet in Colombia and starring Tilda Swinton, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s first feature film made outside of Thailand covers familiar thematic terrain for the veteran director in its exploration of the blurred boundaries between the natural world and spirit realm, and the way that collective traumas reemerge as memories and dreams.
Petite maman
Céline Sciamma
France, 2021Saturday, October 9 5 PMView Details“Secrets aren’t always things we try to hide, there’s just no one to tell them to,” says eight-year-old Nelly to her new best friend. In Céline Sciamma’s achingly beautiful new film, the past and present magically merge to ease the sorrows of a grieving mother and daughter.
A Hero
Asghar Farhadi
Iran, 2021Saturday, October 9 7 PMView DetailsAcclaimed filmmaker Asghar Farhadi returns with another gripping human drama, chronicling a man (Amir Jadidi) in prison for an unpaid debt who makes a plan for freedom. Brilliantly mapping out a moral dilemma and astutely examining our fascination with (and suspicion of) folk heroes, A Hero travels an unpredictable, unforgettable path.
Courtroom 3H
Antonio Méndez Esparza
Spain, United States, 2020Sunday, October 10 4 PMView DetailsThis powerful fly-on-the-wall documentary spends one month in Florida’s Tallahassee Unified Family Court system, shining a needed light on the results of economic disparities in that community. Sometimes shocking, sometimes uncomfortable, it’s a nonetheless nuanced and necessary look into a world too few people know about.
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Chad, France, Germany, Belgium, 2021Sunday, October 10 7 PMView DetailsPioneering Chadian auteur Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is in blistering form with his latest film, a feminist social realist drama exploring abortion rights in conservative, patriarchal Chadian society through the experiences of a mother and her teenage daughter.
Bergman Island
Mia Hansen-Løve
France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, 2021Friday, October 15 7 PMView DetailsOne of Mia Hansen-Løve’s most autobiographical films to date, Bergman Island continues her ongoing exploration of the existential dynamic between work and love. Vicky Krieps plays a writer/director who struggles to find her own voice in a drama resonant with moments of humor, mystery, and self-realization.
Song for Cesar
Andres Alegria, Abel Sanchez
United States, 2021Saturday, October 16 4:30 PMAndres Alegria and Abel Sanchez in PersonView DetailsBuilding on the legacy of late civil rights activist and labor leader Cesar Chavez, and the pride inspired by the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, this documentary showcases the music of that era—a powerful soundtrack for farmworkers who until then felt invisible and unheard.
Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez
Susan Stern
United States, 2021Saturday, October 16 7 PMVictoria B. Fender in PersonView DetailsA star in San Francisco’s influential underground comics scene of the late 1960s and ’70s, Rodriguez created beautifully rendered art that was nonetheless raunchy, politically radical, and sometimes willfully offensive. His filmmaker widow parses a complex personality and artistic legacy, both of them dazzling if often wildly at odds with today’s cultural norms.
Drive My Car
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Japan, 2021Sunday, October 17 3 PMView DetailsIn this enchanting narrative, a theater director reeling from family tragedy is invited to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima. He’s assigned a driver, and during their time together, the two unburden themselves of their personal traumas. Winner of the Cannes Best Screenplay Award, Drive My Car is an exquisitely crafted mosaic about emotional connection.