Special Screenings 2025
Ongoing
Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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François Truffaut: The 400 Blows (1959)
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Vivien Hillgrove: Vivien’s Wild Ride (2025)
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Maura Delpero: Vermiglio (2024)
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Luis Buñuel: Él (1953)
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King Hu: Dragon Inn (1967)
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Upcoming Films
Film and Video Makers at Cal: Works from the Eisner Competition
Free Admission
Sunday, May 18 2 PMUC Berkeley Student Filmmakers in PersonView DetailsStudent filmmakers join us for a screening of this year’s prizewinners and honorable mentions in the film and video category of the Eisner Prize competition, UC Berkeley’s highest award for creative media making.
Vivien’s Wild Ride
Vivien Hillgrove
United States, 2025Closed Captioned
Audio DescriptionSunday, June 8 7 PMView DetailsWhen legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity.
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut
France, 1959Thursday, June 12 7 PMIntroduction by Laura TruffautView DetailsJean-Pierre Léaud plays François Truffaut’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel, in the quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris.
Vermiglio
Maura Delpero
Italy, 2024East Bay Premiere
Winner of the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film FestivalWednesday, June 18 7 PMView DetailsThe lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
Vivien’s Wild Ride
Vivien Hillgrove
United States, 2025Closed Captioned
Audio DescriptionSaturday, June 21 4 PMView DetailsWhen legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity.
A Photographic Memory
Rachel Elizabeth Seed
United States, 2024Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards
Saturday, June 28 4 PMView DetailsA New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate portrait of filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed, who was a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker. “Vividly introspective . . . sumptuous” (Carlos Aguilar, Variety).
Él
Luis Buñuel
Mexico, 19534K Digital Restoration
Sunday, June 29 5 PMView DetailsA psychological thriller: one of Luis Buñuel’s rawest, angriest indictments of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the Surrealist master’s great excursion into dark melodrama, where civilization can find no answer to the raging urges of the irrational id.
Vermiglio
Maura Delpero
Italy, 2024East Bay Premiere
Winner of the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film FestivalSunday, July 6 4:30 PMView DetailsThe lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
A Photographic Memory
Rachel Elizabeth Seed
United States, 2024Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards
Sunday, July 20 4:30 PMView DetailsA New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate portrait of filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed, who was a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker. “Vividly introspective . . . sumptuous” (Carlos Aguilar, Variety).
Él
Luis Buñuel
Mexico, 19534K Digital Restoration
Wednesday, July 30 7 PMView DetailsA psychological thriller: one of Luis Buñuel’s rawest, angriest indictments of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the Surrealist master’s great excursion into dark melodrama, where civilization can find no answer to the raging urges of the irrational id.
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut
France, 1959Saturday, August 9 4:30 PMView DetailsJean-Pierre Léaud plays François Truffaut’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel, in the quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris.
Dragon Inn
King Hu
Taiwan, 19674K Digital Restoration
Thursday, August 14 7 PMView DetailsKing Hu’s legendary Dragon Inn merges swordplay, melodrama, history, and Beijing Opera traditions with thrilling results. Viewed obliquely in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn, it suggests the transient pleasures of cinephilia.
Past Films
Close Your Eyes
Víctor Erice
Spain, Argentina, 2023Friday, December 6 7:00 PMView DetailsRevered Spanish auteur Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive, El Sur, and The Quince Tree Sun) returns with his fourth feature, a meditation on memory, absence, and the magic of cinema—a “poignant cinematic swan song” (Hollywood Reporter).
The Goldman Case
Cédric Kahn
France, 2023Wednesday, December 11 7:00 PMView DetailsNew York Times Critic’s Pick: “An electrifying courtroom drama” that delves into the sensationalized 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman. The film communicates so much about the complexity of Jewish identity in recent European history.
The Wages of Fear
Henri-Georges Clouzot
France, 19534K Digital Restoration
Friday, December 13 7:00 PMView DetailsFour desperate men are hired by a ruthless oil company to drive trucks filled with explosives across a mountainous South American country in one of the toughest noirs ever filmed. Starring Yves Montand.
No Fear, No Die
Claire Denis
France, 19904K Digital Restoration
Wednesday, December 18 7:00 PMView DetailsIn Claire Denis’s surprising second film, Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas play immigrants who train birds for cockfights on the outskirts of Paris. The film “has a seedy, claustrophobic power that says as much about human as about animal exploitation” (Time Out).
Close Your Eyes
Víctor Erice
Spain, Argentina, 2023Saturday, January 11 3:00 PMView DetailsRevered Spanish auteur Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive, El Sur, and The Quince Tree Sun) returns with his fourth feature, a meditation on memory, absence, and the magic of cinema—a “poignant cinematic swan song” (Hollywood Reporter).
No Fear, No Die
Claire Denis
France, 19904K Digital Restoration
Sunday, January 12 7:00 PMView DetailsIn Claire Denis’s surprising second film, Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas play immigrants who train birds for cockfights on the outskirts of Paris. The film “has a seedy, claustrophobic power that says as much about human as about animal exploitation” (Time Out).
Fairytale
Alexander Sokurov
Belgium, 2022Bay Area Premiere
Wednesday, January 15 7:00 PMView DetailsFairytale resurrects from the dead, via animated archival imagery, the twentieth-century leaders Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin. A cinematic phantasmagoria that was banned by the Russian censors.
The Goldman Case
Cédric Kahn
France, 2023Friday, January 24 3:00 PMView DetailsNew York Times Critic’s Pick: “An electrifying courtroom drama” that delves into the sensationalized 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman. The film communicates so much about the complexity of Jewish identity in recent European history.
The Wages of Fear
Henri-Georges Clouzot
France, 19534K Digital Restoration
Sunday, January 26 6:00 PMView DetailsFour desperate men are hired by a ruthless oil company to drive trucks filled with explosives across a mountainous South American country in one of the toughest noirs ever filmed. Starring Yves Montand.
Sátántangó
Béla Tarr
Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, 1994BAMPFA Collection
Sunday, February 16 1:00 PMView DetailsBéla Tarr’s extraordinary seven-and-a-half-hour epic Sátántangó. “Set on an entropic collective farm during the last years of Hungarian Communism, it’s a mordant, characteristically Eastern European tale of hapless peasants and charismatic swindlers. . . . Despair has never been more voluptuously precise” (Village Voice).
All We Imagine as Light
Payal Kapadia
India, Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, 2024Saturday, March 1 3:30 PMView DetailsCrafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, Payal Kapadia’s drama shines a light on three hospital workers as they negotiate love and life in the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Outstanding performances and cinematography that reflects the small but wondrous epiphanies of everyday lives anchor this Cannes Grand Prix winner.
All We Imagine as Light
Payal Kapadia
India, Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, 2024Sunday, March 23 5:00 PMView DetailsCrafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, Payal Kapadia’s drama shines a light on three hospital workers as they negotiate love and life in the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Outstanding performances and cinematography that reflects the small but wondrous epiphanies of everyday lives anchor this Cannes Grand Prix winner.
BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival
Free Admission
Friday, April 4 7:00 PMStudent Filmmakers in PersonView DetailsA selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area.
All We Imagine as Light
Payal Kapadia
India, Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, 2024Sunday, April 13 6:00 PMView DetailsCrafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, Payal Kapadia’s drama shines a light on three hospital workers as they negotiate love and life in the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Outstanding performances and cinematography that reflects the small but wondrous epiphanies of everyday lives anchor this Cannes Grand Prix winner.
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