February 2026

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1 PM
  • Film
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  • Performance
Sunday, February 1, 2026
1 PM
Victor Sjöström,
Sweden,
1921,
(106 mins)

Digital Restoration

An alcoholic’s life is changed through love and an encounter with the Grim Reaper in this film of uncanny beauty and inventiveness, which Ingmar Bergman called “the keystone of my cinematographic world.”
  • Mark Sandberg
    Introduction
    Professor Emeritus Mark Sandberg is Faculty Director of the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
Sunday, February 1, 2026
2 PM
Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

3:30 PM
Sunday, February 1, 2026
3:30 PM
(82 mins)
These three films from Robert Beavers’s film cycle create connections between varied times and places, and between old-world artisanal practices and the craft of filmmaking.
In Conversation
  • Robert Beavers
  • Erik Ulman
    Erik Ulman is an Advanced Lecturer in Music at Stanford University.
4:30 PM
  • Performance
Sunday, February 1, 2026
4:30 PM
Friends of Perfection is a Poet's Theater performance co-presented by Small Press Traffic and The Lab.

Tickets are available online or at the door, and include gallery admission.

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Series Performances
6:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, February 1, 2026
6:30 PM
Wong Kar Wai,
Hong Kong,
2004,
(129 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Also screens on Friday, February 27 (without an introduction).

2046 “echoes” (in Wong Kar Wai’s preferred term) In the Mood For Love’s writer protagonist (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) three years on, now working on an erotic story, set in the year 2046, about a place where people lose themselves in memories.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

  • Iggy Cortez
    Introduction
    Iggy Cortez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026
12 PM
Exhibition curators Victoria Sung and Tausif Noor invite visitors to walk through the exhibition together as they underscore the multilingual, multisensory, and multivalent strategies at play across Cha’s oeuvre.

Included with admission.

7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
7 PM
Amy Reid,
United States,
2020,
(95 mins)
Riding with three long-haul truck drivers, filmmaker Amy Reid documents their work, observations on the economic importance of trucking, and reflections on being among the few women in the profession. With Katarina Jazbec’s investigation into the work of lashers in the port of Rotterdam. 
In Conversation
  • Amy Reid
  • Kate MacKay
    Kate MacKay is a Film Curator at BAMPFA.
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All Day
  • Art
  • Families
  • Free
Thursday, February 5, 2026
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, February 5, 2026
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Thursday, February 5, 2026
1:15 PM
Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

7 PM
Thursday, February 5, 2026
7 PM
(60 mins)
Sotiros incorporates narrative film devices such as intertitle cards into a metaphorical dialogue between two male lovers. In Efpsychi we hear a word spoken, teleftea, meaning the last (one). Wingseed draws comparisons between the pastoral beauty of a Greek hillside and that of the male form.
In Conversation
  • Robert Beavers
  • Ken Ueno
    Ken Ueno is a composer, vocalist, and sound artist, and a Professor in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 6, 2026
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
3:30 PM
  • Film
  • Free
  • In-Person
Friday, February 6, 2026
3:30 PM

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 2:30 PM.

The Berlin-based filmmaker will present Diminished Frame and The Sparrow Dream and discuss the relationship of history, memory, and place in his films.

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 2:30 PM.

In Conversation
  • Robert Beavers
  • Deniz Göktürk
    Deniz Göktürk is a Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley.
7 PM
Friday, February 6, 2026
7 PM
(61 mins)
The final three works in Robert Beavers’s film cycle—The Hedge Theater, The Stoas, and The Ground—offer images of ineffable beauty, unspoken eloquence, and an expression of devotional love.
In Conversation
  • Robert Beavers
  • Susan Oxtoby
    Susan Oxtoby is the Director of Film and Senior Film Curator at BAMPFA.
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 7, 2026
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
1 PM
  • Closed Captioned
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, February 7, 2026
1 PM
Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss,
United States,
2025,
(110 mins)
In 1990s upstate New York, a misfit cohort of muckraking high school students armed with camcorders exposed improper toxic waste dumping in their community. Decades later the students and their teacher revisit the twisty, scandalous story.
In Conversation
  • Amanda McBaine
  • Jesse Moss
  • Jason Spingarn-Koff
    Jason Spingarn-Koff is a Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley.
4:15 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, February 7, 2026
4:15 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1970,
(83 mins)
This fact-based tale of a “wolf boy” and the teacher who sets out to tame him is François Truffaut’s “most thoughtful statement on his favorite subject: the way young people grow up, explore themselves, and attempt to function creatively in the world” (Roger Ebert). 

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

  • Laura Truffaut
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
  • Aner Preminger
    Moderator
    Aner Preminger is the Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute at UC Berkeley and the author of François Truffaut: Cinema as an Act of Love—An Intertextual Ap
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Saturday, February 7, 2026
5 PM
What happens when two performance artists—identities unknown to each other as well as to the audience until the day of the show—come together?

Included with admission.

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7 PM
Saturday, February 7, 2026
7 PM
(89 mins)
Robert Beavers’s seven works made after his film cycle demonstrate his continued interest in the poetic form and emotions linked to a sense of home or place, including his delicate portrait of his mother, Pitcher of Colored Light, and the graceful The Suppliant.
In Conversation
  • Robert Beavers
  • Susan Oxtoby
    Susan Oxtoby is the Director of Film and Senior Film Curator at BAMPFA.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 8, 2026
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Sunday, February 8, 2026
12:30 PM–3:30 PM

Community partnership support provided by GYOPO

BAMPFA hosts a symposium that highlights new directions in research on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, featuring contributions from graduate students and early career researchers and moderated by UC Berkeley faculty and scholars.

Gallery admission is included with ticket purchase.

1 PM
Sunday, February 8, 2026
1 PM

Space is limited; RSVP required

Join Tara Baghdassarian for a workshop where photography and light meet ancestral memory. Create magical glass dream catchers inspired by MATRIX exhibition artist Andro Eradze’s surreal, dreamlike world.

Space is limited; RSVP required.

Series Workshops
Sunday, February 8, 2026
2 PM
Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

Sunday, February 8, 2026
4:30 PM
Mauritz Stiller,
Sweden,
1924,
(206 mins)

Digital Restoration

Remembered as the first major performance of nineteen-year-old Greta Garbo as one of Gösta Berling’s love interests, the film caught the eye of Louis B. Mayer, who brought both Mauritz Stiller and Garbo to Hollywood, making Gösta Berling’s Saga Stiller’s final movie in Sweden.

Total running time: 206 mins plus 30-minute intermission. Part 2 will start at approximately 7 PM.

  • Mark Sandberg
    Introduction
    Professor Emeritus Mark Sandberg is Faculty Director of the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
12:15 PM
Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

7 PM
  • Film
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
7 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
United States,
1980,
(129 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Model captures the inner workings of Zoli, a New York fashion modeling agency, and the labor of the statuesque men and women represented there.
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7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, February 12, 2026
7 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1971,
(130 mins)
Aided by the marvelous, impressionist-styled images of cinematographer Nestor Almendros and a swooning score by Georges Delerue, François Truffaut transforms his second adaptation of a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché (author of Jules and Jim) into an overwhelming sensory experience.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

  • Laura Truffaut
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
  • Aner Preminger
    Moderator
    Aner Preminger is the Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute at UC Berkeley and the author of François Truffaut: Cinema as an Act of Love—An Intertextual Ap
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 13, 2026
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
4 PM
Friday, February 13, 2026
4 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1963,
(143 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

A kidnapping becomes a moral dilemma for an executive (Toshiro Mifune) in “one of the best detective thrillers ever filmed” (New York Times).

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, February 13, 2026
7 PM
Wong Kar Wai,
Hong Kong,
1997,
(96 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Also screens on Sunday, January 25 (with an introduction by Daniel O’Neill).

Hong Kong superstars Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai play expat lovers adrift in Buenos Aires. Simultaneously bruising and yearning, Happy Together is “a take-no-prisoners movie that’s the very antithesis of sentimental gay love stories” (Kenneth Turan).

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

  • Iggy Cortez
    Introduction
    Iggy Cortez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 14, 2026
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
11:30 AM–1 PM
Saturday, February 14, 2026
11:30 AM–1 PM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Learn to make paper and wire sculptures, transforming simple materials into whimsical creatures, abstract forms, and mini masterpieces.

Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child.

Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs.

  • Priyanka D’Souza
    Workshop led by
    Priyanka D’Souza is a visual artist and researcher based in Berkeley and a 2025 graduate of UC Berkeley’s MFA program.
Saturday, February 14, 2026
12 PM
Julia Loktev,
United States,
2024,
(214 mins)
Hailed as one of the must-see documentaries of the last year. “A scary and riveting portrait of Russia’s last independent news channel” (Lauren Wissot, IndieWire).

Includes a 15 minute intermission

Saturday, February 14, 2026
2:30 PM–3:30 PM

Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s)

Learn about orcas in the Salish Sea as you read the heart-stopping adventure of Vega’s tumultuous journey to reunite herself and her brother, Deneb, with their pod.

Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child.

Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs.

  • Carl Coleman
    Reading led by
    Librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District
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Saturday, February 14, 2026
4:15 PM
Julia Loktev,
United States,
2024,
(125 mins)
Hailed as one of the must-see documentaries of the last year. “A scary and riveting portrait of Russia’s last independent news channel” (Lauren Wissot, IndieWire).
Saturday, February 14, 2026
7 PM
Wong Kar Wai,
Hong Kong,
2000,
(98 mins)
This twenty-first-century classic set in the early 1960s distills the essence of romance and melancholy, with gorgeous neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) “in the mood for love,” yet too proper to act on it.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2026
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
1 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2026
1 PM
Robin Petré,
Denmark, Spain,
2025,
(93 mins)
Only on Earth captures the rhythms of rural life in northwest Spain, as rising temperatures and human development alter the landscape, which for centuries teemed with wild horses that kept the flammable undergrowth in check.
Sunday, February 15, 2026
2 PM
Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

4 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
  • Performance
Sunday, February 15, 2026
4 PM
(134 mins)
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s nationalistic poem is distinguished by stunning land and seascape photography. With the director’s Hollywood epic The Wind, wherein naive Virginia belle Lillian Gish relocates to windswept Texas.
  • Mark Sandberg
    Introduction
    Mark Sandberg is Professor Emeritus and Faculty Director of the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
7:15 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2026
7:15 PM
Wong Kar Wai,
United States,
2007,
(95 mins)
Singer Norah Jones headlines Wong Kar Wai’s English-language debut, which depicts a heartbroken singer on a road trip across America and the other lost souls—Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, and Natalie Portman among them—she encounters along the way.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2026
12:15 PM
Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

7 PM
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
7 PM
Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw,
Argentina, United States,
2024,
(116 mins)
These two films document contemporary cowboy culture on two continents. Gaucho Gaucho chronicles the everyday life of Argentine cowhands, while Ten Five in the Grass captures the preparations for a calf roping event on the Black rodeo circuit.
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7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, February 19, 2026
7 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
United States,
1976,
(113 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Capturing a pivotal moment in the history of animal agriculture, Meat tracks the transformation of animals into consumer commodities through a revolutionary, scalable assembly-line process that dramatically increased the world’s appetite for beef.
In Conversation
  • Ricardo San Martin
    Ricardo San Martin is the Director of the Alternative Meats X-Lab at UC Berkeley, which helps entrepreneurs and researchers investigate the next generation of foods such as plant-based meats, dairy su
  • Jeanne Merrill
    Jeanne Merrill is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Food Institute at UC Berkeley and is a cofounder and former Policy Director with the California Climate and Agriculture Network.
  • Jeff Griffith-Perham
    Jeff Griffith-Perham is an Associate Film Curator at BAMPFA.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 20, 2026
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
4:30 PM
  • Film
Friday, February 20, 2026
4:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1961,
(110 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Toshiro Mifune is a sly, amoral mercenary in a town ruled by killers in Akira Kurosawa’s tongue-in-cheek anti-epic. “A visually faultless and highly sophisticated satire on violence and human weakness” (Sight and Sound).

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

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7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, February 20, 2026
7 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1973,
(115 mins)

Imported 35mm Print

Jean-Pierre Léaud joins an ensemble cast for a behind-the-scenes romantic comedy in which the love interest is cinema itself. Day for Night is buoyed by robust performances and a sparkling score by the legendary Georges Delerue.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

  • Laura Truffaut
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
  • Aner Preminger
    Moderator
    Aner Preminger is the Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute at UC Berkeley and the author of François Truffaut: Cinema as an Act of Love—An Intertextual Ap
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11 AM-7 PM
Saturday, February 21, 2026
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Saturday, February 21, 2026
1 PM
(105 mins)
This cross-continental program presents stories from Pakistan, Croatia, and Bolivia, where struggles over access to clean water intersect with reflections on cultural traditions and legacy.
In Conversation
  • Amin Muhammad
    Amin Muhammad is a director and producer of The Glacier Wedding.
  • Thomas Sawano
    Thomas Sawano is a director and producer of The Glacier Wedding.
  • Jennifer Redfearn
    Jennifer Redfearn is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker and the Director of the Documentary Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Saturday, February 21, 2026
2 PM
Graduate students from the Departments of History of Art and Film & Media offer tours of Object Oriented on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM, and Sundays at 2 PM.

Included with admission.

4:30 PM
Saturday, February 21, 2026
4:30 PM
Youssef Chahine,
Egypt,
1958,
(100 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Combining Italian neorealism, Egyptian romanticism, and overheated film noir, Cairo Station is unlike anything anyone had seen in 1958, or indeed today. With short Cairo as Seen by Chahine.
7 PM
Saturday, February 21, 2026
7 PM
Wong Kar Wai,
Hong Kong,
2013,
(130 mins)
Wong Kar Wai’s big-budget salute to the golden age of Chinese martial arts stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai as the legendary Ip Man (Bruce Lee’s mentor), attempting to unite several martial arts factions in a Republican China under threat from Japanese invasion.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2026
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
1 PM
In this two-hour generative poetry workshop led by poet Lindsay Choi, discover a selection of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s concrete poetry, artist’s books, and performance pieces, taking inspiration from her work to generate drafts, notes, and other forms of new material.

Included with admission.

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1 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, February 22, 2026
1 PM
Ondi Timoner,
United States,
2025,
(79 mins)
All the Walls Came Down chronicles the devastating aftermath of the Eaton Fire on the community of Altadena, California, from the personal perspective of someone who lost their home, filmmaker Ondi Timoner. Paired with Sallie’s Ashes, which follows a trio of retired Alabama seniors turned community organizers, fighting to protect Mobile Bay from an industrial behemoth’s toxic coal ash dump.
In Conversation
  • Ondi Timoner
  • Jason Spingarn-Koff
    Jason Spingarn-Koff is a Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
2 PM
Graduate students from the departments of Art History, English, and Ethnic Studies offer tours of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and First First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

4 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, February 22, 2026
4 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1976,
(105 mins)
François Truffaut’s tribute to the resilience of children in the face of difficulties is one of cinema’s most moving, comedic looks at childhood. “Turns out to be that rarity—a poetic comedy that’s really funny” (Pauline Kael).

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

  • Laura Truffaut
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
  • Aner Preminger
    Moderator
    Aner Preminger is the Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute at UC Berkeley and the author of François Truffaut: Cinema as an Act of Love—An Intertextual Ap
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7 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2026
7 PM
Wong Kar Wai,
Hong Kong,
1990,
(94 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Also screens on Sunday, January 11 (with an introduction).

A haunting paean to memory, love, and longing, set during a long and sweltering Hong Kong summer, Wong Kar Wai’s first collaboration with cinematographer Christopher Doyle was a winner of five Hong Kong Film Awards.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

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4–5:30 PM
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
4–5:30 PM

Space is limited; RSVP required.

In partnership with UC Berkeley's Departments of African American Studies and Gender and Women's Studies, BAMPFA presents a celebration of This Unruly Witness: June Jordan's Legacy (2025), a first of its kind collection of writings by activists and artists shaped by the legacy of poet, essayist, activist and UC Berkeley professor June Jordan. Contributors Leigh Raiford, Adrienne Torf, Kelly Elaine Navies, Zack Rogow, Elizabeth Meyer and Ruth Forman will read.
Series Readings
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
12:15 PM
Graduate students from the Departments of History of Art and Film & Media offer tours of Object Oriented on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM, and Sundays at 2 PM.

Included with admission.

Wednesday, February 25, 2026
7 PM
Sepideh Farsi ,
France, Iran, Palestine,
2025,
(112 mins)
Sepidah Farsi’s yearlong conversation with Palestinian poet and photojournalist Fatma Hassona, killed by Israeli airstrike in April 2025, is “a tremendously moving portrait of resistance under siege” (Isaac Feidberg, RogerEbert.com). 
  • Ussama Makdisi
    Introduction
    Ussama Makdisi is a Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at UC Berkeley.
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Thursday, February 26, 2026
7 PM
Julia Loktev,
United States,
2024,
(214 mins)
Hailed as one of the must-see documentaries of the last year. “A scary and riveting portrait of Russia’s last independent news channel” (Lauren Wissot, IndieWire).

Includes a 15 minute intermission

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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 27, 2026
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
4 PM
  • Film
Friday, February 27, 2026
4 PM
Wong Kar Wai,
Hong Kong,
2004,
(129 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Also screens on Sunday, February 1 (with an introduction).

2046 “echoes” (in Wong Kar Wai’s preferred term) In the Mood For Love’s writer protagonist (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) three years on, now working on an erotic story, set in the year 2046, about a place where people lose themselves in memories.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

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Friday, February 27, 2026
7 PM
Julia Loktev,
United States,
2024,
(125 mins)
Hailed as one of the must-see documentaries of the last year. “A scary and riveting portrait of Russia’s last independent news channel” (Lauren Wissot, IndieWire).
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Saturday, February 28, 2026
2–5 PM

Presented in partnership with Small Press Traffic

In collaboration with Small Press Traffic, BAMPFA presents a collective marathon reading of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s genre-defying work Dictée (1982) by members of the Bay Area arts community. Audience members are encouraged to participate in this collective and open-ended reading.

Included with admission.

Series Readings
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2026
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
1:30 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2026
1:30 PM
Wong Kar Wai,
Hong Kong,
1994,
(102 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Also screens on Sunday, January 18 (with an introduction).

Filmed in the middle of the making of Ashes of Time, Chungking Express is a cop movie and a mesmerizing jolt of Hong Kong’s energy, romance, and style, framed by Christopher Doyle’s lyrically kinetic cinematography. 

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

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4 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, February 28, 2026
4 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1957,
(92 mins)
The film that cemented Ingmar Bergman’s international reputation deftly interweaves memory, reality, and dream. As an elderly professor recollecting his life’s failures, “Victor Sjöström gives one of the greatest performances of cinema” (National Film Theatre, London).
  • Linda Haverty Rugg
    Introduction
    Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, February 28, 2026
7 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1983,
(110 mins)
François Truffaut’s graceful last film pays tribute to screwball comedies, film noir, and the stylish thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock as it follows a real-estate agent and his secretary, who are thrown together to investigate a series of small-town murders. “A valentine disguised as a noir” (TCM).

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

  • Laura Truffaut
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
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