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Sunday, December 29, 2024
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BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Thursday, January 2, 2025
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BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Friday, January 3, 2025
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BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Saturday, January 4, 2025
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BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Sunday, January 5, 2025
All Day
BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Wednesday, January 8, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
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All Day
  • Art
  • Families
  • Free
Thursday, January 9, 2025
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Friday, January 10, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
7:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, January 10, 2025
7:00 PM
John Ford,
United States,
1956,
(121 mins)
An essential reflection of American myths and prejudices that have yet to be overcome, starring John Wayne as a racist confederate veteran searching for his kidnapped niece. Screens with a fragment from the 1899 Kidnapping by Indians, the first Western.
  • Leila Weefur
    Introduction
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
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Saturday, January 11, 2025
2:30–3:30 PM

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

Imagine traversing through the wintry woods without even a breadcrumb trail to find your way, all to save a boy who may not want to be saved.

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.

  • Jessica Lee
    Reading led by
    District library coordinator, Berkeley Unified School District
Series Family Events
11:30AM–1:00 PM
  • Art
  • Families
  • Workshop
Saturday, January 11, 2025
11:30AM–1:00 PM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Make your own version of a Howardena Pindell mixed media painting after an up-close-and-personal look at her example in the gallery.

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.

  • Erin McCluskey Wheeler
    Workshop led by
    Erin McCluskey Wheeler is an artist, educator and writer based in Richmond, California. She holds an MFA from California College of the Arts.
Series Family Events
3:00 PM
Saturday, January 11, 2025
3:00 PM
Víctor Erice,
Argentina, Spain,
2023,
(169 mins)
Revered 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). 
Saturday, January 11, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
6:30 PM
  • Film
Saturday, January 11, 2025
6:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1963,
(138 mins)
For many, Marcello Mastroianni defined Italian masculinity, or at least the debonair version of it, and in this Federico Fellini masterpiece, he gives perhaps his most dashing performance, at once intellectualized and sexualized.
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Sunday, January 12, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Sunday, January 12, 2025
3:00 PM
Legendary Bay Area conceptual artist Tom Marioni, whose work is featured in To Exalt the Ephemeral, introduces his book Social Art, an updated consideration of his ongoing and best-known work, the performance installation The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art.

Included with admission

4:30 PM
Sunday, January 12, 2025
4:30 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
France, Italy,
1964,
(102 mins)
Set in Naples, this film is fast-paced, filled with conniving humanity and bitter passion and yes, romance, Italian style. Sophia Loren’s tour-de-force performance plays against Marcello Mastroianni’s perfectly realized cad.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
7:00 PM
Sunday, January 12, 2025
7:00 PM
Claire Denis,
France,
1990,
(91 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

In 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).
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
7:00 PM
  • Film
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
7:00 PM
Alexander Sokurov,
Belgium,
2022,
(78 mins)

Bay Area Premiere

Fairytale 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.
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Thursday, January 16, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
7:00 PM
Thursday, January 16, 2025
7:00 PM
Mauro Bolognini,
France, Italy,
1960,
(101 mins)
For Marcello Mastroianni, this is a signature role; the film stands among the best existential films of the 1960s. Pier Paolo Pasolini cowrote the screenplay.
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Friday, January 17, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
7:00 PM
Friday, January 17, 2025
7:00 PM
Paul B. Preciado,
France,
2023,
(102 mins)
This innovative “New Trans Cinema” essay film from trans philosopher Paul B. Preciado reflects on trans identity, culture, and history via Virginia Woolf’s gender-changing novel Orlando.
In Conversation
  • Jenni Olson
    Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG
  • Susan Stryker
    Susan Stryker, PhD, is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution, codirector of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, and coedit
  • Ellis Martin
    Ellis Martin is an archivist working in cultural heritage digitization. He edited We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan alongside Zach Ozma.
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Saturday, January 18, 2025
1:00 PM
Join artist Tanya Aguiñiga and Senior Curator Anthony Graham for a conversation on Aguiñiga’s new Art Wall installation, her first solo presentation in the Bay Area.

Included with admission.

Saturday, January 18, 2025
2:00 PM
Join Amol K Patil and Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator Victoria Sung for a conversation on Patil’s newly commissioned body of work.

Included with admission.

3:30 PM
Saturday, January 18, 2025
3:30 PM
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly,
United States,
1952,
(102 mins)

Recommended for ages 6 & up
4K Digital Restoration

Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds dance their way across the screen in one of the greatest American musicals of all time, set during Hollywood’s transition from silent films to sound.

Member-exclusive tickets are now available.

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, November 8 at 11:00 AM.

Not yet a member? Join today for more great member-only benefits.

Saturday, January 18, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
6:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, January 18, 2025
6:30 PM
Glauber Rocha,
Brazil,
1969,
(100 mins)
As much a revolutionary cultural expression as a political allegory, Glauber Rocha’s color sequel to Black God, White Devil deals with the coming to political consciousness of the mercenary jagunço Antonio das Mortes, a paid killer of rebels and bandits in the backlands of Brazil.
  • Leila Weefur
    Introduction
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
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1:30 PM
  • Film
  • Performance
Sunday, January 19, 2025
1:30 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1929,
(141 mins)
Daring and stylish, Pandora's Box is one of silent cinema’s great masterworks and a testament to Louise Brooks’s dazzling individuality as the showgirl Lulu.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
Sunday, January 19, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

5:00 PM
  • Film
  • Free
  • In-Person
Sunday, January 19, 2025
5:00 PM
Cheryl Dunye,
United States,
2001,
(97 mins)

Free Admission

Yolanda Ross stars as a tough young butch in this terrific, rarely seen women’s prison drama from Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman).

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 4:00 PM.

In Conversation
  • Cheryl Dunye
  • Allegra Madsen
    Allegra Madsen is the Executive Director at Frameline San Francisco LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the largest and longest-running queer film festival in the world.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

7:00 PM
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
7:00 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1960,
(175 mins)
A Federico Fellini masterpiece eddying around Marcello Mastroianni’s definitive performance as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence he sensationalizes.
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7:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, January 23, 2025
7:00 PM
Sidney Poitier,
United States,
1972,
(102 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Sidney Poitier’s directorial debut, Buck and the Preacher, employs the genre’s traditional narratives to challenge notions of freedom for African Americans in the post–Civil War West as they face relentless pursuit by racist bounty hunters.
  • Leila Weefur
    Introduction
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
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3:00 PM
Friday, January 24, 2025
3:00 PM
Cédric Kahn,
France,
2023,
(115 mins)
New 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.
7:00 PM
  • Film
  • Performance
Friday, January 24, 2025
7:00 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1929,
(113 mins)
Like much of G. W. Pabst’s best work, Diary of a Lost Girl was heavily cut by the censors. In the restored version, not only is the play of money and desire made explicit, but a comic spirit entirely missing from the censored versions emerges.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
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Saturday, January 25, 2025
2:00 PM
Featuring artist Barbara Kasten whose work is included in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, this discussion explores the innovative ways artists have transformed the language of painting as technologies evolve.

Included with gallery admission. RSVP recommended.

7:00 PM
Saturday, January 25, 2025
7:00 PM
John Ford,
United States,
1956,
(119 mins)
An essential reflection of American myths and prejudices that have yet to be overcome, starring John Wayne as a racist confederate veteran searching for his kidnapped niece.
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Sunday, January 26, 2025
1:00 PM
Oakland artist Anjelica Colliard (Jellicore) shares a wide range of their favorite techniques for mixed media drawing using materials like soft and oil pastel, gouache and watercolor, and ink and crayon to create dynamic, vibrant, fantastical scenes.

Included with admission

Series Workshops
Sunday, January 26, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

3:00 PM
  • Film
Sunday, January 26, 2025
3:00 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1961,
(122 mins)
Novelist Marcello Mastroianni and his wife, Jeanne Moreau, play out a drama of marital disillusionment against Michelangelo Antonioni’s rigorous sense of place and architecture.
6:00 PM
Sunday, January 26, 2025
6:00 PM
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1953,
(147 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Four 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. 
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

7:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
7:00 PM
Sérgio Toledo,
Brazil,
1986,
(88 mins)
One of the earliest portrayals in world cinema of a transmasculine character, a rarely seen Brazilian drama based on the life of the Brazilian trans poet Anderson Bigode Herzer.
  • Jenni Olson
    Introduction
    Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG
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7:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, January 30, 2025
7:00 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
France, Netherlands,
2024,
(145 mins)

Bay Area Premiere

Working with a crew of cinematographers positioned in different regions of Ukraine, Sergei Loznitsa created a film that recounts the actions of the people who have resisted oppression on a daily basis since the Russian invasion began.
  • Sergei Loznitsa
    In Person
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2:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, January 31, 2025
2:30 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Netherlands, Ukraine,
2021,
(121 mins)
Based entirely on archival footage (official documentation mixed with private footage shot by soldiers and civilians), Sergei Loznitsa’s film recounts the massacre of 33,771 Jews in the Babi Yar Ravine in Kyiv.
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Nicholas Baer
    Nicholas Baer is an Assistant Professor of German at UC Berkeley.
7:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, January 31, 2025
7:00 PM
Quentin Tarantino,
United States,
2015,
(168 mins)
Quentin Tarantino’s post–Civil War whodunit entangles a group of strangers in a tense, claustrophobic racial standoff in a snowbound stagecoach lodge in Wyoming.
  • Leila Weefur
    Introduction
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
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Saturday, February 1, 2025

Sign up by February 1, 2025, to receive a copy of the print mailing (limited edition; first come, first served)

Occasioned by the presentation of Elizabeth Murray’s monumental work Joanne in the Canyon (1991) in the exhibition Making Their Mark, BAMPFA’s Art Lab collaborates with the Estate of Elizabeth Murray to create a special edition risograph print mailing. Sign up online to receive a copy of this limited edition print while supplies last!

This is not an event; see description for details

2:30 PM
Saturday, February 1, 2025
2:30 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Germany,
2022,
(109 mins)
An intense work of archival documentary filmmaking inspired by W. G. Sebold’s essay on the devastation of World War II urban bombing campaigns.
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Deniz Göktürk
    Deniz Göktürk is a Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley.
6:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, February 1, 2025
6:30 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Lithuania, Netherlands,
2019,
(135 mins)
Archival imagery of the news and state funeral for Joseph Stalin. “This expertly constructed rearranging of archival and propaganda footage is the rare film to merit immediate status as a canonical work” (Jay Weissberg, Variety).
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Anne Nesbet
    Anne Nesbet is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film & Media at UC Berkeley.