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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 29, 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, March 29, 2026
1 PM
Bahram Beyzaie,
Iran,
1986,
(120 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
A young war orphan along the Iran/Iraq border somehow escapes to northern Iran in this powerful work, cited in a 1999 Iranian critics poll as the greatest Iranian film of all time. Admirers include Amir Naderi and Jafar Panahi.
Sunday, March 29, 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.
Series
Exhibition Tours
4 PM
Sunday, March 29, 2026
4 PM
Jacques Rivette,
France,
1961,
(141 mins)
One of the seminal films of the French New Wave, with cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and others, this is a Langian thriller updated to 1960 in a brilliantly realized Paris. “A masterpiece of Left Bank paranoia” (Village Voice).
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, April 1, 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.
Series
Exhibition Tours
7 PM
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
7 PM
Sammy Baloji,
Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
2025,
(89 mins)
The Tree of Authenticity recounts the stigma of ecological destruction that began at the time of colonization through the voices of two scientists who worked at Yangambi INERA Research Station in the Congo between 1910 and 1950: Paul Panda Farnana and Abiron Beirnaert.
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Documentary Voices
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11 AM-7 PM
Thursday, April 2, 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.
All Day
Thursday, April 2, 2026
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
1:15 PM
Thursday, April 2, 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.
Series
Exhibition Tours
7 PM
Thursday, April 2, 2026
7 PM
Carl Theodor Dreyer,
France,
1928,
(81 mins)
35mm Archival Print
Tracing the trial and execution of Joan of Arc, The Passion of Joan of Arc emphasizes the raw emotion of its actors through Carl Theodor Dreyer’s signature austere cinematography, stark sets, and extreme close-up photography of its lead actors.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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2 PM-7 PM
Friday, April 3, 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
Friday, April 3, 2026
4:30 PM
Alexander Kluge,
Germany,
1966,
(88 mins)
Protagonist Anita G. (played by Alexandra Kluge, the director’s sister) is the face of the 1960s, typical of a generation that had grown up since World War II, hovering on the edge of delinquency and frustrated by the pettiness of bourgeois society.
7 PM
Friday, April 3, 2026
7 PM
Richard Linklater,
United States,
2006,
(108 mins)
Richard Linklater’s woozy rotoscoped adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel is a cop story infused with metaphysical questions about addiction, the nature of the mind and the self, and their destruction, embedded in a corporate surveillance thriller. With Coffee (1977) by Dorothy Wiley.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Psychedelia & Cinema
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, April 4, 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, April 4, 2026
1:30 PM
Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Center for Korean Studies. Community partnership support provided by GYOPO. Tickets required.
Drawing on the radical generosity of Cha's multidisciplinary practice, authors Brandon Shimoda, Divya Victor, and Cathy Park Hong discuss the lasting impact of Cha’s work, as well as their own approaches to writing in relation to such themes as imperialism, displacement, exile, and subjectivity.
Gallery admission is included with ticket purchase. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
Series
Talks & Conversations
4 PM
Saturday, April 4, 2026
4 PM
Fatou Cissé,
Mali,
2024,
(67 mins)
This powerful social drama from director Fatou Cissé, daughter of legendary Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, explores the impact of forced marriage on young women in Mali. A poignant and urgent reflection on gender, autonomy, and resistance within a patriarchal society.
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African Film Festival
6:30 PM
Saturday, April 4, 2026
6:30 PM
Lucrecia Martel,
Argentina,
2001,
(101 mins)
Two extended families suffer through a heat wave in Martel’s award-winning portrayal of social inertia, class, and racial dynamics. “Every shot is dense with life, yet the movie is highly focused, a small masterpiece” (Meredith Brody, Chicago Reader).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, April 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.
1 PM
Sunday, April 5, 2026
1 PM
(87 mins)
Annie MacDonell and Maïder Fortuné bring a feminist perspective to the consideration of consciousness-expanding practices through drugs and/or art, work, and life. With works by Lillian Schwartz, Ben Russell, and Gunvor Nelson.
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Psychedelia & Cinema
Sunday, April 5, 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.
Series
Exhibition Tours
4 PM
Sunday, April 5, 2026
4 PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Germany,
1976,
(86 mins)
A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family’s country house with their lovers. A camp satire on the haute bourgeoisie starring Anna Karina and Margit Carstensen.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026
12:15 PM
Curatorial Associate Tausif Noor guides viewers through the themes of the exhibition.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours
3:30 PM
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
3:30 PM
Bahram Beyzaie,
Iran,
1986,
(120 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
A young war orphan along the Iran/Iraq border somehow escapes to northern Iran in this powerful work, cited in a 1999 Iranian critics poll as the greatest Iranian film of all time. Admirers include Amir Naderi and Jafar Panahi.
7 PM
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
7 PM
Jessica Beshir,
Ethiopia, Qatar, United States,
2021,
(118 mins)
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
“A nonfiction work of sensory immersion that’s part anthropology, part poetry” (Hollywood Reporter), the stunning Faya dayi explores the khat trade that dominates rural Ethiopia, circling between youths with little hope and their elders, who are dependent on the dream state the leaf creates.
In Conversation
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Psychedelia & Cinema
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Thursday, April 9, 2026
7 PM
Lucrecia Martel,
Argentina,
2004,
(106 mins)
An adolescent girl tries to save a man from sin in Lucrecia Martel’s hallucinatory look at religious devotion, sexual awakening, Lolita obsessions, and Catholic repressions in small-town Argentina. “A film that defies categorization, but I’m tempted to call it a miracle” (A. O. Scott, New York Times).
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2–7 PM
Friday, April 10, 2026
2–7 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.
5 PM
Friday, April 10, 2026
5 PM
(66 mins)
Films by Maya Deren and Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet—contributors to Apparatus: Selected Writings (1980), an anthology of film theory edited by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha—precede a selection of Cha’s Super 8 and video work from the early 1970s.
7:30 PM
Friday, April 10, 2026
7:30 PM
(80 mins)
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6:30 PM.
A selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6:30 PM.
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Special Screenings
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11:30 AM–1 PM
Saturday, April 11, 2026
11:30 AM–1 PM
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Inspired by Zaroulie Abdaliam’s sculpture, on display in Object Oriented, explore height, width, and depth as you make your own sculpture of an abstract body.
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.
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Family Events
1 PM–7 PM
Saturday, April 11, 2026
1 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.
Saturday, April 11, 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.
Series
Exhibition Tours
2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Saturday, April 11, 2026
2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Shenice Lockwood is determined to lead her team to the fast-pitch softball regionals, if only she can resolve the mysteries in her family’s past.
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.
Series
Family Events
4:30 PM
Saturday, April 11, 2026
4:30 PM
Maxime Jean-Baptiste,
Belgium, France, French Guiana,
2024,
(77 mins)
A family’s long-carried grief forms the heart of this personal blend of fiction and documentary set, in French Guiana. The film also offers “a story about grief and forgiveness that also deals with the persisting consequences of colonialism: a violence that equally cannot pass.”
Series
African Film Festival
7 PM
Saturday, April 11, 2026
7 PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Germany,
1979,
(120 mins)
Hanna Schygulla became the new Marlene Dietrich with her ironic performance as an emblem of Germany’s postwar economic miracle. “Brilliantly complex . . . splendid and mysterious” (New York Times).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact |
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, April 12, 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, April 12, 2026
1:30 PM
(48 mins)
The influence of Structuralist film theory is palpable throughout Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s films, particularly in her 1976 film Permutations, which is here paired with White Dust from Mongolia, the artist’s unfinished foray into narrative cinema.
Sunday, April 12, 2026
2 PM
For visitors curious about the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and wishing for guidance on the potentially challenging contemporary modes that characterize her practice, BAMPFA Education Director Sherry Goodman offers an exhibition tour that grounds Cha’s artwork in fundamentals of Conceptual art, performance art, and video.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours
4 PM
Sunday, April 12, 2026
4 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1970,
(116 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
“Adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay’s celebrated 1968 novel, Days and Nights in the Forest is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale” (Janus Films).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
Series
Special Screenings
7 PM
Sunday, April 12, 2026
7 PM
Afolabi Olalekan,
Nigeria,
2024,
(95 mins)
One of 2024’s most acclaimed Nigerian films, Freedom Way tells an intense and powerful story of a disparate group of people facing economic pressure while seeking to improve their living conditions amidst a corrupt and oppressive city. Screens with Max Fouchee’s Cape Town Royalty Programme.
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African Film Festival
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, April 15, 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.
Series
Exhibition Tours
5:30 PM
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
5:30 PM
During this gathering-performance and shared viewing of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings, those who choose to participate physically will be asked to kneel, bow, or perform other gestures of prayer as they are able. All others are welcome to observe. Led by Jasper Qiyun Wang.
Included with gallery admission. 7 PM
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
7 PM
Lucrecia Martel,
Argentina, Denmark, France, Mexico, Netherlands, United States,
2025,
(122 mins)
“This film chronicles Argentina’s strategies to deny the Chuschagasta Community their territory. Drawing from the 2018 trial of Javier Chocobar’s assassins (2009), community conversations, and their photo archives, we reconstructed the community’s journey from the 17th century to today” (Lucrecia Martel).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
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Thursday, April 16, 2026
4 PM
Inna Sahakyan,
Armenia, Germany, Lithuania,
2022,
(96 mins)
The film tells the true story of Aurora Mardiganian, a teenage survivor of the Armenian genocide, who escapes to the United States and becomes a silent-era Hollywood star to tell the world about the struggle of her nation.
In Conversation
Series
Special Screenings
4:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2026
4:30 PM
Co-presented by the Department of African American Studies
Leigh Raiford and Delphine Sims discuss how Black people use photography to make a home in the world and the complex relationships between racialized subjects and the medium of photography, topics which are the focus of Leigh Raiford's new book, When Home Is a Photograph.
Included with gallery admission.
Series
Readings
7 PM
Thursday, April 16, 2026
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1959,
(119 mins)
Yasujiro Ozu’s color remake of his 1934 film follows a theater troupe that visits a remote island to meet the lead actor’s illegitimate son. The narrative unfolds as the actor balances his paternal responsibilities with his relationship with the lead actress.
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2 PM-7 PM
Friday, April 17, 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
Friday, April 17, 2026
3:30 PM
Alf Brustellin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupe, Hans Peter Cloos, Volker Schlöndorff, Bernhard Sinkel, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Peter Schubert,
Germany,
1978,
(124 mins)
A provocative mixture of reportage, autobiography, and melodrama, this omnibus film made by eleven directors of the New German Cinema, remains an important and unique contribution and contains a revealing autobiographical sequence by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, at one point interviewing his mother.
7 PM
Friday, April 17, 2026
7 PM
Ariel Kuaray Ortega, Ernesto de Carvalho,
Brazil,
2023,
(130 mins)
A compelling hybrid documentary filmed in a Mbyá-Guaraní community on the border of Brazil and Argentina deals with the local story of a man who transformed into a jaguar.
In Conversation
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, April 18, 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, April 18, 2026
1:30 PM
BAMPFA is excited to present Joan Kee as the museum’s 2026 Lijin Lecturer. The endowed Lijin Collection Distinguished Lecture series presents leading artists and scholars on topics that relate to and cast new light upon East Asian art.
Included with gallery admission.
Series
Talks & Conversations
4 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2026
4 PM
(44 mins)
An impressive array of Lucrecia Martel’s short films, including a commissioned work by the fashion house Miu Miu and her 2022 short Maid.
In Conversation
7 PM
Saturday, April 18, 2026
7 PM
Lucrecia Martel,
Argentina,
2008,
(87 mins)
World Premiere of the New 4K Digital Restoration
A woman involved in a potentially tragic hit-and-run accident tries to ignore what happened in Lucrecia Martel’s disorienting, critically acclaimed suspense thriller. “If Hitchcock and Antonioni ever had an interest in class guilt, you’d have Martel” (Wesley Morris).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, April 19, 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, April 19, 2026
1 PM
RSVPs are full. Check out our other Art Lab workshops→
Join local artist and Senior Art Lab Facilitator Alayna Tinney for a beginner-friendly dive into risograph printing. Risograph printing is known for being an accessible form of printmaking, offering artists the ability to create speedy, high-volume editions with loose but lush layers of color. All experience levels and ages are welcome.
RSVPs are full. Check out our other Art Lab workshops→
Series
Workshops
Sunday, April 19, 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.
Series
Exhibition Tours
4 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2026
4 PM
(106 mins)
Structured by epistolary relationships between mothers and daughters, Chantal Akerman’s News from Home and Mona Hatoum’s Measures of Distance resonate with the themes of distance and exile rife throughout the oeuvre of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
7 PM
Sunday, April 19, 2026
7 PM
Lucrecia Martel,
Argentina,
2017,
(115 mins)
Lucrecia Martel’s 2017 feature is a glimpse into the colonial abyss, adapted from a famed Argentine novel about a Spanish officer in a remote proto-Paraguayan outpost. “Perplexing and thrilling in equal measure” (Variety).
In Conversation
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5 PM
Presented by UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities in partnership with BAMPFA
Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor Emerita of English at Vanderbilt University, is the 2025–26 Una’s Lecturer.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 4 PM.
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Talks & Conversations
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Wednesday, April 22, 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.
Series
Exhibition Tours
3:30 PM
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
3:30 PM
Rakhshan Banietemad,
Iran,
2015,
(103 mins)
Rahkshan Banietemad's visit to Berkeley has been canceled.
This program features two documentaries that focus on the environment and the power of women to change society: All My Trees, a portrait of the founder of Iran’s first environmental NGO by Iran’s greatest female filmmaker, and Mother of the Earth.
7 PM
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
7 PM
Arthur Jafa,
United States,
2013,
(52 mins)
Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, African American filmmakers, artists, and intellectuals reflect on the goals and ambitions of the civil rights movement and where things stand today.
Series
Documentary Voices
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Thursday, April 23, 2026
4 PM
Rakhshan Banietemad,
Iran,
2001,
(93 mins)
Rahkshan Banietemad's visit to Berkeley has been canceled.
“The First Lady of Iranian cinema” (Film Comment) uses a working-class Tehran family’s lives as a window into the struggles and strangled hopes of an entire nation.
7 PM
Thursday, April 23, 2026
7 PM
Rakhshan Banietemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab,
Iran,
2005,
(83 mins)
Rahkshan Banietemad's visit to Berkeley has been canceled.
An “ordinary” Iranian mother leads her children through two separate wars, across two separate decades, in this alternatively tender and provocative showcase of the human cost of war.
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Friday, April 24, 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.
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Saturday, April 25, 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
Saturday, April 25, 2026
11:30 AM
Chie Hayakawa,
France, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, United States,
2025,
(118 mins)
In 1987 suburban Tokyo, an eleven-year-old girl’s irrepressible imagination transforms everyday life into a vivid, inventive, and deeply moving adventure.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 2:15 PM
Saturday, April 25, 2026
2:15 PM
Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý,
Belgium, France, Vietnam,
2025,
(71 mins)
A woman regales her grandchildren with her wisdom and stories, a gift of language with which they can navigate life.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
4:30 PM
Saturday, April 25, 2026
4:30 PM
Sophy Romvari,
Canada, Hungary,
2025,
(90 mins)
Depicting a young girl whose family is contending with a challenging older sibling, this masterful debut weaves autobiographical and documentary elements to capture the sights and sounds of adolescence impeccably.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 7:15 PM
Saturday, April 25, 2026
7:15 PM
Mariana Rondón, Marité Ugás,
Mexico, Venezuela,
2025,
(97 mins)
The lawlessness afoot in Venezuela’s capital city in 2017 is vibrantly captured in this gripping adaptation of Karina Sainz Borgo’s novel from the filmmaking team behind Bad Hair.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. In Person
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Sunday, April 26, 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
Sunday, April 26, 2026
11:30 AM
Anna Fitch, Banker White,
United States,
2026,
(78 mins)
Through beautifully constructed miniature sets and puppets, directors Anna Fitch and Banker White craft an elegy to the life and times of Anna’s beloved friend, Yo.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. In Person
Sunday, April 26, 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.
Series
Exhibition Tours
2 PM
Sunday, April 26, 2026
2 PM
Juan Cabral,
Argentina,
2025,
(94 mins)
In a small town where the dead call from an abandoned phone booth, a young girl discovers she alone can hear them, setting off a whimsical quest to help spirits—and find her father.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
4:45 PM
Sunday, April 26, 2026
4:45 PM
Sara Dosa,
Iceland, United States,
2026,
(90 mins)
Closed Captioned
Writer Andri Snær Magnason reckons with the death of Okjökull, the first glacier lost to climate change, as Sara Dosa’s striking documentary blends vanishing ice, family memory, and urgent witness.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. In Person
7:30 PM
Sunday, April 26, 2026
7:30 PM
Yoon Ga-eun,
South Korea,
2025,
(119 mins)
Boisterous and unshakable, a young girl’s harmonious world unravels after a public clash and anonymous letters force her to confront long-buried truths, testing her sense of self and resilience.
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4:30 PM
Monday, April 27, 2026
4:30 PM
Liz Garbus, Elizabeth Wolff,
United States,
2026,
(102 mins)
Closed Captioned
Through rare archival footage and candid interviews in this vivid and electrifying documentary, Billie Jean King recalls the victories, struggles, and sacrifices behind her trailblazing career.
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4:30 PM
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
4:30 PM
Javid Soriano,
United States,
2026,
(75 mins)
Tim Blevins trained at Juilliard, enthralling opera fans with his baritone before losing it all to addiction. But then he pulled off a stunning comeback.
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5 PM
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
5 PM
Elisé Sawasawa,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, France,
2026,
(65 mins)
Displaced Congolese filmmaker Elisé Sawasawa chronicles life amid the Kivu War, capturing shocking attacks, refugee struggles, and frontline chaos in a fearless, urgent, and unflinching documentary about resilience.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
7 PM
Lynne Sachs,
United States,
2025,
(83 mins)
A swirl of images and sonic sound accompanies Lynne Sachs’s rumination of memory and assumptions, using as her inspiration a stack of business cards collected over forty years.
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4 PM
Thursday, April 30, 2026
4 PM
Ildiko Enyedi,
France, Germany, Hungary,
2025,
(147 mins)
An ancient ginkgo tree enchants longing souls across more than a century in this spellbinding cinematic triptych starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Léa Seydoux.
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Thursday, April 30, 2026
7:30 PM
Stroma Cairns,
United Kingdom,
2025,
(102 mins)
A restless young man leaves London for the Scottish coast in search of purpose. Along the way, unexpected friendships force him to confront who he is—and who he might become.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, May 1, 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, May 1, 2026
4 PM
Emin Alper,
France, Greece, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Turkey,
2026,
(120 mins)
Winner of the Berlinale’s Silver Bear, Emin Alper’s tense, visually striking drama explores the explosive consequences when territorial rivalries ignite in a remote Turkish mountain village.
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7 PM
Friday, May 1, 2026
7 PM
Rafael Manuel,
France, Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore, United Kingdom,
2026,
(100 mins)
In this auspicious debut feature, a new hire arrives for work at a luxurious golf course on the outskirts of Manila, where she discovers something sinister hiding beneath its pristine surface.
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