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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, August 27, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, August 27, 2023
2 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Guided Tours
5 PM
Sunday, August 27, 2023
5 PM
Oleksandr Dovzhenko,
USSR,
1930,
(79 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
“Earth is Dovzhenko’s pictorial love song to nature, a radiant canvas for flowing wheat fields, oceans of crops, and idyllic close-ups of produce and foliage” (Jeremy Carr, Senses of Cinema).
7 PM
Sunday, August 27, 2023
7 PM
Yuliya Solntseva,
USSR,
1964,
(80 mins)
Free Admission
Based on a quasi-autobiographical script by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva’s The Enchanted Desna was described by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum as “among the most ravishingly beautiful and poetic spectacles ever made.”
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
7 PM
Ari Folman,
France, Germany, Israel,
2008,
(90 mins)
Recommended for adults
Waltz with Bashir is a striking animation film depicting the horrors of Israel’s first war in Lebanon in 1982, and the events leading up to the killings in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Awarded the prestigious Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign-Language Film and nominated in the same category at the Academy Awards.
7:30 PM
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
7:30 PM
(90 mins)
programmed by Sarah Cahill
Majel Connery and Matt Walsh play art rock as Sky Creature.
Space for Full performances is limited.
Series
Full
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Thursday, August 31, 2023
6 PM
Based in San Diego and Tijuana, Griselda Rosas reflects on the complex histories of the US-Mexico border to explore themes of inheritance and intergenerational knowledge in her art. Rosas and Senior Curator Anthony Graham, who organized the exhibition, discuss the interconnections between her works in various media, from her densely layered textiles to her spatially dynamic sculptural installations.
Included with admission.
Series
Talks & Conversations
7 PM
Thursday, August 31, 2023
7 PM
Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud,
France,
2007,
(96 mins)
Recommended for ages 12 and up
The story of a young girl’s coming of age in difficult times, Persepolis, based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, is a striking animated production that unfolds with grace, intelligence, and charm.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, September 1, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, September 1, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1950,
(88 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Luis Buñuel’s unsentimental portrait of slum kids in Mexico City. “Its matter-of-fact brilliance continues to astonish” (BBC).
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, September 2, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
7 PM
Saturday, September 2, 2023
7 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1963,
(103 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Jean-Luc Godard’s Homeric homage to Fritz Lang, “one of the defining moments of modernist filmmaking” (Film Comment).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 3, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
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7 PM
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France,
1930,
(88 mins)
New Digital Restorations
Luis Buñuel partnered with legendary artist Salvador Dalí for two incendiary Surrealist films that both scandalized audiences. Decades later, they still shock. With Un chien Andalou.
7:30 PM
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
7:30 PM
 Programmed by Sarah Cahill
Unfretted is a Carnatic trio featuring chitravina (a rare Indian instrument with ancient origins), violin, and mridangam (a South Indian two-headed drum). The three musicians—Vishaal Sapuram, Sruti Sarathy, and Akshay Anantapadmanabhan—possess a deep and sensitive understanding of the Carnatic form, which they channel through a fresh, imaginative, and unbridled vision of collaborative music making.
Space for performances is limited.
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Performances
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11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, September 7, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, September 7, 2023
12 PM
BAMPFA Senior Curator Anthony Graham discusses selected works from each thematic section of What Has Been and What Could Be, highlighting artists with ongoing relationships to BAMPFA, the UC Berkeley campus, and the Bay Area.
Included with admission.
Series
Talks & Conversations
Thursday, September 7, 2023
6:30 PM
Join Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, for a wide-ranging conversation with California magazine’s editor-in-chief, Pat Joseph, as they explore such topics as the startling new images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the Great North American Eclipse of 2024, and the abiding mysteries of dark energy.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact Tickets: $40; California Alumni Association and BAMPFA members: $35
Series
Talks & Conversations
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, September 8, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, September 8, 2023
7 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1965,
(98 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
“[Jean-Luc] Godard’s conceptual masterpiece is a hardboiled, Pop Art, sci-fi gloss on [Jean] Cocteau’s Orpheus and [George] Orwell’s 1984” (Village Voice).
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11:30 AM
Saturday, September 9, 2023
11:30 AM
 For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Make a self-portrait in a drippy watercolor style incorporating personally significant objects to tell a story about you.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events
1 PM–7 PM
Saturday, September 9, 2023
1 PM–7 PM
2 PM
Saturday, September 9, 2023
2 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Perennially popular author Jason Reynolds and renowned illustrator Raúl the Third combine forces to tell the story of Portico Reeves, a.k.a. Stuntboy, in this funny, thoughtful, and award-winning graphic novel.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events
5 PM
Saturday, September 9, 2023
5 PM
Amir Naderi,
Iran,
1984,
(91 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Amiro, an illiterate eleven-year-old orphan living alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan, survives by shining shoes, selling water, and diving for deposit bottles, while being bullied by both adults and competing older kids. But he finds solace by dreaming about departing cargo ships and airplanes and by running . . . seemingly to nowhere.
7 PM
Saturday, September 9, 2023
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1969,
(145 mins)
Digital Restoration
Jean-Pierre Melville’s drama of the French Resistance, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret, “grips tighter than a Gestapo handcuff. . . . A film of noirish compositions and fantastic cool” (Independent).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 10, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 10, 2023
2 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Guided Tours
7 PM
Sunday, September 10, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1951,
(86 mins)
An extremely loose young woman spreads consternation throughout the hacienda of an ultra-bourgeois family in Luis Buñuel’s over-the-top Mexican melodrama, which takes every cliché and exaggerates it even more.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Guided Tours
7 PM
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
7 PM
(80 mins)
All three films in this program—Words of Mercury, Bagatelle II, and In the Stone House—represent a journey of sorts, and between them they include footage from throughout Jerome Hiler’s filmmaking life.
Series
Illuminations: Jerome Hiler
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7 PM
Thursday, September 14, 2023
7 PM
Salomé Jashi,
Georgia, Germany, Switzerland,
2021,
(91 mins)
The opening shot of this striking environmental tale captures a tree as tall as a fifteen-story building floating on a barge across the vast Black Sea. Its destination lies in a garden countless miles away, privately owned by a wealthy and anonymous man whose passion is the removal, and subsequent replanting, of foreign trees into his own man-made Eden.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, September 15, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, September 15, 2023
7 PM
Salomé Jashi,
Georgia, Germany,
2011,
(98 mins)
A meditation on a lively but decaying building that once used to be a hotel called Bakhmaro in a provincial Georgian town. At the center of the building is a restaurant where tables are set, waiting for customers who rarely come. Paired with two short films, Their Helicopter (2006) and A Crypto Rush Aftermath (2023).
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, September 16, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
4:30 PM
Saturday, September 16, 2023
4:30 PM
Nikoloz Shengelaia,
USSR,
1928,
(97 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
One of Georgian cinema’s greatest silent film achievements, this historical epic evokes the tragic fate of a nation pacified in 1864 by the Tsarist Russian Empire. It features beautiful portrayals of Caucasus customs and celebrations.
7 PM
Saturday, September 16, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1952,
(91 mins)
Lies and insults, passion and heartbreak flow like wine in another of Luis Buñuel’s giddy Mexican melodramas, which follows the lifetime of intrigue that occurs when a young wife’s extramarital dalliance results in the birth of an illegitimate son.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
1 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2023
1 PM
How do we relate to the brilliance of color around us? What association of color is rooted within our ancestral cultures? How do these ideas connect with the modern world of design and technology? Join Indigenous artist Ocean Escalanti for an interactive presentation of color as slow and deliberate creation, in relation to these questions and knowledge from the world of plant foraging and natural dyeing.
Included with admission.
Series
Workshops
Sunday, September 17, 2023
3 PM
Berkeley-based Japanese artist Masako Miki discusses Ichiren-bozu (Animated prayer beads blue), a new work in BAMPFA’s collection that reflects her interest in reclaiming the power of myth making. Artist and UC Berkeley professor Stephanie Syjuco talks about her Raiders (Selections from the Asian Art Museum), a collection of flat, laser-cut, life-size images of antique Asian vessels downloaded from the Asian Art Museum’s online databases and adhered to wooden backings, investigating how we participate in the construction of culture.
Included with admission.
Series
Talks & Conversations
4 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2023
4 PM
Jerome Hiler,
United States,
2023,
(100 mins)
Jerome Hiler’s passion for medieval stained glass impacted his filmmaking practice and led to a fascinating evolving lecture, “Cinema Before 1300,” here premiering in digital form.
Series
Illuminations: Jerome Hiler
7 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2023
7 PM
Salomé Jashi,
Finland, Georgia, Germany,
2016,
(90 mins)
Beautifully shot and strangely comic, Jashi’s documentary The Dazzling Light of Sunset follows Dariko and Khaka, an ultra-low-budget local news team in rural western Georgia. Paired with two short films, The Tower and Speechless.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Guided Tours
7 PM
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
7 PM
(78 mins)
Cosponsored by Canyon Cinema
Ernie Gehr has always filmed the urban spaces where he lives and visits, finding abstractions, reflections, and “digital delirium.” We present four of his recent city films, “profoundly cinematic experiences of place” (Haden Guest).
Series
Alternative Visions
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7 PM
Thursday, September 21, 2023
7 PM
Dawn Porter,
United States,
2023,
(100 mins)
A fascinating perspective on a momentous period in US history, gleaned from 123 hours of candid audio recordings made by Lady Bird Johnson during her years in the White House.
In Conversation
Series
Dawn Porter in Person
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, September 22, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
3 PM
Friday, September 22, 2023
3 PM
In this talk, illustrated with excerpts from the many documentaries she has made over the past decade, Dawn Porter discusses what inspires her, her career trajectory, why and how she began making documentaries, and her approach to creating successful and enduring nonfiction films.
In Conversation
Series
Dawn Porter in Person
7 PM
Friday, September 22, 2023
7 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1963,
(103 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Jean-Luc Godard’s Homeric homage to Fritz Lang, “one of the defining moments of modernist filmmaking” (Film Comment).
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, September 23, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
4 PM
Saturday, September 23, 2023
4 PM
Dawn Porter,
United States,
2013,
(95 mins)
“In this study of exceptional grace under extreme pressure, a trio of public defenders makes considerable personal sacrifices to shield their indigent clients from the full weight of the judicial system” (Deadline Hollywood). “Essential . . . gripping and beautiful” (Esquire Magazine).
In Conversation
Series
Dawn Porter in Person
7 PM
Saturday, September 23, 2023
7 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1965,
(98 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
“[Jean-Luc] Godard’s conceptual masterpiece is a hardboiled, Pop Art, sci-fi gloss on [Jean] Cocteau’s Orpheus and [George] Orwell’s 1984” (Village Voice).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 24, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 24, 2023
2 PM
 Off-site Program; Copresented by Cal Performances, BAMPFA, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
Returning to the UC Berkeley campus for the first time in fifteen years, renowned artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei discusses art, politics, and modern life in a conversation with stage and film director Peter Sellars and Orville Schell, director of the Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society.
At Zellerbach Hall
Tickets start at $36
Series
Talks & Conversations
5 PM
Sunday, September 24, 2023
5 PM
Kavich Neang,
Cambodia,
2021,
(90 mins)
Bay Area Premiere!
Twentyish Samnang dreams of fame as a dancer and singer, yet the realities of day-to-day life constantly thwart his hopes for the future, specifically the looming destruction of the apartment complex where he and his family live. “White Building soars along on quiet moments thanks to Douglas Seok’s stunning cinematography” (Pat Padua, Spectrum Culture).
7 PM
Sunday, September 24, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France, Spain,
1933,
(103 mins)
Luis Buñuel’s only documentary showed the deprivation suffered by the inhabitants of the Las Hurdes region of Spain with the intention of jolting viewers out of complacency and into revolutionary action. Screening with Buñuel’s Prisoners, Ramón Gieling’s 2000 account of the lasting effects of the film on its subjects and their descendants.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Guided Tours
7 PM
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
7 PM
(70 mins)
Paul Fillinger’s magical educational films made with his children transform the genre into what he calls experiential cinema, celebrating curiosity and connection to nature.
In Conversation
Series
Alternative Visions
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7 PM
Thursday, September 28, 2023
7 PM
Želimir Žilnik,
Serbia,
2013,
(108 mins)
A biographical video essay on Pirika, a strong-willed woman living in Serbia, made forty-four years after she appeared as a child actor in two films directed by Želimir Žilnik. With four of Žilnik’s innovative short documentary films about immigrant and refugee experiences.
Introduction
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, September 29, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, September 29, 2023
7 PM
Želimir Žilnik,
Yugoslavia,
1989,
(95 mins)
Želimir Žilnik reinvents the road movie with an aged rocker who travels through Yugoslavia and becomes involved in unexpected turmoil: Milošević’s “antibureaucratic revolution.” With Black Film, a short film made with a group of homeless men.
In Conversation
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, September 30, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
3:30 PM
Saturday, September 30, 2023
3:30 PM
Rithy Panh,
Cambodia, France,
1996,
(60 mins)
Rithy Panh’s sensitive attention to detail and skilled direction make Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy a film of incredible power. His inquiry into the lives and deaths of Hout Bophana and Ly Sitha, a married couple who were casualties of the Pol Pot regime, personalizes the horror.
5 PM
Saturday, September 30, 2023
5 PM
Kavich Neang,
Cambodia,
2021,
(90 mins)
Bay Area Premiere!
Twentyish Samnang dreams of fame as a dancer and singer, yet the realities of day-to-day life constantly thwart his hopes for the future, specifically the looming destruction of the apartment complex where he and his family live. “White Building soars along on quiet moments thanks to Douglas Seok’s stunning cinematography” (Pat Padua, Spectrum Culture).
7 PM
Saturday, September 30, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1951,
(74 mins)
An about-to-be-married peasant takes a very long and often-detoured bus ride to visit his dying mother in this surprisingly carefree social comedy, which shows off Luis Buñuel’s more light-hearted, but still biting side.
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