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28 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed Sunday, December 28, 2025 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed BAMPFA will be CLOSED December 22, 2025–January 4, 2026 for winter break. Find our full hours at bampfa.org/visit Google Calendar ICS	29 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed Monday, December 29, 2025 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed BAMPFA will be CLOSED December 22, 2025–January 4, 2026 for winter break. Find our full hours at bampfa.org/visit Google Calendar ICS	30 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed Tuesday, December 30, 2025 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed BAMPFA will be CLOSED December 22, 2025–January 4, 2026 for winter break. Find our full hours at bampfa.org/visit Google Calendar ICS	31 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed Wednesday, December 31, 2025 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed BAMPFA will be CLOSED December 22, 2025–January 4, 2026 for winter break. Find our full hours at bampfa.org/visit Google Calendar ICS	1 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed Thursday, January 1, 2026 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed BAMPFA will be CLOSED December 22, 2025–January 4, 2026 for winter break. Find our full hours at bampfa.org/visit Google Calendar ICS	2 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed Friday, January 2, 2026 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed BAMPFA will be CLOSED December 22, 2025–January 4, 2026 for winter break. Find our full hours at bampfa.org/visit Google Calendar ICS	3 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed Saturday, January 3, 2026 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed BAMPFA will be CLOSED December 22, 2025–January 4, 2026 for winter break. Find our full hours at bampfa.org/visit Google Calendar ICS
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4 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed Sunday, January 4, 2026 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed BAMPFA will be CLOSED December 22, 2025–January 4, 2026 for winter break. Find our full hours at bampfa.org/visit Google Calendar ICS	5 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed Monday, January 5, 2026 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed BAMPFA will be CLOSED December 22, 2025–January 4, 2026 for winter break. Find our full hours at bampfa.org/visit Google Calendar ICS	6 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed Tuesday, January 6, 2026 Modified Hours: BAMPFA Closed BAMPFA will be CLOSED December 22, 2025–January 4, 2026 for winter break. Find our full hours at bampfa.org/visit Google Calendar ICS	7 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM Wednesday, January 7, 2026 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM As part of our seasonal hours, the BAMPFA galleries and store will close early at 5 PM on select days during the winter. Google Calendar ICS	8 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM Thursday, January 8, 2026 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM As part of our seasonal hours, the BAMPFA galleries and store will close early at 5 PM on select days during the winter. Google Calendar ICS	9 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM Friday, January 9, 2026 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM As part of our seasonal hours, the BAMPFA galleries and store will close early at 5 PM on select days during the winter. Google Calendar ICS 2 PM–5 PM Open: Art Lab Art Friday, January 9, 2026 2 PM–5 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Google Calendar ICS 7 PM In the Mood for Love Film In-Person Friday, January 9, 2026 7 PM In the Mood for Love Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, 2000, (107 mins) 4K Digital Restoration, 25th Anniversary Edition Also screens on Friday, January 30 (with an introduction by Daniel O’Neill) and Saturday, February 14 on 35mm (without the short film). 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. Weihong Bao Introduction Weihong Bao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series In the Mood for Love: The Films of Wong Kar Wai SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	10 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM Saturday, January 10, 2026 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM As part of our seasonal hours, the BAMPFA galleries and store will close early at 5 PM on select days during the winter. Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–5 PM Open: Art Lab Art Saturday, January 10, 2026 11 AM–5 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Google Calendar ICS 4 PM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Film Saturday, January 10, 2026 4 PM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Lewis Milestone, United States, 1946, (116 mins) Digital Restoration This masterful psychological noir thriller directed by Lewis Milestone stars a fiery Barbara Stanwyck. The screenplay by Robert Rossen is tight, tough, and cynical. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM As Tears Go By Film Saturday, January 10, 2026 6:30 PM As Tears Go By Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, 1988, (102 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Described by Wong Kar Wai as “a tragic study of little people in a big city,” his first feature provided enough fistfights and street battles to please audiences while debuting the mood-drenched atmospherics and unabashed romanticism that would define his career. Series In the Mood for Love: The Films of Wong Kar Wai Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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11 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM Sunday, January 11, 2026 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM As part of our seasonal hours, the BAMPFA galleries and store will close early at 5 PM on select days during the winter. Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–5 PM Open: Art Lab Art Sunday, January 11, 2026 11 AM–5 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM The Hidden Fortress Film Sunday, January 11, 2026 1:30 PM The Hidden Fortress Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1958, (139 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Toshiro Mifune swashbuckles his way through this supremely entertaining samurai adventure, the plot inspiration for Star Wars. 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. Series Akira Kurosawa: Four Recent Restorations SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Cairo Station Film Sunday, January 11, 2026 4:30 PM Cairo Station 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. Series Special Screenings Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Days of Being Wild Film In-Person Sunday, January 11, 2026 7 PM Days of Being Wild Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, 1990, (94 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Also screens on Sunday, February 22 (without 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. Andrew F. Jones Introduction Andrew F. Jones is Professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley. Series In the Mood for Love: The Films of Wong Kar Wai SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	12	13	14 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM Wednesday, January 14, 2026 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM As part of our seasonal hours, the BAMPFA galleries and store will close early at 5 PM on select days during the winter. Google Calendar ICS 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection Art Tours Wednesday, January 14, 2026 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection Graduate students from the Departments of History of Art and Film & Media offer tours of Object Oriented on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. Included with admission. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Viridiana Film Wednesday, January 14, 2026 7 PM Viridiana Luis Buñuel, Mexico, Spain, 1961, (90 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Viridiana (Silvia Pinal) dreams of becoming a nun until the attentions of her lecherous uncle change her path. Luis Buñuel’s irreverent vision of life as a beggar’s banquet is regarded by many as his masterpiece. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	15 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM Thursday, January 15, 2026 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM As part of our seasonal hours, the BAMPFA galleries and store will close early at 5 PM on select days during the winter. Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Welfare Film Thursday, January 15, 2026 7 PM Welfare Frederick Wiseman, United States, 1975, (167 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Frederick Wiseman’s ongoing study of bureaucracy takes on epic proportions in Welfare, giving subtle structure to the chaos of stories in a New York City welfare center. “Wiseman’s probing, empathetic closeups reflect the clamor and the complexity of the city at large” (Richard Brody, New Yorker). Series Frederick Wiseman: America at Work Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM Friday, January 16, 2026 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM As part of our seasonal hours, the BAMPFA galleries and store will close early at 5 PM on select days during the winter. Google Calendar ICS 2 PM–5 PM Open: Art Lab Art Friday, January 16, 2026 2 PM–5 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Erotikon Film In-Person Performance Friday, January 16, 2026 7 PM Erotikon Mauritz Stiller, Sweden, 1920, (86 mins) Imported 35mm Print Erotikon is set entirely in an urban milieu and openly challenges social taboos in the story of a wife simultaneously courting two lovers in a comic portrayal of love and infidelity. Jon Wengström Introduction Jon Wengström is Senior Curator of the Archival Film Collections at the Swedish Film Institute (Stockholm) and an expert on Swedish silent cinema. Judith Rosenberg On Piano Series Swedish Silent Cinema: Victor Sjöström & Mauritz Stiller Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	17 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM Saturday, January 17, 2026 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM As part of our seasonal hours, the BAMPFA galleries and store will close early at 5 PM on select days during the winter. Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–5 PM Open: Art Lab Art Saturday, January 17, 2026 11 AM–5 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Jon Wengström’s Lecture on Victor Sjöström Film Free In-Person Saturday, January 17, 2026 4 PM Jon Wengström’s Lecture on Victor Sjöström (90 mins) Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 3 PM. A ninety-minute illustrated lecture with clips, rare shorts, and fragments that put Victor Sjöström and his films into context, as well as sketch out his career both as a director and as an actor. Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 3 PM. Jon Wengström Illustrated Lecture Jon Wengström is Senior Curator of the Archival Film Collections at the Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm, and an expert on Swedish silent cinema. Series Swedish Silent Cinema: Victor Sjöström & Mauritz Stiller Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM The 400 Blows Film In-Person Saturday, January 17, 2026 6:30 PM The 400 Blows François Truffaut, France, 1959, (99 mins) Jean-Pierre Léaud plays François Truffaut’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel, in the quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris. 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 Series Laura Truffaut on François Truffaut SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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18 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM Sunday, January 18, 2026 Seasonal Hours: Galleries and Store Close at 5 PM As part of our seasonal hours, the BAMPFA galleries and store will close early at 5 PM on select days during the winter. Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–5 PM Open: Art Lab Art Sunday, January 18, 2026 11 AM–5 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Google Calendar ICS 1 PM The Wings & Ingeborg Holm Film In-Person Performance Sunday, January 18, 2026 1 PM The Wings & Ingeborg Holm (126 mins) Ingeborg Holm is one of Sweden’s first social protest films and a masterpiece of prewar cinema. Preceded by queer-themed The Wings, a very free adaptation of Mikaël, a novella by Danish writer Herman Bang. Jon Wengström Introduction Jon Wengström is Senior Curator of the Archival Film Collections at the Swedish Film Institute (Stockholm) and an expert on Swedish silent cinema. Judith Rosenberg On Piano Series Swedish Silent Cinema: Victor Sjöström & Mauritz Stiller Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Blind Film Sunday, January 18, 2026 4 PM Blind Frederick Wiseman, United States, 1986, (132 mins) 4K Digital Restoration In the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, Frederick Wiseman found both rich subject matter and an opportunity to provide deeper, reflexive consideration of the use of image and sound in his process. “A deeply moving experience—one containing more joy than heartbreak” (Terry Atkinson, Los Angeles Times). Series Frederick Wiseman: America at Work Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Chungking Express Film In-Person Sunday, January 18, 2026 7 PM Chungking Express Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, 1994, (102 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Also screens on Saturday, February 28 (without 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. Weihong Bao Introduction Weihong Bao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series In the Mood for Love: The Films of Wong Kar Wai SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	19	20	21 7 PM The Outlaw and His Wife Film In-Person Performance Wednesday, January 21, 2026 7 PM The Outlaw and His Wife Victor Sjöström, Sweden, 1918, (110 mins) Imported 35mm Print A thief, a young widow, and their love outside the law: “Without a doubt the most beautiful film in the world!” declared French avant-gardist Louis Delluc. Jon Wengström Jon Wengström is Senior Curator of the Archival Film Collections at the Swedish Film Institute (Stockholm) and an expert on Swedish silent cinema. Judith Rosenberg On Piano Series Swedish Silent Cinema: Victor Sjöström & Mauritz Stiller Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	22 7 PM Stolen Kisses Film In-Person Thursday, January 22, 2026 7 PM Stolen Kisses François Truffaut, France, 1968, (123 mins) Jean-Pierre Léaud as François Truffaut’s quintessential dreamer Antoine Doinel, flitting through 1968 Paris in search of love and livelihood. With short Antoine and Colette. 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 Series Laura Truffaut on François Truffaut SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	23 11 AM–7 PM Preview Day / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Friday, January 23, 2026 11 AM–7 PM Preview Day / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff. BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff enjoy early access to the new exhibition Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings. Google Calendar ICS 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Friday, January 23, 2026 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Ikiru Film Friday, January 23, 2026 4 PM Ikiru Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1952, (143 mins) 4K Digital Restoration In Akira Kurosawa’s humanist masterpiece, an ordinary civil servant discovers what it means to live. This Japanese everyman was perhaps Takashi Shimura’s greatest role. Series Akira Kurosawa: Four Recent Restorations Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Ashes of Time Redux Film Friday, January 23, 2026 7 PM Ashes of Time Redux Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, 1994/2008, (100 mins) Featuring a who’s who of Hong Kong superstars, Wong Kar Wai’s dreamy take on the martial arts genre (choreographed by the legendary Sammo Hung), follows a desert loner who connects swordsmen to vengeance seekers, looking for either blood or love. Series In the Mood for Love: The Films of Wong Kar Wai Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	24 Modified Hours: Galleries Open Late at 1 PM Saturday, January 24, 2026 Modified Hours: Galleries Open Late at 1 PM BAMPFA galleries will open late at 1 PM on Saturday, January 24. Google Calendar ICS 1:30 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Saturday, January 24, 2026 1:30 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Google Calendar ICS 2 PM 시( )nawi( )fugue (an improvisation, an offering, a reading) Performance Saturday, January 24, 2026 2 PM 시( )nawi( )fugue (an improvisation, an offering, a reading) Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley's Center for Korean Studies Artist Jesse Chun presents the inaugural activation of her new performance series 시( )nawi( )fugue in a collective, improvisational reading that invokes artistic matriarchs and cultivates spiritual kinship across generations. Included with admission. Series Performances Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Such a Pretty Little Beach Film In-Person Saturday, January 24, 2026 4 PM Such a Pretty Little Beach Yves Allégret, France, 1949, (91 mins) Digital Restoration “Marvelously photographed by Henri Alekan and arguably Gérard Philipe’s finest study of romantic despair” (David Thomson, Biographical Dictionary of Film). Polina Barskova Introduction on January 24 Polina Barskova is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM Fallen Angels Film Saturday, January 24, 2026 6:30 PM Fallen Angels Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 1995, (99 mins) 4K Digital Restoration In this ode to nocturnal Hong Kong, a disillusioned contract killer falls for his partner. “A pyrotechnical wonder about mystery, solitude, and the irrational love of movies” (J. Hoberman), Fallen Angels “takes every risk known to filmmaking, and succeeds triumphantly” (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. Series In the Mood for Love: The Films of Wong Kar Wai SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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25 11 AM–7 PM Free Community Day / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Free Sunday, January 25, 2026 11 AM–7 PM Free Community Day / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Free gallery admission all day Join us for the opening day of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings with free gallery admission for all! Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Sunday, January 25, 2026 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Google Calendar ICS 11:30 AM–2 PM Art Making for All Ages Art Families Free Sunday, January 25, 2026 11:30 AM–2 PM Art Making for All Ages Drop in and make art in BAMPFA’s Crane Forum space, next to the Art Wall. Materials will be provided. Google Calendar ICS 3:30 PM Jules and Jim Film In-Person Sunday, January 25, 2026 3:30 PM Jules and Jim François Truffaut, France, 1962, (106 mins) François Truffaut’s portrayal of an early twentieth-century love triangle with Jeanne Moreau at its apex is “full of wit and radiance” (Pauline Kael). Laura Truffaut Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Aner Preminger Moderator Aner Preminger is a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley and the author of François Truffaut: Cinema as an Act of Love—An Intertextual Approach. Series Laura Truffaut on François Truffaut SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Happy Together Film In-Person Sunday, January 25, 2026 7 PM Happy Together Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, 1997, (96 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Also screens on Friday, February 13 (with an introduction by Iggy Cortez). 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. Daniel O’Neill Introduction Daniel O’Neill is an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. Series In the Mood for Love: The Films of Wong Kar Wai SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	26	27	28 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings Art Tours Wednesday, January 28, 2026 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings 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 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Sir Arne’s Treasure Film In-Person Performance Wednesday, January 28, 2026 7 PM Sir Arne’s Treasure Mauritz Stiller, Sweden, 1919, (109 mins) Digital Restoration This tinted restoration illuminates the tension between the exquisite attention to textural detail and the ghostly immaterial special effects in some of the most spectacular scenes and images in the history of Swedish silent cinema. Linda Haverty Rugg Introduction Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley. Judith Rosenberg On Piano Series Swedish Silent Cinema: Victor Sjöström & Mauritz Stiller Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	29 7 PM The Soft Skin Film In-Person Thursday, January 29, 2026 7 PM The Soft Skin François Truffaut, France, 1964, (117 mins) A mild-mannered, middle-aged married academic juggles his modern literature lectures with afternoon trysts with a stewardess in François Truffaut’s elegant, oft-overlooked critique of the philandering class, made with a Hitchcockian lightness of touch and pace. An “astute dissection of middle-class mores” (BFI). 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 Series Laura Truffaut on François Truffaut SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	30 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Friday, January 30, 2026 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Google Calendar ICS 4 PM In the Mood for Love Film In-Person Friday, January 30, 2026 4 PM In the Mood for Love Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, 2000, (107 mins) 4K Digital Restoration, 25th Anniversary Edition Also screens on Friday, January 9 (with an introduction by Weihong Bao) and Saturday, February 14 on 35mm (without the short film). 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. Daniel O’Neill Introduction Daniel O’Neill is an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. Series In the Mood for Love: The Films of Wong Kar Wai SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Robert Beavers: Program 1 Film In-Person Friday, January 30, 2026 7 PM Robert Beavers: Program 1 (75 mins) The first four films in Robert Beavers’s extraordinary cycle encompass elements of self-portraiture, eroticism, and charged allusion, including Early Monthly Segments and Winged Dialogue, filmed when Beavers was eighteen and nineteen years old, which depict the filmmaker and his companion Gregory J. Markopoulos. In Conversation Robert Beavers Rebekah Rutkoff Rebekah Rutkoff is the author of Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers (2024). Series Robert Beavers: Filmmaker in Residence Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	31 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Art Saturday, January 31, 2026 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Robert Beavers: Program 2 Film In-Person Saturday, January 31, 2026 2 PM Robert Beavers: Program 2 (70 mins) Three films from Robert Beavers’s eighteen-film cycle, originally filmed in 1970 and remastered in 2001. In Conversation Robert Beavers Rebekah Rutkoff Rebekah Rutkoff is the author of Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers (2024). Series Robert Beavers: Filmmaker in Residence Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Robert Beavers: Program 3 Film In-Person Saturday, January 31, 2026 4:30 PM Robert Beavers: Program 3 (61 mins) In these two nuanced and structurally self-reflexive works, From the Notebook of . . . and The Painting, Robert Beavers contemplates the world around him and reflects on the nature and processes of art. In Conversation Robert Beavers Christopher Scott Christopher Scott is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. Series Robert Beavers: Filmmaker in Residence Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Hand Film Saturday, January 31, 2026 7 PM The Hand Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, 2004, (59 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Arguably Wong Kar Wai’s forgotten masterpiece, The Hand is a key bridge between In the Mood for Love and 2046 that weaves desire, longing, and the melancholy of unattainable beauty into a concise pattern. Preceded by I Travelled 9000 km to Give It to You. Series In the Mood for Love: The Films of Wong Kar Wai Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS