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1 PM
Sunday, September 27, 2026
1 PM

Included with admission.

Join artist Julia Goodman in creating Wrenching News, a collaborative artwork featured in Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing, through the process of twisting and knotting newspapers according to Hassinger’s specifications.
Workshop led by
  • Julia Goodman
Series Workshops
1:30 PM
Sunday, September 27, 2026
1:30 PM
(79 mins)
These two creative documentaries that ruminate on issues facing Georgian society are both set far from city life. English Teacher presents the challenges of the “linguistic revolution” initiative, while Bakhmaro 2050 is a meditation on the encroaching commercial development in a mountainous resort town.
In Conversation
  • Nino Orjonikidze
  • Vano Arsenishvili
  • Anka Gujabidze
  • Susan Oxtoby
    Susan Oxtoby is the Director of Film and Senior Film Curator at BAMPFA.
Sunday, September 27, 2026
2 PM

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

Sunday, September 27, 2026
4:30 PM
Salomé Jashi,
Georgia,
2026,
(100 mins)
Archival video documentation from a 1993 parliamentary session related to the introduction of the Georgian coupon, a national currency to replace the Russian ruble, offers a history lesson in the sometimes fleeting nature of democracy.
  • Salomé Jashi
    In Person
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Wednesday, September 30, 2026
4 PM

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

Wednesday, September 30, 2026
7 PM
Anna Dziapshipa,
Georgia,
2023,
(79 mins)
Anna Dziapshipa was born of the union between an Abkhazian man and a Georgian woman. In Self-Portrait Along the Borderline, she skillfully weaves together unique archives and fragments to offer a personal and political biography of Georgia–Abkhazia relations. With Dziapshipa’s shorts Contemplation and Dear Dirty Tbilisi.
In Conversation
  • Anna Dziapshipa
  • Salomé Asatiani
    Salomé Asatiani is a journalist and podcast host at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Georgian Service.
  • Anka Gujabidze
    Anka Gujabidze is the director of Temo Re.
  • Susan Oxtoby
    Susan Oxtoby is the Director of Film and Senior Film Curator at BAMPFA.
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All Day
  • Art
  • Families
  • Free
Thursday, October 1, 2026
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
Thursday, October 1, 2026
1:15 PM

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

Thursday, October 1, 2026
3 PM
Join Chief Curator Margot Norton for a walkthrough of the Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing, featuring Hassinger's material experiments in sculpture, her long-standing engagement with movement and performance, and her work with the moving image.
Thursday, October 1, 2026
7 PM
(104 mins)
Two fascinating documentaries offer portals to the heart of what inspires Martin Scorsese: the lives and stories of real-life characters, like his parents and his friend and colleague Steven Prince.
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Friday, October 2, 2026
12 PM
Senior Curator Anthony Graham offers a tour of Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing which he co-curated with Chief Curator Margot Norton. Author of the lead exhibition catalogue essay, Graham will explore the evolution of Hassinger's practice through her material experiments in sculpture, her long-standing engagement with movement and performance, and her work with the moving image.
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, October 2, 2026
7 PM
Elene Naveriani,
Georgia, Switzerland,
2021,
(114 mins)
“Set against the backdrop of church-sanctioned, far-right political protests attacking LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws, director/cowriter [Elene] Naveriani works steadfastly to break the cycle through a collective reckoning that simultaneously destroys and creates” (SFFILM).
  • Carmen Gray
    Introduction
    Carmen Gray is a freelance film critic and journalist from New Zealand who lives in Berlin and frequently writes about politics and the arts in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Balkans for The New
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Saturday, October 3, 2026
12 PM

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

Saturday, October 3, 2026
1 PM
Julia Loktev,
United States,
2026,
(415 mins)

Presented with 60-min intermission

Forced to flee their own country, independent Russian journalists continue to chronicle Vladimir Putin’s war on free speech—and Ukraine—in this vivid follow-up to Julie Loktev’s acclaimed 2024 documentary.

Presented with a 60-min intermission.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General admission: $20

BAMPFA members, CAFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Seniors (65+), visitors with disabilities, non-UC Berkeley students, educators: $18

Youth (12 and under): $12


BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

  • Julia Loktev
    In Person
    Born in St. Petersburg, Julia Loktev emigrated from the Soviet Union to the U.S. at age nine.
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1 PM
Sunday, October 4, 2026
1 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1964,
(97 mins)

Digital Restoration

Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur are unlikely burglars in Jean-Luc Godard’s “reverie of a gangster movie” (Pauline Kael). “Band of Outsiders shows Godard at his most amusing, and that is no small thing” (Keneth Turan, Los Angeles Times).
Sunday, October 4, 2026
2 PM

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

Sunday, October 4, 2026
2 PM

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

Sunday, October 4, 2026
3 PM

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

Sunday, October 4, 2026
3 PM

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

4 PM
  • Film
Sunday, October 4, 2026
4 PM
Marine Atlan,
France,
2026,
(145 mins)
French teenagers take a summer class trip to Naples, Italy, in this marvelously subtle, mysterious, and intelligent coming-of-age film. Marine Atlan’s feature debut garnered the Cannes Film Festival Critics Week Best Picture award.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General admission: $20

BAMPFA members, CAFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Seniors (65+), visitors with disabilities, non-UC Berkeley students, educators: $18

Youth (12 and under): $12


BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2026
7 PM
(81 mins)
A selection of works made by COUSIN collective artists, including Sky Hopinka’s 2017 consideration of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest and Lindsay McIntyre’s film about caribou and lichen—made using those materials in the photographic process—screen with Lebanese artist Christophe Katrib’s This Dissonance.
  • Mark Minch-de Leon
    Introduction
    Mark Minch-de Leon is an Associate Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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7 PM
  • Closed Captioned
  • Film
Thursday, October 8, 2026
7 PM
Barbara Kopple,
United States,
2026,
(106 mins)

Closed Captioned

Legendary documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple completes the workers’ trilogy she began fifty years ago with this vivid, on-the-ground look at often rancorous labor struggles in the era of delivery apps and the gig economy.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General admission: $20

BAMPFA members, CAFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Seniors (65+), visitors with disabilities, non-UC Berkeley students, educators: $18

Youth (12 and under): $12


BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

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3:30 PM
  • Audio Description
  • Closed Captioned
  • Film
Friday, October 9, 2026
3:30 PM
Dawn Porter,
United States,
2026,
(117 mins)

Audio Description
Closed Captioned

Former lawyer and veteran documentarian Dawn Porter revisits the case of the Harlem Park Three, whose wrongful convictions as teenagers led to thirty-six years behind bars and exposed profound failures within the American justice system.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General admission: $20

BAMPFA members, CAFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Seniors (65+), visitors with disabilities, non-UC Berkeley students, educators: $18

Youth (12 and under): $12


BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

Friday, October 9, 2026
7 PM
Abinash Bikram Shah,
Brazil, France, Germany, Nepal, Norway,
2026,
(108 mins)
In the forests of southern Nepal, a mother searches for her missing daughter as wild elephants roam the night in a haunting and tender story of chosen family, belonging, and survival.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General admission: $20

BAMPFA members, CAFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Seniors (65+), visitors with disabilities, non-UC Berkeley students, educators: $18

Youth (12 and under): $12


BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

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11:30 AM
Saturday, October 10, 2026
11:30 AM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s).

See how Maren Hassinger incorporates knotting and repetition into her work to make forms that echo natural rhythms and express her commitment to the environment.

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
1 PM
  • Film
Saturday, October 10, 2026
1 PM
Fernanda Tovar,
France, Mexico, Spain,
2026,
(90 mins)
While preparing for an upcoming swimming trip to Brazil, best friends La Maestra and Paula see their bright futures upended one fateful night. First-time feature director Fernanda Tovar crafts a moving coming-of-age drama in this Berlinale award winner.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General admission: $20

BAMPFA members, CAFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Seniors (65+), visitors with disabilities, non-UC Berkeley students, educators: $18

Youth (12 and under): $12


BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

Saturday, October 10, 2026
2:30 PM

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

Ivan, an easygoing gorilla living in captivity, enjoys his life until a new friend helps him see things in a new light and inspires him to change. Iván, un gorila tranquilo que vive en cautiverio, disfruta de su vida hasta que una nueva amiga le ayuda a ver las cosas en otra perspectiva e inspira a cambiar.

Admission to BAMPFA's family programs is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child. Children must be accompanied by at least one adult.

  • Angela Loza
3:30 PM
  • Film
Saturday, October 10, 2026
3:30 PM
Andrey Zvyagintsev,
France, Germany, Latvia,
2026,
(140 mins)
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s first feature in a decade, this chilling reimagining of La femme infidèle and Unfaithful masterfully explores the depths of corruption in Vladimir Putin’s Russia through a story of crime and infidelity.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General admission: $20

BAMPFA members, CAFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Seniors (65+), visitors with disabilities, non-UC Berkeley students, educators: $18

Youth (12 and under): $12


BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

Saturday, October 10, 2026
7 PM
Gabriel Martins,
Brazil,
2026,
(148 mins)
After losing her son in a tragic accident, a mother travels from one family to another carrying an apology that may be impossible to accept, in Gabriel Martins’s delicate, deeply human meditation on grief and forgiveness.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General admission: $20

BAMPFA members, CAFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Seniors (65+), visitors with disabilities, non-UC Berkeley students, educators: $18

Youth (12 and under): $12


BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

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Sunday, October 11, 2026
1 PM
(62 mins)
A glimpse of Jean-Luc Godard in the process of becoming Godard. This program of the director’s first shorts includes Opération béton, All the Boys Are Called Patrick, Une histoire d’eau, and Charlotte et son Jules.
3 PM
Sunday, October 11, 2026
3 PM
Zou Jing,
China, France,
2026,
(125 mins)
Born in the wake of China’s controversial one-child policy, six-year-old Juan is suddenly uprooted from her family when her mom becomes pregnant in this achingly poignant coming-of-age story from first-time feature director Zou Jing.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General admission: $20

BAMPFA members, CAFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Seniors (65+), visitors with disabilities, non-UC Berkeley students, educators: $18

Youth (12 and under): $12


BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

6:30 PM
Sunday, October 11, 2026
6:30 PM
Valeska Grisebach,
Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany,
2026,
(161 mins)
A Bulgarian archaeologist investigates the disappearance of a former lover in this absorbing Cannes Film Festival prizewinner. German director Valeska Grisebach worked with a nonprofessional cast to create a slow-burn thriller with the grit of a Western and the scope of Chinatown.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General admission: $20

BAMPFA members, CAFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Seniors (65+), visitors with disabilities, non-UC Berkeley students, educators: $18

Youth (12 and under): $12


BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2026
12:15 PM

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

7 PM
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
7 PM
(73 mins)
This is a new restoration of Claudia von Alemann and Reinold E. Thiel’s documentary on the legendary experimental film festival of Knokke, Belgium, featuring political filmmaker Harun Farocki in action. Shown with three short films by Farocki, including Inextinguishable Fire.
  • Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
    Introduction
    Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is the Artistic Director of Arsenal Filminstitut, Berlin.
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Thursday, October 15, 2026
7 PM
(74 mins)
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus has worked closely with Cairo’s Cimatheque – Alternative Film Centre, and she shares two recent restorations completed by the archive, as well as a selection of Egyptian home movies.
  • Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
    Introduction
    Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is the Artistic Director of Arsenal Filminstitut, Berlin.
  • Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
    Introduction
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Friday, October 16, 2026
3:30 PM

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

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus discusses her work and methodology in the area of curatorial research and archival practice as Artistic Director of Arsenal Filminstitut, Berlin, an institution with deep ties to international film communities.

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

In Conversation
  • Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
    Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is the Artistic Director of Arsenal Filminstitut, Berlin.
  • Deniz Göktürk
    Deniz Göktürk is a Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley.
  • Susan Oxtoby
    Susan Oxtoby is the Director of Film and Senior Film Curator at BAMPFA.
7 PM
Friday, October 16, 2026
7 PM
Martin Scorsese,
United States,
1980,
(129 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

The biography of boxer Jake LaMotta becomes a visceral meditation on existential suffering. “A fusion of Hollywood genre with personal vision . . . closer to poetry than pulp. Its sculptural weight can only be appreciated on the big screen” (Amy Taubin, Village Voice).
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Saturday, October 17, 2026
2 PM
Maurice Pialat,
France,
1971,
(148 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Maurice Pialat’s seven-part series La maison des bois, considered by many to be the director’s best film, is finally available for theatrical exhibition in this new 4K restoration.

Presented with a 10-min intermission after Episode 2.

3 PM
Saturday, October 17, 2026
3 PM

Included with admission.

Join artist Julia Goodman in creating Wrenching News, a collaborative artwork featured in Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing, through the process of twisting and knotting newspapers according to Hassinger’s specifications.
Workshop led by
  • Julia Goodman
Series Workshops
6:30 PM
Saturday, October 17, 2026
6:30 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1957,
(101 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Marcello Mastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.
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Sunday, October 18, 2026
1 PM

Space is limited; RSVP required.

Artist Leon Wan leads participants through an experimental and improvisational approach to screenprinting, centering emotion and energy through spontaneous imprints of shape, pattern, and color rather than printing a single fixed image.
Series Workshops
Sunday, October 18, 2026
2 PM

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

3 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, October 18, 2026
3 PM
Adamu Halilu,
Nigeria,
1976,
(142 mins)

Digital Restoration

Shaihu Umar by Adamu Halilu is an epic story set in northern Nigeria at the end of the nineteenth century. Long thought lost, copies of the film were found in 2016, which led to this restoration by Arsenal Filminstitut.
  • Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
    Introduction
    Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is the Artistic Director of Arsenal Filminstitut, Berlin.
  • Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
    Introduction
7 PM
Sunday, October 18, 2026
7 PM
Martin Scorsese,
United States,
1982,
(109 mins)
A crazed would-be stand-up comic (Robert De Niro) becomes obsessed with a talk-show host (Jerry Lewis) in Martin Scorsese’s prescient meditation on the American cult of celebrity.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2026
12:15 PM

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
7 PM
(69 mins)
The late Marjorie Keller’s films ranged from social and political critiques to intimate portraits of people who populated her world. Her intricate visual and sound editing is pointed while also being poetically suggestive. On the occasion of a new book about Keller’s films, contributor Steve Anker presents five of her films.
  • Steve Anker
    Introduction
    Steve Anker has been a curator, teacher, and author focusing on experimental film for more than fifty years. Anker is one of the contributors to the new anthology In the Absence of Marjorie Keller.
  • Steve Anker
    Introduction
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7 PM
  • Film
Thursday, October 22, 2026
7 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1960,
(90 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo star in the jazzy genre pastiche that launched Jean-Luc Godard’s career and embodied the breathless bravado of the French New Wave.

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

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Friday, October 23, 2026
3:30 PM
Maurice Pialat,
France,
1971,
(148 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Maurice Pialat’s seven-part series La maison des bois, considered by many to be the director’s best film, is finally available for theatrical exhibition in this new 4K restoration.

Presented with a 10-min intermission after Episode 2.

7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, October 23, 2026
7 PM
T’ang Shushuen,
Hong Kong,
1968,
(87 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

A Ming dynasty widow, beloved for her grace and kindness, becomes tempted by a visiting soldier in this investigation of propriety, tradition, and repression. This early precursor of the Hong Kong New Wave was praised as “a film of poetic beauty” by Anaïs Nin.
  • Weihong Bao
    Introduction
    Weihong Bao is Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies and a Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
  • Weihong Bao
    Introduction
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Saturday, October 24, 2026
2 PM
Maurice Pialat,
France,
1971,
(232 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Maurice Pialat’s seven-part series La maison des bois, considered by many to be the director’s best film, is finally available for theatrical exhibition in this new 4K restoration.

Presented with a 10-min intermission after Episode 5.

7 PM
Saturday, October 24, 2026
7 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1963,
(88 mins)
A disillusioned French counteragent in Geneva becomes embroiled with Algerian separatists, Parisian torturers, and Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard’s second film, banned for three years in France.
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Sunday, October 25, 2026
2 PM

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.

Included with admission.

4 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, October 25, 2026
4 PM
Chan Wan,
Hong Kong,
1966,
(112 mins)

Digital Restoration

A teen melodrama with a touch of song-and-dance, Colorful Youth is the only film with a contemporary setting starring both Connie Chan Po-chu and Josephine Siao Fong-fong, unequivocally the most popular teen idols in the history of Cantonese cinema.
  • Paul Fonoroff
    Introduction
    Paul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema who lived for years in Hong Kong and is currently based in Bangkok.
  • Paul Fonoroff
    Introduction
7 PM
Sunday, October 25, 2026
7 PM
Martin Scorsese,
United States,
1985,
(97 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

A chance encounter with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette) sends hapless office worker Paul (Griffin Dunne) downtown for a date in this zany Kafkaesque comedy set in the apartments, dive bars, diners, clubs, and streets of Soho at night.
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  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
7 PM
Doe Ching,
Hong Kong,
1957,
(115 mins)
Four grown sisters navigate a tangle of marriage plots in this charming dramedy. Director Doe Ching “casts the four actresses in roles that fit perfectly like a glove” (Hong Kong Film Archive).
  • Paul Fonoroff
    Introduction
    Paul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema who lived for years in Hong Kong and is currently based in Bangkok.
  • Paul Fonoroff
    Introduction
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Thursday, October 29, 2026
7 PM
(65 mins)

Co-sponsored by the Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley and the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, UC Berkeley, and the South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley.

In conjunction with the exhibition Private Frontiers, BAMPFA presents Naeem Mohaiemen’s A Missing Can of Film (2025) and Zahir Raihan’s Stop Genocide (1971)—a film edited in the style of Soviet Realism and Third Cinema during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.
In Conversation
  • Naeem Mohaiemen
  • Tausif Noor
    Tausif Noor is Assistant Curator at BAMPFA.
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Friday, October 30, 2026
2:30 PM
Maurice Pialat,
France,
1971,
(232 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Maurice Pialat’s seven-part series La maison des bois, considered by many to be the director’s best film, is finally available for theatrical exhibition in this new 4K restoration.

Presented with a 10-min intermission after Episode 5.

7:30 PM
Friday, October 30, 2026
7:30 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1961,
(85 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

“A whimsical celebration of romance, sentiment, musical comedy, color film, the city of Paris and the abundant charms of Anna Karina” (New York Times).
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Saturday, October 31, 2026
1 PM

Tickets required. Gallery admission included with ticket purchase.

Artist Steffani Jemison and choreographer Leslie Cuyjet perform a collaborative piece that reflects on the dynamic artistic relationship between Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi, the intense intimacy and attunement involved in longstanding artistic collaborations, and the powerful intergenerational legacy of the artists' collective works.
Series Performances
4 PM
Saturday, October 31, 2026
4 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1962,
(85 mins)
Jean-Luc Godard’s fragmentary portrait of a prostitute makes Anna Karina an object of endless visual fascination. It inspired Rainer Werner Fassbinder to cast Karina in Chinese Roulette. “A film of extraordinary purity” (Manny Farber).
6:30 PM
  • Film
Saturday, October 31, 2026
6:30 PM
Masaki Kobayashi,
Japan,
1964,
(183 mins)

4K Digital Restoration, Director’s Cut

This is Masaki Kobayashi’s atmospheric and visually captivating adaptation of four haunting stories by Lafcadio Hearn. “Each of the exquisitely crafted tales . . . is, in its own right, one of the great ghost stories brought to the screen. Together, they form an exemplar of the anthology horror film” (Village Voice).