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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
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Sunday, April 27, 2025
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.
Series Workshops
12 PM
  • Closed Captioned
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, April 27, 2025
12 PM
Julie Forrest Wyman,
United States,
2025,
(93 mins)

Audio Description
Closed Captioned

Diagnosed with hypochondroplasia dwarfism as an adult, filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman seeks to understand her own condition as she confers with her family, medical experts, and a welcoming, creative group of little people for answers.

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.

  • Julie Forrest Wyman
    In Person
Sunday, April 27, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

2:30 PM
Sunday, April 27, 2025
2:30 PM
Ángela Carabalí,
Colombia,
2025,
(86 mins)
Thirty years after their father disappeared during a period of civil unrest, director Ángela Carabalí and her sister Juliana travel throughout Colombia seeking answers.

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.

5 PM
  • Open Captioned
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, April 27, 2025
5 PM
Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim,
United States,
2025,
(100 mins)

Open Captioned
Audio Description
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for this program

In this involving documentary, students at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, stage protests in March 1988, demanding that the world’s first university for the deaf and hard of hearing appoint a deaf president.

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.

  • Nyle DiMarco
    In Person
7:45 PM
  • Film
Sunday, April 27, 2025
7:45 PM
Rebecca Lenkiewicz,
United Kingdom,
2025,
(92 mins)
An unsettling mother/daughter story set over a sultry Spanish summer, this sexy and mysterious drama starring Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, and Vicky Krieps beautifully adapts Deborah Levy’s acclaimed novel.

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.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Wednesday, April 30, 2025
7:00 PM
Sylvain George,
France, Switzerland,
2023,
(183 mins)
In the Spanish enclave of Melilla, Morocco, a group of youths try to get to Europe. Obscure Night—Goodbye Here, Anywhere focuses on a reality the Western world would rather not see, dissident dreams that transcend geographical boundaries.
In Conversation
  • Sylvain George
  • Debarati Sanyal
    Debarati Sanyal is a Professor of French and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry at UC Berkeley.
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All Day
  • Art
  • Families
  • Free
Thursday, May 1, 2025
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
1:15 PM

Canceled due to a one-day strike across the University of California system on Thursday, May 1 (BAMPFA is a unit of UC Berkeley).

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

Included with admission

Thursday, May 1, 2025
5:30 PM

Canceled due to a one-day strike across the University of California system on Thursday, May 1 (BAMPFA is a unit of UC Berkeley).

In conjunction with To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)Permanent Collection, BAMPFA presents a reading with poets Solmaz Sharif and Geoffrey G. O’Brien.

Included with admission

Series Readings
Thursday, May 1, 2025
7:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1964,
(129 mins)

Rescheduled to Sunday, May 11, 3 PM due to a one-day strike across the University of California system on Thursday, May 1 (BAMPFA is a unit of UC Berkeley).

Digital Restoration

“Wildly subversive in its treatment of sexuality, gender, class, religion, marriage, and motherhood, Loving Couples is as electrifying a first feature as any in cinema history, announcing the arrival of an uncompromising artist in pursuit of raw emotional truth” (Janus Films).
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2 PM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, May 2, 2025
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.
Series Workshops
Friday, May 2, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1974,
(147 mins)

35mm Archival Print

John Cassavetes’s masterpiece retains the power to unnerve with its raw, often harrowing depiction of a blue-collar Los Angeles family, with Gena Rowlands in an Oscar-nominated performance as a housewife on the verge.

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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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, May 3, 2025
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.
Series Workshops
7:00 PM
Saturday, May 3, 2025
7:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1966,
(105 mins)
“An absorbing, even brilliant film. . . . When it was first exhibited at the Venice Film Festival in 1966, it was considered the most daring film ever made” (Roger Ebert). 
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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, May 4, 2025
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.
Series Workshops
Sunday, May 4, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

4:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, May 4, 2025
4:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1986,
(117 mins)

Digital Restoration

Stina Ekblad stars as the controversial writer Agnes von Krusenstjerna (1894–1940) in this portrait of the artist, her troubled romance with the notorious older man David Sprengel (Erland Josephson), and her mental health struggles.
  • Linda Haverty Rugg
    Introduction
    Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.
7:00 PM
  • Film
Sunday, May 4, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1968,
(130 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Gena Rowlands, John Marley, and Seymour Cassel star in this unflinching nightlong journey through a marriage on the rocks, a film “against all people that know and for people that just feel” (John Cassavetes).
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

7:00 PM
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1971,
(114 mins)
John Cassavetes’s take on the screwball comedy stars Gena Rowlands as Minnie, a beautiful, refined museum employee unlucky in love.
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7:00 PM
  • Film
Thursday, May 8, 2025
7:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1968,
(100 mins)
In Mai Zetterling’s send-up of gender relations in contemporary Sweden, life, art, and fantasy intermingle as actors Liz (Bibi Andersson), Marianne (Harriet Andersson), and Gunilla (Gunnel Lindblom) perform in a touring production of Aristophanes’s Lysistrata.
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2 PM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, May 9, 2025
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.
Series Workshops
7:00 PM
Friday, May 9, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1984,
(141 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands star in this film about the blows and buttresses of family. “A mighty, intimate, kaleidoscopically subjective, bravely self-searching summation of a career, an era, and a life” (New Yorker).
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Saturday, May 10, 2025
All Day
BAMPFA will be CLOSED on Saturday, May 10 for our annual Art & Film Benefit.