Sunday, March 30
Sunday, March 30, 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, March 30, 2025
2:30 PM
Mark Donskoi,
Ukraine,
1957,
(98 mins)
Two star-crossed lovers run from an arranged marriage and the police in this delicately naturalistic work. Based on a story by Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors).
Sunday, March 30, 2025
5:00 PM
Moussa Sene Absa,
Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal,
2022,
(115 mins)
A teenage schoolgirl’s life is suddenly upended by the death of her grandmother in veteran Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Sene Absa’s powerful look at female rage and empowerment. “Blends universal melodrama with enticing traditional storytelling” (Variety). Screens with Johanna Makabi’s short Grâce.
Series
African Film Festival 2025
Monday, March 31
Tuesday, April 1
Wednesday, April 2
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
7:00 PM
Jenni Olson,
United States,
2015,
(72 mins)
A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, a primer on Junipero Serra’s Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican–American War, alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, butch identity, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Screens with 575 Castro St., a haunting remembrance of Harvey Milk.
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Jenni Olson
In Person
Series
Documentary Voices
Thursday, April 3
Thursday, April 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
Thursday, April 3, 2025
1:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
Thursday, April 3, 2025
7:00 PM
Yuliya Solntseva,
Russia,
1958,
(108 mins)
“Poem of the Sea, which tells of the construction of an artificial sea, necessitating the flooding of a village, is remarkable for its confidence, grandeur and glowing beauty” (Ronald Bergan, Camera Lucida).
Thursday, April 3, 2025
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
Friday, April 4
Friday, April 4, 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, April 4, 2025
7:00 PM
(80 mins)
Free Admission
A selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6:00 PM.
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Student Filmmakers
In Person
Series
Special Screenings 2025
Saturday, April 5
Saturday, April 5, 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
Saturday, April 5, 2025
4:00 PM
José Miguel Ribeiro,
Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal,
2022,
(83 mins)
Angola’s tragic twenty-five-year-long civil war is given an unexpected retelling in this stunning animated feature film, a remarkable Lusophone African companion to such titles as Waltz with Bashir and Persepolis. “Bold and thrilling storytelling” (Screen International).
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Ndola Prata
IntroductionNdola Prata is the Fred H. Bixby Jr.
Series
African Film Festival 2025
Saturday, April 5, 2025
6:30 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
1991,
(85 mins)
35mm Archival Print
A seminal work of the New Queer Cinema and a preemptive strike against the domestication of queer identity, Todd Haynes’s audacious first feature weaves together three stories inspired by Jean Genet, each realized in a radically different cinematic style.
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Thomas DePaoli
IntroductionThomas DePaoli is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
Through April 20
Through April 20
Through April 27
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through April 6
Through April 12
Through April 13
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Through May 8
Through December 31
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