Week of February 9, 2025

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Sunday, February 9

Sunday, February 9, 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, February 9, 2025
1:00 PM
Ben Addelman, Ziya Tong,
Canada,
2024,
(83 mins)
“One of those essential state-of-our-world documentaries” (Variety), Plastic People is an efficient and emotional chronicle of the exponential growth of the plastics industry and its global and physiological impact.
In Conversation
  • Ting Xu
    Ting Xu is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley.
  • Tracey Woodruff
    Tracey Woodruff is the Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at UC San Francisco.
  • Shannon Jackson
    Shannon Jackson is the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor of the Arts & Humanities, Department Chair of History of Art, and former Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts + Design at UC Berkeley.
Sunday, February 9, 2025
2:00 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

Sunday, February 9, 2025
4:00 PM
Ettore Scola,
Italy,
1977,
(106 mins)
Italian cinema dream team Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni are cast against glamorous type and deliver two of the finest performances of their careers in this moving, quietly subversive drama from Ettore Scola.
Sunday, February 9, 2025
7:00 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1930,
(96 mins)
G. W. Pabst illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle with unprecedented naturalism, as the soldiers are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, shelling, and the disillusion that greets them on the home front.

Monday, February 10

Tuesday, February 11

Wednesday, February 12

Wednesday, February 12, 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

Wednesday, February 12, 2025
7:00 PM
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor,
Norway, Palestine,
2024,
(96 mins)
Made over five years by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, No Other Land chronicles the attempts of the inhabitants of Palestinian villages in the West Bank to resist the destruction of their homes and expropriation of their land by the Israeli military.

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.

  • Ussama Makdisi
    Introduction
    Ussama Makdisi is a Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at UC Berkeley.
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Thursday, February 13

Thursday, February 13, 2025
7:00 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1931,
(110 mins)
A classic adaptation of the Weimar-era theatrical sensation set in the impoverished back alleys of Victorian London with Kurt Weill’s irresistible score, The Threepenny Opera remains a benchmark of early sound cinema.

Friday, February 14

Friday, February 14, 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, February 14, 2025
4:00 PM
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor,
Norway, Palestine,
2024,
(96 mins)
Made over five years by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, No Other Land chronicles the attempts of the inhabitants of Palestinian villages in the West Bank to resist the destruction of their homes and expropriation of their land by the Israeli military.

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, February 14, 2025
7:00 PM
Shusuke Kaneko,
Japan,
1988,
(90 mins)

35mm Archival Print

An ethereal Japanese melodrama with cult status about the shifting attractions between four boys (played by girls) at an isolated country school. Long unavailable, it is shown in a rare 35mm print.

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.

In Conversation
  • Jenni Olson
    Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG
  • Karen Nakamura
    Karen Nakamura is the Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies and a Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
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Friday, February 14, 2025
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Saturday, February 15

Saturday, February 15, 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, February 15, 2025
4:30 PM
Marco Bellocchio,
Italy,
1984,
(82 mins)
Marcello Mastroianni brings his heart to this powerful and haunting film, Marco Bellocchio’s adaptation of a Luigi Pirandello play. The score is by Astor Piazzolla.
Saturday, February 15, 2025
6:30 PM
Kelly Reichardt,
United States,
2010,
(118 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Three strong women and an assortment of men head west on the Oregon Trail in Kelly Reichardt’s feminist Western, starring Michelle Williams and Zoe Kazan. Screening with Charles Burnett’s The Horse.
  • Leila Weefur
    Introduction
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.