Sunday, May 1
Sunday, May 1, 2016
11 AM
Look through a microscope to discover new levels of structure, beauty, and information in the world around us.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2016
Sunday, May 1, 2016
11 AM-9 PM
Drop-in Artmaking
Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.
Included with admission
Sunday, May 1, 2016
2 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
Sunday, May 1, 2016
3:15 PM
Raam Reddy,
India, United States,
2016,
(123 mins)
In a small South Indian village, a cantankerous centenarian keels over and dies, setting the stage for a capricious comedy of errors among three generations of dissimilar sons.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Sunday, May 1, 2016
6:15 PM
Peter Middleton, James Spinney,
France, United Kingdom,
2016,
(87 mins)
A taped journal that theologian John Hull (1935–2015) kept after the onset of blindness in 1980 forms the basis of this elegant and moving depiction of struggle and transcendence.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Sunday, May 1, 2016
8:40 PM
Moby Longinotto,
United Kingdom, United States,
2016,
(80 mins)
Filmmaker Moby Longinotto’s fascinating, thoroughly candid documentary invites audiences to pull up a chair at the never-dull family table in a Mississippi trailer-park home.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Monday, May 2
Tuesday, May 3
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
4 PM
Sonia Kennebeck,
United States,
2016,
(92 mins)
Executive produced by Wim Wenders and Errol Morris, this elegant and chilling documentary provides a glimpse of what the US government doesn’t want you to know about drone warfare by focusing on three veterans whose service experience caused them to question the use of drones in overseas combat.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
6:30 PM
Yaelle Kayam,
Denmark, Israel,
2015,
(83 mins)
Yaelle Kayam’s debut feature is strikingly shot against the tombstones of Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives, where an Orthodox woman’s longing for her husband’s love sets in motion a transformational journey into a nocturnal world of pimps and prostitutes.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
8:40 PM
Kiyoshi Kurosawa,
France, Japan,
2015,
(128 mins)
The secret wounds of a marriage unfold gently but surely as a shy piano teacher embarks on a mythic journey with her husband, returned from the dead.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Wednesday, May 4
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
12 PM
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
3:10 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1960,
(170 mins)
Lecture/screening class (3 hours). Special admission applies.
Lecture by Miryam Sas
Hideko Takamine portrays the consummate Naruse heroine: high-minded, determined, and out of her element in a sordid world. The film “could give heartbreak lessons to Fassbinder and Sirk” (Village Voice).
General admission: $13.50; BAMPFA members: $9.50; UC Berkeley students: $7.50; Seniors, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50
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Miryam Sas
LectureChair of the Department of Comparative Literature, and professor of film and media at UC Berkeley
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
6:30 PM
Billy Woodberry,
Portugal, United States,
2015,
(90 mins)
Brilliant but largely unheralded Beat poet Bob Kaufman (1925–1986) is featured in this rich documentary tribute.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
8:45 PM
Otar Iosseliani,
France,
2015,
(117 mins)
The way Otar Iosseliani turns Paris on its head makes us think of a young Jean-Luc Godard—yet Iosseliani is eighty-two!
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Thursday, May 5
Thursday, May 5, 2016
12:15 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
Thursday, May 5, 2016
4 PM
Morgan Neville,
United States,
2015,
(96 mins)
On a quest to uncover Leonard Bernstein’s “universal language of music,” renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma gathers virtuoso musicians from around the globe to collaborate on new musical explorations.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Thursday, May 5, 2016
6-9 PM
Drop-in Artmaking
Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.
Included with admission
Thursday, May 5, 2016
6:30 PM
Vitaly Mansky,
Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Germany, Latvia, Russia,
2015,
(106 mins)
Shot with the permission and supervision of North Korean authorities, Russian director Vitaly Mansky’s film turns a propaganda effort into a deep-cover documentary about life inside one of the world’s most repressive nations.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Thursday, May 5, 2016
8:40 PM
Vano Burduli,
Georgia, Russia,
2015,
(103 mins)
People fall in and out of love in this delightfully wistful romantic drama. Director Vano Burduli shares amusement and a profoundly deep affection for a changing Tbilisi and its flawed and beautiful inhabitants, guiding each of his characters like the conductor of an orchestra.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Thursday, May 5, 2016
All Day
Friday, May 6
Friday, May 6, 2016
6 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
Friday, May 6, 2016
6 PM
(90 mins)
With student filmmakers in person
Student filmmakers in person
Prizewinners and runners-up in the film and video category of the Eisner Prize competition, the highest award for creativity given on the UC Berkeley campus.
Friday, May 6, 2016
6-9 PM
Drop-in Artmaking
Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.
Included with admission
Friday, May 6, 2016
8:15 PM
Alexander Sokurov,
Albania, France, Germany, Netherlands,
2015,
(87 mins)
East Bay Premiere!
The Russian master Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Alexandra, Faust) returns with a portrait of the Louvre that extends into a transcendent commentary on art, life, and power. “A meditation on art and humanity” (The Guardian).
Saturday, May 7
Saturday, May 7, 2016
11 AM-9 PM
Drop-in Artmaking
Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.
Included with admission
Saturday, May 7, 2016
2 PM
Take a guided tour to learn more about the design of the new BAMPFA.
No advance reservations necessary
Included with admission
Saturday, May 7, 2016
2 PM
Robert Mulligan,
United States,
1962,
(125 mins)
Recommended for ages 12 & up
This award-winning adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. On BFI's list of films you must see before age fourteen.
Saturday, May 7, 2016
6:30 PM
Julio Bracho,
Mexico,
1943,
(106 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
An unhappily married cabaret singer voyages through a world of corrupt cops, labor union organizers, and political unrest in this Langian noir, starring the legendary Pedro Armendáriz.
Series
Mexican Film Noir
Saturday, May 7, 2016
8:40 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1960,
(83 mins)
Imported Print!
With its jazzy musical score and sordid milieu of drug smuggling and human trafficking, this crime thriller features an ambitious and amoral reporter going up against a ruthless female gang boss.
Series
The Films of Seijun Suzuki
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through May 11
Through May 14
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