Week of April 1, 2018

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Sunday, April 1

Sunday, April 1, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 1, 2018
2 PM

Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

Try your hand at multiple embroidery techniques and walk away with a stitched sampler and a finished project!
Included with admission
Sunday, April 1, 2018
2 PM
Get fresh insights into the works in view in Way Bay with a tour led by a UC Berkeley graduate student. 
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Sunday, April 1, 2018
4:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1958,
(100 mins)

35mm Print

With Max von Sydow as a nineteenth-century mesmerist, “Bergman's chilling exploration of charlatanism is in fact one of his most genuinely enjoyable films . . . much of [it] devoted to wittily ironic sideswipes at bourgeois hypocrisy” (Time Out).
Sunday, April 1, 2018
7 PM
(90 mins)
Experimental filmmaker Zoe Beloff revisits the Hollywood exile of two revolutionaries—Sergei Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht—in an illustrated presentation and a trilogy of short films.
In Person
  • Zoe Beloff
    Preceding the screening, Beloff delivers a short presentation entitled “A World Redrawn.”

Monday, April 2

Monday, April 2, 2018
6:30 PM
The illustrious Barcelona-based architect discusses her recent work.
Free Admission

Tuesday, April 3

Wednesday, April 4

Wednesday, April 4, 2018
12 PM
A talk by the artist, activist, and author of works on political art, artists’ collectives, and social practice.
Free admission
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
12:15 PM
Get fresh insights into the works in view in Way Bay with a tour led by a UC Berkeley graduate student. 
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
3:10 PM
Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrov,
USSR,
1931/1979,
(170 mins)
See Mexico through Eisenstein’s eyes in this compilation of footage shot in 1931, intended for an epic hybrid of documentary and fiction that the director never finished. With short Bezhin Meadow.
Pre-sale to members at the Sponsor level and above Dec. 5–11. Public ticket sales begin Dec. 12.
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12
  • Anne Nesbet
    Lecture
    Anne Nesbet is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and film and media at UC Berkeley.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
7 PM
João Moreira Salles,
Brazil,
2017,
(127 mins)
Salles portrays the pivotal, tumultuous 1960s through archival footage and home movies from May ’68 Paris, Soviet-invaded Czechoslovakia, China during the Cultural Revolution, and Brazil under military rule. “It’s a documentary that’s really a meditation—history made poetic” (Variety).

Thursday, April 5

Thursday, April 5, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, April 5, 2018
12 PM
Learn more about the fascinating visual and literary expression of the cataclysmic end of the Ming dynasty.
Included with admission
Thursday, April 5, 2018
1:15 PM
Get fresh insights into the works in view in Way Bay with a tour led by a UC Berkeley graduate student. 
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Thursday, April 5, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, April 5, 2018
4-7 PM
Get down to earth with photographs, prints, and conceptual works from the museum collection.
Free admission
Thursday, April 5, 2018
6:30 PM
Vivian Qu ,
China, France,
2017,
(107 mins)
The assault of two underage girls by a local official in a sunlight-bathed seaside town becomes the focal point for this seething study of the challenges women face in Chinese society.
General admission: $16; BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $13; Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $15. BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to this program. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA. On-site ticket sales are subject to limited availability.
Thursday, April 5, 2018
8:40 PM
Simon Lereng Wilmont,
Denmark, Finland, Sweden,
2017,
(90 mins)
In the midst of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, a loving, wise, and defiant grandmother raises her two young grandsons. Director Simon Lereng Wilmont lends sensitivity and entrancing visuals to a nuanced portrait of war and its corrosive effect.
General admission: $16; BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $13; Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $15. BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to this program. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA. On-site ticket sales are subject to limited availability.
  • Simon Lereng Wilmont
    In Person

Friday, April 6

Friday, April 6, 2018
12 PM
The artist discusses his current exhibition Lost Sister in the context of his other recent photo installations. 
Included with admission
Friday, April 6, 2018
4 PM–9PM
Friday, April 6, 2018
6 PM
Hirokazu Kore-eda,
Japan,
2017,
(125 mins)
Master director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film is a tour-de-force examination of guilt and justice. The incomparable Koji Yakusho plays a man who confesses to a murder but may be hiding a more complicated truth.
General admission: $16; BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $13; Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $15. BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to this program. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA. On-site ticket sales are subject to limited availability.
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Friday, April 6, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1946,
(93 mins)
The seductions and disillusionments of city life play counterpoint to provincial goodness in this morality tale of a young daughter pulled between the worlds of her two mothers.
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply
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Friday, April 6, 2018
8:30 PM
Sara Driver,
United States,
2017,
(78 mins)
Chronicling Jean-Michel Basquiat’s teen years in 1970s New York City, this documentary presents a fresh and vibrant look at the young artist as a reflection of the time and place where he grew up.
General admission: $16; BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $13; Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $15. BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to this program. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA. On-site ticket sales are subject to limited availability.

Saturday, April 7

Saturday, April 7, 2018
1 PM
Nathaniel Kahn,
United States,
2018,
(98 mins)
A major Sotheby’s auction is the focal point for this broad exploration of the exploding market in contemporary art, featuring incredibly candid interviews with collectors, curators, and artists.
General admission: $16; BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $13; Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $15. BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to this program. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA. On-site ticket sales are subject to limited availability.
  • Nathaniel Kahn
    In Person
Saturday, April 7, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, April 7, 2018
2 PM
See rare archeological objects from the East Bay’s shell mounds—traces of the fishing villages established by an ancient people thousands of years ago—and hear from a panel of Native Californian artists and others.
Included with admission
Saturday, April 7, 2018
3:30 PM
Erika Cohn,
Palestine, United States,
2017,
(82 mins)
Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih became the first female appointed to any of the Middle East’s Shari’a courts in 2009. This intimate portrait captures the determined and compassionate judge as she strives to achieve justice in a system that so often does not favor women.
General admission: $16; BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $13; Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $15. BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to this program. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA. On-site ticket sales are subject to limited availability.
  • Erika Cohn
    In Person
Saturday, April 7, 2018
5:45 PM
Vahid Jalilvand,
Iran,
2017,
(104 mins)
A car accident at night causes escalating damage and forces all involved to confront issues of moral responsibility in this second feature from Vahid Jalilvand, an impressive Iranian theater director.
General admission: $16; BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $13; Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $15. BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to this program. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA. On-site ticket sales are subject to limited availability.
Saturday, April 7, 2018
8 PM
Laurent Cantet,
France,
2017,
(114 mins)
A writing workshop on France’s Mediterranean coast becomes a microcosm for the fraught divisions in present-day French society in this film from the Palme d’Or–winning director of 2008’s The Class.
General admission: $16; BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $13; Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $15. BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to this program. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA. On-site ticket sales are subject to limited availability.