Sunday, April 19
Monday, April 20
Monday, April 20, 2020
6:30 PM
This event has been postponed to a later date. Updates will be posted at artsdesign.berkeley.edu. Thank you for your understanding.
Join artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph, along with UC Berkeley faculty, for an evening of conversation focused on BLKNWS, an ongoing project that blurs the lines between art, journalism, entrepreneurship, and cultural critique.
Admission free; seat reservations required. Reservations available April 6 at artsdesign.berkeley.edu.
Tuesday, April 21
Wednesday, April 22
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
3:10 PM
Chantal Akerman,
France,
1982,
(106 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Chantal Akerman follows Pina Bausch and company on a European tour in this film intended as not just a documentary on Bausch but “a journey through her world.” With Bausch’s Café Müller, which “showed me in forty minutes more about men and women than the entire history of cinema” (Wim Wenders).
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.
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Sima Belmar
In ConversationSima Belmar is a lecturer in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, and the ODC writer in residence.
Series
Pina Bausch on Screen
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
7 PM
Nicolás Pereda,
Mexico, United States,
2018,
(50 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Acclaimed Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolás Pereda returns to BAMPFA with this film/performance/lecture on the life and work of one “C. B.,” an artist, political activist, amateur archeologist, and anarchist.
In Conversation
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Nicolás Pereda
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Natalia Brizuela
Natalia Brizuela teaches in UC Berkeley’s Departments of Film and Media and Spanish and Portuguese.
Series
Documentary Voices 2020
Thursday, April 23
Thursday, April 23, 2020
12 PM
This event will now be available live online. Visit tdps.events/breaking-down-gates.
Dance artist Gerald Casel, playwright Dustin H. Chinn, theater artistic director Mina Morita, and SOMArts executive director Maria Jenson talk about equity, diversity, and inclusion in curatorial practices in this panel moderated by Miyuki Baker.
Thursday, April 23, 2020
7 PM
Pina Bausch,
Germany,
1990,
(104 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Imported 35mm Print
This brilliant video notebook offers unfiltered insight into Bausch’s wide-ranging imagination through a series of evocative intersecting scenes set in and around Wuppertal.
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Sima Belmar
IntroductionSima Belmar is a lecturer in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, and the ODC writer in residence.
Series
Pina Bausch on Screen
Friday, April 24
Friday, April 24, 2020
4 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany, Japan,
2011,
(103 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Digital Restoration
In a film that is part documentary, part myth, Ottinger transports us to the Echigo region of northwestern Japan, where heavy snow blankets the landscape for more than half the year and distinctive ways of life have evolved.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Friday, April 24, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1955,
(104 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Digital Restoration
The screening of Il bidone listed in the BAMPFA Program Guide on February 16 has been rescheduled for Friday, April 24, at 7 PM. We regret any inconvenience.
Three con men pose as priests to trick peasants out of cash in Fellini’s sadly ironic study of misguided faith, whether in religion or upward mobility. The closest Fellini would come to film noir.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
Saturday, April 25
Saturday, April 25, 2020
3 PM
Jean-François Laguionie,
Belgium, Canada, France,
2011,
(78 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Recommended for ages 9 & up
An animated parable set in a kingdom within a painting, where people are divided into three social classes based on how finely finished their painted figures are. This inventive and artful film is a treat for the eyes and imagination.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Series
Movie Matinees for All Ages
Saturday, April 25, 2020
5 PM
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Programmed by Michal “MJ” Jones
A poetry reading by Troy Rockett, Evolve Benton, and Diego Basdeo Fitzgerald.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2020
Saturday, April 25, 2020
5 PM
Pavel Juráček,
Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia,
1969,
(102 mins)
Digital Restoration
Pavel Juráček imaginatively adapted part of Gulliver’s Travels into a sci-fi journey through socialist Czechoslovakia. The film’s allusions to uncomfortable truths caused it to be “banned forever.”
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
7:15 PM
Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud,
Tunisia,
2018,
(102 mins)
A Tunisian living abroad returns home to discover his deceased son had joined a radical Islamist group in this passionate drama on fanaticism and the Arab Spring’s broken dreams, coproduced by the Dardenne brothers. Winner, Best Arabic Film, Cairo Film Festival.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Series
African Film Festival 2020
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
Through May 11
Through July 3
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