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Sunday, April 24

Sunday, April 24, 2022
1 PM

All ages, Drop-in

In this workshop, Bay Area artist couple Lena Wolff and Miriam Klein Stahl share their public poster work and lead the group in a project to help create the future we want through poster art.
Included with admission
Sunday, April 24, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, April 24, 2022
2 PM
Join us for guided tours of The Artist's Eyeled by BAMPFA curatorial staff and UC Berkeley graduate students.
Sunday, April 24, 2022
2 PM
Ben Klein, Violet Columbus,
China, France, Taiwan, United States,
2021,
(96 mins)
Never-before-seen footage of Chinese dissidents enmeshed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and their bittersweet reflections thirty years later anchor this hybrid of cine-memoir and archival excavation focused on Who Killed Vincent Chin? documentary firebrand Christine Choy.
Special Admission

General: $18

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16

BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

In Person
  • Violet Columbus
  • Ben Klein
  • Wu’er Kaixi
    Wu’er Kaixi is one of the subjects of The Exiles.
Sunday, April 24, 2022
5 PM
Sara Dosa,
Canada, United States,
2021,
(93 mins)
A couple’s passion for one another is inextricably bound with the explosive geology that is their life’s work in this stunning documentary portrait of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, narrated by Miranda July.
Special Admission

General: $18

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16

BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

  • Sara Dosa
    In Person
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Sunday, April 24, 2022
7:45 PM
Eva Longoria Bastón,
Mexico, United Kingdom, United States,
2022,
(102 mins)
The legendary boxing rivalry between Mexican Julio César Chávez and Mexican American Oscar De La Hoya sets the stage for an examination of identity, tradition, and nationality in Longoria Bastón’s gripping documentary.
Special Admission

General: $18

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16

BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

Monday, April 25

Tuesday, April 26

Wednesday, April 27

Wednesday, April 27, 2022
12:15 PM
Join us for guided tours of The Artist's Eyeled by BAMPFA curatorial staff and UC Berkeley graduate students.
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
7 PM
Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams,
Rwanda, United States,
2021,
(105 mins)
Replete with mind-altering visual and sonic imagery, this Afrofuturist mélange of music, poetry, and resistance is hypnotic and visionary in its depiction of a genderqueer community of hackers and techno poets.
Special Admission

General: $18

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16

BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

Thursday, April 28

Thursday, April 28, 2022
6 PM
Alejandro Loayza Grisi,
Bolivia, France, Uruguay,
2022,
(87 mins)
A long drought parching their Bolivian highlands homeland endangers an elderly Quechua llama herder and his wife’s way of life in this intricate examination of the relationship between land and humanity.
Special Admission

General: $18

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16

BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

Thursday, April 28, 2022
8 PM
Zhang Ji,
China,
2021,
(113 mins)
The son of a local gangster and daughter of a factory worker conspire to flee their desperate lives as a serial killer runs rampant in this Chinese social realist neo-noir.
Special Admission

General: $18

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16

BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

Friday, April 29

Friday, April 29, 2022
12:30 PM
Elisa Tamarkin, UC Berkeley Professor of English and author of Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance, talks about the paintings of Winslow Homer and other nineteenth-century American artists as pragmatic works with salience and interest that reveal versions of events that feel apropos of our lives.

Theater capacity is limited for this program.

Free and open to the public. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

Friday, April 29, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, April 29, 2022
4 PM
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
2021,
(137 mins)

US Premiere

Davies separates man from myth in his masterly portrait of acclaimed antiwar poet Siegfried Sassoon, employing archival footage, gleefully catty dialog, and an artful crosscutting between the different eras of his subject’s fraught and complex life. 
Special Admission

General: $18

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16

BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

Friday, April 29, 2022
7 PM
Trinh T. Minh-ha,
China, United States,
2021,
(135 mins)
Filmmaker, writer, and composer Trinh is this year’s recipient of the Persistence of Vision Award. Trinh will present her latest film, What About China?
Special Admission

General: $18

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16

BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

In Conversation
  • Trinh T. Minh-ha
  • Rizvana Bradley
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Saturday, April 30

Saturday, April 30, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, April 30, 2022
2 PM – 5 PM

A BAMPFA Student Committee event. 

A BAMPFA Student Committee event. 
West Crescent Lawn
Saturday, April 30, 2022
3 PM
Reid Davenport,
United States,
2022,
(76 mins)
Oakland resident and filmmaker Reid Davenport reflects on matters of visibility, family, and the freak show in his latest personal documentary, winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Directing Award for US Documentary.
Special Admission

General: $18

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16

BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

In Person
  • Reid Davenport
  • Keith Wilson
    Keith Wilson is a producer of I Didn’t See You There.
Saturday, April 30, 2022
5:30 PM
Mounia Akl,
Denmark, France, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Spain, Sweden,
2021,
(106 mins)
Set in the near future but reflecting on current crises in present-day Lebanon, this tense debut portrays three generations of the Badri family, who retreat from the chaos of Beirut to a rural homestead. 
Special Admission

General: $18

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16

BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

Saturday, April 30, 2022
7:45 PM
Radu Muntean,
Romania,
2021,
(104 mins)
Wryly funny and suspenseful, this Cannes hit portrays a trio of Romanian aid workers whose SUV gets stuck on a logging road in remote Transylvania.
Special Admission

General: $18

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16

BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs.
Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

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