Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM

Based on a true story that scandalized Japan in the mid-1980s, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2004 drama follows four children left abandoned in a Tokyo apartment. “Absorbing, humane, and deeply moving,” Nobody Knows reveals the “director’s talent for extending a single moment with superbly poised artistry” (The Guardian).

This portrait of revolutionary Cuba, written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and brimming with bravura camerawork, is an extraordinary example of “pure” cinema in the service of politics. Tom Luddy helped bring this film to light by programming it at the Telluride Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival. He also helped acquire a 35mm print for the BAMPFA collection.

Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.

Set in Toyko just after the end of the American occupation of Japan, Kinuyo Tanaka’s impressive directorial debut provides “a much-needed female voice that offers a . . . nuanced reading of women’s lives in postwar Japan, and especially regarding sex work” (Natalie Ng, Filmed in Ether).

A traffic jam nightmare, a literal flight of fancy, nuns and whores and more: 8 1/2 follows the dreams and visions of a jaded director (Marcello Mastroianni) as he bemusedly attempts his next great film, which may or may not take precedence over his own sexual desires. Followed by Un Cardinale Donna.

Jeanne Moreau is a chambermaid in a household of perfectly ordinary bourgeois perverts in this darkly funny update of a Gustave Mirbeau novel, the first film in the long collaboration between Luis Buñuel and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière.

Two programs of performances, discussions, activities, and improvisations, led by artist Zekarias Thompson

A comic fable about a middle-aged man in Dakar whose life changes when he receives a money order from Paris. “[Ousmane] Sembène’s approach is spare, laconic, slightly ironic, and never patronizing” (New York Times). The film received the International Critics’ Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Tom Luddy hosted Sembène at the Pacific Film Archive in February 1978 as part of a focus on New Senegalese Cinema.

Luchino Visconti’s somber mood piece is an Elektra story of madness and incestuous passions in a family haunted by secrets and the shadow of the Holocaust. Claudia Cardinale stars with Jean Sorel and Marie Bell.