Sunday, November 12
Sunday, November 12, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, November 12, 2023
1:30 PM
Werner Herzog,
France, Germany, United Kingdom,
1992,
(53 mins)
Werner Herzog’s gripping documentary shows the disaster of the Kuwait oil fields in flames. In contrast to most documentaries—especially ones tackling the destruction of the planet—there’s minimal commentary and no talking heads. “An evocation of hell on earth . . . with an epic, elegiac musical backdrop” (Time Out).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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
BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs.
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Werner Herzog
In Person
Sunday, November 12, 2023
2 PM
Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
Sunday, November 12, 2023
4 PM
Werner Herzog,
United States,
2019,
(89 mins)
Werner Herzog’s latest narrative focuses on Japan’s bizarre “rent-a-family” business, a professional stand-in service that provides clients with actors who portray a range of roles, including friends, family members, or even coworkers.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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
BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs.
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Werner Herzog
In Person
Sunday, November 12, 2023
7 PM
Amil Shivji,
Germany, Qatar, South Africa, Tanzania, United Republic of,
2021,
(93 mins)
A young Marxist and a runaway Indian Zanzibari bride find love and revolutionary fervor amidst the atmospheric alleys and taarab nightclubs of 1950s-era Stone Town, Zanzibar, in this gorgeously languid Tanzanian period drama, and anti-colonial In the Mood for Love.
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Zamansele Nsele
IntroductionZamansele Nsele is assistant professor in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley, where she specializes in modern and contemporary African art. Her current book project examines the visual
Series
African Film Festival 2023
Monday, November 13
Tuesday, November 14
Wednesday, November 15
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
12:15 PM
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
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
7 PM
(88 mins)
Canadian filmmaker and artist Lindsay McIntyre is of Inuit and settler descent. Her impressionistic films include portraits of people and the land and reflect on her complicated family history.
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Lindsay McIntyre
In-Theater Livestream
Series
Alternative Visions 2023
Thursday, November 16
Thursday, November 16, 2023
7 PM
Alain Kassanda,
Belgium, France,
2022,
(89 mins)
The history of the Congo’s decolonization and independence is glimpsed through the recollections of the filmmaker’s grandparents in this New York Times Critic’s Pick, a “deeply personal, sometimes poetic, sometimes harrowing history of oppression, revolution, betrayal, disillusionment, and love” (Business Doc Europe).
Series
African Film Festival 2023
Friday, November 17
Friday, November 17, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, November 17, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1959,
(91 mins)
A turn-of-the-century wandering cleric sheds his priestly garments to aid the rural poor directly, but material reality and human cruelty have other plans. Magnificently photographed by the great Gabriel Figueroa.
Saturday, November 18
Saturday, November 18, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, November 18, 2023
2:30 PM
Join us in celebrating the publication of At Third and Mission: A Life Among Artists, a memoir by longtime Bay Area museum curator Renny Pritikin. Pritikin will read from his new book and converse with East Bay poet Brandon Brown. Copies of Pritikin’s book will be available for purchase and signing by the author immediately following the event.
Included with admission.
Series
Readings
Saturday, November 18, 2023
4:30 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1949,
(104 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Joseph Cotten pursues Orson Welles through postwar Vienna in Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s cynical masterpiece. “Seeing it on the big screen is like watching it for the first time” (New York Times).
Saturday, November 18, 2023
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1970,
(140 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Alain Delon and Yves Montand star in Jean-Pierre Melville’s “dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters, and cigarettes” (Los Angeles Times).
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