Sunday, March 24
Sunday, March 24, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Sunday, March 24, 2024
2 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1955,
(90 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Made outside the French film industry on a shoestring budget, Agnès Varda’s debut film about two reunited lovers in a Mediterranean fishing port has been called “truly the first film of the nouvelle vague” (Georges Sadoul).
Series
Viva Varda!
Sunday, March 24, 2024
4 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
Senegal,
1971,
(128 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Named for the Diola god of thunder, a story about the awakening of national consciousness, in the clash between French colonists and the Diola tribe in the closing days of World War II. “Told with great sensitivity and restraint” (San Francisco Chronicle). Preceded by the short dramatic film Tauw.
Series
Sembène 100
Monday, March 25
Tuesday, March 26
Wednesday, March 27
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
3:10 PM
Sam Mendes,
United Kingdom, United States,
2019,
(119 mins)
Lecture & Screening
Closed Captioned
“Astonishing as the filmmaking can be at times, it’s [Sam] Mendes’ attention to character, more than the technique, that makes 1917 one of 2019’s most impressive cinematic achievements” (Peter Debruge, Variety).
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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David Thomson
LectureDavid Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
7 PM
Edward Yang,
Taiwan,
1994,
(129 mins)
New Digital Restoration
A gaggle of Taipei yuppies chase cash value over Confucian values (unless those too can be monetized) in Edward Yang’s biting, ironic satire of the Taiwanese nouveau riche. A fascinating snapshot of Taiwan’s mid-1990s economic boom and a still timely takedown of the success obsessed.
Series
Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories
Thursday, March 28
Thursday, March 28, 2024
6:30 PM
Copresented by California magazine and BAMPFA
UC Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell, one of the world’s leading AI researchers, converses with California magazine’s editor-in-chief, Pat Joseph, about the perils and potential promise of the AI revolution.
Special thanks to our event sponsor, Pepsi, the official beverage partner of UC Berkeley.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
Tickets: $40; CAA and BAMPFA members: $35
Series
Talks & Conversations
Friday, March 29
Friday, March 29, 2024
2 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Friday, March 29, 2024
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1962,
(90 mins)
Shot entirely on location in the streets of Paris, Cléo chronicles two hours of a pop singer’s life. A score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Legrand, Jean-Luc Godard, and Anna Karina flavor this New Wave classic that proves Agnès Varda’s theme, “one isn’t born a woman, one becomes one.”
Series
Viva Varda!
Saturday, March 30
Saturday, March 30, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Saturday, March 30, 2024
7 PM
Lila Avilés,
Denmark, France, Mexico,
2023,
(95 mins)
A family’s preparation for a birthday party slowly dissolves into something far more revealing in Lila Avilés’s Berlinale prizewinner, seen through the eyes of a young girl. “An exquisite Mexican family drama of joy and heartbreak . . . a minutely observed ensemble piece” (Guardian).
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