Sunday, October 20
Sunday, October 20, 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 2024
Sunday, October 20, 2024
3:30 PM
Agnieszka Holland,
Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Poland,
2023,
(147 mins)
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, this riveting thriller explores the European migrant crisis from multiple ground-level perspectives. “A stunning, harrowing film. . . . Reverberates with deep empathy and quiet fury” (Time Out).
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Sunday, October 20, 2024
7:00 PM
Peter Ho-Sun Chan,
Hong Kong,
1991,
(105 mins)
Two best friends navigate Hong Kong misfortunes, American dreams, and a love triangle in this romantic tearjerker, partially filmed in San Francisco, starring Alan Tam, Eric Tsang, and Maggie Cheung. It is the debut of filmmaker Peter Ho-sun Chan.
Introduction
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Andrew F. Jones
Andrew F. Jones is Professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley. -
Paul Fonoroff
Paul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema who lived for years in Hong Kong and is currently based in Bangkok.
Monday, October 21
Tuesday, October 22
Wednesday, October 23
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
7:00 PM
Ernesto Daranas Serrano,
Cuba, Spain,
2023,
(80 mins)
Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Cuba’s first Black filmmaker, faced censorship, imprisonment, and exile because his distinctive style clashed with the Cuban state. In 2019 efforts to restore his “cursed” films began, leading to this documentary. Join us for this special screening, which opens the series Cuban Cinema without Borders.
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Lázaro González
IntroductionLázaro González is a filmmaker from Cuba, a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media, and the guest curator of Cuban Cinema without Borders.
Series
Cuban Cinema without Borders
Thursday, October 24
Thursday, October 24, 2024
7:00 PM
(78 mins)
Despite the censorship and oblivion of the Cuban national film industry, Nicolás Guillén Landrián’s films survive as one of the most potent archives of Afro-Cuban lives. This program features the California premiere of new restorations, offering a rare glimpse into Landrián’s enduring legacy.
Prerecorded Video Introduction
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Dean Luis Reyes
Dean Luis Reyes is a Cuban critic and journalist and a guest lecturer at the Chavón School of Design (Dominican Republic). -
Lázaro González
Lázaro González is a filmmaker from Cuba, a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media, and the guest curator of Cuban Cinema without Borders.
Series
Cuban Cinema without Borders
Friday, October 25
Friday, October 25, 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 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
7:00 PM
Alex Law, Mabel Cheung,
Hong Kong,
1992,
(97 mins)
Hong Kong megastar/action hero Chow Yun-fat (The Killer) shows off his Cary Grant–like romantic charm (trust us, it’s there) while chasing down his smalltown-turned-big-city crush (Carol “Dodo” Cheng). A breezy, old-school screwball romance.
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Paul Fonoroff
IntroductionPaul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema who lived for years in Hong Kong and is currently based in Bangkok.
Saturday, October 26
Saturday, October 26, 2024
1 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 2024
Saturday, October 26, 2024
1–7 PM
For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.
BAMPFA members enjoy exclusive preview access to Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on Saturday, October 26, 1–7 PM.
For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
7:00 PM
(88 mins)
Explore Cuba’s culture of resistance through powerful and intimate short films—from the political turmoil in Now! and Persona to the melancholic vision of Havana in Casa de la noche and the dystopian Tundra. The program ends on a humorous note, with Ana A. Alpizar’s piece, which introduces us to Miami as another landscape of Cuban imaginaries.
In Conversation
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Nils Longueira Borrego
Nils Longueira Borrego is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Fullerton. -
Lázaro González
Lázaro González is a filmmaker from Cuba, a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media, and the guest curator of Cuban Cinema without Borders.
Series
Cuban Cinema without Borders
Through April 20
Through April 20
Through April 27
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through April 12
Through April 13
Through April 30
Through May 8
Through December 31
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