Week of April 27, 2025

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Sunday, April 27

Sunday, April 27, 2025
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, April 27, 2025
12 PM
Julie Forrest Wyman,
United States,
2025,
(93 mins)
Diagnosed with hypochondroplasia dwarfism as an adult, filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman seeks to understand her own condition as she confers with her family, medical experts, and a welcoming, creative group of little people for answers.

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Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


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

Sunday, April 27, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Sunday, April 27, 2025
2:30 PM
Ángela Carabalí,
Colombia,
2025,
(86 mins)
Thirty years after their father disappeared during a period of civil unrest, director Ángela Carabalí and her sister Juliana travel throughout Colombia seeking answers.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


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

Sunday, April 27, 2025
5 PM
Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim,
United States,
2025,
(100 mins)

Open Captioned
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for this program

In this involving documentary, students at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, stage protests in March 1988, demanding that the world’s first university for the deaf and hard of hearing appoint a deaf president.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


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

Sunday, April 27, 2025
7:45 PM
Rebecca Lenkiewicz,
United Kingdom,
2025,
(92 mins)
An unsettling mother/daughter story set over a sultry Spanish summer, this sexy and mysterious drama starring Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, and Vicky Krieps beautifully adapts Deborah Levy’s acclaimed novel.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


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

Monday, April 28

Tuesday, April 29

Wednesday, April 30

Wednesday, April 30, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Wednesday, April 30, 2025
7:00 PM
Sylvain George,
France, Switzerland,
2023,
(183 mins)
In the Spanish enclave of Melilla, Morocco, a group of youths try to get to Europe. Obscure Night—Goodbye Here, Anywhere focuses on a reality the Western world would rather not see, dissident dreams that transcend geographical boundaries.
In Conversation
  • Sylvain George
  • Debarati Sanyal
    Debarati Sanyal is a Professor of French and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry at UC Berkeley.

Thursday, May 1

Thursday, May 1, 2025
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
Thursday, May 1, 2025
1:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Thursday, May 1, 2025
5:30 PM
In conjunction with To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)Permanent Collection, BAMPFA presents a reading with poets Solmaz Sharif and Geoffrey G. O’Brien.

Included with admission

Series Readings
Thursday, May 1, 2025
7:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1964,
(129 mins)
“Wildly subversive in its treatment of sexuality, gender, class, religion, marriage, and motherhood, Loving Couples is as electrifying a first feature as any in cinema history, announcing the arrival of an uncompromising artist in pursuit of raw emotional truth” (Janus Films).
Thursday, May 1, 2025
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.

Friday, May 2

Friday, May 2, 2025
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, May 2, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1974,
(147 mins)

35mm Archival Print

John Cassavetes’s masterpiece retains the power to unnerve with its raw, often harrowing depiction of a blue-collar Los Angeles family, with Gena Rowlands in an Oscar-nominated performance as a housewife on the verge.

Saturday, May 3

Saturday, May 3, 2025
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, May 3, 2025
7:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1966,
(105 mins)
“An absorbing, even brilliant film. . . . When it was first exhibited at the Venice Film Festival in 1966, it was considered the most daring film ever made” (Roger Ebert).