Week of August 17, 2025

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Sunday, August 17

Sunday, August 17, 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, August 17, 2025
2 PM
Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.
Sunday, August 17, 2025
5 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1935,
(74 mins)
Mikio Naruse’s warm, funny-sad tale of a girl who tries to unite her poetess mother and estranged father “is presented with a simplicity and a seriousness. . . . The result is one of the most moving films I know” (The Nation).
Sunday, August 17, 2025
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1975,
(106 mins)
Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, a collection of memories of a young boy coming of age, invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman).

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Wednesday, August 20

Wednesday, August 20, 2025
12:15 PM
Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1966,
(84 mins)

Digital Restoration

Exploring the strange symbiosis between a speechless actress (Liv Ullmann) and her nurse companion (Bibi Andersson), this is Ingmar “Bergman at his most brilliant” (Time Out).
  • Linda Haverty Rugg
    Introduction
    Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.

Thursday, August 21

Thursday, August 21, 2025
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1979,
(163 mins)

Digital Restoration

A writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).

Friday, August 22

Friday, August 22, 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, August 22, 2025
7 PM
Tsai Ming-liang,
Taiwan,
1992,
(106 mins)
A disaffected youth and his friends wander through a neon Taipei in Tsai Ming-liang’s first feature, “a near-masterpiece” (Chicago Reader). “Inaugurates the filmmaker’s multi-movie study of urban alienation not with showoff chops but quiet, enduring compassion” (Village Voice).

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

  • Andrew F. Jones
    Introduction
    Andrew F. Jones is Professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley.
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Saturday, August 23

Saturday, August 23, 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, August 23, 2025
4:30 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1935,
(74 mins)
Tokyo’s lively Asakusa district comes alive in Mikio Naruse’s wonderful portrait of three modern girls who try to break away into love and marriage. Based on a Yasunari Kawabata novel.
Saturday, August 23, 2025
7 PM
Roy Andersson,
Sweden,
1970,
(119 mins)

35mm Archival Print

A moped-riding Romeo loves a gum-chewing Juliet in late 1960s Sweden, but dreamless, refrigerator-selling parental figures stand in their way. A wry, Milos Forman–inspired look at youthful hopes and middle-aged sadness.