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  Marilyn Fabe

  Marilyn Fabe is the author of Closely Watched Films and was the longtime teacher of the popular BAMPFA lecture/screening series Film 50: History of Cinema.

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  Tarek Elhaik

  Introduction

  Curator and scholar Tarek Elhaik, an associate professor of anthropology at UC Davis, is the author of The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film & Media Arts and the founder of AIL: the Anth

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  Trinh T. Minh-ha

  In Person

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  Marilyn Fabe

  Lecture

  Marilyn Fabe is the author of Closely Watched Films and was the longtime teacher of the popular BAMPFA lecture/screening series Film 50: History of Cinema.

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  Stacey Steers

  In Person

In Person

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  Maureen Gosling
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  Chris Simon

In Conversation

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  Margherita Ghetti

  Margherita Ghetti holds a PhD in Italian studies from UC Berkeley. She is a film curatorial intern at BAMPFA and works as a programmer for several Bay Area film festivals.
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  Sarah Whitt

  Sarah Whitt (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, where she researches intersecting histories of American Indian medical incarceratio
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  Hertha D. Sweet Wong

  Hertha D. Sweet Wong, professor of English and associate dean of arts and humanities at UC Berkeley, teaches and writes about indigenous literatures.

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  Raphael Noz

  With artist

  Raphael Noz holds an MS degree in education from Wheelock College and an MFA from California College of the Arts.

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  Raphael Noz

  With artist

  Raphael Noz holds an MS degree in education from Wheelock College and an MFA from California College of the Arts.

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  Becca Todd

  Reading led by

  Becca Todd is a former district library coordinator for the Berkeley Unified School District.

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  Godfrey Cheshire

  Introduction and Lecture

  Godfrey Cheshire is a New York–based filmmaker and critic who has written extensively about Iranian cinema and is the author of the new book Conversations with Kiarostami, which he will sign following

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  Godfrey Cheshire

  Introduction and Post-Screening Lecture

  Godfrey Cheshire is a New York–based filmmaker and critic who has written extensively about Iranian cinema and is the author of the new book Conversations with Kiarostami.

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  Godfrey Cheshire

  Lecture

  Godfrey Cheshire is a New York–based filmmaker and critic who has written extensively about Iranian cinema and is the author of the new book Conversations with Kiarostami, which he will sign following

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  Jodie Mack

  In Person

In Conversation

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  Nicole Atkinson Roach

  Nicole Atkinson Roach is an Emmy Award–winning producer, director, and writer and a former student of Marlon Riggs. She worked with Riggs on several of his films and coproduced Black Is . . .
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  Ryanaustin Dennis

  Ryanaustin Dennis is an Oakland-based curator, artist, and writer whose practice is concerned with how histories of experimental performance, film, and writing are shaped by the metaphysics of blackne
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  Chika Okoye

  Chika Okoye is a historian of liberation movements and a theorist of freedom, working on a master’s degree in ethnic studies at San Francisco State University.

In Person

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  Amir Soltani
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  Chihiro Wimbush

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  Abbas Milani

  Lecture

  Abbas Milani is director of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a leading commentator on contemporary Iranian political history.

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  Ahmad Kiarostami

  Lecture

  Ahmad Kiarostami is a San Francisco–based entrepreneur with a wide range of experience, from startups to producing films and making music videos.

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  Ashley Omoma

  Introduction

  Ashley Omoma is a journalist and documentarian, engulfed in the intersections between art and journalism. As a storyteller, she works to amplify narratives that often go untold.
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  Karen Everett

  In Person

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  Damon R. Young

  Introduction

  Damon R. Young is an associate professor of French and Film & Media at UC Berkeley, and the author of Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies.

In Coversation

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  Ahn Jae-hoon

  After the screening and Q&A, Ahn Jae-hoon will draw caricatures for interested audience members.
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  Erick Oh

  Korean filmmaker and animator Erick Oh worked at Pixar Animation Studios from 2010 to 2016, and joined the Berkeley-based animation studio Tonko House in 2016.