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Sunday, April 26, 2020
11 AM–3 PM

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Bring the family for a full day of art, books, music and film—with free admission for everyone!
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. Free admission
Series Family Events
Sunday, April 26, 2020
3 PM
Hawley Pratt,
United States,
1972,
(24 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Based on the book by Dr. Seuss, this short film tells the story of a young boy’s encounter with a ruined industrialist whose greed left his environment a treeless wasteland. If only the man had listened to the warnings of the wise old Lorax!
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. Free admission
Sunday, April 26, 2020
4 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1979,
(122 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

Originally made for Italian TV, this satirical pseudo-documentary about the tensions within an orchestra draws on Fellini’s collaborations with composer Nino Rota. With Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, a self-reflective wander through the director’s mind and the city of Rome.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Sunday, April 26, 2020
7 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2002,
(112 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Pina Bausch’s Café Müller was one of Almodóvar’s inspirations for this Academy Award–winning film about the friendship between two men, each caring for a woman in a coma. “Almodóvar’s most mature and mysterious movie” (Newsweek).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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Monday, April 27, 2020
6:30 PM

This event has been postponed to a later date. Updates will be posted at artsdesign.berkeley.edu. Thank you for your understanding.

This panel discussion brings together youth leaders from several Richmond organizations and initiatives to share the ways in which they are planning the city’s future.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020
7 PM
Rosine Mbakam,
Belgium, Cameroon,
2016,
(91 mins)
“The filmmaker reinventing how African women are portrayed in movies” (NPR), Rosine Mbakam turns the camera on her own remarkable mother and her generation in this captivating documentary. With Haminiaina Ratovoarivony’s short Razana.

Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.

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Thursday, April 30, 2020
4 PM

Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above

 

 

Please join online for an intimate, behind-the-scenes glimpse into a seminal exhibition in the pipeline with Apsara DiQuinzio, BAMPFA's senior curator of modern and contemporary art and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX Curator.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
7 PM
Rolands Kalniņš,
Latvia, USSR,
1967,
(112 mins)

Digital Restoration

An idealistic singer in a fledgling Latvian rock band fights censorship and indifference in this inventive musical, which earned comparisons to the French New Wave. With Gyula Gazdag’s The Selection, a Hungarian take on the intersection of socialism and rock ’n’ roll.

Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.

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Friday, May 1, 2020
5:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1956,
(110 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

The great Giulietta Masina portrays the spunky prostitute Cabiria in this humorous and ultimately transformative story of the survival of the human spirit. “The masterpiece of Masina’s collaboration with Fellini” (Albert Johnson).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Friday, May 1, 2020
8 PM
Paul Schrader,
United States,
1985,
(120 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

New Digital Restoration

Paul Schrader’s riveting docu-fiction retells the life and death of Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, supported by Philip Glass’s compelling score, Eiko Ishioka’s remarkable set designs, and a riveting Ken Ogata performance. “One of the most gorgeous and sophisticated portraits of an artist ever put on film” (New Yorker).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
  • Tom Luddy
    Introduction
    Producer of Mishima, Tom Luddy is the cofounder and codirector of the Telluride Film Festival and a former director and curator of the Pacific Film Archive.
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Saturday, May 2, 2020
5 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2019,
(113 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Ailing and adrift, a celebrated film director (Antonio Banderas) looks back at his work and life in Almodóvar’s pensive, tantalizingly self-reflexive drama, which garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and for Banderas's extraordinary performance.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Saturday, May 2, 2020
7 PM

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Following our screening of Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory, join fellow cinephiles at our communal table for dinner and warm conversation. 
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. $95 per person. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately. Call Babette at (510) 684-3046 with questions.
Saturday, May 2, 2020
7:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1980,
(140 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Fellini’s aging alter ego Marcello Mastroianni wanders through a woman-dominated dreamscape in this surrealist fantasia of female power and male sexual anxiety, the director’s fascinating attempt to grapple with feminism.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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Sunday, May 3, 2020
4:30 PM
(75 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Join the filmmakers for a program of the outstanding student films that are this year’s prizewinners and honorable mentions for the Eisner Prize, the highest award for creativity given on the UC Berkeley campus.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. Free admission
Sunday, May 3, 2020
7 PM
(100 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

This program of recent shorts focuses on women’s stories and struggles in Africa and the diaspora. Titles include Marielle’s Legacy Will Not Die (Leonard Cortana, Brazil), My Beloved Co-Wife (Angèle Diabang, Nigeria), Awani (Aderonke Adeola, Nigeria), and The Prophetess (Sylvie Weber, Congo).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020
7 PM
Wim Wenders,
Germany,
2011,
(106 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Special 3-D screening at the California Theatre, 2113 Kittredge Street, Berkeley

Filmed shortly after Bausch’s death, Pina was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary and is frequently cited as one of the best dance movies—and 3-D movies—ever made. The dancing is exuberant and electrifying, especially on the big screen.
At California Theatre
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.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1983,
(132 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

The admirers of a recently deceased opera diva gather on an ocean liner for a final voyage in Fellini’s opulently stylized drama, “a celebration of spectacle” (Vincent Canby).
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Thursday, May 7, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1956,
(110 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

The great Giulietta Masina portrays the spunky prostitute Cabiria in this humorous and ultimately transformative story of the survival of the human spirit. “The masterpiece of Masina’s collaboration with Fellini” (Albert Johnson).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Thursday, May 7, 2020
7 PM
Choreographer Risa Jaroslow and bassist/composer Lisa Mezzacappa collaborate on a performance featuring three bassists and three dancers interacting in tender, awkward, and funny ways.
Series Full 2020
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Friday, May 8, 2020
12 PM

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Artist Nathan Lynch gives a talk focusing on Nagle’s work ethic, attention to detail, and unflinching pursuit of his best sculpture, as well as his humor and sense of style.
Included with admission
Friday, May 8, 2020
7 PM
Joël Karekezi,
Belgium, France, Rwanda,
2018,
(91 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Two Rwandan soldiers embark on a journey of survival through the unforgiving jungle in this visceral feature—inspired by Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line—from Joël Karekezi, himself a survivor of the Rwandan genocide.
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Saturday, May 9, 2020
3 PM

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)

A baby dragon goes missing in this compelling tale. Join us to start reading it together, and pick up a copy to finish at home.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
  • Allyson Bogie
    Reading led by
    Allyson Bogie is district librarian for the West Contra Costa Unified School District.
Series Family Events
Saturday, May 9, 2020
5 PM
Anne Tinsel, Rainer Hoffmann,
Germany,
2010,
(89 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

This documentary follows a group of teenagers with no previous dance experience as they learn to perform Pina Bausch’s iconic dance Kontakthof (Contact Zone). This would be Bausch’s last appearance on screen.
Saturday, May 9, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1965,
(148 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

A bourgeois housewife (a mesmerizing Giulietta Masina) embraces a world of fantasy in one of Fellini’s most spectacular, imaginative works.
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Sunday, May 10, 2020
4:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1986,
(126 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as an aging dance duo invited to perform on a TV variety show in Fellini’s film, both a fond tribute to vaudeville and a withering assault on the meaningless opulence of commercial television. 
Sunday, May 10, 2020
7 PM
Gerhard Klingenberg,
German Democratic Republic,
1960,
(112 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Released the year before the building of the Berlin Wall, this farce imagines the relocation of a village from East to West Germany. With Vlastimil Venclík’s Czech short The Uninvited Guest, on a couple confronting—then growing accustomed to—an intruder.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1980,
(160 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola helped produce Kurosawa’s big-budget return to epic filmmaking, involving a lord and his double (both played by Tatsuya Nakadai) trying to hold a kingdom together. “Probably the director’s most elaborate, awesome film . . . majestic, stately, cool, almost abstract” (New York Times).
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Thursday, May 14, 2020
4 PM

Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above

Join Curatorial Assistant Lucia Olubunmi Momoh for a discussion of Peace Now!, the newest iteration of BAMPFA’s Art for Human Rights series. Lucia will talk about her curatorial vision and the museum's role in social and political activism.
Thursday, May 14, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1987,
(105 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

Fellini turns the camera on himself in this pseudo-documentary, which uses a Japanese TV crew’s visit to the Cinecittà studio as the pretext for a series of glimpses into the filmmaker’s methods and thoughts.
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6 PM
Friday, May 15, 2020
6 PM

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Meet the graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Fine Arts program as they talk about their recent work.
Included with admission
7 PM
Friday, May 15, 2020
7 PM
Kira Muratova,
Ukraine, USSR,
1989,
(153 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Legendary director Kira Muratova’s demented chronicle of the absurdities and insults of post-glasnost Soviet life takes its title and cues from a psychological condition that alternates between maniacal aggression and apathetic inaction. “A movie that breaks all the rules” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
  • Stanislav Menzelevskyi
    Introduction
    Stanislav Menzelevskyi, a film scholar and curator, is head of the Research Department of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center and currently a Fulbright visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
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Saturday, May 16, 2020
2 PM

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Art historian Julia F. Andrews presents a lecture reflecting on the rise of women as artists and as subjects for art, in the context of the evolving status of women in twentieth-century China.
Included with admission
4:30 PM
Saturday, May 16, 2020
4:30 PM
John Sayles,
Ireland, United States,
1994,
(103 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Newly Restored Print!
Recommended for ages 9 & up

In this charming, beautifully photographed film about storytelling and family ties, a girl living with her grandparents in a remote Irish fishing village discovers a world of myth and magic. A “first-rate, all-ages fairy tale steeped in Irish folklore” (Hollywood Reporter).
Saturday, May 16, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1960,
(174 mins)

The May 16 screening has been canceled. Learn more

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Film to Table dinner follows the January 26 screening

Marcello Mastroianni stars as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence of Rome in Fellini’s masterpiece, filled with jaw-dropping set pieces of both excess and warmth. “Fellini’s bizarre, extravagant visuals are absolutely riveting” (Time Out). 
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Sunday, May 17, 2020
3 PM

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

“One of India’s most respected photographers” (New York Times) talks about the evolution of her photographic practice, her collaborative projects, and her ongoing engagement with rural India since 1999.
Included with admission
Sunday, May 17, 2020
4:30 PM
Godfrey Reggio,
United States,
1982,
(86 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

Koyaanisqatsi (a Hopi word for “life out of balance”) is one of the most successful avant-garde films of all time, a spectacular montage of images of American landscapes, industrial sites, cities, and people propelled by Philip Glass’s classic score.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Sunday, May 17, 2020
5 PM
Watch a live conversation between Spaceship Earth director Matt Wolf and interdisciplinary artist Fritz Haeg, who has revived the historic Mendocino County commune Salmon Creek Farm. Moderated by Fanny Singer, the author of a new memoir about life with her mother, Alice Waters.
Sunday, May 17, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1990,
(118 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

Fellini’s dreamy, almost Beckett-like story follows a young, moonstruck wanderer (Roberto Benigni) and his friend, a plump, aging actor, a Laurel and Hardy–like pair seeking to understand the meanings of life. 
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
7 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
2004,
(198 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

Ottinger’s glorious adaptation of a 1920s Ukrainian Soviet satire is both a picaresque post-revolutionary tale of avarice and a fascinating document of Ukraine circa 2004.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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Thursday, May 21, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1956,
(110 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

The great Giulietta Masina portrays the spunky prostitute Cabiria in this humorous and ultimately transformative story of the survival of the human spirit. “The masterpiece of Masina’s collaboration with Fellini” (Albert Johnson).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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Thursday, May 28, 2020
4 PM

Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above

Join Senior Curator for Asian Art Julia White for a discussion of Beyond Boundaries: Buddhist Art of Gandhara, a landmark exhibition demonstrating the remarkable artistic production of a little-known region that ignited the transformation of Buddhist art on an international scale.
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Friday, May 29, 2020
8 PM

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Off-Site Event at Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 67th St., Oakland
Programmed by Alix Blevins

Los Angeles–based filmmakers Andrew Kim and Karissa Hahn present recent solo and collaborative moving-image work.
At Shapeshifters Cinema
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All Day
  • Film
  • Free
  • Members
  • Ongoing
Saturday, May 30, 2020
All Day
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1956,
(78 mins)

Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
Available May 30–31. Password required.

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available May 30–31, 2020.
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Sunday, May 31, 2020
11 AM-4 PM

Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $10,000 level and above 

Join us for lunch in Sonoma and the opportunity to tour two remarkable homes and art collections with Larry Rinder.
All Day
  • Film
  • Free
  • Members
  • Ongoing
Sunday, May 31, 2020
All Day
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1956,
(78 mins)

Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
Available May 30–31. Password required.

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available May 30–31, 2020.
5 PM
Sunday, May 31, 2020
5 PM

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Programmed by Michal “MJ” Jones

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett and Vernon Keeve III read their writing.
Included with admission
Series Readings 2020
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7 PM
Thursday, June 4, 2020
7 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Austria, Germany,
2007,
(104 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Imported 35mm Print

Ottinger’s award-winning documentary on the Prater amusement park in Vienna draws a parallel between the illusionary business of carnival freak shows and the bygone era of a cinema of attractions.
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