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7 PM
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
7 PM
Dziga Vertov,
USSR,
1929,
(76 mins)
An ecstatic portrait of a city and its inhabitants and a compendium of camera and editing techniques, commenting on itself and our own watching, “Dziga Vertov’s experimental silent documentary upends reality in ways that are still dizzying, thrilling and strangely sexy” (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian).
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Documentary Voices 2021
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7 PM
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
7 PM
Al Wong,
United States,
1977,
(64 mins)
BAMPFA Preservation
Local filmmaker Al Wong presents and discusses his meditative Twin Peaks, in which he recorded driving the looping roads around Twin Peaks for a year, in different seasons and times of day, as well as his conceptual installation Screen, Projector & Film.
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Series
Alternative Visions 2021
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7 PM
Friday, October 8, 2021
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
China, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom,
2021,
(136 mins)
Set in Colombia and starring Tilda Swinton, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s first feature film made outside of Thailand covers familiar thematic terrain for the veteran director in its exploration of the blurred boundaries between the natural world and spirit realm, and the way that collective traumas reemerge as memories and dreams.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times |
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5 PM
Saturday, October 9, 2021
5 PM
Céline Sciamma,
France,
2021,
(72 mins)
“Secrets aren’t always things we try to hide, there’s just no one to tell them to,” says eight-year-old Nelly to her new best friend. In Céline Sciamma’s achingly beautiful new film, the past and present magically merge to ease the sorrows of a grieving mother and daughter.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times
7 PM
Saturday, October 9, 2021
7 PM
Asghar Farhadi ,
Iran,
2021,
(127 mins)
Acclaimed filmmaker Asghar Farhadi returns with another gripping human drama, chronicling a man (Amir Jadidi) in prison for an unpaid debt who makes a plan for freedom. Brilliantly mapping out a moral dilemma and astutely examining our fascination with (and suspicion of) folk heroes, A Hero travels an unpredictable, unforgettable path.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
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4 PM
Sunday, October 10, 2021
4 PM
Antonio Méndez Esparza,
Spain, United States,
2020,
(115 mins)
This powerful fly-on-the-wall documentary spends one month in Florida’s Tallahassee Unified Family Court system, shining a needed light on the results of economic disparities in that community. Sometimes shocking, sometimes uncomfortable, it’s a nonetheless nuanced and necessary look into a world too few people know about.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
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7 PM
Sunday, October 10, 2021
7 PM
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun,
Belgium, Chad, France, Germany,
2021,
(87 mins)
Pioneering Chadian auteur Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is in blistering form with his latest film, a feminist social realist drama exploring abortion rights in conservative, patriarchal Chadian society through the experiences of a mother and her teenage daughter.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
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7 PM
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
7 PM
Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt,
Canada,
2020,
(80 mins)
“No Ordinary Man . . . is a genre unto itself, a meta-biographical film about a musician who earned his place in history posthumously, for reasons that he carefully avoided revealing throughout his life.” —Richard Brody, New Yorker
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Series
Documentary Voices 2021
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7 PM
Friday, October 15, 2021
7 PM
Mia Hansen-Løve,
Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden,
2021,
(112 mins)
One of Mia Hansen-Løve’s most autobiographical films to date, Bergman Island continues her ongoing exploration of the existential dynamic between work and love. Vicky Krieps plays a writer/director who struggles to find her own voice in a drama resonant with moments of humor, mystery, and self-realization.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
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4:30 PM
Saturday, October 16, 2021
4:30 PM
Andres Alegria, Abel Sanchez,
United States,
2021,
(85 mins)
Building on the legacy of late civil rights activist and labor leader Cesar Chavez, and the pride inspired by the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, this documentary showcases the music of that era—a powerful soundtrack for farmworkers who until then felt invisible and unheard.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
In Person
7 PM
Saturday, October 16, 2021
7 PM
Susan Stern,
United States,
2021,
(71 mins)
A star in San Francisco’s influential underground comics scene of the late 1960s and ’70s, Rodriguez created beautifully rendered art that was nonetheless raunchy, politically radical, and sometimes willfully offensive. His filmmaker widow parses a complex personality and artistic legacy, both of them dazzling if often wildly at odds with today’s cultural norms.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
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3 PM
Sunday, October 17, 2021
3 PM
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi,
Japan,
2021,
(179 mins)
In this enchanting narrative, a theater director reeling from family tragedy is invited to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima. He’s assigned a driver, and during their time together, the two unburden themselves of their personal traumas. Winner of the Cannes Best Screenplay Award, Drive My Car is an exquisitely crafted mosaic about emotional connection.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
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7 PM
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
7 PM
(90 mins)
Guest curated by Wakae Nakane and Miryam Sas
In the 1990s, a surge of women filmmakers began working in the Japanese experimental film scene. This selection of rarely seen works critically and playfully explores the ritualistic nature of women’s life.
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In Conversation
Series
Alternative Visions 2021
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7 PM
Thursday, October 21, 2021
7 PM
Nicolás Pereda,
Canada, Mexico,
2020,
(105 mins)
An actor’s ambivalence toward participating in Narcos: Mexico helped shape Nicolás Pereda’s newest work, which channels his familiar concerns—the rhythms, conversations, and silences of Mexico—into an off-kilter, metafictional investigation of storytelling and performance.
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7 PM
Friday, October 22, 2021
7 PM
Jessica Beshir,
Ethiopia, Qatar, United States,
2021,
(120 mins)
“A nonfiction work of sensory immersion that’s part anthropology, part poetry” (Hollywood Reporter), the stunning Faya dayi explores the khat trade that dominates rural Ethiopia, circling between youths with little hope and their elders, who are dependent on the leaf’s dream state.
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5 PM
Saturday, October 23, 2021
5 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1950,
(88 mins)
Digital Restoration
Visual proof of the relativity of truth, Rashomon is “one of the most brilliantly constructed films of all time, a monument to Kurosawa’s greatness, and a landmark in film history” (James Monaco).
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7 PM
Saturday, October 23, 2021
7 PM
Nicolás Pereda,
Canada, Mexico,
2020,
(105 mins)
An actor’s ambivalence toward participating in Narcos: Mexico helped shape Nicolás Pereda’s newest work, which channels his familiar concerns—the rhythms, conversations, and silences of Mexico—into an off-kilter, metafictional investigation of storytelling and performance.
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4 PM
Sunday, October 24, 2021
4 PM
Courtney Stephens,
United States,
2017–21,
(75 mins)
Featuring amateur travel films shot by women from the 1920s through the 1940s, Terra Femme considers whether there is something distinctive about these women’s way of looking. It is accompanied by a live lecture and two shorts.
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In Conversation
7 PM
Sunday, October 24, 2021
7 PM
Jessica Beshir,
Ethiopia, Qatar, United States,
2021,
(120 mins)
“A nonfiction work of sensory immersion that’s part anthropology, part poetry” (Hollywood Reporter), the stunning Faya dayi explores the khat trade that dominates rural Ethiopia, circling between youths with little hope and their elders, who are dependent on the leaf’s dream state.
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7 PM
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
7 PM
Nicole Newnham, James LeBrecht,
United States,
2020,
(136 mins)
A groundbreaking summer camp helps spark a national civil rights movement for people with disabilities in this award-winning documentary with “smart focus, remarkable archival footage and inspiring subjects” (Hollywood Reporter).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. In Conversation
Series
Documentary Voices 2021
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7 PM
Thursday, October 28, 2021
7 PM
Kenji Mizoguchi,
Japan,
1953,
(95 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Consistently named one of the best films ever made, Kenji Mizoguchi’s ethereal fable is set in sixteenth-century Japan, where a potter has his head turned by a phantom enchantress, with predictable results.
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Friday, October 29, 2021
7 PM
Callisto McNulty,
France,
2019,
(70 mins)
An essential contribution to feminist film history, Delphine and Carole chronicles the collaboration of documentary film and video maker Carole Roussopoulos and actor and activist Delphine Seyrig, who used early video technology to document the women’s movement.
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4:30 PM
Saturday, October 30, 2021
4:30 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1964,
(130 mins)
A shared interest in literature draws the wife of a political journalist to her husband’s cousin. One of Ray’s finest works, this is “a gracious, dignified character study” (Albert Johnson).
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7 PM
Saturday, October 30, 2021
7 PM
Kenji Mizoguchi,
Japan,
1954,
(126 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Bring all your senses and your handkerchief to this haunting tale of a family victimized by the cruel practices of feudal Japan, “developed with intuition, cunning, and an overarching sense of tragedy” (SF Weekly).
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Sunday, October 31, 2021
2 PM
Larry Clark,
United States,
1977,
(111 mins)
Presented in collaboration with Film Quarterly
Passing Through theorizes that jazz is one of the purest expressions of African American culture, now hijacked by a white culture that brutally exploits musicians for profit. “An invaluable film-outcry” (Albert Johnson).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. In Conversation
5 PM
Sunday, October 31, 2021
5 PM
Edmund Goulding,
United States,
1947,
(110 mins)
Digital Restoration
“Wildly unpredictable circus and penthouse noir with gorgeous scumbag Tyrone Power, at the height of his doomed charms. . . . After viewing this picaresque and cathartic film, you will never again misuse the word ‘geek’” (Guy Maddin).
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021
7 PM
Leslie Tai,
China, United States,
2013,
(80 mins)
Blurring the boundaries between public and private and inner and outer states, this program illustrates the porous and precarious nature of identity and sanity in light of the challenges confronted by three women.
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Thursday, November 4, 2021
7 PM
Mohammad Reza Aslani,
Iran,
1976,
(100 mins)
Bay Area Premiere!
A scheming aristocratic family battles for a dead mother’s riches in this gothic 1976 Iranian blend of Visconti, Persian art miniatures, Vermeer, and Edgar Allan Poe—long thought lost, now gorgeously restored.
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Friday, November 5, 2021
7 PM
Sara Fattahi,
Austria, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria,
2018,
(100 mins)
The intimately filmed documentary Chaos by Sarah Fattahi—“one of the most original documentarians working today”—looks at the impact of the Syrian war on three women and in so doing “it addresses the very subject of memory” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker).
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5 PM
Saturday, November 6, 2021
5 PM
Blerta Basholli,
Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Switzerland,
2021,
(84 mins)
Bay Area Premiere!
An iron-willed widow in Kosovo fights to provide for herself and her family in this formidable tale of female empowerment and resilience, the first film to sweep Sundance’s narrative Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, and Director Award.
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7 PM
Saturday, November 6, 2021
7 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1974,
(113 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Gene Hackman plays a crack wiretapper in over his head in Francis Ford Coppola’s Cannes Grand Prize–winning formalist exercise in paranoia, set in 1970s San Francisco, where—much like today—privacy is elusive and technology can work both for and against you.
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