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Streaming All Day
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Streaming All Day
Chaitanya Tamhane,
India,
2014,
(116 mins)
Available for streaming March 24–27, 2022
An elderly folk singer and grassroots activist is put on trial for causing a worker’s suicide in this devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, institutional incompetence, and venal politics in contemporary India.
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7 PM
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
7 PM
Wayne Wang,
United States,
1982,
(80 mins)
Chan Is Missing also screened on Friday, March 11 with Wayne Wang and Oliver S. Wang in conversation.
Touted as the first all Chinese American feature film, Wang’s irreverent, refreshingly authentic movie follows two cab drivers searching San Francisco’s Chinatown for an elusive flimflam man. “A small, whimsical treasure of a film” (Roger Ebert).
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Wayne Wang in Person
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7 PM
Thursday, March 31, 2022
7 PM
Souleymane Cissé,
Mali,
1975,
(88 mins)
New Digital Restoration
Cissé’s recently restored first feature-length film, “the eternal story of a young girl who is raped, becomes pregnant, and is then abandoned[,] is agonizingly sad. . . . [The Young Girl] also represents the emergence of an absolutely singular cinematic composition” (Frédéric Bonnaud, La Biennale di Venezia).
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Souleymane Cissé
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7 PM
Friday, April 1, 2022
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1960,
(178 mins)
Digital Restoration
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).
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Federico Fellini 100
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7 PM
Saturday, April 2, 2022
7 PM
Wayne Wang,
United States,
1997,
(87 mins)
Director’s Cut
Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, and Maggie Cheung star in another of Wang’s love letters to Hong Kong, this one made all the more memorable and melancholy by its setting and timeline: 1997, at the end of British rule.
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. In Conversation
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Wayne Wang in Person
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4 PM
Sunday, April 3, 2022
4 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1965,
(148 mins)
Digital Restoration
A bourgeois housewife (a mesmerizing Giulietta Masina) embraces a world of fantasy in one of Fellini’s most spectacular, imaginative works.
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Federico Fellini 100
7 PM
Sunday, April 3, 2022
7 PM
Souleymane Cissé,
Mali,
1978,
(93 mins)
The unlikely friendship between a young worker from the countryside and a progressive factory engineer leads to the triggering of political and class fault lines in Cissé’s searing drama. “Cissé makes explicit the infrastructure of corruption” (New Yorker).
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Souleymane Cissé
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7 PM
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
7 PM
Lizzie Olesker, Lynne Sachs,
United States,
2018,
(75 mins)
Olesker and Sachs fold the history of labor and immigration into this intimate chronicle of the disappearing public space of the neighborhood laundromat. With Sachs’s And Then We Marched and E•pis•to•lar•y: Letter to Jean Vigo.
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Documentary Voices 2022
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7 PM
Thursday, April 7, 2022
7 PM
(90 mins)
Seven diverse films—including new films by Alanis Obomsawin, Natalie Diaz, and Sky Hopinka—feature archival footage and audio recordings, public testimony and personal memories.
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. In Conversation
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6:30 PM
Friday, April 8, 2022
6:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1952,
(100 mins)
Digital Restoration
Provincial newlyweds arriving in Rome get sidetracked by the wife’s obsession with a fumetto photo-comic star in Fellini’s solo directorial debut. “A funny, sardonic, and clever satire on popular heroes and ordinary people’s illusions” (Chicago Reader).
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Federico Fellini 100
8:30 PM
Friday, April 8, 2022
8:30 PM
Free Admission!
A selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 5:30 PM. Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. |
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7 PM
Saturday, April 9, 2022
7 PM
Wayne Wang, Paul Auster,
United States,
1995,
(89 mins)
An all-star cast—Jim Jarmusch, Lou Reed, Giancarlo Esposito, Harvey Keitel, Madonna (!)—improvise their way in and around a Brooklyn cigar store in Wang and Auster’s off-the-cuff, playful ode to the outer boroughs.
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Wayne Wang in Person
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4:30 PM
Sunday, April 10, 2022
4:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1970,
(93 mins)
Digital Restoration
Fellini’s tribute to the world of the clown is—like so much of his supposedly nonfiction work—part documentary, part autobiography, and suffused with fantasy. “Fellini turns the world into his circus” (Time).
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Federico Fellini 100
7 PM
Sunday, April 10, 2022
7 PM
Souleymane Cissé,
Mali,
1982,
(100 mins)
Cissé’s remarkable satire on Africa’s ruling class follows two college kids rebelling against military control and the establishment; it is by turns fierce, romantic, and ultimately hopeful.
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Souleymane Cissé
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7 PM
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
7 PM
(83 mins)
New Restorations Susan Lord will give a free lecture on the practices of the Vulnerable Media Lab Thursday, April 14.
Gómez was one of the most inventive filmmakers of postrevolutionary Cuban cinema. Her recently restored films look at the complexities of the Caribbean island’s social, political, and economic transformation.
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Documentary Voices 2022
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5 PM
Thursday, April 14, 2022
5 PM
(60 mins)
Free Admission! Susan Lord will introduce a program of Sara Gómez’s films, preserved by the Vulnerable Media Lab, on Wednesday, April 13.
Susan Lord presents a lecture on the practices of the Vulnerable Media Lab, which develops methods and processes to ensure culturally diverse “born digital” media history is preserved and made available according to culturally specific and ethically driven forms of access.
Free admission. Theater capacity is limited for this lecture. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Documentary Voices 2022
7 PM
Thursday, April 14, 2022
7 PM
(98 mins)
A selection of shorts by New Red Order—a public secret society that creates videos, performances, and exhibitions related to indigeneity—and other collaborative groups.
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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7 PM
Friday, April 15, 2022
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1963,
(138 mins)
Digital Restoration
A jaded director (Marcello Mastroianni) fantasizes on his next great film—or his next sexual conquest—in Fellini’s metafictional masterpiece, “probably the most potent movie about filmmaking” (Guardian).
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Federico Fellini 100
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3:30 PM
Saturday, April 16, 2022
3:30 PM
Wayne Wang,
United States,
1993,
(139 mins)
The Joy Luck Club also screened on Sunday, March 13 with Wayne Wang, Amy Tan, and Catherine Ceniza Choy in conversation.
Four Chinese American women and their immigrant mothers learn one another’s stories in this intimate adaptation of the famed Amy Tan novel. A landmark in Asian American cinema, “both sweeping and intimate” (New York Times).
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
Series
Wayne Wang in Person
7 PM
Saturday, April 16, 2022
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1973,
(127 mins)
Digital Restoration
Fellini’s free-spirited portrait of Rimini in the 1930s, when fascism was a fact of life, is “as full of tales as Scheherazade, some romantic, some slapstick, some elegiacal, some bawdy, some mysterious . . . a film of exhilarating beauty” (New York Times).
Theater capacity is limited for the April 16 screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are strongly recommended.
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Federico Fellini 100
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4 PM
Sunday, April 17, 2022
4 PM
Wayne Wang,
United States,
2002,
(105 mins)
Wang demonstrated his wide range of filmmaking influences in this contemporary interpretation of classic 1930s Hollywood romantic comedies, with JLo herself starring as a single mom working as a hotel maid and Ralph Fiennes as a most unlikely Prince Charming.
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
Series
Wayne Wang in Person
7 PM
Sunday, April 17, 2022
7 PM
Souleymane Cissé,
Mali,
1987,
(105 mins)
A young warrior/seer must overcome his own father to gain the knowledge of the ancients in this visionary reimagining of Mandé creation myths and oral tales. “Not only the most beautifully photographed African film ever, but also the best African film ever made” (Film Comment).
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
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Souleymane Cissé
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7 PM
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
7 PM
Alexander Nanau,
Luxembourg, Romania,
2019,
(109 mins)
A shattering exposé of systemic corruption, this documentary about the aftermath of a Bucharest nightclub fire “doesn’t just open your eyes but tears you apart by exposing a moral rift with resonance far beyond the film’s home country” (Variety).
Theater capacity is limited for this screening. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. In Conversation
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Documentary Voices 2022
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7 PM
Friday, April 22, 2022
7 PM
Audrey Diwan,
France,
2021,
(100 mins)
A bright literature student in 1960s France refuses to let an unwanted pregnancy shatter her life and seeks an illegal abortion in this powerful drama adapted from Annie Ernaux’s memoir.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. In Person
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3 PM
Saturday, April 23, 2022
3 PM
Diễm Hà Lệ,
Vietnam,
2021,
(90 mins)
Living in isolation from the modern world in the mountains of Vietnam, feisty Hmong teenager Di must decide if she will succumb to tradition or bravely choose a different fate.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. 5:30 PM
Saturday, April 23, 2022
5:30 PM
Panah Panahi,
Iran,
2021,
(94 mins)
In Panahi’s auspicious feature debut, an eccentric family takes a road trip through sun-drenched Iranian landscapes as they accompany their eldest son to a mysterious destination.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. 7:45 PM
Saturday, April 23, 2022
7:45 PM
Gabriel Martins,
Brazil,
2022,
(115 mins)
Featuring four vibrant characters from working-class Brazil, this tender film is a delightful portrait of a mutually nurturing family who dares to dream.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. In Person
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2 PM
Sunday, April 24, 2022
2 PM
Ben Klein, Violet Columbus,
China, France, Taiwan, United States,
2021,
(96 mins)
Never-before-seen footage of Chinese dissidents enmeshed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and their bittersweet reflections thirty years later anchor this hybrid of cine-memoir and archival excavation focused on Who Killed Vincent Chin? documentary firebrand Christine Choy.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. In Person
5 PM
Sunday, April 24, 2022
5 PM
Sara Dosa,
Canada, United States,
2021,
(93 mins)
A couple’s passion for one another is inextricably bound with the explosive geology that is their life’s work in this stunning documentary portrait of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, narrated by Miranda July.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
7:45 PM
Sunday, April 24, 2022
7:45 PM
Eva Longoria Bastón,
Mexico, United Kingdom, United States,
2022,
(102 mins)
The legendary boxing rivalry between Mexican Julio César Chávez and Mexican American Oscar De La Hoya sets the stage for an examination of identity, tradition, and nationality in Longoria Bastón’s gripping documentary.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. |
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
7 PM
Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams,
Rwanda, United States,
2021,
(105 mins)
Replete with mind-altering visual and sonic imagery, this Afrofuturist mélange of music, poetry, and resistance is hypnotic and visionary in its depiction of a genderqueer community of hackers and techno poets.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. |
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6 PM
Thursday, April 28, 2022
6 PM
Alejandro Loayza Grisi,
Bolivia, France, Uruguay,
2022,
(87 mins)
A long drought parching their Bolivian highlands homeland endangers an elderly Quechua llama herder and his wife’s way of life in this intricate examination of the relationship between land and humanity.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. 8 PM
Thursday, April 28, 2022
8 PM
Zhang Ji,
China,
2021,
(113 mins)
The son of a local gangster and daughter of a factory worker conspire to flee their desperate lives as a serial killer runs rampant in this Chinese social realist neo-noir.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. |
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4 PM
Friday, April 29, 2022
4 PM
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
2021,
(137 mins)
US Premiere
Davies separates man from myth in his masterly portrait of acclaimed antiwar poet Siegfried Sassoon, employing archival footage, gleefully catty dialog, and an artful crosscutting between the different eras of his subject’s fraught and complex life.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. 7 PM
Friday, April 29, 2022
7 PM
Trinh T. Minh-ha,
China, United States,
2021,
(135 mins)
Filmmaker, writer, and composer Trinh is this year’s recipient of the Persistence of Vision Award. Trinh will present her latest film, What About China?
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. In Conversation
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3 PM
Saturday, April 30, 2022
3 PM
Reid Davenport,
United States,
2022,
(76 mins)
Oakland resident and filmmaker Reid Davenport reflects on matters of visibility, family, and the freak show in his latest personal documentary, winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Directing Award for US Documentary.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. In Person
5:30 PM
Saturday, April 30, 2022
5:30 PM
Mounia Akl,
Denmark, France, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Spain, Sweden,
2021,
(106 mins)
Set in the near future but reflecting on current crises in present-day Lebanon, this tense debut portrays three generations of the Badri family, who retreat from the chaos of Beirut to a rural homestead.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. 7:45 PM
Saturday, April 30, 2022
7:45 PM
Radu Muntean,
Romania,
2021,
(104 mins)
Wryly funny and suspenseful, this Cannes hit portrays a trio of Romanian aid workers whose SUV gets stuck on a logging road in remote Transylvania.
Special AdmissionGeneral: $18 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $15 Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $16 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks. |