May 2022

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    2:30 PM
    • Film
    Sunday, May 1, 2022
    2:30 PM
    Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing,
    Canada, Germany, Myanmar,
    2022,
    (89 mins)
    Amidst Myanmar’s escalating civil war, a Buddhist midwife and her Muslim apprentice overcome personal and professional differences to care for their patients at a village clinic in this nuanced documentary.
    Special Admission

    General: $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.
    Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
    SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

    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.

    4:30 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Sunday, May 1, 2022
    4:30 PM
    Sierra Pettengill,
    United States,
    2022,
    (91 mins)
    This stunning essay film employs a treasure trove of archival US military recordings and 1960s broadcast TV as the foundation for a piercing interrogation into the origins of the militarization of American police.
    Special Admission

    General: $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.
    Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
    SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

    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.

    • Nels Bangerter
      In Person
      Nels Bangerter is the editor of Riotsville, USA.
    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Sunday, May 1, 2022
    7 PM
    Maryna Er Gorbach,
    Turkey, Ukraine,
    2022,
    (100 mins)
    Armed conflict hits home in the most vivid way imaginable when mortar fire decimates one wall of the farmhouse belonging to married Ukrainian couple Irka and Tolik in this striking drama based on real events.
    Special Admission

    General: $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.
    Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
    SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

    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.

    • Oksana Cherkashyna
      In Person
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    7 PM
    Wednesday, May 4, 2022
    7 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1969,
    (130 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Fellini’s tour of ancient Rome is less historical document than decadent fantasia, following the narrator, Encolpius, as he searches for his male lover through feasts, festivals, orgies, and death. “A surreal epic” (New York Times).

    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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    Thursday, May 5, 2022
    7 PM
    (80 mins)

    Cosponsored by the LASA Visual Culture Studies Section

    In conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association Congress, we present three decades of short Latin American films from the BAMPFA collection—by Santiago Álvarez, Chick Strand, and Raymundo Gleyzer. 

    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, May 6, 2022
    7 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1956,
    (110 mins)

    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).

    Theater capacity is limited for the March 25 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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    4 PM
    Sunday, May 8, 2022
    4 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1972,
    (128 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Fellini’s episodic, “panoramic album of impressions in praise of Rome and the Italians, past, present, and future” (Albert Johnson).

    Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are strongly recommended.

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    7 PM
    • Film
    Thursday, May 12, 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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    Friday, May 13, 2022
    7 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1976,
    (166 mins)
    Donald Sutherland plays Casanova in “Fellini’s most extravagant and courageous dream” (Albert Johnson). “The visual daring and pure imagination of every image leave it as an elegiac farewell to an era of Italian cinema” (Time Out). 

    Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are strongly recommended.

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    7 PM
    Saturday, May 14, 2022
    7 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1986,
    (126 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as an aging dance duo invited to perform on a television variety show in Fellini’s film, both a fond tribute to vaudeville and a withering assault on the meaningless opulence of commercial television. 

    Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are strongly recommended.

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    7 PM
    • Film
    Friday, June 3, 2022
    7 PM
    Márta Mészáros,
    Hungary,
    1968,
    (80 mins)
    Forget James Dean; Mészáros’s debut introduces viewers to a young female rebel without a cause, a textile factory worker searching for her past and for pleasure in her present. 
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    7 PM
    Saturday, June 4, 2022
    7 PM
    Jean Vigo,
    France,
    1934,
    (89 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Vigo’s only full-length feature, a poetic masterpiece on the theme of passionate love, follows a young barge captain and his peasant bride in their first days together. “One of the most magical of French masterpieces” (Variety).