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3:30 PM
Sunday, September 25, 2022
3:30 PM
Rithy Panh,
Cambodia, France,
2020,
(88 mins)
North American Premiere
Winner of the 2020 Berlinale Documentary Award, Panh’s Irradiated continues his exploration of the inhumanity of war and ideologically motivated genocide beyond the borders of his native Cambodia.
In Conversation
Series
Rithy Panh in Person
7 PM
Sunday, September 25, 2022
7 PM
Elaine May,
United States,
1972,
(106 mins)
The Heartbreak Kid is a bitter satire that plays like a whimsical romantic comedy. “[A] movie that manages the marvelous and very peculiar trick of blending the mechanisms and the cruelties of Neil Simon’s comedy with the sense and sensibility of F. Scott Fitzgerald” (Vincent Canby, New York Times).
Series
Elaine May: Age of Irony
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7 PM
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
7 PM
(74 mins)
Cosponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies
The experimental films of Brazilian filmmaker Vaz celebrate the medium’s possibility to engage the senses in surprising new ways by reconsidering the limits of our perception.
Prerecorded Conversation
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
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7 PM
Thursday, September 29, 2022
7 PM
Hawa Aliou N’Diaye,
Benin, France, Mali,
2021,
(71 mins)
N’Diaye explores Malian tradition, myth, and the ethereal through interviews with women who—like her—claim to be possessed by enigmatic spirits known as jinn.
Series
African Film Festival 2022
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7 PM
Friday, September 30, 2022
7 PM
Elaine May,
United States,
1987,
(107 mins)
Digital Restoration
Broke, untalented nightclub performers (Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman) accept a gig at a Moroccan hotel before becoming CIA pawns in May’s highly underrated romp. “May’s screenwriting has a sardonic, aphoristic brilliance. . . . [as director] she pushes Beatty and Hoffman out of their familiar personae, into strange psychodramatic performances that emerge with a precision of gesture and inflection” (Richard Brody, New Yorker).
Series
Elaine May: Age of Irony
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7 PM
Saturday, October 1, 2022
7 PM
Haile Gerima,
United States,
1975,
(97 mins)
Dorothy, the title character, is raising a daughter in Watts while her husband is in prison. Her political awareness develops as she navigates the cacophony and turmoil of the neighborhood and stays connected with him via correspondence.
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5 PM
Sunday, October 2, 2022
5 PM
Amleset Muchie,
Ethiopia,
2019,
(84 mins)
An indomitable young woman in Addis Ababa’s sprawling Merkato market finds that her running talent could lead her out of poverty in this inspiring, colorful film. Legendary runner Haile Gebrselassie cameos.
Series
African Film Festival 2022
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7 PM
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
7 PM
Steven Arnold,
United States,
1971,
(75 mins)
New Digital Restoration
The legendary, gender-obliterating funfest unleashed by the cantankerous cross-dressing Cockettes shines on in this digital restoration.
In Conversation
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
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7 PM
Thursday, October 6, 2022
7 PM
Chan Tze Woon,
China,
2022,
(98 mins)
An elegiac corollary to the fiery documentaries that captured Hong Kong’s recent protest movement and ensuing crackdown, Blue Island grapples honestly with the fact that, despite valiant efforts, Hong Kong as we once knew it is no more.
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4 PM
Saturday, October 8, 2022
4 PM
Carolina Markowicz,
Argentina, Brazil,
2022,
(107 mins)
One of the most anticipated first features this year, writer/director Markowicz’s satire centers on an upheaval in the quiet life of a rural Brazilian family as they accept an ominous proposal. With utterly fearless performances, this dryly funny, evocative debut confirms Markowicz as a talent to watch.
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. In Person
7 PM
Saturday, October 8, 2022
7 PM
Hirokazu Kore-eda,
Korea,
2022,
(129 mins)
Song Kang-ho deservedly won Best Actor at Cannes for his performance in this bittersweet road trip drama about a black market business selling infants left at baby boxes. Well known for his emotional stories, Shoplifters writer/director Kore-eda takes us on another poignant ride.
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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3:30 PM
Sunday, October 9, 2022
3:30 PM
Diane Robinson,
United States,
2022,
(67 mins)
Despite their power to make meaningful change at the ballot box, Americans aged eighteen to twenty-nine sit out elections far more than any other age group. Robinson’s documentary follows the highs and lows of 2020’s fraught election season as four youth-led initiatives attempt to engage this disaffected group.
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. In Person
5:45 PM
Sunday, October 9, 2022
5:45 PM
Alice Rohrwacher,
Italy,
2022,
(37 mins)
Free Admission
Rohrwacher’s new film is a whimsical, wonderful thirty-seven minutes in the company of the rebellious little girls at a Catholic boarding school in Italy. It’s Christmas, it’s wartime, things are scarce. But there’s an irresistible red cake—temptation abounds!
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 2 PM. 7 PM
Sunday, October 9, 2022
7 PM
Mia Hansen-Løve,
France,
2022,
(112 mins)
Even more moving for eschewing excess drama, writer/director Hansen-Løve’s subtle film is a bittersweet exploration of how the vicissitudes of fate and the passage of time shape identities. Featuring Léa Seydoux as Sandra, a translator and single mom, caring for her ailing father.
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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Wednesday, October 12, 2022
7 PM
(70 mins)
This selection of Fluxus films—“the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s”—includes works by Sharits and Ono and John Lennon.
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
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4 PM
Thursday, October 13, 2022
4 PM
(80 mins)
Eight short films that empower and inspire. This year’s stories are told from a variety of perspectives championing women and gender nonconforming individuals—highlighting their aspirations, accomplishments, resilience, strength, and connection.
Special Admission Shorts program: $10 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. 7 PM
Thursday, October 13, 2022
7 PM
Carla Simón,
Italy, Spain,
2022,
(120 mins)
In Simón’s gorgeous ensemble drama, a Catalan family running a peach orchard experiences turmoil when the land’s owner decides to replace the trees with solar panels. Now the family must fight for its survival, as three generations struggle to preserve hope, and memories, for future generations.
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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7:30 PM
Friday, October 14, 2022
7:30 PM
Kathryn Golden,
United States,
2022,
(75 mins)
This brilliantly energetic portrait of Bay Area music legend, activist, and seven-time Grammy nominee John Santos reveals a hardworking musician and educator as dedicated to preserving and expanding Afro-Latin music as he is to navigating the politics of culture, social equality, and racial injustice.
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. In Person
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4 PM
Saturday, October 15, 2022
4 PM
Chie Hayakawa,
Japan,
2022,
(112 mins)
This dystopian drama may provoke comparisons to Logan’s Run or Soylent Green, but director Hayakawa’s tender and visionary film resonates in unexpected ways. Veteran actor Chieko Baisho stars as an elderly woman in a near-future society in which the Japanese government offers senior citizens a stipend for ending their own lives.
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. 7 PM
Saturday, October 15, 2022
7 PM
Yvan Iturriaga, Francisco Núñez Capriles,
United States,
2022,
(93 mins)
This locally made doc explores the supersize life of soulful bluesman and Grammy Award winner Fantastic Negrito, from isolation as a Black Muslim kid in rural Massachusetts through countless reinventions until finally becoming a star on the streets of Oakland.
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. In Person
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Sunday, October 16, 2022
4 PM
Lizzie Gottlieb,
United States,
2022,
(112 mins)
Gottlieb’s fascinating documentary explores the significance of the intersecting life’s work of her father, writer and editor Robert Gottlieb, and biographer Robert Caro, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York and the influential multivolume The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
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. 7 PM
Sunday, October 16, 2022
7 PM
Park Chan-wook,
Korea,
2022,
(138 mins)
Oldboy auteur Park’s Hitchcockian romantic thriller stars Park Hae-il as a detective investigating a puzzling death, his suspicions falling on the deceased’s eerily enigmatic wife (Tang Wei). Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, this film delivers a shimmering portrait of obsession and the mysteries of the human heart.
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 19, 2022
7 PM
(72 mins)
This year’s Festival of (In)appropriation—an annual showcase for experimental found media—features an array of moving-image formats while probing the limits of audiovisual remix.
In Conversation
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
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7 PM
Thursday, October 20, 2022
7 PM
Luo Li,
Canada, China,
2010,
(75 mins)
Chinese Canadian filmmaker Li depicts family history with understated reenactments that shift in and out of sync with the stories being told, suggesting the challenges of intergenerational communication and distance with tenderness and humor.
In Conversation
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7 PM
Friday, October 21, 2022
7 PM
Luo Li,
Canada, China,
2015,
(117 mins)
Li’s fascinating documentary/fiction hybrid tours the disappearing shoreline and dwindling waters of the rapidly changing landscape around East Lake in China’s Hubei province in this smart, subtle, and often comic look at contemporary China and its complex relationship to the past.
In Conversation
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7 PM
Saturday, October 22, 2022
7 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1961,
(117 mins)
New 4K Digital Restoration
Pasolini’s famous debut film, a hard-edged and lyrical tragedy set in the Dantean slums of Rome, is “incandescent” (New York Times).
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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4:30 PM
Sunday, October 23, 2022
4:30 PM
Kristine Samuelson,
United States,
1974,
(62 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Filmed at San Francisco County Jail, Time Has No Sympathy reveals the specific challenges of incarcerated women, the grinding repetition of prison life, and the need to organize to resist their unjust and inhumane treatment. With Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio’s Inside Women Inside and Janis Cole’s Shaggie: Letters from Prison.
7 PM
Sunday, October 23, 2022
7 PM
Chris van der Vorm,
Netherlands, Nigeria,
2020,
(101 mins)
A hard-charging theater director/activist brings her successful play on women’s empowerment into Nigeria’s largest waterside slum in this eye-opening look at exactly what it takes to make a difference. With Leonard Cortana’s short Marielle’s Legacy Will Not Die, on the murder of an Afro-Brazilian councilwoman.
Series
African Film Festival 2022
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
7 PM
(68 mins)
This program features rarely seen short works by pioneering Iranian filmmakers who brought creativity to commissions, industrials, and government films.
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
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7 PM
Thursday, October 27, 2022
7 PM
Li Dongmei,
China,
2020,
(134 mins)
Winner of the Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award at the Göteborg Film Festival, Mama depicts seven days of life, and death, in a remote rural village in Chongqing province, as remembered by twelve-year-old Xiaoxian.
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Friday, October 28, 2022
7 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1962,
(111 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Pasolini captures the great Anna Magnani “like a found object” (Village Voice) in her role as a spirited prostitute; her downtrodden exuberance stands in for Rome itself.
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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4:30 PM
Saturday, October 29, 2022
4:30 PM
Otar Iosseliani,
USSR,
1975,
(94 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
In this exquisite film by Georgian director Iosseliani, a string quartet’s visit to a small village is treated with the gentle satire usually associated with the Czech New Wave. “Iosseliani is [Georgia’s] greatest director” (Tom Luddy).
Saturday, October 29, 2022
7 PM
Teco Benson,
Nigeria,
2000,
(86 mins)
For their Black Life presentation, Nolly Babes—sisters Tochi and Ebele Anueyiagu—has selected Highway to the Grave, a film that deals with indigenous mythology, superstition, and feminine power.
Prerecorded Conversation
Series
African Film Festival 2022
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Sunday, October 30, 2022
4 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1964,
(137 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
“Pasolini’s most satisfying movie. . . . The director’s Catholicism and Marxism serve him well here [but] the film’s beauty . . . derives from its simplicity” (Time Out).
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
7 PM
Sunday, October 30, 2022
7 PM
Jeff Barnaby,
Canada,
2014,
(88 mins)
Set on the Red Crow Mi’kmaq reservation in 1976, Rhymes for Young Ghouls plays with genre to address the damage wrought by Canada’s residential schools on generations of First Nations people. The film “makes this part of our collective history accessible in a way that no Royal Commission or official report can hope to match” (Chelsea Vowel, CBC).
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022
7 PM
Reid Davenport,
United States,
2022,
(76 mins)
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.
In Conversation
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
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7 PM
Thursday, November 3, 2022
7 PM
Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera,
United States,
2019,
(95 mins)
This experimental hybrid of documentary and reenactment details the audacious effort by members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance to free other undocumented immigrants from inside a Florida detention center.
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7 PM
Friday, November 4, 2022
7 PM
Alexander Dovzhenko,
USSR,
1928,
(90 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
The BAMPFA Student Committee presents Alexander Dovzhenko’s Zvenigora; a mythic search for treasure in the mountains of the Ukraine, accompanied by the sounds of multi-instrumentalist and DJ Erika Bontrager.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 4:30 PM.
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5 PM
Saturday, November 5, 2022
5 PM
Tengiz Abuladze,
USSR,
1963,
(90 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Abuladze’s humanist depiction of a small community and his central character’s coming of age—moving through the seasons, through war and then peace—is reminiscent of Satyajit Ray and Federico Fellini’s cinema.
7 PM
Saturday, November 5, 2022
7 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1966,
(89 mins)
The great Italian comic Totò plays opposite Pasolini discovery Ninetto Davoli in this Brechtian slapstick set in the time of St. Francis.
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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