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4 PM
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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7 PM
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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Sunday, November 6, 2022
5 PM
(78 mins)
Fluxfilm Anthology, which was compiled by George Maciunas, the founder of Fluxus, is a document consisting of short films ranging from ten seconds to ten minutes in length.
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
7 PM
Sunday, November 6, 2022
7 PM
Danny Lyon,
United States,
1985,
(82 mins)
Combining footage and images of the exuberant child Willie Jarmillo once was with the prematurely aged man he has become, Lyon reveals the vulnerable, generous person within the tough exterior of a lost soul in this poignant record of the destructive effects of prison on one young man.
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7 PM
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
7 PM
(65 mins)
Jim Shedden, coeditor of the recently published Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada, presents films by four Canadian filmmakers who changed his concept of cinema.
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
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7 PM
Thursday, November 10, 2022
7 PM
(118 mins)
Cosponsored by the Arab Film and Media Institute
“Lyrical and uncompromising, the [trilogy of] films of Jocelyne Saab are at once landmark works of Lebanese cinema and masterpieces of the essay film form” (Film at Lincoln Center).
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7 PM
Friday, November 11, 2022
7 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1968,
(97 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Pasolini’s first film shot in a bourgeois milieu is predicated on the theorem that “anything done by the bourgeoisie, however sincere, profound and noble it is, is on the wrong track.”
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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5 PM
Saturday, November 12, 2022
5 PM
Nana Janelidze,
Georgia,
2011,
(85 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Part historical essay, part re-created biography, Will There Be a Theatre Up There?! uses the tragic circumstances of the twentieth century as a backdrop for the chronicle of a Georgian family. With Salomé Alexi’s Felicità, a deadpan, hilarious short on the work of women.
Tickets on sale August 18. 7 PM
Saturday, November 12, 2022
7 PM
Garrett Bradley,
United States,
2020,
(81 mins)
Combining documentary and home movie footage, Bradley tells an epic story of extraordinary faith and unyielding persistence, following Sibil Fox Richardson’s decades-long quest to free her husband, Rob, from an unreasonably long prison sentence.
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5 PM
Sunday, November 13, 2022
5 PM
Tengiz Abuladze,
USSR,
1967,
(77 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Poetry and song combine in this “magisterially shot” black-and-white work, based on two epic poems by Georgian writer Vaza Psavela (National Film Theatre of London).
7 PM
Sunday, November 13, 2022
7 PM
Borhane Alaouié,
Belgium, Lebanon, Tunisia,
1981,
(97 mins)
Cosponsored by the Arab Film and Media Institute
Two young people separated by the war make tapes for each other. “The monologues, by the well-known writer Ahmad Baydoun, which form the basis of this acutely observed, moving film, have acquired classical status in Lebanese cinema” (Alia Arasoughly).
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7 PM
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
7 PM
Brett Story,
United States,
2016,
(90 mins)
Story shows how the extractive carceral system reaches far beyond prison walls to affect the lives and livelihoods of disadvantaged Americans. Sidestepping drama and polemics, the documentary is nonetheless a damning collection of evidence for abolition.
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7 PM
Thursday, November 17, 2022
7 PM
Heiny Srour,
Belgium, Lebanon, Netherlands, United Kingdom,
1984,
(90 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
“Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and the mosaic-like storytelling of The Arabian Nights, Leila and the Wolves is an exploration of the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in the recent history of Palestine and Lebanon” (Tarek Elhaik).
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3:30 PM
Friday, November 18, 2022
3:30 PM
Copresented with Cal Performances and the Townsend Center for the Humanities
William Kentridge’s UC Berkeley residency kicks off with a visually illustrated lecture in which he will consider provocations and processes in the making of the chamber opera Waiting for the Sibyl (2019), as well as his multifaceted artistic practice and the role and meaning of art.
Free-admission student ticketholders must present a valid Cal 1 ID for admittance by 3:15 PM on the day of the lecture. Special Admission General: $14 BAMPFA members: $8 UC Berkeley faculty & staff, Non-UC Berkeley students, Disabled, 65+, 18 & under: $10
Series
Talks & Conversations 2022
7 PM
Friday, November 18, 2022
7 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1971,
(111 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
“One of the most beautiful, turbulent and uproarious panoramas of early Renaissance life ever put on film” (New York Times).
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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5 PM
Saturday, November 19, 2022
5 PM
Aleksandr Rekhviashvili,
USSR,
1981/87,
(83 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini and set in a nineteenth-century southern Georgia still dominated by the Ottoman Empire, The Way Home reimagines the historical figure of Anthim the Iberian (1650–1716)—a revered scholar, theologian, calligrapher, and philosopher—as a quiet young man who tries to return home after escaping his captors. An allusive road movie featuring striking landscape cinematography.
7 PM
Saturday, November 19, 2022
7 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
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5 PM
Friday, November 25, 2022
5 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1972,
(111 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
“Chaucer is played for maximum ribaldry . . . [this adaptation is] uniformly gorgeous” (Village Voice).
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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4:30 PM
Saturday, November 26, 2022
4:30 PM
Giorgi Shengelaia,
USSR,
1969,
(110 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
This poetic, visually stunning biography of the great Georgian primitive artist Nikoloz (Niko) Pirosmanishvili won the Grand Prize at the Chicago Film Festival. “A splendid and innovative work of poetic biography” (New Yorker). With Sergei Paradjanov’s Arabesque on a Pirosmani Theme.
7 PM
Saturday, November 26, 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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3 PM
Sunday, November 27, 2022
3 PM
Rusudan Pirveli,
Georgia,
2010,
(75 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
A quiet young boy weaves his way through the underbelly of contemporary Georgia in this evocative update of the neorealist tradition, which “beautifully captures the way a crumbling locale permeates the characters’ lives” (Variety).
5 PM
Sunday, November 27, 2022
5 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1974,
(129 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A magic carpet fantasy rooted in realism—filmed in North Africa, Iran, and Nepal—Arabian Nights is “Pasolini’s most beautiful film” (Tony Rayns).
Series
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022
7 PM
(60 mins)
This program of early avant-garde films showcases work by Polish filmmakers Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, including their recently restored masterpiece, Europa, which was long thought to be lost.
Series
Alternative Visions 2022
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