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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).
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).
  • Hertha D. Sweet Wong
    Introduction
    Hertha D. Sweet Wong is professor of English and associate dean of arts and humanities at UC Berkeley. 
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7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
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
  • Reid Davenport
  • James LeBrecht
    James LeBrecht is codirector and coproducer with Nicole Newnham of the Oscar nominated documentary, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution.
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7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
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.
  • Andrés Cediel
    Introduction
    Andrés Cediel is a documentary filmmaker and professor of visual journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. 
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7 PM
  • Film
  • Free
  • Performance
Friday, November 4, 2022
7 PM
Alexander Dovzhenko,
USSR,
1928,
(90 mins)

BAMPFA Collection
Free Admission

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.

  • Erika Bontrager
    Live Music
    Erika Bontrager is completing her degree in Psychology and Creative Writing at UC Berkeley. She first fell in love with music when dancing in The Nutcracker with live symphony accompaniment.
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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.
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.
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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.
7 PM
  • Film
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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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.
  • Jim Shedden
    In Person
    Jim Shedden—a Toronto-based curator, publisher/editor, writer, music programmer, and filmmaker—is coeditor of Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada.
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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).
  • Jonathan Mackris
    Introduction
    Jonathan Mackris, who guest curated this series, is a doctoral student in film and media at UC Berkeley. For this program, he translated Nicole Brenez’s article “Jocelyne Saab, the Stars of War.”
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7 PM
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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.”
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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
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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.
  • Leila Weefur
    Introduction
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland and a lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.
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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
  • Film
  • In-Person
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).
  • Jonathan Mackris
    Introduction
    Jonathan Mackris, who guest curated this series, is a doctoral student in film and media at UC Berkeley.
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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.
  • Althea Wasow
    Introduction
    Althea Wasow is a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz.
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7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, November 17, 2022
7 PM
Heiny Srour,
Belgium, Lebanon, Netherlands, United Kingdom,
1984,
(90 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Cosponsored by the Arab Film and Media Institute

“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).
  • Jonathan Mackris
    Introduction
    Jonathan Mackris, who guest curated this series, is a doctoral student in film and media at UC Berkeley.
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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

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7 PM
Friday, November 18, 2022
7 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1971,
(111 mins)

Imported 35mm Print 
Recommended for adults only 

“One of the most beautiful, turbulent and uproarious panoramas of early Renaissance life ever put on film” (New York Times).
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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.
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).
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Friday, November 25, 2022
5 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1972,
(111 mins)

Imported 35mm Print
Recommended for adults only 

“Chaucer is played for maximum ribaldry . . . [this adaptation is] uniformly gorgeous” (Village Voice).
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4:30 PM
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Saturday, November 26, 2022
4:30 PM
Giorgi Shengelaia,
USSR,
1969,
(110 mins)

BAMPFA Collection
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

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
  • Film
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).
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  • Film
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
Recommended for adults only 

A magic carpet fantasy rooted in realism—filmed in North Africa, Iran, and Nepal—Arabian Nights is “Pasolini’s most beautiful film” (Tony Rayns). 
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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. 
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