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1:00 PM
Sunday, February 23, 2025
1:00 PM
Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi,
Greece, Kenya, United States,
2024,
(94 mins)
Drought, dwindling resources, and contentious elections in equatorial Kenya exacerbate the conflict between semi-nomadic Indigenous pastoralists and wealthy white ranchers in this documentary epic. “A tense, beautiful, and heartbreaking film” (Vulture).
In Conversation
Series
Climate Journalism on Screen
4:00 PM
Sunday, February 23, 2025
4:00 PM
G. W. Pabst,
France, Germany,
1932,
(90 mins)
Dominated by the statuesque presence of Brigitte Helm this “campy, exotic fantasy takes place in a décor of dazzling white buildings, studio sand, and artificial pools” (Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide).
7:00 PM
Sunday, February 23, 2025
7:00 PM
Alfredo B. Crevenna,
Mexico,
1951,
(101 mins)
Filmoteca-UNAM’s Collection
A rare Mexican girls school melodrama of a student in love with her teacher, a remake of the 1931 German film Mädchen in Uniform (considered to be the first lesbian film ever made).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
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7:00 PM
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
7:00 PM
Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw,
Argentina, United States,
2024,
(116 mins)
These two films document contemporary cowboy culture on two continents. Gaucho Gaucho chronicles the everyday life of Argentine cowhands, while Ten Five in the Grass captures the preparations for a calf roping event on the Black rodeo circuit.
Due to a three-day strike across the University of California system, BAMPFA is operating with reduced hours this week. Multiple film screenings have been canceled, and galleries will close early on Wednesday and Thursday. Click here for more information.
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7:00 PM
Thursday, February 27, 2025
7:00 PM
Roberto Faenza,
France, Italy, Portugal,
1995,
(104 mins)
Antonio Tabucchi’s novel According to Pereira “provides Marcello Mastroianni with one of his best roles” (David Rooney, Variety).
Due to a three-day strike across the University of California system, BAMPFA is operating with reduced hours this week. Multiple film screenings have been canceled, and galleries will close early on Wednesday and Thursday. Click here for more information.
Series
Marcello Mastroianni at 100
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4:30 PM
Friday, February 28, 2025
4:30 PM
G. W. Pabst,
France,
1938,
(100 mins)
G. W. Pabst left Germany only to be censored by the French, his film recut. But as Nora Sayre advised in the New York Times, “Ignore the muddles and savor the cast of characters.”
Due to a three-day strike across the University of California system, BAMPFA is operating with reduced hours this week. Multiple film screenings have been canceled, and galleries will close early on Wednesday and Thursday. Click here for more information. 7:00 PM
Friday, February 28, 2025
7:00 PM
Zacharias Kunuk,
Canada,
2016,
Maliglutit continues in the breathtaking vein of Canadian Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s unforgettable Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner with a story of cruelty and cold revenge inspired by John Ford’s The Searchers and spoken entirely in Inuktitut.
Due to a three-day strike across the University of California system, BAMPFA is operating with reduced hours this week. Multiple film screenings have been canceled, and galleries will close early on Wednesday and Thursday. Click here for more information.
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3:30 PM
Saturday, March 1, 2025
3:30 PM
Payal Kapadia,
France, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands,
2024,
(115 mins)
Crafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, Payal Kapadia’s drama shines a light on three hospital workers as they negotiate love and life in the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Outstanding performances and cinematography that reflects the small but wondrous epiphanies of everyday lives anchor this Cannes Grand Prix winner.
Series
Special Screenings 2025
6:30 PM
Saturday, March 1, 2025
6:30 PM
Alf Sjöberg,
Sweden,
1944,
(123 mins)
Ingmar Bergman’s first produced screenplay was for the great Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjöberg’s Torment, a dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior who falls in love with a shopgirl, with a standout performance by Mai Zetterling. Preceded by a short documentary on Zetterling’s career.
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1:30 PM
Sunday, March 2, 2025
1:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1948,
(88 mins)
Ingmar Bergman’s early, restless experimentation with different aesthetics is at its height in this tale of the relationship between a young, blind musician and a lower-class servant girl, played by Mai Zetterling.
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7:00 PM
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
7:00 PM
(90 mins)
The annual Les Blank Lecture is presented by archivist, filmmaker, educator, and curator Rick Prelinger. Prelinger will present excerpts from his Lost Landscapes compilations and discuss the importance of archiving home movies and industrial, educational, and ephemeral films.
Series
Documentary Voices
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7:00 PM
Thursday, March 6, 2025
7:00 PM
Ottis Ba,
Belgium, France, Senegal,
2022,
(84 mins)
A hapless Senegalese civil servant loses his job thanks to International Monetary Fund austerity measures and, after countless humiliations, seeks vengeance against the very man who created them in this darkly comic take on the new world economy—and those at the wrong end of it.
Series
African Film Festival 2025
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7:00 PM
Friday, March 7, 2025
7:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1964,
(129 mins)
Digital Restoration
“Wildly subversive in its treatment of sexuality, gender, class, religion, marriage, and motherhood, Loving Couples is as electrifying a first feature as any in cinema history, announcing the arrival of an uncompromising artist in pursuit of raw emotional truth” (Janus Films).
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2:30 PM
Saturday, March 8, 2025
2:30 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
1995,
(119 mins)
A placid San Fernando Valley housewife (Julianne Moore) suddenly afflicted with environmental illness finds her sunny surroundings, shopping malls, and beauty salons imbued with suffocating menace, suggesting both the material and metaphysical toxicity from which she must escape.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
6:30 PM
Saturday, March 8, 2025
6:30 PM
Todd Haynes,
1998,
(118 mins)
In this exuberant ode to the liberating potential of glam rock—named for a David Bowie B-side—Todd Haynes re-creates the era’s glittering excess, with an epic soundtrack featuring Brian Eno, Pulp, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, T. Rex, and more.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
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2:00 PM
Sunday, March 9, 2025
2:00 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
2007,
(135 mins)
As audacious as its subject, Todd Haynes’s mixtape/cine-collage/essay-poem is an imaginative, multifaceted portrait of the great Bob Dylan. “It plays like the headiest musical ever made” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
6:30 PM
Sunday, March 9, 2025
6:30 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
2002,
(107 mins)
A reimagining of Douglas Sirk’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows, Todd Haynes’s 2002 chronicle of social isolation, existential loneliness, and forbidden love meticulously re-creates the mode of Sirk’s mid-century technicolor melodramas, while creating an uncanny, timeless modern masterpiece.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
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7:00 PM
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
7:00 PM
Ibrahim Nash’at,
Germany, United States,
2023,
(91 mins)
Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache of weapons America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.
Series
Documentary Voices
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7:00 PM
Thursday, March 13, 2025
7:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1966,
(105 mins)
Digital Restoration
“An absorbing, even brilliant film. . . . When it was first exhibited at the Venice Film Festival in 1966, it was considered the most daring film ever made” (Roger Ebert).
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7:00 PM
Friday, March 14, 2025
7:00 PM
Rungano Nyoni,
Ireland, United Kingdom, Zambia,
2024,
A partygoer’s sudden discovery of her own uncle’s dead body opens up hidden secrets in this darkly funny, at times absurdist drama from the director of I Am Not a Witch. Winner of the Best Director award, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival.
Series
African Film Festival 2025
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7:00 PM
Saturday, March 15, 2025
7:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1968,
(100 mins)
Digital Restoration
In Mai Zetterling’s send-up of gender relations in contemporary Sweden, life, art, and fantasy intermingle as actors Liz (Bibi Andersson), Marianne (Harriet Andersson), and Gunilla (Gunnel Lindblom) perform in a touring production of Aristophanes’s Lysistrata.
In Conversation
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3:00 PM
Sunday, March 16, 2025
3:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1976,
(141 mins)
“Through several stylistic choices, Mai Zetterling moves beyond clichés and into the woman’s mind, addressing issues of life purpose, the immaturity of attachment, and the infantilization of women in marriage” (Mariah Larsson, A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling). Screens with a selection of Zetterling’s short films, including two documentaries.
6:30 PM
Sunday, March 16, 2025
6:30 PM
Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow,
Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia,
1988,
(153 mins)
New Digital Restoration
At the close of World War II, Senegalese troops are held in a Dakar transit camp that is little better than the concentration camps some of them have just braved. A “powerful indictment of colonialism . . . shows WWII’s effects on shaping the future of Africa” (Variety).
Series
African Film Festival 2025
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7:00 PM
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
7:00 PM
Asmae El Moudir,
Morocco,
2024,
(97 mins)
“The delicate mix of handmade replicas and oral testimony brilliantly evokes the personal and collective trauma that stem from Morocco’s ‘Years of Lead’—a period of state brutality under Hassan II’s dictatorial rule” (Phuong Le, Guardian).
Series
Documentary Voices
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7:00 PM
Thursday, March 20, 2025
7:00 PM
(116 mins)
New restorations of Todd Haynes’s ambitious early films show the director’s devotion to transgressive desire from very different points of view, including the fin de siècle Paris of Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud and suburban America and TV in Dottie Gets Spanked.
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
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7:00 PM
Friday, March 21, 2025
7:00 PM
Oleksandr Dovzhenko,
Ukraine,
1930,
(79 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
The poetic lyricism of Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Earth makes it one of the great works of cinema, using the emotional power of the image to express the director’s love for his homeland.
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4:30 PM
Saturday, March 22, 2025
4:30 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Denmark,
1968,
(83 mins)
This tale of sexual obsession and moral hypocrisy, told in flashbacks, is both social critique and psychological study, with Glas’s surreal and nightmarish visions shot in high contrast by cinematographer Rune Ericson. Perhaps the least-seen of Mai Zetterling’s films.
7:00 PM
Saturday, March 22, 2025
7:00 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
2019,
(126 mins)
A chilling true story of corporate malfeasance, Dark Waters chronicles the efforts of lawyer Robert Bilott to hold DuPont responsible for knowingly exposing its employees; the residents of Parkersburg, West Virginia; and many others to highly toxic “forever chemicals.”
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
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3:00 PM
Sunday, March 23, 2025
3:00 PM
Alf Sjöberg,
Sweden,
1946,
(89 mins)
Digital Restoration
Mai Zetterling reunites with her costar from Alf Sjöberg’s Torment, Alf Kjellin, in a tragic class drama, as a lieutenant falls for a housemaid, while his wealthy relatives will stop at nothing to keep the pair apart.
5:00 PM
Sunday, March 23, 2025
5:00 PM
Payal Kapadia,
France, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands,
2024,
(115 mins)
Crafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, Payal Kapadia’s drama shines a light on three hospital workers as they negotiate love and life in the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Outstanding performances and cinematography that reflects the small but wondrous epiphanies of everyday lives anchor this Cannes Grand Prix winner.
Series
Special Screenings 2025
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7:00 PM
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
7:00 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
2015,
(118 mins)
A thriller without a body count, Todd Haynes’s sumptuous adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel The Price of Salt investigates the shifting power dynamics of love.
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
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7:00 PM
Friday, March 28, 2025
7:00 PM
Mikhail Kaufman,
Ukraine,
1929,
(89 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Mikhail Kaufman, who had just served as cameraman on his brother Dziga Vertov’s The Man with a Movie Camera, debuted as director with this elegiac, impressionist observation of seasons changing in old Kyiv. With Dmytro Dalskyi’s symphony of Kharkiv, Sketches of the Soviet City.
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3:30 PM
Saturday, March 29, 2025
3:30 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
2017,
(117 mins)
Closed Captioned
Todd Haynes’s adaptation of Brian Selznick’s children’s book is a gorgeous cinematic rendering of the intersecting stories of Rose and Ben, two courageous deaf children who, dealing with loss and longing, run away to New York City fifty years apart.
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
6:30 PM
Saturday, March 29, 2025
6:30 PM
Gustaf Edgren,
Sweden,
1946,
(102 mins)
Digital Restoration
Director Gustaf Edgren gave Mai Zetterling the lead role in this rural drama, which became one of the biggest Swedish box-office successes of the postwar period and established Zetterling as a major star.
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2:30 PM
Sunday, March 30, 2025
2:30 PM
Mark Donskoi,
Ukraine,
1957,
(98 mins)
Two star-crossed lovers run from an arranged marriage and the police in this delicately naturalistic work. Based on a story by Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors).
5:00 PM
Sunday, March 30, 2025
5:00 PM
Moussa Sene Absa,
Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal,
2022,
(115 mins)
A teenage schoolgirl’s life is suddenly upended by the death of her grandmother in veteran Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Sene Absa’s powerful look at female rage and empowerment. “Blends universal melodrama with enticing traditional storytelling” (Variety). Screens with Johanna Makabi’s short Grâce.
Series
African Film Festival 2025
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7:00 PM
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
7:00 PM
Jenni Olson,
United States,
2015,
(72 mins)
A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, a primer on Junipero Serra’s Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican–American War, alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, butch identity, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Screens with 575 Castro St., a haunting remembrance of Harvey Milk.
Series
Documentary Voices
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7:00 PM
Thursday, April 3, 2025
7:00 PM
Yuliya Solntseva,
Russia,
1958,
(108 mins)
“Poem of the Sea, which tells of the construction of an artificial sea, necessitating the flooding of a village, is remarkable for its confidence, grandeur and glowing beauty” (Ronald Bergan, Camera Lucida).
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Friday, April 4, 2025
7:00 PM
(80 mins)
Free Admission
A selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6:00 PM.
Series
Special Screenings 2025
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4:00 PM
Saturday, April 5, 2025
4:00 PM
José Miguel Ribeiro,
Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal,
2022,
(83 mins)
Angola’s tragic twenty-five-year-long civil war is given an unexpected retelling in this stunning animated feature film, a remarkable Lusophone African companion to such titles as Waltz with Bashir and Persepolis. “Bold and thrilling storytelling” (Screen International).
Series
African Film Festival 2025
6:30 PM
Saturday, April 5, 2025
6:30 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
1991,
(85 mins)
35mm Archival Print
A seminal work of the New Queer Cinema and a preemptive strike against the domestication of queer identity, Todd Haynes’s audacious first feature weaves together three stories inspired by Jean Genet, each realized in a radically different cinematic style.
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
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