March 2025

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    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
    • Maya Craig
      Maya Craig is a cinematographer and coproducer of The Battle for Laikipia.
    • Miswa Basil
      Miswa Basil is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley.
    • Jennifer Redfearn
      Jennifer Redfearn is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker and the Director of the Documentary Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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    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
    • Film
    • In-Person
    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 bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

    In Conversation
    • Jenni Olson
      Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG
    • Juana María Rodríguez
      Juana María Rodríguez is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and a cultural critic, public speaker, and award-winning author who writes about sexual cultures, racial politics, and the many ta
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    • Film
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    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.

    • Leila Weefur
      Introduction
      Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
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    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.

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    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.

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    • Film
    • In-Person
    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.

    • Shari Huhndorf
      Introduction
      Shari Huhndorf is Class of 1938 Professor of Native American Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley.
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    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.
    6:30 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    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.
    • Linda Haverty Rugg
      Introduction
      Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.
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    1:30 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    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.
    • Linda Haverty Rugg
      Introduction
      Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.
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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.
    • Rick Prelinger
      Les Blank Lecture
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    • Film
    • In-Person
    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.
    • Ivy Mills
      Introduction
      Ivy Mills is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Arts and Visual Cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora at UC Berkeley.
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    • Film
    • In-Person
    Friday, March 7, 2025
    7:00 PM
    Mai Zetterling,
    Sweden,
    1964,
    (129 mins)
    “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).
    • Linda Haverty Rugg
      Introduction
      Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.
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    2:30 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    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 bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

    In Conversation
    • Todd Haynes
    • Mary Ann Doane
      Mary Ann Doane is Professor Emeritus; Class of 1937 Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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    6:30 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    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 bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

    In Conversation
    • Todd Haynes
    • Damon Young
      Damon Young is an Associate Professor of French and Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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    • Film
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    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 bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

    In Conversation
    • Todd Haynes
    • Damon Young
      Damon Young is an Associate Professor of French and Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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    6:30 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    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 bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

    In Conversation
    • Todd Haynes
    • Dolores McElroy
      Dolores McElroy is a Lecturer in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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    • Film
    • In-Person
    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.
    • Jason Spingarn-Koff
      Introduction
      Jason Spingarn-Koff is a Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley.
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    • Film
    • In-Person
    Thursday, March 13, 2025
    7:00 PM
    Mai Zetterling,
    Sweden,
    1966,
    (105 mins)
    “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). 
    • Linda Haverty Rugg
      Introduction
      Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.
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    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.
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    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, March 15, 2025
    7:00 PM
    Mai Zetterling,
    Sweden,
    1968,
    (100 mins)
    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
    • Anna Stenport
      Anna Stenport is Professor of Communication Studies, Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia, and a scholar of Scandinavian, Arctic, and feminist film, media, an
    • Linda Haverty Rugg
      Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.
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    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.
    • Anna Stenport
      Lecture
      Anna Stenport will give a thirty-minute lecture prior to the films.Anna Stenport is Professor of Communication Studies, Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia,
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    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).
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    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).
    • Paola Bacchetta
      Introduction
      Paola Bacchetta is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. She is also Director of the Institute for Gender and Sexuality Research.
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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.
    • Mary Ann Doane
      Introduction
      Mary Ann Doane is Professor Emeritus; Class of 1937 Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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    • Film
    • Performance
    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.
    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
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    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.
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    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.”
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    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.
    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.
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    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.
    • Dolores McElroy
      Introduction
      Dolores McElroy is a Lecturer in the Film & Media Department at UC Berkeley.
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    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.
    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
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    • Closed Captioned
    • Film
    • In-Person
    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.
    • Theresa L. Geller
      Introduction
      Theresa L. Geller is the lead editor of Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark (Duke University Press, 2022).
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    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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    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).
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    • Film
    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.
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    • Film
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    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.
    • Jenni Olson
      In Person
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    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.

    • Student Filmmakers
      In Person
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    • Film
    • In-Person
    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).
    • Ndola Prata
      Introduction
      Ndola Prata is the Fred H. Bixby Jr.
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    • Film
    • In-Person
    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.
    • Thomas DePaoli
      Introduction
      Thomas DePaoli is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.