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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 30, 2025
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
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.
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African Film Festival 2025
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
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.
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Documentary Voices
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All Day
Thursday, April 3, 2025
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, April 3, 2025
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
1:15 PM
Thursday, April 3, 2025
1:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
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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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, April 4, 2025
2 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
7:00 PM
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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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, April 5, 2025
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
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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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 6, 2025
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
1:00 PM
Sunday, April 6, 2025
1:00 PM
Join us for an afternoon of knotting, coiling, folding, bending, braiding, and bundling materials to make your own wearable art inspired by the exhibition Making Their Mark.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops
2:00 PM
Sunday, April 6, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
3:00 PM
Sunday, April 6, 2025
3:00 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
Ukraine,
1961,
(83 mins)
A Ukrainian singer recalls her greatest love in this early work by the director of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, inspired by Ukrainian naive art, folk songs, and the American musical. “Complex and fascinating . . . [with] tropes that turn a social-realist musical into a hallucinatory fantasy” (Judy Bloch).
5:00 PM
Sunday, April 6, 2025
5:00 PM
Osvalde Lewat,
France, South Africa,
2022,
(63 mins)
While Nelson Mandela is best known as a pacifist and statesman, this riveting documentary on the armed wing of the African National Congress underlines that, most of all, he was a freedom fighter. Powerful archival footage and interviews with surviving veterans drive home the brutality of apartheid, and the still-ongoing battle for justice. Screens with Chadrack Banikina’s short Ota Benga.
Series
African Film Festival 2025
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
5:30 PM
Artist Estefania Puerta, conservator Michelle Barger, and scholar Jules Pelta Feldman join BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton for a multifaceted in-gallery discussion of the issues and opportunities presented by art made under conditions of impermanence, as highlighted in the museum’s current collection exhibition, To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations
7:00 PM
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
7:00 PM
Elizabeth Ai,
United States,
2024,
(88 mins)
Copresented by the UC Berkeley Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Elizabeth Ai explores the significance of electronic New Wave music and punk/goth aesthetics for a generation of Vietnamese American youth coming of age in the 1980s and grappling with the weight of their parents’ unspoken traumas.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
Series
Documentary Voices
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7:00 PM
Thursday, April 10, 2025
7:00 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
Ukraine,
1965,
(96 mins)
Digital Restoration
Pagan rituals, demonology, folklore, and legend come to life in Sergei Parajanov’s hypnotic update of a Romeo and Juliet tale. “Astonishing . . . one of the supreme works of Soviet cinema” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
Introductions
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, April 11, 2025
2 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
2:30 PM
Friday, April 11, 2025
2:30 PM
Ivan Kavaleridze,
Ukraine,
1935,
(88 mins)
A Ukrainian peasant transforms from conscripted soldier in the Caucasus to revolutionary leader in this daring critique of Russian chauvinism and imperialism.
5:00 PM
Friday, April 11, 2025
5:00 PM
Yurii Illienko,
Ukraine,
1965,
(70 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
The memories of a lonely old man blend with the specific landscapes of the Dnipro River in this “wonder in every sense of the word” (Russell Merritt), by the cinematographer of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. Banned for twenty-two years, it was finally released during Perestroika in 1987.
7:00 PM
Friday, April 11, 2025
7:00 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
2021,
(120 mins)
Reflecting the history and legacy of The Velvet Underground, and the vibrant New York scene from which the band emerged, Todd Haynes combines their music; interviews with band members, artists, and collaborators; and movies by Andy Warhol and others.
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
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1:00–4:45 PM
Saturday, April 12, 2025
1:00–4:45 PM
Free Admission Cosponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; the Armenian Studies Program; and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
We will welcome six visiting scholars to join the UC Berkeley campus community to share their ideas and research, adding nuance and depth to the existing perspectives of Ukrainian Soviet cinema, moving beyond simplistic colonial dichotomies and outdated canons.
Free and open to the public. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 11:00 AM.
2:30–3:30 PM
Saturday, April 12, 2025
2:30–3:30 PM
Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s)
A girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and an unexpected love story: come along for the ride through Ferris Wilkey’s very eventful summer.
Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child. Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs.
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Family Events
11:30AM–1:00 PM
Saturday, April 12, 2025
11:30AM–1:00 PM
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Learn about abstract and figurative work, and explore a range of mark making techniques as you try your hand at these approaches to making art.
Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child. Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs.
Series
Family Events
1 PM–7 PM
Saturday, April 12, 2025
1 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
6:30 PM
Saturday, April 12, 2025
6:30 PM
Todd Haynes,
United States,
2023,
(134 mins)
An unsettling power play of shifting perspectives, reflections, and performances, May December chronicles the encounter between ambitious actor Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) and formerly incarcerated suburban housewife Gracie (Julianne Moore), the woman she is preparing to portray. Screens with Image Book, a catalogue of references and inspirations for May December.
Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 13, 2025
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
1:30 PM
Sunday, April 13, 2025
1:30 PM
Leonid Osyka,
Ukraine,
1968,
(81 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
A thief’s actions cause fissures in a small Ukrainian village in this elemental tale of punishment and forgiveness, adapted by poet/activist Ivan Drach from the writings of Vasyl Stefanyk. “The sense that these characters are enacting some kind of preordained ritual gives the film an otherworldly feel” (Film at Lincoln Center).
2:00 PM
Sunday, April 13, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
3:45 PM
Sunday, April 13, 2025
3:45 PM
Oleksandr Dovzhenko,
Ukraine,
1929,
(75 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s poetic account of the events leading up to a bloody battle contains some of the most memorable images in Soviet cinema.
6:00 PM
Sunday, April 13, 2025
6:00 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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12:15 PM
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
3:10 PM
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
3:10 PM
(79 mins)
Curated in tandem with the Media and Migration in a Digital Age symposium, this program focuses on moving image practices that explore the conflicts of war, climate change, and the colonial legacies that continue to force the migration of people and ideas.
In Conversation
7:00 PM
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
7:00 PM
Pinar Öğrenci,
Germany, Turkey,
2022,
(60 mins)
Free for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty
Pinar Öğrenci explores the complex and brutal history and foreboding geography of her father’s home, Müküs, within the mountainous region in southern Van, on Turkey’s border with Iran.
Free tickets for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty can be picked up starting at 11:00 AM on the day of the screening. In Conversation
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6:30 PM
Thursday, April 17, 2025
6:30 PM
Concluding the series of thematically focused Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection discussions, this program brings together Suzanne Jackson and Firelei Báez, two artists whose works are featured in the exhibition, in conversation with writer, curator, and UC Berkeley teaching professor Hilton Als. The group will discuss approaches to artmaking that defy conventional modes of representation, through innovations in portraiture and lively methods of abstraction.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, April 18, 2025
2 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
2:30 PM
Friday, April 18, 2025
2:30 PM
(94 mins)
Free for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty
Pinar Öğrenci presents two documentaries exploring the effects of nationalism, war, and migration, one through the history of lokum (Turkish delight) and the other chronicling the living conditions of Turkish guest workers in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Free tickets for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty can be picked up starting at 11:00 AM on the day of the screening. In Conversation
5:30 PM
Friday, April 18, 2025
5:30 PM
Jonathan Millet,
Belgium, France, Germany,
2024,
(108 mins)
A Syrian exile and former literature professor, now living in France, hunts the prison guard who once tortured him, balancing vengeance, secrecy, and the emotional weight of his past.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 8 PM
Friday, April 18, 2025
8 PM
Athina Rachel Tsangari,
France, Germany, Greece, United Kingdom, United States,
2024,
(133 mins)
In this painterly adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel, director Athina Rachel Tsangari observes behavioral systems within a pressure cooker, as residents of a medieval village face upheaval when capitalist dynamics come to town.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. |
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, April 19, 2025
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
12 PM
Saturday, April 19, 2025
12 PM
Vivien Hillgrove,
United States,
2025,
(87 mins)
When legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 2:30 PM
Saturday, April 19, 2025
2:30 PM
Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni,
Canada, Chile, Germany, Iran, Qatar, United States,
2025,
(94 mins)
The first female elected to her rural Iranian village’s council refuses to follow patriarchal norms despite facing aggressive resistance in this transcendent vérité portrait of an extraordinary woman effecting change.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 5:15 PM
Saturday, April 19, 2025
5:15 PM
Jing Yi,
China,
2025,
(96 mins)
In the sun-drenched valleys of Xinjiang, China, a young Kazakh boy beguiled by the natural world experiences the same sense of enchantment when he meets a spirited Han Chinese girl.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 8 PM
Saturday, April 19, 2025
8 PM
Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi,
France, India, Spain, United States,
2025,
(93 mins)
Maya works multiple jobs to keep her household running, until her husband’s disappearance and trouble with the law upsets the delicate and fragile balance she maintains in her world.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. |
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 20, 2025
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
11:30 AM
Sunday, April 20, 2025
11:30 AM
Sinéad O’Shea,
Ireland, United Kingdom,
2024,
(99 mins)
Closed Captioned
Edna O’Brien became notorious in the 1960s and 1970s for writing sexually explicit novels that inspired generations of writers. Jessie Buckley narrates this tender documentary that captures the late writer’s essence.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. 2:00 PM
Sunday, April 20, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
2:15 PM
Sunday, April 20, 2025
2:15 PM
Brittany Shyne,
United States,
2025,
(123 mins)
Closed Captioned
This visually stunning portrait reflects on identity, legacy, and the cyclical nature of life as it explores a Black family’s century-old farm, capturing both its beauty and the family’s struggles.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 5:30 PM
Sunday, April 20, 2025
5:30 PM
Ana Endara,
Colombia, Panama,
2024,
(108 mins)
A Colombian immigrant woman in Panama cares for a matriarch suffering from dementia in a powerful story about love, motherhood, and aging.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 8:15 PM
Sunday, April 20, 2025
8:15 PM
Joonho Park,
South Korea,
2025,
(124 mins)
A young North Korean defector’s path toward self-discovery brings him into Seoul’s vibrant gay community, where new friendships and hardships lie ahead.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. |
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
4:30 PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
4:30 PM
Jessica Zitter,
United States,
2025,
(86 mins)
An unlikely partnership forms between a chaplain and a physician in an Oakland trauma center, as they challenge medical biases and redefine compassionate care while confronting personal and professional struggles together.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 7 PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
7 PM
Rohan Parashuram Kanawade,
Canada, India, United Kingdom,
2025,
(112 mins)
A tender tale of queer love and friendship blossoms amidst one man’s grief over the death of his father and the strict social mores of a rugged western Indian town.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. |
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
7 PM
Sky Hopinka,
United States,
2020,
Bodies of water ebb and flow throughout Hopinka’s poetic experimental documentary following the wanderings of two Native Americans as they share their rituals and relationships to life, identity, language, and their homeland.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. In Conversation
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, April 25, 2025
2 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
4:30 PM
Friday, April 25, 2025
4:30 PM
Neo Sora,
Japan, United States,
2024,
(113 mins)
In a moody near-future Tokyo, a school’s new draconian mass surveillance system unsettles the friendships and free spirits of a group of endearingly rambunctious teens.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 7 PM
Friday, April 25, 2025
7 PM
Marianna Brennand,
Algeria, Brazil, Portugal,
2024,
Trapped in an abusive home on an isolated island in the Brazilian rainforest, a thirteen-year-old girl yearns to escape and reunite with her older sister in the city.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. |
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, April 26, 2025
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
12 PM
Saturday, April 26, 2025
12 PM
Cherien Dabis,
Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
2025,
(145 mins)
An epic drama spanning three generations in the life of a Palestinian family, this dynamic film centers on the personal while also depicting the dehumanizing political situation surrounding its characters.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 1:00 PM
Saturday, April 26, 2025
1:00 PM
Embrace the vibrancy of spring with the ancient Japanese technique of tataki-zomé, or flower pounding, combined with the softness of watercolor and other mixed media.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops
3 PM
Saturday, April 26, 2025
3 PM
Hind Meddeb,
France, Qatar, Tunisia,
2024,
(76 mins)
In the midst of war and destruction in Sudan, four young activists insist on justice, freedom, and change, emerging as beacons of hope for the country and the world.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 5:30 PM
Saturday, April 26, 2025
5:30 PM
Leonardo van Dijl,
Belgium, Sweden,
2024,
(97 mins)
With astute attention to framing and shot design, this riveting debut puts its rising tennis star protagonist front and center as she navigates the suspension of her coach amid rumors of abuse.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 7:45 PM
Saturday, April 26, 2025
7:45 PM
Koya Kamura,
France, South Korea,
2024,
(104 mins)
In a snowy seaside town on South Korea’s east coast, a mysterious French artist upends an introspective young woman’s life.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, April 27, 2025
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
12 PM
Sunday, April 27, 2025
12 PM
Julie Forrest Wyman,
United States,
2025,
(93 mins)
Diagnosed with hypochondroplasia dwarfism as an adult, filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman seeks to understand her own condition as she confers with her family, medical experts, and a welcoming, creative group of little people for answers.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 2:00 PM
Sunday, April 27, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
2:30 PM
Sunday, April 27, 2025
2:30 PM
Ángela Carabalí,
Colombia,
2025,
(86 mins)
Thirty years after their father disappeared during a period of civil unrest, director Ángela Carabalí and her sister Juliana travel throughout Colombia seeking answers.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 5 PM
Sunday, April 27, 2025
5 PM
Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim,
United States,
2025,
(100 mins)
Open Captioned
In this involving documentary, students at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, stage protests in March 1988, demanding that the world’s first university for the deaf and hard of hearing appoint a deaf president.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 7:45 PM
Sunday, April 27, 2025
7:45 PM
Rebecca Lenkiewicz,
United Kingdom,
2025,
(92 mins)
An unsettling mother/daughter story set over a sultry Spanish summer, this sexy and mysterious drama starring Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, and Vicky Krieps beautifully adapts Deborah Levy’s acclaimed novel.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $20 BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons: $19 BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. |
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
7:00 PM
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
7:00 PM
Sylvain George,
France, Switzerland,
2023,
(183 mins)
In the Spanish enclave of Melilla, Morocco, a group of youths try to get to Europe. Obscure Night—Goodbye Here, Anywhere focuses on a reality the Western world would rather not see, dissident dreams that transcend geographical boundaries.
In Conversation
Series
Documentary Voices
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, May 1, 2025
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
1:15 PM
Thursday, May 1, 2025
1:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
5:30 PM
Thursday, May 1, 2025
5:30 PM
In conjunction with To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)Permanent Collection, BAMPFA presents a reading with poets Solmaz Sharif and Geoffrey G. O’Brien.
Included with admission
Series
Readings
7:00 PM
Thursday, May 1, 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 PM–7 PM
Friday, May 2, 2025
2 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
7:00 PM
Friday, May 2, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1974,
(147 mins)
35mm Archival Print
John Cassavetes’s masterpiece retains the power to unnerve with its raw, often harrowing depiction of a blue-collar Los Angeles family, with Gena Rowlands in an Oscar-nominated performance as a housewife on the verge.
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, May 3, 2025
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
7:00 PM
Saturday, May 3, 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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