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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
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Documentary Voices
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All Day
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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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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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, May 4, 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
2:00 PM
Sunday, May 4, 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
4:00 PM
Sunday, May 4, 2025
4:00 PM
Mai Zetterling,
Sweden,
1986,
(117 mins)
Digital Restoration
Stina Ekblad stars as the controversial writer Agnes von Krusenstjerna (1894–1940) in this portrait of the artist, her troubled romance with the notorious older man David Sprengel (Erland Josephson), and her mental health struggles.
7:00 PM
Sunday, May 4, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1968,
(130 mins)
35mm Archival Print
Gena Rowlands, John Marley, and Seymour Cassel star in this unflinching nightlong journey through a marriage on the rocks, a film “against all people that know and for people that just feel” (John Cassavetes).
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, May 7, 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, May 7, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1971,
(114 mins)
John Cassavetes’s take on the screwball comedy stars Gena Rowlands as Minnie, a beautiful, refined museum employee unlucky in love.
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7:00 PM
Thursday, May 8, 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.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, May 9, 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 9, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1984,
(141 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands star in this film about the blows and buttresses of family. “A mighty, intimate, kaleidoscopically subjective, bravely self-searching summation of a career, an era, and a life” (New Yorker).
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All Day
Saturday, May 10, 2025
All Day
BAMPFA will be CLOSED on Saturday, May 10 for our annual Art & Film Benefit.
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1 PM–7 PM
Sunday, May 11, 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
1 PM–7 PM
Sunday, May 11, 2025
1 PM–7 PM
6:00 PM
Sunday, May 11, 2025
6:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1980,
(122 mins)
A former gangster’s moll (Gena Rowlands) takes on the mob—while protecting a Puerto Rican orphan—in pre-gentrification, graffiti-tagged early 1980s New York. “A commercial film . . . turned into a slice of pure avant-garde” (Dave Kehr).
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.
7:00 PM
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1978,
(144 mins)
John Cassavetes’s tribute to acting, actors, and the search for artistic integrity centers around a successful stage actress (Gena Rowlands) grappling with her character. “Cassavetes’s most cleverly constructed film” (New Yorker).
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Thursday, May 15, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, May 16, 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
Friday, May 16, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.
5:30 PM
Friday, May 16, 2025
5:30 PM
Hear from the 2025 graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Fine Arts program—Viviana Martinez Carlos, Priyanka D’Souza, Arianna Khmelniuk, Jasmine Nyende, bryant terry, and Zekarias Thompson—on the occasion of BAMPFA’s fifty-fifth annual MFA exhibition.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, May 17, 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
Saturday, May 17, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, May 18, 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
2:00 PM
Sunday, May 18, 2025
2:00 PM
 Free Admission
Student filmmakers join us for a screening of this year’s prizewinners and honorable mentions in the film and video category of the Eisner Prize competition, UC Berkeley’s highest award for creative media making.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 1:00 PM.
Series
Special Screenings 2025
Sunday, May 18, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, May 21, 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
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, May 23, 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
Friday, May 23, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, May 24, 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
Saturday, May 24, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, May 25, 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, May 25, 2025
1:00 PM
Bring a garment to draw on or embellish using our fabric marker collection, scissors, fabric scraps, and hot glue to explore the expressive potential of your style while Cat Lauigan and Matt Brownell of Cone Shape Top provide the energy and inspiration to go deep with a live DJ set and a presentation of Lauigan’s fashion work.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops
Sunday, May 25, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, May 30, 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
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, May 31, 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
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