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    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.

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    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
    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.

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    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.

    Sunday, April 27, 2025
    5 PM
    Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim,
    United States,
    2025,
    (100 mins)

    Open Captioned
    American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for this program

    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.

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    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
    • Film
    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.

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    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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    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
    • Sylvain George
    • Debarati Sanyal
      Debarati Sanyal is a Professor of French and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry at UC Berkeley.
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    7:00 PM
    Thursday, May 1, 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).
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    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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    7:00 PM
    Saturday, May 3, 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). 
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    4:00 PM
    • Film
    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
    • Film
    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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    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
    • Film
    Thursday, May 8, 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.
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    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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    6:00 PM
    • Film
    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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    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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    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.

    • UC Berkeley Student Filmmakers
      In Person
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