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    1 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    • Performance
    Sunday, February 1, 2026
    1 PM
    Victor Sjöström,
    Sweden,
    1921,
    (106 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    An alcoholic’s life is changed through love and an encounter with the Grim Reaper in this film of uncanny beauty and inventiveness, which Ingmar Bergman called “the keystone of my cinematographic world.”
    • Mark Sandberg
      Introduction
      Professor Emeritus Mark Sandberg is Faculty Director of the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley.
    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
    3:30 PM
    Sunday, February 1, 2026
    3:30 PM
    (82 mins)
    These three films from Robert Beavers’s film cycle create connections between varied times and places, and between old-world artisanal practices and the craft of filmmaking.
    In Conversation
    • Robert Beavers
    • Erik Ulman
      Erik Ulman is an Advanced Lecturer in Music at Stanford University.
    6:30 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Sunday, February 1, 2026
    6:30 PM
    Wong Kar Wai,
    Hong Kong,
    2004,
    (129 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Also screens on Friday, February 27 (without an introduction).

    2046 “echoes” (in Wong Kar Wai’s preferred term) In the Mood For Love’s writer protagonist (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) three years on, now working on an erotic story, set in the year 2046, about a place where people lose themselves in memories.

    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.

    • Iggy Cortez
      Introduction
      Iggy Cortez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Wednesday, February 4, 2026
    7 PM
    Amy Reid,
    United States,
    2020,
    (95 mins)
    Riding with three long-haul truck drivers, filmmaker Amy Reid documents their work, observations on the economic importance of trucking, and reflections on being among the few women in the profession. With Katarina Jazbec’s investigation into the work of lashers in the port of Rotterdam. 
    In Conversation
    • Amy Reid
    • Kate MacKay
      Kate MacKay is a Film Curator at BAMPFA.
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    7 PM
    Thursday, February 5, 2026
    7 PM
    (60 mins)
    Sotiros incorporates narrative film devices such as intertitle cards into a metaphorical dialogue between two male lovers. In Efpsychi we hear a word spoken, teleftea, meaning the last (one). Wingseed draws comparisons between the pastoral beauty of a Greek hillside and that of the male form.
    In Conversation
    • Robert Beavers
    • Ken Ueno
      Ken Ueno is a composer, vocalist, and sound artist, and a Professor in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley.
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    3:30 PM
    • Film
    • Free
    • In-Person
    Friday, February 6, 2026
    3:30 PM

    Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 2:30 PM.

    The Berlin-based filmmaker will present Diminished Frame and The Sparrow Dream and discuss the relationship of history, memory, and place in his films.

    Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 2:30 PM.

    In Conversation
    • Robert Beavers
    • Deniz Göktürk
      Deniz Göktürk is a Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley.
    7 PM
    Friday, February 6, 2026
    7 PM
    (61 mins)
    The final three works in Robert Beavers’s film cycle—The Hedge Theater, The Stoas, and The Ground—offer images of ineffable beauty, unspoken eloquence, and an expression of devotional love.
    In Conversation
    • Robert Beavers
    • Susan Oxtoby
      Susan Oxtoby is the Director of Film and Senior Film Curator at BAMPFA.
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    1 PM
    • Closed Captioned
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, February 7, 2026
    1 PM
    Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss,
    United States,
    2025,
    (110 mins)
    In 1990s upstate New York, a misfit cohort of muckraking high school students armed with camcorders exposed improper toxic waste dumping in their community. Decades later the students and their teacher revisit the twisty, scandalous story.
    In Conversation
    • Amanda McBaine
    • Jesse Moss
    • Jason Spingarn-Koff
      Jason Spingarn-Koff is a Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley.
    4:15 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, February 7, 2026
    4:15 PM
    François Truffaut,
    France,
    1970,
    (83 mins)
    This fact-based tale of a “wolf boy” and the teacher who sets out to tame him is François Truffaut’s “most thoughtful statement on his favorite subject: the way young people grow up, explore themselves, and attempt to function creatively in the world” (Roger Ebert). 

    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.

    • Laura Truffaut
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    • Aner Preminger
      Moderator
      Aner Preminger is the Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute at UC Berkeley and the author of François Truffaut: Cinema as an Act of Love—An Intertextual Ap
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    7 PM
    Saturday, February 7, 2026
    7 PM
    (89 mins)
    Robert Beavers’s seven works made after his film cycle demonstrate his continued interest in the poetic form and emotions linked to a sense of home or place, including his delicate portrait of his mother, Pitcher of Colored Light, and the graceful The Suppliant.
    In Conversation
    • Robert Beavers
    • Susan Oxtoby
      Susan Oxtoby is the Director of Film and Senior Film Curator at BAMPFA.
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    Sunday, February 8, 2026
    4:30 PM
    Mauritz Stiller,
    Sweden,
    1924,
    (206 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Remembered as the first major performance of nineteen-year-old Greta Garbo as one of Gösta Berling’s love interests, the film caught the eye of Louis B. Mayer, who brought both Mauritz Stiller and Garbo to Hollywood, making Gösta Berling’s Saga Stiller’s final movie in Sweden.

    Total running time: 206 mins plus 30-minute intermission. Part 2 will start at approximately 7 PM.

    • Mark Sandberg
      Introduction
      Professor Emeritus Mark Sandberg is Faculty Director of the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley.
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    7 PM
    • Film
    Wednesday, February 11, 2026
    7 PM
    Frederick Wiseman,
    United States,
    1980,
    (129 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Model captures the inner workings of Zoli, a New York fashion modeling agency, and the labor of the statuesque men and women represented there.
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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Thursday, February 12, 2026
    7 PM
    François Truffaut,
    France,
    1971,
    (130 mins)
    Aided by the marvelous, impressionist-styled images of cinematographer Nestor Almendros and a swooning score by Georges Delerue, François Truffaut transforms his second adaptation of a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché (author of Jules and Jim) into an overwhelming sensory experience.

    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.

    • Laura Truffaut
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    • Aner Preminger
      Moderator
      Aner Preminger is the Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute at UC Berkeley and the author of François Truffaut: Cinema as an Act of Love—An Intertextual Ap
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    4 PM
    Friday, February 13, 2026
    4 PM
    Akira Kurosawa,
    Japan,
    1963,
    (143 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    A kidnapping becomes a moral dilemma for an executive (Toshiro Mifune) in “one of the best detective thrillers ever filmed” (New York Times).

    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.

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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Friday, February 13, 2026
    7 PM
    Wong Kar Wai,
    Hong Kong,
    1997,
    (96 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Also screens on Sunday, January 25 (with an introduction by Daniel O’Neill).

    Hong Kong superstars Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai play expat lovers adrift in Buenos Aires. Simultaneously bruising and yearning, Happy Together is “a take-no-prisoners movie that’s the very antithesis of sentimental gay love stories” (Kenneth Turan).

    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.

    • Iggy Cortez
      Introduction
      Iggy Cortez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
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    Saturday, February 14, 2026
    12 PM
    Julia Loktev,
    United States,
    2024,
    (214 mins)
    Hailed as one of the must-see documentaries of the last year. “A scary and riveting portrait of Russia’s last independent news channel” (Lauren Wissot, IndieWire).

    Includes a 15 minute intermission

    Saturday, February 14, 2026
    4:15 PM
    Julia Loktev,
    United States,
    2024,
    (125 mins)
    Hailed as one of the must-see documentaries of the last year. “A scary and riveting portrait of Russia’s last independent news channel” (Lauren Wissot, IndieWire).
    Saturday, February 14, 2026
    7 PM
    Wong Kar Wai,
    Hong Kong,
    2000,
    (98 mins)
    This twenty-first-century classic set in the early 1960s distills the essence of romance and melancholy, with gorgeous neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) “in the mood for love,” yet too proper to act on it.

    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.

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    1 PM
    Sunday, February 15, 2026
    1 PM
    Robin Petré,
    Denmark, Spain,
    2025,
    (93 mins)
    Only on Earth captures the rhythms of rural life in northwest Spain, as rising temperatures and human development alter the landscape, which for centuries teemed with wild horses that kept the flammable undergrowth in check.
    4 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    • Performance
    Sunday, February 15, 2026
    4 PM
    (134 mins)
    Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s nationalistic poem is distinguished by stunning land and seascape photography. With the director’s Hollywood epic The Wind, wherein naive Virginia belle Lillian Gish relocates to windswept Texas.
    • Mark Sandberg
      Introduction
      Mark Sandberg is Professor Emeritus and Faculty Director of the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley.
    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
    7:15 PM
    Sunday, February 15, 2026
    7:15 PM
    Wong Kar Wai,
    United States,
    2007,
    (95 mins)
    Singer Norah Jones headlines Wong Kar Wai’s English-language debut, which depicts a heartbroken singer on a road trip across America and the other lost souls—Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, and Natalie Portman among them—she encounters along the way.

    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.

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    Wednesday, February 18, 2026
    7 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.
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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Thursday, February 19, 2026
    7 PM
    Frederick Wiseman,
    United States,
    1976,
    (113 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Capturing a pivotal moment in the history of animal agriculture, Meat tracks the transformation of animals into consumer commodities through a revolutionary, scalable assembly-line process that dramatically increased the world’s appetite for beef.
    In Conversation
    • Ricardo San Martin
      Ricardo San Martin is the Director of the Alternative Meats X-Lab at UC Berkeley, which helps entrepreneurs and researchers investigate the next generation of foods such as plant-based meats, dairy su
    • Jeanne Merrill
      Jeanne Merrill is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Food Institute at UC Berkeley and is a cofounder and former Policy Director with the California Climate and Agriculture Network.
    • Jeff Griffith-Perham
      Jeff Griffith-Perham is an Associate Film Curator at BAMPFA.
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    4:30 PM
    • Film
    Friday, February 20, 2026
    4:30 PM
    Akira Kurosawa,
    Japan,
    1961,
    (110 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Toshiro Mifune is a sly, amoral mercenary in a town ruled by killers in Akira Kurosawa’s tongue-in-cheek anti-epic. “A visually faultless and highly sophisticated satire on violence and human weakness” (Sight and Sound).

    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.

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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Friday, February 20, 2026
    7 PM
    François Truffaut,
    France,
    1973,
    (115 mins)

    Imported 35mm Print

    Jean-Pierre Léaud joins an ensemble cast for a behind-the-scenes romantic comedy in which the love interest is cinema itself. Day for Night is buoyed by robust performances and a sparkling score by the legendary Georges Delerue.

    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.

    • Laura Truffaut
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    • Aner Preminger
      Moderator
      Aner Preminger is the Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute at UC Berkeley and the author of François Truffaut: Cinema as an Act of Love—An Intertextual Ap
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    Saturday, February 21, 2026
    1 PM
    (105 mins)
    This cross-continental program presents stories from Pakistan, Croatia, and Bolivia, where struggles over access to clean water intersect with reflections on cultural traditions and legacy.
    In Conversation
    • Amin Muhammad
      Amin Muhammad is a director and producer of The Glacier Wedding.
    • Thomas Sawano
      Thomas Sawano is a director and producer of The Glacier Wedding.
    • 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.
    4:30 PM
    Saturday, February 21, 2026
    4:30 PM
    Youssef Chahine,
    Egypt,
    1958,
    (100 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Combining Italian neorealism, Egyptian romanticism, and overheated film noir, Cairo Station is unlike anything anyone had seen in 1958, or indeed today. With short Cairo as Seen by Chahine.
    7 PM
    Saturday, February 21, 2026
    7 PM
    Wong Kar Wai,
    Hong Kong,
    2013,
    (130 mins)
    Wong Kar Wai’s big-budget salute to the golden age of Chinese martial arts stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai as the legendary Ip Man (Bruce Lee’s mentor), attempting to unite several martial arts factions in a Republican China under threat from Japanese invasion.

    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.

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    1 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Sunday, February 22, 2026
    1 PM
    Ondi Timoner,
    United States,
    2025,
    (79 mins)
    All the Walls Came Down chronicles the devastating aftermath of the Eaton Fire on the community of Altadena, California, from the personal perspective of someone who lost their home, filmmaker Ondi Timoner. Paired with Sallie’s Ashes, which follows a trio of retired Alabama seniors turned community organizers, fighting to protect Mobile Bay from an industrial behemoth’s toxic coal ash dump.
    In Conversation
    • Ondi Timoner
      Ondi Timoner is the director of All the Walls Came Down.
    • Brennan Robideaux
      Brennan Robideaux is the director of Sallie’s Ashes.
    • Jason Spingarn-Koff
      Jason Spingarn-Koff is a Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley.
    4 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Sunday, February 22, 2026
    4 PM
    François Truffaut,
    France,
    1976,
    (105 mins)
    François Truffaut’s tribute to the resilience of children in the face of difficulties is one of cinema’s most moving, comedic looks at childhood. “Turns out to be that rarity—a poetic comedy that’s really funny” (Pauline Kael).

    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.

    • Laura Truffaut
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    • Aner Preminger
      Moderator
      Aner Preminger is the Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute at UC Berkeley and the author of François Truffaut: Cinema as an Act of Love—An Intertextual Ap
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    7 PM
    Sunday, February 22, 2026
    7 PM
    Wong Kar Wai,
    Hong Kong,
    1990,
    (94 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Also screens on Sunday, January 11 (with an introduction).

    A haunting paean to memory, love, and longing, set during a long and sweltering Hong Kong summer, Wong Kar Wai’s first collaboration with cinematographer Christopher Doyle was a winner of five Hong Kong Film Awards.

    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.

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    Wednesday, February 25, 2026
    7 PM
    Sepideh Farsi ,
    France, Iran, Palestine,
    2025,
    (112 mins)
    Sepidah Farsi’s yearlong conversation with Palestinian poet and photojournalist Fatma Hassona, killed by Israeli airstrike in April 2025, is “a tremendously moving portrait of resistance under siege” (Isaac Feidberg, RogerEbert.com). 
    • Ussama Makdisi
      Introduction
      Ussama Makdisi is a Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at UC Berkeley.
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    Thursday, February 26, 2026
    7 PM
    Julia Loktev,
    United States,
    2024,
    (214 mins)
    Hailed as one of the must-see documentaries of the last year. “A scary and riveting portrait of Russia’s last independent news channel” (Lauren Wissot, IndieWire).

    Includes a 15 minute intermission

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    4 PM
    • Film
    Friday, February 27, 2026
    4 PM
    Wong Kar Wai,
    Hong Kong,
    2004,
    (129 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Also screens on Sunday, February 1 (with an introduction).

    2046 “echoes” (in Wong Kar Wai’s preferred term) In the Mood For Love’s writer protagonist (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) three years on, now working on an erotic story, set in the year 2046, about a place where people lose themselves in memories.

    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.

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    Friday, February 27, 2026
    7 PM
    Julia Loktev,
    United States,
    2024,
    (125 mins)
    Hailed as one of the must-see documentaries of the last year. “A scary and riveting portrait of Russia’s last independent news channel” (Lauren Wissot, IndieWire).
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    1:30 PM
    Saturday, February 28, 2026
    1:30 PM
    Wong Kar Wai,
    Hong Kong,
    1994,
    (102 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Also screens on Sunday, January 18 (with an introduction).

    Filmed in the middle of the making of Ashes of Time, Chungking Express is a cop movie and a mesmerizing jolt of Hong Kong’s energy, romance, and style, framed by Christopher Doyle’s lyrically kinetic cinematography. 

    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.

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    4 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, February 28, 2026
    4 PM
    Ingmar Bergman,
    Sweden,
    1957,
    (92 mins)
    The film that cemented Ingmar Bergman’s international reputation deftly interweaves memory, reality, and dream. As an elderly professor recollecting his life’s failures, “Victor Sjöström gives one of the greatest performances of cinema” (National Film Theatre, London).
    • Linda Haverty Rugg
      Introduction
      Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.
    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, February 28, 2026
    7 PM
    François Truffaut,
    France,
    1983,
    (110 mins)
    François Truffaut’s graceful last film pays tribute to screwball comedies, film noir, and the stylish thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock as it follows a real-estate agent and his secretary, who are thrown together to investigate a series of small-town murders. “A valentine disguised as a noir” (TCM).

    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.

    • Laura Truffaut
      Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
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