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27 1:00 PM Lawyer Lawyer Film In-Person Sunday, October 27, 2024 1:00 PM Lawyer Lawyer Joe Ma, Hong Kong, 1997, (85 mins) It’s Chinese street smarts versus British rule when a fast-talking lawyer takes on a British courtroom in this manic screwball comedy starring Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle). Costarring Chingmy Yau (Naked Killer) and Karen Mok. Paul Fonoroff Introduction Paul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema who lived for years in Hong Kong and is currently based in Bangkok. Series Hong Kong Cinema with Paul Fonoroff Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Wild Woman Film In-Person Sunday, October 27, 2024 7:00 PM Wild Woman Alán González, Cuba, 2023, (93 mins) After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, Wild Woman became one of the most celebrated Cuban feature debuts in the past decade. Set in a Havana slum, the film follows a Cuban mother as she battles social prejudice, machismo, poverty, and violence to protect her son after a violent altercation goes viral. In Conversation Alán González Lázaro González Lázaro González is a filmmaker from Cuba, a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media, and the guest curator of Cuban Cinema without Borders. Series Cuban Cinema without Borders Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	28	29	30 7:00 PM Stop-Motion Storyteller Amanda Strong Film In-Person Wednesday, October 30, 2024 7:00 PM Stop-Motion Storyteller Amanda Strong (84 mins) BAMPFA and UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center welcome Michif (Métis) stop-motion storyteller Amanda Strong to present her animated films. Depicting Indigenous realities, stories, and dreams, the works provide a compelling cinematic counterpoint challenging historical narratives of Indigenous peoples. In Person Amanda Strong Bracken Hanuse Corlett Series Alternative Visions Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	31 7:00 PM Le samouraï Film Thursday, October 31, 2024 7:00 PM Le samouraï Jean-Pierre Melville, France, 1967, (105 mins) Digital Restoration Alain Delon embodies cool as a solitary, silent Parisian killer flitting between hits and flings in this essential, influential assassin film. “Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty” (Slant). Series Special Screenings Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 4:00 PM Amanda Strong and Bracken Hanuse Corlett: Artists’ Talk Film In-Person Friday, November 1, 2024 4:00 PM Amanda Strong and Bracken Hanuse Corlett: Artists’ Talk Free for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty Award-winning multimedia Indigenous artists Amanda Strong (Michif) and Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv and Klahoose) share insights on the creation of their films, including their current project, eight years in the making and now on the cusp of its world premiere. Free for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty. In Conversation Amanda Strong Bracken Hanuse Corlett Series Alternative Visions Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM The Color of Pomegranates Film Friday, November 1, 2024 7:00 PM The Color of Pomegranates Sergei Parajanov, USSR, 1969, (103 mins) Digital Restoration This magical work, rich in period music, reimagines Armenian history and culture through the life and writings of its greatest poet. “Watching [it] is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” (Martin Scorsese). Shown with two rarely screened short films, Kyiv Frescoes and Hakob Hovnatanyan. 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. Series Sergei Parajanov: Centennial Celebration Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2 2:30—5:30 PM Sergei Parajanov Symposium Film Free In-Person Saturday, November 2, 2024 2:30—5:30 PM Sergei Parajanov Symposium Cosponsored by BAMPFA; the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES); the Berkeley Armenian Studies Program; and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Five experts join BAMPFA’s Sergei Parajanov: Centennial Celebration to discuss the filmmaker’s multifaceted legacy. Free and open to the public. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 1:30 PM. In Conversation Myrna Douzjian Myrna Douzjian teaches Armenian language and literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley and is working on a study of interrelations between various storytelli Olga Kim Olga Kim teaches Russian and Eurasian film and literature at Williams College and is currently working on her book manuscript Cinema on the Edge: Late Soviet Tableau Aesthetics. Harsha Ram Harsha Ram teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley and is currently completing a book on Russian-Georgian cultural relations titled The Geopoetics of Sovereig James Steffen James Steffen (PhD) is the Film and Media Studies Librarian and Head of the Humanities Team at the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, and the author of The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov. Patrick Cazals Patrick Cazals is a filmmaker and writer who made Sergei Parajanov: The Rebel (2003), a study of Sergei Parajanov as a filmmaker, designer, and collage artist. He also made The Mus Series Sergei Parajanov: Centennial Celebration Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Cuban Contemporary Short Films II: Voices of Displacement Film In-Person Saturday, November 2, 2024 7:00 PM Cuban Contemporary Short Films II: Voices of Displacement (77 mins) From a Cuban immigrant in New York (Ángela) to the metaphorical uprootedness in Petricor, the critique of romanticized communist nostalgia in Souvenir, a mother’s longing for reunification with her son in Parole, and the dystopian vision in History Is Written at Night, these films offer nuanced perspectives on diaspora, exile, and nation building amidst Cuba’s historical exodus. In Conversation Lázaro González Lázaro González is a filmmaker from Cuba, a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media, and the guest curator of Cuban Cinema without Borders. Caleb Murray-Bozeman Caleb Murray-Bozeman is a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media. Series Cuban Cinema without Borders Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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3 2:00 PM Calls from Moscow Film Sunday, November 3, 2024 2:00 PM Calls from Moscow Luis Alejandro Yero, Cuba, Germany, Norway, 2023, (93 mins) Follow four queer Cuban migrants navigating isolation amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Calls from Moscow, one of the most striking documentaries of contemporary Cuban cinema. This special screening is preceded by Gretel Marín’s Roads of Lava, another beautiful portrayal of queer activism and anti-racist pedagogies within Havana. Series Cuban Cinema without Borders Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Sergei Parajanov: The Rebel Film Sunday, November 3, 2024 4:30 PM Sergei Parajanov: The Rebel Patrick Cazals, France, 2003, (91 mins) This insightful portrait of a wounded, but fiercely independent Sergei Parajanov deals with his various talents as a painter, designer, and collage artist. Followed by Parajanov’s rare short film Arabesque on the Pirosmani Theme and Patrick Cazals’s portrait of Parajanov’s muse, Georgian actor Sofiko Chiaureli. Patrick Cazals In Person Series Sergei Parajanov: Centennial Celebration Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4	5	6	7 7:00 PM Caught by the Tides Film In-Person Thursday, November 7, 2024 7:00 PM Caught by the Tides Jia Zhangke, China, 2024, (111 mins) Jia Zhangke delivers an epic look at the romantic destiny of his perennial heroine, Qiao Qiao. Spanning twenty-one years of a country going through profound transformation, the film provides a new perspective on contemporary China. 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 Jia Zhangke Michael Berry Michael Berry is a Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at UCLA. Series Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	8 3:00 PM Xiao Wu Film In-Person Friday, November 8, 2024 3:00 PM Xiao Wu Jia Zhangke, China, Hong Kong, 1997, (112 mins) A small-time, undermotivated pickpocket finds himself on the wrong end of China’s economic leap forward in Jia Zhangke’s debut feature, a milestone in contemporary Chinese cinema. 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 Jia Zhangke Michael Berry Michael Berry is a Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at UCLA. Series Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Platform Film In-Person Friday, November 8, 2024 7:00 PM Platform Jia Zhangke, China, Hong Kong, 2000, (155 mins) A performance troupe struggles to keep up during China’s 1980s move from communism to capitalism. “Might be the greatest film to come out of mainland China” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). 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 Jia Zhangke Michael Berry Michael Berry is a Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at UCLA. Series Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	9 3:00 PM Still Life Film In-Person Saturday, November 9, 2024 3:00 PM Still Life Jia Zhangke, China, 2006, (108 mins) The controversial Three Gorges Dam project frames two stories in Jia Zhangke’s examination of a city under (de)construction. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. 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 Jia Zhangke Weihong Bao Weihong Bao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Unknown Pleasures Film In-Person Saturday, November 9, 2024 7:00 PM Unknown Pleasures Jia Zhangke, China, Japan, 2002, (112 mins) A sympathetic, impressionistic portrait of youth so alienated that they’ve nothing to rebel against, much less for, Unknown Pleasures is “as true a picture of contemporary existence as we could hope for now” (Kent Jones, Film Comment). 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 Jia Zhangke Andrew F. Jones Andrew F. Jones is Professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley. Series Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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10 12:00 PM The Color of Pomegranates Film Sunday, November 10, 2024 12:00 PM The Color of Pomegranates Sergei Parajanov, USSR, 1969, (103 mins) Digital Restoration This magical work, rich in period music, reimagines Armenian history and culture through the life and writings of its greatest poet. “Watching [it] is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” (Martin Scorsese). Shown with two rarely screened short films, Kyiv Frescoes and Hakob Hovnatanyan. 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. Series Sergei Parajanov: Centennial Celebration SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 2:30 PM I Wish I Knew Film In-Person Sunday, November 10, 2024 2:30 PM I Wish I Knew Jia Zhangke, China, Netherlands, 2010, (118 mins) Jia Zhangke explores the contested city of Shanghai, as witnessed through citizens, politicians, criminals, exiles, artists, and especially filmmakers. Both a historian’s and a cinephile’s dream, I Wish I Knew is as much about Shanghai in cinema as it is about Shanghai. 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 Jia Zhangke Michael Nylan Michael Nylan is the Jane K. Sather History Chair of the UC Berkeley Department of History. Series Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM A Touch of Sin Film In-Person Sunday, November 10, 2024 6:30 PM A Touch of Sin Jia Zhangke, China, 2013, (130 mins) Jia Zhangke takes on the collateral damage of China’s maniacal growth, explosively restaging four violent deeds to illustrate everyday citizens pushed to the edge—of the economy. Winner of the Best Screenplay prize at the Cannes Film Festival. 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 Jia Zhangke Daniel O’Neill Daniel O’Neill is an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. Series Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	11	12	13 7:00 PM Ash Is Purest White Film In-Person Wednesday, November 13, 2024 7:00 PM Ash Is Purest White Jia Zhangke, China, France, Japan, 2018, (150 mins) A gangster’s wife stands on her own in Jia Zhangke’s expansive narrative of empowerment and survival, inspired by Hong Kong gangster films and set against the tumultuous changes taking place in contemporary China. “Fierce, gripping, emotionally generous, and surprisingly funny” (Los Angeles 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. In Conversation Jia Zhangke Iggy Cortez Iggy Cortez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Series Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	14	15 4:30 PM Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus Film Friday, November 15, 2024 4:30 PM Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus Neo Sora, Japan, 2023, (103 mins) A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus is the definitive swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. A concert film featuring just him and his piano. Series Special Screenings Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors Film Friday, November 15, 2024 7:00 PM Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors Sergei Parajanov, USSR, 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–like tale. “Astonishing . . . one of the supreme works of Soviet cinema” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). Series Sergei Parajanov: Centennial Celebration Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16 4:30 PM 24 City Film Saturday, November 16, 2024 4:30 PM 24 City Jia Zhangke, China, 2008, (107 mins) A Sichuan industrial complex is razed to make way for upscale condos. “Blending fiction with documentary, [Jia Zhangke] brings huge stretches of long-repressed history to life on an intimate scale” (New Yorker). 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. Series Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Mafifa Film Saturday, November 16, 2024 7:00 PM Mafifa Daniela Muñoz Barroso , Cuba, 2021, (77 mins) Despite significant hearing loss, Daniela Muñoz Barroso delves into the legacy of Mafifa, a pioneering Cuban conga bell player. This INSTAR Film Festival award-winning film uses archival and autoethnographic techniques to candidly and innovatively confront structural racism in postrevolutionary Cuba. Daniela Muñoz Barroso Prerecorded Video Introduction Series Cuban Cinema without Borders Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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17 2:00 PM The Legend of Suram Fortress Film In-Person Sunday, November 17, 2024 2:00 PM The Legend of Suram Fortress Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze, USSR, 1985, (82 mins) Mixing regional history, political protest, and romantic drama, The Legend of Suram Fortress marked Sergei Parajanov’s return to cinema after enduring fifteen years of Soviet censorship. Harsha Ram Introduction Harsha Ram is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. Series Sergei Parajanov: Centennial Celebration Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4:00 PM Le samouraï Film Sunday, November 17, 2024 4:00 PM Le samouraï Jean-Pierre Melville, France, 1967, (105 mins) Digital Restoration Alain Delon embodies cool as a solitary, silent Parisian killer flitting between hits and flings in this essential, influential assassin film. “Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty” (Slant). Series Special Screenings Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	18	19	20 7:00 PM Scott Stark in Person Film In-Person Wednesday, November 20, 2024 7:00 PM Scott Stark in Person (75 mins) From an improbably epic single-shot journey across the varied designs of a hotel’s carpets, through an abandoned trainyard and a contemporary bowling alley, to mid-twentieth-century Kodachrome parades, Scott Stark traces, tracks, and transforms everyday surfaces with a variety of cinematic tools. Scott Stark In Person Series Alternative Visions Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	21 7:00 PM The World Film Thursday, November 21, 2024 7:00 PM The World Jia Zhangke, China, Japan, 2004, (142 mins) A Vegas-style theme park in Beijing provides the lonely-planet setting for Jia Zhangke’s parable on China’s cultural renovation: fake landscapes, real problems. “Highly original, brilliantly conceived” (Tony Rayns). Series Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	22 7:00 PM Ashik Kerib Film Friday, November 22, 2024 7:00 PM Ashik Kerib Dodo Abashidze, Sergei Parajanov, USSR, 1988, (78 mins) The film recounts the adventures of a wandering minstrel. “In [Sergei] Parajanov’s own mystic tradition and symbolic language, the story by [Mikhail] Lermontov is transformed into real and invented, magnificent, all-eclipsing art” (Kora Zereteli, Munich Film Festival). Series Sergei Parajanov: Centennial Celebration Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	23 3:30 PM The Stranger and the Fog Film Saturday, November 23, 2024 3:30 PM The Stranger and the Fog Bahram Beyzaie, Iran, 1974, (146 mins) Digital Restoration Banned in Iran after the 1979 revolution, “this visually ravishing masterwork invents its own mythology to critique the sociopolitical conditions of 1970s Iran” (Film at Lincoln Center). Series Special Screenings Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue Film Saturday, November 23, 2024 7:00 PM Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue Jia Zhangke, China, 2020, (112 mins) Three of China’s greatest living authors share their stories and memories in Jia Zhangke’s tribute to storytelling and the connection between intellectual thought and working-class labor. “A spiritual depiction of China. Illuminating” (South China Morning Post). 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. Series Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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24 2:00 PM Seven Samurai Film Sunday, November 24, 2024 2:00 PM Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1954, (207 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Also screens on Saturday, December 14 A ragtag group of samurai bands together to protect a village from bandits in Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, often cited as one of the ten best films ever made. Presented with a 10-minute intermission 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. Series Special Screenings SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	25	26	27	28	29 3:00 PM Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus Film Friday, November 29, 2024 3:00 PM Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus Neo Sora, Japan, 2023, (103 mins) A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus is the definitive swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. A concert film featuring just him and his piano. Series Special Screenings Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5:30 PM Le samouraï Film Friday, November 29, 2024 5:30 PM Le samouraï Jean-Pierre Melville, France, 1967, (105 mins) Digital Restoration Alain Delon embodies cool as a solitary, silent Parisian killer flitting between hits and flings in this essential, influential assassin film. “Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty” (Slant). Series Special Screenings Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	30 3:30 PM The Wizard of Oz Film Saturday, November 30, 2024 3:30 PM The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming, United States, 1939, (101 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Recommended for ages 5 & up What better activity for a holiday weekend than a trip down the Yellow Brick Road together with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and the Tin Woodsman? Series Movie Matinees for All Ages Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:00 PM Mountains May Depart Film Saturday, November 30, 2024 6:00 PM Mountains May Depart Jia Zhangke, China, France, Japan, 2015, (131 mins) “With audacious leaps of time and intimate echoes spanning a quarter century of intertwined lives, the director Jia Zhangke endows this romantic melodrama with vast geopolitical import” (Richard Brody, New Yorker). 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. Series Jia Zhangke: Filmmaker in Residence SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS