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11 AM–3 PM
Sunday, April 26, 2020
11 AM–3 PM
 All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Bring the family for a full day of art, books, music and film—with free admission for everyone!
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Free admission
Series
Family Events
3 PM
Sunday, April 26, 2020
3 PM
Hawley Pratt,
United States,
1972,
(24 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Based on the book by Dr. Seuss, this short film tells the story of a young boy’s encounter with a ruined industrialist whose greed left his environment a treeless wasteland. If only the man had listened to the warnings of the wise old Lorax!
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Free admission
Series
Movie Matinees for All Ages
4 PM
Sunday, April 26, 2020
4 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1979,
(122 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration
Originally made for Italian TV, this satirical pseudo-documentary about the tensions within an orchestra draws on Fellini’s collaborations with composer Nino Rota. With Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, a self-reflective wander through the director’s mind and the city of Rome.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
7 PM
Sunday, April 26, 2020
7 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2002,
(112 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Pina Bausch’s Café Müller was one of Almodóvar’s inspirations for this Academy Award–winning film about the friendship between two men, each caring for a woman in a coma. “Almodóvar’s most mature and mysterious movie” (Newsweek).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020
7 PM
Rosine Mbakam,
Belgium, Cameroon,
2016,
(91 mins)
“The filmmaker reinventing how African women are portrayed in movies” (NPR), Rosine Mbakam turns the camera on her own remarkable mother and her generation in this captivating documentary. With Haminiaina Ratovoarivony’s short Razana.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Series
African Film Festival 2020
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Thursday, April 30, 2020
7 PM
Rolands Kalniņš,
Latvia, USSR,
1967,
(112 mins)
Digital Restoration
An idealistic singer in a fledgling Latvian rock band fights censorship and indifference in this inventive musical, which earned comparisons to the French New Wave. With Gyula Gazdag’s The Selection, a Hungarian take on the intersection of socialism and rock ’n’ roll.
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5:30 PM
Friday, May 1, 2020
5:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1956,
(110 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration
The great Giulietta Masina portrays the spunky prostitute Cabiria in this humorous and ultimately transformative story of the survival of the human spirit. “The masterpiece of Masina’s collaboration with Fellini” (Albert Johnson).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
8 PM
Friday, May 1, 2020
8 PM
Paul Schrader,
United States,
1985,
(120 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more New Digital Restoration
Paul Schrader’s riveting docu-fiction retells the life and death of Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, supported by Philip Glass’s compelling score, Eiko Ishioka’s remarkable set designs, and a riveting Ken Ogata performance. “One of the most gorgeous and sophisticated portraits of an artist ever put on film” (New Yorker).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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5 PM
Saturday, May 2, 2020
5 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2019,
(113 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Ailing and adrift, a celebrated film director (Antonio Banderas) looks back at his work and life in Almodóvar’s pensive, tantalizingly self-reflexive drama, which garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and for Banderas's extraordinary performance.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
7 PM
Saturday, May 2, 2020
7 PM
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Following our screening of Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory, join fellow cinephiles at our communal table for dinner and warm conversation.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
$95 per person. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately. Call Babette at (510) 684-3046 with questions.
7:30 PM
Saturday, May 2, 2020
7:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1980,
(140 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Fellini’s aging alter ego Marcello Mastroianni wanders through a woman-dominated dreamscape in this surrealist fantasia of female power and male sexual anxiety, the director’s fascinating attempt to grapple with feminism.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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4:30 PM
Sunday, May 3, 2020
4:30 PM
(75 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Join the filmmakers for a program of the outstanding student films that are this year’s prizewinners and honorable mentions for the Eisner Prize, the highest award for creativity given on the UC Berkeley campus.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Free admission
Sunday, May 3, 2020
7 PM
(100 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
This program of recent shorts focuses on women’s stories and struggles in Africa and the diaspora. Titles include Marielle’s Legacy Will Not Die (Leonard Cortana, Brazil), My Beloved Co-Wife (Angèle Diabang, Nigeria), Awani (Aderonke Adeola, Nigeria), and The Prophetess (Sylvie Weber, Congo).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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African Film Festival 2020
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7 PM
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
7 PM
Wim Wenders,
Germany,
2011,
(106 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Special 3-D screening at the California Theatre, 2113 Kittredge Street, Berkeley
Filmed shortly after Bausch’s death, Pina was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary and is frequently cited as one of the best dance movies—and 3-D movies—ever made. The dancing is exuberant and electrifying, especially on the big screen.
At California Theatre
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12.
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Pina Bausch on Screen
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1983,
(132 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration
The admirers of a recently deceased opera diva gather on an ocean liner for a final voyage in Fellini’s opulently stylized drama, “a celebration of spectacle” (Vincent Canby).
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Federico Fellini at 100
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Thursday, May 7, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1956,
(110 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration
The great Giulietta Masina portrays the spunky prostitute Cabiria in this humorous and ultimately transformative story of the survival of the human spirit. “The masterpiece of Masina’s collaboration with Fellini” (Albert Johnson).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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7 PM
Friday, May 8, 2020
7 PM
Joël Karekezi,
Belgium, France, Rwanda,
2018,
(91 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Two Rwandan soldiers embark on a journey of survival through the unforgiving jungle in this visceral feature—inspired by Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line—from Joël Karekezi, himself a survivor of the Rwandan genocide.
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African Film Festival 2020
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5 PM
Saturday, May 9, 2020
5 PM
Anne Tinsel, Rainer Hoffmann,
Germany,
2010,
(89 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
This documentary follows a group of teenagers with no previous dance experience as they learn to perform Pina Bausch’s iconic dance Kontakthof (Contact Zone). This would be Bausch’s last appearance on screen.
Series
Pina Bausch on Screen
7 PM
Saturday, May 9, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1965,
(148 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration
A bourgeois housewife (a mesmerizing Giulietta Masina) embraces a world of fantasy in one of Fellini’s most spectacular, imaginative works.
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Sunday, May 10, 2020
4:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1986,
(126 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration
Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as an aging dance duo invited to perform on a TV variety show in Fellini’s film, both a fond tribute to vaudeville and a withering assault on the meaningless opulence of commercial television.
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
7 PM
Sunday, May 10, 2020
7 PM
Gerhard Klingenberg,
German Democratic Republic,
1960,
(112 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Released the year before the building of the Berlin Wall, this farce imagines the relocation of a village from East to West Germany. With Vlastimil Venclík’s Czech short The Uninvited Guest, on a couple confronting—then growing accustomed to—an intruder.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1980,
(160 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola helped produce Kurosawa’s big-budget return to epic filmmaking, involving a lord and his double (both played by Tatsuya Nakadai) trying to hold a kingdom together. “Probably the director’s most elaborate, awesome film . . . majestic, stately, cool, almost abstract” (New York Times).
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Thursday, May 14, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1987,
(105 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration
Fellini turns the camera on himself in this pseudo-documentary, which uses a Japanese TV crew’s visit to the Cinecittà studio as the pretext for a series of glimpses into the filmmaker’s methods and thoughts.
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
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7 PM
Friday, May 15, 2020
7 PM
Kira Muratova,
Ukraine, USSR,
1989,
(153 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Legendary director Kira Muratova’s demented chronicle of the absurdities and insults of post-glasnost Soviet life takes its title and cues from a psychological condition that alternates between maniacal aggression and apathetic inaction. “A movie that breaks all the rules” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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Saturday, May 16, 2020
4:30 PM
John Sayles,
Ireland, United States,
1994,
(103 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Newly Restored Print!
In this charming, beautifully photographed film about storytelling and family ties, a girl living with her grandparents in a remote Irish fishing village discovers a world of myth and magic. A “first-rate, all-ages fairy tale steeped in Irish folklore” (Hollywood Reporter).
Series
Movie Matinees for All Ages
7 PM
Saturday, May 16, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1960,
(174 mins)
The May 16 screening has been canceled. Learn more BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Marcello Mastroianni stars as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence of Rome in Fellini’s masterpiece, filled with jaw-dropping set pieces of both excess and warmth. “Fellini’s bizarre, extravagant visuals are absolutely riveting” (Time Out).
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4:30 PM
Sunday, May 17, 2020
4:30 PM
Godfrey Reggio,
United States,
1982,
(86 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration
Koyaanisqatsi (a Hopi word for “life out of balance”) is one of the most successful avant-garde films of all time, a spectacular montage of images of American landscapes, industrial sites, cities, and people propelled by Philip Glass’s classic score.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
5 PM
Sunday, May 17, 2020
5 PM
Watch a live conversation between Spaceship Earth director Matt Wolf and interdisciplinary artist Fritz Haeg, who has revived the historic Mendocino County commune Salmon Creek Farm. Moderated by Fanny Singer, the author of a new memoir about life with her mother, Alice Waters.
7 PM
Sunday, May 17, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1990,
(118 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration
Fellini’s dreamy, almost Beckett-like story follows a young, moonstruck wanderer (Roberto Benigni) and his friend, a plump, aging actor, a Laurel and Hardy–like pair seeking to understand the meanings of life.
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7 PM
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
7 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
2004,
(198 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration
Ottinger’s glorious adaptation of a 1920s Ukrainian Soviet satire is both a picaresque post-revolutionary tale of avarice and a fascinating document of Ukraine circa 2004.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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Thursday, May 21, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1956,
(110 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration
The great Giulietta Masina portrays the spunky prostitute Cabiria in this humorous and ultimately transformative story of the survival of the human spirit. “The masterpiece of Masina’s collaboration with Fellini” (Albert Johnson).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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Friday, May 29, 2020
8 PM
 All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Off-Site Event at Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 67th St., Oakland
Los Angeles–based filmmakers Andrew Kim and Karissa Hahn present recent solo and collaborative moving-image work.
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All Day
Saturday, May 30, 2020
All Day
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1956,
(78 mins)
Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
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All Day
Sunday, May 31, 2020
All Day
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1956,
(78 mins)
Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
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Thursday, June 4, 2020
7 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Austria, Germany,
2007,
(104 mins)
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Imported 35mm Print
Ottinger’s award-winning documentary on the Prater amusement park in Vienna draws a parallel between the illusionary business of carnival freak shows and the bygone era of a cinema of attractions.
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