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25 2 PM An Autumn Afternoon Film Sunday, February 25, 2024 2 PM An Autumn Afternoon Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1962, (113 mins) Chishu Ryu once again plays a widowed father planning to marry off his daughter in Yasujiro Ozu’s beautiful, bittersweet last film. “Quietly tears your heart to pieces” (Terence Davies). Series Yasujiro Ozu: The Elegance of Simplicity Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Shinjuku Boys Film In-Person Sunday, February 25, 2024 5 PM Shinjuku Boys Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams, United Kingdom, 1995, (53 mins) Shinjuku Boys, an amazing mid-1990s snapshot of AFAB gender identity in Japan, spotlights three onabe who pass as men and work as hosts at a Tokyo club. 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 Jenni Olson Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG TT Takemoto TT Takemoto is an artist, filmmaker, and scholar exploring hidden dimensions of same sex intimacy and trauma in Asian and Asian American history. Amy Sueyoshi Amy Sueyoshi is currently serving as provost at San Francisco State University. They are a historian by training with expertise at the intersection of queer studies and Asian American studies. Series Masc: Trans Men, Butch Dykes, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic Film In-Person Sunday, February 25, 2024 7 PM Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic Lisa Udelson, United States, 2001, (57 mins) Award-winning Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic follows Jewish butch lesbian folk singer Phranc navigating life as a Tupperware lady. Lisa Udelson In Person Series Masc: Trans Men, Butch Dykes, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	26	27	28 3:10 PM–6 PM In Focus: Into the Abyss Film In-Person Wednesday, February 28, 2024 3:10 PM–6 PM In Focus: Into the Abyss Werner Herzog, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, 2011, (107 mins) Lecture & Screening Werner Herzog’s very first film concept centered on a prison. Decades later, he reflects on a triple murder in a small Texas town through interviews with two men convicted of the killings. As he so often has, Herzog “probes the contradictions of the human heart, in which nobility and savagery are so entwined as to be almost indistinguishable” (A. O. Scott, New York Times). 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Michael Fox Lecture Michael Fox is a film critic and journalist for KQED’s Arts and Culture blog. He is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle and an inductee of SFFILM’s Essential SF. Series In Focus: Werner Herzog and the Documentary Form Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM three sparks Film Wednesday, February 28, 2024 7 PM three sparks Naomi Uman, Albania, Mexico, 2023, (95 mins) Continuing her focus on rural agricultural communities, traditions, and histories, Naomi Uman’s three sparks is a cinematic triptych showing the struggle and beauty of village life in the Albanian highlands. “A quicksilver vision of collective being” (Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer, Screen Slate). Series Documentary Voices 2024 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	29 7 PM Wilmington 10—U.S.A. 10,000 Film Thursday, February 29, 2024 7 PM Wilmington 10—U.S.A. 10,000 Haile Gerima, United States, 1979, (120 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Centered on the wrongful 1972 imprisonment of nine men and one woman from the North Carolina city of Wilmington—still incarcerated when it was made—Wilmington 10 — U.S.A. 10,000 traces both the background of the accusations and the groundswell of support calling for the release of the accused. Series Skip Norman Here and There Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 7 PM That Day, on the Beach Film In-Person Friday, March 1, 2024 7 PM That Day, on the Beach Edward Yang, Taiwan, 1983, (166 mins) New Digital Restoration That Day, on the Beach also screens Saturday, May 3 (without an introduction). Two successful career women meet by chance and flash back to their pasts and paths—and those of Taiwan in the 1980s—in Edward Yang’s first feature, which also marked the debut of legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Sylvia Chang stars. 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. Weihong Bao Introduction Weihong Bao is associate professor in the Department of Film and Media and the Chinese Program of the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, UC Berkeley. Series Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	2 11:30 AM Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros Film Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:30 AM Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros Frederick Wiseman, France, United States, 2023, (240 mins) Esteemed documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest is a food lover’s heaven—a long, behind-the-scenes excursion into the world of France’s venerable restaurant La Maison Troisgros, which has held three Michelin stars for more than five decades. 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 Series Special Screenings Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4 PM 48 Film Saturday, March 2, 2024 4 PM 48 Susana de Sousa Dias, Portugal, 2009, (134 mins) Susana de Sousa Dias’s hypnotic film is composed of photographs taken upon the arrest of political prisoners during the forty-eight years of the Portuguese dictatorial regime. With A Story from Africa (Billy Woodberry) and Soldier Playing with Dead Lizard (Daniel Barroca), which also examine historic photographs. Series Tell No Lies: Decolonizing Cinema in Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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3 3 PM Sembène! Film Sunday, March 3, 2024 3 PM Sembène! Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman, Senegal, United States, 2015, (86 mins) “A documentary about the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker, this movie covers the essentials about a cultural warrior whose nine varied features and assorted shorts could still use better recognition” (New York Times). Series Sembène 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5:30 PM Taipei Story Film In-Person Sunday, March 3, 2024 5:30 PM Taipei Story Edward Yang, Taiwan, 1985, (119 mins) Pop star Tsai Chin and director Hou Hsiao-hsien star in Edward Yang’s breakthrough work, a treatise on loves gone wrong, urban alienation, and sorrow within the bright lights of a mid-1980s Taipei caught between past and present. 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. Andrew F. Jones Introduction Andrew F. Jones is professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, UC Berkeley. Series Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	4	5	6 3:10 PM In Focus: A Man Escaped Film In-Person Wednesday, March 6, 2024 3:10 PM In Focus: A Man Escaped Robert Bresson, France, 1956, (97 mins) Lecture & Screening From the true account of a Resistance leader who escaped from a Nazi prison just before he was to be executed, Robert Bresson created a film where the drama is all internal. “Essential viewing” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. David Thomson Lecture David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film. Series In Focus: The Fatal Alliance—A Century of War on Film Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Syria: Snapshots of History in the Making Film In-Person Wednesday, March 6, 2024 7 PM Syria: Snapshots of History in the Making Abounaddara, France, Syria, 2014, (100 mins) Les Blank Lecture This complex, multifaceted depiction of everyday life during revolution and war—made by those living through it—is assembled from videos made and released by the anonymous Syrian film collective Abounaddara. In Conversation Charif Kiwan Charif Kiwan is a founding member of the anonymous video collective Abounaddara and will deliver the annual Les Blank Lecture, in honor of the beloved local documentary filmmaker. Abounaddara (“the Stefania Pandolfo Stefania Pandolfo is Professor of Anthropology, and is in the Medical Anthropology Program and the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. Soraya Tlatli Soraya Tlatli is Associate Professor in the French Department at UC Berkeley. Series Documentary Voices 2024 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	7 7 PM Black Girl Film Thursday, March 7, 2024 7 PM Black Girl Ousmane Sembène, France, Senegal, 1966, (111 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Her postcolonial hopes dashed, a young Senegalese woman is led to a dramatic act of resistance in Black Girl, considered Africa’s first dramatic feature. With Borom sarret, a poignant, politically charged essay on a cart driver in the poorer sections of Dakar, and Niaye, about the scandal of a pregnant young girl. Series Sembène 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	8 7 PM Terrorizers Film In-Person Friday, March 8, 2024 7 PM Terrorizers Edward Yang, 1986, (105 mins) New Digital Restoration Three groups of characters—a photographer, a hoodlum, and a doctor and his wife—are united by a prank phone call in Edward Yang’s self-reflexive look at human relationships and their emotional violence. “Yang’s ultimate statement on the isolation of modern living” (Film at Lincoln Center). 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. Andrew F. Jones Introduction Andrew F. Jones is professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, UC Berkeley. Series Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	9
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10 2 PM During Revolution Film In-Person Sunday, March 10, 2024 2 PM During Revolution Maya Khoury, Sweden, Syria, 2019, (144 mins) Of the many filmed records of the Syrian Civil War, During Revolution is distinguished by its sense of chaos and uncertainty, as well as its candid depiction of a revolutionary movement bitterly splintering into competing factions. In Conversation Charif Kiwan Charif Kiwan is a founding member of the anonymous video collective Abounaddara. Abounaddara (“the man with the movie camera”) is a Syrian filmmakers’ collective that has been working anonymously s Stefania Pandolfo Stefania Pandolfo is Professor of Anthropology, and is in the Medical Anthropology Program and the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. Anneka Lenssen Anneka Lenssen is Associate Professor in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley. Series Documentary Voices 2024 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	11	12	13 3:10 PM In Focus: Paths of Glory Film In-Person Wednesday, March 13, 2024 3:10 PM In Focus: Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick, United States, 1957, (88 mins) Lecture & Screening A grand entry in the pantheon of great antiwar films, Paths of Glory stands beside films like All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Grand Illusion (1937), and King and Country (1964) for its on-target treatment of the terrors of war, but it stands alone for its fearless criticism of the high command and its obvious rank. 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. David Thomson Lecture David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film. Series In Focus: The Fatal Alliance—A Century of War on Film Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Films by Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez Film In-Person Wednesday, March 13, 2024 7 PM Films by Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez (86 mins) Copresented by UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) A program of four films by the Mapuche artist Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez demonstrating a variety of approaches to engage with, activate, and preserve Indigenous traditions and foster understanding. In Conversation Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez Natalia Brizuela Natalia Brizuela is the Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and a professor in the Departments of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley. Series Documentary Voices 2024 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	14 7 PM Mandabi Film Thursday, March 14, 2024 7 PM Mandabi Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1968, (91 mins) 4K Digital Restoration A comic fable about a middle-aged man in Dakar whose life changes when he receives a money order from Paris. “[Ousmane] Sembène’s approach is spare, laconic, slightly ironic, and never patronizing” (New York Times). The film received the International Critics’ Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Series Sembène 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	15 7 PM The Underground Railroad: Chapters 1 & 2 Film In-Person Friday, March 15, 2024 7 PM The Underground Railroad: Chapters 1 & 2 (132 mins) Barry Jenkins presents his brilliant adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning magnum opus in person. In this essential reckoning with America’s history of slavery and white supremacy, Jenkins renders Whitehead’s uncanny, antebellum American South with profound sensitivity and exquisite artistry. 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. 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. In Conversation Barry Jenkins Joi McMillon Academy Award–nominated editor Joi McMillon—known for her work on Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Zola—led the editorial department on The Underground Railroad. Damon Young Damon Young is associate professor of French and Film and Media at UC Berkeley. Series Barry Jenkins Presents The Underground Railroad SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	16 3 PM The Underground Railroad: Chapters 3 & 4 Film In-Person Saturday, March 16, 2024 3 PM The Underground Railroad: Chapters 3 & 4 (110 mins) Barry Jenkins presents his brilliant adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning magnum opus in person. In this essential reckoning with America’s history of slavery and white supremacy, Jenkins renders Whitehead’s uncanny, antebellum American South with profound sensitivity and exquisite artistry. 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. In Conversation Barry Jenkins Mychal-Bella Bowman Mychal-Bella Bowman portrays Grace/Fanny Briggs in The Underground Railroad. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is associate professor of History at UC Berkeley. Series Barry Jenkins Presents The Underground Railroad Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Underground Railroad: Chapters 5, 6 & 7 Film In-Person Saturday, March 16, 2024 7 PM The Underground Railroad: Chapters 5, 6 & 7 (140 mins) Barry Jenkins presents his brilliant adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning magnum opus in person. In this essential reckoning with America’s history of slavery and white supremacy, Jenkins renders Whitehead’s uncanny, antebellum American South with profound sensitivity and exquisite artistry. 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. In Conversation Barry Jenkins Joi McMillon Academy Award–nominated editor Joi McMillon—known for her work on Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Zola—led the editorial department on The Underground Railroad. Mychal-Bella Bowman Mychal-Bella Bowman portrays Grace/Fanny Briggs in The Underground Railroad. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is associate professor of History at UC Berkeley. Series Barry Jenkins Presents The Underground Railroad Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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17 11:30 AM The Gaze Film In-Person Sunday, March 17, 2024 11:30 AM The Gaze Barry Jenkins, United States, 2021, (52 mins) Untethered from narrative, immaculately costumed, and on location, actors from The Underground Railroad look back at the camera, as if through time and history, emphasizing their existence while compelling viewers to consider the foundations of their own point of view. Barry Jenkins Introduction Series Barry Jenkins Presents The Underground Railroad Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 1:00 PM The Underground Railroad: Chapters 8 & 9 Film In-Person Sunday, March 17, 2024 1:00 PM The Underground Railroad: Chapters 8 & 9 (143 mins) Barry Jenkins presents his brilliant adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning magnum opus in person. In this essential reckoning with America’s history of slavery and white supremacy, Jenkins renders Whitehead’s uncanny, antebellum American South with profound sensitivity and exquisite artistry. 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. In Conversation Barry Jenkins Joi McMillon Academy Award–nominated editor Joi McMillon—known for her work on Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Zola—led the editorial department on The Underground Railroad. Roshanak Kheshti Roshanak Kheshti is associate professor and interim head graduate advisor of Theater, Dance, and Performance and professor of Gender and Women's studies at UC Berkeley. Series Barry Jenkins Presents The Underground Railroad Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5 PM The Underground Railroad: Chapter 10 Film In-Person Sunday, March 17, 2024 5 PM The Underground Railroad: Chapter 10 (58 mins) Barry Jenkins presents his brilliant adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning magnum opus in person. In this essential reckoning with America’s history of slavery and white supremacy, Jenkins renders Whitehead’s uncanny, antebellum American South with profound sensitivity and exquisite artistry. 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. In Conversation Barry Jenkins Brandi Thompson Summers Brandi Thompson Summers is associate professor of Geography at UC Berkeley. Series Barry Jenkins Presents The Underground Railroad Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	18	19	20 3:10 PM In Focus: They Shall Not Grow Old Closed Captioned Film In-Person Wednesday, March 20, 2024 3:10 PM In Focus: They Shall Not Grow Old Peter Jackson, New Zealand, United Kingdom, 2018, (99 mins) Lecture & Screening Closed Captioned Director Peter Jackson and team took hours of silent war footage, digitally restored and retimed it, researched existing museum collections for correct colors, and added foley effects or veteran’s oral histories to create a contemporary epic of a century-old war and a snapshot of a society—and countless lives—now gone. 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. David Thomson Lecture David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film. Series In Focus: The Fatal Alliance—A Century of War on Film Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Echo Film In-Person Wednesday, March 20, 2024 7 PM The Echo Tatiana Huezo, Germany, Mexico, 2023, (102 mins) The cycles of life, seasons, and harvesting anchor this luminous look at multigenerational family life in a remote Puebla community. “An intimate, immersive portrait of a way of life” (Hollywood Reporter). In Conversation Tatiana Huezo Nicolás Pereda Series Nicolás Pereda Selects: Recent Films from Mexico Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	21 7 PM Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema Film Thursday, March 21, 2024 7 PM Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema Margarida Cardoso, Mozambique, Portugal, 2003, (98 mins) Three films reveal the power of an image and the importance of archives through their explorations of the role of newsreels and film documentation in the struggles of Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau against Portuguese colonization. Series Tell No Lies: Decolonizing Cinema in Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	22 5 PM Sembène! Film Friday, March 22, 2024 5 PM Sembène! Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman, Senegal, United States, 2015, (86 mins) “A documentary about the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker, this movie covers the essentials about a cultural warrior whose nine varied features and assorted shorts could still use better recognition” (New York Times). Series Sembène 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Prayers for the Stolen Film In-Person Friday, March 22, 2024 7 PM Prayers for the Stolen Tatiana Huezo, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, 2021, (110 mins) Three young girls come of age in a remote Mexican highland village scarred by cartel violence in this powerful drama, Mexico’s official Oscar submission in 2021. “A masterfully evocative portrait of coming of age in the shadow of Mexico’s narco wars” (Little White Lies). Tatiana Huezo In Person Series Nicolás Pereda Selects: Recent Films from Mexico Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	23 4 PM Viva Varda! Film Saturday, March 23, 2024 4 PM Viva Varda! Pierre-Henri Gibert, France, 2023, (71 mins) Bay Area Premiere A new documentary by Pierre-Henri Gibert chronicles Agnès Varda’s expansive career and fills in notable gaps from the previous autobiographical films The Beaches of Agnès and Varda by Agnès. Viva Varda! features rare archival material and interviews with Varda’s family members, friends, and collaborators. Shown with the posthumously completed Agnès Varda—Pier Paolo Pasolini—New York—1967. Series Viva Varda! Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6 PM A Brighter Summer Day Film Saturday, March 23, 2024 6 PM A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang, 1991, (240 mins) A Brighter Summer Day also screens Saturday, May 11. Gangsters, musicians, lovers, and street punks populate the gorgeous frames of Edward Yang’s portrait of coming of age—or trying to—in the politically charged Taiwan of the 1960s. Yang’s—and Taiwanese cinema’s—version of such epoch-defining films as The Godfather or 1900. 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24 2 PM La Pointe Courte Film Sunday, March 24, 2024 2 PM La Pointe Courte Agnès Varda, France, 1955, (90 mins) BAMPFA Collection Print Made outside the French film industry on a shoestring budget, Agnès Varda’s debut film about two reunited lovers in a Mediterranean fishing port has been called “truly the first film of the nouvelle vague” (Georges Sadoul). Series Viva Varda! Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Emitaï Film Sunday, March 24, 2024 4 PM Emitaï Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1971, (128 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Named for the Diola god of thunder, a story about the awakening of national consciousness, in the clash between French colonists and the Diola tribe in the closing days of World War II. “Told with great sensitivity and restraint” (San Francisco Chronicle). Preceded by the short dramatic film Tauw. Series Sembène 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	25	26	27 3:10 PM In Focus: 1917 Closed Captioned Film In-Person Wednesday, March 27, 2024 3:10 PM In Focus: 1917 Sam Mendes, United Kingdom, United States, 2019, (119 mins) Lecture & Screening Closed Captioned “Astonishing as the filmmaking can be at times, it’s [Sam] Mendes’ attention to character, more than the technique, that makes 1917 one of 2019’s most impressive cinematic achievements” (Peter Debruge, Variety). 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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. David Thomson Lecture David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film. Series In Focus: The Fatal Alliance—A Century of War on Film Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM A Confucian Confusion Film Wednesday, March 27, 2024 7 PM A Confucian Confusion Edward Yang, Taiwan, 1994, (129 mins) New Digital Restoration A gaggle of Taipei yuppies chase cash value over Confucian values (unless those too can be monetized) in Edward Yang’s biting, ironic satire of the Taiwanese nouveau riche. A fascinating snapshot of Taiwan’s mid-1990s economic boom and a still timely takedown of the success obsessed. Series Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	28	29 7 PM Cléo from 5 to 7 Film Friday, March 29, 2024 7 PM Cléo from 5 to 7 Agnès Varda, France, 1962, (90 mins) Shot entirely on location in the streets of Paris, Cléo chronicles two hours of a pop singer’s life. A score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Legrand, Jean-Luc Godard, and Anna Karina flavor this New Wave classic that proves Agnès Varda’s theme, “one isn’t born a woman, one becomes one.” Series Viva Varda! Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	30 7 PM Tótem Film Saturday, March 30, 2024 7 PM Tótem Lila Avilés, Denmark, France, Mexico, 2023, (95 mins) A family’s preparation for a birthday party slowly dissolves into something far more revealing in Lila Avilés’s Berlinale prizewinner, seen through the eyes of a young girl. “An exquisite Mexican family drama of joy and heartbreak . . . a minutely observed ensemble piece” (Guardian). Series Nicolás Pereda Selects: Recent Films from Mexico Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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31 2 PM Agnès Varda Shorts, Program 1 Film Sunday, March 31, 2024 2 PM Agnès Varda Shorts, Program 1 (91 mins) Agnès Varda’s short films offer incredible insights into her aesthetic approach as a filmmaker. She uses the language of cinema in a remarkably free and creative way. This collection of shorts finds Varda observing people, spaces, and places from France to Cuba, in L’opéra-Mouffe, Du côté de la côte, Ô saisons, ô chateaux, and Salut les Cubains. Series Viva Varda! Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Xala Film Sunday, March 31, 2024 4 PM Xala Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1975, (123 mins) 4K Digital Restoration An aging, affluent businessman about to marry his third wife is struck with the curse of xala (impotence) in “one of the most sophisticated works of the African cinema—at once both comic satire and a deadly accurate polemic against the black bourgeoisie of Dakar” (Albert Johnson). Series Sembène 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1	2	3 7 PM R21: aka Restoring Solidarity Film In-Person Wednesday, April 3, 2024 7 PM R21: aka Restoring Solidarity Mohanad Yaqubi, Belgium, Palestine, Qatar, 2022, (71 mins) Drawing on a collection of twenty films safeguarded in the home of a Japanese scholar in Tokyo, Palestinian filmmaker and archivist Mohanad Yaqubi tells the story of Palestine’s struggle through the lens of international solidarity. Samera Esmeir Introduction Samera Esmeir is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Series Documentary Voices 2024 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4 7:30 PM From Colonial Statues to Carnival Masks: Amílcar Cabral and the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau Film In-Person Thursday, April 4, 2024 7:30 PM From Colonial Statues to Carnival Masks: Amílcar Cabral and the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau (94 mins) Four films, all concerned with Guinea-Bissau’s and Cape Verde’s struggles for independence, from different time frames and perspectives, include an analysis of four colonial statues and a celebration of carnival mask making. Pheng Cheah Introduction Pheng Cheah, Professor of Rhetoric and Geography at UC Berkeley, works in the areas of postcolonial theory, literature, and contemporary globalization. His books include What is a World? Series Tell No Lies: Decolonizing Cinema in Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	5 7:30 PM BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival 2024 Film Free In-Person Friday, April 5, 2024 7:30 PM BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival 2024 (93 mins) Free Admission A selection of outstanding student films from around the Bay Area. Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 5:30 PM. Student Filmmakers In Person Series Special Screenings Google Calendar ICS	6 1 PM Lijin Lecture: Yee I-Lann on TIKAR/MEJA/PLASTIK and Art and Film from Borneo Art Film Saturday, April 6, 2024 1 PM Lijin Lecture: Yee I-Lann on TIKAR/MEJA/PLASTIK and Art and Film from Borneo Artist Yee I-Lann presents BAMPFA’s 2024 endowed Lijin Lecture in conjunction with her Art Wall project, TIKAR/MEJA/PLASTIK. The Borneo-based multidisciplinary artist addresses this work in the context of her wider practice, and in relation to the art and film landscape in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on issues of climate crisis, precarious ecologies, and the creation of resilient communities. The lecture will be followed by a screening of short films from Borneo. Included with gallery admission Series Talks & Conversations Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Mahjong Film In-Person Saturday, April 6, 2024 4 PM Mahjong Edward Yang, 1996, (121 mins) New Digital Restoration An assortment of half-assed young tough guys, British carpetbaggers, and mob enforcers flitter about a Taipei nightspot in Edward Yang’s almost screwball takedown of the blinding hunt for modern riches. “A jaundiced love letter to late ’90s Taipei” (Film at Lincoln Center). 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. Weihong Bao Introduction Weihong Bao is associate professor in the Department of Film and Media and the Chinese Program of the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, UC Berkeley. Series Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Short Films by Nicolás Pereda Film In-Person Saturday, April 6, 2024 7 PM Short Films by Nicolás Pereda (68 mins) One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary cinema, Nicolás Pereda presents four short films at the permeable border of documentary and fiction that explore the everyday through thoughtful, elliptical narratives. Nicolás Pereda In Person Series Nicolás Pereda Selects: Recent Films from Mexico Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS