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Past Film Series

  • G. W. Pabst: Selected Films, 1925–38

    December 7, 2024–February 28, 2025

    A selection of the films G. W. Pabst is best known for, made during the Weimar Republic, plus two French productions from the 1930s. Featuring several restored films plus live piano accompaniment by Judith Rosenberg for all of the silent films.

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  • Marcello Mastroianni at 100

    December 15, 2024–February 27, 2025

    Born one hundred years ago, Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni appeared in over 170 films, from comedies to Modernist masterpieces. Just how much he meant to the cinema is attested to in these films, where Mastroianni defines the screen actor’s art and our joy in it.

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  • Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After The Searchers

    January 10–February 28, 2025

    Bookended by John Ford’s The Searchers and Zacharias Kunuk’s Maliglutit (Searchers), the mythic, elemental, and spiritual significance of landscape provides a throughline in this diverse selection of Westerns, including films made by Robert Altman, Charles Burnett, Jane Campion, Kevin Jerome Everson, Sidney Poitier, Kelly Reichardt, Glauber Rocha, and Quentin Tarantino.

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  • Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas

    Butch Dykes, Trans Men, and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema

    January 17–February 23, 2025

    Last year’s wildly popular Masc film series returns with a fresh new installment, offering an opportunity to experience several rarely seen AFAB (assigned-female-at-birth) masc movies from around the world. Filmmaker Cheryl Dunye joins us in person for a rare screening of Stranger Inside (2001).

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  • Sergei Loznitsa: Filmmaker in Residence

    January 30–February 8, 2025

    We welcome the celebrated Ukrainian director of Belarusian origin Sergei Loznitsa for a ten-day residency, during which time he will speak about his work in documentary, feature filmmaking, and short form.

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  • Climate Journalism on Screen

    February 2–February 23, 2025

    Drawing on a variety of documentary techniques, these four recent films ambitiously reckon with climate change through their multifaceted subjects. Each program includes a post-screening discussion.

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  • Documentary Voices

    February 5–April 30, 2025

    BAMPFA’s annual selection of compelling nonfiction films includes the award-winning Palestinian/Israeli documentary No Other Land, as well as films by Dana Claxton, Kevin Jerome Everson, Asmae El Moudir, and Ibrahim Nash’at. With Sergei Loznitsa, Rick Prelinger, Jenni Olson, Elizabeth Ai, Pinar Öğrenci, and Sylvain George in person.

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  • Special Screenings 2025

    Ongoing

    Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.

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  • Movie Matinees for All Ages

    Ongoing

    BAMPFA’s movie matinees are a wonderful way to introduce young people to the joys of the big-screen cinematic experience—and for all of us to rediscover the pleasures of Saturday afternoon at the movies.

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  • Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling

    March 1–May 8, 2025

    A centennial year celebration of the films of Mai Zetterling (1925–1994), the Swedish-born actor-turned-director, featuring some of her best screen roles and the short films, documentaries, and features that earned her a reputation as a director interested in psychological treatments and sexual candor. With guest presenters Linda Haverty Rugg and Anna Stenport.

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  • African Film Festival 2025

    March 6–April 6, 2025

    BAMPFA’s ongoing collaboration with the African Film Festival in New York affords the opportunity to screen an array of contemporary and classic films depicting the diverse experiences of Africans on the continent and around the world. 

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  • Todd Haynes: Far from Safe

    March 8–April 12, 2025

    Todd Haynes will be at BAMPFA to present Safe, Velvet Goldmine, I’m Not There, and Far From Heaven, launching an extensive retrospective of his films, exceptional explorations of identity in relation to self and society, and the danger and power of resisting or transgressing social norms.

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  • Ukrainian Cinema: Poetry and Resistance

    March 21–April 13, 2025

    From lyrical to epic genres, from the deep social conflicts to the joy of liberty, this program expresses the character of the Ukrainian people, who continue to resist Russian imperialism in the ongoing war. 

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  • Media and Migration on Screen

    April 16–18, 2025

    Presented in conjunction with the symposium Media and Migration in a Digital Age, and the Mosse Lecture series, these films represent innovative cinematic approaches to depicting the histories, causes, and effects of global migration while serving as creative counterpoints to negative mass media depictions of migrant communities.

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  • Love Streams, Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes

    May 2–May 14, 2025

    A celebration of one of the most significant cinematic partnerships of the twentieth century, Love Streams, Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes, focuses on Gena Rowlands’s performances in six groundbreaking independent films written and directed by John Cassavetes, her husband of thirty-five years.

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