April 2024

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Sunday, March 31, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Sunday, March 31, 2024
2 PM
(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!
4 PM
  • Film
Sunday, March 31, 2024
4 PM
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
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
12:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
7 PM
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
7 PM
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.
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All Day
  • Art
  • Families
  • Free
Thursday, April 4, 2024
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Thursday, April 4, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
1:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Thursday, April 4, 2024
5 PM

Presented by UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities in partnership with BAMPFA

Join writer and UC Berkeley professor of English Cathy Park Hong in conversation with Ocean Vuong, 2023–24 Avenali Chair in the Humanities, and the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, named one of the top ten books of 2019 by the Washington Post and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk starting at 4 PM. Limit: one ticket per person.

Thursday, April 4, 2024
7:30 PM
(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?
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2 PM-7 PM
  • Activity
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Friday, April 5, 2024
2 PM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
5 PM
Friday, April 5, 2024
5 PM

Presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities in partnership with BAMPFA

Ocean Vuong presents a poetry reading focusing on Time Is a Mother. In this latest poetry collection, he searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death and—in concert with the themes of his novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous—contends with loss and the meaning of family.

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk starting at 4 PM. Limit: one ticket per person.

Series Readings
Friday, April 5, 2024
7:30 PM
(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
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11 AM–7 PM
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Saturday, April 6, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
1 PM
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

4 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, April 6, 2024
4 PM
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.
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7 PM
Saturday, April 6, 2024
7 PM
(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
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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
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Sunday, April 7, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
1:30 PM
  • Film
Sunday, April 7, 2024
1:30 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
Senegal,
1977,

4K Digital Restoration

In the guise of a political thriller set in the eighteenth century, Ceddo takes on taboo subjects—Islamic influence in Senegal, African support for the slave trade, the status of women—becoming a reflection on all forms of colonialism in Africa. “Like a contemporary Euripides, [Ousmane] Sembène has created a form of public, primal art” (Village Voice).
Series Sembène 100
Sunday, April 7, 2024
2 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
4 PM
  • Film
Sunday, April 7, 2024
4 PM
Sarah Maldoror,
Angola,
1972,
(124 mins)
One of the first feature films made by a woman in Africa is an urgent call for political change. It is a fictionalized chronicle of the events leading up to a 1961 prison rebellion in Angola. With Foreword to Guns for Banta (Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc), an excavation of a lost film by Sarah Maldoror.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024
7 PM
Humberto Gómez Pérez,
Mexico,
2023,
(94 mins)
Ch’ul be explores the ancient collective commitments, devotion, and music that sustain the cycle of life in the Tsotsil community of San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas. With Chick Strand’s luminous portrait of musician Anselmo Aguascalientes.
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Member-exclusive preview day of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration

For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

7 PM
  • Film
Thursday, April 11, 2024
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1985,
(105 mins)

Digital Restoration

The short life and eventual death of a young female drifter forms the basis of Agnès Varda’s chilling look at alienation and idealism. “Like so many of the greatest films, it tells us a very specific story, strong and unadorned, about a very particular person” (Roger Ebert).
Series Viva Varda!
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2 PM-7 PM
  • Activity
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  • Families
Friday, April 12, 2024
2 PM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Friday, April 12, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Member-exclusive preview day of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration

For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Friday, April 12, 2024
4 PM
Black Life proudly celebrates writer, poet, and activist June Jordan and Poetry for the People, the arts and activism program Jordan founded in 1991 at UC Berkeley. This special celebration includes readings of Jordan’s writing selected by Black Life curator ruth gebreyesus, as well as a poetry workshop in collaboration with Jasmine Flowers.

Included with gallery admission

Series Black Life
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, April 12, 2024
7 PM
Natalia Almada,
Mexico, United States,
2016,
(98 mins)
Academy Award–nominated actress Adriana Barraza stars as a solitary Mexico City bureaucrat whose daily routines are tracked with Jeanne Dielman–like focus in this austere tale of isolation and grief. “Almada has a documentarian’s eye for how truth reveals itself in seemingly nondescript details” (48 Hills).
In Conversation
  • Natalia Almada
  • Nicolás Pereda
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Saturday, April 13, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
Celebrate the opening of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration with free gallery admission to the public on Saturday, April 13, from 11 AM to 7 PM.

Free and open to the public.

11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Saturday, April 13, 2024
11:30 AM–1:00 PM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Make a personalized sculptural vessel inspired by Gabriel Chaile’s larger-than-life sculpture.

Sign up in the Art Lab ten minutes ahead of the session, in time to join us for the tour that starts at 11:30 AM.

Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under

  • Raphael Noz
    Workshop led by
    Raphael Noz holds an MS in education from Wheelock College and an MFA from California College of the Arts.
Series Family Events
11:30 AM–2 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
  • Free
Saturday, April 13, 2024
11:30 AM–2 PM
Drop in and make art in BAMPFA's Crane Forum, next to the Art Wall. Materials will be provided.

Free and open to the public.

Series Family Events
1 PM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, April 13, 2024
1 PM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
2 PM
Senior Curator Anthony Graham, who organized BAMPFA’s presentation of the exhibition, discusses the themes of A Movement in Every Direction and offers insights and observations about selected artworks.

Included with gallery admission

Saturday, April 13, 2024
2 PM–3 PM

Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)

En este evento, leeremos en español y inglés. Cuando Paloma va a México, espera honrar la memoria de su difunto padre devolviendo el anillo perdido de Frida Kahlo. Pero, ¿sus nuevos amigos quieren lo mismo? At this event, we will be reading in Spanish and English. When Paloma goes to Mexico, she hopes to honor her late father’s memory by returning Frida Kahlo’s lost ring. But do her new friends want the same thing?

Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under

  • Angela Loza
    Reading led by
    Librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District
Series Family Events
4:30 PM
Saturday, April 13, 2024
4:30 PM
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!
7 PM
  • Film
Saturday, April 13, 2024
7 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
France, Senegal,
1992,
(115 mins)

Digital Restoration

When the body of a murdered political activist goes missing from the morgue, his family’s attempts to retrieve it nearly escalate into a holy war. “A work of wry sophistication” (New York Times).
Series Sembène 100
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  • Activity
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Sunday, April 14, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
1 PM

Space is limited; RSVP required.

Join local artist and Art Lab facilitator Alayna Tinney for a beginner friendly dive into risograph printing. You will be given the chance to create a multimedia drawing or collage and turn it into a one-color risograph print using the machine’s manual printing option.

Space is limited; RSVP required.

Series Workshops
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2 PM
Sunday, April 14, 2024
2 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
2000,
(82 mins)

Digital Restoration

Agnès Varda’s rumination on the art of “living off the leftovers of others” visits food scavengers and cultural rebels, finding inspiration in both the past and the present, the rural and the urban, the political and the highly personal. “Beautiful, absorbing, and touching” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
Series Viva Varda!
Sunday, April 14, 2024
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in cultural geography and African American literature offer tours of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:00.
4 PM
Sunday, April 14, 2024
4 PM
Pedro Costa,
Portugal,
2019,
(124 mins)
Vitalina Varela travels to Lisbon from Cape Verde, only to discover that her husband has died, in Pedro Costa’s emotionally and visually compelling work, winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno. For Costa, dramatizing Varela’s true story gave him “the chance to approach the Cape Verdean immigration from the woman’s point of view.”
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
12:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
7 PM
Ruy Guerra,
1979,
(116 mins)

New Digital Restoration
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Three films reveal the history of the Mozambique liberation struggle through different cinematic forms. Ruy Guerra documents a reenactment of the massacre that triggered the Mozambique War of Independence, a protest song and dance recalls the migration to work in mines in apartheid South Africa, and a recent fictional reconstruction examines rural land dispossession.
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7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, April 18, 2024
7 PM
Juan Pablo González,
Mexico,
2022,
(99 mins)
A strong-willed businesswoman fights to keep her tequila factory—and her community—afloat in the face of foreign buyouts and natural disasters in this intense drama, set in the Jalisco hinterlands. “Visually arresting, a vivid, textured, altogether unexpected world” (New York Times).
  • Nicolás Pereda
    Introduction
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2 PM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, April 19, 2024
2 PM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Friday, April 19, 2024
5 PM

Space is limited; RSVP required.

In this workshop, scent artist Leonora Zoninsein guides participants in using the temporality of distillation to create a space for holding and evolving grief together.

Space is limited; RSVP required

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7 PM
  • Film
Friday, April 19, 2024
7 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
Senegal,
2001,
(118 mins)

35mm Archival Print

The first in Ousmane Sembène’s series on “everyday heroes” (Moolaadé is the second) centers on the quick-witted proprietress of a Dakar gas station. “A rich comedy of manners that gives a feeling of hope about Africa’s future” (Film Comment).
Series Sembène 100
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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, April 20, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
4:30 PM
(104 mins)
A selection of short films made by Agnès Varda between 1967 and 2002 that offer great insights into her approach to filmmaking, which is at once immediate, intimate, and imaginative. The films featured are a posthumously completed portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Uncle Yanco, and Black Panthers, all three filmed in the United States, as well as La réponse de femmes, Plaisir d’amour en Iran, Ulysse, Les dites cariatides, and Tribute to Zgougou, about her beloved cat.
Series Viva Varda!
7 PM
  • Film
Saturday, April 20, 2024
7 PM
Edward Yang,
Taiwan,
2000,
(173 mins)
A wedding and a wake bookend Edward Yang’s look at a year in the life of one multigenerational middle-class family in Taipei. “The work of a master in full command of the resources of his art” (New York Times). Released in 2000, it was still named to many Best Films of the 2000s lists.

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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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, April 21, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
11:00 AM
BAMPFA Education staff offers a highly descriptive tour for blind and low-vision visitors. In this tour, we'll discuss a range of media by Black artists in the museum's collection.

Included with admission.

Sunday, April 21, 2024
1 PM

Space is limited; RSVP required.

In this workshop, scent artist Leonora Zoninsein teaches us how to compose a perfume conceptually and technically.

Space is limited; RSVP required.

Series Workshops
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Sunday, April 21, 2024
2 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
2 PM
  • Film
Sunday, April 21, 2024
2 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
Burkina Faso, France, Senegal,
2004,
(124 mins)

Imported 35mm Print

Universally acclaimed, Ousmane Sembène’s final film portrays a mother’s courage in protecting the next generation of women from the terrible tradition of female genital mutilation. “A masterpiece of political filmmaking” (New York Times).
Series Sembène 100
Sunday, April 21, 2024
3:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in cultural geography and African American literature offer tours of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:00.
5 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, April 21, 2024
5 PM
Filipa César, Marinho de Pina,
Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal,
2023,
(126 mins)
Moments from a collectively built new community space in Malafo, “a laboratory for archival practice, community gatherings, and communion with the ancestors’ knowledge, nature, and new technology” (Arsenal—Institute for Film and Video). With Mined Soil, on Amílcar Cabral.
  • Filipa César
    In Person
    Filipa César is an artist, filmmaker, educator, and community organizer.
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  • Film
  • In-Person
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
7 PM
Filipa César,
Germany, Guinea-Bissau,
2017,
(96 mins)
After decaying archival film materials from Guinea-Bissau’s war of independence were digitized, a mobile cinema screened them in the places where the original footage was shot. The resulting film is “a tribute, a documentary, and an excavation” (New York Times).

Doors will open at 6:30 PM

  • Filipa César
    In Person
    Filipa César is an artist, filmmaker, educator, and community organizer.
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9:00 AM–7:00 PM
  • Activity
  • Families
  • Free
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
9:00 AM–7:00 PM
Hatch Day returns to the big screen at BAMFPA! Annie, the Bay Area's beloved peregrine falcon, is once again nesting in the UC Berkeley Campanile with a new mate, Archie...and four eggs! Stop by the BAMPFA outdoor screen to (hopefully) catch a glimpse of the new chicks emerging!

Free all day on the outdoor screen

Wednesday, April 24, 2024
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in cultural geography and African American literature offer tours of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:00.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
7 PM
(81 mins)
Three of Filipa César’s collaborative projects draw on memories and oral tradition: a militant school is re-created, Creole weaving is used to explore computer programming and globalization, and traditional round houses are compared to contemporary square ones.
  • Filipa César
    In Person
    Filipa César is an artist, filmmaker, educator, and community organizer.
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
6:30 PM
Johan Grimonprez,
Belgium, France, Netherlands,
2024,
(150 mins)
Jazz becomes a successful smoke screen for the United States and its allies’ efforts, as well-meaning musicians’ diplomatic missions offer cover for a conspiracy to stage a coup against the Democratic Republic of the Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Filmmaker and multimedia artist Johan Grimonprez is this year’s recipient of the Persistence of Vision Award.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

In Conversation
  • Johan Grimonprez
  • Fumi Okiji
    Fumi Okiji is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. She arrived at UC Berkeley by way of the London jazz scene, in which she took an active part as a vocalist and improviser.
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2 PM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, April 26, 2024
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
4:00 PM
Friday, April 26, 2024
4:00 PM
Farah Nabulsi,
Palestine, Qatar, United Kingdom,
2023,
(118 mins)
An educator (Saleh Bakri) in Palestine’s West Bank tries to steer a student away from the path of violence while hiding his own involvement with a hostage situation.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

  • Farah Nabulsi
    In Person
7:00 PM
  • Closed Captioned
  • Film
Friday, April 26, 2024
7:00 PM
Jazmin Renée Jones,
United States,
2024,
(103 mins)

Closed Captioned

A spellbinding cyberspace adventure, Jazmin Renée Jones’s inquisitive directorial debut expands ideas around feminism and digital selfdom while searching for the real-life Black woman whose pixelated image taught a generation to type.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

In Person
  • Jazmin Renée Jones
  • Guetty Felin
    Guetty Felin is the producer of Seeking Mavis Beacon.
  • Olivia Ross
    Olivia Ross is an associate producer of Seeking Mavis Beacon.
  • Yeelen Cohen
    Yeelen Cohen is the cinematographer and coeditor of Seeking Mavis Beacon.
  • Joakim Cohen
    Joakim Cohen is a sound recordist/designer of Seeking Mavis Beacon.
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  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, April 27, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
11:30 AM
Saturday, April 27, 2024
11:30 AM
Oskar Alegría,
Spain,
2023,
(89 mins)
Armed with a Super 8 camera and accompanied by an elegant donkey named Paolo, director Oskar Alegría employs his keen eye and poetic voice-over as he traverses a scenic shepherding route in northern Spain.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

  • Oskar Alegría
    In Person
2:15 PM
Saturday, April 27, 2024
2:15 PM
Shiori Ito,
Japan, United Kingdom, United States,
2024,
(104 mins)
Journalist Shiori Ito becomes the face of Japan’s #MeToo movement after a powerful newsman sexually assaults her and she investigates her own case in a determined quest to see justice done.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

  • Shiori Ito
    In Person
5:00 PM
Saturday, April 27, 2024
5:00 PM
Ramata-Toulaye Sy,
France, Mali, Senegal,
2023,
(87 mins)
The titular Senegalese couple at the heart of this visually ravishing romantic drama faces challenges of drought and communal responsibility. Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s poetic debut competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

7:15 PM
  • Film
Saturday, April 27, 2024
7:15 PM
María Zanetti,
Argentina,
2023,
(87 mins)
Independence and escape from an unstable homelife beckon sixteen-year-old Lola when the opportunity arises to spend a semester abroad in this vibrant coming-of-age tale inspired by filmmaker María Zanetti’s own life.

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Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

  • María Zanetti
    In Person
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11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, April 28, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
12:00 PM
Sunday, April 28, 2024
12:00 PM
Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó,
Bhutan, Hungary,
2024,
(94 mins)
Two government officers, Amber Kumar Gurung and Guna Raj Kuikel, travel through Bhutan’s breathtaking landscapes in pursuit of happiness and its true meaning.

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Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

  • Arun Bhattarai
    In Person
Sunday, April 28, 2024
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in cultural geography and African American literature offer tours of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:00.
2:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, April 28, 2024
2:30 PM
Behrooz Karamizade,
Germany, Iran,
2023,
(101 mins)
Eager to wed his upper-class girlfriend, a young man turns to fishing to raise her dowry, only to discover the seedy underbelly of Iran’s fisheries, rife with poaching and human smuggling.

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Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

  • Behrooz Karamizade
    In Person
4:45 PM
  • Audio Description
  • Closed Captioned
  • Film
Sunday, April 28, 2024
4:45 PM
Annie Baker,
United States,
2023,
(113 mins)

Closed Captioned
Audio Description

Beautifully portraying how adolescent self-awareness builds from small life experiences and careful observation of adult behavior, this astute debut focuses on Lacy, who brims with questions and gripes for her unmarried mom, Janet.

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Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

Sunday, April 28, 2024
7:15 PM
Kazuhiro Soda,
Japan,
2024,
(119 mins)
A seaside Japanese village debates what to do about its feral feline population in this rich observational documentary, in which the cats make the case for themselves as charming, fluffy providers of purring hospitality at the beloved titular shrine.

BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive SFFILM discount code. Not yet a member? Join today!

Special Admission

General: $20

BAMPFA members, SFFILM members, UC Berkeley students: $16

Non-UC students, 65+, disabled persons: $19


BAMPFA's second-feature discount does not apply to SFFILM programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. SFFILM vouchers may not be redeemed in person at BAMPFA.

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
12:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
7 PM
  • Film
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1965,
(85 mins)

Digital Restoration

A bold statement about conjugal fidelity, Agnès Varda’s strikingly colorful, lyrical film examines a love triangle within a circular structure, as a carpenter seeks happiness with both his wife and his mistress. “Varda fills her frames with riots of nature and color” (Richard Brody).
Series Viva Varda!
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All Day
  • Art
  • Families
  • Free
Thursday, May 2, 2024
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Thursday, May 2, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Thursday, May 2, 2024
12 PM
Curatorial Associate Matthew Villar Miranda, who helped organize BAMPFA’s presentation of A Movement in Every Direction, leads a tour in dialogue with exhibition themes of refuge, agency, community, and memory.

Included with gallery admission

7 PM
Thursday, May 2, 2024
7 PM
Yulene Olaizola,
Colombia, France, Mexico,
2021,
(96 mins)
A young Belizean woman is both prize and doom, prisoner and possible demon, for a group of Indigenous laborers in this mystic, minimalist tale of colonialism, greed, and desire, set in the 1920s, deep in the Mayan jungles. “Lushly made, highly enigmatic” (Hollywood Reporter).
3
2 PM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, May 3, 2024
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Friday, May 3, 2024
7 PM
Edward Yang,
Taiwan,
1983,
(166 mins)

New Digital Restoration

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.
4
11 AM–7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, May 4, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
3:30 PM
Saturday, May 4, 2024
3:30 PM
(156 mins)

Digital Restorations

Agnès Varda’s documentary Mur Murs looks at the murals of Los Angeles as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures circa 1980. Made directly afterward, Documenteur, a meditative portrait of urban isolation, is different in tone and form, but complexly interwoven with Mur Murs in terms of its imagery and ideas.

Includes 10 minute intermission.

Series Viva Varda!