Todd Haynes: Carol, 2015
Film Series
Todd Haynes: Far from Safe
Through April 12
We were thrilled to welcome Todd Haynes in person this weekend to kick off our extended retrospective of his work. You can still see many of the acclaimed director's feature films, including the thrilling, sumptuous Carol; Poison, a seminal work of the New Queer Cinema; and the unsettling and evocative May December.
Directed by Ibrahim Nash'at, 2023
Introduction: Jason Spingarn-Koff
Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache of weapons America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.
Series: Documentary Voices
Directed by Mai Zetterling, 1966
Introduction: Linda Haverty Rugg
Digital Restoration
“An absorbing, even brilliant film. . . . When it was first exhibited at the Venice Film Festival in 1966, it was considered the most daring film ever made” (Roger Ebert).
Directed by Rungano Nyoni, 2024
A partygoer’s sudden discovery of her own uncle’s dead body opens up hidden secrets in this darkly funny, at times absurdist drama from the director of I Am Not a Witch. Winner of the Best Director award, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival.
Series: African Film Festival 2025
Directed by Mai Zetterling, 1968
In Conversation: Anna Stenport, Linda Haverty Rugg
Digital Restoration
In Mai Zetterling’s send-up of gender relations in contemporary Sweden, life, art, and fantasy intermingle as actors Liz (Bibi Andersson), Marianne (Harriet Andersson), and Gunilla (Gunnel Lindblom) perform in a touring production of Aristophanes’s Lysistrata.
Directed by Mai Zetterling, 1976
Lecture: Anna Stenport
“Through several stylistic choices, Mai Zetterling moves beyond clichés and into the woman’s mind, addressing issues of life purpose, the immaturity of attachment, and the infantilization of women in marriage” (Mariah Larsson, A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling). Screens with a selection of Zetterling’s short films, including two documentaries.
Directed by Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow, 1988
New Digital Restoration
At the close of World War II, Senegalese troops are held in a Dakar transit camp that is little better than the concentration camps some of them have just braved. A “powerful indictment of colonialism . . . shows WWII’s effects on shaping the future of Africa” (Variety).
Series: African Film Festival 2025
Directed by Asmae El Moudir, 2024
Introduction: Paola Pacchetta
“The delicate mix of handmade replicas and oral testimony brilliantly evokes the personal and collective trauma that stem from Morocco’s ‘Years of Lead’—a period of state brutality under Hassan II’s dictatorial rule” (Phuong Le, Guardian).
Series: Documentary Voices
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and Pacific Film Archive
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