Huo Meng: Living the Land, 2025
Final Week: Mill Valley Film Festival at BAMPFA
Through Sunday, October 12
MVFF48 brings the best new movies from around the world to the Barbro Osher Theater. Don't miss The Message, an award-winning road drama; Living the Land, an epic portrait of rural life in China; State of Firsts and Peter Hujar's Day, portraits of queer pioneers, and more!
Crazy Love
Directed by Michio Okabe, 1968
Introduction: Miryam Sas
A queer pop collage epic, Crazy Love reflects the revolutionary zeitgeist of the late 1960s. “Challenging established social norms and codes of sexual behaviour, it is a testament both to a liberated, experimental moment in art and film, and to an iconoclastic filmmaker” (Queer East Festival).
Series: Alternative Visions
Calle Málaga
Directed by Maryam Touzani, 2025
In lively Tangier, a spirited seventy-four-year-old woman on the brink of eviction refuses to forfeit her way of life. Maryam Touzani’s delightful film is a playful, tender celebration of courage, memory, and living on one’s own terms.
State of Firsts
Directed by Chase Joynt, 2025
Step directly inside the history-making election of Sarah McBride, the first transgender person elected to Congress, who demonstrates the power of choosing hope and action in the face of Republicans’ anti-trans hostilities.
The Mastermind
Directed by Kelly Reichardt, 2025
A trip to an art museum gives JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) his best idea yet—what if he steals some paintings and sells them? Things don’t go exactly according to plan, but JB has everything under control. Or so he thinks.
It Was Just an Accident
Directed by Jafar Panahi, 2025
A mechanic seeks vengeance on the man he is convinced tortured him in prison in Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s searing Palme d’Or winner, a revenge thriller infused with moral complexity, dark humor, and unmistakable rage.
Peter Hujar’s Day
Directed by Ira Sachs, 2025
Ira Sachs’s latest film delivers a perfectly imagined time capsule of a memorable 1974 interview between friends, writer Linda Rosenkranz (Rebecca Hall) and photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw).
The Message
Directed by Iván Fund, 2025
Drifting across Argentina in a camper van with her guardians, nine-year-old Anika offers “animal communication” to strangers, unfolding a poetic, quietly wondrous journey of belief, connection, and the tender mysteries of childhood.
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Directed by Mikio Naruse, 1938
Mikio Naruse brings emotion and wit to the story of the relationship between a samisen player and a ballad singer during the Meiji era. “A musical treat” (National Film Theatre, London).
Living the Land
Directed by Huo Meng, 2025
This epic portrait of rural life in China’s Henan province immerses us in the lives of four generations of a wheat harvesting family as change slowly comes to a village where the old ways still hold fast.
Directed by Dominik Moll, 2025
In this crack procedural, Léa Drucker plays a dedicated French internal affairs officer on the hunt for some abusive cops. Dominik Moll’s character-driven thriller measures the emotional toll on those devoted few trying to make a difference.
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