Mai Zetterling: Doktor Glas, 1968
Film Series
Swedish Outsider: The Films of Mai Zetterling
March 1–May 8, 2025
Discover the psychologically penetrating and sexually candid work of Swedish actor and director Mai Zetterling. BAMPFA's series, marking her centennial year, presents some of her best screen roles, plus the beautiful, star-studded films she directed.
With guest presenters Linda Haverty Rugg and Anna Stenport.
Directed by Dana Claxton, 2023
Introduction: Dmitri Brown
Drawing from and expanding on James Luna’s ISHI: The Archive Performance, Dana Claxton and members of the Ishi Collective interrogate the legacy of colonial museum practices through the tragic story of the last known survivor of the Yahi people.
Series: Documentary Voices
Something Special
Directed by Paul Schneider, 1986
In Conversation: Jenni Olson and Maia Kobabe
35mm Archival Print
Pamela Adlon (Better Things) stars in this long-unavailable, whimsical 1980s teen comedy about a girl whose wish to become a boy is fulfilled overnight.
Series: Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas
Kameradschaft
Directed by G. W. Pabst, 1931
A gripping disaster film and a stirring plea for international cooperation, Kameradschaft cemented G. W. Pabst’s status as one of the most morally engaged and formally dexterous filmmakers of his time.
Dark Eyes
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, 1987
4K Digital Restoration
In Dark Eyes—inspired by four Anton Chekhov stories, but in style and tone owing as much to Federico Fellini as it does to Russian literature—Marcello Mastroianni delivers an award-winning performance.
Series: Marcello Mastroianni at 100
Directed by Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats, 2001
Recommended for ages 7 & up
English-language version
This documentary “provides such an intense vicarious experience of being a flapping airborne creature . . . that you leave the theater feeling like an honorary member of another species” (New York Times).
Series: Movie Matinees for All Ages
Directed by Jane Campion, 2021
Introduction: Leila Weefur
From the rawhide to the stark reverberance of footsteps and banjo plucks, everything in The Power of the Dog works in concert to uncover the simmering shame and resentment seated within the deep histories of a Wyoming family ranch.
Directed by Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi, 2024
In Conversation: Maya Criag, Miswa Basil, and Jennifer Redfearn
Drought, dwindling resources, and contentious elections in equatorial Kenya exacerbate the conflict between semi-nomadic Indigenous pastoralists and wealthy white ranchers in this documentary epic. “A tense, beautiful, and heartbreaking film” (Vulture).
Series: Climate Journalism on Screen
Directed by G. W. Pabst, 1932
Dominated by the statuesque presence of Brigitte Helm this “campy, exotic fantasy takes place in a décor of dazzling white buildings, studio sand, and artificial pools” (Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide).
Directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna, 1951
In Conversation: Jenni Olson and Juana María Rodríguez
Filmoteca-UNAM’s Collection
A rare Mexican girls school melodrama of a student in love with her teacher, a remake of the 1931 German film Mädchen in Uniform (considered to be the first lesbian film ever made).
Series: Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas
Directed by Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, 2024
Introduction: Leila Weefur
These two films document contemporary cowboy culture on two continents. Gaucho Gaucho chronicles the everyday life of Argentine cowhands, while Ten Five in the Grass captures the preparations for a calf roping event on the Black rodeo circuit.
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